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Thursday Morning at the CrossFit Games - Catch Up from Everything So Far · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody we are live
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in san jose in a best western plus
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hanging out i wanted to get on and
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do a quick impromptu uh show uh just
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to kind of talk about what i've seen
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so far um which i'll be honest i
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was on a plane a lot yesterday where
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the wi-fi
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did not really keep me up to date
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with a lot of the stuff going on
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so then i got here and tried to
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take in as much content as i possibly
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could for the day um and so i
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got through some stuff but not all the
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stuff so i don't know anyway i want
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to start with
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don't know i'll start with the individual
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event i watched i did not see any
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of it in person my photographer ishmael
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was out at morgan hill he got some
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great photos which you can see on our
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instagram page he was out there all day
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he's still editing today trying to get
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through as much as he can some great
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bike pictures are up there he got some
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good pictures of the first event
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They're up on our socials as well.
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I want to give a huge shout out
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to Holly Dugan, our stats and info person.
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She's got all the schedules out.
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She's got all the standings out from the
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masters and the individuals.
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So huge shout out to her.
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last night or yesterday i got in because
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i left my house at like four thirty
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in the morning and i got and that
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was eastern time and i got here uh
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probably one o'clock one o'clockish
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something like that um i went got to
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the hotel dropped some stuff off finally
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got some food for the first time during
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the day went over to um
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went over to the master's venue,
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hung out there all day.
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It looks really cool in there.
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We've been dogging on them about making it
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feel special.
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And the vendor village was really nice.
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You had to walk through vendor village to
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get into the venue.
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You even had to kind of walk through
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a little bit of athlete village to get
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into the venue.
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But that's where everything kind of died
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for me because if you've watched any of
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the Masters games on the stream,
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they're running the men and the women at
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the very same time.
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And as I was trying to fly in
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and watch a little bit of Jamie and
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Carolyn and other friends I have,
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it was really,
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really difficult because they would bounce
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back and forth between the two.
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The reality is,
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even if you're in the venue,
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you cannot focus on both.
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It is truly impossible to focus on both
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floors.
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The races are amazing.
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The fitness of these men and women are
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unreal.
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There's been some really awesome finishes.
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But you could only watch one side or
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the other.
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My mind can't watch two sides at the
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same time.
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And in the thirty five to thirty nine,
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you have Carolyn Prevost and Mackenzie
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Riley, both multiple time games,
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athletes going toe to toe,
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throwing jab after jab.
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And and I think a lot of that's
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getting lost because on the other side of
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the venue,
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you have Noah Olson and Scott Pancheck and
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Travis Mayer.
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And so it's impossible to watch both of
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those heats at the same time,
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which is really, really disappointing.
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Here you are trying to highlight your
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event and just a simple schedule change of
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not making the final heats go at the
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same time could have solved a lot of
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this.
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You still broadcast both.
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You still run both for the other heats
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so that family members and friends can see
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and do all that kind of stuff.
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And if someone comes out of nowhere to
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jump from those early heats up, they can.
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But just don't put the main heats up
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against each other.
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It'd be like taking a network,
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taking their best two TV shows and putting
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them on at the exact same time.
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You're just splitting the crowd.
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And so it's really almost impossible to
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watch one or the other.
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And it's just been really difficult.
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I haven't got to see any really of
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Noah and Travis and Scott because I've
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been focused on Carolyn.
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And so it's disappointing for me because I
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wanted to see that race in the thirty
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five to thirty nine men.
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You have these athletes from yesteryear
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that we all know and we all cheered
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for going toe to toe and I can't
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even watch it.
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So there's that.
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The races are great.
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Carolyn is killing it.
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She has, I think.
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A twenty-ish point lead going into the
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final day with two events to go over
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McKenzie Riley.
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But the last event last night,
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they both dove over the finish line at
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the exact same time.
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I still,
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I haven't even checked the leaderboard.
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I don't even know who won that event.
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It was wild.
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It was wild.
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But the venue's really nice.
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The setup's really nice.
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There's bleachers.
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What I will say is the vibe in
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the building is pretty awesome.
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While the stands are not completely full,
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it shuffles in and out depending on the
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age group.
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And most of the fans there are family
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members and gym goers,
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way more community event.
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And so when your person's out there,
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there are these little pockets of insane
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fandom
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Uh, that happened throughout the day.
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Um, and it,
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and it comes and goes like your guys
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done,
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then you move off the spectator area and
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another group come in and they root for
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their person.
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It is, um, it, it,
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that part of it is really, really cool.
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Um,
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I got to sit with Larry young and
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Shelly young yesterday for some time,
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talk to them.
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I ran into Shanna Bunce.
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She regretfully had to withdraw.
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I will get into that in a second.
