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Lunch with the Clydesdale - What Was the Best Season Structure of All Time? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What's going on, everybody?
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It is lunchtime.
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Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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We are here again another day.
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Friday, Friday, Friday.
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So excited for that.
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What's going on, Andrew, Meredith, Jody,
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Corey?
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Glad you could all join us.
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Again,
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I'm down to that two-bar thing today,
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but everything appears to be going okay.
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Maybe this is just my life
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now that my wife is back to work,
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working from home and maybe
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taking up some extra bandwidth.
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But so far, so good.
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Yesterday was fine.
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We'll go with it today.
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I really appreciate that
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thank you so much denise um
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Man, I am.
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I'm tired of going into the weekend.
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I've been doing,
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our local Goodwill has been
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in need of people to help out.
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So I've been going over
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there doing a couple hours a night,
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helping unload cars,
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when people bring in donations,
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sorting those donations,
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getting them ready to ship out,
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all of that stuff.
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So yeah,
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so doing that in the evenings a
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little bit.
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I'm actually really enjoying it,
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really enjoying meeting the
2:08
people and doing a little
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bit of that to help out.
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So that's been fun.
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Going to a concert this weekend.
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Haven't been to a concert in a while.
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A friend of mine called and
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said he won tickets.
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So we're going to see Buddy Guy,
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a legendary blues guitarist
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at a local venue.
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It's about an hour outside
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of Columbus towards Dayton.
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So we're heading down there
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to see Buddy Guy tomorrow night.
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That should be fun.
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Yeah.
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Get away from the CrossFit
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scene a little bit and enjoy a concert.
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Haven't been to one in a while.
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Buddy Guy is still alive.
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I believe he's in his nineties.
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And so not going to be many,
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many years left to see Buddy.
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So excited for the opportunity.
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So what do I want to get into first?
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Let's
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Let's talk about the last
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chance qualifier.
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I keep refreshing my app to
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see if more people have signed up.
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There have been a handful, kind of handful,
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of people who have signed up.
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Yuko Sakayama from Japan has signed up.
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Janie Chevrie from Canada.
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Gemma Houck.
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Andreas Olberg from Norway.
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uh and lydia fish and lily
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burkhead both from the u.s
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have joined the names I
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read yesterday um so that's
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starting to stack up on the
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women's side on the men's
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side less new athletes have
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signed up but we do have
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luke de jong uh I believe
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he's from australia um riley martin
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And Nika Masarazzi,
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I think those are the only
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new names that have signed
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up on the men's side.
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Ah, Corey, I did not say Yu-Gi-Oh.
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I did not.
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It just sounded like that.
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I say Yuko Sakiyama.
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I hope I have that right.
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So a lot of the young
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athletes are signed up already.
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I do believe Carolyn's going to do it,
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but I don't know for sure.
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But we did find out today,
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if you listen to Facundo on
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the Savant podcast, that, in fact,
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Mayhem is kind of running
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this last chance qualifier.
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It was him and Angelo
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DiCicco who curated all of
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the workouts that came in.
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made sure that they were all
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tweaked and done to a way
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that they all fit into one
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test and those were the
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workouts that were released
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yesterday um I think I
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think they're on instagram
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let me see if I can pull
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them up for you guys
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Sorry, I should have had this one ready.
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Last chance qualifier
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workouts are right here.
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If you have not seen them already.
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It starts with workout one
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picked by Rich Froning,
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a hundred double unders,
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ten clean and jerks,
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a hundred double unders,
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ten clean and jerks,
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a hundred double unders,
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ten clean and jerks,
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a hundred double unders, time cap,
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twelve minutes.
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The weights are two oh five,
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two twenty five,
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two forty five for the men,
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one forty five, one fifty five,
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one sixty five for the women.
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Uh, workout two is three rounds for time.
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And this is these,
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this was submitted by Mikel Izecardo, uh,
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thirty four, forty two calorie row,
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thirty burpee over rower,
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eighteen alternating dumbbell snatches.
