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Lunch with the Clydesdale & Cowboy - Tuesday Show! Should We Even Have a Master's CrossFit Games? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:01
  What's up, everybody?
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  It's day one of the CrossFit Games.
• 0:05
  Master style.
• 0:28
  From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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  we cover it all.
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  Midday motivation every time you press
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  call.
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  Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  Cowboy bring the heat.
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  CrossFit, boobies, music on repeat.
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  High-file hustle, yeah,
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  we building that brand.
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  Grab a plate, tune in now,
• 0:46
  you part of the fam.
• 0:53
  it's lunchtime here we are lunch with the
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  Clydesdale and maybe no cowboy today uh
• 1:04
  yeah it's funny because I just was on
• 1:08
  another podcast with him last night maybe
• 1:11
  he's had enough of me today or this
• 1:13
  week already decided to skip out on today
• 1:18
  there it is there it is um
• 1:26
  Yeah, Flow Elite.
• 1:27
  I don't know if you guys saw my
• 1:28
  story today.
• 1:29
  I went on to check out the Masters
• 1:31
  this morning in their Slippery Ball Run
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  sprint.
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  And I got a thing when I clicked
• 1:39
  the live stream button that said there are
• 1:42
  currently no live streams and they don't
• 1:46
  start until three twenty Pacific Standard
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  Time.
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  So, yeah.
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  Not the start I was hoping for for
• 2:00
  Flow Elite.
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  I've been trying to defend the decision
• 2:03
  that they needed to be there to infuse
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  some money,
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  to maybe pull in some different people.
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  But it meant all of that caveat was
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  that it would be up and running and
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  fully functional at this point in time,
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  which it is not.
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  So there it is.
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  uh meredith so i caved and bought a
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  month of flow elite hope it pays off
• 2:32
  well not off to a great start not
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  off to a great start um if you
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  guys missed it last night the glintons had
• 2:44
  a crazy podcast with just people coming in
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  and out all night long and um
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  Corey and I were two of those guests
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  that popped in and out.
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  We had a blast with them last night.
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  Meg and Joseph were on.
• 3:01
  They're on a plane right now heading to
• 3:04
  California.
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  So I see they're in the chat.
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  They must have got the free Wi-Fi in
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  the plane.
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  But yeah, fun stuff.
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  I'll get to see them tomorrow, hopefully.
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  So there we go.
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  Ken Walters is already in Santa Cruz.
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  So no ribeye, just a breakfast.
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  He's heading to the Silver Spur if anybody
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  wants to dine with Mr. Ken Walters.
• 3:43
  Yep.
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  You guys are already on fire in the
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  chat,
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  so it's hard to keep up with it.
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  Yeah, Seema,
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  can I get a schedule for individual events
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  less than twenty four hours until start
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  and still nothing?
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  But don't worry,
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  Ortega says Dave runs everything to the
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  minute.
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  Well,
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  it's easy to run everything to the minute
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  when you don't have the minutes written
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  down to know what minute you're supposed
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  to run it to.
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  You can always claim that you've run it
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  to the minute at that point because nobody
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  knows what the minutes are.
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  I think is what I said.
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  It's easy to meet your goal if you
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  don't say what your goal is.
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  Because if nobody knows what that goal is,
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  then... Mark Phillips,
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  I wonder if that's true.
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  The Masters men only got medium shorts.
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  Yeah,
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  nobody wants to see this man in a
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  pair of medium shorts.
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  Just saying.
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  What else do we got here?
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  I cannot seem to figure out how to
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  get the Flow Elite.
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  So Tessa,
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  you have to download the Flow Sports app.
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  It's called Flow Sports.
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  You download that app, you register,
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  you pay your thirty dollars and then you
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  can go in.
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  But you're not going to see anything until
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  three twenty Pacific Standard Time today.
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  Event one, I think I just saw, well,
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  that's horrible marketing.
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  Vicky just put the link in the chat,
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  Flow Sports TV,
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  if you want to do that.
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  Mark Phillips wants to be helpful.
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  He said if you give him your credit
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  card, he'll hook you up.
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  Uh, flow flow did announce this, um,
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  on Instagram.
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  I don't know if people saw this going
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  to put it up there.
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  Uh,
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  master's event one recap available at
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  twelve twenty p.m.
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  Pacific time.
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  So that would be three twenty p.m.
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  us in the East Coast.
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  So there it is.
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  Um.
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  Maybe you'll get to watch the slippery
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  ball sprint later today.
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  What I really was tuning in for is
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  I've heard they're running two floors just
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  like they did at Legends.
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  I'm assuming it's men on one side,
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  women on the other.
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  Are they going to broadcast both floors?
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  Or are they going to pan back and
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  forth between the two again like they did
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  at Legends?
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  If they pan back and forth and now
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  they're asking for thirty dollars for half
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  of the events,
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  now I'm going to start getting a little
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  pissed.
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  Because
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  You're doing this because they infused
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  money into the system.
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  Why are you now going to split the
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  floor and only show half at a time?
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  That is asinine.
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  At least if you're going to do that,
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  stagger the heats.
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  Don't put the two top heats going at
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  the same time.
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  Stagger the heats a little bit so you
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  can look at the top heats and at
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  least broadcast them.
