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Joe Pierro | The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing so I
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  will find a way.
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  It took a minute and I
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  didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how a winner's made.
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  Stick a fork
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the clydesdale
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  media podcast where we're
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  featuring the athletes of
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  the 2024 crossfit games
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  semifinals tonight I've got
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  none other than joe piero
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  what's going on man how you
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  doing how you doing scott
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  are you uh joe daddy I'm
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  joe daddy I identify as joe
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  daddy going forward okay
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  cool that's what they're
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  going to be calling me at
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  us that means when I beat
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  uh some people in events
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  All right, man.
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  I also have this huge shout
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  out to Kipping It Real.
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  but that helps us pay for our trips,
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  going to events, things like that,
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  and the platform to put on the show.
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  So thank you, Kipping It Real.
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  So I got to start with this
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  question because last year you went team.
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  and a person that used to be
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  on this podcast way back in
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  the day is dex hopkins we
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  used to do a show called
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  clydesdale after dark and
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  he was my co-host on that
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  what's it like being on a
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  team with that man one of
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  the best experiences um
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  went from complete stranger
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  to a really great friend
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  you know we still talk weekly um
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  just a straight up good dude.
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  You know,
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  like I can't just positive things
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  about Dex to say.
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  Yeah.
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  Me too, man.
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  Like everything, every time I'm with him,
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  like the room lights up, like it's just a,
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  a better day when,
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  when Dex is hanging out.
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  Yeah.
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  I try, try again in the semis, man.
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  We,
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  you know,
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  we tried just picking some ways
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  to get a media pass and stuff, get them,
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  get them there.
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  And, you know, I have a camera guy,
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  you know,
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  video guys well up here that
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  we're trying to get down there,
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  but CrossFit's making it
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  real tough to really get
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  some people behind the
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  scenes at semis this year.
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  I got to pass.
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  People, people should call me just saying.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  There you go.
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  So, yeah.
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  And I've been able to get
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  people in on my team in the past.
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  So I don't know.
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  I think we're going to be
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  doing some fun stuff next week.
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  There's a little lead right there, baby.
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  I'll be sliding the DMs after.
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  So you were on a team with Brooke Haas,
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  Christine Best.
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  Christine Best was on the
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  only team I ever sponsored
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  with this podcast for a
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  little event in Delaware.
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  It was her and Kelsey Keel
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  and Ashley Wozni did a little team,
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  and we sponsored them.
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  Christine's awesome.
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  The team kind of
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  underperformed at semis that year.
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  Was it disappointing in why
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  you kind of went back to the individual?
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  Yeah.
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  Um, no, not,
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  not the reason I went back to individual,
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  um, individual,
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  I think is a big buildup of, you know,
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  every, every,
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  a lot of people out there saying,
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  you know,
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  team doesn't matter and going
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  under move fast,
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  lift heavy last year was great,
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  but that's our identity, right?
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  Like me, KB,
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  Brooke and Dex were known as move fast,
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  lift heavy 365 last year.
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  And, you know,
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  I think there's something to the sport,
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  um,
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  where going individual has a
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  lot more impact and, you know,
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  about individual fitness as well.
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  You know, team,
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  I really think you can hide
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  certain people on certain
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  things and individual, you know,
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  you're left out there to dry.
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  If you do have a weakness.
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  Yeah.
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  Cause you were on this show
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  a couple of years ago in
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  our semifinal series with my partner cat.
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  Yes.
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  Yes, I was.
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  Yeah.
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  And that you went to the
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  granite games that year.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That granite games year was
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  a big year of learning.
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  Yeah.
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  Are you glad this year's inside?
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  I am.
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  I am glad it's inside.
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  You know, I'm more of a gamer now.
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  I would say that even if it was outside,
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  understanding that we're
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  all outside on an even playing field,
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  I wouldn't be sweating it at all,
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  to be honest.
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  Yeah.
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  And it was,
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  was that the year it was hot or
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  was it the year before that?
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  the year before it was
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  really hot when we were at
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  granite games in 2022 it
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  had its times where it was
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  hot on the turf but it was
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  very tolerable okay yeah
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  because I just watched the
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  end of the men's heat in in
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  carson and the men were
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  getting to the shade as
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  quickly as possible yeah I
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  mean I saw quick clips I
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  wouldn't get a chance to
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  sit down and watch it yet
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  but uh that that sun there
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  was nowhere to hide out there
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  Yeah.
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  And it's a long weekend.
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  You don't want the sun
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  draining you extra just because.
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  No, not at all.
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  Yeah.
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  Every bit of energy.
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  So this season you go individual.
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  Is that a Paper Street logo on your shirt?
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  That is.
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  That is.
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  Support Gabe all the way.
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  Great dude.
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  Frost right here.
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  Cheers.
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  I don't got my Paper Street
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  coffee cup downstairs.
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  It's a little too late to be drinking.
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  Yeah.
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  Today's my anniversary.
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  oh congratulations there you
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  go 27 years today I've been
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  with my wife the love of my
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  life and uh we just got
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  back from dinner and I am
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  exhausted it's working
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  tonight so I'm having a
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  little espresso yeah uh but
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  um well that's cool so are
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  you with them or just you like gabe a lot
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  Um, I'm with them.
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  I'm with them just through Gabe, you know,
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  friends.
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  Yeah.
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  We've been talking ever since, uh,
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  CrossFit crash, um,
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  last year when I went with the move fast,
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  lift heavy team out there
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  and me and him were sitting
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  in the airport and, you know,
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  we were talking for a while
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  cause our flight got
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  delayed like three hours, man.
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  And he's honestly the reason
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  I started drinking coffee again.
