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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Megan Apostilaris Joins to Talk Completing Her First Xenom! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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It is Sunday night.
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We are here and ready to have some
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fun as long as our voices hold out.
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Let's talk.
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Welcome to the show, it's time to ignite.
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Scott's silky smooth voice keeps the vibes
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just right.
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Caroline on the mic,
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wants a star on the ice.
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Games athlete so strong,
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keeps the balance precise.
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And Jamie's in the house,
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the engine full of grit.
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Never backing down, doesn't know the word.
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When together they bring the fire,
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never say never.
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So buckle up friends,
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it's burpees forever.
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Welcome to Sunday, Sunday.
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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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We are here and we are live on
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a Sunday night.
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So good to be with you.
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Don't forget to like and subscribe.
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It means a lot to us.
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YouTube's going through a scrub again.
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Just my fragile little heart.
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I just need a couple little subscribers
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added to our tally.
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Just saying.
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That's it.
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Mark Phillips says there's a gun show
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again.
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It's summer, Mark.
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Thank you.
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I've been working hard in the lab.
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I really appreciate the comments.
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Oh, oh, they must mean Jamie.
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Uh, whoop, hit that one.
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Sorry.
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Um, so, oh man,
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I've been working my tail off this
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weekend.
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I think I think I can get a
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car in my garage now.
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Ooh, that's exciting.
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It's really exciting.
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It's been years.
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It's been years since we could get a
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car in the garage.
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I was out there today and,
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and Julie was out there with me.
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And when it's just me,
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like I just pitch,
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like if we haven't used it,
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it's going in the garbage.
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And today Julie's like stacking things on
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the shelf.
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And I'm like,
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when was the last time we have used
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that?
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And she's like,
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all you do is yell at me.
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Every time I come over to this shelf,
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I'm just going to stop helping.
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And I'm like, well, maybe.
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You're not helping.
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Well, and I keep telling it,
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and I said this last week on the
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show, like,
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we're planning to move back to
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Pennsylvania to retire.
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Now, that is not tomorrow.
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That is like seven, eight years from now.
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And I'm just to the point where I
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don't want to pack all this up.
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Yeah.
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So if it's not something we're going to
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use, let's get rid of it.
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So I'm over,
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I'm past where the car would be.
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And now I'm working on the section where
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the gym will be.
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So as soon as I get that done,
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I'll have half as a gym,
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half for a car.
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Do you have stuff in the garage already
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for a gym?
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Yep.
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Or do you have nothing?
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You have some stuff.
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I have rings.
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I have bars.
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I have plates.
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I have wall ball, wall ball target.
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I have ab mat, kettlebells, dumbbells.
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Yeah, I've got a pretty good gym.
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So you have some stall mats in there
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already?
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I do.
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Nice.
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But I think we're going to get rid
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of them and get new ones.
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I just...
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Yeah.
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I just think it's like they're going to
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be too hard to clean.
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I see.
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I mean, I could get down and scrub.
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But is it worth it?
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I don't know.
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I mean,
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those stall mats are a pain to move.
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And they're not cheap.
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I know.
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If I keep them,
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maybe I'll move those to the back.
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And like...
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And I'll put the new ones up front.
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Right.
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So.
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I don't know if you know this,
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but Carolyn is texting us on the group
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chat as we're live on the air.
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Like, hey, Carolyn, we have a show.
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And she already told us she wouldn't be
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here tonight.
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She's giving us show content.
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It's fine.
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It's distracting.
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typing right now uh steam mop yeah yeah
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i mean i mean i can clean them
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it's fine i got yeah it's fine i'll
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just move them to the back so
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so we did working on that got all
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the all the dirt i need moved to
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the back moved now we're starting to build
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the patio with the bricks so i got
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all that started this weekend so super
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super super stoked for that uh because i
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feel like all the hard work is finally
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starting to pay off
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So I know you did something this weekend.
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We're not going to talk about it because
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we just need some time to digest.
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I need help finding a new TV show.
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Hmm.
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Because everything I'm watching right now
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is super, super intense.
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Yeah.
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Well, it's almost over.
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What?
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There's...
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I'm watching Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed.
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Super intense.
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I'm watching Dutton Ranch.
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The Bear has not started off calm.
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Shoot, what is it?
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Oh, ponies.
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And they are all like super intense.
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I need something that's fun and comedic to
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laugh a little bit.
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Because right now, like,
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I'm only two episodes into The Bear.
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Man, I just catch a break.
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Just catch a break.
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Anything like that.
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Stop ignoring Tessa's comment.
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Can we see Jamie flex?
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That is,
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don't yell at me for ignoring the text.
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Jamie can flex anytime she wants.
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Well, there you have it.
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It's a quick one.
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That's all you get.
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That's all you get.
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So I saw Widow's Bay.
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That looks intense.
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I just finished off campus.
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That was a nice reprieve.
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I caught, I'm trying to think, there's
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like a like a teaching show that seemed
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pretty funny that i caught on a plane
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that i was gonna start watching but i
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never got into i see uh patrick says
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tires i haven't started that maybe that's
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a good one to start i've seen one
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episode of that um you guys are so
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uncouth say please
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Yeah, they're just demanding, Jamie.
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Like, dance, monkey, dance.
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Shay's like, unreal, Jamie.
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Pure Michigan steel.
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I did a ton of push-ups yesterday,
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so they're like extra swole.
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Eric Mackey started with Person of
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Interest.
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I watched that when it was out every
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episode.
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Loved that show.
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It was actually sad when it left the
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air.
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I think you would enjoy Shrinking.
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I did every episode of it.
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That's the problem.
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I've watched a lot of these shows.
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Yes,
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Abbott Elementary is the show I was
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talking about.
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I've tried Abbott Elementary a couple
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times.
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It seemed like it was really good.
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Couldn't get into it.
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Really?
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Julie's watched every episode.
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She loves it.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I don't know.
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Widows Bay has lots of comedy.
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CrossFetter, you're pulling my leg.
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I have not even heard of that show.
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I think it's on Apple TV.
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And I've been stuck on Apple TV.
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That's what Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is
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on.
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Okay, that makes sense,
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but I've never heard of that.
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Jamie,
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that show will knock your socks off.
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It sounds like something else.
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Well,
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that's because that's kind of the content.
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Oh, okay.
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So it's about a divorced woman who's
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looking to have someone to talk to and
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maybe a little bit more on the internet.
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And she witnesses him getting attacked.
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And she's trying to videotape her screen
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as the guy is attacking, being attacked.
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Okay.
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And then everything kind of goes on from
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there.
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I watched the first season of Terminal
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List for a couple episodes.
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Here's my problem with that, Jeremy.
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The lighting is so, so dark.
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I couldn't see what was happening.
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And I have a lot of windows in
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my living room.
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So if there's any sun out at all
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and it's all glare on my TV when
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the screen is black and I couldn't see
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what was going on.
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For Apple TV,
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Jim was telling me about a show.
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It's like an alien that comes in and
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takes over somebody's body,
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but he doesn't know how to be a
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human, so it's kind of funny.
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Does that ring any bells?
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No.
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I think it's only on Apple TV as
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well, because he had said it,
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and I was like, oh, well,
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I can't watch that.
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Maybe CrossFit will know what I'm talking
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about.
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It might be like Resident Alien or
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something like that.
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Lone Wolf is better, Scott.
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It's a prequel series.
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Okay, I'll check it out.
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And Jeremy calls me a boomer.
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But at least I'm not a Packers fan.
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I may be a boomer.
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Resident Alien it is.
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So check that one out.
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Okay.
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Yeah, Apple TV's just been...
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So I have that for Formula One.
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Because that's where Formula One airs.
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And then I've been watching.
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I started with Pluribus shrinking.
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Of course,
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Ted Lasso is coming out later this year.
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Stuff like that.
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Okay.
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I want to put this out to everybody.
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Over this week...
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This full week from tonight till July
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fifth show,
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any super chats will go to Jamie and
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Carolyn to get to the games.
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So I need to get a pen and
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paper.
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And just so you know,
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I will cover what YouTube takes away.
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Very kind of you.
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So whatever comes in on Super Chats will
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go into a pot for Jamie and Carolyn.
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I will send them a Venmo for half
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each to use to get to the games.
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But I wanted to give you guys all
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the opportunity to support them.
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And we'll do it tonight,
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all week on the lunch shows,
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and next Sunday night.
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Very kind of you, Scott.
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I wanted to put that out to everybody
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because we want to support them.
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They both qualified for the CrossFit
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Games.
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San Jose is not cheap.
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California is not cheap.
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And so we wanted to help support them.
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That's a funny comment, Avira.
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She thought you were independently
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wealthy.
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Not even a little bit.
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Not at all.
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Mark Phillips, I did just start that.
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The Sheep Detectives on Prime and got
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interrupted by my daughter.
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So I'll go back and finish that for
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sure.
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Look at that.
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Thank you, Vicki.
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Thank you, Vicki.
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There we go.
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Thank you.
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Just think about that.
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You already have lunch.
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Not even dependently wealthy, no.
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I'm going as a spectator.
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I would also appreciate your super chats.
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That's fair, Jeremy.
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Question of the week for Jamie.
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Would you rather redo all Legends
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semifinal workouts in a day or walk across
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a floor full of Legos barefoot?
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I mean,
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the floor of Legos is going to be
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like a minute, so probably that.
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Mark Phillips,
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throwing twenty dollars into the pot.
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Thank you, Mark.
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And I don't know what what can this
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twenty five months of membership do for
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you,
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but that's probably the money that's going
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to offset the YouTube fee.
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So thank you anyway, Kenneth,
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for your twenty five months of committed
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support of the show.
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I still think for what they charge for
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registration,
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the spectator ticket should be included
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for each Masters athlete.
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Amen.
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Absolutely.
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What if it's a huge floor?
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That's very fair.
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I didn't like hate the workouts.
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And like, other than that first one,
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they weren't really long.
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The last one was tough workout though,
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but it was, they were, I don't know.
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I don't really ever want to do the
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sandbag one.
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I hate sandbag workouts.
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Uh, there is a,
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he never thought in a million years I
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would declare my pronoun.
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Um, sorry about that.
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It's so tough with the screen names.
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So tough.
