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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Did you Notice How Much CrossFit has Improved? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Guess what time it is?
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Time for lunch.
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Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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What's going on, everybody?
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It's a Friday.
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Weekend is here.
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So pumped.
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Thank you so much to
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everybody who is here.
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We got Ryan.
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We got Traint Olive.
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We got Kool.
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We got Jody.
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We got Kenneth.
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Bubba.
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Craig Pasley.
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What's going on?
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Ryan Tate joining the channel.
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Thank you so much.
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That is awesome.
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We appreciate that so much.
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Amanda, you're here.
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Awesome.
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Lito already here a member for a month.
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Can you believe that?
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So cool.
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I wanted to thank everybody
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who's joined the channel so much.
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It used to be that
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StreamYard used to keep all
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the new members like in a
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little column that you
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could pull up even if they
1:30
joined when you weren't
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live and they stopped doing
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that for some reason.
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So I pulled up a report and
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I want to thank these
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people who over the last
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two weeks have become members of
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And that is Ryan Tate, Judy Reed, Amy Hill,
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Shanna Bunce, Craig Pasley, Howie,
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Marcy Spurlock, Dan Church, Linda.
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Um, and I lost it here.
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Okay.
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Kevin bud, Vicki, Terry dense updates.
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Jenny, you're the best George Wang,
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Meredith Jones, Lito, Larry young, Jen,
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Kenneth, the lab, Denise Moore,
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Jay Birch has been here forever.
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Leah Nichols, Sue Griffiths, Holly,
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Corey Leonard,
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and the Pit Team Throwdowns.
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You guys are the best.
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I'm so happy that you could
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hang with us and that
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you've become members.
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And what that gets you is,
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as we are up at the games next week,
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We'll be doing short
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vignettes from there with
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enhanced coverage.
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We're going to release those
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to members only first for
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twenty four hours.
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Then after the twenty four hours,
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it will be released for everybody else.
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So members get a little
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sneak peek into the
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vignettes that we'll be
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releasing next week.
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And.
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I'm excited for you guys.
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I have some ideas in my head
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already of some things I want to do.
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I want to be different.
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I don't want to be the same.
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So I have some ideas.
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I hope they come off well,
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and we'll get those out to
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you as soon as we can next week.
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Just to give you a clear
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picture of what we have going on,
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we have myself and Ishmael,
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my photographer, videographer,
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who's been partnering with
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us for the entire year.
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He's been at all the events.
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He's the one that we collab with.
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uh with our instagram posts
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all the time and uh I'm
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super stoked uh for him and
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I to both have enhanced
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access that means we'll
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have two cameras backstage
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uh doing everything we can
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we'll be covering hattie
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canyo embedded with her um
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we're gonna put out a
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documentary of that and
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then we're gonna be working
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on short vignettes we'll be
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doing some reels we'll be
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doing some photos and all those
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The reels and photos will be
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out on the Instagram.
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The other stuff will be
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coming on the YouTube channel.
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And I hope you guys enjoy
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all the content we decide
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we can figure out and do.
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But I'm super pumped about that.
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We also are working with Jose,
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who is working with Hattie.
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So he'll be a part of all this as well.
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Super stoked for all of this, guys.
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Or, as I should say, super jazzed.
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Jazzed.
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Because we all get jazzed around here.
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The other thing I'm jazzed
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about is CrossFit contacted
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me last night.
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They've given me two tickets
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to give away on today's show.
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So we'll be giving away two
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lower bowl tickets to the CrossFit Games.
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And the way we're going to
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give those out is I'm going
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to throw a dart.
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And whatever number that lands on,
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the first person to put
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that number in the chat
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will win the tickets.
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So I'll do that about midway
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through the show so we can
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kind of get as many people
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as we can into the chat.
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But I'll throw a dart at the dartboard.
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If you're the first person
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to put the number that I land on,
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you will get two lower bowl
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tickets to the CrossFit Games.
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No nosebleeds for my people.
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No nosebleeds.
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We got lower bowl seats, baby, right here.
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Clydesdale media only the
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best for my people and
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don't forget to like and
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subscribe uh Ken predicts
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wall that's probably the
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safest bet probably the
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safest bet um so and yeah
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If you're not going to the
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games or you don't need the tickets,
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there are people in the chat that do.
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So if you want to be a kind friend,
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give them a better shot.
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If you don't and you want to
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be mean and cruel, I get it.
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That's the way the world works these days.
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So, the last couple days,
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we have started off with
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somber news of people from
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my childhood passing away.