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  because I i stopped drinking
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  coffee because I didn't
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  want caffeine control me
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  because you know when I
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  drink it I'm off the walls
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  and stuff um but then the
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  paper street coffee showed
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  up to my door and I've been
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  honestly buying it ever
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  since yeah it's funny
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  because uh last year in
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  pasadena I was on a delayed
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  flight lax him and I sat
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  for like three hours in the
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  airport there so he's a
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  great dude yeah yeah
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  probably one of the best
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  people I've met in the
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  space over the last couple
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  years yeah and he's very
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  local as well right he just
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  opened a coffee shop that's
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  about 20 minutes away from
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  me so you do live in jersey
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  that's the jersey jp is
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  authentic yeah born and
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  raised uh and I know gabe
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  he's pretty close to new york city right
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  yeah yeah I'm not sure where
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  his current location he's
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  living now but definitely
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  paper street coffee is
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  probably 15 20 minutes away
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  from the george washington
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  bridge which is to new york
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  oh yeah so I uh when I went
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  to college uh my roommate
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  my roommates were all from New York.
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  Uh, one was from New Jersey.
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  So long Island.
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  And then, um, just across the river, uh,
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  Mike Bavona,
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  he was in a little town there
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  that you could see New York from.
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  Um,
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  and so we would go up there on weekends
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  just to hang out.
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  Nice.
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  Yeah.
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  Good spot up here.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't see myself leaving.
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  So I'm here to stay.
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  That was many, many moons ago, but it was,
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  we had a blast.
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  You got to relive it.
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  Yeah.
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  Um,
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  So, so back to you, you're,
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  you're doing the individual thing,
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  or do you have a coach this year?
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  Are you still with move fast,
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  lift heavier?
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  Are you separating from them?
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  I've had a coach for the last six years,
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  Sean Nevesy, um,
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  owner of four to two
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  fitness in Somerville, New Jersey.
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  uh very successful gym he
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  has I bought him for six
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  years um and he's been
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  every year I've gotten
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  better and better you know
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  obviously 2022 I made it
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  individually to semi-finals
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  and went to granite games
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  and you know the whole move
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  fast of heavy team thing um
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  was just me showing up to move fast and
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  being blessed and getting
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  involved with my teammates.
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  Um,
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  but throughout that whole process and
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  everything, you know,
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  I had my coach for the last
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  five years and I've stuck
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  with him ever since.
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  And every year has been
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  getting better and better.
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  And this is,
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  I believe this is going on
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  year five or going on year six with him.
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  And we're looking to put the
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  best performance out this
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  year so far out of all of them.
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  How,
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  how important is it to trust that guy?
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  I don't even question them.
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  I really don't.
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  Um,
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  You know, I,
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  he tells me what I need to work on.
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  You know,
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  I do have to let my guard down
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  and basically tell them all
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  the shit I suck at because
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  that's what I do weekly.
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  Hypothetically, legless row climbs,
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  or I'll call my weakness out.
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  Granite Games 2022, I got embarrassed.
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  My test of the workout,
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  it was 10 legless row
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  climbs for time with the run in between.
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  And
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  I got dead last.
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  I went out there messing
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  around because I knew I was
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  nowhere near close to the
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  slowest time in any other
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  semifinal or sanctional at that time.
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  I've been doing legless rope
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  climbs at least one to two
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  times a week for the last two years.
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  We're going to get to put
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  them to the test now coming up.
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  When you see that ahead of
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  you at a semifinal and
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  you've been working on it so hard,
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  do you look at that as an
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  opportunity or is there
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  still some fear there?
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  There's definitely still
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  fear there because watching
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  Europe go last week,
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  the legacy of times weren't
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  even a thought, right?
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  No guy was slowed down by them.
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  And I'm going to put myself
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  in a position this year to
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  make sure I can try to hang.
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  um, with the pack.
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  And if that includes me
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  blowing up to take a risk that, uh,
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  that Soviet, but you know,
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  just having a one at a time thing with,
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  uh,
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  may it be the echo bike or the box
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  jump overs in between.
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  I think I will fairly,
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  I think I'll be okay.
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  I really do.
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  Yeah.
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  I think people didn't
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  realize by breaking them up like that,
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  it gave the natural rest on that.
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  And that's why it just kind of,
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  it was a non-factor in Europe.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, and I tested it already.
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  And, you know, I'm not going to lie.
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  My times were close to some people.
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  So I know the haze in the barn.
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  And when I did test it,
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  I was coming off of a
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  little food poisoning situation.
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  So, you know,
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  I think I'm in a better spot right now.
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  May it be a few weeks later.
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  Food poisoning.
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  Dude, I don't know what it was.
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  That's the thing you want to
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  happen going into semis.
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  It was a natural cut.
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  Let me tell you that I,
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  I didn't eat for five days.
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  I was puking because I was puking.
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  I was puking because I smelled it.
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  I was puking because I tasted it.
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  I,
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  I literally slept on the bathroom floor.
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  Um, that's how bad it was.
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  And I think I weighed myself
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  and I was down 15 pounds or not.
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  Sorry, 15, 12.
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  And that was the last time I
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  weighed myself because, um,
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  You know, I got to eat for a performance.
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  So I try to tend to hold my
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  body weight below 200 just
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  for the whole cardio side of things.
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  But now is not the time to
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  do that with all the high
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  intensity involved.
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  How tall are you?
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  Five foot seven.
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  okay it's when I see
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  pictures of you and dex
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  it's hard to tell because
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  dex is just a monster right
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  yeah he's fucking huge and
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  so like it's it's hard for
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  me to gauge what your
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  height was and I couldn't
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  remember from from seeing
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  you live last year yeah I
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  gave him a hug and I'm
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  staring at his belly button
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  you know right right yeah
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  we call him he well when I
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  first had him on he was mad
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  because we stole the
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  clydesdale name he he
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  thought he that was his oh man
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  But he was late to the game.
