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Lunch with the Clydesdale - You asked for professionalism, now you got it! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what what's going on
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everybody welcome to lunch
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with the cladsdale I am
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here at least in spirit if
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not in a body um I actually
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contemplated not doing the
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show today but I want to
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stay consistent and be here
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for you guys every day um
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man I was thinking when I
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was younger like I could
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I could go out drinking with
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my buddies or my wife and
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light it up and get home at
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three o'clock in the
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morning and get four hours
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sleep and bounce back and
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go to work the next day and
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not even feel any effects.
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Now I don't drink at all,
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but if I don't get like
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seven to eight hours sleep,
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I am like a dog turd in the morning.
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woke up today it was a rough
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night had a lot to do with
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just taking care of my wife
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and the dog and all that
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kind of stuff and then I
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had to be back to work this
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morning and I got very
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little sleep last night and
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I am stro on the struggle
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bus just trying to stay
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awake uh through my work
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day oh my goodness
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anybody else experience that
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as you get older where you
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just like sleep has become
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so important in my life um
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and not that I like sleep a
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ton but I if I don't get
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that seven to eight hours
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man I am I'm a complete dog
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turd the next day and
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that's how I feel right now
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so uh but I wanted to jump on
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talk a little bit uh hang
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out with you guys so uh the
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first thing's first last
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night caroline I had great
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show if you did not watch
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sunday night crossfit talk
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you need to go check that
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out um there was some great
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discussion last night great
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comments in the chat uh you
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need to go check that out
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but one thing that we I
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posed a question to her is
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with this new season format
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Do we have to change the way
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we look at training?
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Because forever, CrossFit has been train,
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train, train, train, train,
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peak for this big event,
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and then do that big event.
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As we're moving forward through CrossFit,
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whatever it's going to become,
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we've added more off-season competitions.
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So now we have Rogue.
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Now we have Dubai.
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Now we have Waterpalooza.
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Um, now we have reps ahead.
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That's come in adding
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another element to the season.
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We've added the world
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fitness project now adding more, um,
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competitions, qualifiers, et cetera.
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Now we've added more in-person, uh,
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qualifying events,
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which have their own
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qualifiers and those in the season.
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And so.
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my I just got breaking news
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mike mccarthy is out as
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cowboys head coach just got
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let go or did not get
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resigned uh today so
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there's news there so
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anyway you have this season
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that goes on and is it
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going to become where if
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you want to be in more
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events you need to um
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you need to be more
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consistent through the
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season as opposed to peaked
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during the season.
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Like find a way to train
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where your body can perform
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more often at a greater rate at a,
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at the highest quality
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possible for that than just train, train,
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train, train, train peak for the,
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this big event at the end of the year.
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Um,
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I think this is what the
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athletes have been
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clamoring for for a very
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long time is they want more opportunity.
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They want to professionalize the sport.
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But with that comes,
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with the more opportunity,
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comes a different way that
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you have to look at the season.
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Um, and we hear people like it crash say,
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Hey, I, yeah, I did.
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Okay.
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But I wasn't peaked for this.
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Or that seems to be like the
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relative excuse at all of
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these different events.
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When someone doesn't do well,
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I wasn't peaked for this.
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Well, I think in the new style of CrossFit,
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you're not going to be
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peaked for things anymore.
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You are going to have to be
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the best you can be in that
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moment to compete.
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Now,
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The World Fitness Project
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has one thing right on this.
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You earn points at every
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event throughout the season
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showing that the most
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consistent athlete gets to the end.
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Where in the CrossFit game season,
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it's an elimination style.
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So either...
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They're not really focused on consistency,
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and maybe that's where
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there needs to be a tweak
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or something they can learn
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from this competitor that
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maybe they need to come up
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with a way to show
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consistency to get you to the finals.
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And then the most consistent
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people throughout the
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season are the ones that go
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to the CrossFit Games.
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Because with elimination style,
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if you are not ready to go
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in some of these events
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where they only take the top two,
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you are not going to make
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it to the CrossFit Games.
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Kenneth,
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whatever happened to don't get ready,
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stay ready?
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Right.
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I mean,
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isn't that kind of what CrossFit is
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built on?
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Readiness?
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Readiness for the unknowable,
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the unexpected, to be able to jump in and
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save someone from a burning
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building or jump in and be
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able to lift a car.
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I mean, those are extreme examples,
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but when I first joined CrossFit,
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it was all about functional
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fitness and being ready to
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jump into action when
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called to when emergency
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situations happened.