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Ozzy Osbourne on Wednesday,
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Hulk Hogan on Thursday.
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And we actually have some sad news today.
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And it's not about anybody dying, though.
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But I don't know if you guys saw this.
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It was breaking news today.
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And that is that Chuck E.
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Cheese got arrested.
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in Florida.
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And I don't know if you can
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see that the cops got them all cuffed.
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What a sad situation.
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The kids in the back here,
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they've blurred out the faces,
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but they're really crying
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and distraught because
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there goes their hero in
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handcuffs out the door of
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the Chuck E. Cheese.
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can you believe this that
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they didn't even let him
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take his head off they
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didn't even let him take
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his head off and they're
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busting him and taking him
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out the Chuck E Cheese Jody
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that is Chuck E Cheese it's
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Chuck E Cheese um so
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I did see Chuck Mangione died,
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but Jay Burch,
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I will say that in my eighties childhood,
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I did not listen to a ton
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of Chuck Mangione.
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So it didn't affect me like the other two.
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I listened to Ozzy.
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I watched wrestling all the time.
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Chuck Mangione was just kind of a meh.
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So yeah,
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Chuck E. Cheese arrested in Florida.
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They actually,
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there are pictures of him
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where they get him to the
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car and they do let him
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take his head off.
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Oh, gosh, there we go.
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I missed that one.
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I did see it.
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I forgot to.
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Theo Huxtable died from my childhood.
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Yeah, Malcolm Jamal Warner.
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Crazy.
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So that's three, right?
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Hopefully that means it's all done.
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Malcolm Jamal Warner died.
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Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan.
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Ryan says,
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the best part is when they
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unmasked him outside.
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It was Ronald McDonald.
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He was quoted as saying,
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I would have gotten away
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with it too if it wasn't
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for those pesky kids.
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That is awesome.
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That is awesome.
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Thank you for that.
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All right.
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So in, since the time we talked yesterday,
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uh,
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we have a new event released and that
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is individual event eight.
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So there we go.
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Um,
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and it is an up and down
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chipper which seems to be a
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lot of this year uh we've
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got fifty or forty calories
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on the echo bike a hundred
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foot yoke carry thirty
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deficit handstand push-ups
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a hundred foot yoke carry
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and then fifty to forty
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calories on the echo bike I
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really do like this workout
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kind of wish and this just
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from a spectator's point of
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view it would have been the
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yoke carry first the bike
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second and then the
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handstand push-ups back and
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that is because um that's
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because you get that finish
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with the yoke carry moving
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down the floor it's much
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easier to see than the finish on a bike
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So that's the only thing
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that I wish we had because
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this is a Sunday event,
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most likely with event eight,
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and I want to see the best
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finishes on Sunday.
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So,
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and I think a couple of years ago they
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did a yoke carry, but it wasn't last.
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It was, um, it was a bike to finish too.
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When Tim Paulson went nuts
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on the bike at the end, um,
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and it was a yoke carry to that bike.
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I thought if they ended it
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with the yoke carry,
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it would have been a much
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better event because you
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can see them racing to the
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finish with that yoke and
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you can see who wins the
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event instead of trying to
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not being able to see a monitor.
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Uh, Ryan Aldrich says, well,
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they have to run to the
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finish line after the bike maybe,
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but usually it's not because you,
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you don't put the bike in
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the space of the yoke carry.
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So it's not going to be a long run.
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It's going to be just a couple of steps.
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Uh, that's, that, that's my only word.
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I just,
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I really like the yoke as a
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finisher and we don't,
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I don't think we've ever had that before.
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Because it's a finish,
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but it's kind of a slow
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finish because you can't
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just sprint with it.
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You got to move it,
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but it gives you a nice
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visual of crossing the finish line.
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Aha says, agree with that.
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Stationary bike finishes are boring.
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Yeah, I mean,
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with the exception of like
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when Tim Paulson went and
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you could see him going ham
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on the bike and the crowd
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went nuts in the arena.
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I don't know what it felt
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like to watch it on TV.
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But I just think it would
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have been cooler like
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watching the Yokes kind of
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mishmash on the way down.
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That's all.
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But that's just being nitpicky.
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Tia won an event at the end.
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I was thinking there, as I said that,
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I thought maybe there's
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that one where Pat dropped
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his weight and it rolled.
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That one may have finished with a yoke.
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But I don't know.
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I don't know.
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Judy Reed has her whole
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family in the chat.
