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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Is Tia Unstoppable? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  What is going on, everybody?
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  I promise the theme song
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  will be back next week.
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  We need the hickory dickory
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  dock to get us going.
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  But I'm just consumed with
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  other things right now.
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  But it'll be back next week.
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  But welcome to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  As Kenneth DeLapp says,
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  the original Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  And we're going to get into
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  a lot of stuff tonight.
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  Can't wait to talk to you about that.
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  But
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  Haven't seen you guys in a week.
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  Has your week gone okay?
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  Yeah.
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  Getting back in the swing of things.
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  How about you, Carolyn?
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  Yeah, just back teaching,
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  getting ready for the
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  provincial math test for my grade nines.
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  That's this Thursday and Friday,
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  so a little stressed with
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  that because we have high
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  standards at our school,
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  so got to keep meeting those.
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  That's good.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I've been sending these things out.
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  I saw that.
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  Another batch is ready to go tomorrow.
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  So we're up about 50.
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  Envelopes have gone out this
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  week from all over the
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  world or to all over the world,
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  which has been really exciting.
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  So super stoked about that.
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  But if you want these, hop into my DMs,
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  send me your address,
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  and they're yours for free.
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  F-R-E-E-E-E.
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  So I've had some requests for flags.
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  So you might have to
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  consider getting some of those printed.
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  Ooh.
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  Flags.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll look into that.
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  I will talk off air and do that.
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  I still,
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  we're still supposed to have a
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  shirt soon.
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  Uh, so I'm trying to figure that out too.
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  Um, but with that,
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  the other thing I've got
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  going on before we meet again next week,
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  I'm going to go to the U S
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  Olympic trials in swimming, uh,
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  this coming weekend.
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  Is that the one that's on
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  the football field that
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  they're transforming that I saw online?
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  It is.
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  Wow.
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  In Indianapolis,
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  they converted the Colts
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  football stadium into three
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  swimming pools.
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  That's insane.
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  It is.
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  Where do they drain it all after?
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  I'm assuming a lot of tubing or hoses,
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  but they did a time-lapse
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  on Twitter that you can go
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  see them build.
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  Yeah, I think I saw that.
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  It's insane.
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  Because they build it,
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  and then they build a deck
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  up at the top of it,
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  so it's all elevated.
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  But there's the competition pool,
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  a cool-down pool,
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  and a warm-up pool all on
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  the football field.
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  That's crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  So my mom is the biggest
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  Olympic nut in the world.
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  And for her birthday and mother's day,
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  that was her gift to take
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  her to the U S Olympic trials.
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  Um, and she's super stoked.
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  So we're going over her next
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  Saturday for the prelims in
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  the morning and the finals
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  in the evening.
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  Um, and then back on Sunday.
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  That's awesome.
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  And what's cool is Julie and
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  I just watched The Boys in
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  the Boat tonight.
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  Have you seen that movie?
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  So it's George Clooney directed it.
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  It's a true story of a crew
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  team from Washington.
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  It's on Prime.
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  If you have Prime, it's on there for free.
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  Check it out.
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  It's well worth the watch.
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  yeah I've seen it I just I
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  haven't watched it yeah
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  it's the night and it takes
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  place into the 1936
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  olympics okay so it's uh
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  it's really good but with
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  that we'll get back to crossfit talk um
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  Wrapping up semifinals.
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  It's been a week.
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  We've had time to breathe.
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  Some of us have had time to grieve.
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  What are our final thoughts
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  about what kind of went on
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  those three weeks of semifinals?
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  For the most part,
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  I think they were exciting.
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  There was...
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  you know, close races and a lot of heat.
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  That was fun.
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  I mean, that's fun and exciting.
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  You want stories like that.
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  I don't,
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  I didn't go back and watch really
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  like much of any coverage,
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  a little bit of Oceana's
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  coverage and a little bit of West,
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  but I like after being at
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  East and seeing some of West online,
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  I feel like,
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  I feel like those stories weren't,
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  And maybe it wasn't as
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  closely contested in the
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  heats as it was at East.
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  But I didn't feel like that
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  played out as well in West.
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  And it could just be the, you know,
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  camera work.
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  We all have frustrations with that.
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  Yeah,
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  I think as much was on the line there,
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  maybe the story just wasn't told as well.
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  or when you're there live,
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  you tell the story, right?
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  You watch what you want to watch,
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  not what they're showing you.
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  So you can kind of see the
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  whole floor and go to whatever.
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  And we say that every year, like it,
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  it's so much better live.
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  Um, yeah, I, um, overall,
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  like that last event was really cool.
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  Like,
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  I thought that was a really good
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  ending to the workout, uh,
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  Only because so much was on
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  the line and decisions had
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  to be made whether you are
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  aggressive at the end or
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  conservative at the end or
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  however you're going to handle that.
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  And some handled it way
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  better than others.
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  And it cost people trips to the games.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah,
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  a lot of drama for sure on the final
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  event.
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  I think overall,
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  the semifinals went down pretty smoothly,
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  like on all of the regions.
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  A lot of vets made it back to the games.
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  And I think there's some
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  excitement around some of
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  the new faces that we're
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  going to be seeing in Texas.
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  So I'm looking forward to
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  seeing how they how they end up doing.
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  yeah we're going to talk
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  about the rookie class
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  later in the show but 20 20
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  rookies this year I mean
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  there was a lot of open
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  spots so somewhat to be
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  expected but it is crazy
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  eight men 12 women rookies
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  this year going to the
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  games uh so that's crazy
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  The other thing,
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  a couple of things I have in my notes,
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  and we'll get into
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  DataWad's analysis a little bit,
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  is Barbell Spin did a blind
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  leaderboard where they
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  talked about the most
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  exciting thing from the weekend.
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  And everybody went to
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  Colton's Touch and Go.
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  Not Joe Piero's.
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  What's that?
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  Not Joe Piero's.
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  Exactly.
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  So when they said that it has to be Colton,
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  Colton wasn't the only one
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  that went touch and go.
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  Hannah, or is it Hannah?
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  Julia Hannaford.
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  Yeah, that's it.
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  She did it as well.
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  He did it.
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  I think it was more so like
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  the moment because it was a
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  tight race versus the
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  actual touch and go.
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  Because I think we did see it, what,
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  three or four times over the three weeks?
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Some people didn't need to do it.
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  I bet you cursed at her
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  could have done it if she
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  really wanted to.
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  That's still the most
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  impressive performance.
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  That was my vote.
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  Yeah.
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  What Olivia did to that
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  snatch ladder was freakish
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  and should go down as like
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  one of the most impressive
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  things ever done.
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  Did you see the training think tank video?
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  They had one of their
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  coaches do like the woman's ladder.
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  and tried to beat Kerstetter's time.
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  I think that he only beat it
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  by like three or four
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  seconds or something like that.
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  Very, very close.
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  And he had to go touch and
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  go on the last bar.
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  And the transitions were
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  even tighter than what
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  Olivia had to do just to
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  show how dominant her performance was.
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  That's crazy.
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  She like,
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  and I think they brought this up
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  on the spin is that she had
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  to practice changing weights.
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  Like she had to do that so
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  fast to be able to get that time.
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  And then I talked to Hattie
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  on Friday night and she said, when,
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  when they got word of what her time was,
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  like, they all were like, well,
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  we're all fighting for a second.
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  Like they were all just like, that's out,
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  that's out of reach.
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  so and that that's just
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  craziness but um I think
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  the lunges were a story I
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  think um what the men's
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  competition getting shaken
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  up with ricky winning his
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  first semi-final jay crouch
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  not finishing top two and
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  bailey martin kind of
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  ruining jay's party I think
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  that was pretty crazy down there um
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  Similarly,
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  Dallin did that to Roman in the East.
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  True.
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  And kind of, you know, we,
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  a lot of people thought probably,
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  you know,
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  Jeff and Roman one and two in
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  whatever order.
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  And I mean,
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  I'm sure some people expected
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  maybe Dallin or Hopper to be in the mix,
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  obviously,
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  but at the end for Dallin to
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  take the spot similar than
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  Oceana with the three boys.
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  Yeah.
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  And then I'm going to,
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  I'm going to admit something here.
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  I was,
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  I was putting up our document that
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  we share for notes and I
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  saw Carolyn typing and
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  deleting and typing and deleting,
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  and then she ended up deleting,
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  but I liked it too much
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  that I put it back in.
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  And that is,
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  and I phrased it a little bit different.
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  And that is our Austin
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  Hatfield and Jack Rosema
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  enough to offset the
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  feeling that this was
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  slanted to the big boys.
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  I would say no for me.
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  Do you know my thought on this?
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  We talked about this the other day.
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  I just feel like the sport
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  gradually over the last few years,
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  if you look at where the women were,
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  where the men were overall
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  in terms of height and weight...
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  The sport is shifting towards taller men,
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  taller females,
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  heavier as we're going more
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  and more machines and power
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  output and the weights are heavier.
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  I think that over the weekend,
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  I don't think on any of the workouts,
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  gymnastics was really a
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  limiting factor for most athletes.
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  Um, and number one,
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  it was the runner at your engine.
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  Number two, I would argue is again,
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  your engine.
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  You could say toes to bars maybe,
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  but I think overall all
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  three kind of played a good factor.
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  That was a well balanced event,
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  but for most people it's
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  just their breathing.
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  Um, number three, same thing.
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  Like the echo bike played a bigger factor.
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  And I think the females
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  being on the echo bike
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  longer because the 10 cows
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  you're able to recover for
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  the legless rope climbs, um,
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  Same with the,
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  like it's enough time with
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  the box jump overs that the
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  legless was less of a factor.
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  I think that for that one, the rowing,
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  we talked about that last
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  week being a big factor there.
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  Unless you had really,
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  really fast handstand walk
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  as a shorter person,
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  you could stay in the mix more,
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  but it was more of a power
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  output rowing capacity.
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  Let me get this right.
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  Was that a rowing workout?
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  Yeah.
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  And you have to snatch with the weight.
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  And again,
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  those lunges playing a big
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  factor with if you can get
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  a head start on the echo bike,
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  it did play a role.
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  Because most people were one
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  or two sets on the ring muscle ups,
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  but you could you could gain some stuff.
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  So I just think the sport in general,
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  like we used to be rare to
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  see guys over 200 pounds, six foot tall.
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  And now you're seeing that quite a bit.
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  And even I think the height
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  of the females and the
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  weight of the females is
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  shifting higher towards the
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  155 to maybe 160 pounds now.
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  Like on an average scale,
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  maybe even heavier than that,
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  155 to 165 maybe on average.
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  And it used to be closer to like 145.
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  And I think the taller you are,
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  the better you will also be
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  on machines in general.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah, if you look at Tia, Laura, Gabby,
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  Alex, they are all taller athletes.
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  I mean,
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  I think Tia still is the older
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  model mold.
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  Yeah,
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  she's more of an exception to the rule.
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  She's just so good overall.
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  She just stands tall in your
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  head because she's just so dominant.
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  Um, yeah, I guess.
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  So, um, that was one question I had.
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  And then this got posted
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  this weekend and I don't
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  know how to feel about it.
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  So that's what I'm posing it
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  to you guys is CrossFit
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  made a post saying is Paige.
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  The men's are the most underrated athlete.
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  I mean,
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  I don't think she gets a whole lot
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  of coverage.
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  Um,
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  think if you're like into
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  the sport like we are like
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  she's never forgotten when
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  we talk about the sport but
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  on the on the whole I do
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  see that but I think it's
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  everybody sixth and below I
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  agree because and crossfit
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  made it that way yeah yeah
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  anyone that's not in those
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  top those top that top tier
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  They don't really talk about,
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  they don't really film during events.
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  And she's just so consistent
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  year after year,
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  no matter the programming,
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  like she's always relevant and,
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  and solid.
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  And she seems to be getting
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  better the last couple of
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  years as she's kind of
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  maybe getting older,
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  maybe being smarter with her body too.
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  And just using that experience for her.
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  Andrew Sten says most people
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  don't know who 90% of the athletes are.
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  Larry Young says,
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  I personally think not
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  having a max or high level
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  gymnastics before
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  semifinals hurt people like
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  Colton and Olivia,
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  because everyone who made
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  it were really fit cardio wise.
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  They have to be strong too, though.
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  I think it was still a good balance.
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  Every event, you had to be strong,
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  but you had to have some
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  level of gymnastics capacity.
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  You had to be able to run,
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  but you still had to be
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  able to lift a certain amount of weight.
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  It was still balanced,
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  but I just think it moves a
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  little bit more towards certain stuff.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  but page is never underrated in our book.
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  And it was funny.