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  Meg says she can't take me seriously when
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  I say slippery ball.
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  What else is it?
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  You've got people running six hundred
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  meters.
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  Most people sweat.
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  If you've been sweaty and you try to
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  pick up a medicine ball,
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  it becomes slippery,
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  and then you have the slippery ball.
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  Trish,
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  you won't like me when I'm a little
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  pissed.
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  The reasonable Hulk, yes.
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  That is me, the Hulk.
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  Joseph says that's got to be a broadcaster
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  MC nightmare.
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  So I was at Masters Fitness Collective.
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  They ran three floors at the same time
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  with announcers on mics and speakers.
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  We had false starts on some floors because
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  it was being announced to start on another
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  floor.
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  It was bonkers.
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  Bonkers.
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  Yes, exactly, Cousin.
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  It's a sweaty ball.
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  It's a sweaty, slippery ball.
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  The schedule definitely depicts
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  simultaneous floors between men and women.
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  And if you watch the first three minutes
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  of Hiller today,
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  he talks about that they are doing them
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  simultaneously.
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  But...
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  Wouldn't someone with common sense look at
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  that?
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  And I watch legends on flow like the
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  whole weekend.
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  Wouldn't someone with common sense say,
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  you know what,
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  let's stagger these a little bit so we
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  can show the best of the best doing
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  what they do?
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  If you,
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  because of time constraints and all the
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  divisions of masters,
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  and you're going to run them two floors
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  at a time,
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  start with heat one of one of the
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  divisions, let heat one and two go,
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  and then start staggering them.
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  So heat three and four are going while
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  one and two are going from the next
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  division.
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  It's not rocket science.
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  Okay.
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  The more I try to give grace over
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  all of this stuff,
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  the more they just take advantage of my
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  goodwill.
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  Common sense, what is that?
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  Must be a new thing.
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  Where does one get some?
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  Apparently they're fresh out at the store.
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  Especially in the California area.
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  um amanda my teammate stopped early in a
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  workout at mfc once because she heard the
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  mc from a different floor call time i
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  saw that i saw that there too amanda
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  witnessed it live you're at the freaking
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  crossfit games we're not talking about the
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  legends championship we're not talking
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  about metcon rush
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  You're at the CrossFit Games and you're
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  running it like a local comp.
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  It's utterly ridiculous.
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  If you're going to treat it like a
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  local comp, stop doing it.
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  Just stop.
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  Avera makes a good point.
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  If CrossFit doesn't give a shit,
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  why should we give a shit?
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  I give a shit because my friends are
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  doing it.
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  And I want to support my friends and
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  I enjoy going and watching my friends
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  compete.
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  But I can do that at a local
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  throwdown if you're going to treat the
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  CrossFit games like a local throwdown.
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  Like the Korean boxer years ago in the
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  Olympics that got knocked out because the
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  bell went off in the ring beside him
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  and he dropped his gloves.
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  Plus with those tight ass medium shorts
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  on,
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  you're going to be a little lightheaded,
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  hard to pay attention.
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  Amen to that.
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  I just, here's my thing.
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  if you're going to cheapen what the
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  CrossFit Games are, cut the field.
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  If you can't get it all in in
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  a day, cut the field.
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  Cut the field that makes it,
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  gets it to a place where it's doable.
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  Top ten in every division go to the
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  CrossFit Games.
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  Now we can fit it all in.
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  One heat of each.
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  It,
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  The issue is you're trying to get as
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  many five hundred dollar entry fees as
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  possible.
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  And in putting on a shitty show.
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  It.
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  It's like it's a money grab.
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  And I don't know.
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  I haven't seen Bob and Joe's wallet to
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  know if they're making any money on this
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  thing or not.
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  But God,
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  it just seems like on one side of
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  their mouth, hey,
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  let's get as much money in as we
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  can.
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  And on the other side,
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  let's waste it on X, Y, and Z.
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  There's no special equipment.
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  There's two floors running at the same
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  time.
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  what is special about this crossfit games
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  for the masters athletes if it's not
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  special stop calling it the crossfit games
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  um been watching the crossfit game since i
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  don't understand why after all these years
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  we can't get their media sorted out and
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  give the fans easy access to watch their
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  friends and families compete
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  The problem is,
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  is the dynamic of the audience has changed
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  since and the,
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  the infusion of Reebok money gave a false
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  sense of, um, a false sense of success.
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  And there was no conversion from that to
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  something sustainable.
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  And they try to act like it's still
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  at the same level, and it's not.
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  And all the things that made it great
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  and got people in the seats,
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  they've taken away.
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  No campground, no festival feel,
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  expensive tickets.
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  Everything that was spectator-friendly has
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  been stripped away from the CrossFit
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  Games.
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  I can't believe I'm going tomorrow.
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  Breaking news,
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  Clydesdale media now currently banned as
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  of ten twenty one to the twenty twenty
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  six CrossFit games.
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  I think he means ten twenty one a.m.
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  Pacific time.
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  What I'm saying is about the Masters
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  CrossFit games right now,
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  just to be clear.
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  Other than they got rid of the festival
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  field.
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  Scott, I asked before,
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  but why is there not huge infusion from
• 16:43
  shoe companies any longer?