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  So before we get into all
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  the semifinal stuff,
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  you tried to kill Taylor.
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  Yeah, I did.
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  And that was an experience
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  because I started talking shit.
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  I started getting a snowball rolling.
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  And then I'll pull out the
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  excuses a little later on.
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  When that food poisoning hit me,
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  the week before, I was too...
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  far in and I had to keep
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  backing it up so you know
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  with that being said I
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  brought my boy will carter
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  who was going to be at
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  semifinals as well um to
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  handle the business but we
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  both came up a little too
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  short so yeah and I'll be
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  back so I was watching live
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  as it all went down right
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  you you showed up in
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  sombreros and um I don't
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  even know what they're
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  called the garments over
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  guard just some guard dude
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  Uh, was, was that a last minute decision?
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  That was fresh off of Amazon Wednesday.
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  It's Cinco de Mayo on Sunday.
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  It's Saturday.
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  We gotta, we gotta put it on.
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  We were warming up with them on, um,
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  and hoping we were getting
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  on because we was an hour.
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  It was an hour we were
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  waiting and we were warming
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  up and we're doing our
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  muscle ups and the fricking
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  thing is flying over our heads.
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  And we're like, dude,
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  we cannot do this workout
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  with these things on.
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  So you show up in the full
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  garb and the antics and everything.
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  It was awesome.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  We had to definitely play
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  into it a little bit, you know?
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  So do you think in the
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  evolution of this premise
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  and show that more people
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  are going to do that stuff?
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  I hope so.
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  I mean, you know, it's a memory.
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  It's entertaining.
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  You know, some people, you know,
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  Not everybody knows if
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  they're going to get picked number one,
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  you know,
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  obviously they program a skier this week.
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  So nobody wanted to call in.
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  Yeah.
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  Cause not, not many people have a skier,
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  but I definitely think it should happen.
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  Right.
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  It's a memory, you know,
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  something funny for people
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  to look back on.
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  And I got that memory now,
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  but next time I go on, you know,
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  I might take a little more serious,
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  especially when I'm alone
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  because I'm coming for the money.
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  Yeah.
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  And you know, the skier thing is,
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  The dude that was there,
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  I actually interviewed him
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  a week and a half ago for
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  this semifinal series.
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  And I knew that his strength was engine.
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  And he tried to sell it all
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  out in that first round.
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  That was unreal.
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  It has so many cool moments with it.
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  I would have sold out, too,
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  after watching him on the
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  first round fumble the rings.
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  Or was that the second round
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  he fumbled the rings?
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  Whenever he fumbled the rings...
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  that's when you knew it's
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  doable to beat them.
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  And of course, I'm at work watching it.
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  And I'm like, damn, man,
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  that's my opportunity.
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  Any workouts under eight minutes,
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  sign me up.
• 15:51
  You've been in this sport
• 15:51
  for a little bit.
• 15:52
  And things like that are
• 15:53
  what's going to grow the sport, right?
• 15:56
  More eyes, more attention.
• 15:58
  It's something you can show
• 15:59
  your friends that doesn't
• 16:00
  take a weekend to explain
• 16:03
  what the big thing is, right?
• 16:05
  A hundred percent.
• 16:06
  Yeah.
• 16:06
  There's all, all storylines built in.
• 16:09
  It's, it's a great time.
• 16:10
  You know, they, they stir the pot, right?
• 16:12
  Like they said earlier in the podcast, uh,
• 16:14
  months and months podcast, if,
• 16:16
  if they weren't talking shit,
• 16:17
  nobody would be tuning in.
• 16:18
  Right.
• 16:18
  Right.
• 16:19
  Well, and that's why the, um,
• 16:21
  the Dallin Colton Hopper
• 16:25
  Taylor thing worked, right?
• 16:27
  A hundred percent.
• 16:28
  And rising tide raise all ships.
• 16:29
  You know,
• 16:29
  those guys are very well known in
• 16:31
  a sport and earn their spot.
• 16:33
  And, uh,
• 16:34
  having them four together,
• 16:36
  I just watching them go, it,
• 16:39
  you can't match that.
• 16:40
  Like I can't match that intensity going,
• 16:42
  doing quarterfinals
• 16:43
  workouts in my gym alone, you know, solo.
• 16:48
  So yeah.
• 16:49
  Well,
• 16:49
  and my argument is that quarterfinals
• 16:52
  have to be programmed so
• 16:53
  well because you're
• 16:55
  threading a needle down so
• 16:57
  small now with only 40
• 16:58
  people getting into these
• 17:00
  major regions that it has
• 17:02
  to be programmed well,
• 17:03
  and we don't usually get to
• 17:04
  see the workouts as spectators and fans.
• 17:08
  We need more of that,
• 17:10
  and people are starving for it.
• 17:12
  You could run five of those
• 17:14
  shows throughout the weekend,
• 17:16
  and everybody would tune in
• 17:17
  to all of them.
• 17:19
  Yeah.
• 17:19
  I mean, it was,
• 17:20
  it was to the point where I was, you know,
• 17:22
  I watched them go,
• 17:23
  but I was recording my videos,
• 17:25
  making them public and
• 17:26
  sending them to everybody
• 17:28
  to get information, um, as well.
• 17:30
  You know, their entertainment,
• 17:31
  their entertainment was great.
• 17:33
  I'm not a part of that.
• 17:33
  So I'm on my own journey.
• 17:34
  So I had my whole circle
• 17:35
  going and I was texting everybody.
• 17:37
  I didn't give it,
• 17:37
  I didn't give a shit who knew my time,
• 17:39
  right.
• 17:40
  Everybody in the East.
• 17:41
  I made all my videos public right away.