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She does.
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Family that watches
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Clydesdale together rides together.
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The event in Madison was, oh,
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that's when Tia broke the event.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Where she almost finished in one round.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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I told Maddie to get on to enter a number.
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There you go.
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They're not competitive.
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Strong Man's Fear had yokes for some,
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right?
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I'm sure,
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but I think the handstand walk
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had to finish,
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had to be the finish of that.
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If you remember,
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Brent Fikowski almost
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finished and then fell on
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the handstand walk.
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Gosh, I don't know.
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Maybe you're right,
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because then Matt Frazier
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went off the edge of the park.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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I'll have to look that up.
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so okay um so we have that
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they also did a video for
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behind the scenes of that
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what I loved about that is
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this this event did not
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even start remotely close
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to what it ended up being
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this is where the
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crossovers originally
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landed and they took those
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out for the echo bike I think
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uh the deficit handstand
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push-ups are going to be
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man right smack in the
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middle thirty serious
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deficit handstand push-ups
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are going to put stop some
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people in their tracks uh
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so that's gonna be that's
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gonna be interesting
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I think the yoke carry, it looked heavy,
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but it's not going to stop anybody.
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The bike, of course, won't stop anybody.
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That handstand push-up,
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and if it's as deficit as
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they showed Ben doing in the video,
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that's going to be a rough one.
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A rough one.
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What is your prediction for
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who will be the fittest on
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earth in the CrossFit Games?
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Who's your pick to win?
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So we are doing that show on Sunday night.
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Jamie, Carolyn,
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and I will be picking the men.
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Jamie and I only will be
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picking the women and we'll
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give you our top ten.
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We're not going to go
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through like all thirty and
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make it like an all night show of that.
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We're just going to give you
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our top ten and maybe a
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couple dark horses that may
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jump into the top ten.
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But Jamie,
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myself and Carolyn will give you
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our picks on Sunday night.
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So I'm saving it for that
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little tease to come watch that show.
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And then, of course,
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because Carolyn is competing,
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we're giving her an out on
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that so she doesn't have to
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list her competitors in
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order before going up against them.
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So we're letting her off the hook.
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I will tell you guys like
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I've looked at my heat one
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app I've looked at the
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men's side and I have no
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freaking clue um how that's
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even gonna end up I'm gonna
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have to do a little bit of
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research this weekend look
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at the events and and then
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determine what order to put
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them in because it's going
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to be tight it's going to be so tight
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Uh, yeah,
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the strongman sphere was
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different elements and you could,
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it was choose your own adventure,
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what you wanted to move first,
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but everything had to be
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followed by a handstand walk.
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And maybe, maybe it's,
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or started with a handstand walk.
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I just,
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I actually volunteered and was
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working that event.
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It was a highlight of my volunteer career.
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Uh, I was the yoke mover.
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So when the event was over,
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I had to go down,
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grab the yoke and bring it
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back up to reset it.
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And in front of all those people,
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they were cheering us on as volunteers.
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It was the coolest
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experience of my volunteer career,
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getting to do that.
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I felt like an athlete for
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thirty seconds every couple minutes.
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The craziest thing is, the lane I had,
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I had Fikowski,
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in one lane where I had to
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get on my tiptoes to get
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the yoke down the field.
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And then on the next run,
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it was the women and I had
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Danny Horan and I had to
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get on my knees to get under the yoke,
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which was insane.
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And then to try to lift that
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thing up from the ground was impossible.
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Yeah,
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I thought it was handstand walk
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followed each implement.
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So it ended on a handstand walk.
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That's why I thought it was weird.
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But I can't imagine the
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handstand walk making
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Frazier fall off the end.
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I don't know.
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I'll have to go back and watch it.
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I'll go back and watch it tonight.
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We'll talk about it next week.
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Besides it being in Albany,
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I'm super jealous to be
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missing this one live.
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This would have been epic in Madison.
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This is a perfect outdoor event.
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Perfect outdoor event.
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But if you want to go see it live,
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we're giving away tickets
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in a few short minutes.
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What will be the oddest
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movement in this classic CrossFit Games?
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My dream is that they do
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something with the snail.
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They had a snail inside Fort
18:40
Worth last year for the teams.
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So it's doable.
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Will they bring it out for
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the individuals?
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I love the snail.
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There's nothing cooler than
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like this thing,
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this object you have to
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move down the floor and you
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can gain no momentum on.
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It's all out power push.
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I love it.
19:02
It's one of my favorite
19:03
things of all time.