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um you gotta have like a picture in
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there so that we somewhat know uh jamie
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messed up doing that flex for free yeah
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should charge for the flex anything else
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going on this weekend before we dive into
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the uh i didn't get to do much
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of anything um i was at the gym
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all day yesterday literally
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Trying to get, like, a few workouts in.
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And then programming.
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Did some stuff today.
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Spent a while at the gym today.
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Went and saw my mother-in-law for dinner.
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So that was nice.
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Yeah, it's been a fairly low-key week.
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We're going to the lake.
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We'll be going to my sister.
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No.
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Well, so here's the thing.
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My sister is pretty wealthy.
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But that does not flow to me.
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They have a boat.
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We're going to their boat this weekend.
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So when you hear me say that,
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I'm going to the boat.
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I just have to go mooch off of
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my sister.
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So, yeah.
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We're going there Thursday through Sunday
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to Grand Haven.
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So we'll be on Lake Michigan.
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Jamie is not doing fresh coast.
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I am not, it is like,
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I literally like fly out the next day.
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I, I mean, I'm signed up.
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I'm on a team.
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Like I, so it's supposed to be Ronica,
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myself and Selena.
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Um,
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Selena actually announced earlier this
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week that she is pregnant.
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So I guess I can say that publicly.
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Um,
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so she already had like messaged me a
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couple of weeks ago and told me like
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she needed to back out.
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And I was like, Oh, thank God.
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Cause I was like freaking out on what
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to do.
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I didn't feel like I should compete.
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And then like fly out the next day.
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Um,
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but I probably would have done it.
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But so that,
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so Ronica is going to have Terry from
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the gym and Elise,
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one of our other friends that has done
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it.
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It's usually been Elise, Terry and Ronica.
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So they're just going to take over the
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team and do that.
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So no, I will not be competing.
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Are you going?
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I don't think I'm even going to go.
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I think I'm just going to,
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I think I'm just going to be packing
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and stuff.
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I don't,
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I've done a lot of driving less.
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I just, I don't know.
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It's like, like a lot of traveling.
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So probably not.
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It's nice to have a sister like that.
19:02
Uh, Carolyn is bowling,
19:04
so she can't really hear the conversation
19:06
while too busy getting strikes.
19:09
I want to know what your,
19:11
what your games end up being Carolyn.
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Um,
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Okay.
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So it's funny because on the lunch show,
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someone said,
19:23
if you're going to Fresh Coast,
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you have to go to that restaurant right
19:27
there.
19:28
The name is The Deck.
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Yep.
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And I can't believe that someone actually
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brought that up and I've actually eaten
19:34
there.
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Yeah.
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It is.
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It is a great restaurant.
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Great view.
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Great view.
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They always have like live music going
19:44
when you're there.
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Lana will miss watching you.
19:54
And I think Jamie froze.
19:56
So this is fun.
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Do we anticipate Masters workouts being
20:03
released tomorrow?
20:04
I don't anticipate anything, Avera.
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I don't know.
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Um, Carolyn service here sucks.
20:19
So try to hop on when I'm home.
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Have a good show.
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Yeah.
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To have fun bowling.
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We know your service is bad because your
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comment came in and loaded like three
20:30
times.
20:36
In a Sean Woodland voice.
20:38
Is there anything Carolyn can't do?
20:43
And we lost Jamie.
20:45
So either her laptop was unplugged or she
20:48
has lost power at the house.
20:55
Yeah, Kenneth, Jamie's gone.
20:59
So while she is trying to log back
21:02
in,
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I'm going to pull up the leaderboard of
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semifinals.
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And we'll talk about that briefly.
21:25
So let me pull that up.
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So there's been little to no movement.
21:37
more on the no side than anything for
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semifinals and a lot of the a lot
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of the um athletes have been announcing
21:51
that they have made the games so these
21:53
are supposed to close tomorrow
21:56
And so it looks as though it is
22:00
going to be Alexis Raptus, Eric Cofolo,
22:05
Alex Kazan already qualified, Ariel Lowen,
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Mathilde Garnes, Janie Chevery,
22:12
Bear Gross, Bjorn's daughter,
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and Holly Tynan will be going to the
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CrossFit Games.
22:19
They should all become official tomorrow
22:22
at some point.
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So I think what I'm going to do
22:28
is I'm going to text Jamie the link
22:34
so that she can join on her phone
22:36
if she chooses to.
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Should just take me a second.
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And then I was also told to send
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the link to Megan Apostolaris,
22:54
who did the Xenom,
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and we can talk to her about what
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that was like.
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So let me just text Megan while I'm
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at it.
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Okay.
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um john young one xenon pairs i think
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your um your information is incorrect um
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forty-niners chica
24:20
Xenom was fun for this mediocre
24:22
CrossFitter.
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Everything I've seen.
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So let's bring down the leaderboard.
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We'll talk about that when Jamie comes
24:30
back.
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She's rebooting now.
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And I think Megan's going to hop on
24:40
now too.
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And we can talk to her about Xenom.
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We'll do that.
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So let me have the leaderboard ready for
24:52
that.
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We'll get to the leaderboard.
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Now I'm all confused.
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The power outage has killed me.
25:04
Xenon went ahead and launched their
25:06
initial weekend this weekend in Dallas.
25:11
From all accounts I've seen,
25:12
everybody had a good time.
25:15
I saw some interviews where people said
25:18
that they were going to
25:24
that they were going to try to come
25:26
back and beat their score.
25:29
So I think that is a good sign
25:32
for CrossFit, for Xenon.
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So I'm going to add Jamie to the
25:38
stage.
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I'm going to add Megan to the stage.
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Hey, Megan.
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Hello.
25:44
Can you guys hear me okay?
25:45
Yep.
25:45
I hear you great.
25:48
Is that window annoying behind me?
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Hold on, let me go this way.
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I'm going to pull Jamie out.
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Her stuff is not working.
25:54
Jamie just lost power.
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Oh, no.
25:56
So she just had to reboot and come
25:59
back on.
26:00
Cool.
26:02
But when she's ready, she'll pop back in.
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Sweet.
26:04
So congratulations on your first ever
26:06
Xenon.
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Thank you.
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It was everybody's first ever Xenon.
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I know.
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How was it?
26:12
It was super fun.
26:14
It was hard, but, like, super fun.
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Yeah.
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Would you compare,
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what is the best thing you can compare
26:22
to?
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There's really nothing like it right now.
26:27
So I know people are going to try
26:29
to compare it to a high rocks and
26:31
I understand why.
26:32
Um,
26:33
I think they're going for like a mass
26:35
participation event,
26:38
which CrossFit doesn't really have any of
26:40
those well until now.
26:42
Um, and they want, they're,
26:43
they're going for like really good
26:45
production value and, uh,
26:49
and stuff like that.
26:50
So like, in terms of like,
26:52
the vibe has a similar vibe to a
26:55
high rocks, but like,
26:57
there's nothing else about it.
27:00
That's like a high rocks because it's all
27:01
CrossFit events.
27:06
CrossFit wants to know,
27:07
will you be better?
27:07
Well, will you be buying an air rhino?
27:11
No, but that was a really cool event.
27:14
Like, it was super hard.
27:16
And I mean,
27:18
That's probably why that event was in
27:20
there,
27:21
because it's a new piece of equipment from
27:23
Rogue, and Rogue's one of the partners.
27:26
I would have rathered a deadlift on a
27:28
barbell,
27:28
but there was a ton of barbell in
27:30
it already,
27:30
and it was a really cool event.
27:33
It was cool trying to figure out how
27:35
to use it.
27:36
Katie from Rogue was there,
27:38
and she kind of was showing people how
27:40
to do it, which was kind of cool.
27:43
So I don't know.
27:44
It added a little something different,
27:45
and I quite enjoyed it.
27:47
So I noticed on the scoreboard that seemed
27:50
to be the lowest scored event for
27:52
everybody.
27:53
I don't know.
27:54
I somehow did really good on that event.
27:56
Like I took second in the elite heat
27:58
on that event,
27:59
but I think that was just by luck.
28:02
And that event was also interesting
28:04
because so.
28:06
They did an amazing job all weekend of
28:08
updating the leaderboard, like,
28:10
extremely quickly and all of the events
28:13
are scored against this system called the
28:15
elite performance index.
28:16
So, like,
28:17
based on the points or the reps or
28:19
the time you get in any workout that
28:22
determines where you meet against the
28:25
standard and every event has its own,
28:27
like, top standard.
28:28
But, um.
28:30
The reason why I'm blabbing on about that
28:31
is because they didn't know what the elite
28:34
performance index was going to be on the
28:36
Rhino.
28:37
Cause like no one knew what people were
28:39
going to pull.
28:40
And like,
28:40
so that event took a long time to
28:42
update in the leaderboard and everyone was
28:44
asking why.
28:46
And they actually said the reason why is
28:47
because they're,
28:48
they were legit creating the standard for
28:51
that event, like in real time.
28:53
So that was kind of cool to know.
28:55
That was the reason.
28:55
And yeah.
28:58
So I'm going to share the leaderboard
29:02
because they did do a great job for
29:04
not being able.
29:07
And what's cool is I can go to
29:09
your name and click on it.
29:10
Yeah.
29:11
And it has all ten of your scores.
29:13
Yeah.
29:15
And like the coolest thing and I'm I
29:18
hope I'm not like dumbing this down at
29:21
all because I don't mean to,
29:21
but I do feel like there's a lot
29:22
of people out there that don't fully
29:24
understand like how xenon works.
29:27
But the coolest thing about xenon,
29:29
and this is also similar to high rocks,
29:32
is that every xenon event.
29:35
will be identical.
29:36
So when there's London,
29:39
London Xenon is next.
29:41
Technically,
29:42
I could go to that and just try
29:43
to beat my EPI score so I can
29:47
look at my events,
29:48
see what my score was against the standard
29:51
and then be like, okay,
29:52
I want to get
29:53
this many more pet points on the echo
29:54
bike event or this minute you know and
29:56
you can the whole goal is to compete
29:58
against yourself and your score versus
30:00
trying to beat other people i mean
30:02
obviously you kind of want to beat other
30:03
people too but um the events are exactly
30:07
the same no matter where you go so
30:09
your goal can always be to just improve
30:11
your own score
30:13
Would you,
30:15
you've been doing CrossFit for a long
30:16
time,
30:17
so you may not be the perfect person
30:18
to ask this,
30:19
but when you look at these scores,
30:22
is there a way to tell where your
30:25
weaknesses are and where you need to work?