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  The shoe companies make millions and
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  millions on the shoe and apparel sales
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  related to CrossFit.
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  I don't know how much they make on
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  the infusion of CrossFit.
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  I know I bought.
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  Thirty pairs of Reeboks back in the day.
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  But Reebok and Greg Glassman didn't get
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  along.
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  And then they put all of their eggs
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  in a noble basket that just wasn't good
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  enough to sustain itself.
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  It was a shitty shoe that was overpriced.
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  There's so many missteps along the way,
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  Avera.
• 17:32
  Greg talking shit about Reebok was not a
• 17:34
  good move.
• 17:42
  Meredith,
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  so did Reebok just think this was going
• 17:44
  to blow up and be huge and then
• 17:45
  dump the games after several years?
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  If you don't know the history behind it,
• 17:49
  it's not that simple.
• 17:52
  There was litigation that CrossFit accused
• 17:55
  Reebok of,
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  because Reebok owned the CrossFit store.
• 18:01
  CrossFit accused Reebok of understating
• 18:05
  sales and reducing the amount of money
• 18:08
  they paid CrossFit.
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  CrossFit litigated that against them.
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  It soured the relationship with Reebok.
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  And I believe,
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  I don't know this for a fact,
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  I believe that CrossFit tried to get out
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  of the Reebok deal,
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  thought Noble was the way to go,
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  and that's why we went down the road
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  we went.
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  It's truly a mess.
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  leslie i don't think it's fair to compare
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  this year's swag to noble swag there is
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  no big shoe sponsor this year the size
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  of velites compared to noble or reebok is
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  night and day
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  um i am trying to get through these
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  comments oh my gosh i'm clipping this and
• 19:37
  sending it to the leadership because i am
• 19:39
  a hardcore conservative i believe in
• 19:41
  canceling people honest to god like if i
• 19:47
  don't get into the stadium oh well
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  It is what it is.
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  Agree on the shoes, but it was clothing,
• 20:04
  bags, all the extras.
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  But Leslie, you have to remember,
• 20:09
  it was one big event in one location
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  for everybody.
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  And the money, the money is different.
• 20:16
  Valites is a much smaller company,
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  much smaller brand than any of the other
• 20:21
  people that were there.
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  Anyway, so I,
• 20:49
  I did want to talk about a few
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  other things before I get into too much
• 20:55
  stuff.
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  Um,
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  I don't know if you guys saw Holly
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  has already put out a schedule for the
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  masters games.
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  Uh,
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  Vicki's going to pull it up for me
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  now.
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  So if you haven't seen this on Instagram,
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  go follow DataWad.
• 21:19
  Holly has already put together all the
• 21:22
  times for this.
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  If you could advance through it a little
• 21:25
  bit, Vicki, just to show.
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  There's the age group and what time their
• 21:28
  heats are.
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  and it's just an easy way to see
• 21:34
  like workout one, workout two, et cetera.
• 21:39
  Once Flow Elite starts broadcasting it,
• 21:41
  this will be very handy for you.
• 21:43
  And as always,
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  Holly's the best in the business.
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  Always the best.
• 21:50
  So go check that out for sure.
• 21:55
  Vicki just put a link to that Instagram
• 21:57
  post in the chat.
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  Yes, Holly is awesome.
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  Thank you, Nicole.
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  I can't say enough good things about her.
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  The other thing I wanted to address is,
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  Hiller yesterday pulled up a clip of an
• 22:19
  interview I did with Arm & Hammer way
• 22:23
  back in the day.
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  And I was shocked when I saw my
• 22:27
  face on the screen.
• 22:29
  Um, but there it was.
• 22:32
  And it was an interview I did with
• 22:34
  Armin where he talked about getting kicked
• 22:36
  out of the games back in the day.
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  I was such a huge Armin hammer fan
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  back in the day.
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  Um,
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  don't usually get nervous for many
• 22:47
  interviews i got nervous for those
• 22:49
  interviews i've interviewed armin twice
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  that first one where we talked about him
• 22:54
  getting kicked out and where he was at
• 22:57
  that point and then later after he
• 23:00
  disappeared yeah we don't need to see that
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  vicky i was much larger during the armin
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  video that's for sure um so
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  with that,
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  the second time I interviewed him was
• 23:18
  after he had disappeared from the scene
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  and why he disappeared from the scene.
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  And if you haven't seen that, um,
• 23:29
  it was, it was very telling.
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  And I, and I feel like,
• 23:34
  I feel like I'm getting to a place
• 23:38
  where Armin was and why he quit CrossFit
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  media.
• 23:42
  Yeah.
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  And he told me that day that the
• 23:46
  reason he quit was because he just got
• 23:48
  tired of saying the same thing over and
• 23:54
  over and over again with no change ever
• 23:56
  being made.
• 24:00
  He felt like his show was the same
• 24:02
  show over and over and over again.
• 24:07
  Complaining about the exact same things he
• 24:09
  complained about the day before or the
• 24:12
  year before or years before.
• 24:16
  And nothing ever changed for him during
• 24:18
  that.
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  And so at some point he was like,
• 24:23
  I just can't do it anymore.
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  And I feel like.
• 24:31
  Jacqueline Robertson.