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So...
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That's what I'm hoping for.
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Well,
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let's go ahead and give away the tickets.
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I'm going to go ahead and throw the dart.
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I'm going to aim for the bullseye.
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So if I hit a bullseye,
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I'll have to go again.
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But I'm going to aim for the bullseye,
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and then whatever number it lands in,
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whoever enters that number
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first will win two lower
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bowl tickets to the CrossFit Games.
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you ready so on a dartboard
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if you're not familiar
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numbers one through twenty
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numbers one through twenty
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so go ahead and start
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entering your numbers now
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and I will throw my dart
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and then I will announce
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what the number is okay
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it's right on the line so
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let me get my camera so I can
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And the number is, well,
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have I seen it yet?
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I do not see the number as of yet.
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Still, the number has not been entered.
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Still not entered.
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come on guys oh I got it I
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got it I got it I got it I
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got it I got it and we have
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a winner the number was if
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you can whoop I don't know
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if you can see that the
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number is thirteen the
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winner is Madison Reed
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Madison Reed has just won
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two lower bowl tickets to
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the CrossFit Games.
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That's awesome.
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Yep.
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You win Madison.
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So what I need for you is to,
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and your mom actually has my number.
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I need,
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if you guys have a Ticketmaster account,
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I need the email of your
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Ticketmaster account.
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And if it's different than
21:49
an email or contact
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information for you to add
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that you actually check all the time,
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I need that as well.
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so uh just send me your
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through either text or
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through dm send me your
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ticketmaster account email
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and I'll get that over to
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crossfit and they'll send
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you your tickets as soon as
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possible so there we go
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congratulations reed family
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And Judy handing it off to
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David to figure out all this stuff.
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Thanks.
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We'll be in touch.
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Awesome.
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And Madison is crying.
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There you go.
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Awesome.
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I don't know where the seats
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are in that lower bowl,
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but they are lower bowl.
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You're not going to have the nose bleed.
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They're going to be awesome.
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And so thank you to CrossFit
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for allowing me to give those away.
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And that's awesome.
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So cool.
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and the family's a member of the channel,
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which makes me even happier.
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So super stoked, super jazzed.
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We are jazzed.
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Awesome.
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So, all right, now let's get back into, uh,
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some other things.
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Um,
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one thing I didn't get a chance to
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watch it.
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Um,
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But Brent Fikowski was on
23:20
with Shut Up and Scribble,
23:22
and he was releasing his
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Movement Standard database,
23:26
which I have been anxious to see.
23:29
I hope it is really good.
23:31
I think it's something that
23:32
will help grow the sport of CrossFit,
23:34
and I'm anxious to watch all that.
23:35
There's just been so much
23:36
content in the last two
23:37
days to get through everything,
23:40
but I'm going to look at
23:41
that this weekend.
23:45
And I'm really excited to see that.
23:49
The other thing I wanted to
23:50
talk about is yesterday I
23:52
was on here talking about how,
23:55
and Hiller actually clipped it.
23:56
Hiller's clipping a lot of my stuff lately,
23:59
which is wild to me, just wild,
24:01
is that the WFP,
24:04
what they're really bad at is timing.
24:06
They suck at timing.
24:08
They have had this big
24:09
window of opportunity to
24:11
promote their event and
24:13
have done nothing about it to do that.
24:17
So what I want to do today is be positive.
24:21
I want to be positive because, you know,
24:25
I review the road to the
24:26
games and on a micro level,
24:28
I may be critical of the
24:30
lack of storytelling in one
24:31
of them or give it a D or a C or a B,
24:36
whatever that is, right?
24:39
However,
24:39
if you look at it from a macro level,
24:44
macro level crossfit has
24:46
done so much this year that
24:48
we have been begging for
24:49
them to do and I'm going to
24:52
list some things out of how
24:54
they have changed this
24:56
season compared to last
24:58
season right and the first
25:01
thing is the overhaul on
25:02
their instagram so let's
25:07
look at that look at this
25:10
They actually have like
25:11
pinned things at the top of
25:14
their Instagram page that makes sense.
25:17
There's new fonts.
25:19
It's more modern.
25:20
It's got that dark with the spotlight on.
25:24
I think this is what the
25:25
lighting for WFP wanted to
25:27
do with the lifting and didn't do it,
25:30
but they do it for James
25:31
and Tia here on this post.
25:34
And if you go down through,
25:35
like everything has this new modern look.
25:38
There's the schedule.