• 17:43
  I was like,
• 17:44
  I just want to get the information back.
• 17:46
  And shout out to Marquand for lying to me.
• 17:48
  Marquand Jones for lying to
• 17:50
  me on all his scores.
• 17:52
  Thank you, Marquand.
• 17:55
  Wow.
• 17:56
  Yeah.
• 17:57
  So now you get to go up
• 17:59
  head-to-head with him.
• 18:00
  Yeah.
• 18:02
  You going to destroy him?
• 18:03
  I'm going to beat him in four workouts.
• 18:04
  I don't care what they are.
• 18:05
  Four workouts, I'm beating him.
• 18:06
  He might beat me in two.
• 18:09
  But I'll take the win over
• 18:11
  him for the weekend.
• 18:12
  I'm going to hurt more up here.
• 18:14
  I'm going to hurt way more up here.
• 18:16
  So we have someone talking
• 18:19
  about a myth or a legend.
• 18:22
  You got to tell me truth or false.
• 18:24
  True or false.
• 18:25
  I once saw Joe eat a pie, a pizza,
• 18:28
  and then do Fran in under two minutes.
• 18:31
  That is a myth.
• 18:34
  That is a myth?
• 18:35
  That is a myth.
• 18:36
  I mean, we will do it.
• 18:37
  Me and John will do it.
• 18:39
  John is a stud.
• 18:40
  We will get after it, though.
• 18:42
  I'll use the I'll do the
• 18:43
  challenge we got a nice
• 18:44
  pizza spot close by uh
• 18:46
  we'll stop there beforehand
• 18:47
  and then I'll refer in
• 18:48
  under two minutes I think I
• 18:49
  got it in me that said john
• 18:51
  shout out heard athletics
• 18:53
  right there baby taking me
• 18:55
  to semis uh jay birch is
• 19:00
  the gauntlet has been
• 19:00
  thrown down yeah you know
• 19:03
  I'm I'm I'm going I'm
• 19:05
  putting myself out there
• 19:05
  man the hayes in the barn
• 19:06
  this year um y'all enough of the nice guy
• 19:11
  good job stuff.
• 19:12
  You know, I hope to,
• 19:13
  I hope on that last run in
• 19:14
  that first workout,
• 19:15
  the 800 meter run tank,
• 19:16
  I passed somebody ass and say, yo,
• 19:17
  you're running slow as fuck right now.
• 19:21
  Yeah.
• 19:21
  I hope so.
• 19:22
  When you do the pizza Fran challenge,
• 19:24
  let me know.
• 19:24
  I'll send you a link.
• 19:25
  We'll broadcast it live.
• 19:27
  Oh, I'll do that.
• 19:28
  I'll do that easily.
• 19:29
  I will do that easily.
• 19:30
  We'll, we'll get back.
• 19:32
  We'll get back and I'll use
• 19:34
  it as one of my prep
• 19:36
  workouts for the next competition.
• 19:37
  I have two weeks after semis
• 19:38
  me and Will Carter signed up as a,
• 19:41
  as a little support for a
• 19:43
  local comp across the Danbury, um,
• 19:45
  with some, some of his boys.
• 19:47
  Awesome.
• 19:48
  Uh, John Gonzalez to get hurt athletics.
• 19:51
  That's called baby.
• 19:51
  All right.
• 19:54
  Um,
• 19:56
  So cool.
• 19:56
  So yeah, that whole,
• 19:58
  that whole phenomenon that
• 19:59
  Savan has started deserves
• 20:01
  a huge applause.
• 20:02
  It's,
• 20:03
  I think it's what's going to grow the
• 20:04
  sport and hopefully more people will,
• 20:07
  will take that as an example and,
• 20:09
  and create more and more
• 20:10
  content like that so that
• 20:11
  more athletes get exposure.
• 20:14
  That's yeah.
• 20:16
  I, I, I, like I said, I,
• 20:18
  and I definitely put thought into my head,
• 20:20
  like with trying to get
• 20:22
  together with will posting it, going live,
• 20:25
  like,
• 20:26
  I'm not too tech.
• 20:29
  I'm not, I'm not a techie guy.
• 20:30
  I'm just a dirty construction worker.
• 20:32
  So, um, I was just, it was a great idea,
• 20:36
  but I just did not have all
• 20:37
  the moving parts and pieces
• 20:38
  to put it together.
• 20:40
  So, so you're a construction worker.
• 20:43
  That's what you do during
• 20:43
  the day to support yourself.
• 20:46
  Yes.
• 20:46
  Yes.
• 20:47
  Is the dream to be a pro athlete?
• 20:51
  Yeah.
• 20:51
  Yeah.
• 20:51
  The dream is, you know, it was, it's a,
• 20:54
  it's a battle.
• 20:55
  Um,
• 20:56
  it's definitely a battle
• 20:57
  that whole pro athlete
• 20:58
  thing because once
• 20:59
  construction gets slow um
• 21:01
  you know we I'm in the
• 21:02
  electrical union so we get
• 21:03
  laid off we sit on the
• 21:05
  sidelines for a little bit
• 21:06
  and you know not having
• 21:08
  that work makes crossfit
• 21:10
  start to feel like work you
• 21:13
  know um on those days and
• 21:15
  it's kind of a turn off
• 21:16
  like I remember doing two
• 21:17
  days three or four years ago
• 21:21
  And man, I was, I was miserable.
• 21:23
  I would text my coach
• 21:24
  because he would have me do
• 21:25
  monostructure.
• 21:25
  Well, first thing in the morning,
• 21:26
  I'll get up out of bed,
• 21:27
  go right to the gym,
• 21:29
  do like growing intervals.
• 21:31
  And I would just be like, dude, I quit.
• 21:32
  I'm not here.