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  I actually, uh,
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  ended up texting Patrick
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  and Brian last night
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  because I was listening to
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  their semifinal recap and they said,
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  nobody interviewed page
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  before semifinals.
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  And I was like, excuse me.
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  And then they,
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  they apologized and said
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  that they would make a correction.
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  I said, I don't need all that.
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  I just was giving you a hard time.
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  But, um,
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  But yeah, we did interview Paige.
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  But she's not someone that
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  posts every single day like
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  some of the other people.
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  She's more to herself,
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  training and under the radar, really.
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  And that's just who she is.
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  She's not flashy.
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  She's not trying to be
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  someone that she's...
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  you know,
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  not like just to get the
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  followers and stuff like that.
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  Like you see a lot of
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  athletes just posting stuff
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  and sometimes you're like, Oh, well,
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  okay.
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  This isn't in the notes,
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  but you brought that up.
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  Have you noticed that Tudor
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  is posting way more than he ever has?
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  And it's all running.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, I've seen more posts lately.
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  I guess I didn't necessarily
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  notice about the running.
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  But that's good.
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  He's got to embrace it.
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  I mean,
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  all of his counterparts are all over.
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  Yeah.
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  Damien says, like,
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  nobody knew about Kenya.
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  That is so true.
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  Okay, Larry,
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  I'm trying to figure this out.
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  If Big Braun was the
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  Colton... If Big Braun...
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  Colton moves up and the new
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  guy that beat him openly
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  says he isn't strong.
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  I'm confused.
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  Who's the new guy that beat him?
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  In the West?
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  Chris Ibarra.
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  Ibarra?
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  That was the only rookie in the West,
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  right?
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  Yeah.
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  If Big Braun was there...
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  Colton moves up.
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  And the new guy that beat him.
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  We'll go to Andrew Sten.
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  And that fault falls on
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  CrossFit for not having a
• 17:55
  media department who highlights athletes.
• 17:57
  Unfortunately,
• 17:58
  not enough people watch this
• 18:00
  channel to see the other
• 18:01
  athletes covered.
• 18:03
  We're getting there.
• 18:04
  We're getting there.
• 18:05
  We're growing.
• 18:05
  Got to like and subscribe.
• 18:07
  You got to keep telling the people, Scott,
• 18:09
  like and subscribe.
• 18:11
  That's why I brought you on here,
• 18:12
  just to tell me.
• 18:14
  Just tell the people, like and subscribe.
• 18:17
  If you haven't already,
• 18:20
  like and subscribe.
• 18:22
  Larry, we know.
• 18:23
  You only get so many
• 18:24
  characters in this new age world,
• 18:28
  and it's hard to condense
• 18:30
  them down into the comment section.
• 18:31
  It's like Twitter.
• 18:32
  Twitter.
• 18:36
  So the last thing I want to
• 18:37
  talk about is DataWad put together,
• 18:40
  because I think really
• 18:42
  probably the major story of
• 18:45
  semifinals was the allocation of spots.
• 18:47
  Yeah.
• 18:48
  Right?
• 18:50
  And a lot of us don't
• 18:51
  believe that that is done
• 18:53
  in an equitable way.
• 18:55
  So she put together a
• 18:56
  combined leaderboard.
• 18:58
  Now let's stay up front.
• 19:00
  We know that it probably wouldn't have...
• 19:04
  broke down this way if they
• 19:05
  were all competing head to
• 19:06
  head because you don't have
• 19:07
  the races right you you may
• 19:10
  have pushed harder here or
• 19:11
  not here depending on who
• 19:13
  you were up against but in
• 19:17
  in the men's side it
• 19:18
  doesn't shake up too much
• 19:20
  and she actually did it
• 19:21
  with the run and without
• 19:23
  the run because the runs
• 19:26
  were different from place to place
• 19:29
  This first one,
• 19:30
  is it only comparing
• 19:33
  athletes that qualified or
• 19:34
  is this with everyone in the field?
• 19:36
  Because I think she did two of them.
• 19:39
  I think this is all of them.
• 19:41
  Yeah, I thought it was all of them.
• 19:44
  Yeah, this one is the most recent one.
• 19:49
  And so...
• 19:51
  Their original rank is over here.
• 19:52
  Here's the combined rank.
• 19:54
  And you see that like Europe, Oceania,
• 19:57
  North America,
• 19:58
  East are getting people in.
• 20:00
  And then Guy is kind of the
• 20:01
  outlier with South America.
• 20:05
  Which is great to see him up there.
• 20:07
  It is.
• 20:08
  What a great bounce back for
• 20:09
  year for him so far.
• 20:10
  And it doesn't change with
• 20:11
  or without the run.
• 20:12
  Yeah, that's great.
• 20:17
  Well, we can get into that later, but, um,
• 20:19
  and so we go,
• 20:20
  we keep going and then South
• 20:22
  America actually has two
• 20:24
  more representatives in the top 20.
• 20:28
  Well, I would, I would use the,
• 20:32
  without the run category.
• 20:34
  Okay.
• 20:34
  Yes.
• 20:37
  Um, so, but still qualifying spot top 40.
• 20:40
  Yeah.
• 20:45
  um and then we go here
• 20:48
  nobody is out at this point
• 20:51
  on these uh still pretty
• 20:53
  much north america europe
• 20:55
  and oceania and then here
• 21:01
  we would have with the run
• 21:05
  oldest would have been in
• 21:06
  yonakoski would have been
• 21:07
  in without the run yona
• 21:09
  would have been in
• 21:11
  Um, oldest out without the run,
• 21:14
  Brandon Luckett just makes it in.
• 21:18
  We know he's a great runner.
• 21:20
  So taking out the run is a huge,
• 21:22
  like he would do well in any field.
• 21:25
  So it's hard to say that he
• 21:26
  would bump out to 52.
• 21:27
  Cause now you're just going
• 21:28
  to find the fence,
• 21:28
  but I get what you're saying.
• 21:29
  I think this is the interesting part.
• 21:32
  These three people from
• 21:33
  North America East.
• 21:35
  Taylor Self, Dre Strom,
• 21:37
  and Tyler Christoffel would
• 21:39
  have been in with the run.
• 21:41
  Taylor and Dre would have
• 21:42
  been in without the run.
• 21:46
  Yep.
• 21:49
  So North America East would have had 15.
• 21:51
  It's hard.
• 21:51
  The only other thing that's hard is, um,
• 21:54
  comparing weeks one when they only had,
• 21:56
  you know,
• 21:57
  certain amount of time to
• 21:57
  prepare versus a week three,
• 21:59
  like North America East, which then keeps,
• 22:02
  can see the results.
• 22:03
  And obviously the scores
• 22:04
  typically get better as you
• 22:06
  go through the week.
• 22:07
  So there's all,
• 22:08
  there's also that factor
• 22:10
  that's hard to compare
• 22:11
  between semifinals.
• 22:13
  Um,
• 22:15
  But it's still a good
• 22:16
  indicator that we could have more spots.
• 22:20
  And just to confirm this,
• 22:22
  all 267 men and 271 women.
• 22:28
  So then we go to the women.
• 22:31
  And what I find fascinating is,
• 22:33
  even though they were the first week,
• 22:35
  Laura and Gabby are second and third.
• 22:39
  But not surprising.
• 22:40
  You look at the top three...
• 22:45
  you're like, yeah,
• 22:45
  that could be the podium at the Games.
• 22:48
  Really,
• 22:48
  you can look down further than that,
• 22:51
  and that order wouldn't be surprising.
• 22:53
  Yeah.
• 22:55
  I think what was surprising
• 22:57
  to me is nobody from the
• 22:58
  West on the first page.
• 23:01
  Because we thought it was top-heavy,
• 23:04
  but we didn't even get this
• 23:05
  in the combined ratings.
• 23:09
  Europe is a dead even split
• 23:11
  with North America East.
• 23:14
  Now, without the run,
• 23:16
  Linda Kiesman falls out,
• 23:19
  and Shelby Neal pops in.
• 23:23
  So that changes up a little bit.
• 23:29
  But it's not until we get to
• 23:33
  17th with the run or around
• 23:35
  that without the run, 13th,
• 23:38
  is Abby Domet.
• 23:39
  Very interesting.
• 23:43
  Very interesting.
• 23:45
  Yeah,
• 23:45
  because the West Run is by far the
• 23:47
  longest,
• 23:48
  and they have the stairs and everything.
• 23:49
  So that one is really hard
• 23:51
  to compare because their
• 23:52
  original scores would be much slower.
• 23:58
  And when we go to the third page,
• 24:01
  we finally see Oceana.
• 24:05
  And a couple more from the West.
• 24:07
  Kazan and Kenyo.
• 24:11
  Okay.
• 24:14
  Some more from Emily
• 24:16
  Lundberg jumps way up and in.
• 24:19
  She was, and she was out.
• 24:22
  She was the first person out for Europe.
• 24:24
  11th.
• 24:25
  Anika Greer.
• 24:26
  Look at the difference it makes combined.
• 24:28
  Yeah.
• 24:30
  That's not surprising though.
• 24:34
  Amanda Barnhart gets in either way.
• 24:39
  I think we have 17 or something from the,
• 24:41
  from the East, which is crazy.
• 24:45
  And it's not until the last
• 24:47
  page do we get some Asia,
• 24:49
  which we didn't get any on the men.
• 24:51
  None from Asia,
• 24:52
  none from Africa on the men's side.
• 24:55
  But Sahir Kaya and Shung
• 24:58
  Young Choi are good athletes.
• 24:59
  They're great athletes.
• 25:00
  Yeah, they're legit.
• 25:03
  They're great.
• 25:05
  But Jordan Sheffs would make it combined.
• 25:07
  Ashley Wozni, Fee Sagafi,
• 25:10
  Elizabeth Weishart.
• 25:16
  it that's insane to me a lot
• 25:19
  of yeast so uh no juan
• 25:28
  young no kenneth no juan
• 25:31
  young um so I think I think
• 25:39
  this does point out that
• 25:40
  there's some fallacy with
• 25:42
  the allocations of spots
• 25:46
  do you think there's an
• 25:47
  immediate solution do we
• 25:53
  want to listen to the
• 25:54
  castro piece you could yeah
• 26:00
  I i yeah I've got comments
• 26:02
  on this did you listen to it yeah
• 26:05
  So I have it started at the
• 26:07
  357 mark of Patrick Clark's
• 26:10
  interview with Dave Castro
• 26:12
  backstage at the Syndicate Crown.
• 26:15
  This was on Be Friendly Fitness.
• 26:17
  I want to give credit to them for this.
• 26:22
  But here it is.
• 26:23
  And we'll go ahead and play that.
• 26:29
  One last question.
• 26:31
  The future of the semifinal.
• 26:34
  Is that stage still,
• 26:35
  obviously you mentioned
• 26:36
  something about tweaking.
• 26:37
  You can put it full screen.
• 26:38
  Every year we're tweaking something,
• 26:39
  improving it.
• 26:40
  Is the semifinal something
• 26:41
  that you would like to keep around?
• 26:43
  And if so, if not,
• 26:45
  what would you like to see
• 26:46
  in place of semifinal?
• 26:52
  I have ideas.
• 26:55
  We have big ideas on how it
• 26:57
  can evolve to a different model.
• 27:00
  Are we ready for that now?
• 27:01
  Potentially not.
• 27:03
  Maybe.
• 27:03
  I think this model here
• 27:08
  There's an evolution of it
• 27:09
  that's necessary if we're
• 27:12
  if we're to stay with the
• 27:13
  semi final and do semi final again.
• 27:17
  I think we're operating a
• 27:18
  model that is at the 60
• 27:21
  yard line and not at the 99
• 27:22
  yard line with this format.
• 27:26
  And again,
• 27:26
  it's some of the stuff I
• 27:27
  mentioned in the beginning,
• 27:27
  like I don't think
• 27:29
  two events in North America
• 27:31
  is the right expression of this.
• 27:33
  But it's where we kind of
• 27:34
  are and how we've evolved
• 27:36
  to this from being on our
• 27:38
  heels often in the last few
• 27:40
  years and trying to climb out of that.
• 27:42
  So there's also radical
• 27:44
  expressions of what next
• 27:45
  year looks like that are
• 27:47
  potential areas we might
• 27:52
  take that look nothing like this.
• 27:55
  The actual decision yet has not been,
• 27:58
  it's not final,
• 27:59
  but there could be an
• 28:01
  expression where it's like
• 28:01
  this with some tweaks or
• 28:03
  where it's a little
• 28:03
  different or a lot different.
• 28:06
  Yeah.
• 28:06
  Cool.
• 28:07
  I like that.
• 28:07
  All right.
• 28:08
  Cool.
