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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Tyson Bagent Always Preaching the Word. · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:32
  What is going on, everybody?
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  It's lunchtime.
• 0:37
  It's Friday.
• 0:39
  End of the work week.
• 0:40
  Last episode of the week.
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  Can't wait to be done with my work day.
• 0:46
  But I want to stay here all
• 0:47
  day with you guys and hang
• 0:49
  out and talk about all the
• 0:50
  stuff going around in the world, sports,
• 0:53
  entertainment, and CrossFit.
• 0:56
  But before we do,
• 0:58
  I've got to tackle this dartboard.
• 0:59
  I've got to get a good shot
• 1:02
  before the weekend.
• 1:04
  It has been an awful week.
• 1:06
  I'll explain in a second.
• 1:07
  Here we go.
• 1:15
  Whoa,
• 1:15
  that one came back and almost hit me.
• 1:19
  Ah, better, better.
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  Still not a bullseye.
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  We're going to get it someday,
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  I swear to God.
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  We're going to get it.
• 1:28
  Meredith, yes, yay Friday.
• 1:31
  Yes, yes, yes.
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  So, like,
• 1:34
  and I know you guys don't really
• 1:35
  care about the back end of this stuff,
• 1:37
  but Corey has seen it.
• 1:38
  Between StreamYard and my
• 1:40
  RODECaster this week,
• 1:41
  I am ready to throw this
• 1:43
  equipment in the trash.
• 1:47
  Last night,
• 1:47
  tried to do the Justin Cutler
• 1:48
  interview before we got started.
• 1:50
  My Rodecaster would not hook up.
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  I had no mic, so nobody could hear me.
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  And it took me like five to
• 1:57
  six minutes just to get it
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  up and running.
• 2:00
  Today,
• 2:01
  the same thing happened before this show.
• 2:04
  StreamYard has been kicking
• 2:05
  us out for no reason at all.
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  It's been just the dumbest stuff all week.
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  But I'm glad to be with you guys today.
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  Glad to finish the weekend strong.
• 2:17
  Um, as you all know, I'm a big, big,
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  big Chicago bears fan.
• 2:21
  Uh, schedule was released this week.
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  And then this book that's coming out,
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  talked about Caleb Williams
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  and him not wanting to be a
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  Chicago bear before the draft last year.
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  So all this news is piling up and, um,
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  But I still, like, I love my Bears.
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  I think that what things
• 2:40
  that he was saying before
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  the draft were actually correct.
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  And it turned out to be correct.
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  And he was right in all the
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  things that he said.
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  But just, you know, like,
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  I'm always watching Bears
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  news and CrossFit news.
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  I watch YouTube like eight
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  to ten hours a day.
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  I mean, that is my channel of choice.
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  I'm watching podcasts all day.
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  But most of you know that
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  the Bears' backup
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  quarterback is Tyson Bajent.
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  Tyson Bajent grew up in the
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  CrossFit space.
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  His dad was an affiliate owner.
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  His dad was an announcer at
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  the CrossFit Games.
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  And he was on a local
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  Chicago radio podcast this week.
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  And I want to play it for
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  you because he is preaching
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  CrossFit during this interview.
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  Thirty six minutes long.
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  And so I'm just going to
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  play you an excerpt about
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  minute thirty one is where
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  he starts getting into this.
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  And it's called Recap.
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  And the subtitle is Chicago
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  Bears quarterback Tyson
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  Bajent on why it's
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  different with Ben Johnson
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  and Caleb ready to skyrocket.
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  So I'm going to share that with you.
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  So if you want to go check
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  it out for yourself and see
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  the whole thing.
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  First thing I noticed right
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  away is Tyson has cut off
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  all of his hair.
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  He is almost clean shaven on the top.
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  But here, Dave Kaplan,
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  who is the guy in the middle,
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  this guy right here,
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  he is going to ask him
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  about his workouts.
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  And that's when we get into
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  all of the good stuff.
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  So.
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  Here we go.
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  I'm going to ask you about
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  your workouts because I
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  read about it last year
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  where you're doing these workouts.
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  Yeah, I'm going to pull it up.
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  Just stupid hard with your butt up.
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  Yeah, my mentor slash best friend,
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  Derek Gallagher,
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  but I work out with about all my buddies.
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  That's a prerequisite to
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  being my buddy is that we
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  get it in together.
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  So what is a... Oh, that was bad.
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  I was in the pain cave right there.
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  Don't show too much of that now.
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  um no so it's not really a
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  design um rather rather it
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  is uh crossfit so um I've
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  been doing crossfit ever
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  since I was around eight
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  nine years old um and the
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  way crossfit is defined is
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  constantly very functional
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  more functional movements
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  performed at high intensity um
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  So that's kind of how me and
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  my brother and my dad kind
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  of had us getting down
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  since an early age.
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  And then I kind of developed
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  my own kind of love and
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  understanding for it ever since, you know,
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  once I became like around seventeen,
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  eighteen and started
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  understanding what it means
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  to be healthy and what that is.
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  I don't know what the heck I would do.
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  I don't know what I'm going
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  to do when all this
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  football stuff's over with.
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  That's to be determined.
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  But, um,
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  Yeah, we like to get it in.
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  So programming, CrossFit workouts,
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  most of the time I'll let
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  him do the programming.