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That's three rounds for time.
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Fifty seventy on the, uh, dumbbell.
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Workout three submitted by Alberto Nato.
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Four time, nine, twelve, fifteen.
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Ring muscle-ups, overhead squats.
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And that is one twenty-five,
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one eighty-five on the barbell.
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Those three workouts will
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have to be submitted by
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Saturday night at midnight Pacific time.
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And then these last two
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workouts they have until Sunday night,
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as many reps as possible in
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seven minutes of one
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hundred wall ball shots,
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max legless rope climbs in
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the remaining time.
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We talked about it in our
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chat with Jamie and Carolyn.
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And they definitely had
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thoughts on legless rope
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climbs in an online
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competition that that is very,
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very difficult to judge,
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especially in an online competition.
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They thought it would be a
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much better workout if it
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was regular rope climbs.
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And they think it's going to
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be too close because a lot
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of the women will,
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especially on the women's side,
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legless rope climbs will
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clump them together.
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so we'll see about that and
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then workout five submitted
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by liam mulligan uh fifty
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toes to bar forty front
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rack walking lunges thirty
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strict handstand push-ups
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facing out without a garden
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pad under your head uh
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fifty ghd sit-ups forty
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back rack walking lunges
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and thirty wall facing
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strict handstand push-ups
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Time cap, sixteen minutes, eighty pounds,
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one fifteen on the barbell
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for the lunges.
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So those are your workouts
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for the last chance qualifier.
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The last two have to be
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submitted by Sunday night at midnight.
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Pacific Standard Time, that's three a.m.
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Eastern Standard Time.
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Andrew Stanton said, did you catch that,
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Corey?
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Subtle, but I'll allow it.
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I have an alarm going off in my house.
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I'm going to have to pause
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the show for just one
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second and I will be back.
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Thank you.
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Okay, guys, sorry about that.
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My wife burned her lunch,
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and the fire department are
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probably on the way.
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So, oh boy, what a day.
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Okay, I've missed all your comments.
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Hopefully you guys
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entertained yourselves for a while.
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I apologize for all of that.
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But yeah,
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you may hear the fire sirens coming.
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so super awesome super
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awesome way to start my
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weekend ah this I think is
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like this will be the
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fourth time my wife has
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burnt a dinner and we had
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the fire department show up
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at our house so yeah
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that'll this is gonna be
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fun day hopefully they
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don't charge us but uh should be fun
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So there's your last chance qualifier.
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Those are the people taking
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part in it this weekend.
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Hopefully we'll see Carolyn in there.
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I think she has a good chance.
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Again, yesterday, Jody,
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my kitchen is not on fire.
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Just the food and it is out.
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But the smoke lingered.
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The smoke then set off all the alarms.
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And here we go.
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But I think I've got all the alarms off.
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got it to stop so there's an
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alarm right up my stairs
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that one is that one we got
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taken care of pretty quick
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then there's one upstairs
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and then the smoke wafted
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up the stairs to the second
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floor set that one off ah
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corey jen forget she's
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cooking scott kind of a lot yeah
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It's only her second day back to work.
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My guess is she put
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something on the stove and
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went back and was working
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and forgot about what she
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put on the stove.
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And here we are.
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So, yeah, always excitement.
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You don't get this on every podcast.
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So if you see flames behind me,
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just make sure you let me
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know so I can head out of here.
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Um, what else do we have?
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Um, I wanted to talk.
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Okay.
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So I want to talk about this real quick.
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We'll go through some fun stuff here.
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Um, I don't know if you guys saw this,
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but CrossFit featured our
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very own Carolyn Prevo, um,
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in like an ad for the L one.
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And there she is in her games gear, uh,
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talking about the benefits of the L one.
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And you can go through.
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Um, see all that she had to say.
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And so I thought that was really cool.