30:29
I would say so.
30:30
But it's also you'd have to do a
30:32
little bit of digging down because
30:34
depending on the workout,
30:37
like one rep is worth like way more
30:39
points, depending on how far you go down,
30:43
like it's kind of hard to explain,
30:44
but
30:44
Yeah, I mean,
30:45
you could definitely look at that and be
30:47
like, oh, yeah,
30:48
I didn't do that good in the, like,
30:52
one rep max snatch event.
30:55
That was my lowest score.
30:56
And so you can definitely sort and filter
30:58
and do all that stuff.
30:59
So, yeah, for sure.
31:03
I guess the big question is you've done
31:05
one now.
31:06
Yep.
31:07
Do you want to do another one to
31:09
beat your score?
31:10
Yes.
31:11
I want to do another one for a
31:12
million reasons, but yeah,
31:13
obviously to beat my score for sure.
31:16
I think it could become...
31:18
um something where like like they're gonna
31:21
be in cool places like you could use
31:23
it as an excuse to travel you could
31:25
use it as like people do that with
31:26
high rocks all the time like they want
31:28
to go to do high rocks italy and
31:29
it's like an excuse to go to italy
31:31
um i don't think there's going to be
31:33
as many xenon events as there are high
31:35
rocks events because high rocks is like an
31:37
hour but like
31:39
I definitely want to do another one,
31:41
and I think it's awesome training for the
31:44
games.
31:46
I think it's really cool.
31:48
It appeals to CrossFit athletes.
31:51
You couldn't just randomly do a Xenom.
31:53
There's definitely levels.
31:55
There's a Compete, which is scaled,
31:56
then there's RX, and then there's Elite.
32:00
And so you can definitely be like a
32:02
newer CrossFitter for sure,
32:03
but like you have to know what all
32:05
the movements are and be able to do
32:06
all the movements to sort of be able
32:08
to do one,
32:10
which I think is super cool.
32:11
Like I think it's got a lot of
32:13
potential to grow big.
32:20
As someone who has competed at the Games,
32:22
competed at so many different levels in
32:25
CrossFit,
32:26
did you feel like you could race?
32:31
Did I feel like I could push hard
32:33
for the whole day?
32:34
But know who was beside you.
32:37
Could you race...
32:39
yeah yeah like there was definitely so in
32:42
the elite women's there was two like there
32:45
was abigail domit and um emily rolf who
32:49
were like at the top and then there
32:51
was like a bunch of us who were
32:53
like sort of like all in the mix
32:55
um for the whole sort of weekend and
32:58
so you kind of got to see who
33:00
was there and who you wanted to beat
33:03
on certain events to try to like gain
33:05
points on them um
33:08
I think the goal for Xenom is obviously
33:11
to grow the event so it's quite large.
33:14
This was the first one,
33:16
so the elite women's heat only had ten
33:18
people in it.
33:20
The elite men's heat had quite a bit
33:21
more.
33:24
the rx men's also had a lot but
33:26
the elite women's only had ten in it
33:28
for whatever reason but yeah you
33:29
definitely wanted to race and you
33:31
definitely wanted to beat people and there
33:32
was for sure certain people who like i
33:34
wanted to be on certain events because it
33:36
knew i knew it would put me above
33:37
them in points so there is an element
33:40
of you're competing against yourself at
33:43
multiple different xenons ideally and then
33:45
you're still wanting to beat other people
33:47
for sure
33:49
So the owner before it launched said they
33:51
wanted to give athletes a special
33:54
experience.
33:55
Did you feel special?
33:57
Yeah, for sure.
33:58
You got a really cool,
33:59
at the end when you finished all the
34:02
events, you got this really nice bracelet.
34:04
I don't have it with me,
34:04
but it's like a nice piece of jewelry.
34:07
All weekend and leading up,
34:09
like the communication in terms of them
34:12
sending out emails with all the
34:14
information,
34:14
like directly tailored to you,
34:17
like it was all like, Megan,
34:18
here's your heat times,
34:19
like here's your scores,
34:21
like everything was very tailored to you.
34:24
um the check-in was good it was a
34:26
newer event so there was like a couple
34:27
little wrinkles that have to be ironed out
34:29
like in terms of check-in just a bit
34:31
of a long line and whatever but after
34:33
having gone through the whole weekend you
34:35
kind of like you're very accepting of
34:38
those things just because like it was a
34:40
brand new event and like to me like
34:42
they crushed it we have a couple comments
34:45
in the question in the chat uh does
34:49
it cater more to a spectator experience or
34:51
a participant experience
34:53
I think it could be both.
34:55
I think CrossFit tends to... Like,
34:59
the people who want to watch CrossFit,
35:01
I think, are, like,
35:02
usually other CrossFitters.
35:04
So, I mean,
35:05
I would say it's the same vibe where,
35:08
like,
35:08
people who would probably come to watch a
35:10
Xenom are going to be people who do
35:12
CrossFit.
35:14
But it is cool.
35:15
There's, like, multiple arenas,
35:16
they call them.
35:17
Multiple competition floors, really,
35:19
going at the same time.
35:20
And...
35:21
they all are like kind of separate but
35:25
spectators can go anywhere in and around
35:27
them so it's very accessible to people to
35:30
watch and like up close and personal like
35:32
right down on the floor one of the
35:34
events had a three k run in it
35:36
and it was all done inside like lapsed
35:38
and so people could be like right there
35:41
yelling and so like it's good it was
35:44
good it's like watching the games but
35:46
multiple things happening all around you
35:48
at the same time and like way more
35:50
events per day
35:53
Uh,
35:53
could you go a hundred percent on all
35:54
events or did you have to save yourself
35:57
for day two?
35:58
Um, I don't think that anyone who's,
36:03
I can only speak for myself,
36:05
but what I would say is like,
36:06
I don't think anyone who is a competitive
36:08
person, like consciously says, Oh,
36:11
I'm going to hold back here and try
36:12
to save myself for day two.
36:14
I think everyone, once you're out there,
36:16
you're kind of going a hundred percent.
36:18
Uh, that said,
36:19
like some of the events were quite short,
36:21
like, uh,
36:22
you know one of them was a one
36:23
minute max echo bite calorie not that that
36:27
was an easy event at all but it's
36:29
one minute and then one of them was
36:31
like a max snatch event so like although
36:34
like they're all really good tests some of
36:35
them are like less strenuous than others
36:38
so i think they did a really good
36:40
job of like planning them so that you're
36:43
never doing two really long events back to
36:45
back um by the end of day two
36:47
like
36:48
you know, you're a little tired,
36:49
but my last event was a twelve minute
36:52
workout of like rounds of movements and I
36:55
felt like I was still able to push
36:57
pretty hard.
36:58
It's definitely different than
37:01
Like I've been to the Games Masters a
37:03
few times and there's like, you know,
37:04
two or three events a day.
37:07
And I find in that case,
37:09
you're like warming up and cooling down a
37:13
few times in the day where I found,
37:15
especially day two for Xenom,
37:16
you kind of are staying warmed up like
37:19
the whole day.
37:20
There's not a lot of time to really
37:22
like leave the venue, go get food,
37:24
come back.
37:24
You're sort of kind of there,
37:27
which is good.
37:28
I like that a little better.
37:30
It's like almost less stressful because
37:32
you're just like in it.
37:34
So in that sense,
37:35
it's a little bit different.
37:38
But yeah,
37:38
like it's a lot of volume over two
37:40
days for sure.
37:43
I know that there have been complaints
37:44
about, especially with Masters athletes,
37:48
only getting seven events at the CrossFit
37:50
Games.
37:51
You got ten events in two days.
37:54
Did you prefer that to what's been
37:56
happening at the Masters Games?
38:01
I mean, I don't really think...
38:06
No,
38:07
I wouldn't say I wouldn't say yes or
38:09
no.
38:09
Like I like both.
38:10
The Masters games is I think I think
38:13
seven events is not horrible.
38:16
I mean, I might like more,
38:18
but I like a lot of volume,
38:20
so I don't know.
38:20
I don't have a huge problem with the
38:23
number of events at the Masters games.
38:25
That wouldn't be where my complaints would
38:28
lie on that topic.
38:31
The but I also really liked.
38:34
having like the amount of work at Xenon,
38:38
which is like compressed into two days,
38:40
like ten events for sure,
38:42
but some of them are very short and
38:44
it didn't really feel like a full event.
38:46
So it's like almost similar amount of
38:47
work,
38:48
but in Xenon was like two days where
38:51
Masters games is like three or sometimes
38:53
four.
38:57
Bootycat asks,
38:58
is it too much volume for normies?
39:01
no i don't think i think anyone who
39:03
does crossfit could come to a xenon and
39:06
have a wicked time and i saw like
39:09
like i said there's like three categories
39:11
compete is like a scaled then there's rx
39:14
and then there's elite and in the compete
39:18
and in the rx there was many ranges
39:21
of ages skill levels like it was super
39:25
cool uh any swag other than the bracelet
39:30
Um, there was a swag bag.
39:32
You had a shirt, um,
39:34
some other things in there.
39:36
You get like a cool name plate.
39:39
Um,
39:39
there's also photo packages that you can
39:40
add on.
39:41
Um, there wasn't like a lot of like,
39:43
you know, expensive swag,
39:45
but the things that you got were very
39:47
personalized.
39:48
Um, I thought it was good.
39:52
I got a couple more questions.
39:53
I'm going to try to pull Jamie on
39:54
to see if she has any questions for
39:56
you.
39:57
Sure.
40:02
I was listening.
40:04
No,
40:04
you seemed like you asked all the things
40:08
that I was curious about,
40:10
like was the volume too much,
40:12
all that kind of stuff.
40:12
So, I mean,
40:13
I think you kind of nailed it on
40:14
the head, Scott.
40:16
The only thing I would say that I
40:17
haven't said already is like,
40:20
they don't divide any,
40:21
you can filter and see like where you
40:23
would fit in,
40:24
in terms of your age group.