25:39
Look at that.
25:40
It's striking.
25:41
It's not bland and boring
25:43
like it used to be.
25:45
It actually makes sense.
25:46
It's easy to read.
25:48
So whoever is doing this is awesome.
25:50
They've also added classic
25:53
moments in CrossFit Games
25:54
history as we lead up to
25:56
this year's CrossFit Games,
25:58
which is really cool.
25:59
It's actually making strides
26:03
in the right direction.
26:05
The other thing they're
26:05
doing is they're aligning
26:07
with all of their...
26:10
aligning with all of their
26:11
other uh processes right so
26:19
there's that and I know I
26:22
know there are people that
26:23
may not like that font but
26:24
it's an attempt at
26:25
something new at least
26:27
they're doing something new
26:29
trying something new
26:32
Jody Lynn, they're copying you, Scott,
26:34
with those fonts.
26:35
I know.
26:35
I know you can.
26:37
So this is called New Rocker Font,
26:40
and I'm doing that because
26:42
Ozzy died this week.
26:46
In addition to that,
26:48
these are things that are happening.
26:49
Leading up to the games,
26:51
we get a return to the game
26:52
or road to the games every week.
26:55
Today, we're getting Tia versus the world.
26:58
And whether you like them or not,
27:00
they're getting traction,
27:02
they're getting views,
27:04
and we are seeing something
27:06
promoting the games as
27:07
we're leading up to the games.
27:10
This year,
27:10
we're also trying an early
27:14
release of workouts.
27:15
Right now,
27:16
we have four workouts released
27:17
before the games.
27:19
creating hype and talk about those events,
27:24
creating excitement for
27:25
those events coming.
27:27
And on top of that,
27:27
they're doing
27:28
behind-the-scenes
27:29
documentaries of three of
27:30
the four where you can see
27:32
where the event started and
27:35
where it's finished.
27:38
And actually, I take that back.
27:39
There's five events out.
27:42
Five events out,
27:43
and we've got documentaries
27:44
on three of the five on how
27:48
they developed, how they were created,
27:50
the testing behind the scenes,
27:52
and all of that is creating
27:54
excitement for what's
27:56
coming at the CrossFit Games.
28:01
They sent out an email to
28:02
all athletes about the
28:04
outdoor safety and things
28:06
that they should consider
28:07
while they're outdoors.
28:08
This has never been done in the past.
28:10
It was done this year.
28:11
This is a major change,
28:14
and they should be given credit for that.
28:18
They also sent out an
28:20
overall safety memo from
28:21
the safety council to all the athletes.
28:26
how they're dealing with
28:27
that how you can contact
28:28
people if you feel like
28:30
something needs changed or
28:31
you want to give um some
28:33
kind of uh comment to
28:36
whatever's going on you
28:38
have the opportunity to do
28:39
that as well in addition to
28:43
that you have partnerships
28:46
going on this year at the
28:47
crossfit games and they're
28:49
promoting that and I'm
28:52
trying to find that post
28:56
But what we have going on is
28:58
we have the Ruck Race
28:59
League is doing a community
29:01
ruck on Saturday morning at
29:03
five thirty a.m.
29:04
Later that day,
29:05
Travis Bajan is arm
29:07
wrestling fans for prizes.
29:11
There's rumor of a Bajan
29:13
happening sometime during the games.
29:16
There is the partnership
29:18
with the Army Warrior Fitness Club.
29:20
They're giving away prizes.
29:24
And there's another one.
29:24
Oh no.
29:26
And there's another one too
29:27
that we haven't seen,
29:30
but it's a lot of things to
29:31
get the community involved.
29:32
There's community workouts with mayhem.
29:35
So there's that as well
29:37
going on right there,
29:38
partnering with the
29:39
CrossFit games and all of
29:41
that to like create
29:42
excitement and community involvement.
29:46
And it's all being promoted
29:47
prior to the games,
29:49
which never happened in the past.
29:52
So while we can be critical
29:54
about each individual thing
29:57
and be overly critical about that,
30:01
if you look at the whole,
30:02
they're making significant changes,
30:04
significant progress to
30:06
bring more new and
30:08
different things to the CrossFit space.
30:12
And we should commend them for that.
30:14
Now, what prompted that?
30:15
Was it Lazar's death?
30:17
Was it WFP competing?
30:20
Was it all this MedFix stuff?
30:22
Who knows?
30:23
But something has forced
30:24
CrossFit to make some
30:25
changes and try some new things.