• 21:34
  So I think it's, it's a big balancing act,
• 21:37
  but I'm definitely open to
• 21:39
  giving it a try one more time.
• 21:41
  You know,
• 21:42
  if everything goes well and we
• 21:43
  make some moves this year,
• 21:45
  because I'm in a
• 21:48
  trying to balance everything
• 21:50
  out and in a pretty good
• 21:51
  space mentally with the
• 21:52
  whole fitness side of things right now.
• 21:55
  I'm really surprised at how
• 21:57
  many athletes I've talked
• 21:58
  to that echo what you're just saying.
• 22:00
  Like they don't, they want to work.
• 22:02
  They being a pro athlete
• 22:04
  only gives them too much time in the day.
• 22:07
  Like I talked to Tetlo
• 22:08
  Tetlo's like I'm in the Navy.
• 22:10
  That's my full-time gig.
• 22:11
  I have 90 minutes at lunch
• 22:13
  to go work out and I have
• 22:15
  to be efficient and I have to be on it.
• 22:18
  Yeah, yeah,
• 22:18
  especially got got two kids as well.
• 22:21
  So I try to balance my time out.
• 22:23
  I really don't work out much
• 22:24
  during the week at all.
• 22:26
  I really capitalize on the weekends,
• 22:28
  Saturday and Sunday and Wednesday.
• 22:31
  Those will be my long days.
• 22:32
  But other than that,
• 22:33
  it's a quick one hour
• 22:35
  cardio session because
• 22:36
  that's my always been my weakness.
• 22:38
  So we're going to put that
• 22:39
  to the test again after
• 22:40
  just doing monostructural
• 22:41
  for twice a week, four years now,
• 22:43
  two years now for two years.
• 22:46
  Yeah.
• 22:47
  So now the workouts have been released.
• 22:50
  You've known him for a couple of weeks.
• 22:53
  You said you've tested some
• 22:54
  of them with food poisoning.
• 22:56
  Does that mean you'll be
• 22:57
  that they'll feel different
• 22:59
  when you get to the semis?
• 23:01
  Whether I had food poisoning or not,
• 23:03
  there is nothing wrong.
• 23:05
  that can compare game speed.
• 23:08
  I can't resemble it in training.
• 23:11
  I did two comps this year,
• 23:13
  actually last year into
• 23:14
  this year over the offseason,
• 23:16
  Meadowlands Classic,
• 23:18
  local New Jersey comp close by,
• 23:21
  and Metcon Rush in Maryland.
• 23:23
  And Metcon Rush, you know,
• 23:26
  Meadowlands Classic,
• 23:28
  I had a lot of familiar faces there.
• 23:31
  I went out to Metcon Rush.
• 23:34
  I met Pete Mason, Dennis Samsonoff,
• 23:38
  Ben Wise.
• 23:39
  And I was just thrown down with them.
• 23:41
  I'm in my own bubble a lot.
• 23:43
  So they had great
• 23:45
  performances at the
• 23:46
  semifinals year before.
• 23:47
  And just being able to be in
• 23:48
  the mix with them and just
• 23:49
  try to put myself in a position
• 23:51
  to be at the same pace with
• 23:54
  them and give myself a chance.
• 23:55
  It, it came out, it worked out great.
• 23:58
  I love the guys at Metcon rush.
• 23:59
  Um,
• 24:00
  I think those are the competitions that
• 24:02
  are going to save CrossFit
• 24:04
  and I'm calling them now the mid majors.
• 24:06
  Like they're not rogue.
• 24:07
  They're not Dubai.
• 24:08
  They're not water Palooza.
• 24:10
  They're that next tier down,
• 24:11
  but they are phenomenal
• 24:12
  competitions and they're
• 24:14
  starting to get that group
• 24:16
  of semifinalists that are getting really,
• 24:18
  really good.
• 24:20
  Yeah.
• 24:20
  They, uh,
• 24:22
  They crushed it last night.
• 24:23
  I did not know what to expect.
• 24:25
  Moved extremely smooth.
• 24:27
  Time domains were all over the board,
• 24:30
  which I got exposed on one
• 24:31
  of them due to not eating, of course.
• 24:34
  But they crushed it the weekend.
• 24:36
  Great flow of competition.
• 24:38
  Yeah.
• 24:39
  Yeah.
• 24:40
  And like crashes doing it
• 24:41
  with the crucible.
• 24:43
  There's just a lot of them out there.
• 24:45
  The beach brawls,
• 24:45
  all those kinds of things.
• 24:47
  I think that's where you're
• 24:49
  going to see the most
• 24:49
  growth over the next few years.
• 24:52
  So go ahead.
• 24:52
  No,
• 24:52
  I was just going to say crashes growing
• 24:56
  at another level, man, Jr.
• 24:58
  That, that gym is impressive.
• 25:00
  That is,
• 25:02
  that's an honor to go to and try
• 25:04
  to be a part of that going forward.
• 25:05
  And I,
• 25:06
  I'm going to try to
• 25:07
  definitely prioritize that
• 25:08
  this year to make sure I
• 25:09
  get out there because if
• 25:11
  there's anywhere I'm going
• 25:11
  to get exposed it's at jr's
• 25:14
  competition well he has all
• 25:17
  the fun toys too yeah he's
• 25:19
  got everything we've got uh
• 25:24
  sean neefsy that's my coach there he is
• 25:28
  There he is.
• 25:30
  He's ready, folks.
• 25:32
  Yeah,
• 25:33
  he's got more belief in me than I do
• 25:34
  in myself.
• 25:35
  There's a lot of cardio at
• 25:35
  this damn competition, man.
• 25:37
  I feel like I should be an
• 25:38
  Olympic weightlifter with
• 25:38
  how much I love lifting weights.