40:25
Like if you were a masters athlete,
40:27
but you know,
40:28
if you want to go in the elite
40:30
heat, which is what I wanted to do,
40:33
they don't elite doesn't care about your
40:35
age.
40:35
And like, I'm cool with that.
40:36
Like elite is elite.
40:38
And so your score is just like measured
40:40
against the standard.
40:43
So,
40:43
but you can like kind of filter and
40:45
see what other people are there who all
40:47
were like was in your age group there.
40:50
But in terms of like a master's,
40:52
they don't have like categories
40:54
specifically for master's.
40:56
So I was seeing more of the master's
40:58
athletes in the RX category.
41:00
um category versus the elite category
41:02
there was definitely like in the women's
41:04
in my heat i think there was two
41:06
women at least one but i think two
41:08
that were thirty five to thirty nine but
41:10
there was no one older
41:12
Well,
41:12
Jamie loves competing against elites.
41:15
She's been wanting to do that forever.
41:17
Yeah, you would love it, Jamie.
41:19
I like it, too.
41:19
Like,
41:20
I still feel like I can roll with
41:22
the young ones.
41:23
And, like, for me, that's, like,
41:25
a motivator.
41:27
And you kind of just, like,
41:29
quietly just do your thing throughout the
41:31
competition.
41:31
And then, all of a sudden, you're,
41:33
you know,
41:33
middle of the pack in a heat full
41:35
of really young girls.
41:37
And it kind of is motivating, so...
41:38
yeah i would if you ever get the
41:40
chance to do one like definitely do it
41:42
and definitely go elite for sure um did
41:45
you see many athlete withdrawals i don't
41:49
know like like no one in my heat
41:52
withdrew i don't know like in terms of
41:54
number of people who registered or who
41:56
didn't come i don't know i couldn't answer
41:58
that
42:00
I think they're asking more for the volume
42:02
of the weekend.
42:02
Oh, I didn't hear of any medical issues.
42:07
There was tons of medical staff there.
42:10
The judging was all really good.
42:12
I didn't see any injuries or withdrawals
42:16
personally, but I've got no idea.
42:18
I think I saw Josh Hicks post a
42:20
thing that said it was like days without
42:23
incident with the medical team and they,
42:26
and they made it like through the whole
42:27
weekend without an incident.
42:28
Yeah.
42:29
So I think that's, that's pretty cool.
42:32
Yeah.
42:32
It was cool.
42:33
Like, like I said, like,
42:35
This is the first event that they're
42:38
running, and it was big.
42:41
I think they had over five hundred
42:43
athletes competing,
42:44
which is a lot of athletes,
42:46
and it seemed like it was really,
42:49
really good.
42:50
The organizer is Wilson.
42:52
One of them is Wilson Pack,
42:53
and I chatted with him a few times
42:55
throughout,
42:56
and he said there was things behind the
42:58
scenes that like,
42:59
Small things that were happening,
43:01
but from an athletes perspective,
43:02
it was just going along.
43:03
I think one time like one of the
43:05
screens went out and they just quickly
43:07
fixed it.
43:07
But like everything ran super smooth on
43:10
time,
43:11
like the leaderboard was like so quick to
43:13
be updated.
43:14
The judging was great.
43:17
Yeah,
43:17
like I I don't have any like they're
43:19
gonna send out a survey and there's like
43:20
little things that I'll put but like
43:22
nothing, you know, major and you know,
43:25
I'm sometimes hard to please.
43:28
And so it Yeah,
43:30
like it was really good.
43:31
It was a blast.
43:33
So I'm going to two more questions and
43:34
we'll let you go, Megan.
43:36
So we have,
43:38
was there any adequate areas to rest and
43:40
recover or did you have to leave and
43:41
come back for each event?
43:43
I think she already answered that she
43:44
didn't leave.
43:45
No, there was actually a huge,
43:47
a huge athlete area.
43:51
where it was at this particular venue
43:53
which was the the Ford which is like
43:55
the Dallas Cowboys practice stadium and um
43:58
it was beautiful facility but in this
44:00
particular facility when you would come in
44:02
through the door athletes were allowed to
44:04
like have all their bags and stuff um
44:06
and then they could leave all their stuff
44:08
on one whole side of the stadium so
44:09
like all the bleachers on one whole side
44:11
of the stadium was like athlete area to
44:13
just chill they had microwaves over there
44:15
so you could heat your own food up
44:16
and whatever
44:17
And then the warmup area was all like
44:19
down on the, like the, the, you know,
44:21
whatever the turf, like the field level.
44:24
Um,
44:25
the one thing that I would say that
44:28
I didn't love, um,
44:30
and I'm curious to see if other athletes
44:32
had the same comments was like,
44:34
they didn't allow coaches in there, uh,
44:37
at all.
44:38
So like,
44:38
if you wanted to interact with your coach,
44:40
it had to be like, there,
44:41
they were basically just like a spectator.
44:42
There was no coach like pass.
44:45
Um,
44:46
So that took, for me,
44:48
that took a little bit of getting used
44:49
to because I have someone who comes and,
44:51
like, helps me warm up, usually.
44:54
So you're kind of on your own in
44:55
there unless, like,
44:56
your coach happened to also be competing.
44:59
So I didn't, like, super love that.
45:02
So that would be a piece of feedback
45:03
I will provide when I do my survey.
45:06
But, yeah,
45:06
you definitely didn't have to leave and
45:07
come back.
45:08
There was tons of athlete recovery area,
45:11
and I think that was something they really
45:12
wanted to do.
45:13
Yeah.
45:14
Okay, last question from the chat.
45:17
Was there a decent number of vendors for
45:19
spectators?
45:21
vendor area was a little thin um hopefully
45:25
the more the events run i think more
45:27
will come but there wasn't a lot of
45:29
vendors around they had a xenon like
45:31
selling xenon merch and then there was
45:33
like maybe three or four other ones um
45:36
that were selling stuff but yeah the
45:37
vendor area was not as it could be
45:41
for sure yeah that's not really important
45:44
for me so something i didn't really think
45:46
of but yeah there weren't a lot of
45:47
vendors there and i did hear uh
45:51
Peter from coffee pods and Watts.
45:53
He talked to the owner and he said
45:55
it was a really hard sell without getting
45:57
to show them anything.
45:58
Yeah.
45:59
Now that they have something to show.
46:00
Yeah.
46:01
Uh,
46:01
they can push a little bit more towards
46:03
some vendors.
46:04
Yeah.
46:05
Um, the floor looked amazing.
46:07
It was cool.
46:09
and they did a drone shot around the
46:12
stadium.
46:12
They looked amazing.
46:14
In person, it looked just as good.
46:16
Yeah, it was.
46:17
In person, it looked just as cool,
46:19
and they were kind of mysterious about it.
46:21
So on athlete check-in,
46:23
which was the Friday,
46:24
we started competing on Saturday,
46:26
you would go into the front doors of
46:27
the stadium,
46:29
like, the lobby kind of area.
46:31
But they had, like,
46:31
the windows into the competition floor,
46:34
like, so you couldn't see.
46:35
So, like, I still couldn't see it, which,
46:38
like, I was, like,
46:39
trying to sneak in and, like, get, like,
46:40
a view of it.
46:42
I think some people did.
46:43
But anyway,
46:43
and then the next day when we, like,
46:45
came ready for competition,
46:47
you got to see it for the first
46:48
time.
46:49
And it was, like,
46:49
definitely very impressive.
46:51
Like, in terms of the visual aspect,
46:56
it is more impressive than the games like
47:00
they they had led screens for every arena
47:03
with huge clocks on them like it looked
47:06
awesome everything was blue um there was
47:09
like cool carpeting around that was blue
47:11
it was really neat and the way that
47:12
they ran the events was on this like
47:15
giant clock so it was cool like say
47:16
you're doing event one and the event was
47:18
like you know a five minute
47:21
event and then between heats there's like
47:23
a two minute window let's just say it'd
47:26
be like big green numbers for the for
47:28
the like when you're going and then as
47:30
soon as the event was over it was
47:31
like the numbers turned red it was two
47:34
minutes then the next heat would come in
47:36
like it was all like very flowy and
47:38
and good um so it kept everything like
47:40
just like perfectly on the clock but yeah
47:42
visually it looked pretty spectacular the
47:45
rig was huge yeah it was cool
47:47
some of the footage i saw the big
47:50
um tv screens with the clocks on them
47:53
yeah were they need to go to those
47:55
at every event yeah like they it's so
47:58
hard to find the clock at the crossfit
47:59
games yeah it was cool and they were
48:01
all leds like they were nice probably
48:03
really expensive like i think there's a
48:05
lot of money behind the event um and
48:09
yeah it was it showed for sure
48:13
So here's my last question.
48:14
In three weeks,
48:15
the two of you are going to become
48:16
competitors.
48:18
Is there any trash talking that you two
48:19
want to do before you go on the
48:23
floor?
48:25
No.
48:27
I don't know.
48:28
I get so stressed out at the games.
48:30
When I go to the games,
48:32
I feel just like...
48:34
I don't know.
48:34
No, there's definitely no trash talking.
48:36
I get nervous.
48:37
Jamie's a beast.
48:38
She'll beat me on everything.
48:40
And yeah.
48:41
Are you getting coached by Taylor at the
48:42
event?
48:44
I need to message him and see what
48:46
the plan is.
48:47
Yeah.
48:47
Because I don't know if their focus is
48:50
media or what.
48:52
I think they're planning to go.
48:53
I think they have a few athletes.
48:54
I'm hoping they are because I want them
48:56
there.
48:56
Well, they're going to be there.
48:57
I mean,
48:57
I've heard them say they're going to be
48:59
there on like Sunday, I think.
49:01
But like...
49:04
I mean, he's, you know, I don't know.
49:05
When he's on with Sivan,
49:06
it seems like they're, like,
49:08
talking about trying to, like,
49:09
set up a workout that they'll do out
49:11
of the hopper.
49:12
And, like, so, like, well,
49:13
if you're trying to do media stuff and
49:14
you're trying to, like,
49:15
it won't be at the Masters games, maybe.
49:19
I mean, I don't know.
49:20
There is, like, six of us, so.
49:22
Yeah.
49:23
I hope they come.
49:24
I'm, like, banking on it.
49:26
I know.
49:28
I'll need them there.
49:30
Yeah, for sure.
49:30
They're great.