• 28:08
  Appreciate it.
• 28:09
  Yeah.
• 28:09
  Thanks.
• 28:09
  Thanks a lot.
• 28:13
  So thank you to Be Friendly
• 28:14
  Fitness for that video.
• 28:16
  And nice job, Patrick,
• 28:18
  getting that interview
• 28:19
  backstage at Syndicate Crown.
• 28:22
  Original thoughts on that.
• 28:23
  I have a lot of thoughts.
• 28:26
  So, uh, but I want to hear yours first.
• 28:30
  So a little bit earlier in
• 28:32
  that video and I find it,
• 28:33
  I'm wondering what,
• 28:34
  at what point of syndicate crown,
• 28:36
  this was, um, done.
• 28:39
  So there's Saturday.
• 28:41
  Okay.
• 28:45
  Yeah.
• 28:48
  Okay.
• 28:49
  So we didn't get to see all the,
• 28:51
  like all the heats, all the drama,
• 28:54
  all the, he comments in there that.
• 28:58
  there's too many people
• 29:00
  qualifying and kind of like
• 29:04
  the games kind of,
• 29:05
  we've had this discussion,
• 29:06
  like the fourth heat
• 29:07
  doesn't matter and people
• 29:08
  don't want to watch it.
• 29:09
  And I,
• 29:10
  and while I'll say that's true at
• 29:12
  almost every single region,
• 29:14
  that was not the case for
• 29:16
  North America East at all.
• 29:19
  Every heat was relevant.
• 29:22
  There was like,
• 29:25
  So I get what he's saying.
• 29:27
  And if you could have if you
• 29:29
  could have only had like 10,
• 29:31
  12 representatives from
• 29:32
  West and if you had five
• 29:34
  regions still in the US and
• 29:35
  you only took like 20 and
• 29:38
  then East was actually split up properly.
• 29:40
  Yeah, it would probably be more exciting.
• 29:48
  Carolyn.
• 29:51
  he just was like smirking the whole time.
• 29:53
  Like the whole thing is
• 29:54
  going to flip around next
• 29:55
  year or the following year.
• 29:56
  Like he knows,
• 29:57
  like he obviously knows what's going on,
• 29:58
  but he can't say it just felt like he's,
• 30:02
  um,
• 30:04
  talking like something big
• 30:05
  is going to happen and
• 30:06
  they're talking about it.
• 30:07
  And obviously he doesn't
• 30:08
  like the format right now.
• 30:10
  He went to the West.
• 30:12
  He probably saw the same thing,
• 30:13
  like almost the whole final
• 30:14
  heat qualifies and doesn't
• 30:16
  quite like that.
• 30:17
  But it's just hard because, I mean,
• 30:19
  a lot of people are living
• 30:21
  in similar regions.
• 30:22
  Like back then you didn't
• 30:23
  have training camps anymore.
• 30:25
  that kind of influenced the
• 30:26
  regions as much as they would now.
• 30:27
  So it would just be very
• 30:29
  hard to do regionals, I guess,
• 30:32
  because there are so many
• 30:33
  people within the same area.
• 30:35
  So if you start going five
• 30:38
  per like different parts of the East,
• 30:41
  like it's just crazy.
• 30:45
  I don't know.
• 30:45
  I also feel like they don't
• 30:47
  want to take responsibility
• 30:48
  for the semifinals.
• 30:50
  So doing like sanctionals again,
• 30:54
  maybe under a like umbrella of CrossFit,
• 30:58
  that's a little bit more
• 30:59
  controlled from before
• 31:01
  might be something that
• 31:01
  they're looking into where
• 31:04
  you just have different
• 31:05
  competitions all around the
• 31:06
  world where two or three qualify at each.
• 31:10
  I could see something like
• 31:11
  that coming back around,
• 31:12
  like a hybrid model of the
• 31:14
  sanctional season with regionals-ish.
• 31:18
  I don't know.
• 31:19
  That's my thought.
• 31:22
  So here I have a couple thoughts.
• 31:24
  One,
• 31:24
  I don't think it's good business to
• 31:29
  admit failure in the middle
• 31:31
  of the stage you're talking about.
• 31:36
  I think it's better to say, you know,
• 31:38
  we can always improve.
• 31:40
  We'll always look at this at
• 31:41
  the end of the season,
• 31:42
  and then we'll go from there.
• 31:43
  Because now everybody's
• 31:45
  talking about what's it
• 31:46
  going to be instead of who
• 31:48
  these athletes are that are
• 31:49
  going to the CrossFit Games.
• 31:52
  We've now removed the
• 31:54
  spotlight from all the
• 31:55
  phenomenal athletes that
• 31:56
  have earned a great
• 31:58
  accomplishment of making
• 32:00
  the games and turned it
• 32:01
  back on the failures of CrossFit.
• 32:04
  Because you, the head of all this,
• 32:07
  are saying we're failing at
• 32:09
  this stage and we need to make a change.
• 32:12
  While it's going on 30 feet
• 32:15
  from where you're saying it.
• 32:18
  Yes,
• 32:19
  but I think a lot of people are saying
• 32:21
  it's failing.
• 32:21
  Like,
• 32:22
  there's a lot of people not very
• 32:26
  happy with the allocation of spots.
• 32:29
  I get all that.
• 32:30
  It's just bad timing.
• 32:32
  Like,
• 32:33
  the spotlight should be on the athletes.
• 32:35
  If people want to talk about that,
• 32:36
  that's great.
• 32:37
  But you, the head of this company,
• 32:39
  should not be the one leading the charge.
• 32:42
  What is he going to do,
• 32:43
  praise the Africa and Asia athletes?
• 32:50
  You don't have to do the
• 32:52
  polar opposite to not do the one.
• 32:56
  Sure.
• 32:57
  Right?
• 32:58
  And there's a time where
• 33:00
  this discussion needs to be had.
• 33:03
  And they can talk internally
• 33:05
  and get this together
• 33:08
  behind closed doors right
• 33:09
  now and announce it after
• 33:11
  the celebration.
• 33:13
  Or even like a month before
• 33:14
  the games that next season
• 33:15
  is going to be different.
• 33:20
  But I want to move on from that and say,
• 33:22
  the problem is that there
• 33:23
  is no easy solution to the
• 33:25
  CrossFit's in a very big
• 33:26
  bind because you can add
• 33:30
  more regionals or
• 33:32
  semifinals to the United States.
• 33:34
  So that's right out.
• 33:36
  The drama is always going to
• 33:37
  be at the cut line at semifinals,
• 33:39
  whether you're allocating five games,
• 33:41
  10 to the games or 20 to the games,
• 33:45
  it's always going to be at the cut line,
• 33:47
  not at who's winning.
• 33:49
  So that's inherent with this
• 33:51
  stage of the game.
• 33:54
  The next thing is you can
• 33:56
  move them all over the country,
• 33:58
  but it's not evenly
• 34:00
  distributed geographically
• 34:01
  in the United States where
• 34:02
  all the talent is.
• 34:04
  There's so many camps in the
• 34:05
  East that the East is just loaded.
• 34:11
  And if you have,
• 34:13
  like they did a couple years ago,
• 34:15
  four of them in North
• 34:16
  America and distribute them evenly,
• 34:18
  you've taken away the
• 34:19
  regional aspect again
• 34:20
  because you're moving
• 34:21
  people away from where they live.
• 34:26
  My biggest fear is they're
• 34:27
  going to go online.
• 34:28
  And if they go online,
• 34:30
  it's going to break my heart.
• 34:33
  It's going to destroy the
• 34:35
  coolest thing in CrossFit.
• 34:37
  And we've been pounding the
• 34:38
  desk that you need to go to
• 34:40
  semifinals because it is
• 34:42
  the coolest time to watch the sport.
• 34:45
  And I had listeners come up
• 34:46
  to me at the Syndicate Crown saying,
• 34:48
  thank you for telling me that.
• 34:50
  This was the most fun I've
• 34:51
  ever had at a CrossFit competition.
• 34:54
  And we have decided we're
• 34:55
  going to do this instead of the games.
• 34:59
  CrossFit should market this
• 35:01
  phase better than they do.
• 35:06
  I don't think they want to go online.
• 35:08
  I don't think they want to
• 35:08
  deal with all of the video
• 35:11
  stuff and the responsibility there.
• 35:14
  I don't think they wouldn't.
• 35:15
  But how are they going to
• 35:16
  economically do anything else?
• 35:21
  Yeah, without putting on other people.
• 35:23
  Yeah, I mean,
• 35:24
  the thing with the sanctionals and stuff,
• 35:26
  it's like it just becomes
• 35:27
  who has the most money,
• 35:28
  who has the most time off
• 35:29
  to go travel to all these places.
• 35:32
  Because I know like for me
• 35:33
  having a full-time job,
• 35:34
  I can't go overseas and
• 35:36
  just take a week of vacation,
• 35:37
  two weeks of vacation to –
• 35:40
  to go do that while someone
• 35:42
  could go and do every single one of them.
• 35:46
  Um, some sort of point system,
• 35:48
  maybe a new ranking system,
• 35:49
  but then again,
• 35:50
  we're just changing the
• 35:51
  ranking systems left and right.
• 35:52
  And we have,
• 35:54
  we haven't kept anything consistent.
• 35:56
  It's just hard to know
• 35:57
  because things just are always changing.
• 36:00
  Um, who knows?
• 36:05
  I hope to God they don't go online.
• 36:07
  It's just a fear I have because that's,
• 36:10
  that seems to be the answer
• 36:11
  for everybody else, but the elites, um,
• 36:15
  and they're crying,
• 36:16
  they don't have money.
• 36:17
  And so it's the cheapest way to do things.
• 36:24
  Yeah.
• 36:25
  I, in a way I think done correctly, it,
• 36:29
  it could be the right move.
• 36:33
  Um,
• 36:35
  but it'll never be done correctly.
• 36:37
  So I hate it.
• 36:38
  But I think,
• 36:38
  I think it could be done well.
• 36:41
  And I think it could,
• 36:42
  I think it could get the
• 36:43
  right people there.
• 36:44
  It wouldn't come down to a,
• 36:46
  it would come down to you
• 36:47
  move as well as you think
• 36:48
  you need to move.
• 36:49
  And we're going to make your
• 36:51
  video public and we're
• 36:51
  going to figure it out.
• 36:52
  Like, did you move well?
• 36:54
  It's not going to be a
• 36:54
  judge's call ruining
• 36:56
  someone's chance on the floor.
• 36:58
  We would eliminate that kind of stuff,
• 37:01
  but it'll never be done correctly.
• 37:02
  So yeah.
• 37:04
  It's a moot point.
• 37:06
  If you look at every avenue
• 37:08
  possible that I can think of,
• 37:10
  there's something wrong
• 37:12
  with that thought process.
• 37:15
  You're spreading out to four again,
• 37:18
  but you still have to
• 37:19
  spread out the talent.
• 37:21
  So then you lose the
• 37:22
  regional aspect that way.
• 37:26
  I'm almost on the bandwagon
• 37:28
  of keep it as it is, allocate better,
• 37:32
  and...
• 37:34
  And really embrace this and
• 37:36
  market it better.
• 37:42
  Would you do the one spot
• 37:43
  per region minimum and then allocate?
• 37:46
  Or would you just put, for right now,
• 37:49
  Africa with another region
• 37:51
  and it's just like travel?
• 37:54
  Combine Africa with...
• 37:56
  I've said all along that the
• 37:57
  way to get global expansion
• 37:59
  is not the Olympic model.
• 38:02
  CrossFit is not big enough
• 38:03
  to go to the Olympic model yet.
• 38:05
  And that's what they're trying to do.
• 38:09
  I think I think this is like
• 38:11
  the last chance qualifier
• 38:12
  is a good model.
• 38:14
  And that's how and those
• 38:16
  people need to get good
• 38:17
  enough to show up there and
• 38:20
  earn a spot that way.
• 38:28
  at the end of the day I
• 38:29
  would rather have what we
• 38:30
  have today than some
• 38:32
  bastardization of what it
• 38:34
  could be that's going to
• 38:35
  fall short anyway I would
• 38:37
  rather stick with the same
• 38:38
  thing market it better
• 38:41
  refine it better so that
• 38:42
  it's not as bad and hone
• 38:46
  that in than to take
• 38:48
  another shot at something
• 38:49
  wild in the dark that is
• 38:51
  going to take two years to
• 38:52
  figure out and then they'll
• 38:54
  scrap that and go to something else
• 38:58
  The thing is a lot of these
• 38:59
  regions like Asia, South America,
• 39:02
  the ones that got more spots this year,
• 39:05
  they're probably getting
• 39:05
  more spots next year
• 39:06
  because they have new
• 39:07
  athletes that are going to
• 39:08
  make it to the games that
• 39:09
  have just gone points at
• 39:11
  the games for their region.