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  He's got a trick shoulder
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  and is a little older than me,
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  so I let him pick the workouts.
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  But then I also do my own
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  programs with my other
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  friend and kind of new CrossFit mentor,
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  Andrew Hiller,
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  who actually lives not far from here.
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  Twenty years from now,
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  you'll be in your forties.
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  This football thing will likely be over.
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  I'm not.
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  So there it is.
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  Hiller getting some air time
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  in the Chicago local area,
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  as well as Tyson Bajan
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  educating on what CrossFit is,
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  what it means to him,
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  how he uses that workout,
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  how he's done it since he's been eight,
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  nine years old.
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  And now he's a quarterback
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  in the NFL for my beloved Chicago Bears.
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  It was a great interview.
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  He is just a ball of energy
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  and positivity.
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  And so it was so much fun
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  watching the interview.
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  Got me so hyped for the season.
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  But it's crazy when you're
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  watching like something
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  with your one love in the
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  NFL and my Chicago Bears
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  and my CrossFit world collides with that.
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  And you listen to Tyson talk about
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  uh, what CrossFit is, what it means to him,
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  how it got him where he is today.
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  Um,
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  and all the people in his life that
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  have helped him with that along the way.
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  So, uh, pretty awesome.
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  Again, you can check that out.
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  It's called recap, um, R E K A P. Um,
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  so uh yeah and that's a
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  that's a show dave kaplan
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  is a morning radio host in
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  chicago sports radio and
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  then he has this podcast on
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  the side um so
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  Corey says, love that dude.
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  Wish he was in NOLA.
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  They actually talk about
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  that in this interview.
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  There have been some
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  rumblings that the New
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  Orleans Saints are actually
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  interested in bringing on
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  Tyson Bajan as a starter,
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  and they asked him about that,
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  and his answer was that
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  he goes with the premise
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  that he worries about where
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  his feet are today and
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  where his feet are today is
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  to be the best backup
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  quarterback for the Chicago
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  bears that he can be and to
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  make Caleb Williams,
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  the best quarterback that he can be.
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  And he's got a lot to learn with that.
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  And he is,
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  that is where his hundred
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  percent focus is.
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  If something like that were
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  to come up down the line,
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  he would surely be into
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  exploring those options.
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  But they actually bring up
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  the Saints specifically
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  looking for a starting quarterback.
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  And I guess they have
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  inquired to the Bears about
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  the availability of Tyson Bajent.
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  Again,
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  I am not as inside in that world as
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  I am in the CrossFit world.
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  But I guess that that did actually happen,
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  dude.
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  So maybe someday in the future,
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  he could be in New Orleans.
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  Tyson promoting CrossFit
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  more in three minutes than
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  Matt Frazier in a three-hour interview.
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  I know.
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  What's cool about Tyson is
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  every opportunity he gets
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  to talk about CrossFit, he does,
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  and he does it very willingly,
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  and he does it very passionately.
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  And so I think that's really
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  awesome that he does that.
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  If...
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  because I watch the bears
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  all the time and I watch
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  all the press conferences
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  and I watch all the the
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  things that go on he does
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  bring them up all the time
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  he brings up crossfit
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  constantly about workouts
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  he's done about now he does
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  shut down the crossfit
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  workouts the high intensity
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  aspect of it during the
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  season but in the off
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  season he's all in and uh fully on board
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  So, yeah,
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  I just thought that was something
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  fun to share with you from
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  kind of outside our normal space.
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  But I thought that would be
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  kind of a fun share.
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  So I got some messages from
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  Jay Birch last night.
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  And then I saw that Barbell
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  Spin broke it today that
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  the stream for TFX is only
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  going to be Saturday, Sunday.
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  They are not streaming today's two events.
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  So you can only leaderboard
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  watch for that.
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  Or if you know an athlete that is there,
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  I know Matt Brady is there.
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  He's been having a family
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  member stream his stuff live.
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  I got a notification on that today.
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  But there is no stream today.
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  So it's kind of piecing
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  things together or looking
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  at the leaderboard.
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  But then tomorrow and Sunday,
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  you can watch it on YouTube.
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  And there are links.
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  I mean,
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  if you search TFX Invitational on YouTube,
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  I'm sure it'll pop up.
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  But they will be streaming events three,
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  four, five,
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  and six for the end of the weekend.
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  So that's what we have there.
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  As for my picks for this weekend,
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  with so many people
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  dropping out because
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  they've already qualified
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  in the in-person semifinal,
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  or they think they have,
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  it's not official yet,
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  the field is actually kind of limited.
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  But here are my picks for
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  who is going to qualify and
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  who will podium at TFX.
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  On the men's side,
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  I have Chris Ibarra winning
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  with Nick Matthew finishing
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  second and CJ Gerald finishing third.
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  Also, people to watch out for,
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  I would say...
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  Oh, gosh.
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  Bill Leahy is someone to
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  look out for there.
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  I just don't know how
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  recovered he is from his injury.
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  I haven't seen him high
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  enough on the leaderboard
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  to give me super confidence
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  in picking him to win.
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  And that's why I went with
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  Nick Matthew and Ibarra.