• 24:33
  Love that interview.
• 24:33
  You asked him some great questions.
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  Thank you.
• 24:40
  What's crazy is I became,
• 24:44
  so I feel what I want this lunch
• 24:49
  show to be is the modern version of
• 24:53
  Scaled as Needed.
• 24:55
  If you'd never watched Scaled as Needed,
• 24:57
  it was Armin's show with his buddies.
• 25:01
  hanging out, shooting the shit,
• 25:04
  no guardrails.
• 25:06
  They would talk about Star Wars.
• 25:09
  They would talk about the CrossFit Games.
• 25:11
  They would talk about powerlifting.
• 25:13
  They would talk about their drive through
• 25:15
  Austin.
• 25:18
  And you never knew where that show was
• 25:20
  going to go.
• 25:22
  And it had a big impact in my
• 25:25
  CrossFit life.
• 25:27
  At first, I didn't understand it.
• 25:29
  It took me a little bit to do.
• 25:31
  And, uh, and then I got it,
• 25:36
  I got it and it was fun and
• 25:38
  it was refreshing and it was a break
• 25:40
  in my day.
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  And that's what I want this to become.
• 25:44
  I want this to become that break in
• 25:46
  the day from all the other stuff.
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  And I,
• 25:51
  until I went back and kind of looked
• 25:52
  at that,
• 25:53
  I forgot that's really what I wanted this
• 25:55
  to be.
• 25:57
  Um,
• 25:59
  is that we don't know where we're going
• 26:03
  on a given day so um and what's
• 26:09
  funny is it started on flow elite armin
• 26:15
  was hired by flow elite to create crossfit
• 26:17
  content when they started covering granite
• 26:20
  games wadapalooza and those events
• 26:27
  And then Flo decided not to invest as
• 26:32
  much into the CrossFit space,
• 26:34
  and Armin was let go,
• 26:35
  and he moved that show to his own
• 26:39
  channel.
• 26:44
  And so that's what I'm trying to
• 26:47
  accomplish with this show,
• 26:48
  just so you guys know.
• 26:50
  is armin was a big influence early in
• 26:53
  my podcasting and that's what i wanted
• 26:55
  this show to be and i talked to
• 26:57
  corey about it last night and he's like
• 26:59
  it i love that show and i'm i
• 27:01
  love that that's what we're doing and so
• 27:06
  yeah just wanted to to share that story
• 27:11
  real quick
• 27:15
  Well, thank you, Amanda.
• 27:16
  I'm glad that it's that because that's
• 27:18
  what I want it to be.
• 27:20
  So when are we going off the rails
• 27:21
  today?
• 27:23
  Meg,
• 27:23
  it's really hard to go off the rails
• 27:24
  by yourself.
• 27:30
  And Corey apparently is dealing with some
• 27:32
  alarms at his house right now.
• 27:35
  And that's why he's not here.
• 27:38
  But I will tell you this.
• 27:39
  If you want to see off the rails,
• 27:41
  go check out the Glint and Things podcast
• 27:43
  from last night.
• 27:45
  I think we took the rails,
• 27:47
  crumpled them up and threw them in the
• 27:49
  garbage.
• 27:53
  And it may have been one of the
• 27:54
  most fun.
• 27:55
  I don't even know how long we were
• 27:56
  on.
• 27:57
  Thirty, forty minutes.
• 27:58
  I out of this world fun.
• 28:02
  I don't know if I've had more fun
• 28:04
  with my pants on.
• 28:14
  Avera says, okay,
• 28:15
  since neither CrossFit nor Flow Elite are
• 28:17
  providing any coverage,
• 28:19
  can anyone tell me how Carolyn and Jamie
• 28:21
  did in the first event?
• 28:23
  I can't because they haven't gone yet.
• 28:29
  I believe Jamie goes at about one fifteen
• 28:32
  Eastern time.
• 28:35
  And Carolyn is probably half hour after
• 28:40
  that.
• 28:45
  so um according to vicky the masters the
• 28:56
  up the leaderboard is not updated on
• 28:59
  competition corner yet
• 29:08
  Amanda says they're on fifty to fifty
• 29:10
  four.
• 29:11
  Yeah.
• 29:11
  So you have to wait a couple more
• 29:13
  age groups to get to Jamie at.
• 29:17
  Forty to forty four and then Carolyn at
• 29:19
  thirty five to thirty nine.
• 29:31
  My friend Megan Apostolaris is going to
• 29:33
  crush this year.
• 29:36
  As long as she crushes everybody but
• 29:38
  Jamie.
• 29:42
  I love Megan.
• 29:43
  Actually,
• 29:43
  I have so many friends in the Forty
• 29:45
  to Forty-Four.
• 29:46
  Kate, who was on our show last week,
• 29:47
  is in Forty to Forty-Four.
• 29:49
  Jamie, Megan.
• 29:53
  It's so much fun.
• 29:55
  I love those girls.
• 30:01
  have not heard anything about an alleged
• 30:03
  walkout during the athlete briefing at
• 30:05
  masters jay birch uh tessa k my daughter
• 30:15
  is going to help me with flow elite
• 30:18
  whatever it takes whatever it takes tessa
• 30:20
  uh
• 30:35
  Uh, let's say Milano.