• 39:13
  And then if you add any previous people,
• 39:16
  you're going to get four
• 39:17
  people from Asia next year.
• 39:18
  You're going to get four
• 39:19
  people from South America.
• 39:20
  And slowly,
• 39:21
  as people are accumulating more points...
• 39:24
  It's just going to keep
• 39:24
  taking out from Europe, North America,
• 39:27
  Northwest, and the bigger, I guess.
• 39:32
  And at the end of the day,
• 39:33
  you watch sports because
• 39:35
  someone's going to win and
• 39:36
  someone's going to lose.
• 39:38
  And it sucks to be the
• 39:39
  athlete that loses and loses out.
• 39:42
  But that's why you watch.
• 39:44
  You watch for that drama.
• 39:46
  And if we open it up too wide,
• 39:50
  because I'm just looking at the chat too,
• 39:52
  I think 40 is plenty.
• 39:54
  I don't think that South
• 39:56
  America needed three women.
• 39:57
  I don't think Asia needed three men.
• 40:00
  Those are obvious places
• 40:03
  where the allocation was wrong.
• 40:06
  Yep.
• 40:07
  And it's going to be four next year.
• 40:09
  I'm telling you.
• 40:10
  They're going to get more points.
• 40:13
  It's going to be four next year.
• 40:15
  Everyone is going to go down.
• 40:18
  I don't know.
• 40:20
  I can't see them looking at that and not,
• 40:24
  especially if those people
• 40:26
  are all in the bottom 30.
• 40:29
  But that's the way the system's created.
• 40:32
  This is how South America or
• 40:36
  Asia got three spots this
• 40:37
  year was Choi came back.
• 40:40
  So people got points last
• 40:41
  year for being at the games.
• 40:43
  And then she comes back and
• 40:45
  they got points.
• 40:45
  Now you have someone else, Duan Zhang,
• 40:48
  will get points, new points for Asia.
• 40:51
  And then you start adding more.
• 40:53
  Like it's... Right.
• 40:55
  One of the things they need
• 40:56
  to hone is that model.
• 40:58
  That model is strapped and then new...
• 41:02
  The more that athletes are
• 41:04
  different in regions,
• 41:05
  like the more rookies in a region,
• 41:07
  the more they're gaining
• 41:08
  points for the region.
• 41:09
  The more that the region
• 41:10
  stays with the bets,
• 41:12
  the harder it is for the
• 41:14
  region to keep getting
• 41:15
  points because everyone
• 41:16
  else is not getting extra
• 41:17
  points for the region.
• 41:19
  So North America East
• 41:22
  doesn't have many rookies.
• 41:23
  North America West doesn't
• 41:24
  have many rookies.
• 41:25
  That's bad.
• 41:26
  That's bad for the point system.
• 41:28
  That's how it's made.
• 41:29
  Europe getting rookies in
• 41:31
  this year is actually good for them.
• 41:33
  They got more rookies this year,
• 41:34
  like four or something on one side.
• 41:37
  That's actually going to
• 41:38
  help their point system.
• 41:42
  Because people in the year
• 41:43
  prior had their games points,
• 41:45
  new people are getting games points,
• 41:47
  and now they're getting
• 41:48
  more people within the top 100.
• 41:50
  If we keep getting only the
• 41:52
  vets in for the North America,
• 41:53
  it's actually worse for us.
• 41:56
  We're going to keep losing
• 41:57
  and losing spots.
• 41:58
  I know you're right.
• 42:00
  And I know that everything
• 42:01
  you're saying is absolutely correct.
• 42:03
  I think they need to scrap
• 42:04
  that model for allocation of spots.
• 42:09
  And use more common sense.
• 42:12
  I know that is really hard to do,
• 42:17
  but common sense.
• 42:20
  When we do a combined
• 42:21
  leaderboard and there's no
• 42:23
  man from Asia close to the
• 42:26
  top 40 and they get two or three spots,
• 42:29
  two, that's ridiculous.
• 42:31
  Yes.
• 42:36
  I mean,
• 42:37
  the evidence is looking at the
• 42:39
  scores of these people and
• 42:40
  do they have the capacity
• 42:41
  and the ability to compete?
• 42:44
  Because what you're doing by
• 42:46
  this allocation is watering
• 42:48
  down the final product at the games.
• 42:53
  And then heat one doesn't matter.
• 42:56
  Because heat one is never
• 42:57
  going to be a factor in the
• 42:59
  rest of the scores.
• 43:03
  Because they're never going to,
• 43:04
  like in the East,
• 43:06
  there were top five people
• 43:08
  from heat one in almost
• 43:11
  every workout through the final day.
• 43:15
  Because it's so deep.
• 43:16
  And we lose that.
• 43:18
  It's better at the, that's what sucks.
• 43:20
  It's better at the semifinal
• 43:22
  than it is at the games.
• 43:23
  Because by the time you get to the games,
• 43:25
  the bottom 10 aren't going to compete.
• 43:28
  I shouldn't say bottom 10.
• 43:29
  Bottom seven aren't going to compete.
• 43:38
  So Seema says I need to clip
• 43:41
  what Carolyn just talked about.
• 43:43
  So look for that on a reel
• 43:44
  in the next day or two.
• 43:49
  All right.
• 43:50
  We jumped all around these notes.
• 43:54
  It actually made sense to go
• 43:55
  in that order.
• 43:57
  Um, but I, I am really me personally,
• 44:01
  I'm at the point of let's
• 44:02
  keep it the way it is and
• 44:03
  change the allocation model.
• 44:07
  until we can figure this out
• 44:09
  and get better I i larry I
• 44:18
  don't agree that every
• 44:19
  level was watered down if
• 44:21
  you were in knoxville it
• 44:23
  was insane how how fit some
• 44:26
  of these people were in
• 44:28
  heat one heat two heat
• 44:29
  three I wasn't at the west
• 44:32
  so I didn't you don't get
• 44:34
  the same feel over a stream
• 44:36
  as you do live
• 44:39
  But, I mean,
• 44:39
  Carolyn knows she was battling
• 44:41
  these people.
• 44:42
  That was a super deep field.
• 44:48
  There was almost, I think, 20,
• 44:50
  on the female side,
• 44:51
  almost 20 individual games
• 44:53
  athletes that have
• 44:54
  individual games athletes
• 44:55
  experience in the last few years,
• 44:57
  which is crazy.
• 45:01
  All right.
• 45:03
  So let's uplift and talk
• 45:06
  about the uplift challenge.
• 45:09
  This week,
• 45:10
  our buddy Wadzombie is
• 45:12
  sponsoring the uplift
• 45:15
  challenge along with Hero
• 45:17
  Barbell for prizes.
• 45:20
  So make sure you go to
• 45:21
  Uplift's IG account and do
• 45:25
  everything you need to do
• 45:26
  to do the workout, video it,
• 45:28
  and make sure you submit
• 45:29
  that video by June 21st if
• 45:31
  you want to qualify for
• 45:33
  some of those prizes.
• 45:37
  In addition,
• 45:38
  they made a huge announcement
• 45:39
  this week that their actual
• 45:42
  hero or uplift,
• 45:46
  the beginnings of uplift
• 45:47
  were every Labor Day weekend,
• 45:49
  they would do a workout to
• 45:52
  raise awareness of suicide prevention.
• 45:55
  And they've done that for
• 45:56
  the last couple of years.
• 45:58
  This is, I believe,
• 45:59
  the third year that they're doing it.
• 46:01
  And they made the
• 46:02
  announcement that the
• 46:04
  person programming that
• 46:05
  workout this year will be Adrian Bosman.
• 46:10
  So this Labor Day,
• 46:11
  make sure that you gear yourself up.
• 46:15
  Unless you're competing at
• 46:16
  the Masters Games...
• 46:20
  make sure you gear yourself
• 46:21
  up to jump in that WOD that
• 46:25
  Adrian will put together.
• 46:26
  And they usually do like three, four,
• 46:29
  five versions of it to make
• 46:31
  sure there's a version for
• 46:33
  everybody to be able to do that.
• 46:36
  And it's a great cause.
• 46:37
  Make sure you jump on there and do that.
• 46:41
  But a cool get to get Adrian
• 46:43
  to program that for them.
• 46:48
  Andrew Sten said that should
• 46:49
  be the final workout for
• 46:50
  the Masters Games.
• 46:52
  That'd be really cool if they did that.
• 46:56
  So the next thing is the Service Open.
• 46:58
  Service Open has already started.
• 46:59
  It goes through June 13th.
• 47:03
  It is being hosted by the Rogue website.
• 47:07
  So it's a joint effort
• 47:08
  between CrossFit and Rogue.
• 47:12
  It requires athletes.
• 47:13
  It can be three workouts
• 47:14
  over the course of one week.
• 47:16
  The competition will include
• 47:17
  an RX and scaled community
• 47:19
  division and service
• 47:20
  members in the following
• 47:22
  professions are encouraged to join.
• 47:26
  Affiliate owner, CrossFit trainer,
• 47:29
  medical professional, educator,
• 47:32
  military veteran, active duty military,
• 47:35
  law enforcement, firefighter,
• 47:37
  first responder, EMS responder.
• 47:41
  So,
• 47:44
  I'm a CrossFit trainer.
• 47:46
  Carolyn's an educator.
• 47:49
  You doing it, Carolyn?
• 47:51
  Yeah, I've done.
• 47:52
  I did Randy and Kelly Brown already.
• 47:56
  Randy's one of them?
• 47:58
  Randy's one of them.
• 47:59
  Ben and Snap.
• 48:01
  second favorite workout of
• 48:03
  all time yeah randy's one
• 48:04
  of them kelly brown was a
• 48:05
  good one so the kelly brown
• 48:07
  one was uh five rounds for
• 48:09
  time 440 meter row 10 box
• 48:12
  jumps at 30 inches 24
• 48:14
  inches so higher box jumps
• 48:17
  uh 10 deadlifts also
• 48:18
  heavier I think for the
• 48:19
  females it's 185 I'm not
• 48:20
  sure what the weight is for
• 48:21
  the men and then the at the
• 48:24
  real kelly brown one is actually
• 48:26
  10 wall balls with 30 pounds
• 48:28
  and 20 pounds for the,
• 48:29
  for the ladies to a 10 and
• 48:31
  nine foot target,
• 48:32
  but to facilitate within the affiliates,
• 48:34
  they've adjusted to regular
• 48:36
  20 pounds and 14 pounds,
• 48:38
  but they say that you can
• 48:39
  like choose the heavier one.
• 48:41
  If you want, I chose the 14 pounds.
• 48:46
  Kenneth,
• 48:46
  the lab says bend and snap like
• 48:48
  legally blonde.
• 48:49
  Yes,
• 48:50
  that's exactly what I was referring to,
• 48:52
  but yeah, that was a sneaky work.
• 48:54
  It was, uh, it was hard.
• 48:57
  Houston, Texas, 94.
• 48:59
  Finished my Service Cup
• 49:00
  workouts yesterday.
• 49:01
  Was rough, but incredible.
• 49:04
  I just don't know how I'm
• 49:06
  going to do the Dango one.
• 49:07
  The running one is going to be...
• 49:12
  challenging because you have
• 49:15
  to film your distance and stuff.
• 49:17
  And it's like, I mean,
• 49:18
  if you're trying to win your,
• 49:20
  your division, which I am, um,
• 49:23
  like if I'm just doing it by myself,
• 49:25
  let's say at my school gym,
• 49:27
  like I'm gonna have to take
• 49:28
  the camera after my 400 meter run,
• 49:30
  show the assault runner,
• 49:32
  put my camera back, continue.
• 49:34
  Um,
• 49:35
  I just think of running distance like
• 49:37
  that in an online format is like,
• 49:41
  hard to do like even if you
• 49:44
  go and run outside like a I
• 49:46
  don't know 200 out and back
• 49:49
  like I hope people are
• 49:50
  actually running that
• 49:51
  distance like it's just
• 49:53
  hard to do I'll probably do
• 49:55
  it on the assault runner
• 49:56
  just so I can not have to
• 49:58
  film something outside but
• 50:02
  larry young says that one
• 50:03
  to do he can check all the
• 50:05
  boxes except the fitness one
• 50:09
  And there's community versions too.
• 50:11
  So if you're part of a
• 50:14
  service category there and
• 50:15
  you can't do the RX version,
• 50:17
  they have like a modified
• 50:19
  version for you to still
• 50:21
  participate in the service cup.
• 50:25
  How glad are you that they
• 50:26
  brought this back?