30:29
And that's really what we've
30:30
been begging for for years.
30:32
Let's try some new stuff.
30:36
And that makes me even more
30:37
jazzed for this year's CrossFit Games.
30:41
to see what they're doing on site,
30:42
to see what they're doing
30:44
to involve the community.
30:46
I hear they're shutting down
30:47
the street outside the
30:48
arena to offer more stuff like this.
30:51
I can't wait to see what all that is.
30:58
Hiller and JR are coaching
30:59
classes at CrossFit Albany.
31:01
That's awesome.
31:02
I don't think that's
31:03
partnered with CrossFit,
31:04
but those things happen a
31:06
lot at different sites of
31:08
the CrossFit Games.
31:10
And they should be promoted.
31:12
And I hope that CrossFit
31:13
will grab some of this
31:14
stuff and promote the
31:16
opportunities for those to happen.
31:24
So it's partnered with Wattify.
31:35
So, yeah.
31:35
Yeah.
31:37
But check those opportunities out.
31:38
If you're in Albany,
31:40
gyms always have guest coaches come in,
31:43
which is incredible.
31:46
But I'm excited about Travis Bajan.
31:49
See who takes on the champ
31:51
in arm wrestling.
31:59
I think it's going to be a fun time.
32:05
Um, and then the partnership with heat one,
32:08
that's, that's massive.
32:10
That's what I forgot
32:11
partnering with heat one.
32:13
I said this on this show
32:14
earlier in the week,
32:15
anytime that there is the
32:17
ability to play fantasy
32:18
sports or to bet on a sport,
32:20
there's an increase in
32:21
viewership because when you
32:24
place those bets or you,
32:25
when you make your teams,
32:26
you're watching the sport
32:28
to see if your picks are correct.
32:31
It makes people more
32:32
invested in the outcome of
32:33
what's happening.
32:35
So partnering with Heat One
32:38
and then supporting each
32:39
other forward in that
32:40
direction so that both Heat
32:43
One and you can grow
32:45
simultaneously into
32:46
something bigger and better.
32:50
I've talked about the
32:50
partnering with DAZN instead of ESPN,
32:54
a much smaller streaming service,
32:56
not a cable company, a streaming service,
32:59
an app where you can grow.
33:01
They're in a hundred and
33:02
fifty countries around the world.
33:04
They're going to give
33:06
multiple languages as an
33:07
option without having to go
33:09
to a website and then have
33:11
no rewind function and no chat.
33:16
but they're also giving
33:17
those people who love
33:18
YouTube the opportunity to
33:19
watch there as well.
33:26
So much going on.
33:28
So much.
33:35
And to partner with like DAZN,
33:37
which is much smaller,
33:39
they are so much more
33:40
invested in the success of
33:42
what happens with CrossFit than ESPN was.
33:46
With ESPN, it was just a filler.
33:50
And CrossFit probably paid for that space.
33:53
With DAZN,
33:54
I'm assuming it's probably more
33:55
of a partnership,
33:57
and they're trying to grow together.
33:59
DAZN needs content to fill their app,
34:03
and ESPN needed a place to land.
34:05
Or not ESPN.
34:06
The CrossFit Games needed a place to land.
34:09
That it benefited both parties,
34:11
and they would push and
34:12
advertise for each other moving forward.
34:17
that is big.
34:19
So for years,
34:21
we've gotten down on CrossFit
34:23
and what they're doing and
34:24
what they're not doing and
34:25
all of these things.
34:26
And this year they've made
34:28
significant strides in the
34:30
right direction to correct
34:32
some of the wrongs.
34:36
Now let's hope,
34:38
let's hope that the sale of
34:41
CrossFit doesn't throw all
34:42
this in the trash and we
34:44
have to start all over again.
34:47
Hopefully this is a building
34:48
block that we're allowed to
34:49
build on instead of just
34:52
build and throw away like
34:55
we've done in the past.
34:58
And I know it's not perfect.
35:00
And I know Matt Sousa has
35:01
been in here talking about
35:02
the regular CrossFit site,
35:04
not the CrossFit game site.
35:07
And yeah, the CrossFit site needs help.
35:12
The regular CrossFit site needs help.
35:13
The regular CrossFit Instagram needs help.
35:17
And we need to get back to
35:18
telling the stories of
35:19
those individuals walking
35:21
into an affiliate.
35:26
So.
35:33
CrossFit IG page is dead.
35:36
I don't disagree.
35:37
They need to take some.