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  above him at this point and
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  cj gerald is an awesome
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  athlete I've been following
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  him in his semi-final
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  career for about four years
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  he went on a team to the
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  games last year so uh he
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  took a year off to kind of
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  focus on some things and he isn't
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  a lot of like the regional
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  comps in the west he does
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  really really well in and I
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  think he might be a
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  surprise uh to show up on
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  the podium as cj gerald
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  watch out for that that
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  name there he is in the
• 12:51
  austin hatfield colton
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  merton stature um but he is
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  really strong really fit
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  really good at gymnastics
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  look for cj gerald to pop on that side
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  on the women's side,
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  I have Sydney McAlishan winning it.
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  I think she's had a good showing, uh,
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  at WFP last weekend.
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  Um, and I,
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  I just think she's poised after
• 13:18
  a couple of years off to
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  really come back and get at it.
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  So Sydney to win, uh,
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  Olivia Kerstetter to take second.
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  And then I have Rebecca
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  Fuseli taking third.
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  Uh, I see Craig has Hannah black in there.
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  Um,
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  I love Hannah Black.
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  She's one of the people I
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  love just chatting with.
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  I think she will do well,
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  but I think she still has
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  to close the gap on some of
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  her holes a little bit more
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  to really get into that top three.
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  I think she'll do fine on
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  the barbell stuff.
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  And this is where I don't
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  have Olivia winning.
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  I think that Sydney is not
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  just as strong as Olivia,
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  but because we're doing
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  just basic points,
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  Olivia is not going to
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  extend beyond Sydney very
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  much in the barbell because
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  Sydney is pretty strong and
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  where Sydney will make up
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  ground is she is not,
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  she doesn't have as big a
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  deficits in the other areas as, uh,
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  Olivia does.
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  So I think she'll make up
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  some ground with Olivia,
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  like on rope climbs and
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  things of that nature.
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  Uh,
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  And Craig,
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  I know TFX has a lot of barbell work,
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  but if you finish thirtieth
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  or fortieth in an event
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  that is not barbell,
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  it's going to be hard to come back from.
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  And that's where Hannah's
• 14:44
  problem is right now.
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  She cannot.
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  She has not proven that she
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  can damage control those
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  events at this point yet.
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  That's my my feeling.
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  I could be wrong.
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  I could be proven wrong this weekend.
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  I think she is a phenomenal
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  athlete and is really
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  trying hard to get to that spot,
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  but it takes a lot of work
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  and a lot of time.
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  And we'll see like,
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  like take someone like
• 15:14
  Anika Greer who qualified
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  out of the in affiliate semifinal.
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  She has been working on her
• 15:19
  running since I have known her.
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  And that was five, five years ago.
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  I mean,
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  I think the first episode we did
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  with her was like episode thirty two.
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  We're on like eleven hundred.
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  And she's been working on
• 15:31
  running ever since then.
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  And she stopped lifting so much,
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  stopped doing some of those other things.
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  And she still has a big hole
• 15:39
  in running after five years
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  of working on it.
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  So Hannah's been working on
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  the running for two years
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  and working on that cardio
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  and the upper body pulling
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  stuff that she needs to improve on.
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  And I just don't think that
• 15:53
  that's enough time to have
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  improved at this point.
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  And Jason Bourne, I think you're right.
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  I don't know who he thinks is right,
• 16:02
  whether Craig or me, but either way,
• 16:05
  give support to who he thinks right.
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  I am bummed that we can't
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  watch the workouts today,
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  although I am pretty tired
• 16:15
  of heavy Isabel,
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  but I would like to see if
• 16:18
  Olivia Kerstetter can go
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  faster than the three Oh
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  four or three Oh five that
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  she pulled off in, in affiliate semis.
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  especially after this will
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  be her third week in a row of competing.
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  We talk about,
• 16:35
  is this too much in one
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  season to compete week
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  after week after week?
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  Today is going to tell us a
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  lot because we have some
• 16:45
  athletes that are going for
• 16:47
  their third week in a row.
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  Um,
• 16:50
  and it's going to be interesting to see
• 16:51
  how they do.
• 16:52
  A lot of the,
• 16:52
  these athletes did an
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  affiliate semifinals.
• 16:55
  They did WFP and now they're
• 16:57
  doing TFX in three straight weeks.
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  Um, and we're going to see what,
• 17:03
  what that means.
• 17:09
  Uh,
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  Lito says no way she can go faster than
• 17:12
  an,
• 17:13
  an affiliate considering they have to
• 17:14
  move the barbell forward in
• 17:16
  live competition.
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  I hear you.
• 17:24
  Olivia has done things that
• 17:25
  I didn't think were humanly possible.
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  Um, so I don't know.
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  I understand your logic
• 17:33
  behind it and it makes perfect sense.
• 17:36
  Um, but yeah, I,
• 17:39
  I just don't put anything
• 17:40
  past Olivia at this point.
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  Some of the stuff she did at
• 17:43
  West coast last night blew
• 17:45
  my mind or last year blew my mind.
• 17:52
  strategically, Eric Mackey says,
• 17:55
  Olivia should go,
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  just go for three forty
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  five and still take the win.
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  You're probably right.
• 17:59
  There's no need to win by a
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  minute on this workout.
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  You just need to win and
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  then save yourself for the
• 18:06
  rest of the weekend,
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  especially competing three
• 18:09
  weekends in a row.
• 18:13
  Jason Bourne says, I saw Colton is at TFX.
• 18:16
  He sure is.