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Our very own Carolyn Prevost
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being featured in a
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CrossFit ad for the CrossFit L one.
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And it's,
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it was shared by Carolyn and the
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CrossFit games, Instagram account.
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If you want to go check that out,
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I believe Jamie and I both put it on our,
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um, on our stories.
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So you can see it there as well.
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So super proud of her for that.
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We also, in a quick bit, hit news.
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We have word that there's
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going to be a new American Gladiators.
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New tagline,
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lunch with the Clydesdale is on fire.
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You know it.
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So there's going to be a new
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American Gladiators.
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And if you look down here in
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the lower right hand corner
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is the one CrossFitter that
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was selected to be on American Gladiators,
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and that is Danny Spiegel.
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I find that fascinating.
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One, I was a huge,
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huge American gladiators fan.
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When the documentary came
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out about a year ago, I watched that.
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I realized that when I was
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watching that I'd seen
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every season of American
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gladiators when I was growing up.
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Um, and I love that show a lot.
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What I will say is my
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prediction is Danny Spiegel
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is going to kick ass on that show.
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The gladiators of the past
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had all of the physique,
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but not the athleticism.
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Danny Spiegel has great athleticism,
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and that is going to make
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her very dominant as an
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American gladiator.
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That is the one I would not
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want to go up against on this show.
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um but I think that's cool
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that it's coming um and
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it's going to be on it
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looks like gladiators
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tv.com so it looks like
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it's going to be a stream
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show um other countries
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have brought it back sooner
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this looks like the first
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time we will uh we'll have
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this back in america
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honestly this sounds
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perfect for her happy for her
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I'm into it.
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Love American Gladiators.
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I love American Gladiators.
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And I know that she has
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become the poster child for no reps,
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but she is freaking athletic, man.
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So athletic.
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And she's really good.
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Now I've never seen,
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now I know in Europe they
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did this and the
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CrossFitters that went to
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do that in there and in
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Australia all left the CrossFit scene.
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It was the end of their CrossFit career.
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So Lito makes a great point.
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Is she still doing teams at
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the games this year?
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I think she probably could
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do teams and be fine.
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I think her individual
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career is over if this
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becomes a full-time gig.
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And again,
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we don't really know the schedule.
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It could be like a
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six-episode midsummer thing
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that they tape in the winter.
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Like, who knows?
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I think it all depends on the schedule,
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but I think she's going to
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kick ass in this.
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She's going to be better at
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this than she was at CrossFit,
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and she was pretty damn good at CrossFit.
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But you take the fitness
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level and the athleticism
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that she has outside of
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this realm that we're in,
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and she's going to be so
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much better than some of
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these people coming in.
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I think they tried bringing
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it back from the original,
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but it didn't take off.
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I know that there was like, it was out.
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It went away for a brief minute.
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It came back for like a year
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or two and then went away.
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And I don't know if they've
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ever tried to come out again.
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Zach George from the UK
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dropped out of his team last minute,
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and they didn't know
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anything when he was
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announced for Gladiators a
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couple years ago.
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Yeah, I know that was a big stink.
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And then in Australia,
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Con Porter was named, Alethea Boone.
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So there have been
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CrossFitters that have done this before.
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Corey said,
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I would imagine they taped them
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all pretty close together,
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spend a fair amount of time
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editing and adding graphics and whatnot,
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and then release.
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And if you see this picture,
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there's a lot of gladiators being shown.
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They can rotate those people
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through where you're only
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doing a couple shows a year.
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So it'll be interesting to
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see how that goes.
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But I, for one,
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am super excited to see it
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come back again.
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And hopefully it's like they
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do it as a pretty good
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event and not just a parody of itself,
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but an actual like athletic
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event where you take these people on.
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I think that would be awesome.
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It looks like the Wall
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Street weightlifter on the
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poster above Danny.
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I don't think that's who it is,
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but don't... Yeah,
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they don't tag anybody in this one.