35:39
And I saw what you said,
35:40
let Hiller run it.
35:42
That makes sense.
35:44
But so that means it
35:45
probably won't happen.
35:57
Susan would pay Hiller to
35:58
run it for a month or two
36:00
and pump some life into it.
36:15
That would be too smart.
36:22
They're scared to have a,
36:24
they're scared to have a voice.
36:35
They won't admit they need
36:36
help from the outside,
36:38
especially not with Hiller.
36:41
I'll tell you what,
36:42
like it's just been
36:45
recently that I've had the
36:46
opportunity to talk
36:47
directly with people at
36:49
CrossFit over the last week.
36:52
It's an experience that I
36:53
have not had in the past.
36:58
So maybe there is a
36:59
direction change with this.
37:01
And again,
37:02
I feel like we're heading in the
37:03
right direction.
37:05
And so hopefully after the games,
37:06
they switch focus to the
37:09
CrossFit main site,
37:11
the CrossFit main Instagram page.
37:14
Because if they just try
37:15
some new stuff like they
37:16
did on the games page,
37:17
whether you personally like it or not,
37:19
at least it's new and different.
37:22
And they're making an effort.
37:33
They need to go back to
37:34
being leaders in health and
37:35
fitness unapologetically.
37:38
I agree.
37:43
And it's much better than before.
37:45
There is progress, so that's a plus.
37:47
I just don't want the progress to stop.
37:50
You sell the company and we
37:51
get new people in and all
37:52
of a sudden we're back at square one.
37:54
That sucks.
37:57
I don't think we can afford
37:59
to go back to square one.
38:16
So what if Malik cleans
38:17
house and has Hill or Sousa?
38:19
Will he run a lot and keep Dave,
38:22
of course?
38:26
I'm not sure that's the
38:27
three you want in the same room.
38:31
I don't know.
38:36
I used to watch this old
38:37
show called Sports Night,
38:40
and it starred Robert Guillaume,
38:42
and he was an executive of
38:43
a sports channel.
38:46
And he said to his staff one
38:48
time that he learned long
38:49
ago that if you're dumb,
38:52
surround yourself with smart people.
38:55
If you're smart,
38:56
surround yourself with
38:57
smart people who disagree with you.
39:00
So while I like the concept
39:03
of surrounding yourself
39:04
with different ideas,
39:06
those people have to be
39:08
willing to have discussion
39:11
and an open mind.
39:15
And we need to make sure
39:17
whatever those people are
39:18
that you bring together
39:20
have the open mind part
39:22
that can actually have
39:23
discussions and eventually
39:26
come together unified and moving forward.
39:30
Because if that doesn't happen,
39:32
then it doesn't matter who
39:33
you put in those seats.
39:50
So I'm missing some things.
39:57
So anyway,
40:00
I know we dog CrossFit a lot,
40:02
and I just wanted to give
40:03
them props for the things
40:04
that they've done this year,
40:05
which has been a lot.
40:07
Because I think when we're here day to day,
40:10
we look at the micro
40:11
version of everything,
40:13
and we look at each individual thing,
40:15
and we can be very critical of them.
40:17
But when you look at the
40:18
macro of what's happened
40:19
over the last few months in
40:21
the CrossFit Games,
40:22
I think we're heading in
40:23
the right direction.
40:25
It's not perfect, probably never will be,
40:28
but we're moving in a
40:29
direction that makes sense.
40:33
And I like that.
40:38
I just hope we can keep there.
40:49
Yeah.
40:49
Yeah.
40:50
matt is dead on um it can it
40:53
cannot be a private equity
40:55
firm it it we need a slow
41:00
cooker owner not a
41:01
microwave owner and you
41:04
have to see the long-term
41:05
goals and be willing to
41:06
stick to that path for the long term
41:21
He's dead on with that.
41:22
And that's a lot of companies.
41:24
That's not just CrossFit.
41:25
A lot of people make that mistake.
41:29
They want the quick return,
41:30
and sometimes it takes a
41:31
little bit longer to get what you need.
41:41
So...
41:43
I'm gonna finish with this
41:44
uh and this is not crossfit
41:45
related uh last night I
41:47
started watching the billy
41:48
joel documentary I'm old
41:50
and I will admit that um
41:52
but when I first started
41:54
recollecting vinyl uh I was
41:56
looking to for every billy
41:58
joel album I could find and
42:00
I found them all at record
42:01
stores all of them but one
42:04
and they just re-released
42:05
the one I don't have so I'm
42:06
going to be able to get
42:07
that and complete the set
42:09
But HBO does it,
42:10
and they're so good at documentaries,
42:12
and it's been really fun to watch.