• 50:28
  Yeah.
• 50:30
  I mean, I always just, like,
• 50:32
  did the hashtag in the open.
• 50:33
  In the past, like, they just used the open,
• 50:36
  which I think that would
• 50:37
  actually make more sense
• 50:39
  because everyone signs up for the open.
• 50:41
  So you can actually see if
• 50:42
  you're the fittest teacher.
• 50:43
  But the problem is,
• 50:45
  is people use the hashtag
• 50:47
  for anything this year,
• 50:48
  as we saw some people that
• 50:50
  had jobs that they don't actually do.
• 50:53
  But...
• 50:56
  I think the open still would work,
• 50:58
  but this is another like revenue for,
• 51:01
  for them.
• 51:01
  And I think it's just kind of, it makes it,
• 51:03
  it makes it more special, I guess.
• 51:05
  Um,
• 51:06
  more focused on the service members in
• 51:09
  the community versus in the open.
• 51:12
  I think the open is a better
• 51:13
  representation of the
• 51:14
  fittest firefighter.
• 51:15
  Everything is they actually sign up,
• 51:17
  but this is still like a specialty.
• 51:20
  Do you have to prove your teacher?
• 51:22
  It says that you may be asked to prove.
• 51:24
  So I filmed the first one in
• 51:25
  the school and I filmed the school.
• 51:28
  And I'm pretty sure a bell
• 51:31
  rang while I was middle of Randy.
• 51:34
  So if they had any doubts.
• 51:38
  So the start date is June 6th,
• 51:40
  which is already passed.
• 51:41
  End date is Thursday, June 13th at 5 p.m.
• 51:44
  specific time or 8 p.m.
• 51:47
  Eastern time.
• 51:49
  So make sure you get those workouts in.
• 51:51
  Some of you already have.
• 51:53
  Good luck.
• 51:54
  And we hope to see you all
• 51:55
  next week to know who is
• 51:57
  the fittest where.
• 52:01
  John Woolley.
• 52:02
  John Woolley lost his Instagram account.
• 52:06
  Half a million followers.
• 52:07
  It's crazy.
• 52:09
  So insane.
• 52:11
  What happened?
• 52:12
  Lex told me that and I
• 52:13
  didn't know what happened.
• 52:16
  So I don't even really know.
• 52:19
  um it just got and he said
• 52:24
  it's not coming back I
• 52:25
  talked to him at syndicate
• 52:26
  crown um it's not coming
• 52:29
  back and he started a new a
• 52:32
  page and it's had a couple
• 52:34
  names but he settled on woolly memeth
• 52:39
  is the new page but he does
• 52:41
  want to kind of change the
• 52:43
  structure of it not just be
• 52:44
  a meme page but some other
• 52:46
  stuff that he has a passion
• 52:48
  for or an interest in uh
• 52:50
  but he's already like he's
• 52:52
  got tens of thousands of
• 52:54
  followers already back to
• 52:56
  it um he posted something
• 52:59
  that was copyrighted by mtv
• 53:04
  wow that is crazy
• 53:10
  they don't just make him
• 53:10
  delete that post yeah
• 53:14
  that's crazy yeah he was on
• 53:16
  glint and things I did not
• 53:18
  I did not catch that
• 53:19
  episode yet um but I'll try
• 53:22
  to catch that or I'll I'll
• 53:25
  just reach out to him he's
• 53:27
  been on with me on a couple
• 53:29
  different things when I
• 53:30
  used to do the music show
• 53:31
  and uh he's had a couple
• 53:33
  interviews when we've been
• 53:34
  at events together
• 53:36
  So I'll check out what happened.
• 53:38
  Maybe it wasn't his first time doing it.
• 53:40
  Yeah,
• 53:41
  it says that he already had two
• 53:42
  previous strikes.
• 53:44
  Yeah.
• 53:49
  So there's that.
• 53:52
  But it sounds like he's in a
• 53:53
  really good headspace with
• 53:54
  it because he did want to
• 53:56
  kind of change –
• 53:58
  What he's doing and he
• 54:01
  wanted to talk about
• 54:02
  different things than just memes.
• 54:04
  So it allows him to kind of
• 54:06
  change that up and move in
• 54:07
  a different direction.
• 54:08
  And he seems to be cool with that.
• 54:10
  So.
• 54:13
  So now we're going to talk
• 54:16
  about the CrossFit Games
• 54:17
  coming up a little bit,
• 54:18
  and I teased this on my IG
• 54:20
  Live before we jumped on here,
• 54:22
  but I'm going to show something first.
• 54:26
  I did a poll question on YouTube today,
• 54:30
  and it was, at the 2024 CrossFit Games,
• 54:38
  who do you pick to win the women's title,
• 54:40
  Tia Claire Toomey or The Field?
• 54:45
  And 88% of you all said Tia
• 54:48
  Claire Toomey with 12% saying the field.
• 54:53
  So I'm going to ask you guys first,
• 54:55
  surprised by the results of this?
• 54:59
  No, not at all.
• 55:01
  I'm actually surprised 12% said the field.
• 55:03
  Yeah, I guess.
• 55:04
  When I voted earlier,
• 55:05
  I think it was like 93 and 7.
• 55:07
  And that was like right
• 55:10
  about what I would expect to see.
• 55:13
  Okay.
• 55:15
  Well,
• 55:15
  I am one person that is picking the
• 55:16
  field.
• 55:19
  Of course you are.
• 55:20
  And this is not new.
• 55:23
  I've been saying this for months.
• 55:25
  And when I do my spin poll,
• 55:28
  I put Emma Lawson number one.
• 55:34
  I actually, in the spin poll two times ago,
• 55:36
  I went Emma Lawson, Laura Horvat,
• 55:39
  then Tia Claire Toomey.
• 55:43
  The last spin poll, I went Emma Lawson,
• 55:46
  Tia Claire Toomey, Laura Horvat.
• 55:52
  I feel like what she is
• 55:56
  doing is amazing and she is
• 55:57
  a phenomenal athlete and
• 55:59
  that if everything is perfect,
• 56:02
  she will do amazing things
• 56:05
  and probably win.
• 56:07
  But this is a lot.
• 56:08
  It's been two years since
• 56:09
  she's been on the floor.
• 56:11
  She has to crank up the volume.
• 56:13
  She has to get that body
• 56:16
  ready for another run at this.
• 56:19
  Anything can happen.
• 56:20
  Everybody thought Mike Tyson
• 56:23
  was unbeatable until Buster
• 56:25
  Douglas beat him.
• 56:26
  Everybody thought that
• 56:28
  Georgetown couldn't be beat
• 56:29
  with Patrick Ewing and NC
• 56:31
  State beat them in the NCAA finals.
• 56:34
  Upsets happen all the time in sports.
• 56:37
  And for everybody to talk
• 56:38
  about this like it's an absolute,
• 56:41
  I think is insane.
• 56:43
  Just as much as you guys are
• 56:44
  yelling that I'm insane in the chat,
• 56:46
  that I'm on crack and all
• 56:48
  of those things.
• 56:49
  I think it's insane to think
• 56:51
  in sports period, there are absolutes.
• 56:58
  Other than...
• 57:00
  I can respect the, hey,
• 57:01
  this is a sport and things can happen,
• 57:04
  just like Roman.
• 57:05
  Like, barring a sickness,
• 57:09
  an actual injury in
• 57:11
  something at the games,
• 57:13
  she will run away with it.
• 57:15
  Like,
• 57:16
  if you're just saying she needs to
• 57:17
  get back in shape,
• 57:18
  she needs to get her body
• 57:20
  back ready from the baby,
• 57:22
  you are on crack.
• 57:23
  I don't think she has to get
• 57:25
  her body back after the baby.
• 57:27
  That's what you just said.
• 57:29
  She's still got to retrain her body.
• 57:31
  I'll take Mia's body from
• 57:34
  when she had the pregnancy.
• 57:36
  She had a better body than I did.
• 57:39
  Every athlete is cranking up
• 57:41
  their volume at this point.
• 57:42
  Every athlete is going to
• 57:44
  another level for games training.
• 57:47
  It is another stressor on
• 57:48
  the body is what I'm saying.
• 57:51
  And for years,
• 57:53
  everybody has told me that I
• 57:55
  put too much credence on
• 57:57
  the results of semifinals
• 58:00
  when I look at my games predictions.
• 58:03
  And now, because Tia did what she did,
• 58:05
  everybody's jumping on that
• 58:07
  Tia is going to win the games.
• 58:11
  Absolutely.
• 58:13
  I agree.
• 58:14
  I agree with Jamie.
• 58:15
  Barring any injury,
• 58:17
  fluke injury or something
• 58:18
  prior to the games.
• 58:22
  sickness.
• 58:25
  Someone food poisoning something.
• 58:27
  Yeah.
• 58:30
  It looks pretty strong.
• 58:31
  But yeah, it doesn't take like,
• 58:33
  I still think it's gonna be close.
• 58:36
  Between like Laura is never
• 58:39
  to be counted out.
• 58:41
  Like Laura,
• 58:42
  like Laura has been the second
• 58:44
  best to Tia for the last
• 58:46
  few years while she was in the field.
• 58:47
  And it takes something away
• 58:48
  from Laura's win last year.
• 58:50
  She was awesome.
• 58:52
  But I think it with Tia in
• 58:54
  the field with that many events,
• 58:59
  if she's healthy and everything,
• 59:02
  I would expect her to win.
• 59:04
  Can she lose?
• 59:05
  Yes.
• 59:06
  Anyone can lose.
• 59:07
  Like you said, right?
• 59:08
  It's sports.
• 59:08
  That's why we,
• 59:09
  that's why we play the game.
• 59:10
  She can lose.
• 59:12
  Do I think?
• 59:14
  No.
• 59:16
  Can it happen?
• 59:17
  Yes.
• 59:20
  Okay.
• 59:21
  Let me ask you this.
• 59:22
  Last time she competed at the games,
• 59:26
  she was not the dominant T
• 59:27
  as she was in years past.
• 59:30
  She was not healthy too.
• 59:33
  That's, that's what I was saying.
• 59:34
  Like if she's healthy,
• 59:37
  She still won.
• 59:40
  Not even healthy.
• 59:41
  But the competition is much
• 59:43
  better this year than they
• 59:44
  were in years past.
• 59:48
  You're telling me two years older,
• 59:50
  she's going to be fitter
• 59:51
  than she was two years ago?
• 59:52
  Yes.
• 59:54
  I am.
• 59:56
  Now she can defy age.
• 59:59
  yeah but I do agree with
• 1:00:00
  your point with like lawson
• 1:00:01
  is going to be there in the
• 1:00:02
  mix she's very consistent
• 1:00:04
  there's not many holes that
• 1:00:05
  she has so she is going to
• 1:00:07
  stay relevant the whole
• 1:00:08
  weekend laura we know the
• 1:00:10
  one hole that she can have
• 1:00:11
  but she's she can win multiple events um
• 1:00:18
  Yeah, it'll be interesting.
• 1:00:19
  I think a lot of the events
• 1:00:21
  that Emma would win,
• 1:00:22
  Tia excels at the same similar things.
• 1:00:26
  A lot of stuff that Laura would win,
• 1:00:28
  neither Emma or Tia win those,
• 1:00:33
  if that makes sense.
• 1:00:36
  Yep.
• 1:00:37
  I think Emma's like a mini Tia.
• 1:00:40
  Like a younger version, future version,
• 1:00:44
  possibly, of Tia.
• 1:00:46
  Although, like, can't count out Kazan.
• 1:00:49
  Raptus is looking great.
• 1:00:51
  There's plenty of great women.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah, Gabby.
• 1:00:55
  Danielle, you know,
• 1:00:56
  Brooke's back in the field now.
• 1:01:00
  Haley.
• 1:01:01
  There's a lot of people who could middle.
• 1:01:04
  If she slips up here, slips up there.
• 1:01:06
  Then they weren't there in the past.
• 1:01:11
  Just saying.
• 1:01:13
  Yeah,
• 1:01:13
  and that's what the men's side needed
• 1:01:15
  when Matt was in the field.
• 1:01:17
  Matt would win or he'd take second,
• 1:01:20
  but there was no one taking middle.
• 1:01:23
  It happened with Justin.
• 1:01:26
  Pat couldn't get enough people to middle.
• 1:01:28
  But this is taking nothing away from Tia.
• 1:01:32
  I think she is amazing.
• 1:01:33
  She is the greatest
• 1:01:34
  CrossFitter to ever do this sport.
• 1:01:38
  Male, female, period.
• 1:01:40
  Period.
• 1:01:42
  I hate when people talk
• 1:01:45
  about winning in an absolute sense.