49:31
But, yeah, no,
49:32
I don't want to trash talk anybody.
49:34
I can't.
49:35
I'm too insecure.
49:37
Tessa asks if Taylor coaches Jamie.
49:39
He actually coaches both.
49:40
They're both Sentinel athletes.
49:44
Yeah.
49:44
So not only are they in the same
49:45
age group, at the same CrossFit Games,
49:48
with the same Sentinel training.
49:50
Yeah, it was fun last year.
49:52
I loved that.
49:53
Yeah,
49:54
there was like me and Jamie and Julia
49:57
and who else was there?
49:59
Jessica.
50:00
Yeah,
50:00
and like we were all in the same,
50:01
I don't know,
50:02
it just felt like we were competing
50:04
against each other,
50:05
but like we were also just like hanging
50:07
out.
50:07
It was cool.
50:10
Well, Megan,
50:10
thank you so much for taking some time
50:12
out of your Sunday night.
50:13
My pleasure.
50:14
It was awesome.
50:14
Really enjoyed getting a firsthand look at
50:18
or an account of what happened at Xenon.
50:21
We're all excited to see how it's going
50:22
to be and if it's going to survive.
50:25
But by all accounts,
50:26
it sounds like it went off pretty well
50:29
without a hitch.
50:31
Yeah, I think so.
50:32
From my perspective, it totally did.
50:34
Hopefully everyone else had the same feels
50:35
and like it can be a really huge
50:38
event and just like keep the ball rolling.
50:41
Yeah.
50:42
Well, thank you.
50:43
No problem.
50:43
Have a great rest of your night and
50:44
safe travels home.
50:45
Thank you.
50:46
Bye, guys.
50:46
Bye.
50:47
See you soon.
50:52
Megan Apostolaris, CrossFit Games athlete,
50:55
Xenon participant.
50:59
Thank you so much for your time.
51:00
That was awesome.
51:01
Yeah,
51:01
I didn't really know she was doing that.
51:02
That's awesome.
51:03
I'm glad she got that experience.
51:06
I like the fact that she went up
51:08
against the other elite athletes.
51:11
That's what I had registered as when I
51:14
was trying to get the free invite or
51:17
whatever that Caroline got.
51:18
That's what I had signed up as.
51:20
Yeah.
51:22
Because I know you do have that desire
51:25
to see how you would, in some events,
51:28
see how you would...
51:30
I hate the snatch event, though.
51:32
Like,
51:32
it wouldn't even matter if I was
51:33
competing.
51:34
I honestly probably would do just as bad
51:36
in the regular, like, the RX category.
51:39
Because sometimes there's just stronger
51:41
people in those categories.
51:43
They don't have the skills.
51:45
Yeah, but I look at, like,
51:46
Emily Rolfe's score,
51:47
and she didn't do well on the snatch,
51:49
and she almost won.
51:53
And Abby won the snatch,
51:55
and with a very high score.
51:59
So...
52:02
I'll pull up the leaderboard so we can
52:04
just wrap this up a little bit.
52:05
Did she say how many people were in
52:07
a heat?
52:08
Well, there was only ten elite women.
52:11
Oh, really?
52:12
Yeah.
52:13
So let me go back here.
52:17
Okay.
52:17
So here's the final leaderboard.
52:21
And you can see there's Abby Doman at
52:23
one, Emily Rolfe two, Samantha Pugh three,
52:27
Megan took fifth.
52:28
Nice.
52:30
And then there's only ten athletes.
52:34
That's crazy.
52:34
How many elite men did it?
52:38
Sixteen or seventeen.
52:39
Okay.
52:41
We'll go to that next.
52:48
Farlow won.
52:48
William Leahy second.
52:50
Raleigh Martin third.
52:53
Got people like Mike Needleman.
52:54
Wow.
53:00
Wow.
53:00
Oh, wow, there's way more of that.
53:02
Yeah.
53:04
But E.J.
53:04
Hine may have been... Well,
53:06
here's a couple that didn't finish.
53:08
Dan Bailey.
53:08
Oh, wait.
53:09
Oh, Dan Bailey pulled out.
53:11
Three people did not finish.
53:12
Hmm.
53:15
So there's the answer to Jeremy's
53:18
question.
53:19
Yeah.
53:22
And someone didn't start but finished.
53:24
What happened there?
53:25
A couple of them just didn't do the
53:26
snatch at all.
53:27
Oh, that would be me.
53:30
but they were given a final score maybe
53:34
they just went out there and missed both
53:35
lifts you'd think it would say zero though
53:37
but that's that's weird yeah could be or
53:42
they got stuck in traffic yeah i'm curious
53:45
how big the floor is like how many
53:46
people like if if there's twenty lanes or
53:50
what it is exactly and how it gets
53:52
seated and since
53:55
I mean, it's only two days,
53:55
so do they reseed it after the first
53:58
day?
53:58
And then that's it?
54:01
Yeah,
54:01
it looked like the areas looked big enough
54:04
to hold more than ten.
54:06
Yeah.
54:07
Like twenty at a time, probably?
54:08
Yeah, that's what I would guess, twenty.
54:13
And then when we look at the pairs,
54:15
what I found interesting is the women's
54:18
and men's pairs are both on the same
54:20
leaderboard.
54:21
Oh, wow.
54:21
Unless you break it down from there.
54:25
That's interesting.
54:27
But because the...
54:29
How do you do that with a snatch?
54:31
Well,
54:33
it's whatever level you get as a woman
54:35
is still based on the thousand points.
54:39
thing so it's gonna it may be a
54:42
three hundred and thirty pound snatch for
54:44
a man but it may be a two
54:47
thirty snatch for a woman and it's still
54:50
be seven right because at the end of
54:53
the day Kyra and Olivia beat Colton and
54:55
Chris oh boy yeah well that's kind of
55:00
neat yeah Jacob Marlowe and Travis
55:03
Williams that are in third Jake Douglas
55:06
Adam Clink and fourth
55:09
Georgia Pryor and Maisie Wilde in fifth.
55:14
So some pretty decent teams.
55:15
Yep.
55:17
But you can see there's the – now
55:20
these two teams almost hit ten thousand
55:22
points.
55:23
They were in the nine thousands.
55:24
Wow.
55:28
And that's what – the one thing I
55:30
would say about this,
55:31
I think Abby won with eight thousand-ish,
55:35
is that –
55:39
Abby's a great athlete and she's a
55:41
multiple time games participant.
55:44
She hasn't yet to finish top ten.
55:49
Right?
55:49
Emma Rolfe has finished top ten.
55:51
Yep.
55:53
But other than that,
55:55
you're looking at women who have never
55:56
been to the games.
55:57
Right.
55:59
So I'd be anxious to see what the
56:04
tip of the spear would do on this.
56:07
Yeah,
56:07
you want to see what James Sprague can
56:08
finish and you want to see what, like,
56:11
well, shoot,
56:11
is Tia the only one who could get
56:13
the thousand points or whatever it is?
56:16
I think,
56:16
I don't think a thousand is necessarily
56:20
the goal on every event.
56:23
I think they want to leave room for
56:25
improvement because they don't want to
56:26
change this for twenty years.
56:28
Right.
56:31
And they said initially,
56:33
this wasn't really for the tip of the
56:35
spear.
56:36
This is like a fantasy camp for those
56:39
that might have been just under the line.
56:41
Now,
56:42
I heard Colton say they were using this
56:44
as games prep.
56:47
It was a way to get intensity into
56:48
their workouts three weeks before the
56:51
games.
56:52
They worked out and did full day of
56:56
programming on Friday.
56:58
at a gym in Houston,
57:01
then went Saturday and Sunday.
57:03
Yeah.
57:04
That's smart.
57:05
That makes sense.
57:07
So when I heard that, I was like,
57:09
that makes a ton of sense for a
57:11
games athlete.
57:13
Yeah.
57:13
Especially pairs.
57:15
Yes.
57:18
Yeah.
57:19
It can be really hard to simulate that,
57:22
that little bit of intensity on the floor
57:24
and,
57:25
And yeah,
57:26
they'll simulate like you just can't quite
57:28
do that.
57:28
Maybe in the camps they can a little
57:30
better.
57:32
But I think I do think this is
57:33
kind of great,
57:35
a great training atmosphere.
57:38
Yeah.
57:39
Yeah.
57:40
And I think the most encouraging thing I
57:44
heard from all the stuff I watched was
57:48
people say,
57:49
I really want to come back and beat
57:50
my score.
57:53
And if people are saying that,
57:55
you got something.
58:04
Yeah.
58:04
Now, and Megan said glowing things,
58:06
but are there people leaving going, well,
58:09
damn, that was, that sucked.
58:11
And they just didn't put them on camera?
58:14
True.
58:15
And I'm sure we're going to,
58:16
if there are those people,
58:18
we'll hear about that in the coming week.
58:20
But what, like, I'd be curious,
58:22
what would they say sucked?
58:25
The workout?
58:26
Like, they just weren't, like, I mean,
58:28
really, what could,
58:31
if it's a well-run comp,
58:33
and you know what you signed, like,
58:34
you know the workouts you signed up for,
58:36
I don't know what you could really bash.
58:40
If assuming things like it runs on time,
58:43
there's a proper warmup area,
58:45
there's enough equipment.
58:46
Like if all four hundred people hang out
58:48
in the warmup area,
58:49
randomly warming up all day.
58:52
Sure, that could be a mess,
58:53
but it doesn't sound like that was an
58:54
issue.
58:55
It doesn't sound like this one was full.
58:57
So.
58:59
I mean,
58:59
if you do get what are they're trying
59:01
to have a thousand athletes participate in
59:03
these things.
59:04
So eventually, two thousand.
59:08
So and they what they told Peter is
59:12
they're starting with five hundred London.
59:14
They want a thousand.
59:17
The next one, they want fifteen hundred,
59:20
which I think is Miami.
59:21
OK.
59:23
And then the next one, two thousand.
59:27
But we want to build it up slow.
59:30
And supposedly they're in it for the long
59:32
haul.
59:34
Um,
59:34
they have a ton of money and the
59:38
floor looked expensive.
59:40
One can only assume they have a ton
59:42
of money,
59:42
but in my conversation with Wilson,
59:44
like they own all that.
59:46
That's awesome.