• 30:36
  I'm so confused with flow elite.
• 30:38
  Well,
• 30:38
  they're not broadcasting anything right
• 30:40
  now.
• 30:42
  So don't be too confused.
• 30:45
  Um, and it,
• 30:46
  you have to go to flow sports.
• 30:49
  You have to download the flow sports app
• 30:51
  for when it is streaming.
• 30:58
  Seamus says it wasn't a walkout in a
• 31:00
  traditional sense or like of like high
• 31:02
  school.
• 31:03
  Once again,
• 31:04
  dense portrayed it inaccurately.
• 31:06
  Once they did the briefing of the six
• 31:08
  events, the older athletes were in,
• 31:10
  they left.
• 31:13
  Okay.
• 31:15
  Yeah.
• 31:15
  I didn't hear anything from Carolyn or
• 31:16
  Jamie and I, if something big happened,
• 31:20
  they would let me know.
• 31:21
  I'm sure.
• 31:28
  So the seventh event was for younger
• 31:36
  Masters athletes.
• 31:37
  Yeah,
• 31:37
  it's only for thirty five to forty four.
• 31:49
  So it would make sense.
• 31:51
  Like I did a presentation this morning in
• 31:52
  a meeting.
• 31:54
  I was the second presenter.
• 31:55
  There were two people after me.
• 31:57
  As soon as I was done with my
• 31:58
  presentation, I got the hell out of Dodge.
• 32:02
  I'm not going to sit there and listen
• 32:03
  to two more people present on something
• 32:06
  that I don't care about.
• 32:11
  So if you're.
• 32:12
  Forty-five and up and you're not doing
• 32:15
  event seven, why would you stay?
• 32:30
  I think I've said enough about how I
• 32:33
  think that the Masters CrossFit Games are
• 32:35
  not the CrossFit Games.
• 32:36
  It is a local throwdown, a local comp,
• 32:39
  and they need to stop calling it the
• 32:40
  CrossFit Games.
• 32:42
  It's lost everything special about what
• 32:44
  the CrossFit Games are.
• 32:49
  Other than you have some kick-ass athletes
• 32:52
  in those divisions.
• 32:52
  Yes.
• 33:03
  Tessa,
• 33:04
  it says thirty dollars a month to sign
• 33:05
  up.
• 33:06
  I thought a one time fee.
• 33:07
  It's a super easy cancel.
• 33:11
  I canceled mine.
• 33:13
  Regretfully.
• 33:16
  It.
• 33:16
  Yeah.
• 33:19
  Regretfully,
• 33:20
  mine was due to end after my cancellation
• 33:24
  on Wednesday tomorrow.
• 33:29
  So I had to go in and re
• 33:30
  up.
• 33:31
  but all you have to do is hit
• 33:33
  a button like twice to say you're
• 33:36
  canceling,
• 33:37
  and they're going to offer you a
• 33:38
  discounted rate, and you just X that out,
• 33:42
  hit cancel again, and it's done.
• 33:48
  Is there going to be a stream for
• 33:49
  Monster Games?
• 33:50
  Thought I would try to watch Cowboy.
• 33:54
  I don't know.
• 33:57
  If I'm Monster Games,
• 33:58
  I'm not going to invest a ton into
• 34:00
  a stream while we're going at the exact
• 34:02
  same time as the CrossFit Games.
• 34:09
  So, yeah, that's my opinion.
• 34:22
  Armin was such a likable dude.
• 34:24
  He was.
• 34:26
  And honestly,
• 34:27
  I'm not going to pretend that I'm friends
• 34:28
  with Armin,
• 34:29
  but I am friends with Chase Long,
• 34:32
  who was one of his sidekicks on the
• 34:34
  Scale is Needed podcast.
• 34:37
  And their joke was that S-A-N didn't
• 34:39
  always stand for Scale is Needed.
• 34:40
  They would change it every episode as to
• 34:43
  what it meant.
• 34:44
  But Chase and I became friends after I
• 34:49
  hung out at TFX one year.
• 34:53
  And he actually,
• 34:56
  a really cool story about Chase Long is,
• 34:59
  and he was the guy that was the
• 35:01
  good athlete on the show that they would
• 35:05
  talk to because he was always doing semis
• 35:07
  or regionals or whatever.
• 35:10
  We were walking into the West Coast
• 35:13
  semifinals and
• 35:15
  back in the day and in Pasadena.
• 35:19
  And on the, my way in, he said,
• 35:21
  Hey,
• 35:22
  you need to look out for Hannah black.
• 35:27
  And this was before anybody even knew who
• 35:29
  she was.
• 35:31
  So I was looking at her.
• 35:32
  I did some,
• 35:33
  I filmed her a little bit and I
• 35:35
  was able to interview her after her first
• 35:37
  event ever at a semifinal.
• 35:40
  And now look at her.
• 35:41
  She's at the games.
• 35:43
  And I got that tip from chase long.
• 35:45
  Cause he's a great dude.
• 35:48
  One of the nicest guys I've ever met.
• 35:58
  Uh,
• 35:58
  that whole podcast had a really cool
• 36:00
  dynamic personalities.
• 36:02
  Yeah.
• 36:02
  It was just, it was just fun.