• 1:01:52
  That's it.
• 1:01:54
  Well, nothing's absolute,
• 1:01:56
  but... Everybody's talking
• 1:01:59
  like it's an absolute.
• 1:02:00
  It pretty much is, and it's annoying.
• 1:02:04
  We just don't even want to
• 1:02:05
  deal with her anymore.
• 1:02:08
  See,
• 1:02:08
  I like watching a champion just to see
• 1:02:11
  what the bar is, a possibility.
• 1:02:17
  Some people are annoyed that she wins.
• 1:02:21
  She's made the woman's field much better.
• 1:02:24
  She's pushed the woman's
• 1:02:25
  field better than anyone
• 1:02:27
  else has ever been able to do.
• 1:02:31
  Tristan,
• 1:02:31
  there's a difference between smart
• 1:02:33
  money and an absolute.
• 1:02:38
  An absolute.
• 1:02:40
  All week long, all I've heard is,
• 1:02:43
  it's over.
• 1:02:44
  Might as well not even have
• 1:02:45
  the competition.
• 1:02:47
  Well, we're having a competition.
• 1:02:52
  But Carolyn, when you first came on,
• 1:02:53
  before we went live, you said to me,
• 1:02:55
  that's why they play the game.
• 1:02:56
  Yeah, 100%.
• 1:02:57
  Yeah, that's why you play sports.
• 1:02:58
  You don't know what's going to happen.
• 1:03:00
  People get hurt.
• 1:03:01
  People start having bad events.
• 1:03:03
  And then mentally, they are out of it.
• 1:03:10
  That's all.
• 1:03:11
  Yeah.
• 1:03:11
  That's all I'm saying.
• 1:03:12
  Like,
• 1:03:12
  what she did at Syndicate was amazing.
• 1:03:15
  And she dominated that field.
• 1:03:20
  But there were a lot of
• 1:03:21
  really good people not there.
• 1:03:23
  Like, we talked about the East being deep,
• 1:03:25
  but, like, Laura wasn't there.
• 1:03:28
  And Gabby wasn't there.
• 1:03:29
  And Alex Kazan wasn't there.
• 1:03:30
  And Ariel.
• 1:03:32
  Those are all people that can get.
• 1:03:34
  Dolmett looked great in the West, too.
• 1:03:36
  But Alex is a home run hitter.
• 1:03:39
  She can actually go
• 1:03:41
  toe-to-toe in stuff that
• 1:03:43
  Tia's not good at.
• 1:03:44
  Like what?
• 1:03:47
  Just like Laura.
• 1:03:48
  Just like... I mean,
• 1:03:51
  Tia was in the field at
• 1:03:53
  Rogue and Alex won two events.
• 1:03:59
  That's all I'm saying.
• 1:04:00
  That's all I'm saying.
• 1:04:08
  Okay.
• 1:04:09
  I don't think Tia's far
• 1:04:10
  behind on any of the events
• 1:04:12
  from like Gazan winning or someone else.
• 1:04:16
  The only thing that I think
• 1:04:17
  Tia gets a little bit
• 1:04:19
  behind is that there's like
• 1:04:20
  a major power output event
• 1:04:22
  on a machine or something
• 1:04:23
  where there's no way she's
• 1:04:24
  matching someone like Laura
• 1:04:26
  Horvath that's just gonna
• 1:04:30
  dominate certain stuff.
• 1:04:33
  But
• 1:04:35
  She's so well-rounded.
• 1:04:36
  Her Olympic lifting is great.
• 1:04:37
  Even like her raw strength is great.
• 1:04:40
  Like there's, there's no holes.
• 1:04:42
  There's no major holes.
• 1:04:43
  And if she has a bad event, it's,
• 1:04:45
  it's an 11th place.
• 1:04:49
  Mate,
• 1:04:50
  like it's everyone else is going to
• 1:04:53
  get something outside the top 15,
• 1:04:55
  but she just doesn't.
• 1:05:00
  But she did last time she
• 1:05:01
  was on the games floor.
• 1:05:04
  On a single under.
• 1:05:08
  Okay.
• 1:05:09
  I beat her.
• 1:05:10
  It happened.
• 1:05:10
  That's all I'm saying.
• 1:05:12
  It happened.
• 1:05:15
  I beat her on a skipping one.
• 1:05:18
  But I guess everyone's
• 1:05:19
  saying it's an absolute is
• 1:05:20
  what makes the upset so great.
• 1:05:24
  So.
• 1:05:27
  All right.
• 1:05:30
  people make mistakes also in
• 1:05:32
  workouts like they just
• 1:05:34
  make mistakes sometimes for
• 1:05:37
  sure all right uh kenneth
• 1:05:42
  says might not even watch
• 1:05:44
  the games no colton no
• 1:05:45
  taylor stealth no prevos
• 1:05:50
  all right uh next thing is
• 1:05:53
  roman's statement about
• 1:05:55
  taking third with one leg
• 1:05:58
  people better be scared or afraid
• 1:06:02
  Now that he has two.
• 1:06:04
  Thoughts?
• 1:06:05
  I don't think people are afraid.
• 1:06:07
  I don't either.
• 1:06:10
  I don't either.
• 1:06:11
  I think there's a lot of men
• 1:06:12
  that are confident right
• 1:06:13
  now in this field.
• 1:06:15
  A lot of them that feel that
• 1:06:16
  it's wide open to win.
• 1:06:20
  Which is crazy.
• 1:06:21
  Jeff is, you know, the champion.
• 1:06:23
  He is going to do well.
• 1:06:24
  But I think there's a lot of
• 1:06:25
  guys that are confident and can do it.
• 1:06:31
  You know what I think is
• 1:06:32
  hilarious is after the games last year,
• 1:06:35
  Roman said Jeff talked too
• 1:06:36
  much trash and was unsportsmanlike.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah.
• 1:06:40
  Who was the only one not
• 1:06:41
  talking trash at Syndicate Crown?
• 1:06:44
  Roman.
• 1:06:46
  No, Jeff.
• 1:06:47
  Oh, yes.
• 1:06:48
  I felt Roman was constantly
• 1:06:50
  talking trash at Syndicate.
• 1:06:53
  Dallin was talking trash.
• 1:06:54
  Roman was talking trash.
• 1:06:55
  Hopper.
• 1:06:56
  They're all talking trash.
• 1:06:58
  And there's Jeff just
• 1:06:59
  quietly doing his thing.
• 1:07:07
  Now that's an absolute.
• 1:07:08
  Adler's winning the games.
• 1:07:09
  I'm just kidding.
• 1:07:10
  Nothing's an absolute.
• 1:07:11
  I just think the men's field
• 1:07:12
  is so exciting.
• 1:07:14
  There's so many good guys.
• 1:07:17
  This is by far the deepest
• 1:07:19
  field of men that we've ever seen,
• 1:07:23
  I think.
• 1:07:25
  Of legit chances to win.
• 1:07:28
  You've got seven or eight guys that are
• 1:07:31
  One small trip up,
• 1:07:32
  and you could fall eight spots quick.
• 1:07:34
  Yeah.
• 1:07:35
  Oh,
• 1:07:35
  there's going to be some middling there.
• 1:07:37
  There's a lot.
• 1:07:39
  Yeah,
• 1:07:39
  the men's field's crazy good this year.
• 1:07:44
  As much as I want Belner to
• 1:07:47
  do well and always root for him,
• 1:07:49
  I feel like this is going
• 1:07:50
  to be his worst shot
• 1:07:51
  because he always has a mistake,
• 1:07:53
  and you cannot have those
• 1:07:55
  mistakes in this field.
• 1:07:59
  Either you can't have one or
• 1:08:00
  everybody's got to have one.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah, and that's not happening.
• 1:08:05
  Because Medeiros looks better.
• 1:08:08
  And he's back to just don't
• 1:08:09
  make a mistake.
• 1:08:12
  Wads always said Medeiros is going to win,
• 1:08:13
  been saying it all year.
• 1:08:15
  That would be a great comeback story,
• 1:08:17
  though.
• 1:08:19
  Especially with this group at the top.
• 1:08:21
  Yeah.
• 1:08:21
  For him to pull it off again.
• 1:08:23
  I'd be happy for him.
• 1:08:28
  think this is a great
• 1:08:29
  discussion I hope or
• 1:08:31
  crossfit uses rogues live
• 1:08:32
  stream format for the games
• 1:08:35
  it was so good that was
• 1:08:37
  like the best thing to come
• 1:08:38
  out of 2023. being able to
• 1:08:43
  pick the the screen you
• 1:08:45
  wanted to watch it was like
• 1:08:46
  being there live yeah
• 1:08:55
  um damien asked will we have
• 1:08:57
  a better guess after the
• 1:08:58
  first event depends on what
• 1:09:00
  the first event is yeah I
• 1:09:02
  mean because if it's a big
• 1:09:03
  run then that's going to
• 1:09:05
  favor those who run well
• 1:09:08
  jeff yeah so impressive how
• 1:09:11
  much that he's transformed
• 1:09:14
  as an athlete like he's so
• 1:09:15
  strong and the way he's his
• 1:09:18
  aerobic capacity has
• 1:09:19
  developed over the last few
• 1:09:20
  years has been so impressive
• 1:09:25
  It is because he was really
• 1:09:27
  just a strong guy.
• 1:09:28
  And then he's now turned
• 1:09:30
  into like the engine guy with,
• 1:09:33
  with strength.
• 1:09:35
  Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  He doesn't have any major holes too.
• 1:09:41
  That we know.
• 1:09:42
  Everybody's talking about
• 1:09:43
  the rogue live stream.
• 1:09:45
  They won't.
• 1:09:46
  If they charged like rogue did.
• 1:09:48
  What was it?
• 1:09:50
  25 bucks for the weekend.
• 1:09:52
  Well worth it.
• 1:09:52
  In my opinion.
• 1:09:54
  If you're a CrossFit nerd,
• 1:09:56
  that was the best $25 you could spend.
• 1:09:59
  I didn't end up watching it.
• 1:10:00
  I just donated $25.
• 1:10:02
  I just wanted to make sure
• 1:10:03
  that I supported so that
• 1:10:04
  they could keep doing it
• 1:10:05
  for other events.
• 1:10:06
  Because I was there, so I was like,
• 1:10:08
  I don't really need the live feed,
• 1:10:09
  but I just paid the $25 just to... Yeah,
• 1:10:15
  and the Manning cast
• 1:10:17
  version they had with Pat
• 1:10:19
  Sherwood was great.
• 1:10:22
  So you could get two
• 1:10:23
  different perspectives,
• 1:10:24
  switch from one to the other.
• 1:10:26
  Um, it was awesome.
• 1:10:30
  They brought in a lot of people.
• 1:10:33
  Yeah.
• 1:10:33
  Pat, Pat hosted the whole thing.
• 1:10:36
  And then they bring in like Josh rich,
• 1:10:39
  Annie, uh, Katrin, Annie Sakamoto.
• 1:10:44
  Uh, they brought it, it was,
• 1:10:46
  they brought in strong men
• 1:10:48
  during the CrossFit,
• 1:10:50
  which was interesting.
• 1:10:54
  Damien says he's cheap, only $4.99.
• 1:10:57
  Watch it once, and you'll get sucked in.
• 1:11:05
  So the next question someone
• 1:11:08
  put in here was, early predictions,
• 1:11:10
  who will be rookie of the year?
• 1:11:13
  So my first answer to this,
• 1:11:16
  because I didn't put this one in here,
• 1:11:19
  We have no freaking idea who
• 1:11:20
  will be rookie of the year
• 1:11:21
  because there's no criteria.
• 1:11:23
  It's just whoever they pick
• 1:11:24
  at the end of the weekend.
• 1:11:27
  But there are eight rookie
• 1:11:29
  men and 12 rookie women,
• 1:11:31
  and they include Callum Clements,
• 1:11:36
  Victor Hoffer, Ivan Kukartsev,
• 1:11:41
  Harry Lightfoot, Chris Ibarra,
• 1:11:44
  Peter Ellis, Ruan Potgeiter,
• 1:11:48
  Austin Hatfield,
• 1:11:50
  Then on the women, Gemma Rader,
• 1:11:53
  Andrea Pinheiro,
• 1:11:55
  I put question marks
• 1:11:56
  because she went in the Masters.
• 1:11:58
  This is her first time elite.
• 1:12:00
  Lexi Neely, Georgia Pryor, Gracie Walton,
• 1:12:03
  Daisy McDonald, Hattie Cano,
• 1:12:05
  Kyra Milligan, Amy Kringle,
• 1:12:08
  Linda Kiesman.
• 1:12:10
  Are you missing Jack Rosema?