59:48
And so they pack that up.
59:49
He,
59:50
he's storing it just North of me here,
59:53
uh, in a warehouse.
59:54
He already told me that they got one
59:56
there and, uh, they own it all.
1:00:00
So once you make that initial purpose
1:00:02
purchase, uh,
1:00:04
Maybe you'll have to replace a LED screen
1:00:07
every once in a while.
1:00:08
That is going to be incredibly expensive
1:00:13
to ship to London.
1:00:15
So he has two warehouses.
1:00:17
Okay.
1:00:18
All right.
1:00:18
They're going to buy a set of equipment
1:00:19
in the States.
1:00:20
Okay.
1:00:21
And they're going to buy a set of
1:00:22
equipment overseas.
1:00:23
That makes sense because logistically that
1:00:26
does not see how that works.
1:00:29
When is London supposed to be?
1:00:33
Why'd you have to ask me that?
1:00:34
Like, are they every three months?
1:00:34
Are they trying to do four a year
1:00:35
on the quarter or what?
1:00:36
Like what's the plan?
1:00:36
Um, London is August, August, August,
1:00:37
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:38
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:38
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:39
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:40
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:41
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:41
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:42
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:43
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:46
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:48
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:50
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:52
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:53
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:54
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:55
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:56
August, August, August, August, August,
1:00:57
August, August, August,
1:00:57
August
1:00:59
Couple months.
1:01:00
Two months.
1:01:00
So two months.
1:01:01
So you're going to try to do six
1:01:02
a year?
1:01:05
I don't think they're going to try to
1:01:06
do a ton this year.
1:01:09
I think it's going to be three or
1:01:10
four.
1:01:11
Well,
1:01:11
four is a lot when you're halfway through
1:01:13
the year.
1:01:16
Yeah.
1:01:17
How many high rocks has happened in a
1:01:19
year?
1:01:21
I don't know.
1:01:21
Ten, twelve?
1:01:24
Seems like thirty to me, but okay.
1:01:28
Yeah, I don't know.
1:01:30
I mean,
1:01:30
I feel like there's like four or five
1:01:32
overseas and five or six here.
1:01:34
I don't know.
1:01:35
It seems like there's only like twelve,
1:01:37
maybe every month.
1:01:38
I feel like they're like every month.
1:01:40
There's a high rocks.
1:01:43
So if you did every other month and
1:01:44
you did six here.
1:01:48
Yeah.
1:01:53
Is that a similar date to WFP two?
1:01:55
I know WFP two is at the end
1:01:56
of August.
1:02:00
I don't know.
1:02:02
But again,
1:02:02
I don't think Xenom is trying to get
1:02:04
the elite athlete.
1:02:05
True.
1:02:05
That's not their main goal.
1:02:07
And from what I hear,
1:02:09
elite athletes can only get in by invite
1:02:11
only.
1:02:12
Oh, really?
1:02:13
Yeah,
1:02:14
that's another thing Peter said from
1:02:17
talking to them.
1:02:19
The elite division will be small.
1:02:20
Okay.
1:02:23
The RX Compete are like securing your
1:02:25
ticket, getting those.
1:02:26
I see.
1:02:30
so so anyway there it is fun i'm
1:02:37
excited for them i'm excited to see it
1:02:39
i mean i'm excited for them to get
1:02:41
us a live stream of it because it
1:02:44
would be fun to follow along yeah he
1:02:49
also said with that is they wanted to
1:02:53
get everything ironed out before they put
1:02:54
up a broadcast and they want the broadcast
1:02:56
to make sense for people who watch
1:02:59
And until you understand it,
1:03:01
until you know the flow,
1:03:04
and until they can get rep counters on
1:03:06
the screen and all of that stuff,
1:03:08
they don't want to put out a subpar
1:03:10
broadcast.
1:03:11
Makes perfect sense.
1:03:13
So, and when I heard that,
1:03:14
I was like, apparently,
1:03:16
at least they're thinking through these
1:03:18
things.
1:03:20
So...
1:03:28
was one other thing i wanted to mention
1:03:30
and now i can't even oh i wanted
1:03:35
to thank um at mishi meech for in
1:03:42
good luck ladies um that is another again
1:03:46
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1:03:48
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1:04:04
Michi Mich.
1:04:06
Gotta be a Michelle, right?
1:04:10
The picture would say so.
1:04:12
I'm wondering if it's Michelle from
1:04:14
Michigan.
1:04:14
Yeah, that would be cool.
1:04:18
So, anyway.
1:04:23
They apparently let people broadcast from
1:04:24
their phones, which is cool.
1:04:25
At least we could see bits and pieces.
1:04:27
Yeah,
1:04:27
but just like any big sporting event where
1:04:30
there's a lot of people with a lot
1:04:31
of cell phones,
1:04:33
everything starts to depixelize.
1:04:39
Everybody's just talking about all your
1:04:40
muscle groups.
1:04:43
Oh, well, yeah, this is different.
1:04:44
Triceps, delts.
1:04:46
Jamie's delts are too big for her skin.
1:04:47
They're not.
1:04:51
My delts aren't even that big.
1:04:54
Like I said,
1:04:54
I did like a hundred and eighty push-ups
1:04:57
yesterday or something stupid.
1:05:02
Yeah, this is a different angle.
1:05:03
Why?
1:05:04
I don't know.
1:05:04
It was a push-up workout.
1:05:06
Dang.
1:05:08
Okay.
1:05:11
So there's that.
1:05:12
When you lost power,
1:05:13
we were talking about the games,
1:05:14
leaderboard.
1:05:16
Oh, yeah.
1:05:17
Pretty much final.
1:05:19
Yeah.
1:05:19
And people are announcing it.
1:05:21
Right.
1:05:22
And, um, but,
1:05:24
and there's been no movement.
1:05:25
So again,
1:05:26
the women are wrapped as follow Gazan
1:05:29
already qualified Lohan, Garnas,
1:05:32
Chevrie and Bjorn's daughter and Tynan.
1:05:37
Dang, Carolyn Stanley.
1:05:40
I know.
1:05:40
And it ended up only being five points.
1:05:42
Yeah.
1:05:44
Is Pat still one point out or one
1:05:47
point like in?
1:05:48
In, last I checked.
1:05:49
By one point.
1:05:50
So he'd be like the only one that
1:05:53
probably wouldn't post that he's in until
1:05:57
he... He said on Girls Unfiltered,
1:05:59
with it being one point,
1:06:00
he's not posting anything until he gets
1:06:01
the letter.
1:06:02
Yeah.
1:06:04
On the men's side, we have Guy,
1:06:06
Quinn Robinson, Nick Matthew,
1:06:08
Justin Medeiros, Spencer Pancheck.
1:06:10
How about four Panchecks going to the
1:06:12
CrossFit Games?
1:06:13
Crazy.
1:06:15
That's insane.
1:06:16
Colton Mertens and Patrick Vellner.
1:06:18
Again,
1:06:19
you see Patrick Vellner with sixty-two.
1:06:21
Ari Lightfoot with sixty-three.
1:06:25
Closes tomorrow.
1:06:29
With that one point,
1:06:31
any toggle of a point
1:06:34
Just messes it all up.
1:06:36
But I think Pat said on Girls Unfiltered,
1:06:39
he even holds the tiebreakers on Harry at
1:06:41
this point.
1:06:41
That's true.
1:06:43
So it would be two points.
1:06:45
Yeah.
1:06:48
Yeah, don't count your chickens.
1:06:52
I wonder if Pat will do athlete interview
1:06:54
with Dave if he makes it.
1:06:56
Be good theater.
1:07:00
Dave has been very forgiving on his end.
1:07:04
I just don't know if they're going to
1:07:05
be reciprocated or not.
1:07:07
Agreed.
1:07:14
Last week,
1:07:16
I was binge-watching Dave athlete
1:07:18
interviews.
1:07:20
I have not really caught very many of
1:07:21
them.
1:07:21
I need to go watch them.
1:07:24
I think they're pretty good.
1:07:25
I think he's gotten better.
1:07:27
I noticed he's pumped out a ton this
1:07:29
weekend.
1:07:30
Okay.
1:07:31
So I'm way behind again.
1:07:35
Dylan was this weekend, Dylan Hamming.
1:07:37
Oh, nice.
1:07:37
I'll have to catch up.
1:07:39
It was like Enola Kai, Callum Clemens.
1:07:46
So a lot of that group that just
1:07:49
qualified recently.
1:07:50
Tudor?
1:07:52
Or was that one already done?
1:07:53
Tudor was earlier.
1:07:54
Okay.
1:07:56
Tudor was a good one.
1:07:59
It's funny because the people that were on
1:08:01
his demo team,
1:08:03
There's this bond.
1:08:07
And Tudor was on the demo team with
1:08:10
him.
1:08:11
And so Tudor's so shy.
1:08:13
Yeah.
1:08:16
And he's gotten a lot better since you
1:08:19
and I have interviewed him.
1:08:22
But with Dave, he was very relaxed.
1:08:28
I think he's definitely gaining some
1:08:29
confidence.
1:08:30
I mean,
1:08:34
I mean,
1:08:35
CrossFit will do that for you in the
1:08:38
gym and out of the gym.
1:08:41
Actually,
1:08:41
I just had chaired one of Greg's gym
1:08:45
creatives that Sousa had put out some of
1:08:48
his quotes.
1:08:49
And, you know,
1:08:50
like CrossFit just makes you a better
1:08:52
person in general.
1:08:55
I think gaining that confidence in the gym
1:08:59
is, you know,
1:09:00
it's only helping him in every aspect of
1:09:02
his life.
1:09:04
is tutor shy or just a child tutor
1:09:07
shy i just think he's an introvert very
1:09:11
much yeah like if i look like tudor
1:09:15
i would be the biggest extrovert in the
1:09:17
world i'd be walking to the grocery store
1:09:20
shirtless i would be like put me on
1:09:23
gq that man is hot i am a
1:09:28
straight man but that dude is hot i'm
1:09:32
surprised he doesn't have more of the
1:09:33
ladies
1:09:35
Knocking down his door.
1:09:39
I thought Kyra's was the best.
1:09:42
I thought Lydia Fish's was the best.
1:09:45
I liked Lydia's questions to Dave.