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They just tag... Yeah,
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it looks like that guy is
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Eric Bugenhagen.
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Eric Bukenhagen,
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that is not the Wall Street weightlifter.
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But yeah, I get where you saw that.
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All right.
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So Spiegel doing American Gladiator.
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A surprise Hunter McIntyre is on there.
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Yeah, he tries to do everything.
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Dude's getting old now though.
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Um, all right.
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So we got that.
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We got Carolyn.
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If you guys did not see, uh,
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Dave's interview with Ben Smith,
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that was really, really good.
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Really good.
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Um,
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just one of those walk down
23:06
memory lanes how ben got
23:08
his gym started uh the
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mistakes he made when he
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did what he wishes he did
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different when he built the
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new gym um and I just love
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the fact that those og
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crossfitters were so
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connected to the whole
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thing as coaches gym owners
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affiliate owners athletes um
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and it,
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and it looks like Ben is in the
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reds at the ranch when they
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do the interview.
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So I'm wondering if, um,
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Dave had been test some
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stuff for him after Dave
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saw him at syndicate crown.
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Uh, dude,
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I watched Ben Smith interview
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right before this great stuff.
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Yeah.
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It's only, it's only minutes.
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Um, but really fun.
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They laugh a lot.
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Uh,
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There's a great story about
24:04
mentorship and Ben's kind
24:07
of first question about
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owning an affiliate to guys
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that he was competing with.
24:14
If you haven't seen it,
24:15
you need to check that out.
24:20
Um, Facundo,
24:21
in addition to talking about
24:22
the last chance qualifier
24:24
and curating the workouts for mayhem,
24:26
I think that's where we
24:27
were when the fire alarm went off, uh,
24:31
talked about him and Angelo curating them,
24:34
modifying them to make them
24:35
fit as one test.
24:37
That's what they put together.
24:39
They may him is then running
24:40
this event for CrossFit, um,
24:44
through the hustle up app, um,
24:47
And he has said that he's
24:48
going to be on Savan next
24:50
Monday when it's all over
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to kind of break down all of the stuff.
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So there's all that.
24:57
Then they got into the sale of CrossFit.
25:02
And there's a lot of rumors
25:04
out there that the sale is close.
25:08
The sale is imminent.
25:10
The sale money's already changed hands.
25:14
All this kind of back and forth.
25:16
But Facundo does seem to be
25:19
close to the situation.
25:22
He would not give any details about that.
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But he said that Matt Souza
25:28
was on the right track and
25:31
that he believes that the
25:33
sale will be done this calendar year.
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So sometime before twenty twenty six,
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he believes the sale will be done.
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And once we get that and and
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my my guess is.
25:52
Because the Sousa.
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The Sousa dive into did involve hustle up,
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the app did involve the owners of B Sport,
26:05
which own hustle up,
26:06
which own some apparel companies,
26:08
some other things like that.
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To me,
26:14
it sounds like that's the direction
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they're going to go,
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which means that that is
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the group that is close with Froning,
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and they are close with Facundo then,
26:27
and they are close to Daniel Chaffee,
26:36
who is the organizer of the
26:38
French throwdown.
26:39
Those are the names that
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have been kind of thrown
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out there as possibly
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executive people that may
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be involved with this group.
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But it sounds like it's imminent.
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And I can't wait for that to
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happen because I think the
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sooner that happens,
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the more we know about what
27:01
is to come with the
27:03
CrossFit game season for next year.
27:10
We've all said what we
27:11
didn't like about this year.
27:14
It would be really nice to
27:15
know that we're getting
27:16
something next year.
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So,
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and it'd be nice to get it in a timely
27:27
manner for a change.
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And hopefully the new owners do do that.
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But we'll see.
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I also,
27:38
I wanted to go back to this NorCal thing.
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And I think like,
27:44
I don't want NorCal to
27:45
think that I'm picking on them.
27:48
And that went by when saying
27:50
they should not ever be a
27:53
qualifying event for the CrossFit games.