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Of course, I ran into Carolyn and Jamie.
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I ran into Claire Bays,
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ran into Brandon Luckett,
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a lot of people at the Masters event.
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And
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got got to see lito um got to
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talk to her for a little bit um
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lito's doing it crushing it she's top ten
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um so yeah really the the bad thing
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is the two things that i just hate
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is that both are going at the same
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time and that
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the events are things you would see at
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a local local throwdown a local yokel
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throughout the throwdown um the races are
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still good because these are the best in
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the world at what they do and um
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and so it's still been a fun watch
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i just wish they got to play with
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some like cooler tools
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um i have not seen ken walters yet
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i did not get out to morgan hill
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i only had one media credential for morgan
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hill i gave that to ishmael uh he
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captures if you want to see her pictures
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um go go check those out he did
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an awesome job really total yeah train
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local yokel um
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Vicky, thank you.
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Marissa first, Mackenzie second,
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Carolyn third on the thruster workout.
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You could not tell in the venue who
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won.
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It was pure insanity how close those three
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women were.
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Carolyn got no rep on one of her
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thrusters on the final round,
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or it could have been different.
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But what a wild finish.
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So crazy.
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It had to be less than a second.
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Masters did start outside train.
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But then they've been inside the rest of
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the event.
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So, friends of the show,
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Lito's doing great.
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Shanna had to withdraw.
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Trying to think what else.
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Rudy Berger's crushing it on his.
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Jamie got hurt, just so you guys,
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I don't know how much she's put out.
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I think she put out a story yesterday.
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On the opening run with the med ball,
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they had men and women go at the
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same time.
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And she was coming in on the final
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lap.
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And two of the men were kind of
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like pinching her off because there wasn't
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a lot of room and she got pushed
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to the outside because she couldn't see
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with the med ball on her shoulder.
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She ran into a lamp post and it
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cut her open pretty good.
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Yeah, Jamie posted a picture.
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Thank you, Pastor Craig.
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And she finished.
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I wasn't here.
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Her co-owner of her gym said she came
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in covered in blood.
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The cut's pretty bad.
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Thankfully, Shanna's here.
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Shanna's an MD.
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Shanna's super glued it up.
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And she's still trying to get through
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everything.
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but she's definitely limited in what she
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can do.
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Um,
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that first event was pretty dangerous for
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the women.
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They, I think like women got hurt.
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That's the, what I'm hearing, uh,
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from people behind the scenes, um,
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that running with the med ball did not
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go well.
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It took out Shanna.
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It took, she almost took Jamie out,
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but she's still there.
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Um,
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It's we called that out last week that
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that was not a good idea to run
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with a med ball at the CrossFit Games.
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And it played out just as we feared.
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So.
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I don't know.
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Train has run into a telephone pole when
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I was a kid before and jacked my
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neck up for years.
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Yeah.
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Well, she was running with her elbow out,
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right?
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So the elbow's out because she's holding
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the ball.
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She can't see.
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And then ran, bam.
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And so the cut's like down her arm.
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Yeah.
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But she's, I mean, she's Jamie.
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She's still going to go out there and
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do her best.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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As for the individual athletes,
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the open division,
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I've caught up on most everything that I
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can through the stream.
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Man, carnage day one.
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Carnage day one.
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Yeah, I saw a train.
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I saw all the bike accidents.
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Saw people get carried off from the swim.
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Saw Lexus Raptors fall down a hill.
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Wow, what carnage, man.
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What I'll say about the stream is,
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from Masters and Elites, like,
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can you show the heat number and the
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right age group if you're in Masters to
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know where we are in day?
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Running clock was in and out on the
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Masters stream.
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I think it was running pretty well on
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the Elite individuals.
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But man, they missed finishes on the run.
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They're back to those like single shots of
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athletes where you can't see what's going
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on in the race.
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All you can see is one person running
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down a hill.
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Two people were racing to the finish and
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the camera went up the hill to catch
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someone just coming down.
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I was so pissed off when that happened.
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Like, I want to see who finishes first.
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I like that we don't have information on
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the screen.
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It's like being at a box and not
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knowing who is who.
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That's right, Jake.
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You got it.
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It's early form of getting you ready for
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your dementia later in life.
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It is a comedy of errors.
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My friend Abby,
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she's apparently from Italy and never left
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America.
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So that's interesting.
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I hope it gets better when they go
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inside the arena.
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But I guess a lot of it's outside,
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Helson.
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They're doing a lot out there in that
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park.
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on Barack Obama so it's going to be
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a little bit of that I did not
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follow with the live stream chat I know
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I heard about the girlfriend of the drone
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operator basically telling everybody what
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went wrong and why it went wrong and
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her trying to defend her boyfriend and
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and so i did see that what a
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wild concept man uh jabs has been fired
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says yawn um yeah nothing like someone out
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there telling you all the secrets of why
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everything is a show live on a chat
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uh
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I had a mini episode of Cops on
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Barbell Spins livestream.