42:15
It's two and a half hours for episode one,
42:18
and there's a second one coming tonight,
42:19
I believe.
42:21
But I really, really enjoy it.
42:23
But what's crazy to me is here's a guy,
42:25
Billy Joel,
42:26
who signed a contract with a
42:29
record company at a very
42:31
young age and gave up everything.
42:34
Publishing rights, royalties.
42:37
And he was stuck in that
42:38
contract for ten years.
42:41
That was nineteen seventy one.
42:44
He put out like eight albums
42:45
from seventy one to eighty one, knowing.
42:49
he'd given up all the
42:50
royalties and all of the
42:52
publishing rights to all of
42:53
that music that came out
42:55
from seventy one to eighty
42:56
one and he still gave his
42:59
best effort and wrote some
43:00
of his best music during
43:02
that time sometimes it's
43:05
not about the money
43:06
sometimes it's about the
43:07
love of the game and what
43:10
would you do in that situation
43:14
Would you press on to put
43:15
forth your best effort to
43:17
create the best product,
43:18
even though you know that
43:20
your money's going to somebody else?
43:24
I think that's a good
43:25
question to ask ourselves.
43:31
So CK Kevin says,
43:35
and Mary Christie Brinkley.
43:36
He didn't do that till the eighties.
43:38
And his first wife is a smoke show.
43:43
And what I am excited to see
43:46
is why he left the first
43:49
smoke show to go with the
43:51
second smoke show.
43:52
Because we're not to that
43:53
point yet in the documentary.
43:55
And his first wife is
43:56
actually his agent and manager.
43:58
And she is tough as nails.
44:01
And she didn't let people
44:02
get away with anything
44:03
after they got screwed that first time.
44:06
And...
44:09
And the song She's Always a
44:10
Woman to me is about just that,
44:13
that his wife was
44:15
protecting him and doing
44:17
all those things.
44:19
And all the songs he wrote
44:21
about her in the seventies
44:22
were fantastic.
44:25
And he was so in love with her.
44:27
What the hell happened that he leaves her?
44:29
And then he ends up with Christie Brinkley,
44:31
of course, but
44:34
But my guy and his wife,
44:36
that first wife is in this
44:37
documentary a lot and she's
44:38
talking now and she is
44:40
still a smoke show still.
44:46
So, uh, but it's,
44:48
it's such a fascinating
44:50
documentary because it just made me think,
44:52
man,
44:52
if you took away all my money and
44:54
screwed me over from that,
44:56
would I still be willing to
44:58
put forth my best effort
45:00
with everything I wrote,
45:02
knowing that my money went
45:03
to somebody else?
45:10
J B M M T L. Uh,
45:12
if you work for any company
45:13
that doesn't properly remunerate you,
45:15
remunerate you,
45:17
that's exactly what you're doing.
45:20
And I know I'm probably
45:21
doing it right now.
45:24
Well guys, I got to get back to work.
45:26
I'm sure you guys have to
45:27
get back to work too.
45:28
So, uh, so where's the documentary?
45:30
It's on HBO max, I guess just max now,
45:34
whatever they're calling themselves.
45:35
I think they changed their
45:36
name another time.
45:38
Uh,
45:39
But anyway, with that, Ken Walter says,
45:43
Jason Bill on Chapman's Bay
45:44
Show in thirty minutes.
45:47
That's cool.
45:48
And we got a new member.
45:52
Ryan Aldrich joined the
45:54
membership as well.
45:55
Thank you so much, Ryan.
45:57
That is awesome.
45:58
I appreciate it so, so much.
46:03
With that, guys,
46:04
make sure you like and subscribe.
46:06
That helps so much on the algorithm.
46:08
And I can't wait to see any
46:10
of you at the CrossFit Games.
46:11
Remember, we got new stickers made.
46:13
Come see me.
46:14
Say hi.
46:14
They're free of charge.
46:15
I'll hand those out.
46:16
And I'm having T-shirts
46:18
designed with a Get Jazzed logo on it.
46:24
And as soon as we get those out,
46:26
we'll do some T-shirts.
46:28
With that,
46:28
can't wait to see everybody next week.
46:30
Have a great weekend.
46:32
And you knuckleheads get
46:33
back to work because I got to.
46:35
We'll see everybody next time.
46:36
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
46:37
Bye, guys.