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yes the sport is a little
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bit different but I like
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the concept of hey let's
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stay as consistent as we
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can throughout the season
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as opposed to let's beat
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the body up and peak for
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this um one I think your
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athletic career will last
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longer you won't beat up
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your body you won't hear
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the stories of like rich
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froning and his knees and
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and things like that I think that
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it's an alternative way of
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looking at the season,
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but I do think that, um,
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it's almost the right way to do it.
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Maybe it's time to,
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to write this season and,
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and look at functional being functional,
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being able to be ready at any time, um,
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to do things.
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And then you have more
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opportunities throughout
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the season to show what you can do.
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Um,
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And so I want to hit a
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couple of these from Train to Live.
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Love more competitions,
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hopefully with reliable
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streaming options.
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Couldn't agree with you more.
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We need a way to find,
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we need a way to stream all
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of these events that are going on.
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It doesn't have to be
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perfect off the get-go,
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but we have to get there.
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Gives more opportunities for
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behind the scenes with
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athletes on how their
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training may be changing
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with increased opportunities.
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Yeah.
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My,
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my biggest worry like in this is I
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think that would be fascinating,
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but I think what is crazy
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is I think a lot of the
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athletes that's going to be
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to their advantage at first.
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And we may have a little more, um,
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undercover training for a
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little bit as people are
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trying to figure this out.
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They don't want to give up
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the secrets that they think
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are going to make them more
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successful in the new way
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the season is going to hit.
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Um,
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And so we may not get the wide open, hey,
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this is how I'm training
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for a little bit.
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But I think that once we do,
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it's going to be
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fascinating to see who changed what,
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how it worked.
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Maybe people admitting that
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they didn't change fast enough,
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things like that.
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I think that would make some
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fascinating documentary
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behind the scenes stuff
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with athletes for sure.
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And anytime we can get more media content,
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it's good for us junkies
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who love to watch it all.
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It's good for CrossFit,
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and it's good for the athletes.
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So, uh, speaking of which I cannot wait,
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cannot wait to watch
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Hiller's video with Raptus,
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Alexis Raptus.
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She's,
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she's always been a fascinating
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individual to me.
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Um, I can't wait to learn more about her.
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Um, uh,
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I just have not had time this
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morning with work to, to dive into that.
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And I dove into, uh,
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the mayhem podcast because
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they advertised it as
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preview of the season.
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It really was not that.
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And so I got stuck into that.
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and um and we'll talk about
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that here in a second we've
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all seen what works for one
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doesn't work for all
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example frazier and
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froning's programming
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breaking some people I
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don't disagree at all some
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people were just built uh
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to train all the time um
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And Rich trained every day.
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He did not take time off.
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Where Matt took big chunks
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of time off and then went
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at it in a very dedicated,
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silo-focused way, which is interesting.
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I just watched the Hiller video.
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Alexis is awesome.
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She is.
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I got to interview her one time,
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and I actually interviewed
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her when I was with Morning
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Chalk Up at the West Coast
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Classic right before the
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final event where she ended
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up losing her spot to the games.
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And I always wondered, like,
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did she think of me as bad luck?
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Because I interviewed her
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right before that moment.
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But she's awesome.
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She's always been cool to
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talk to at events.
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I'd love to get her on again.
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Because I find her very fascinating.
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And I do believe all the
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things that she has
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struggled with in her career...
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she's a sneaky, could be a sneaky surprise,
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uh,
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podium finisher at the games or at
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some of these big events, uh,
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because she she's overcome so much.
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What do you think about reps
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ahead being at water Palooza on Thursday?
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I think it's awesome.
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I think any time that you
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get to highlight athletes,
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and what I like about Reps Ahead,
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there's a couple things they do really,
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really well.
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One, it's one-on-one,
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so it's really easy to watch the race.
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Two,
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they have the rep counters very visible,
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so you can see,
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you know the story immediately,
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who has more reps than the other person.
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The person in green has more,
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the person in red has less,
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and you know the count.
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Um,
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and I think that I hope that people
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stick around to watch the,
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this group do it after the
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final individual event on Thursday night,
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because it's,
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it's a great lineup hopper versus pepper.
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Uh,
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and it is going to include an echo bike,
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which I think is really cool.
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You know, they want to,
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they want to test who's the fittest,
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who's the King of the echo bike.
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And they're going to get that opportunity.
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Um,
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Um, and so I think that's great.
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And Gazan versus Lawson.
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We really haven't seen Emma
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since the games.
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Uh,
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it's going to be interesting to see how
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she looks.
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I, if anything,
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I just want to see how she
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looks and how she, um,
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carries herself after all
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the kind of questioning of
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the last season.