• 25:41
  And then Jay Birch is asking,
• 25:42
  is Joe from Jersey?
• 25:43
  Yeah,
• 25:43
  we talked about that right off the top.
• 25:46
  He's a Jersey guy.
• 25:48
  Maybe I got to tag the
• 25:49
  Instagram handle next time, you know?
• 25:51
  Yeah.
• 25:52
  And if you want to follow him on Instagram,
• 25:55
  it's JerseyJP.
• 25:57
  Oh, yeah.
• 25:57
  I think there's an
• 25:58
  underscore in there between
• 25:59
  Jersey and JP.
• 26:00
  Okay.
• 26:01
  Yeah.
• 26:02
  I was just doing it by memory.
• 26:04
  Crushed it.
• 26:06
  So you started talking about
• 26:08
  all the cardio at semifinals this year.
• 26:13
  I've heard a lot of the
• 26:14
  athletes talk about how the
• 26:15
  first three days or the
• 26:16
  first three events are all fitness.
• 26:19
  That is to test where your
• 26:21
  fitness level is.
• 26:22
  The last three events are
• 26:23
  all about execution.
• 26:26
  Correct.
• 26:26
  I agree.
• 26:27
  And I also think it's a big
• 26:28
  spectacle on getting right.
• 26:30
  They're trying.
• 26:31
  I feel like they're trying
• 26:31
  to get rid of moving day
• 26:32
  and get people to go to Sunday to watch.
• 26:35
  Right.
• 26:35
  Because you got half the
• 26:36
  amount of points on the table, you know,
• 26:39
  get Saturday moving day out
• 26:40
  of there because then
• 26:40
  people want to go home Sunday.
• 26:43
  But now I think you have to
• 26:45
  go Sunday to see all the
• 26:47
  points on the table and all
• 26:48
  the storylines,
• 26:49
  which it's kind of sad that
• 26:50
  they're not reslotting
• 26:51
  between workouts five and six.
• 26:53
  That's that's a crime.
• 26:55
  And I checked it out,
• 26:56
  and I get the reason that
• 26:57
  there's only 90 minutes of downtime,
• 26:59
  I think, from basically heat to heat.
• 27:02
  But it's a quick turnover,
• 27:04
  and I think it's a turnover
• 27:05
  we've never seen before in
• 27:06
  speed and competition,
• 27:09
  which is definitely going
• 27:09
  to test us for our recoverability.
• 27:13
  But I just think you have to
• 27:16
  re-slot even if they lose
• 27:18
  15 minutes of recovery.
• 27:20
  you know,
• 27:21
  Jr kind of debunked that because
• 27:24
  he was like,
• 27:24
  nobody's going to make that
• 27:25
  big of a move to lose that
• 27:27
  much time between those
• 27:29
  last two events for the, and he said,
• 27:32
  if you ask every single athlete,
• 27:34
  if they've earned the right
• 27:35
  to be in that final heat,
• 27:36
  they'll want to be in that final heat,
• 27:38
  regardless of the recovery time.
• 27:40
  Correct.
• 27:41
  Exactly.
• 27:41
  I'm, you know,
• 27:43
  speaking from athlete side of things,
• 27:44
  a hundred percent.
• 27:45
  I, I agree completely.
• 27:46
  It, you, you know,
• 27:49
  you rise to the heats too, right?
• 27:51
  That's why the last heat, you know,
• 27:54
  they move at speeds that, you know,
• 27:56
  first heat, it looks like JV to varsity.
• 27:58
  You know what I'm saying?
• 27:59
  It's crazy.
• 28:00
  Well, yeah, I,
• 28:02
  you're going to put salt in
• 28:04
  some stuff here and make me get pissy,
• 28:06
  but, um,
• 28:08
  that's because of online
• 28:09
  competitions that we have
• 28:10
  people that end up in that
• 28:11
  first heat that aren't
• 28:13
  ready for primetime.
• 28:15
  But, um,
• 28:19
  And I don't even know.
• 28:21
  But, like, as a spectator,
• 28:23
  the story it tells,
• 28:24
  especially in the regions
• 28:26
  where they get 10 people to the games,
• 28:29
  when that final heat is 10
• 28:31
  and you're coming in and
• 28:31
  you know those are the 10 that are in,
• 28:34
  depending on what happens
• 28:35
  in this last event,
• 28:36
  it tells the story so much better.
• 28:39
  100%.
• 28:39
  I agree.
• 28:40
  And yeah, it's, it's truly,
• 28:43
  I think something they'll,
• 28:44
  they'll reevaluate because
• 28:46
  it seems like you're listening this year.
• 28:48
  At least we're not running on machines,
• 28:50
  right?
• 28:50
  We're running any hundred outside.
• 28:53
  I was hoping they listened
• 28:54
  before West coast classic and Oceana.
• 28:58
  Yes.
• 28:58
  And they did change the run-up,
• 29:00
  which is kind of a bitch move.
• 29:02
  I think let them run,
• 29:03
  do the fricking berm run up the hill,
• 29:06
  up the stairs for the spectacle.
• 29:07
  I mean, that's an honor to do that.
• 29:09
  I'm going to change it.
• 29:10
  So they still ran up the stairs.
• 29:13
  They just didn't do the berm.
• 29:14
  Yeah, but I think you got to repeat it.
• 29:18
  Come on now.
• 29:19
  Like this ain't half ass.
• 29:20
  Let's go.
• 29:20
  Let's go all the way.
• 29:22
  So you so you've admitted
• 29:24
  that that's running is not your strength,
• 29:26
  right?
• 29:27
  No, but I still I don't care.
• 29:28
  Expose me.
• 29:29
  I'll do it.
• 29:29
  But hey, listen, I don't know.