1:09:48
We got to know how long Dave has
1:09:50
been married.
1:09:51
We got to know about his family life.
1:09:54
No other athlete has dove into that
1:09:56
before.
1:09:57
Well,
1:09:57
he doesn't always share that kind of
1:09:59
stuff.
1:09:59
That's awesome that she asked that.
1:10:01
I love that.
1:10:02
Yeah, it was great.
1:10:05
uh uh tutor was great on the glintons
1:10:10
yeah they really loosened him up and it
1:10:12
was good it was a good interview um
1:10:26
uh the greatest adaptation to crossfit
1:10:28
takes place between the ears some greg guy
1:10:30
say that said this and very true
1:10:34
Very true.
1:10:35
And I think that is something Tudor did
1:10:36
have to work on.
1:10:37
Yes.
1:10:40
And last year he took tenth.
1:10:43
I cannot wait to see what the follow-up
1:10:45
is.
1:10:51
So.
1:10:55
What else do we have?
1:10:59
We had a couple announcements this week.
1:11:01
Pig, snail, bike.
1:11:03
Oh, yeah.
1:11:05
It's all exciting.
1:11:08
I think that's super exciting.
1:11:10
Those are implements I think people have
1:11:12
been wanting to see again.
1:11:16
And I think it just brings you more
1:11:19
to the outdoor event type atmosphere when
1:11:24
you get implements like that,
1:11:25
which people have been asking for.
1:11:30
I love it.
1:11:32
I've been asking for them.
1:11:34
I'm excited.
1:11:34
So now we have hopper, pig, snail, bike,
1:11:39
pool.
1:11:43
And there's one other thing I know I'm
1:11:46
missing, but we have a lot of implements.
1:11:50
That means I think a more well-rounded,
1:11:55
better for the spectator.
1:12:01
Is Tudor disappointed if he finishes tenth
1:12:03
again?
1:12:06
I think he would be,
1:12:09
but as an analyst,
1:12:11
I would say it's such a hard field.
1:12:17
It is a very difficult field.
1:12:19
I think anyone in the top ten is
1:12:23
literally world class.
1:12:26
The top ten is going to be crazy.
1:12:29
Whoever finishes in the top ten should
1:12:31
have no disappointments.
1:12:35
I think it is not unreasonable to think
1:12:38
that the gap between first and tenth is
1:12:42
the smallest we've ever seen.
1:12:44
Yeah.
1:12:50
I just think.
1:12:54
I mean,
1:12:54
podiums are going to be crazy on both
1:12:55
sides, honestly.
1:12:57
I think it's exciting on both sides.
1:13:03
um well no specialized bikes i don't i
1:13:10
don't know i if if i were to
1:13:15
pick the bike workout i want bike repeater
1:13:18
to come back and that was that's the
1:13:22
rope climb one yep yep oh that's cool
1:13:27
it was the most simplistic bike ride
1:13:31
but the most fun with the rope climbing
1:13:34
it.
1:13:34
Yeah.
1:13:44
So... Earlier this week,
1:13:49
I did mention an idea to fix the
1:13:51
games.
1:13:53
Oh, what was that?
1:13:56
So I think...
1:13:57
We're at a place where spectators are
1:14:00
dwindling.
1:14:01
I agree.
1:14:02
People are not watching like they used to.
1:14:06
And when I say people,
1:14:07
I'm not talking about you, me,
1:14:08
or the people in the chat.
1:14:10
We are there every week for everything,
1:14:13
no matter if it's on an iPhone or
1:14:16
whatever.
1:14:17
Agreed.
1:14:20
I think we need to strip everything back
1:14:23
and only ten men and ten women make
1:14:26
the CrossFit Games.
1:14:31
Because that is your spectacle, right?
1:14:34
And if you think of the spectacle in
1:14:35
every other sport,
1:14:37
it's a championship game.
1:14:39
Even the Olympics are one heat for the
1:14:43
gold medal.
1:14:50
That's because there's so much going on at
1:14:52
the Olympics.
1:14:54
But the Super Bowl is down to two
1:14:56
teams.
1:14:57
The
1:15:00
It just is.
1:15:02
Now think about it as a spectator and
1:15:04
not you as a geek to the sport.
1:15:10
An event would be done in twenty to
1:15:13
thirty minutes.
1:15:18
So it's not an all day sit in
1:15:21
front of your computer watch.
1:15:25
Well, what are you having them do?
1:15:28
Four events a day over three days?
1:15:30
It's still every two hours.
1:15:35
You can catch up at the end of
1:15:36
the day.
1:15:37
It's a couple quick events.
1:15:39
It's one heat per.
1:15:44
I don't know that I would prefer that.
1:15:47
I'm not asking if you would prefer it.
1:15:50
I know that people already scroll ahead.
1:15:52
Like if you were,
1:15:53
if you're going to go watch it,
1:15:54
if you're at home for the weekend,
1:15:56
you fast forward to the last heat.
1:15:57
Correct.
1:15:58
Correct.
1:15:59
Which is like exact.
1:16:02
It wouldn't matter.
1:16:03
It'd be the exact same, but that,
1:16:05
but a person coming off the street isn't
1:16:08
going to know to fast forward past all
1:16:10
this stuff to get to the last heat.
1:16:14
So how is the,
1:16:16
the broadcast litter is just like,
1:16:19
Event one, and then it turns off.
1:16:20
And then a new show pops up,
1:16:22
event two.
1:16:23
It's a different YouTube feed every time.
1:16:27
So it's event one, event two,
1:16:29
and you go...
1:16:31
Or I think it's a better sell to
1:16:33
networks.
1:16:35
It would fit in a half-hour show.
1:16:40
It would fit in a streaming.
1:16:41
Why can't you post-produce that anyway and
1:16:44
be like...
1:16:45
here was our four events from the day
1:16:47
and here of these four top heats.
1:16:50
Here we go.
1:16:50
Post-produced sports suck.
1:16:53
Most what?
1:16:54
Post-produced sports suck.
1:16:57
Well, it would be, you can't, that's,
1:16:59
but that's exactly,
1:17:01
you would post-produce that.
1:17:02
Like you're not selling that to the
1:17:03
network.
1:17:04
Hey, we're going to have these three,
1:17:08
we're going to have these four events.
1:17:10
They're going to be every two hours for
1:17:12
twenty minutes.
1:17:12
Like, how are you getting that on
1:17:15
Network TV.
1:17:18
Now hear me out.
1:17:18
Did we, when we were on ESPN,
1:17:21
the last couple of times we were on
1:17:23
ESPN,
1:17:24
didn't we run live events on like Friday
1:17:28
night, Saturday, Sunday afternoon?
1:17:34
Yes.
1:17:35
I think they,
1:17:36
I think they did their mile run in
1:17:38
the, in the bag sprint.
1:17:40
Yeah.
1:17:42
Right, but if you only had one heat,
1:17:45
you don't have to dictate your programming
1:17:48
to the network.
1:17:50
Whatever it's going to be,
1:17:51
unless you do MRF or some kind of
1:17:55
long run or whatever,
1:17:57
you can fit it into a half an
1:17:58
hour show.
1:18:00
How are you fitting it into a half
1:18:01
hour show is what I'm asking.
1:18:03
By post-producing it, right?
1:18:04
No, run it live.
1:18:07
How are you doing four events?
1:18:09
You can't do that.
1:18:11
I didn't say four events.
1:18:13
When we were on ESPN before live...
1:18:14
You're just taking one of their events.
1:18:15
You're just going to say event four is
1:18:17
going to be on TV?
1:18:18
Right.
1:18:18
And on ESPN on a Sunday,
1:18:20
they're trying to fill time.
1:18:22
You could run one or two of them.
1:18:23
You could do that.
1:18:25
You could do that with...
1:18:27
Again, you would just be like,
1:18:28
here's our final heat, put this live,
1:18:31
which I kind of think they did anyway.
1:18:34
You didn't even get in on the first
1:18:36
heat when they put it on that.
1:18:38
Okay,
1:18:39
but there's nobody showing up either
1:18:42
because who wants to sit through the same
1:18:45
workout eight times?
1:18:48
If I'm going to go there and I'm
1:18:50
going to be there at eight a.m.
1:18:52
for event one and then back in there
1:18:55
at eleven a.m.
1:18:56
for event two and then back in there
1:18:57
at one thirty at one thirty p.m.
1:18:59
for event three and back in there at
1:19:01
four for if I went and spent the
1:19:04
money to go watch,
1:19:05
I'd rather if I wanted to be able
1:19:07
to sit there and watch for eight straight
1:19:09
hours.
1:19:09
What the heck?
1:19:10
Then I'm not going to go.
1:19:13
But you're looking at this as you.
1:19:17
I mean,
1:19:17
I don't know about the general fan who
1:19:20
I mean, there's a lot of problems.
1:19:22
And I think, though,
1:19:23
to do it down to ten at the
1:19:24
games,
1:19:25
you have to have a much better season
1:19:27
to get there.
1:19:29
A much more straightforward,
1:19:31
linear season that makes sense,
1:19:34
that creates drama getting there.
1:19:37
And then the championships are the ten
1:19:41
elite athletes going head to head.
1:19:45
I don't like the point system for a
1:19:47
ten-person event.
1:19:48
When they did the ten people...
1:19:51
You have to strip this down to nothing
1:19:54
and start over.
1:19:57
I don't know.
1:19:58
The only thing I think could be good
1:19:59
about it is if they somehow involved the
1:20:02
community at these events because there's
1:20:06
all this dead time in between events.
1:20:08
That's the only way it could work.
1:20:10
Yes.
1:20:11
Yes.
1:20:12
But
1:20:12
But I feel like that's what was great
1:20:13
about everyone all together.
1:20:15
And there was something for everybody.
1:20:16
And it was,
1:20:18
you had the spectator workout or area,
1:20:21
like they already had it nailed down and
1:20:23
it was doing great.
1:20:25
Like you don't need to cut it back
1:20:28
to make it do great.
1:20:29
You needed to keep it all inclusive.
1:20:33
Okay.
1:20:33
We have, we have multiple problems.
1:20:36
We have a season that doesn't make sense.
1:20:38
We have dwindling attendance at events.
1:20:42
We have dwindling numbers on streaming.