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So I think that's going to
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be really fascinating to watch.
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And Alex Kazan is just a stud.
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I love watching her and
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seeing what she can do.
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Kenneth says, Reps ahead is growing on me.
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Still have hopes Fit Wars will come back.
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I've lost faith in Fit Wars.
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And I've talked to Wad Zombie about that.
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And I don't think he has any
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desire really to bring it back.
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He just wanted to show that
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it could be done.
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And I think reps ahead
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taking that is a good thing.
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It's different.
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It's fast.
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If I want to show somebody
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what CrossFit is,
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it's usually over in five minutes.
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So it's not something they
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have to invest an entire weekend in.
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And I can kind of show them
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briefly what it is and
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maybe get them more
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interested than if I was
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trying to get them to watch
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a CrossFit Games or a
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semifinal event or things like that.
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Uh, Kenneth also asked,
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have I watched the podcast
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on Madera's channel with him,
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Dell and Justin?
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Pretty great conversation.
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Yeah.
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We actually talked about it
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at length last night on the
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Sunday night CrossFit show
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that it was a gem of a podcast.
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Um,
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because mainly when I'm watching that
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kind of stuff,
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I'm looking for information
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to talk about on this show.
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And what I loved about that
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is I could just sit back
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and listen to them talk and
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laugh at their stories.
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Um,
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And I really, really enjoyed it.
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And I cannot wait.
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They're doing two more,
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one on Dallin's channel,
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one on Hopper's channel.
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And so I can't wait to hear
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what those are like as well.
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And I think it's a great format.
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And I hope that other
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athletes look at what
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they're doing and maybe can
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pull the same thing off.
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But I think the key to it is,
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that Justin was great as a moderator,
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kind of keeping the flow of
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the interview or not interview,
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keeping the flow of the
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storytelling going in a way
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that made sense.
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So it's going to be
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interesting to see if like
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Dallin becomes the
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moderator when he does it on his channel.
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And if Hopper becomes the
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moderator on his channel,
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But I think that was key
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that you have to have that
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person that kind of keeps you on track,
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keeps you rolling to the
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next subject and keeps the
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stories flowing.
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So I don't think I don't
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know if it was intentional
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or if it just kind of
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happened to be that way.
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But Justin was awesome in that role.
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Kudos to him for the way he
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handled that and really,
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really thoroughly enjoyed that.
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that podcast a lot it was
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just a turn the brain off
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and let them tell stories
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and I said last night the
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story with luke parker and
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jason hopper is priceless
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and uh every young person
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should uh hear that story
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that you know sometimes
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when you say things on
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social media it's going to
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come back and bite you so
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uh but I thought that was hilarious
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This might be too much information.
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Kenneth,
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I cleaned my bathrooms to that show.
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Yeah.
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Um, the funny thing about the,
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the Dallin pepper,
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talking about hopper rooting
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against him at west coast
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classic is I was at that
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event and I actually was
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standing beside hopper for
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a lot of that weekend um
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where I was in the media
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pit is where matt frazier
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and matt o'keefe were and
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hopper was there with his
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wife we actually did an
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interview with him and his
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wife for the morning chalk
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up that weekend and
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up in a VIP suite because he was,
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he had killed it at
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syndicate crown earlier in the season.
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And he came out of nowhere.
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Nobody really knew who he was.
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So we were scrambling to get
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us some interviews with him.
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And I,
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I believe that that is where O'Keefe
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signed him as an agent.
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And maybe he signed with
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HWPO that weekend as well.
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It was,
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But it was crazy.
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I was standing right there for most of it.
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But yeah.
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trained to live, unrelated,
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but with everything you have going on,
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are you still working with
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your nutrition coach?
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I've taken a break from the
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nutrition coach.
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I just needed to simplify
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some things in my life for
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a brief amount of time.
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I'm still working on my nutrition.
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I'm still losing weight.
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I'm still doing all my blood markers are
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going great.
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I just had to kind of
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simplify things for me
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while everything else was
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going crazy around me.
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And that's just one thing
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that I could control.
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I love Cheryl.
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I think the world of her and
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I'll probably hook back up
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with her in the near future.
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But I just needed something
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simpler for a brief minute.
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We had been working together
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for two and a half years
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and I just needed a break
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from the everyday of that.
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um but yeah still believe in
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the way she does things
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still believe in her and uh
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yeah oh this is questions
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for the clydesdale day
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what's your limit on a lego
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set whether it's pieces or
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price I've been looking at
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lord of the ring sets but
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it's like a thousand bucks
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so I don't think I've ever paid
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I don't think I've ever paid
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more than a hundred bucks for a Lego set.