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Uh, Corey says, I just said, do,
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do I actually just watched
28:03
that episode of friends the other night?
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Um, yes I did.
28:07
And when I said it,
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I actually thought that just so you know,
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we're on the same.
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What I want to say is that
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just as bad as NorCal has
28:25
been Wadapalooza.
28:28
Wadapalooza has been the same cluster,
28:33
the same shit show that NorCal has been.
28:37
The only big difference is
28:38
that it hasn't been
28:39
qualifying someone to the
28:40
CrossFit Games for the past few years.
28:44
Some of the things they did
28:46
in the weather and the rain
28:49
was pure insanity at Waterpalooza.
28:54
By making the beach floor,
28:55
by doing it on the beach,
28:58
now at the new location,
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there was some crazy stuff last year.
29:04
I think they are just as
29:07
outside-the-box crazy.
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as NorCal, and it's a huge community event,
29:12
and they get huge
29:13
attendance at the place.
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So I don't want to say that
29:17
they shouldn't be doing it.
29:19
We seem to forgive them more
29:22
because they're not the
29:22
qualifier to the CrossFit Games.
29:25
Where NorCal did the exact same stuff,
29:29
but because of those tickets to the games,
29:31
we got butthurt a lot more
29:34
about what they did there.
29:36
And I do believe that's rightfully so.
29:41
I want them to exist.
29:43
I do think they're fun to watch.
29:46
But I don't want them
29:47
deciding the qualifiers for the games.
29:57
I think when we've been trashing NorCal,
30:00
we've just been
30:01
specifically talking about them.
30:03
There are other events in
30:04
the space that do the same
30:06
crazy stuff and we don't say much about
30:11
But it's because they're not
30:13
the qualifier.
30:14
And I just want to make sure
30:15
that I iterate that out
30:18
there that they're not
30:21
alone in my criticism.
30:23
They're just the only ones
30:24
that had qualifications to the games.
30:39
So.
30:46
The issues are NorCal where
30:48
we're accentuated because
30:49
of what happened to Nate.
30:50
The same stuff happens at Wadapalooza.
30:55
All the time.
30:58
If you remember the team of
30:59
Hopper and Dallin and Ricky did extra...
31:06
stuff in the one event
31:07
because their ref didn't
31:08
count right um brent
31:11
fukowski was hitting his
31:12
head off of the stands
31:14
because of where his rower
31:15
was placed I mean it's been
31:18
a show and screwed up
31:19
events and screwed up
31:21
points for events it's just
31:23
nobody was qualifying for
31:25
the games they were just
31:26
playing for money
31:51
But Nate should be going to the game,
31:52
slightly different scenario.
31:54
But I think you could say
31:55
that about a lot of events
31:57
that have come down to a
31:59
judging call to... I mean,
32:02
I would say on the same
32:03
side on the women...
32:06
you could you could argue
32:07
that carolyn should be
32:08
going to the games that the
32:10
cap was not appropriate for
32:11
the last event we never got
32:13
to see hattie or carolyn
32:15
lift that last bar to
32:17
determine who went to the
32:18
games it just was stupid
32:22
that a box jump decided that so
32:37
I stand on the ground that
32:40
NorCal should not be a
32:41
qualifier for the CrossFit Games.
32:43
I just wanted to make
32:45
everybody aware that there
32:46
are other competitions that
32:47
are just as bad as them
32:49
that don't have that qualification,
32:52
so we don't say anything about it.
32:57
Wadapalooza used to give
32:58
tickets to the games.
33:00
They just don't anymore.
33:05
So the last thing I want to
33:07
kind of send you guys off with,
33:09
as I can still smell the
33:10
smoke from my wife's dinner or lunch,
33:13
is I decided to break down
33:17
season structures that CrossFit has used,
33:19
and I made my own top five
33:21
of what I think the best
33:23
season structures have been in the past.