• 18:17
  He is there to do some
• 18:18
  sponsor stuff and hang out
• 18:20
  with Paper Street Coffee,
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  I believe is part of his plan,
• 18:23
  but also his fiance is competing.
• 18:25
  Ali Zerkey qualified for...
• 18:28
  for tfx so this is her first
• 18:31
  big competition um in the
• 18:34
  individual division um
• 18:36
  during the crossfit game
• 18:37
  season she has competed at
• 18:39
  the games on a team before
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  but she has never competed
• 18:43
  at like a regional or
• 18:44
  semi-final level as an
• 18:46
  individual athlete and
• 18:47
  colton is going to be her
• 18:48
  coach this weekend
• 18:50
  Uh,
• 18:51
  so that is probably the main reason he
• 18:53
  is there.
• 18:55
  Um,
• 18:55
  but I guess he's also going to hang out
• 18:56
  at the paper street coffee booth.
• 18:58
  So if you're there in
• 19:00
  Oklahoma city and you
• 19:01
  wanted to check out and go see Colton, uh,
• 19:04
  I think he's going to be
• 19:05
  hanging out over there at that, uh,
• 19:07
  paper street coffee booth.
• 19:08
  Uh, you can probably get a picture,
• 19:11
  an autograph, or just chat with the dude.
• 19:13
  Um,
• 19:16
  But yeah, it's cool that he's there.
• 19:18
  Really cool that he's there.
• 19:20
  And best of luck to Allie.
• 19:21
  She's a great person too.
• 19:25
  I love hanging out with her.
• 19:30
  One of my favorite things
• 19:32
  ever is after Granite Games
• 19:33
  in twenty twenty two.
• 19:36
  Yeah, twenty twenty two, I think.
• 19:39
  And Colton had qualified for the games.
• 19:42
  Ken Walters and I hung out
• 19:43
  with Colton and Allie for a
• 19:46
  while after at the hotel
• 19:48
  bar after Granite Games in
• 19:51
  twenty twenty two.
• 19:51
  We had a blast there.
• 19:54
  So love those two and hope
• 19:56
  Ali can really put on a
• 19:58
  show and do some cool stuff.
• 20:01
  That'll be fun.
• 20:05
  So I think that's it about
• 20:07
  TFX that I want to talk about.
• 20:10
  We'll have a lot more on
• 20:11
  that on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 20:14
  As everything finishes up
• 20:15
  and people have punched their ticket,
• 20:17
  we'll go through the workouts.
• 20:18
  We'll go through who did well,
• 20:21
  what was good,
• 20:22
  what was bad about everything.
• 20:23
  And that'll be with Carolyn
• 20:25
  and Jamie and myself on
• 20:26
  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk, eight p.m.
• 20:28
  Eastern time.
• 20:31
  Also,
• 20:31
  I did a conversation with Justin
• 20:32
  Cutler last night at six p.m.
• 20:35
  It's out there for view now.
• 20:37
  It was a great conversation.
• 20:39
  If you have any curiosity
• 20:42
  about how coaches and
• 20:43
  athletes are looking at
• 20:44
  this new season with all
• 20:46
  the opportunities,
• 20:48
  the way him and Alex Kazan looked at it,
• 20:52
  I found fascinating.
• 20:54
  He talks about how they sat down,
• 20:57
  how they wanted to pace the
• 20:58
  season in a way that they
• 21:00
  got through safely and with
• 21:02
  the body most intact that it could be.
• 21:06
  And that's why they have not
• 21:07
  done anything at part of
• 21:09
  the CrossFit game season yet.
• 21:11
  They wanted to do WFP, have a month off,
• 21:14
  do NorCal Classic, have a few months off,
• 21:17
  and then do the games.
• 21:19
  Um, I do ask him,
• 21:21
  is it risky going to NorCal
• 21:24
  and that be your only shot?
• 21:26
  And he said,
• 21:26
  the last few years you've only
• 21:28
  ever had one shot.
• 21:30
  And so we're willing, he goes, I,
• 21:32
  and he actually said on the show,
• 21:34
  I don't like that people
• 21:35
  get multiple bites at the apple.
• 21:39
  Um, I like it.
• 21:40
  That is you take your shot
• 21:42
  and either you make it or you don't.
• 21:44
  Um,
• 21:46
  And he has every confidence
• 21:47
  in the world that even with
• 21:49
  only two spots open,
• 21:51
  Alex is poised to take one
• 21:53
  of those two spots.
• 21:56
  They are very confident in
• 21:57
  their ability to do that.
• 21:59
  So their plan is to do that,
• 22:04
  actually to get the top spot.
• 22:06
  They're confident in winning
• 22:07
  and then moving on to the CrossFit Games.
• 22:11
  So,
• 22:12
  and I think that was one of the most
• 22:13
  enlightening things in last
• 22:14
  night's interview was the
• 22:17
  confidence that both Alex
• 22:19
  and him have now in that
• 22:21
  they go to events to win.
• 22:23
  They're not going to podium.
• 22:25
  They're not going to get a
• 22:27
  qualifying spot.
• 22:28
  Every event that they're entering,
• 22:29
  they are entering to win.
• 22:33
  And that he believes that
• 22:35
  Alex has moved into that
• 22:37
  discussion as best female
• 22:40
  athlete in the world.
• 22:44
  So check that out.
• 22:45
  It's on the Clydesdale Media
• 22:46
  YouTube channel and
• 22:47
  available for you to check that out.