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Uh, most of my stuff is very small.
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Um, my Chicago bear stadium, right.
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And that's not even officially Lego.
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That's a Brixels.
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It's a, they're smaller bricks,
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really a pain in the butt, but, um,
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that's the most,
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that's about a hundred bucks right there.
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Um, uh,
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But I've been looking at
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some sets on the Lego
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website that are much more than that.
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There's a friend set that I really,
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really like.
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There is an X-Men set that I
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think is really cool.
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It's the X-Men Mansion.
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But my nephew is also really into Lego.
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And he lives here in Columbus.
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And he just got the Daily Bugle.
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from Spider-Man and it is
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probably four to five feet
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tall and it comes with like
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it comes with like thirty
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minifigures but it is from
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Spider-Man across the
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universe and it is really
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cool and I've only he has
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not opened the box yet so I
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can't wait for him to to do that
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But yeah,
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I've been working on a Pirate Parrot,
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which is the mascot for the
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Pittsburgh Pirates.
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And it's in the Brixel.
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So the bricks are probably a
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quarter of the size of a Lego brick.
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And I have to use tweezers
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sometimes to put it all together.
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But I'm almost finished with it.
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I should be done with it by
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the end of the day today.
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And I actually bought my
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wife her first Lego set for Christmas.
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And it is the characters from Up.
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and it's called like brick heads.
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So you actually build the people.
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It's not the mini figures.
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And, um,
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she just put together Carl from up
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and it even has his little
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cane with the four tennis
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balls at the bottom.
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Uh, and then it has Kevin, the bird and,
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uh,
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the kid, Russell, Russell, the kid.
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And she really enjoyed it.
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And we talk about how, what,
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how satisfying it is to
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click those pieces together.
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And it just,
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it's like a feeling of accomplishment.
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Every time you like hear the click,
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feel the click.
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It's it, it's,
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it just feels like you're
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accomplishing something and
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it's so relaxing for me.
21:42
So whenever I get a chance to do that,
21:44
Uh,
21:45
I do cause it just chills me out
21:48
immensely,
21:49
but I was working on the pirate
21:50
parent and I had to read
21:51
the CrossFit rule book.
21:53
And so I had to put that
21:54
down until I could get that done.
21:55
So we could talk about that last night.
21:58
Um, and it's,
22:00
it's not a fun read to go
22:02
through all that and take
22:03
notes and be ready for show, uh,
22:06
for that.
22:06
So, so yeah.
22:11
Wow.
22:13
Got a lot out of this.
22:14
So you guys are, so, um,
22:17
I have not seen the Lord of
22:18
the Rings sets, Kenneth.
22:20
Uh, I'm not a huge Lord of the Rings fan.
22:24
Um, I've watched them all of course.
22:26
And I read the Hobbit in high school,
22:29
but I, yeah.
22:32
And there's so many Star Wars ones,
22:34
and I'm not a big Star Wars fan.
22:36
I love Indiana Jones.
22:37
That was my deal when I was a kid.
22:39
I did like superhero stuff.
22:42
I have seen the Avengers Tower in Lego,
22:46
and that's pretty massive.
22:48
That's a few hundred dollars.
22:51
The X-Men Mansion really is
22:54
probably the one that's in
22:54
my head the most.
22:56
And I think that's two or three hundred,
22:58
maybe three hundred.
22:59
So...
23:02
Yeah, it was a, you said Star Wars,
23:04
Star Wars ones are overpriced.
23:06
Anything that's licensed.
23:07
I understand.
23:08
I hear is like super expensive.
23:10
because they have to pay the
23:11
licensing fee to get those.
23:14
So whether it's Lord of the Rings,
23:16
whether it's Star Wars,
23:20
whether it's Friends, whether it's X-Men,
23:24
Avengers, any of those,
23:26
they have to pay a licensing fee,
23:27
which jacks the price way up.
23:30
If you just want like a car, they're way,
23:32
way cheaper.
23:43
Jay Birch talk,
23:44
talk with the young man who
23:45
built a stadium five rocket.
23:47
That's really cool.
23:48
Saturn five rocket got
23:50
stadium on the brain.
23:53
All right.
23:53
Train to live.
23:55
Bring us back to CrossFit.
23:58
Yeah.
23:58
CrossFit NorCal workout with
24:00
traveling to double unders.
24:06
I don't hate it.
24:06
I don't, I don't hate it.
24:10
I don't love it.
24:13
And it's just, it's for the qualifier,
24:14
right?