33:28
So number five.
33:32
Number five would have been,
33:33
and when I say a year,
33:35
it's because back in the day,
33:37
we actually did like a
33:37
couple years the same way.
33:40
So a lot of times the year
33:41
I'm using is the last year
33:43
it was in place.
33:46
So number five is the two,
33:48
two thousand ten sectional
33:51
regional games.
33:59
Back then there was no open.
34:02
So you had to go to a local
34:03
event that qualified you for regionals.
34:07
Then you'd go to regionals
34:09
and that qualified you for the games.
34:14
And it was very Norcal ish.
34:17
The sectionals were very Norcal ish.
34:20
They were out in the middle of a field.
34:22
There was like just
34:22
equipment thrown down and
34:24
it qualified you to the
34:25
next level to go to
34:26
regionals and then onto the
34:28
CrossFit games.
34:32
Number four, the two thousand nineteen.
34:37
Open country winners sanctional season.
34:41
And that is when we opened
34:43
it up to the entire world
34:45
where the open was done.
34:47
If you won your country,
34:49
you got a ticket to the games.
34:51
And then there were like
34:52
thirty sanctionals.
34:54
And if you were the top
34:55
finisher that didn't
34:56
already have a ticket to the games,
34:58
you got an additional ticket.
35:01
And we got like one hundred
35:02
and fifty people in.
35:04
men, hundred and fifty women.
35:06
And it started off with this
35:07
big event that did like cut in half.
35:10
And then we went on with the
35:12
weekend doing cuts pretty
35:15
regularly through the weekend.
35:17
I did not agree with the
35:18
cuts at the games being
35:21
done so soon where we had
35:23
two days of just ten athletes.
35:25
But other than that,
35:26
I I didn't mind the season.
35:30
when there was something
35:30
charming about the Olympic
35:32
style of the event,
35:34
I don't think that is very
35:35
sustainable Europe year over year,
35:39
but I think it would be a
35:40
cool country winter
35:42
derivation to do like every four years.
35:52
Um,
35:56
number three um I'm gonna
35:59
say the twenty three twenty
36:00
four seasons that went from
36:03
open to quarters to
36:04
semifinals to the games
36:06
with crossfit running the
36:07
semifinals um in that last
36:11
iteration all of the
36:12
workouts were the same in
36:13
twenty four so every
36:17
semi-final event had the same workouts
36:23
then depending on the world rankings,
36:26
the people at those
36:27
semifinals either got one, two, ten,
36:31
twelve,
36:32
seven people to the games
36:34
depending on world rankings.
36:37
I didn't care for the world
36:38
ranking aspect of that too much,
36:41
but I did like the way the
36:42
season played out because
36:44
it was a very systematic
36:46
open to quarterfinals, to semifinals,
36:50
to the games.
36:51
Very easy to understand,
36:53
very easy to get there.
36:58
My number two structure would be like,
37:01
which included like,
37:08
That was Open Super
37:13
Regionals CrossFit Games.
37:20
I really liked that format.
37:22
I thought it was good.
37:24
I thought there were more
37:24
people in attendance at
37:26
those events because it was
37:29
done in a systematic way.
37:30
The teams were involved.
37:32
Affiliates showed up in droves.
37:36
I know I was at all of the
37:37
ones that happened in Nashville,
37:40
and they were packed.
37:43
They were packed for the teams.
37:44
They were packed for the individual.
37:47
It was a really good event, and I really,
37:51
really enjoyed that.
37:54
And it actually was a
37:57
derivation of slight
37:59
derivation from my number one structure,
38:03
which were like the previous three years.
38:06
And I think that was like twelve, thirteen,
38:10
fourteen.
38:13
And that was where we went
38:15
from open to regionals to
38:19
the CrossFit Games.
38:21
Now, regionals, there were way more of.
38:24
There were like twice as
38:25
many regionals as there
38:26
were super regionals.