• 36:04
  It was like hanging out with your buddies.
• 36:10
  I can't remember the two long-haired guys'
• 36:11
  names, but they were so funny.
• 36:12
  Kyle and... It was Armin, Chase, Kyle,
• 36:19
  and... Damn it.
• 36:23
  Thanks, Jackie.
• 36:25
  You had to put me on the spot.
• 36:29
  Ugh.
• 36:38
  Dope.
• 36:42
  Why can't I remember?
• 36:44
  Okay.
• 36:46
  It'll probably come to me in the middle
• 36:47
  of the night, wake me up,
• 36:49
  and then I'll say the fourth guy's name.
• 36:59
  Hannah competed locally here a bit back in
• 37:01
  the day at Metcon Rush in the Mac
• 37:03
  community event.
• 37:05
  So, yeah,
• 37:07
  when I interviewed her was even before
• 37:09
  that, Amanda.
• 37:11
  And then I had her on again,
• 37:12
  and we talked about her winning the Mac.
• 37:15
  Cliff.
• 37:16
  Yes, Jay Birch.
• 37:17
  Cliff.
• 37:19
  Kyle, Cliff, Chase, and Armin.
• 37:23
  That was what it was.
• 37:25
  Yeah.
• 37:29
  Because Hannah told me the story of
• 37:31
  getting the sword from the Mac.
• 37:34
  She won the sword and that she hung
• 37:37
  it on her bedroom wall and she would
• 37:39
  get it out for fun at parties.
• 37:41
  And, um, yeah,
• 37:47
  I remember when Hopper won his and walking
• 37:50
  out of the, uh,
• 37:51
  arena in Knoxville with his big ass sword.
• 37:56
  Um,
• 37:58
  That was so cool, the Mac.
• 38:00
  It wasn't a trophy.
• 38:01
  You won a sword.
• 38:07
  Meg always stirring up trouble.
• 38:09
  Billy Bob, Jim, Frank, and Steve.
• 38:10
  Not even close.
• 38:14
  Kyle, Cliff, Chase, and Armin.
• 38:17
  Those were the days.
• 38:19
  Those were the days.
• 38:22
  So here's my last piece of bad news.
• 38:27
  Got my shipping announcement for the
• 38:29
  shirts.
• 38:31
  They are arriving at my house three hours
• 38:33
  after I board a plane.
• 38:37
  Three stinking hours after I board a
• 38:41
  plane.
• 38:44
  So I won't have my shirts in San
• 38:47
  Jose.
• 38:54
  I'm so bummed.
• 38:57
  I'm so bummed.
• 38:57
  I bought them to have at the games,
• 39:00
  and now I won't have them at the
• 39:01
  games.
• 39:03
  But you'll still be able to order them
• 39:04
  when I get back,
• 39:05
  and I'll have all the details on how
• 39:08
  to do that,
• 39:09
  and we'll ship them out the week after
• 39:10
  I get back.
• 39:12
  So there it is.
• 39:24
  Can I go to the store and pick
• 39:25
  them up today?
• 39:26
  I ordered them from a store in Birmingham,
• 39:28
  Alabama.
• 39:32
  They aren't even in Columbus yet.
• 39:37
  So now we have to shoot the tacos
• 39:39
  without the shirt wrapped around them.
• 39:42
  I don't know how that's going to work.
• 39:44
  There's going to be parasite lettuce
• 39:45
  everywhere.
• 39:54
  That's a bummer.
• 39:55
  Do you have any extra Clydesdale media
• 39:57
  stickers?
• 39:59
  Nicole, I got so many stickers.
• 40:02
  So many stickers.
• 40:03
  And I just ordered new Get Jazzed stickers
• 40:10
  to have at the games.
• 40:12
  And they are here.
• 40:18
  And so it's the Clydesdale playing the
• 40:19
  saxophone, Get Jazzed.
• 40:27
  Parasite lettuce was fake.
• 40:30
  Indeed, Meg.
• 40:38
  I could do a lettuce wrap.
• 40:40
  I could put the tacos in a lettuce
• 40:42
  wrap.
• 40:43
  Maybe that will hold it together when we
• 40:45
  shoot it from the gun.
• 40:55
  Yes,
• 40:56
  you can give some to Jamie to bring
• 40:57
  back.
• 40:57
  I can.
• 41:06
  What else do we have?
• 41:10
  I got to pack still.
• 41:11
  I haven't even started.
• 41:14
  My flight leaves tomorrow at seven a.m.
• 41:18
  How many of you wait until the last
• 41:20
  minute to pack?
• 41:21
  From my understanding,
• 41:22
  Joseph packs like seven days prior and
• 41:26
  then changes his mind every day leading up
• 41:29
  until the trip.
• 41:32
  So he has to repack every day for
• 41:34
  seven days.
• 41:39
  See, I don't do that.
• 41:40
  I wait until a couple hours before my
• 41:44
  flight, throw all my shit in the suitcase,
• 41:47
  and off we go.
• 42:00
  Meg, don't talk about packing.
• 42:08
  Jacqueline Robertson is doing laps at the
• 42:10
  Salt Lake City Airport for a bit of
• 42:11
  exercise during her layover.
• 42:14
  That's the way to get it done.