24:15
So I think anytime you add
24:21
elements to the jump rope,
24:23
it becomes a party trick in
24:25
some form or fashion.
24:30
I think heavy ropes and
24:34
double unders are fine, but
24:39
when you start doing like
24:40
the crossover thing,
24:42
cause I am not the fittest
24:43
person in the world,
24:44
but I have done crossovers my whole life.
24:46
Crossover double unders are
24:50
just easy for me.
24:51
It's a party trick that I've
24:52
had since I was like five years old.
24:55
And when we would,
24:57
when I would be at the gym
24:59
and we're doing double honors,
25:00
I would just mess around
25:01
and do crossovers just to
25:02
like talk smack to my friends.
25:06
So when that got LM got introduced,
25:10
I thought it was a little
25:11
bit of a party trick.
25:13
Um, and I'm,
25:13
I kind of feel the same way
25:15
with the traveling double unders,
25:17
although it's a lot more
25:19
simpler than a crossover
25:21
because you're really just
25:22
bounding off your toes and
25:23
you're just shooting
25:25
yourself forward with every jump.
25:27
It shouldn't,
25:28
I haven't really tried it to
25:30
be honest with you.
25:31
Um, I just think that it's not that hard.
25:36
but it's kind of a party trick.
25:39
I don't know.
25:44
Kenneth says it's NorCal.
25:45
They had a bucket hold last year,
25:47
just a NorCal ism.
25:49
I get that.
25:50
But now you're,
25:52
you are an event qualifying
25:55
people to the CrossFit games.
25:58
At some point you,
26:00
you need to test the right
26:02
things to get the right
26:03
people to the CrossFit games.
26:06
And by doing traveling double unders,
26:09
what are you testing that
26:13
tells you that that's the
26:14
best athlete for the CrossFit Games?
26:16
So I think that's the
26:17
question you have to ask
26:18
whether you like them or not.
26:26
Double unders with the
26:27
weighted vest would be a
26:28
better alternative.
26:30
I don't disagree with that.
26:34
I think that's very similar
26:35
to like the weighted double
26:36
weighted handles or the weighted ropes.
26:45
Yeah, I don't,
26:47
I think that's less gimmicky
26:48
than traveling.
26:51
And so what are they
26:55
measuring distance time?
26:57
Like it doesn't matter how
26:59
many double unders you do,
27:00
as long as you,
27:02
make it from point a to
27:03
point b uh in such time if
27:07
you is it do they have to
27:09
be unbroken I guess I need
27:11
to look into a little more
27:18
but yeah I do think when
27:21
you are an independent
27:23
competition you can do all
27:25
the fun stuff like uh the
27:27
bucket holds and uh
27:33
the traveling double unders
27:34
and all of that stuff, right?
27:36
When you are now qualifying
27:37
someone to the CrossFit games,
27:40
I think you need to like
27:41
pull your stuff in, uh,
27:44
so that it meets the
27:45
requirement that you're
27:46
getting the right people to
27:48
the finals of the season.
27:56
The trap,
27:56
the distance increases each round
27:58
on the traveling dubs.
28:00
Do they have to be unbroken?
28:04
Or if you break,
28:06
do you go back to where you
28:08
started to jump from the last one?
28:10
Gosh, that seems like a judging nightmare.
28:16
I would almost think that it
28:17
would have to be unbroken, but,
28:21
or you're putting a lot of
28:23
pressure on a judge.
28:29
So, yeah.
28:30
I like the guys at NorCal.
28:31
I think they try to go old
28:34
school with a lot of their stuff,
28:36
which I do find...
28:39
to be a good thing.
28:41
Um, I just,
28:43
I hope they stay away from the
28:44
gimmicky thing, um,
28:46
and get the right people to
28:48
the CrossFit games because
28:49
they are essentially going
28:50
to be the last chance qualifier.
28:55
They are the last event on
28:56
the calendar where people
28:58
are going to go and try to
29:00
get their way to the games,
29:01
meaning they're going to
29:02
have every big name that
29:04
has not qualified is going
29:06
to sign up for that.
29:08
Uh,
29:12
Uh, and it's going to be insane.
29:13
It's going to be a great competition.
29:15
And I just hope that they,
29:18
they do their best to make
29:20
it a great test to get the
29:22
right people to the CrossFit games.
29:27
Not sure where Lex is with these answers.
29:29
I think it's broken into
29:30
twenty five foot segments.
29:32
Okay.
29:33
That makes a little more sense.