38:28
Super regionals combined two
38:30
regionals all over the world.
38:33
And so like there used to be
38:35
a NorCal region and a SoCal region.
38:37
They combined that into a
38:39
super regional of just California.
38:43
There was a like a northeast
38:49
and a Canadian east.
38:50
Those got combined into one.
38:53
Northwest, Canada west combined into one.
38:59
So I really,
39:01
my favorite of all time were
39:02
the smaller regionals that
39:04
were much closer.
39:06
The regionals were smaller.
39:08
the affiliates could really
39:10
come in droves to support
39:11
their teams and their
39:13
individual athletes to those events.
39:17
And I think at those events,
39:19
you only got two or three
39:22
to qualify to the games.
39:24
It was tight competition.
39:26
It was hard fought.
39:28
Lots of people in attendance.
39:30
Really, really good.
39:33
So my top five.
39:37
Number five, sectional regional games.
39:41
Number four,
39:41
two thousand nineteen open
39:43
country winners, sanctionals games.
39:47
Number three,
39:48
twenty three and twenty four
39:50
open quarter semifinals games.
39:56
Number two is twenty
39:57
eighteen super regionals games,
39:59
open super regionals games.
40:01
And number one is like two thousand twelve,
40:06
thirteen, fourteen,
40:07
which was open regionals games.
40:12
Those were my favorite season structures.
40:15
If no money was.
40:17
If money was not an object.
40:20
Then.
40:22
The number one should be the
40:24
way that we went.
40:26
Now,
40:26
I know that money probably is an
40:28
object and is why we're not
40:29
doing those things anymore,
40:31
but that was such a great
40:34
way for the season to unfold.
40:37
And it also lent itself to
40:39
better streaming continuity
40:42
with other networks.
40:44
Like in ESPN,
40:45
they could actually follow the season.
40:47
They used to broadcast some
40:49
of the regionals or super
40:50
regionals before we got to the games.
40:55
That's when things were really good.
40:57
And when we got to two thousand eighteen,
40:58
when it was super regionals,
41:00
they were doing it even more.
41:01
CBS was actually in talks to
41:04
do a regional super
41:07
regional lead up to the games,
41:09
one big broadcast,
41:11
and it would have been
41:13
freaking phenomenal.
41:14
But then we got rid of our
41:16
media department.
41:17
We got rid of everything
41:19
else and ended up where we are today.
41:24
So.
41:26
Hopefully,
41:27
the sale that is supposedly
41:30
imminent happens soon and
41:33
we get an idea of what
41:35
upcoming seasons may be and
41:37
what kind of support the
41:39
new ownership will put
41:40
behind the competitive
41:41
season and what their
41:43
support for the affiliates
41:45
looks like as well.
41:48
barry mccauchner says did
41:50
you watch the high rocks
41:51
broadcast last night really
41:53
good I've heard good things
41:55
I've been dm'd by a handful
41:57
of people uh this morning
41:59
to go watch it so I'm gonna
42:00
go check out the see if I
42:02
can see it on youtube uh in
42:04
the rebroadcast I've heard
42:06
they did a really good job
42:08
highlighting the athletes um
42:13
But we'll see.
42:16
I've heard great things.
42:17
We'll see how it goes.
42:19
And I will let you know
42:20
Monday or Tuesday next week,
42:22
depending on how much time
42:25
the last chance qualifier
42:26
is going to take on Monday.
42:36
Barry says it's on YouTube.
42:38
They show the splits on the
42:39
screen for row and ski.
42:42
Nice.
42:44
You know,
42:44
a lot of people were dogging
42:45
Rebel Renegade games for their broadcast,
42:49
and most of it centers
42:50
around the controversy in
42:52
the last event with Evie
42:54
Hollis' handstand push-ups,
42:58
and that they didn't focus on that.
43:00
But I watched a lot of the
43:02
Rebel Renegade games,
43:03
and I thought it was one of
43:04
the better broadcasts.