1:20:49
And no vendors are showing up anymore
1:20:52
because nobody goes to the vendors.
1:20:57
So if you have downtime,
1:21:00
more people would go to the vendor village
1:21:03
to go to the vendors to spend money.
1:21:08
Let's think about like Wadapalooza.
1:21:10
There's these big gaps during the elite
1:21:13
individual events.
1:21:16
And people go into the vendor village
1:21:18
during those times.
1:21:19
And that's why Wadapalooza's vendor
1:21:20
village is three times the size of the
1:21:23
games.
1:21:23
Yeah,
1:21:24
but there's also like two thousand people
1:21:26
there.
1:21:27
Again,
1:21:27
it's because it's more inclusive and
1:21:31
everyone's there competing.
1:21:34
And they bring their friends and family.
1:21:37
If you cut the fields down,
1:21:39
you could add a couple of the age
1:21:41
groups in to fill some of that gap.
1:21:45
But only ten of them get to come
1:21:47
to the games, too.
1:21:52
One, the ticket prices are way too much.
1:21:54
Agreed.
1:21:55
I think that's your biggest issue.
1:21:58
But it's more than a one-issue fix, right?
1:22:04
And whether you like my idea or not,
1:22:07
someone has to sit down and just strip
1:22:08
it down to bare bones and start and
1:22:12
not do things because we've always done
1:22:14
them or because we did them ten years
1:22:17
ago and it worked ten years ago.
1:22:19
The younger generation will not sit down
1:22:22
for lengthy periods of time to watch
1:22:24
something.
1:22:28
You have to make it easy for them
1:22:29
to see it on their phone.
1:22:30
You have to make it quick and easy
1:22:32
to see.
1:22:35
And the numbers show that we are not
1:22:39
getting people to the games.
1:22:42
And whether that's ticket prices or too
1:22:45
long of an event, I mean, my God,
1:22:48
I love, love the Masters games.
1:22:52
I get sick of the same event for
1:22:55
twenty seven heats.
1:23:00
I agree.
1:23:00
I mean, I feel like.
1:23:05
I feel like the teens need to be
1:23:09
with the younger masters and then like the
1:23:16
older master.
1:23:16
I mean, I don't know,
1:23:17
maybe even split the fourteen fifteen off
1:23:20
with the older because I feel like the
1:23:23
programming is needs to be different.
1:23:27
Weights need to be different.
1:23:29
I think you can make the sixteen to
1:23:30
seventeen up to like fifty.
1:23:35
A little bit more difficult programming.
1:23:40
And it wouldn't be.
1:23:42
Seventeen heats.
1:23:45
I agree.
1:23:46
It'd be four heats.
1:23:47
I'm the one that said Masters should cut.
1:23:50
After forty nine.
1:23:51
Yeah.
1:23:53
Until we figure this stuff out.
1:23:55
Like.
1:23:56
Trying to fit this.
1:23:57
The Titanic.
1:24:00
Into a new.
1:24:01
A new port is nearly impossible.
1:24:06
It sucks because I feel... Truly,
1:24:08
I feel like the Masters are the sport
1:24:11
of CrossFit.
1:24:12
I know everyone says the Elites are
1:24:18
bringing the money, but do they?
1:24:23
If the Masters don't sign up for the
1:24:25
Open, there's not even really a season.
1:24:28
Look at the numbers.
1:24:29
It's the Masters.
1:24:33
I do...
1:24:35
I understand what you're saying.
1:24:37
And this is probably the biggest problem
1:24:40
with CrossFit as the sport.
1:24:43
To separate it from the methodology is
1:24:45
very hard.
1:24:48
The methodology is being put into practice
1:24:52
by the Masters athletes, right?
1:24:55
But nobody watches the Champions Tour on
1:24:59
the PGA as much as they watch the
1:25:02
regular PGA Tour.
1:25:04
It's just a fact.
1:25:06
People want to see the best of the
1:25:07
best.
1:25:10
I just say, whittle it down.
1:25:13
But again,
1:25:14
you better get the right ten there.
1:25:15
Because now you're down to ten.
1:25:17
So the season has to make more sense.
1:25:21
Right.
1:25:22
And I feel like the year of the
1:25:23
ten was not well done.
1:25:31
In my mind, I have...
1:25:34
some way to go smaller venue or affiliate
1:25:39
or whatever way you want to go to
1:25:42
get, to get down to like,
1:25:44
you qualify out of this just like,
1:25:47
and I know we're not the NFL,
1:25:49
but the NFL has divisions.
1:25:52
You have to win your division to make
1:25:53
the playoffs.
1:25:54
And then there's a couple wild cards,
1:25:57
right?
1:25:58
You have divisions around the world.
1:26:00
You have to win your division to get
1:26:02
to the games.
1:26:06
If you don't win your division,
1:26:07
you have to be a wild card.
1:26:09
And it has to be very specific how
1:26:11
you qualify as a wild card.
1:26:15
But as the funnel gets smaller,
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the drama gets greater.
1:26:20
And if you make that funnel,
1:26:24
it's really hard to take two thousand
1:26:26
people qualifying for semifinals and put
1:26:28
drama around that.
1:26:30
Mm hmm.
1:26:31
right right if only the top two hundred
1:26:34
make it out of quarters there's a lot
1:26:37
of drama around quarters yeah and so it's
1:26:45
all about what is more consumable for a
1:26:50
viewer a spectator what brings the drama
1:26:54
back to this that it makes sense
1:26:58
But we have like, oh, my gosh,
1:27:01
I want to call this season last chance
1:27:03
you because everybody has multiple
1:27:07
chances.
1:27:07
It doesn't.
1:27:09
It's as it is so aggravating.
1:27:14
Yeah.
1:27:16
there are years that teams get upset and
1:27:18
don't make it through the playoffs.
1:27:20
And like everybody thought the Celtics
1:27:23
would go far in the playoffs this year,
1:27:25
they get beat early by a bad seventy
1:27:27
sixers team and the NBA went on and
1:27:30
had a great successful season.
1:27:34
Right.
1:27:34
There were still storylines.
1:27:36
There were still great things to watch.
1:27:40
Didn't hurt.
1:27:40
They got New York into the finals and
1:27:42
that's a big population.
1:27:43
Yeah.
1:27:44
But
1:27:47
That's what makes sports great.
1:27:51
You have to play the game.
1:27:54
If you don't show up on that day
1:27:56
to play the game, you're out.
1:27:59
I think that's why regionals was so
1:28:00
exciting.
1:28:01
It was your shot.
1:28:02
You couldn't, if you were sick, it sucked.
1:28:05
Yeah.
1:28:05
You were going to miss out that year.
1:28:08
Yeah.
1:28:13
So
1:28:16
As the quote actually goes,
1:28:17
you play to win the game.
1:28:23
And the more times you have to play
1:28:26
to win the games, to win the game,
1:28:29
to move on, the more drama it becomes.
1:28:34
I mean,
1:28:34
look at the college football playoff.
1:28:36
That thing was so unpredictable the last
1:28:38
couple of years.
1:28:42
You seed the people because of their
1:28:43
season.
1:28:44
And who would have picked Indiana to win
1:28:47
the national championship?
1:28:51
It didn't mean that people didn't enjoy
1:28:53
the championship game.
1:28:56
Just because Ohio State was at home this
1:28:58
year.
1:29:00
I love that Ohio State was home this
1:29:02
year.
1:29:03
Gave Indiana a shot.
1:29:11
So.
1:29:14
There would need to be more consistency
1:29:16
with the semifinals.
1:29:18
Amen.
1:29:18
Yes.
1:29:19
Yeah, absolutely.
1:29:22
I also believe that the semifinals,
1:29:26
the one thing we've gotten away from is
1:29:28
the surprise of what happens at the games.
1:29:31
When you have eleven semifinals doing
1:29:33
eleven groups of workouts,
1:29:37
there's nothing left to be new with when
1:29:39
you get to the games.
1:29:44
When you had all the regionals doing the
1:29:46
same six workouts,
1:29:48
there was a lot of stuff you didn't
1:29:50
get to see those people do until they
1:29:53
got to the games.
1:29:56
I agree.
1:29:57
I think that's where we've just become
1:30:00
oversaturated.
1:30:01
The space is oversaturated.
1:30:04
I understand CrossFit wanting to offload
1:30:07
things,
1:30:08
but those comps need to just be those
1:30:11
comps for...
1:30:13
their own thing and they shouldn't be a
1:30:15
part of the season if it you know
1:30:18
like people who aren't in the season go
1:30:22
do those comps and they should be big
1:30:25
community events like I think CrossFit
1:30:27
needs to be in charge of the entire
1:30:28
season with standard programming across
1:30:32
everything so that yeah so yeah you don't
1:30:35
like you are in charge of the programming
1:30:37
so the whole season makes sense here's the
1:30:41
hot take
1:30:45
In CrossFit, the methodology,
1:30:46
we want to help everybody become
1:30:48
successful and do well.
1:30:51
In sport,
1:30:52
you have to hurt people's feelings.
1:30:55
And CrossFit's afraid to do it.
1:30:58
CrossFit doesn't want to hurt anybody's
1:31:00
feelings.
1:31:01
They don't want the boo-hooing and
1:31:02
bitching about what happened during the
1:31:04
season.
1:31:05
So they let everybody have ten chances.
1:31:08
And they put in a last chance qualifier.
1:31:10
And they do all this...
1:31:12
All because they don't want people to have
1:31:15
hurt feelings.
1:31:17
Back in the regional days,
1:31:19
people got their feelings hurt.
1:31:23
And that's when CrossFit was the most
1:31:25
successful.
1:31:28
Because if people are getting their
1:31:30
feelings hurt, it matters.
1:31:34
Yeah.
1:31:37
So enough of the boohooing and crying
1:31:39
around.
1:31:41
We want that back.
1:31:44
We want the boohoo and the crying around
1:31:46
because that's what brings emotion to the
1:31:50
sport.
1:31:54
With that, that's all I got for tonight.
1:31:59
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1:32:08
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1:32:10
With that, hope you have a great week.
1:32:12
We'll be back tomorrow with lunch with the
1:32:14
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1:32:16
Until then,
1:32:17
hope everybody has a great night and we'll
1:32:20
see you tomorrow.
1:32:21
Bye guys.
1:32:53
Sunday