• 22:51
  We also got a little bit of
• 22:51
  breaking news yesterday from the WFP,
• 22:54
  and that is that they have
• 22:57
  decided to make a rule that
• 22:59
  the highest finishing
• 23:02
  challenger in the series
• 23:04
  that weekend will get an
• 23:07
  automatic bid to the following tour stop.
• 23:11
  So what that means is for tour stop one,
• 23:13
  the highest finishing
• 23:15
  challengers were Fisa
• 23:17
  Goffey in the women and
• 23:19
  Colton Mertens in the men.
• 23:21
  Because they were the
• 23:22
  highest finishing challenger,
• 23:25
  they both now get an
• 23:26
  automatic bid to tour stop two,
• 23:29
  meaning they do not have to
• 23:30
  do the qualifier.
• 23:32
  They will still come into
• 23:34
  that event as the top
• 23:36
  qualifying challenger and
• 23:39
  And not as a pro,
• 23:41
  but they will now be able
• 23:45
  to compete in that event
• 23:48
  and compete for points.
• 23:54
  Lito says, not challengers, pro qualifiers,
• 23:56
  I think.
• 23:57
  Well, they're still a challenger.
• 23:58
  They're just the top ten challengers.
• 24:01
  And so because they're the top ten,
• 24:02
  there's no way the other
• 24:03
  challengers could ever
• 24:04
  finish above them anyway.
• 24:13
  So it's just semantics
• 24:16
  because there was a challenger qualifier.
• 24:17
  The top ten challengers then
• 24:19
  go compete against the pros.
• 24:22
  The next twenty challengers
• 24:24
  compete in their own division.
• 24:28
  But I get what you're saying.
• 24:29
  They could be called pro qualifiers.
• 24:31
  It could be called challengers,
• 24:32
  whatever that is.
• 24:34
  Whatever it is,
• 24:36
  of the ten that make it to
• 24:38
  the pro division for competition,
• 24:41
  the top finisher gets an
• 24:43
  automatic bid to the next one.
• 24:44
  They are not assigned athlete.
• 24:46
  They are not a pro yet.
• 24:49
  They just get an automatic
• 24:50
  bid without having to do
• 24:51
  the qualifier for the next event.
• 24:54
  guaranteeing they get to
• 24:56
  compete for points in the next event,
• 25:00
  which actually solves some
• 25:02
  of the issues that like
• 25:04
  Jamie argued with me on
• 25:05
  Sunday night that these
• 25:09
  athletes go when now
• 25:10
  they've got to do a
• 25:11
  qualifier and then they got to go, blah,
• 25:12
  blah.
• 25:13
  Well,
• 25:13
  Colton and fee do not have to do the
• 25:14
  qualifier.
• 25:15
  Now they're automatically
• 25:16
  going to be there.
• 25:17
  And I love,
• 25:18
  and I actually love the rule change.
• 25:20
  I think it is.
• 25:22
  I think this is a good step for the sport.
• 25:25
  But what's funny is if you
• 25:26
  watch the TTT podcast that they did,
• 25:31
  kind of looking at WFP and
• 25:33
  where it needs to be better
• 25:34
  and what it can improve on,
• 25:36
  this was a suggestion that
• 25:38
  was made by them.
• 25:39
  And so it's almost like WFP said, wow,
• 25:42
  that is a good idea.
• 25:43
  Let's implement that and
• 25:44
  let's move forward.
• 25:53
  guys are just dogging on
• 25:55
  them nobody says this about
• 25:58
  the pga store card or the
• 26:02
  um I don't know man I'm
• 26:13
  telling you wfp is going to
• 26:15
  be here for a little while
• 26:18
  from what I've heard it's
• 26:19
  going to be here for a while
• 26:21
  Now,
• 26:21
  whether they ultimately are successful
• 26:23
  or not, I don't know.
• 26:25
  But they're going to be around a while.
• 26:27
  And I enjoyed the show.
• 26:31
  That's all I'm going to say.
• 26:42
  Andrew Hiller had something
• 26:44
  that I thought was really interesting.
• 26:46
  I didn't have this in my notes,
• 26:47
  but I'm going to pull this up.
• 26:58
  so I'm interested to know
• 27:06
  what you guys think of this
• 27:09
  post if the world fitness
• 27:13
  project can kill the
• 27:15
  crossfit games it's earned
• 27:25
  what do you think he meant by that
• 27:33
  Cause I think I know what he
• 27:35
  meant by that.
• 27:36
  And it's what I've kind of
• 27:41
  been saying in a lot more words.
• 27:44
  I guess I was using word
• 27:45
  salad to say this and he did,
• 27:49
  he did it really quickly.
• 27:52
  And what I've been saying is,
• 27:54
  if CrossFit doesn't get off
• 27:57
  of their ass and make some
• 28:00
  changes that we've been
• 28:01
  asking for for years to
• 28:03
  make a more simplified
• 28:04
  season that is easier to understand,
• 28:07
  and they don't make the changes necessary,
• 28:10
  WFP could capitalize on
• 28:12
  that and kill CrossFit.
• 28:19
  And in that way,
• 28:20
  it means that the WFP has
• 28:21
  been working hard to make
• 28:23
  the changes needed and
• 28:25
  taking the feedback given
• 28:27
  to make the changes to see.
• 28:33
  Yeah.