• 29:31
  My coach,
• 29:32
  he could run and I was in his
• 29:33
  back pocket on intervals two weeks ago.
• 29:35
  So I may I might come out.
• 29:37
  I may come out and run.
• 29:38
  You know, we'll find out.
• 29:39
  But to have the opportunity
• 29:40
  to run this iconic run from
• 29:44
  the old days of the games,
• 29:47
  I think that's more
• 29:47
  important than is it exactly 800 meters.
• 29:51
  I'll take 40 to play so I
• 29:52
  can run that thing.
• 29:54
  Gladly.
• 29:54
  Exactly.
• 29:56
  There's some things that,
• 29:58
  like my nutrition coach always says,
• 30:01
  memories over macros.
• 30:04
  Memories over a little bit
• 30:06
  falling two places behind in an event.
• 30:09
  Correct.
• 30:10
  And it doesn't matter.
• 30:11
  You're not comparing event to event.
• 30:12
  You're comparing everybody
• 30:13
  at that one damn event.
• 30:14
  They're all doing the same
• 30:14
  workouts at the end of the day,
• 30:15
  so it doesn't matter.
• 30:17
  Right.
• 30:18
  I'm so – and it didn't
• 30:19
  matter at the end of the
• 30:20
  day because I couldn't see it anyway.
• 30:22
  All we got to see is people
• 30:23
  in the tennis stadium
• 30:24
  because there were no
• 30:25
  cameras out there because
• 30:27
  in North America,
• 30:28
  we're just bitches and we
• 30:30
  can't film day one even
• 30:32
  though Australia did it beautifully.
• 30:35
  Correct.
• 30:35
  My limited tech side of things,
• 30:37
  I think I probably could
• 30:38
  figure that out if I had a solid week.
• 30:41
  Yeah.
• 30:41
  Which they had way more than
• 30:42
  that to figure it out.
• 30:43
  Give me an iPhone and I'll
• 30:45
  send you a link and you can
• 30:46
  film it and we'll put it on here.
• 30:48
  Damn right.
• 30:49
  It's so stupid.
• 30:51
  All right.
• 30:52
  So with that,
• 30:53
  so you're going into the week,
• 30:54
  you've been preparing.
• 30:57
  What are you most looking forward to?
• 31:01
  The after party.
• 31:02
  No, I'm kidding.
• 31:05
  I'm most looking forward to
• 31:08
  the snatch event.
• 31:09
  I mean, that's clearly.
• 31:12
  But with looking forward to
• 31:14
  that so much and really
• 31:16
  going to try to make a move
• 31:17
  and hammer it home,
• 31:19
  I'd rather almost be
• 31:21
  moderate in the snatch
• 31:22
  event and crush workout one.
• 31:26
  crushed the legless rope
• 31:27
  climb one because then that
• 31:28
  shows all that I've been
• 31:29
  working on for all these
• 31:30
  years is really paying off
• 31:35
  yeah it was it was really
• 31:36
  interesting in the west
• 31:38
  because you know colton is
• 31:40
  a big subject talk a
• 31:42
  subject that people talk
• 31:43
  about and everybody's like
• 31:45
  there's no way he's going
• 31:46
  to do well in that run
• 31:46
  event I i saw his time
• 31:48
  because I didn't watch the
• 31:49
  event and I i was like that
• 31:50
  shit's amazing he got what
• 31:51
  do you got fourth right
• 31:53
  Fifth?
• 31:54
  Fifth, yes.
• 31:55
  Third in his seat, fifth overall.
• 31:58
  Yeah, I told that to my boy.
• 32:00
  I was like, yo,
• 32:01
  he just took fifth in that event.
• 32:03
  This dude is the real deal.
• 32:06
  Yeah.
• 32:07
  There's no way he's not
• 32:08
  making the games after
• 32:09
  showing that much
• 32:10
  improvement in something he was weak at.
• 32:13
  Listen, all four foot 11,
• 32:14
  I'm making that games.
• 32:16
  Yeah.
• 32:19
  But what he did is he proved
• 32:20
  that if you do work on
• 32:22
  those weaknesses...
• 32:24
  you can pull stuff off like that.
• 32:27
  And that's beautiful.
• 32:29
  I agree.
• 32:30
  And I do think a lot of it's mental,
• 32:32
  right?
• 32:33
  Because the big thing is you,
• 32:36
  I put the work in, he put the work in,
• 32:38
  you know,
• 32:39
  but making it happen on the
• 32:40
  competition floor and just
• 32:41
  trusting all the training
• 32:43
  is there is a complete
• 32:44
  different animal and a game in itself.
• 32:48
  Jay Burch says, Joe is my kind of guy,
• 32:50
  blue collar badass.
• 32:52
  We out here.
• 32:53
  Let's go, baby.
• 32:58
  So what is your realistic
• 32:59
  goal going into the week?
• 33:04
  My realistic goal?
• 33:07
  My realistic goal is to try
• 33:11
  to... You said realistic.
• 33:15
  I'm going to go big here.
• 33:16
  But realistic, I want top half.
• 33:19
  I want top half.
• 33:20
  And by top half...
• 33:22
  Obviously, that's top 20, but every year,
• 33:26
  seeing a little improvement,
• 33:27
  a little improvement.
• 33:29
  We placed 15th with the Mufasa Tevi team,
• 33:32
  so I would love to match
• 33:33
  that as Indy or go 14th.
• 33:37
  Screw it.
• 33:38
  I want that game spot this year,
• 33:39
  the Hayes and the Barnes,
• 33:39
  but I know the caliber of
• 33:41
  competition there,
• 33:42
  and I'm going to do my best
• 33:44
  to be in the mix.