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I heard about that.
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I was talking to Larry and Shelly Young,
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John's parents, yesterday.
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Shelly came down to get her DoorDash while
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that was all going on.
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So, crazy.
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Tessa, all negative.
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I've had some positive experiences at the
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Masters.
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Now,
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I've been secluded over there with the
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Masters because I don't have,
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I only have one credential to get around
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to the outdoor events.
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And I gave that to my photographer to
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make sure we could get some good shots.
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So.
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But the races have been fun to watch
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at the Masters.
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Carolyn is doing so good,
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and her and Mackenzie are just throwing
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jabs at each other.
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And Marissa's in there trying like hell as
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well.
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It's crazy.
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So that's been really fun to watch.
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The Masters athletes, like,
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I posted on my story yesterday,
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the
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depth was better than the elite athletes.
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Seventy plus.
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Seventy plus.
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Those are the things we need to be
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highlighting.
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My God, like, at seventy plus,
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they're still out there doing their thing.
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It was so fun to watch.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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We'll see what happens today.
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After six plus hours on a plane yesterday
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and sitting on metal bleachers at the
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Masters games,
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my back locked up overnight.
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So I'm trying to get it loosened up
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enough to get over there to at least
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see the finish of the day.
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They're going to start here in about
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twelve, eleven minutes, maybe.
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Twelve minutes with the DT,
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and it's only the two younger age groups.
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The thirty five to thirty nine and forty
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to forty four will be doing a form
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of DT in ten minutes.
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So if you want, go check that out.
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If you have your flow subscription,
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you can do that.
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Should be an interesting and fun watch,
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but you'll have to pick one side or
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the other.
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Train Olive, honestly,
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I've never been more invested in Masters
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as this year.
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A large part is thanks to Clydesdale.
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Well, thank you.
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I hope you brought muscle relaxers.
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I so wish, Jody.
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I so wish.
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I've been laying with a Theragun on my
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back for about an hour,
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just trying to figure that out.
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Opening ceremony should be cool.
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That's tomorrow morning.
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I should be in the arena for that.
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So I have more to say on those
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things.
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Tonight is the block party and hopefully
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my brush with Tyson Bajent and getting an
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autograph from him or I got my Bears
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hat with me for him to sign.
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Hoping for that later tonight.
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Jamie wants to go over to that,
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so I think we'll do that sometime this
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evening.
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I'm going to try to get on tonight,
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but if it's like last night where I
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didn't even get back to the hotel till
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nine Pacific,
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I'll probably just do an early morning one
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again tomorrow before all the action gets
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started.
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Because this seems a lot easier.
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I've been up for a while now because
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I'm still on East Coast time.
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So, yeah,
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today was breakfast with the Clydesdale.
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I've run into a lot of people that
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listen to the show.
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I will say that I'm going to leave
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you guys with this story.
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I'm sitting at the Masters Games and a
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guy comes up to me and shakes my
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hand and just said,
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I want to tell you,
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I listen to your podcast every day on
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the way home from work.
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And I listen to it on Spotify.
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and I listen to you and Corey every
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single day.
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It's what gets me home in the afternoon.
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But I then watched you on YouTube and
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I was shocked when I found out that
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Corey wasn't Black.
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That guy couldn't have made my day any
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more than he did with that comment.
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I have laughed about that all night and
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through today.
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He's not black.
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Oh, you guys are the best.
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You guys are the best.
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Yeah, he's decent.
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He is.
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The guy then was,
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I think he was like, well,
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should I have said that?
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And then he, you know,
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with the Cajun accent and the Southern
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draw and all that, I just,
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by just listening, I thought,
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I just thought that he was black.
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So anyway, is this true?
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Oh, anyway.
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Sorry about the low...
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Vindicate says I'm streaming from a
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potato.
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I'm in hotel wifi hell.
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At the Best Western Plus in Alameda.
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Avera,
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do you have behind the scenes access for
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individuals over the weekend?
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It's tricky, Avera.
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We have one lanyard,
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and we have to rotate it between me
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and my photographer.
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So only one of us can possess it
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at a time.
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We do have access, I think,
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to the warm-up area, the corrals.
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We have access to two small pits at
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the finish line.
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And then we both have a band to
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get us in and into seats in the
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arena,
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but we have to pass the lanyard back
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and forth, which I get.
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I like the fact that they're kind of
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reducing the numbers down a little bit.
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So it's not like everybody's just all over
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the athletes while they're getting ready
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to go out on the floor.
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So I'm cool with that.