• 28:34
  Andrew Stan says,
• 28:37
  it means CrossFit let the WFP kill it.
• 28:39
  CrossFit has to take the WFP
• 28:41
  as competition.
• 28:44
  I agree.
• 28:47
  If CrossFit is going, Meredith says,
• 28:49
  if CrossFit is going to let
• 28:50
  it happen and not improve,
• 28:52
  then they don't deserve to
• 28:53
  be in the space.
• 28:55
  And what it means is WFP has
• 28:57
  made those changes and has
• 28:59
  listened to criticism and
• 29:01
  has done everything
• 29:04
  necessary to earn that spot.
• 29:18
  T-Bird ball is in CrossFit's
• 29:19
  court as I see it.
• 29:24
  This is why,
• 29:26
  because it's absolutely
• 29:27
  hilarious to me that
• 29:28
  they're handing out pro
• 29:29
  cards to whoever they want
• 29:30
  and making like it means something yet.
• 29:32
  They haven't had one yet.
• 29:34
  One, it doesn't mean shit yet.
• 29:38
  They only handed out cards.
• 29:42
  It's not a card.
• 29:43
  It's a spot.
• 29:44
  It's a pro spot.
• 29:46
  You have to have the twenty
• 29:49
  for the challengers to then take them on.
• 29:52
  It'd be like playing king of
• 29:53
  the hill and not putting a
• 29:54
  king at the top of the hill
• 29:56
  to take down so that you
• 29:58
  can take over the spot.
• 30:01
  In their concept,
• 30:03
  you have to have the target
• 30:05
  for the challengers to take on.
• 30:09
  So you had to give somebody
• 30:11
  these twenty positions.
• 30:15
  And while I will agree that
• 30:16
  some of those people did
• 30:18
  not deserve those positions
• 30:21
  based on their athletic ability,
• 30:27
  most of them did.
• 30:30
  Seventy-five to eighty
• 30:31
  percent of them deserve to
• 30:32
  be the twenty chosen.
• 30:36
  But without the target,
• 30:38
  you can't have the competition.
• 30:42
  So you have to hand it out to someone.
• 30:44
  Now, as the years go on,
• 30:48
  then those will all be
• 30:49
  earned because you either
• 30:51
  have to keep the person
• 30:52
  from taking you down the
• 30:54
  hill or you have to take
• 30:56
  the person off the hill to get it.
• 31:03
  And then it will make a lot more sense.
• 31:16
  Agree.
• 31:17
  It had its faults, but I enjoyed the show.
• 31:20
  Yeah,
• 31:20
  I don't think they were perfect in
• 31:22
  any way, shape, or form,
• 31:24
  but I really enjoyed
• 31:25
  watching the show all weekend.
• 31:28
  The stream was good.
• 31:30
  The workouts were good.
• 31:31
  The ending had drama.
• 31:34
  It was awesome.
• 31:40
  And there are already seven
• 31:41
  pros under the cut line.
• 31:43
  Yeah, there's going to be change.
• 31:45
  People are going to earn
• 31:46
  their pro card for next year.
• 31:49
  And he'll and fee and Colton
• 31:52
  did not get a pro card.
• 31:54
  They just got an automatic
• 31:55
  bid to the next event.
• 32:05
  Sten is one hundred percent correct.
• 32:08
  yeah and that is back on
• 32:10
  this comment uh that
• 32:13
  crossfit let the wfp kill
• 32:14
  it uh corey most of the
• 32:19
  athletes were chosen based
• 32:20
  on past performances with
• 32:21
  the exception of like a few
• 32:23
  right most of them most of
• 32:24
  them earned it through past
• 32:26
  performance there were some
• 32:29
  people that got it because
• 32:30
  of their social media
• 32:31
  outreach um and maybe they
• 32:33
  wanted a more global selection
• 32:41
  But all that's going to wash
• 32:43
  out here after this year.
• 32:51
  And I know in this space we
• 32:52
  have a lot of mountains,
• 32:54
  so I'm sorry I brought in
• 32:55
  the king of the mountain,
• 32:56
  but I think it's the most
• 32:56
  simplistic way to
• 32:57
  understand the concept of
• 32:59
  what they're trying to do.
• 33:02
  You have a king of the
• 33:04
  mountain and you're trying
• 33:05
  to take people off of it
• 33:07
  and replace yourself on there.
• 33:15
  that is fitting what they
• 33:17
  want to do into the old system.
• 33:20
  They're creating a new system.
• 33:23
  The target should have been
• 33:24
  the competition itself.
• 33:25
  It's a comp just like any other comp.
• 33:27
  I understand what they're trying to do,
• 33:28
  but it's putting the cart
• 33:29
  before the horse.
• 33:30
  It's not,
• 33:31
  they have to explain what they're
• 33:32
  trying to do.
• 33:38
  when other sports have
• 33:40
  brought this system in
• 33:41
  place they went and looked
• 33:43
  at the world rankings and
• 33:45
  they gave the top x number
• 33:47
  of people what we are now
• 33:51
  calling a pro card or to
• 33:54
  the those spots and then
• 33:58
  it's up to the other people
• 33:59
  to beat them and get them
• 34:01
  out of those spots that's
• 34:04
  their that's their storyline
• 34:07
  And without that storyline,
• 34:09
  then people are not going
• 34:10
  to understand it in year one.