29:35
unbroken for twenty five
29:36
feet would be okay I still
29:41
I still don't I'm not in
29:41
love with this but lex was
29:44
here off the top of the
29:45
show but I know she works
29:48
too so maybe she's at work um but yeah
29:55
But I do know that Carolyn
29:57
probably will be at NorCal
29:59
because Lex lives right there.
30:02
That's an easy competition
30:03
for them to get to.
30:04
It cuts down on travel for sure.
30:09
So, yeah.
30:14
Craig,
30:15
did you talk about no quarterfinals
30:17
this year?
30:18
At the affiliate,
30:18
I heard members who made
30:19
quarterfinals last year
30:20
seem bummed about no
30:22
quarterfinals this year.
30:23
I don't think they'll sign up this year.
30:28
so I know we talked about it
30:29
briefly on sunday night
30:30
crossfit talk because jamie
30:32
had the same sentiments
30:34
that you're talking about
30:34
here she has athletes that
30:37
just missed quarterfinals
30:39
last year and it was their
30:41
goal to make quarterfinals
30:43
this year now with the
30:48
community cup you would
30:50
know if you made it if you were a level
30:55
eight or up, and then some of the sevens.
31:01
So,
31:04
so you can still kind of test yourself
31:06
to see if you make it in it.
31:08
You're just,
31:09
you're shooting for a level now,
31:11
as opposed to a thing
31:13
called quarterfinals.
31:15
And then you get to compete
31:16
against the same,
31:18
the people in your level group,
31:22
which if you are a seven or an eight,
31:24
you get to compete with all
31:26
the sevens and eights.
31:28
um and they're called
31:29
something and I don't
31:30
remember exactly what that
31:31
is but there's like a pro
31:33
advanced intermediate
31:35
rookie and it's every two
31:38
levels so level one and two
31:40
are rookie um I don't
31:42
remember what I think level
31:45
three and four are scaled
31:49
number I don't know I I
31:51
don't want to say anything
31:52
and misspeak but um but yeah
31:58
And then you'll get to
31:58
compete against people in that group.
32:00
So you still get that opportunity.
32:02
It's just not called
32:02
quarterfinals anymore.
32:05
Yeah.
32:07
Yeah.
32:10
NorCal still being
32:10
exclusively streamed by Savant.
32:13
I know it's being streamed by Savant.
32:15
I heard them say that on the spin.
32:18
Whether that is exclusive or not,
32:20
I do not know.
32:21
I would guess yes,
32:23
because I don't think
32:23
they'd want to invest in
32:25
more streaming when there's
32:27
someone already streaming.
32:29
But Bill and John will be
32:30
calling the NorCal Classic.
32:34
They announced that on the spin,
32:37
not last week, maybe.
32:51
Do we know if the levels
32:52
carry over or is it just
32:54
based on this year?
32:56
I was bummed about not
32:57
having quarterfinals,
32:58
but I have some hope with
32:59
the explanation of the community cup.
33:02
I don't know.
33:05
I don't know if it carries over.
33:06
I think at least some aspect of it should.
33:10
How that would look, I don't know.
33:12
But it seems right now it's
33:14
in a very simplistic state
33:22
where it seems to be just
33:23
the year we're in.
33:25
But I think that...
33:30
I think they want to see
33:31
like the engagement of this
33:33
and how many people actually sign up.
33:36
Uh, and then,
33:41
and then we'll go from there
33:42
and see maybe they'll,
33:43
they'll tweak it or something in the,
33:45
in the future.
33:47
Craig says no one's really
33:48
promoting the community cup.
33:50
Well,
33:50
Dave just put on Instagram two days ago,
33:54
the explanation of what the
33:55
community cup is and how it works.
33:58
So I think that's the first
33:59
time we've actually
34:00
understood how it's going to be.
34:02
And that was just two days ago.
34:05
And I think I'll pull that
34:07
up and we can play that
34:09
because he really does
34:10
explain it well and what
34:11
the divisions are.
34:12
Yeah.
34:17
Let me pull that up super fast here.
34:24
And I'll just play it live
34:25
on here and you can,
34:26
you can watch it from here.
34:31
Hit the wrong.
34:39
Okay.
34:40
So here we go.
34:50
As long as it always has
34:51
been out of the open,
34:52
once you finish the three workouts,
34:54
you'll be assigned a level,
34:56
level ten all the way down to one.
34:58
Those are the percentage range.
35:00
The percentage you finish in
35:02
the open determines your level.
35:04
So if you finish in the
35:05
fiftieth percentile in the open,
35:08
you're a level five athlete.
35:10
Once you have your level,
35:11
then in the community cup,
35:13
you will be assigned a category.
35:15
So you're a pro.
35:16
an advanced, intermediate, novice,
35:19
or rookie.