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Vindicate says Corey's told me he is
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black, but it's from the waist down.
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I'm not sure why he needed to tell
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me that.
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Anyway, with that, guys, it's been real.
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I just want to do a quick catch
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up today.
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Today,
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hopefully I can catch up on everything as
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the elite individuals are not going today.
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So finish up with the Masters.
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We got the block party.
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And then tomorrow,
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hopefully we can hit the ground running.
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I did see,
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I think it was Hexy Lover maybe,
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asked if I was going to do Clydesdale
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interviews.
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I'm going to try to.
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It was so loud in the venue yesterday.
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I'd have to do it outside the venue
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or not outside the venue,
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but outside the area where they're
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cranking music.
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The best thing about Masters CrossFit
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Games is you get to see people recording
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where people,
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their friends working out with their
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iPads,
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which I never see at a regular CrossFit
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event.
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And that it's the only place I've ever
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heard a James Brown Led Zeppelin mashup.
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So that should be fun.
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At least the music is cool.
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His knees were quite ashy,
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if I remember correctly.
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I'll podcast with Carolyn and Jamie
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tonight for Masters Recap.
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I will try.
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jamie with her injury is um i just
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don't know where she's at with all this
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um carolyn's in good spirits because she's
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in the first place um but we'll see
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how it goes today and then i can
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i don't want to like take their their
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mind off of what they're doing i want
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them to go do their thing and then
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um and then we'll talk about it when
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it's all done so um
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My eyes are getting bad.
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I might have to start using my iPad
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for content.
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I'm with you.
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I'm going without glasses today and I'm
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still able to read.
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The crazy thing about California where one
26:08
last little thing is my allergies are
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gone.
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It's been awesome.
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I can breathe so easily here.
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It is amazing.
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Amazing.
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I may have to move to California,
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but the taxes are way too high.
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What did Jamie injure?
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Because you were late to the party, dude.
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We talked about it.
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She got hurt on the first event running
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with the wall ball.
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Two men were with her at the same
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time because they ran the men and the
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women at the same time.
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She got pinched a little bit and she
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couldn't see to her right.
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And so because she was holding the wall
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ball like this.
26:53
And so she got pinched to the side
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and she ran into a lamppost.
26:58
And it cut open her arm really bad.
27:04
And thankfully for Shanna Bunce,
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who is in our chat all the time
27:08
and was competing in the sixty to sixty
27:11
five and is an M.D.,
27:14
she super glued her shut.
27:16
so she's trying to compete jamie's trying
27:20
to finish the weekend but she is
27:22
definitely at limited capacity uh with
27:26
that gash on her arm for sure but
27:30
she's about to go in the next i
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think her heat is at eight twelve local
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time so eleven twelve eastern uh first
27:42
heat is at eight she's in the second
27:45
heat
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And she's really working her way up the
27:51
leaderboard.
27:51
She'd fallen all the way to sixteenth.
27:54
Last I checked, she was about eleventh.
27:56
But I didn't see anything after the last
27:58
event.
27:58
I was so tired last night.
28:00
My head hit the pillow and I was
28:02
out like a...
28:08
Did it leave a mark on them beautiful
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arms?
28:10
There's a mark there now.
28:11
I don't know if it's staying forever,
28:13
but it's a pretty good gash.
28:23
Vindicate,
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I didn't even realize Jamie was competing
28:25
this weekend.
28:25
She just competed in podium last weekend
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in Michigan.
28:29
Beast.
28:30
She won Fresh Coast with her team last
28:34
week, Vindicate.
28:35
And, yeah,
28:35
she was bored getting ready for the games.
28:39
And she was also upset that they only
28:40
got six or seven events here at the
28:43
games.
28:44
So she wanted to up her volume to
28:46
make sure she got enough in.
28:49
I'm not saying I believe in everything
28:51
that she says, but that is her belief.
28:54
And that's, that's who Jamie is.
28:59
All right, guys, I'm going to hop on.
29:01
I'm going to hop off this.
29:02
I'm going to hop over to flow to
29:04
watch the, the,
29:09
The event that only two age groups get
29:10
to do, that's the DT event.
29:12
It starts in one minute.
29:14
So with that,
29:15
hope everybody has a great day.
29:17
We'll check in either tonight or tomorrow
29:19
morning with more information live from
29:22
San Jose.
29:25
Hope everybody has a great day and we'll
29:27
see you then.
29:30
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
29:32
room to jazz me up.
29:34
I'm already jazzy.
29:46
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
29:47
saddle.
29:48
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
29:49
saddle.
29:50
Talking reps,
29:51
real life strength in the battle.
29:54
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
29:56
we cover it all.
29:59
Midday motivation every time you press
30:01
call.
30:03
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
30:05
heat.