• 42:23
  I'm with you, Mark.
• 42:24
  I'm with you.
• 42:26
  About an hour before,
• 42:27
  I'm convinced I have to wait until I
• 42:29
  use my toiletries before I start.
• 42:31
  That's the problem.
• 42:33
  What if I need it before I have
• 42:36
  to leave?
• 42:40
  My husband waits until like midnight
• 42:42
  before a five a.m.
• 42:43
  flight.
• 42:44
  That's where I'm at right now, Meredith.
• 42:50
  I bet Joseph lays everything out on the
• 42:51
  bed, double checks it,
• 42:52
  then packs it Marine Corps style.
• 42:55
  I still do that.
• 43:09
  Scott,
• 43:09
  maybe it's your time to put your hat
• 43:12
  in the ring to be on the CAC.
• 43:14
  Not sure CAC accomplishes much,
• 43:16
  but at least you can take our concerns
• 43:18
  directly to the CrossFit brass.
• 43:20
  Here's the problem, Avera.
• 43:23
  I'm not an athlete.
• 43:26
  I'm not a CrossFit athlete,
• 43:29
  and it's a council for CrossFit athletes.
• 43:33
  I'm just a lowly media member.
• 43:44
  Joseph agrees.
• 43:45
  Clock cutter got it.
• 43:47
  He lays out everything,
• 43:49
  packs it seventeen times.
• 43:56
  I've had to buy double everything for my
• 43:58
  work trips,
• 43:59
  including a curling iron or else it's too
• 44:01
  hot to pack.
• 44:05
  Yeah.
• 44:07
  Or you go with straight hair for your
• 44:11
  trip.
• 44:20
  They need a CMC, CrossFit Media Council.
• 44:24
  I think that's the last thing CrossFit
• 44:26
  wants.
• 44:28
  They have a big,
• 44:29
  long list of things they want to
• 44:30
  accomplish,
• 44:32
  and way down six rungs below the bottom
• 44:35
  thing on the list is let the media
• 44:37
  have a say.
• 44:47
  Meg says,
• 44:48
  Seventeen times is an understatement.
• 44:55
  Seema, I'm trying to find an acceptable,
• 44:57
  except acceptable suitor.
• 44:59
  I look, I,
• 45:01
  I like to look my best on planes
• 45:02
  and less unlike people who wear pajamas.
• 45:08
  I love pajamas on a plane.
• 45:12
  Just kidding.
• 45:17
  My daughter got a date on a plane.
• 45:23
  She was flying home from Montana,
• 45:26
  had to sit by a guy.
• 45:27
  They started chatting,
• 45:29
  and they went out on a date.
• 45:37
  I was flabbergasted.
• 45:50
  Well, this gives me hope.
• 45:52
  There you go.
• 45:53
  It can happen.
• 45:55
  I've seen it with my own eyes.
• 46:05
  I guess the question is,
• 46:06
  does the NFL get into social media
• 46:08
  bickering matches with an ESPN analyst?
• 46:10
  Yes.
• 46:13
  Twitter is savage in the NFL.
• 46:17
  and the analysts come back just as hard
• 46:19
  as they do in CrossFit.
• 46:31
  What I missed, Daniel,
• 46:33
  you're just getting here now?
• 46:36
  We talked about flow and how awesome it
• 46:38
  is right off the top of the show,
• 46:40
  and you missed your opportunity.
• 46:50
  Jay Birch bringing up the Mark Sanchez of
• 46:52
  it all.
• 46:54
  Only when they fight a truck driver.
• 46:55
  That wasn't even social media.
• 46:56
  That was real life.
• 47:00
  And he's going on trial in a couple
• 47:02
  months.
• 47:03
  Keeps getting delayed.
• 47:04
  I don't understand that process, but...
• 47:08
  Dang.
• 47:09
  All these people coming in late.
• 47:10
  What,
• 47:11
  were you watching the Masters on Flow
• 47:12
  Elite?
• 47:16
  Oh, wait.
• 47:17
  You can't.
• 47:25
  You son of a biscuit.
• 47:27
  It's time to officially change the time of
• 47:29
  the live to fit my schedule.
• 47:32
  We are here to serve you, Daniel.
• 47:39
  All right.
• 47:39
  Well,
• 47:40
  I guess I got to go contemplate packing
• 47:43
  for the next few hours.
• 47:48
  I did last thing, little mini riff here.
• 47:52
  I remember when your checked bag was like
• 47:55
  thirty bucks.
• 47:56
  Then it went up to thirty-five.
• 47:58
  And if you had a second bag,
• 48:00
  it was like forty, forty-five.
• 48:04
  If I want two bags,
• 48:05
  it's a hundred dollars now.
• 48:08
  A hundred dollars to take two bags with
• 48:11
  me.
• 48:14
  Two bags.
• 48:18
  I was going to take some podcasting
• 48:19
  equipment so I could do some shows from
• 48:22
  the hotel, do all that kind of stuff.
• 48:26
  The hell with that.
• 48:27
  I am taking one bag and that is
• 48:31
  it.
• 48:31
  I'm fitting as much as I can.
• 48:33
  If it don't fit, it don't go.
• 48:38
  It is forty five dollars for the first
• 48:40
  bag.