35:19
So in the example of fifty percentile,
35:22
I finished in the fifty
35:23
percentile from the open in
35:25
this intermediate category.
35:27
In the community cup,
35:28
you will then have the ability to compete
35:31
amongst these categories
35:33
against your peers, essentially.
35:36
It'll be one week,
35:37
three events across that one week.
35:39
So the goal out of the open
35:40
is to try to perform as
35:43
well as you can and be in
35:44
the highest level possible
35:46
that you can be in to then
35:47
compete against people in
35:49
your categories.
35:50
The workouts will be
35:51
programmed appropriately for each group.
35:53
So if we use an example of
35:56
and handstand pushups, deadlifts,
35:58
the rookies might use one
35:59
thirty five and substitute
36:01
for the handstand pushups
36:02
where the pros might do
36:02
handstand walk and we might
36:04
amp it up to two seventy five.
36:06
So we programmed
36:07
appropriately for the group.
36:08
The reason we did this is to
36:09
give more athletes from the
36:11
open an opportunity to
36:12
compete in another stage of competition.
36:15
And I hope to see you on the leaderboard.
36:18
So the.
36:21
That is.
36:23
Dave's explanation as to
36:24
what the community cup is.
36:27
As you can see the percentile,
36:29
that's one thing I actually
36:30
missed the first time I watched it.
36:32
Like a level ten,
36:33
you have to be ninety ninth
36:34
percentile or a hundredth percentile.
36:37
Nine is eighty eight to ninety eight.
36:40
And then it goes down from
36:41
there and kind of the gap
36:43
widens a little bit.
36:45
But yeah, to be in that pro division,
36:47
it's really the upper like
36:51
Level ten is the two percent in the world.
36:55
Nine is eighty eight to ninety eight.
36:57
And then all of that would
36:58
be the pro from eighty
36:59
eight to nine to one hundred.
37:01
And then you get to compete
37:02
in that pro division in the
37:04
community cup.
37:07
So.
37:09
Yep.
37:10
And that's what they're trying to do.
37:13
It's allowing everybody in
37:15
the CrossFit world,
37:17
not just the top twenty five percent,
37:19
but everybody an
37:20
opportunity to keep playing.
37:23
So instead of quarterfinals,
37:24
we have this where
37:25
everybody gets to go on.
37:26
But you get to compete in
37:27
your division against
37:29
people of your level.
37:39
Kenneth says,
37:39
I'm not quoting this by any means,
37:41
just how I understood it.
37:42
But last night on seven
37:43
Hiller mentioned the need
37:45
of news updates coming from
37:46
an actual brick and mortar HQ,
37:48
as opposed to just on or Dave.
37:51
So I watched that as I was
37:53
going to bed last night.
37:54
Um,
37:56
And I think what they were
37:58
trying to say is what needs
38:00
to happen for CrossFit to grow.
38:02
And they were saying that it
38:03
really needs to have a
38:05
group of people in a brick
38:06
and mortar building who can
38:08
share creative ideas and
38:11
bounce things off of each
38:13
other to come up with newer
38:16
and greater ideas.
38:18
What I have always
38:19
complained about is I hate
38:21
that the news comes out
38:23
from an individual's Instagram account.
38:27
If you're going to be a legit company,
38:30
there are press releases.
38:32
They do press releases,
38:33
but they choose not to use
38:35
them in some aspects.
38:37
If you're going to release
38:38
information on the community cup,
38:41
do a press release.
38:42
There are now all these
38:44
third party media companies
38:45
who want content to talk
38:47
about on their shows and
38:49
they can grab the press
38:50
release and we can get,
38:52
that's just a marketing
38:53
thing that would help them move forward.
38:55
Instead, we have to scour Instagram,
38:58
see what Dave's saying,
38:59
see what the CrossFit games
39:00
page is saying,
39:01
see what the CrossFit page is saying.
39:04
And then God forbid,
39:04
if Don Fall does a podcast,
39:06
you need to make sure you
39:07
go see that to see what he
39:09
is saying and what
39:10
information is being released there.
39:12
It's just being released
39:13
from every different aspect
39:15
instead of one simple place
39:19
for a press release where
39:21
we can all grab that and we
39:23
can talk about it with our
39:24
audience and have these
39:26
discussions like we're having today,
39:28
which I think are
39:29
invaluable and great for marketing.
39:32
Because we just showed that
39:34
Instagram thing,
39:36
and Craig's going to tell
39:37
his members tonight on how
39:38
it all works and kind of
39:40
promote it from a grassroots level.