• 33:46
  Do you have pride that
• 33:47
  you're in North America East,
• 33:49
  or is it like, shit,
• 33:50
  why do I have to get this draw?
• 33:58
  I would say I have pride
• 34:00
  because it's their game and
• 34:01
  we're playing it.
• 34:03
  They can make whatever rule they want,
• 34:05
  but I'm still going to play it.
• 34:07
  And just like my coach said
• 34:08
  during quarterfinals, dude,
• 34:09
  it doesn't matter what these workouts are,
• 34:10
  you're qualifying.
• 34:11
  And I was like, dude, I honestly,
• 34:13
  I believe that.
• 34:14
  I believe that.
• 34:15
  And it's truly a game of inches.
• 34:18
  And North America East is...
• 34:20
  Yeah, I thought it was the toughest.
• 34:21
  But then you look at the
• 34:22
  Europe when it comes to all
• 34:24
  those statistics and stuff.
• 34:25
  And Europe is clearly, I think,
• 34:27
  the heaviest top and, you know,
• 34:31
  top ended average wise.
• 34:34
  But the top end performances
• 34:38
  in North America East are just stacked.
• 34:40
  And, you know, you see games,
• 34:41
  athletes after games,
• 34:42
  athletes and all the
• 34:43
  training camps are on the East Coast.
• 34:44
  Right.
• 34:45
  So everybody and their
• 34:46
  mother from the training
• 34:47
  camps on the East Coast
• 34:48
  that are at those camps are
• 34:49
  showing up to.
• 34:51
  And, you know,
• 34:52
  I'm here sitting not in a training camp.
• 34:54
  And that was one of the
• 34:55
  things CrossFit told us.
• 34:56
  We can't get a media pass.
• 34:58
  They said, well,
• 34:58
  are you a part of a training camp?
• 34:59
  I said, no.
• 35:00
  They said, well,
• 35:00
  we're giving training camps media passes.
• 35:02
  I was like, all right, thank you.
• 35:05
  Thank you.
• 35:06
  Thank you for that one.
• 35:07
  The rules, man.
• 35:09
  Yeah.
• 35:11
  Oh, my God.
• 35:12
  So I've been doing this since.
• 35:14
  So I was with Morning Chalk up in 2021.
• 35:17
  I did semifinals with
• 35:18
  Morning Chalk up in the games.
• 35:20
  Left them, then started my own thing.
• 35:22
  Good thing you left.
• 35:23
  Yeah.
• 35:25
  And ever since then,
• 35:27
  I've had a media pass at everything.
• 35:29
  But we have to apply for
• 35:30
  every single event.
• 35:33
  And so this year,
• 35:34
  they didn't let me know I
• 35:35
  was approved until two
• 35:36
  weeks before West Coast.
• 35:39
  How the hell do you get a
• 35:40
  hotel and a plane ticket at
• 35:43
  an affordable cost to fly
• 35:46
  clear across the country?
• 35:47
  You don't,
• 35:48
  you truly don't your options
• 35:49
  Creek without a paddle.
• 35:50
  Yeah.
• 35:51
  Just like,
• 35:51
  just like teams going first to right.
• 35:53
  Teams go first.
• 35:54
  They book or they booking
• 35:56
  all the big stuff up.
• 35:56
  They're booking everything up.
• 35:58
  Individuals go.
• 35:59
  And now I'm like,
• 36:00
  first house I saw I'm buying that.
• 36:01
  I'm like, this is going to go.
• 36:03
  I need a place to sleep.
• 36:05
  The hotels in, in downtown Knoxville,
• 36:07
  I know nothing about downtown Knoxville.
• 36:08
  The hotels are through the roof.
• 36:10
  So I'm like first Airbnb,
• 36:12
  I saw spiderwebs in the corner.
• 36:14
  I'm there.
• 36:14
  I'm taking it.
• 36:15
  That's what, that's what the review said.
• 36:16
  I said, okay, I'm taking it.
• 36:19
  Yeah.
• 36:20
  Our hotel at the games had
• 36:21
  bullet holes in it,
• 36:23
  but we made it and we made
• 36:25
  it through the night, man.
• 36:26
  That's it.
• 36:26
  Now you've got the memory.
• 36:28
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  And I'm staying like, so Knoxville,
• 36:30
  I'm staying 10 miles outside of the city.
• 36:33
  Cause I got notified.
• 36:36
  Yeah, man.
• 36:36
  It's I I'm 1.2 miles.
• 36:38
  And that was the only spot.
• 36:40
  One of three spots left,
• 36:42
  and it was three bedrooms, and I was like,
• 36:45
  I'm taking it.
• 36:45
  I had no questions about it.
• 36:47
  Yeah.
• 36:49
  Yeah,
• 36:49
  I just wish they'd figure out a
• 36:52
  better way to do all this.
• 36:55
  Communication is a big thing, but yeah.
• 36:59
  Well, Joe, this is the last, man.
• 37:01
  I try to keep these to 30 minutes.
• 37:03
  We are well past that.
• 37:06
  Oh, yeah, we are.
• 37:07
  We're chilling.
• 37:09
  But it's been a blast
• 37:10
  hanging out with you.
• 37:13
  Good luck in Knoxville.
• 37:14
  I'll be there.
• 37:15
  Apparently, I have pretty cool access.
• 37:17
  So we'll be doing some
• 37:19
  behind-the-scenes stuff while I'm there.
• 37:21
  Hell yeah.
• 37:22
  And we'll catch up with you then.
• 37:25
  Until then, man, good luck.
• 37:27
  And everybody in the chat,
• 37:28
  thank you for being here.
• 37:29
  Thank you for hanging out with us.
• 37:31
  And we'll see everybody next
• 37:32
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 37:35
  You the man, Scott.
• 37:37
  Thank you for everything you do, brother.