43:06
When they did the row,
43:07
they had the pictures of
43:08
the boats in every lane.
43:11
You saw where everybody stood.
43:13
You saw the row paces.
43:15
That made that much more
43:18
enjoyable to me than some
43:20
of these other broadcasts.
43:22
I heard on Around the
43:23
Whiteboard them dog the
43:26
Rebel Renegade games and
43:27
say it was on the same
43:28
level as the French throwdown.
43:31
There was not even a
43:33
comparison between the two.
43:36
Rebel Renegade Games was so
43:40
much better than French Throwdown.
43:44
So much better.
43:46
And it was a nice, intimate floor.
43:49
It was easy to see the field.
43:51
You knew who was who.
43:54
It just didn't have as many
43:55
big names as some of the other ones.
43:58
But I thought it was great.
44:00
The actual quality of the
44:02
broadcast was great.
44:11
Craig says the High Rocks
44:13
Elite races were great.
44:15
Yeah, I'll go back and check it out.
44:21
Alito says,
44:21
I thought the Rebel Renegade
44:22
games had an amazing broadcast.
44:24
I agree.
44:26
Craig said the same thing.
44:30
So.
44:32
Glad someone's in agreement with me,
44:34
but yeah.
44:40
Caleb said,
44:40
is that a full sugar Dr. Pepper?
44:42
It is not.
44:51
It is zero sugar Dr. Pepper.
45:02
Peter,
45:02
English stream of French Throwdown
45:03
was incredibly shit, truly.
45:06
I don't disagree.
45:07
I think you did the best you
45:08
could with that, Peter.
45:10
But what they gave you was not awesome.
45:17
Having to watch on a TV set
45:21
and try to commentate.
45:23
Dubai tried that for years and it never,
45:25
ever worked out.
45:31
I caleb I don't even drink
45:32
soda that often but I'm
45:34
having some uh allergy
45:36
stuff with my throat and I
45:38
just needed the bubbles to
45:39
kind of break it up so yeah
45:43
zero zero sugar dr pepper I
45:51
can't do the c-four stuff
45:53
anymore because it uh it
45:56
messes with that heart
45:57
thing I have with the afib so
46:03
See ya.
46:04
Well, with that, guys,
46:10
next year I'm going to
46:11
commentate it with my eyes
46:12
closed so it's easier.
46:14
I can see that.
46:15
Just make it up as you go.
46:21
um yeah caleb said make tea
46:25
I if I would have had time
46:26
I just got out of a work
46:27
meeting um came down to do
46:30
this uh so I just could
46:31
grab what I I could um yeah
46:36
I'm pro I'll probably even
46:37
throw out the last half of
46:38
this and do do something
46:40
like tea this afternoon
46:43
because I think all my my
46:44
meetings got canceled for
46:45
this afternoon so I have
46:47
some time to go up and just kind of chill
46:53
All right, guys.
46:55
It's time for you
46:56
knuckleheads to get back to work.
46:58
I'm going to do the same.
47:01
Um,
47:01
I will talk to you guys all Sunday
47:05
night for Sunday night CrossFit talk.
47:07
I will break down the last
47:08
chance to qualify what we
47:09
know up until that point.
47:12
Um,
47:14
we will see what if Carolyn is going to
47:18
do it and how she's doing through it.
47:21
Um,
47:23
We also have Jamie's MRI
47:24
results on her hip.
47:26
We'll probably talk about
47:27
that a little bit.
47:28
And then we'll talk about
47:29
this impending sale or
47:32
whatever else is going on
47:34
and whatever else may come
47:35
up this weekend.
47:38
With that, guys.
47:41
I'm going to go up and make
47:42
sure my house is still
47:43
intact and not still smoke-ridden.
47:46
Thank you for being patient
47:47
through the fire alarm.
47:49
We'll see everybody next
47:50
time on Lunch with Clydesdale.
47:53
Bye, guys.