39:43
That's what makes CrossFit great.
39:45
When you do things in a way
39:47
that allow the grassroots
39:49
marketing of what we do,
39:52
then things get better.
39:57
But there's tons of us out there.
39:59
There's me.
40:00
There's Coffee Pods Mods.
40:01
There's Siobhan.
40:01
There's Hiller.
40:03
There's, gosh, Talking Elite Fitness.
40:07
There's Get With The Programming.
40:10
When all those people start
40:11
talking about this stuff,
40:13
it will spread like wildfire.
40:15
We just have to get it out
40:16
to them in a way that makes sense.
40:30
D reads as if CrossFit HQ
40:31
centralizes communications,
40:33
they will need an
40:34
infrastructure to do that
40:35
kind of goes against their
40:36
current staffing trend.
40:39
I see what you're saying.
40:41
I do think that.
40:44
So this.
40:46
okay.
40:47
I work from home.
40:48
Um, I work for the state of Ohio.
40:50
We have meetings all the time, uh,
40:53
where we talk about things,
40:54
we bounce ideas off each other.
40:56
Uh,
40:56
but we have a very structured meeting
40:58
set up, uh,
40:59
throughout the week to be able
41:00
to do that.
41:01
I just don't,
41:04
I'm not a firm believer where
41:05
it has to be brick and mortar,
41:07
but you have to have a,
41:09
you have to have systems
41:10
set up where you are in
41:12
communication with other
41:13
people in your units, uh,
41:17
to bounce ideas off one another.
41:20
Um, you, and you,
41:21
it has to be forced because
41:22
if you're working from home,
41:24
the trend is you just want
41:25
to dive into your work,
41:26
but you have to have
41:27
mandatory meetings where people come,
41:29
we talk, we bounce ideas off each other.
41:32
It took a couple of years
41:33
for us to figure that out.
41:34
We've gotten there and I
41:35
think CrossFit could do the same thing.
41:41
So.
41:44
Right.
41:44
Exactly.
41:45
We use Microsoft Teams all the time,
41:48
Jay Birch.
41:49
And we actually are forced to be on video.
41:53
When we first came home,
41:54
we didn't have to be and
41:56
people weren't on video.
41:58
We are now forced to have
42:00
our video on whenever we're
42:02
on MS Teams and so that we
42:04
can talk and be interactive
42:06
with each other.
42:23
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42:27
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42:30
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42:53
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42:54
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42:55
I've taken a break from
42:56
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42:57
We are having Hattie Canio
42:59
on tonight at six PM Eastern time, uh,
43:01
to talk about her off season,
43:04
what the season looks like for her,
43:06
what she's going to do this,
43:07
this season coming up.
43:09
And, uh,
43:10
can't wait to catch up with an old
43:11
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43:12
If you don't know,
43:13
we used to do a show
43:14
together where she was live from Bali.
43:16
Um,
43:17
And training there.
43:18
And so we're going to have
43:19
her on tonight to talk
43:20
about her first games
43:22
experience probably didn't
43:23
go the way she had planned.
43:26
So we'll talk about that and
43:27
we'll talk about what she
43:28
has looking forward to this season.
43:30
And she's actually had a
43:31
pretty awesome offseason.
43:34
So can't wait for that.
43:36
And then tomorrow,
43:37
he just popped into the chat.
43:38
Corey Leonard will be with
43:40
me on Lunch with the Clydesdale tomorrow.
43:42
We are now calling Tuesday's
43:44
Top Five Tuesdays.
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And tomorrow's subject is
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Top Five CrossFitters You
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Would Like to Have a Drink With.
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So we're going to...
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We're going to do that tomorrow.
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So if you have your list,
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you can make it up tonight,
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and you can compare it to
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Corey and I's list tomorrow.
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We'll debate that.
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If you guys have any questions tomorrow,
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Corey's a Masters athlete
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trying to make his way to
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the CrossFit Games in the next few years.
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We'll talk a little bit
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about his experience at Legends this year,
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which was his goal,
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and then what he's doing to
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move forward as an athlete
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in the Masters space.
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With that, guys,
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thank you so much for a great lunch hour.
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Didn't hit any of my notes
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because your questions were awesome.
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And I can't wait to chat
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with you again tomorrow.
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And don't forget to check
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out Sunday Night CrossFit last night.
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It was a great show.
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Carolyn and I had a lot of interaction.
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You guys in the chat were
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killing it last night with questions.
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And we had a really good time.
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So if you missed last night,
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go check that out.
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It's really good.
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With that,
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we'll see everybody next time on
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Lunch with the Clydesdales.
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Peace.