• 1:12:11
  Yeah, that's who I picked, actually.
• 1:12:13
  I am.
• 1:12:14
  Jack Rosema.
• 1:12:15
  Yeah.
• 1:12:16
  Because I was going to say
• 1:12:17
  Austin Hatfield wasn't the
• 1:12:18
  highest finished rookie, I don't think,
• 1:12:20
  in the East.
• 1:12:23
  Let me add that to the mix here.
• 1:12:29
  I picked Jack as my dark
• 1:12:30
  horse to make the games,
• 1:12:32
  and so I just assumed he
• 1:12:33
  wasn't a rookie because I
• 1:12:35
  already had him there.
• 1:12:41
  There we go.
• 1:12:41
  So, thoughts?
• 1:12:42
  Thoughts?
• 1:12:45
  I'm intrigued by Chris Rivera.
• 1:12:50
  If they, if they go gymnastics heavy,
• 1:12:52
  I think that's a huge
• 1:12:53
  advantage for him more than
• 1:12:56
  cause he's great at gymnastics.
• 1:13:00
  I don't know enough about him, but he was,
• 1:13:02
  I was expecting him to have a fall,
• 1:13:05
  like a fallout in the West
• 1:13:06
  and he just never did.
• 1:13:07
  He was always just there.
• 1:13:08
  And I was like, Oh yeah.
• 1:13:10
  Okay.
• 1:13:11
  he's worked hard on his
• 1:13:11
  strength because when I
• 1:13:13
  talked to him two years ago
• 1:13:14
  in our semi-final series
• 1:13:16
  like he was super confident
• 1:13:18
  at the um super confident
• 1:13:22
  in his gymnastics ability
• 1:13:24
  but was not in his strength
• 1:13:26
  so he's come a long way
• 1:13:27
  with that so we have in the
• 1:13:31
  we have a lot of hat fields
• 1:13:33
  I do like the Jack Rosema pick though.
• 1:13:35
  That's who I picked.
• 1:13:36
  Especially with the
• 1:13:36
  confidence that he had when
• 1:13:37
  he did that interview with you.
• 1:13:39
  And he was like, no,
• 1:13:39
  I'm coming to podium at the
• 1:13:40
  East and I'm going to go, you know,
• 1:13:42
  top 15 at the games.
• 1:13:43
  I was like, okay, so you're very, you know,
• 1:13:46
  confident in where you're at this year.
• 1:13:48
  And he was the highest, I think,
• 1:13:50
  finishing rookie in the East.
• 1:13:51
  And I don't know how he is
• 1:13:54
  with like odd objects and
• 1:13:56
  stuff like that.
• 1:13:56
  Cause we didn't test any of
• 1:13:57
  that at semifinals,
• 1:13:59
  but I'll be interesting to see.
• 1:14:02
  Uh, Larry young for 99, uh, Gracie Walton,
• 1:14:06
  rookie of the year.
• 1:14:08
  That's who I picked for women.
• 1:14:10
  Damien Fink, Austin or Gracie decks.
• 1:14:15
  Also who's men's 30 to five
• 1:14:17
  to 39 rookie of the year.
• 1:14:20
  Are you saying someone that
• 1:14:20
  came in 40th just under the
• 1:14:23
  cut line is going to be
• 1:14:24
  rookie of the year decks.
• 1:14:30
  Gracie or Hatfield from Chelsea Miller.
• 1:14:35
  I think this is in reference to Jack.
• 1:14:37
  Rumor is he has a new strength coach.
• 1:14:40
  I wonder if Larry Young has
• 1:14:41
  some inside information.
• 1:14:46
  Claudia Gluck has been looking good.
• 1:14:48
  She could do well.
• 1:14:52
  I know that nobody knows who
• 1:14:53
  this person is,
• 1:14:55
  but Hattie Cano is really well-rounded.
• 1:15:02
  good pick and looking at the
• 1:15:05
  women she's my pick for the
• 1:15:06
  women's side it's a great
• 1:15:08
  thing um on the men's side
• 1:15:14
  I think nobody's saying Victor Hoffer
• 1:15:27
  I know he has some strength deficiencies,
• 1:15:30
  but he's really good at a lot of things.
• 1:15:33
  He moves very well.
• 1:15:35
  And he's going to win some events.
• 1:15:38
  His running isn't that great.
• 1:15:44
  and his raw strength
• 1:15:46
  probably is a little bit on
• 1:15:47
  the lower side compared to
• 1:15:49
  some of the bigger boys in the field.
• 1:15:50
  But his gymnastics,
• 1:15:51
  he can win a couple events if it's very,
• 1:15:55
  very strong, like, gymnastic base.
• 1:15:58
  When you're going to get at
• 1:15:59
  least one of those at the games, right?
• 1:16:03
  He's really good upper body pulling.
• 1:16:05
  Yep.
• 1:16:06
  So there's usually something
• 1:16:08
  like that there.
• 1:16:08
  I think he's going to have a
• 1:16:10
  couple really high finishes
• 1:16:11
  that will give him a few
• 1:16:13
  hundred points that then
• 1:16:16
  it's just can he do well
• 1:16:17
  the rest of the way.
• 1:16:19
  I think you've got to take
• 1:16:22
  your mind out of past games and –
• 1:16:27
  I don't think you're going
• 1:16:28
  to get the games of past.
• 1:16:29
  I don't think you're going
• 1:16:30
  to get a bunch of running events.
• 1:16:31
  I think it's going to be the
• 1:16:32
  machine games and you're
• 1:16:33
  going to see Dalen and
• 1:16:35
  Hopper and Fikowski excel.
• 1:16:37
  I don't think someone like
• 1:16:39
  Hopper has as great of a shot.
• 1:16:47
  It's still way more events
• 1:16:48
  than the stages we've seen.
• 1:16:50
  And I still think you're
• 1:16:51
  going to get a gymnastics heavy event.
• 1:16:55
  There's more monostructural
• 1:16:56
  at the games because you can do that.
• 1:17:01
  Yeah, when you're outside.
• 1:17:07
  Think about the Coliseum.
• 1:17:09
  Maybe for one event.
• 1:17:11
  Just take all the Coliseum
• 1:17:12
  programming and extrapolate that.
• 1:17:14
  Yeah.
• 1:17:17
  They're going to go outside
• 1:17:18
  for more than one event.
• 1:17:19
  A swim.
• 1:17:21
  They're going to swim.
• 1:17:25
  I think – I love the idea of
• 1:17:26
  a Friday Night Lights.
• 1:17:27
  Texas is known for Friday Night Lights.
• 1:17:30
  Go get a high school football field.
• 1:17:32
  Not going to happen.
• 1:17:34
  Going to happen.
• 1:17:35
  They are spending all this
• 1:17:36
  money to move to that stadium.
• 1:17:39
  That's where they're going
• 1:17:40
  to put their energy.
• 1:17:40
  They're not going to find
• 1:17:41
  other venues and put time
• 1:17:43
  and money into making another –
• 1:17:47
  all they want everyone at
• 1:17:48
  that venue for their
• 1:17:50
  vendors they are not going
• 1:17:51
  outside of that well the
• 1:17:53
  vendors aren't in the venue
• 1:17:54
  the vendors are down the
• 1:17:55
  street yeah like they'll do
• 1:17:57
  some sort of running it'll
• 1:17:58
  just be probably in the morning
• 1:18:04
  It'll just be interesting
• 1:18:05
  how big that venue is.
• 1:18:06
  If they can put a turf area,
• 1:18:09
  can they do the flips or some sleds?
• 1:18:15
  Boz loves sleds, whether it's sled pull,
• 1:18:18
  sled push.
• 1:18:20
  I mean, we saw that on the rubber floor.
• 1:18:22
  I guess they can still do that there.
• 1:18:24
  It was in the Coliseum.
• 1:18:26
  Dex used to live in Fort Worth.
• 1:18:29
  Fort Worth has some pretty
• 1:18:30
  interesting options for outdoor venues.
• 1:18:32
  Trinity Trail, TCU Football Stadium.
• 1:18:38
  Listen,
• 1:18:39
  they made those people run in 118
• 1:18:42
  degrees in Vegas that year
• 1:18:44
  for the West Coast Classic.
• 1:18:46
  Yeah, some people dropped over,
• 1:18:48
  but the show went on.
• 1:18:51
  I'm not saying they won't go
• 1:18:52
  outside and run one event.
• 1:18:54
  I actually do think they'll
• 1:18:55
  take them outside.
• 1:18:56
  If that Trinity Trail is
• 1:18:58
  close to that venue and
• 1:18:59
  able to step outside,
• 1:19:01
  I can see it happening.
• 1:19:02
  But I don't see them paying
• 1:19:06
  to go to an entirely
• 1:19:07
  different venue and set up
• 1:19:09
  an entirely different venue.
• 1:19:11
  They don't need to put a rig and stuff up.
• 1:19:13
  You can do an outdoor event
• 1:19:15
  without a ton of equipment.
• 1:19:17
  It's freaking CrossFit.
• 1:19:20
  Take some sandbags.
• 1:19:24
  They could still go outside
• 1:19:25
  and do something and come
• 1:19:26
  back in like they did for
• 1:19:28
  the semifinals or what they
• 1:19:31
  did at the games.
• 1:19:38
  And that Vegas run was in a
• 1:19:39
  hot parking lot, right?
• 1:19:40
  Yes, it was.
• 1:19:45
  And Bethany Flores...
• 1:19:48
  beat about all but one of
• 1:19:50
  the men on that run.
• 1:19:58
  Sarah says only off-site will be a swim.
• 1:20:00
  No, I don't agree with that.
• 1:20:03
  I think they'll have more.
• 1:20:05
  Football stadium is a
• 1:20:06
  20-minute walk away from the arena.
• 1:20:10
  I don't think they have the
• 1:20:10
  funding to reserve a pool
• 1:20:14
  and a football stadium and the venue.
• 1:20:22
  If he dies, he dies.
• 1:20:25
  Rocky IV reference.
• 1:20:27
  Favorite movie.
• 1:20:35
  Deck says TCU would be so
• 1:20:37
  easy to get cost site for.
• 1:20:38
  A ton of health initiatives with them.
• 1:20:44
  There we go.
• 1:20:46
  All right,
• 1:20:47
  so final rookie of the year now
• 1:20:49
  that we've totally went off the rails.
• 1:20:52
  I'm going to go with... I
• 1:20:58
  hate going with Rosamund
• 1:20:58
  because you already picked him.
• 1:21:00
  So I'm going to go Victor
• 1:21:00
  Hoffer and Hattie Canio.
• 1:21:06
  I have Rosamund and Grace Swanton.
• 1:21:09
  I'll try to pick someone
• 1:21:10
  else from you guys.
• 1:21:12
  So Victor... I'll go...
• 1:21:18
  Chris Ibarra and Amy Kringle.
• 1:21:23
  Good picks.
• 1:21:26
  Amy Kringle was probably my number two.
• 1:21:27
  And none of us picked Austin Hatfield.
• 1:21:31
  We'll let that other show do that.
• 1:21:37
  All right.
• 1:21:40
  Question here.
• 1:21:40
  CrossFit being sold.
• 1:21:43
  So
• 1:21:45
  I don't know.
• 1:21:46
  I'm guessing either Lex or
• 1:21:48
  Carolyn put this in here.
• 1:21:49
  I think it was Lex.
• 1:21:50
  And when Peter was doing
• 1:21:53
  Beyond the Whiteboard last week,
• 1:21:55
  it was a week and a half ago now,
• 1:21:58
  Mads Jacobs was on,
• 1:22:00
  said that Dawnfall was at
• 1:22:03
  an event in Europe where he
• 1:22:05
  told the affiliate owners
• 1:22:06
  that they were preparing to
• 1:22:07
  sell CrossFit.
• 1:22:09
  CrossFit came out,
• 1:22:11
  said that isn't exactly what was said,
• 1:22:13
  that because they are owned
• 1:22:21
  by an equity firm,
• 1:22:24
  that you're always kind of
• 1:22:26
  gearing up for the sale,
• 1:22:29
  but there's no plans for
• 1:22:30
  that in the next two years.
• 1:22:34
  So I don't even think it matters anymore.
• 1:22:37
  Like,
• 1:22:39
  Now that you're already with
• 1:22:40
  a private equity firm,
• 1:22:41
  it doesn't get any worse than this.
• 1:22:45
  It's either going to go back
• 1:22:47
  to a private company or
• 1:22:48
  it's going to be a private equity firm.
• 1:22:51
  And it's just going to change hands.
• 1:22:53
  And none of those people are
• 1:22:54
  going to directly run CrossFit.