• 48:41
  Fifty five dollars for the second bag.
• 48:44
  Total of one hundred dollars.
• 48:54
  Jay Burch in here throwing misinformation.
• 48:57
  They are filming the run, Jay Burch.
• 49:00
  The recap will air at twelve twenty
• 49:03
  pacific time.
• 49:08
  That is three twenty eastern,
• 49:11
  two twenty central, mountain one thirty.
• 49:15
  There you go.
• 49:17
  So they are filming it.
• 49:18
  They're just not broadcasting it live.
• 49:30
  It's forty five now standard for one.
• 49:32
  If you do it online,
• 49:33
  you get five dollars off.
• 49:34
  I did it online, Ortega.
• 49:38
  I checked in today.
• 49:39
  I paid my forty five bucks.
• 49:42
  I didn't get no five bucks off.
• 49:47
  It must be a special for guys that
• 49:49
  have cool mustaches.
• 49:51
  Because I didn't get it.
• 50:04
  I probably need to do that.
• 50:06
  I paid off all my credit cards and
• 50:08
  don't want to deal with them anymore,
• 50:13
  but maybe I have been traveling quite a
• 50:15
  bit and I need to get that.
• 50:17
  Uh,
• 50:28
  we gave check bag and carry on with
• 50:31
  all my equipment and a backpack.
• 50:35
  Yeah,
• 50:35
  I'm taking a backpack and one check bag
• 50:38
  and getting in what I can.
• 50:41
  And there it is.
• 50:43
  That's it.
• 50:44
  Whatever I fit.
• 50:45
  Whatever fits.
• 50:55
  I think, Ortega, she lied to you.
• 51:03
  event twelve is wrong though it goes
• 51:06
  backwards in time what does that mean sema
• 51:22
  i don't know what that means but you
• 51:27
  know what
• 51:29
  Speaking of five dollars off,
• 51:30
  you know how you can get a discount
• 51:32
  on the best recovery tool in the business?
• 51:36
  Use Jazzy at checkout.
• 51:38
  Get you fifteen percent off.
• 51:41
  Go to thirdsy.com backslash Jazzy.
• 51:44
  Get fifteen percent off your order and get
• 51:46
  the best sleep and recovery tool in the
• 51:48
  business.
• 51:50
  That is one thing that is making it
• 51:52
  into my bag is my thirdsy.
• 51:57
  I am going to sleep like a baby
• 51:59
  at the CrossFit Games.
• 52:04
  Oh,
• 52:04
  event twelve starts on the twenty fifth
• 52:07
  and ends on the twenty fourth.
• 52:12
  We're going back in time.
• 52:25
  you're going to have to be waiting a
• 52:27
  long time, Daniel.
• 52:29
  Thirdsie money is good money,
• 52:30
  but not that good.
• 52:35
  Crap, I forgot to pack my thirdsie.
• 52:40
  That should have been the first thing,
• 52:41
  Meg.
• 52:42
  First thing.
• 52:49
  Yeah, the time infinity stone.
• 52:52
  Daniel,
• 52:52
  that's what Event Twelve is called.
• 53:01
  Did anyone buy Flo?
• 53:02
  I bought Flo.
• 53:05
  And I'm going to be there live.
• 53:06
  And I still bought it.
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  Oh, great.
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  Guess who's going to be grumpy?
• 53:17
  Meg.
• 53:17
  Meg.
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  I get to see her tomorrow,
• 53:22
  and she's going to be grumpy.
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  All right.
• 53:29
  With that, guys,
• 53:30
  I'm going to head out of here.
• 53:33
  Hitting a plane tomorrow,
• 53:34
  so I'll be in the air during our
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  normal show time.
• 53:38
  I'll try to go live tomorrow night and
• 53:39
  do something live from the hotel or from
• 53:43
  the games or something.
• 53:47
  We'll figure it out.
• 53:49
  And just do a quick recap of what
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  I've seen, what it looks like there,
• 53:53
  the vibes.
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  And then from there,
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  I don't know what the schedule is going
• 53:58
  to look like the rest of the week,
• 53:59
  but we'll try to get some stuff in.
• 54:02
  so with that hope you guys have a
• 54:03
  great week go check out the masters
• 54:06
  athletes when it goes live at three twenty
• 54:09
  or god it'll be six twenty here uh
• 54:12
  in the evening and uh with that i
• 54:15
  hope everybody has a great week don't
• 54:17
  forget your thursday don't forget to like
• 54:18
  and subscribe all the stuff with that
• 54:22
  we'll see you guys this week on and
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  off you wouldn't wait to
• 54:29
  You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
• 54:31
  room to jazz me up.
• 54:33
  I'm already jazzy.
• 54:53
  From the gym to the screen, yeah,
• 54:55
  we cover it all.
• 54:58
  Midday motivation every time we press
• 55:00
  call.
• 55:02
  Lunch with the Clydesdale Cavalry in the
• 55:04
  heat.
• 55:04
  CrossFit, movies, music, home repeat.
• 55:07
  Half-hour hustle, yeah,
• 55:08
  we're building that brand.
• 55:09
  Grab a plate, shoot it,
• 55:10
  now you're part of the fam.
• 55:11
  Woo!