• 34:11
  Then it's just CrossFit.
• 34:17
  I don't even know,
• 34:18
  CrossFit Part B. They're
• 34:22
  trying to be different.
• 34:23
  They're trying to have a
• 34:24
  different storyline.
• 34:38
  Andrew says,
• 34:40
  I do think they could have
• 34:41
  just made an open
• 34:42
  competition for the pro
• 34:43
  card instead of putting
• 34:44
  some in the pro division
• 34:46
  from the beginning.
• 34:47
  You don't attract the people
• 34:48
  without the money.
• 34:50
  You had to give people money.
• 34:51
  You had to give people a target.
• 34:54
  You had to make an incentive
• 34:56
  for people to want to do this.
• 34:58
  And they did that by
• 34:59
  selecting forty people,
• 35:01
  handing them money and saying,
• 35:03
  this is something you want.
• 35:09
  If you have an open competition for it,
• 35:13
  it takes away that attraction.
• 35:21
  So I don't think it would
• 35:25
  have worked if they would
• 35:26
  have had an open
• 35:26
  competition for the pro card.
• 35:29
  I think it was them saying,
• 35:31
  you have had a past
• 35:32
  performance that deserves
• 35:34
  X. Here's some cash.
• 35:37
  Come play with us for a year.
• 35:40
  That got their name out there.
• 35:41
  That got big names to come
• 35:43
  in and agree to do it.
• 35:44
  And then that ball started rolling.
• 35:47
  Then you actually have
• 35:48
  something you can work with.
• 35:52
  Without that ball rolling
• 35:54
  and without handing money
• 35:55
  over to the Pat Vellners
• 35:57
  and to the Laura Horvaths
• 35:59
  and those people,
• 36:00
  you would not have had this
• 36:01
  ball rolling and people
• 36:03
  incentivized to want to
• 36:04
  jump in and get that same
• 36:06
  thing that they got.
• 36:09
  The reason that Colton
• 36:10
  Mertens is going so hard is
• 36:12
  because he's pissed he didn't get asked.
• 36:15
  That gives him a chip on his
• 36:16
  shoulder to go so hard at this,
• 36:18
  and that's a storyline.
• 36:20
  That's what they're trying to do here.
• 36:30
  One, we don't know what the money is,
• 36:33
  and all it is is a minimum.
• 36:34
  You can earn way more than
• 36:36
  that if you win.
• 36:39
  And for the people like
• 36:40
  Colton who didn't get the
• 36:41
  guaranteed money,
• 36:42
  it's a huge incentive to
• 36:43
  come in and take that money
• 36:44
  away from them.
• 36:46
  It's also a huge incentive
• 36:47
  for the people that have it
• 36:48
  to want to keep it.
• 36:50
  There's never been
• 36:51
  guaranteed money in this sport.
• 36:54
  Those are the incentives.
• 36:57
  You have to stop looking at
• 36:59
  it as one competition.
• 37:01
  It is a series.
• 37:02
  It is a year long series
• 37:04
  that people are trying to
• 37:07
  push people down the
• 37:08
  mountain to keep their pro card.
• 37:10
  And the people coming up the
• 37:11
  mountain are trying to pull
• 37:12
  the people off.
• 37:15
  And that's why you have the whole year.
• 37:32
  Laura Horvath did not quit on the floor.
• 37:34
  Good God, man.
• 37:36
  You think she wanted to finish ninth?
• 37:40
  She won the rope climb event
• 37:43
  head-to-head with Alex Kazan,
• 37:44
  who is one of the best
• 37:45
  upper body pullers in the world.
• 37:48
  Went toe-to-toe with her and
• 37:49
  won that event.
• 37:50
  She dropped the dumbbells on the lunge.
• 37:53
  She hit a fatigue.
• 37:57
  We don't know what was going
• 37:57
  on that weekend.
• 37:59
  She didn't quit.
• 38:10
  I'm telling you, if I talk to Colton,
• 38:13
  he has a chip on his shoulder.
• 38:16
  He feels disrespected
• 38:17
  because he was not asked to
• 38:19
  be one of the twenty pros.
• 38:21
  And he is coming to get his.
• 38:25
  And that is what motivates him.
• 38:33
  Jason Bourne, bro, she quit.
• 38:35
  She did not quit.
• 38:37
  These athletes do not quit.
• 38:44
  Andrew, if you don't hand out the money,
• 38:47
  people weren't going to
• 38:48
  jump over and do this in
• 38:50
  the wave of athletes that we got.
• 38:55
  This is the best field other than Rogue.
• 38:59
  And maybe as good as Rogue is ridiculous.
• 39:07
  That's how they got that field.
• 39:09
  They got that field because
• 39:10
  money was handed out.
• 39:12
  It's an incentive.
• 39:18
  Justin Cutler,
• 39:19
  anyone who thinks the
• 39:20
  athletes aren't trying
• 39:21
  because they have a
• 39:22
  contract doesn't understand
• 39:23
  the mindset of these athletes.
• 39:31
  Y'all are hilarious.
• 39:33
  Thank you, Justin.
• 39:35
  Thanks for the backup, brother.
• 39:40
  Patrick Clark, Justin,
• 39:42
  you can't watch event four
• 39:43
  and tell me people weren't trying.
• 39:47
  It's pro sports people.
• 39:49
  You get paid period.