• 1:22:57
  They're just going to do it
• 1:22:58
  as an investment or some
• 1:23:01
  private company is going to
• 1:23:02
  buy it and then want to do something.
• 1:23:04
  And that might be a good thing.
• 1:23:06
  So...
• 1:23:09
  Either way,
• 1:23:09
  I don't think it really matters anymore.
• 1:23:14
  Once Greg sold it,
• 1:23:16
  it changed how it was owned,
• 1:23:19
  changed the structure,
• 1:23:19
  and we're never going back to that.
• 1:23:24
  this point it's just it's
• 1:23:25
  either going to be
• 1:23:26
  swallowed up by a bigger
• 1:23:26
  company like ufc and dana
• 1:23:30
  white's big it's now wwe
• 1:23:32
  ufc and I don't know what
• 1:23:35
  the bigger company is
• 1:23:36
  called but they own all
• 1:23:37
  that stuff so anyway um
• 1:23:44
  there's that uh and then
• 1:23:47
  we're just gonna finish up
• 1:23:48
  with what's next for the show
• 1:23:51
  So we are starting our Games
• 1:23:53
  Athlete Series.
• 1:23:55
  We started that with Hattie
• 1:23:56
  Cano on Friday night.
• 1:23:58
  Had a great conversation with her.
• 1:23:59
  In case you haven't heard of her,
• 1:24:02
  she is a qualifier out of
• 1:24:03
  the North America West and
• 1:24:06
  headed to the Games.
• 1:24:07
  Hasn't been on many shows.
• 1:24:09
  No.
• 1:24:11
  No.
• 1:24:11
  She made her 15th appearance
• 1:24:12
  on our show on Friday night.
• 1:24:16
  But, you know, nobody knew.
• 1:24:19
  So...
• 1:24:23
  But we have two people
• 1:24:23
  locked up for this week already.
• 1:24:26
  Both on Thursday.
• 1:24:27
  Back to back.
• 1:24:30
  Tough day for this dude.
• 1:24:33
  Thursday at noon, we have Alex Kazan.
• 1:24:36
  Nice.
• 1:24:38
  Followed by Thursday at 1, Eastern Time,
• 1:24:42
  James Sprague.
• 1:24:45
  So a nice back-to-backer on
• 1:24:47
  Thursday should be a fun
• 1:24:50
  two hours of conversation.
• 1:24:53
  We'll talk to them about semifinals,
• 1:24:55
  going back to the games for
• 1:24:58
  third and second time and
• 1:25:00
  what that means to them and
• 1:25:02
  all of that stuff.
• 1:25:02
  So, yeah, have that coming up.
• 1:25:10
  Someone tell Savan that it's can-yo.
• 1:25:13
  Can-yo.
• 1:25:15
  What does he say?
• 1:25:17
  It's not that.
• 1:25:20
  Kenyo.
• 1:25:23
  I don't know.
• 1:25:26
  So, yes, Kenneth, we have James Sprague.
• 1:25:30
  I've only ever had James on
• 1:25:31
  one time and it was with
• 1:25:33
  the whole Brute crew.
• 1:25:35
  I did an interview with Dallin, James,
• 1:25:38
  Emma.
• 1:25:41
  It was when they were just, when he was,
• 1:25:42
  it was all the teens, right?
• 1:25:45
  now james dominated that
• 1:25:46
  whole conversation but it's
• 1:25:49
  the only time I've had him
• 1:25:50
  on and super stoked that
• 1:25:51
  he's coming back on um to
• 1:25:55
  do that so that's going to
• 1:25:57
  be fun the last thing is
• 1:26:01
  going to be kind of a plea um and that is
• 1:26:07
  think we cover the masters
• 1:26:08
  group as well as any other
• 1:26:11
  media company in the space
• 1:26:13
  other than like the masters
• 1:26:15
  themselves like with
• 1:26:16
  masters chatter all of that
• 1:26:19
  stuff I don't want to take
• 1:26:19
  anything away from them but
• 1:26:21
  of the more um overarching
• 1:26:24
  media companies I think we
• 1:26:25
  cover the masters as well
• 1:26:27
  as anybody we are trying
• 1:26:31
  trying I've put in the request
• 1:26:33
  To go do a behind the scenes
• 1:26:36
  of the Masters CrossFit Games.
• 1:26:40
  I have put together a team
• 1:26:43
  to come do that with me.
• 1:26:47
  Because Jamie will be a
• 1:26:48
  little busy that weekend.
• 1:26:50
  I don't want to bother her
• 1:26:51
  with any of that stuff.
• 1:26:53
  But I've put together a team
• 1:26:55
  that if we get that from
• 1:26:58
  Legends or CrossFit...
• 1:27:00
  That we'll be able to come in,
• 1:27:01
  talk to you all behind the scenes,
• 1:27:03
  highlight all the awesome
• 1:27:05
  stuff that the masters do.
• 1:27:08
  And very much like the other
• 1:27:10
  behind the scenes that you see,
• 1:27:12
  just we'll do it with the
• 1:27:12
  masters community.
• 1:27:15
  I put that request in.
• 1:27:17
  I've heard nothing.
• 1:27:20
  So if you are a Masters
• 1:27:23
  athlete or someone that
• 1:27:24
  wants to know more about
• 1:27:25
  the Masters athletes and
• 1:27:27
  you want this to happen, please,
• 1:27:30
  please let the legends people know,
• 1:27:33
  let CrossFit know that we
• 1:27:35
  want to do this.
• 1:27:41
  And I've got a really cool
• 1:27:42
  team put together.
• 1:27:47
  It also helps that a lot of
• 1:27:48
  my friends are competing.
• 1:27:51
  And I want to be there to support them.
• 1:27:54
  And now I have a frog in my throat.
• 1:27:59
  So with that,
• 1:28:01
  I am making the plea to
• 1:28:03
  please let me cover this.
• 1:28:06
  Because people are going to
• 1:28:08
  want to jump in on the fact
• 1:28:10
  that it's the games.
• 1:28:13
  When we went to Legends last year,
• 1:28:14
  we were the only company there.
• 1:28:18
  The only company at Legends.
• 1:28:20
  Will they have a live stream?
• 1:28:22
  are.
• 1:28:26
  The teens and the masters
• 1:28:28
  are both having a live stream.
• 1:28:33
  The heads of both companies
• 1:28:36
  were told that that was
• 1:28:39
  going to help their live
• 1:28:40
  streams to be on at the
• 1:28:41
  same time during the weekend.
• 1:28:45
  Not sure I buy that.
• 1:28:46
  What?
• 1:28:49
  Yeah.
• 1:28:49
  It's totally going to
• 1:28:50
  distract from one or the other.
• 1:28:55
  They're not on the same channel, right?
• 1:28:56
  There's.
• 1:28:59
  They're both going to be on YouTube or.
• 1:29:01
  Right.
• 1:29:01
  But not on one channel.
• 1:29:04
  There's going to be a teens channel.
• 1:29:06
  And so you have to go to one or the other.
• 1:29:08
  Yep.
• 1:29:10
  You're viewing.
• 1:29:14
  So I'm putting out the plea
• 1:29:17
  to our listeners and our
• 1:29:19
  Masters lovers that if you
• 1:29:21
  want us to cover this,
• 1:29:23
  people who know these athletes,
• 1:29:25
  who have interviewed these athletes,
• 1:29:27
  who know the backstories
• 1:29:29
  before we even get there on
• 1:29:31
  a lot of these athletes,
• 1:29:32
  Please let us cover this.
• 1:29:34
  Please, please, please.
• 1:29:36
  And I bring with me the
• 1:29:38
  greatest stats and
• 1:29:39
  information person ever who
• 1:29:42
  puts out leaderboards
• 1:29:43
  nonstop of everything
• 1:29:44
  that's going on through the weekend,
• 1:29:46
  charts and graphs and
• 1:29:48
  interesting numbers and
• 1:29:49
  facts and figures all weekend long.
• 1:29:52
  You get that too.
• 1:29:56
  And when we were at Legends
• 1:29:58
  and Holly was doing all that for us,
• 1:30:01
  I don't know how many
• 1:30:02
  mathletes came up to me and said,
• 1:30:03
  thank you so much.
• 1:30:04
  What she does, I can share with my family.
• 1:30:07
  I can share on social media
• 1:30:09
  so people know how I'm
• 1:30:10
  doing during this weekend.
• 1:30:13
  And a lot of competitions don't do that.
• 1:30:16
  And it's hard to, like,
• 1:30:17
  screen grab the leaderboard
• 1:30:19
  where it makes sense to people.
• 1:30:22
  So...
• 1:30:25
  We want to do a really
• 1:30:26
  freaking cool job with this,
• 1:30:28
  and we want to do it in a
• 1:30:29
  way where everybody is highlighted.
• 1:30:31
  Do you have sponsors to help
• 1:30:35
  you for the trip?
• 1:30:36
  Not yet, but I'll fund it myself.
• 1:30:39
  I have committed more to
• 1:30:41
  this than I am to the regular games.
• 1:30:47
  Let's help Scott get to the Masters games.
• 1:30:52
  Yeah.
• 1:30:55
  Uh, masters lover.
• 1:30:56
  Well, I just got a new label.
• 1:30:57
  Awesome.
• 1:31:01
  Is the competition Friday to
• 1:31:02
  Sunday for the masters or
• 1:31:04
  is it four days or three days?
• 1:31:05
  Do you have any information?
• 1:31:08
  I don't know.
• 1:31:09
  Is it, say what?
• 1:31:11
  Is it a three day event?
• 1:31:12
  Is it a four day event?
• 1:31:13
  Do you have any information on that?
• 1:31:15
  Thursday through Sunday.
• 1:31:16
  Okay.
• 1:31:17
  So four days of continuous,
• 1:31:19
  not no rest day.
• 1:31:21
  Yeah.
• 1:31:25
  Denise, you got that correct.
• 1:31:28
  I put in the request with
• 1:31:30
  Joe Linton from Legends by
• 1:31:33
  text because him and I have
• 1:31:35
  texted since last Legends.
• 1:31:37
  I put in that request.
• 1:31:39
  I have not heard back.
• 1:31:48
  Okay.
• 1:31:50
  I'm hoping we get check-in
• 1:31:52
  information back.
• 1:31:54
  sooner rather than later I
• 1:31:59
  like I need to decide when
• 1:32:01
  I'm getting there and if
• 1:32:02
  it's this age group has to
• 1:32:06
  be there at this time like
• 1:32:07
  I need to know that yeah
• 1:32:09
  like aaron we need to know
• 1:32:11
  that for we're probably
• 1:32:12
  driving and it's 11 hours I
• 1:32:14
  need to know if I need to
• 1:32:15
  leave at two in the morning
• 1:32:19
  all right kent this is the
• 1:32:20
  last thing I'm taking
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  Thick Boy Tour.
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  I'm taking this because
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  Thick Boy is the best.
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  He has sponsored us all at certain times.
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  Thick Boy Tour is,
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  Mark is the owner of Thick Boy,
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  is one of the hardest
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  working men in the business.
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  And every weekend he travels to events.
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  And he sets up his booth and
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  he sells his wares and he
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  just loves supporting and
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  meeting athletes.
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  Just loves it.
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  And so over like the next eight weeks,
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  I think he is at an event
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  every weekend for the next eight weeks,
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  all the way to the end of July.
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  Correct.
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  Huge.
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  Thank you, Mark.
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  And thank boy.
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  Huge.
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  Thank you.
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  And he does this not to the big events.
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  He does this to the
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  mid-majors and those where
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  those comps need his help,
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  need him to be there.
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  And he's there supporting them.
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  So he does so much for the community.
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  If he has an event near you,
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  go check him out.
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  Um, you, most of these events are free, uh,
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  that are being held.
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  You can just walk in, watch some CrossFit,
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  check out his apparel, uh, meet Mark.
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  He's a really cool guy.
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  Um, and hang out with him.
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  And I'm going to try to get
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  to at least one of the spots, uh,
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  to do some interviews in his booth.
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  If I can swing it,
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  I'm going to try to go to Metcon Rush.
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  Uh,
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  Because it's near Pennsylvania,
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  and I could probably swing
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  by my mom's house,
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  then down there for a day,
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  and then back up to my mom,
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  and then back to Ohio.
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  So I think I'm going to try that.
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  And don't forget,
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  we're going to be at Fresh Coast,
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  out there on Lake Michigan,
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  for anybody who wants to
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  head to the beach in the summer.
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  And what's the name of the town again?
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  Muskegon.
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  Yeah.
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  muskegon michigan awesome so
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  uh denise is telling you
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  all of her travel agenda
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  there jamie all right yeah
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  I will not be getting there
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  tuesday night that's not
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  possible for me so with
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