• 39:52
  Thank you.
• 39:56
  Yeah.
• 39:58
  So there's that.
• 40:01
  Before I go back to work,
• 40:02
  I have one more thing to announce,
• 40:04
  and that is that we have
• 40:05
  our first drug suspension of the season.
• 40:09
  It doesn't really affect the
• 40:12
  season as it was a fifth
• 40:15
  place finisher at Copa Soar.
• 40:20
  but her name is Patricia Goncalves.
• 40:25
  She failed at the drug test
• 40:27
  at Copasor and it appears
• 40:31
  that she tested positive
• 40:32
  for the entire pharmacy.
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  You can go to the barbell
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  spin where they have listed
• 40:42
  all of the things that she
• 40:43
  tested positive for,
• 40:45
  but I will tell you it's all of it.
• 40:48
  Um,
• 40:49
  but it doesn't really affect the season
• 40:50
  because she, um, because she is,
• 40:54
  she wasn't going to the games anyway.
• 40:57
  She was the fifth place finisher,
• 40:58
  not the first or second.
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  So that is the first one.
• 41:01
  She did not appeal this
• 41:03
  decision and she is
• 41:04
  accepting the four-year ban.
• 41:09
  Uh, Justin, the entire pharmacy.
• 41:11
  Yep.
• 41:13
  There have been a few
• 41:13
  athletes in the past year
• 41:15
  that have taken the entire pharmacy,
• 41:18
  and that just kills me.
• 41:20
  Surprise, surprise,
• 41:21
  it came from South America.
• 41:25
  T-Bird says, Justin,
• 41:26
  stop speaking such truths.
• 41:31
  Patrick Clark,
• 41:32
  she tested positive for
• 41:33
  Flintstones multivitamins as well.
• 41:36
  Yeah, I think I see that on the list here.
• 41:37
  She took two Barney Rubbles and a Wilma.
• 41:47
  Back on the other thing,
• 41:48
  Justin said these athletes
• 41:49
  would run their grandmother
• 41:50
  over to win at a game of checkers.
• 41:56
  And Eric says they're all
• 41:57
  trying for every point,
• 41:58
  but the big difference for
• 42:00
  those who didn't pre-prepare right,
• 42:03
  Pat Vellner.
• 42:04
  And we don't, Pat could have been sick.
• 42:06
  He could have been injured.
• 42:07
  We don't know any of this stuff.
• 42:08
  Anyway.
• 42:12
  Anyway.
• 42:14
  Corey says I need to get
• 42:15
  back on the Flintstones train.
• 42:18
  Yeah.
• 42:21
  So that is...
• 42:28
  that is all we have right now for today.
• 42:31
  I hope everybody has a great weekend.
• 42:33
  We will be back Sunday night to, um,
• 42:37
  we'll be back Sunday night
• 42:38
  with Carolyn and Jamie to talk about TFX,
• 42:42
  see who punches their card there, uh,
• 42:44
  for the CrossFit games plus
• 42:46
  anything else that comes
• 42:47
  out over the weekend.
• 42:48
  And I'm sure we will debate
• 42:50
  some of these topics we
• 42:51
  just talked about now for sure.
• 42:55
  and um justin says he needs
• 42:58
  to get back on the
• 42:59
  multivitamins as well bet
• 43:01
  my knees would feel a ton
• 43:02
  better uh patrick clark so
• 43:05
  will we see you in mesa I
• 43:06
  have a spot reserved for
• 43:07
  you for athlete interviews
• 43:09
  I would love to be there I'm
• 43:11
  I think I will be there.
• 43:13
  I just have to see how my
• 43:15
  wife's recovering and how
• 43:16
  my mom's recovering from her stroke.
• 43:19
  Once I make sure everybody's healthy here,
• 43:22
  that might be a nice trip out there.
• 43:25
  So, yeah, we'll do that.
• 43:30
  Corey says, we're close to the same age,
• 43:31
  Justin.
• 43:32
  Maybe we can get sponsored.
• 43:34
  Wouldn't that be hilarious?
• 43:35
  Sponsored by Flintstone Vitamins.
• 43:39
  That that's big money right there.
• 43:45
  The heck with these other
• 43:46
  vitamin companies, man,
• 43:48
  Flintstones has all the, uh,
• 43:50
  Flintstones has all the money.
• 43:56
  Uh,
• 43:56
  the other thing I have to look at Patrick,
• 43:57
  it really is the age group
• 44:00
  CrossFit games that I have committed to.
• 44:02
  Um,
• 44:05
  And I know it's close to when Mesa is.
• 44:10
  So I have to see how that
• 44:12
  works itself out there.
• 44:15
  But I have committed to the
• 44:16
  age group athletes to do
• 44:19
  another behind the scenes
• 44:21
  with the age group.
• 44:22
  So we'll see that.
• 44:26
  All right, guys, I have to get back.
• 44:28
  I have so much on my plate at work today.
• 44:30
  I will...
• 44:32
  I need to get back to that.
• 44:33
  And you knuckleheads get
• 44:35
  back to work as well.
• 44:36
  We'll see everybody Sunday
• 44:38
  night for Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 44:39
  And next Monday,
• 44:40
  we'll be back for another
• 44:41
  lunch serving here on Lunch
• 44:44
  with the Clydesdales.
• 44:45
  See everybody next time.
• 44:46
  Bye, guys.