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Lunch with the Clydesdale - We are 1 Day Away from The 2026 CrossFit Games Season · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:03
  So now let me get my notes out.
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  We have a response to the response to
• 0:09
  the response to the video that Hiller put
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  out.
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  And guess what?
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  Scheduled later today, another response.
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  I love the chase and the hunt,
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  and I set the pace when I'm running.
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  I always take what I want,
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  and I always give it one hundred.
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  Don't need a bank, no one funded.
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  Play the game like it's nothing.
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  I'm always thankful for something.
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  Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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  Now wake up!
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  It's time to look at the enemy.
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  Look in the mirror if he is no
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  friend to me.
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  It's not working out,
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  maybe it's the chemistry.
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  It's time to break up.
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  it's lunch time what is going on everybody
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  every day every day we're nice break in
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  the middle of the work day or middle
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  of your evening if you're over in europe
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  depends on where you're nice breakfast
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  time if you're over on the west coast
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  right you get all we had all the
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  meals morning lunch and dinner we got
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  everything covered everything covered
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  So five minutes before we go on the
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  air,
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  I get a press release from the WFP.
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  And I'm going to share that right now
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  because it is breaking news.
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  The WFP has decided to move the location
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  of tour stop one.
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  They are now going to have tour stop.
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  You listening, Lito?
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  You listening?
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  Tour stop one will now happen in London.
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  london so uh it will actually take place
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  in london united kingdom on the same dates
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  as originally scheduled at drum sheds
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  located in edmonton in the london bureau
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  of enfield they will serve as host venue
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  due to what is happening in mexico
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  currently
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  They deemed it unsafe.
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  Their actual words from Jackson Terry
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  were,
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  we did not take this decision lightly and
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  began working on contingency plans
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  directly following the initial news over
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  the weekend, said Jackson Terry,
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  WFP Director of Operations.
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  We immensely appreciate and recognize the
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  support provided by the community of
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  Mexico and look forward to returning in
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  various capacities in the future.
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  Probably a lot less cartel activity in
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  London than in Mexico City.
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  Unless Lido's up to something new.
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  Unless Lido's up to something we don't
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  know about.
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  Yeah, a hundred percent.
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  I would say England,
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  a lot less Mexican drug cartel action
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  going on over there.
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  Lido says, oh, exciting.
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  Only a three hour train ride from here.
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  There you go.
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  Little action right there in the UK.
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  Lito is looking side to side.
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  Take that ride, girl.
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  Go check it out.
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  If it was somewhere close, dude,
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  I'd go watch, if nothing else,
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  just to go see.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm planning on going to Indianapolis this
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  year.
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  Just because I want to see it.
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  I just want to see it live.
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  We see the lighting on screen.
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  I want to see how that translates.
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  Everybody says it looks really cool live.
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  Correct.
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  And so the only way to know that
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  is to go.
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  And so I'm going to go to Indianapolis
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  and we're going to give it a try.
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  Yeah.
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  Worst case scenario,
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  you see some incredibly fit people doing
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  some incredibly fit people things.
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  Chad Anufi says,
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  holy moving across the planet, Jesus.
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  Well,
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  if anybody can move it across the planet,
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  it would be Jesus.
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  I would go with Jesus first.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  He has that capability.
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  He's got, he can do things.
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  It's fantastic.
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  I would think London is going to
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  complicate some things for some people
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  travel time-wise.
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  I think it probably complicates a lot of
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  things.
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  People probably have already bought their
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  tickets, hotel rooms,
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  all that kind of stuff.
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  It's probably going to be a mad scramble
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  to now get it all for London.
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  But time-wise for some of those athletes
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  trying to do both,
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  and trying to squeeze in a semifinal and
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  squeeze in WFP.
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  And now you're probably adding a little
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  bit of travel time to that,
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  but it's not like it's Asia or Australia,
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  right?
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  Like, yeah, we're not talking like, like,
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  like, like, like, like, like,
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  london's doable so i will say kudos to
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  the wfp because the mexican the cartel
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  stuff just happened right it's been within
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  a couple of days and for them to
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  be able to pivot that quickly and get
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  everything because i mean yeah you're
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  right people probably already have plane
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  tickets bought hotel stays booked all that
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  good stuff but we're still i mean we're
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  at the end of february right march april
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  may you still got enough time to kind
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  of pivot and get your stuff
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  Whether it's refund or travel credits or
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  whatever to try to get pushed back or
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  pushed around and move it.
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  Hey, I'm not going to Mexico anymore.
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  I'm going to London now.
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  And then making that quick of a decision.
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  Well, it even says in a press release,
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  a difficult decision by WFP comes as the
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  U.S.
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  Department of State issued a do not travel
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  advisory throughout Mexico on Sunday.
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  Yeah.
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  So that happened on Sunday and they have
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  made this switch by Wednesday.
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  We have bashed WFP and done a smear
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  campaign for a lot of things.
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  This one should be a check mark in
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  the great column.
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  A hundred percent.
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  Great call.
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  Swift action.
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  Make sure your athletes are safe.
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  Make sure your volunteers are safe.
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  Make sure it's,
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  it moves to a place that is begging
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  for CrossFit action.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  Moving.
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  We know that South America and Central
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  America love CrossFit.
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  We know that Europe has been begging for
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  high profile events.
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  So they move from one hotbed to another
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  hotbed in four days.
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  That's now you got to think that it
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  had to have been a contingency.
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  Right.
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  They had to have some sort of contingency
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  in case something happened because they
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  didn't just suddenly move everything in
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  four days.
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  I don't feel like they're moving.
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  Well, I say that.
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  I hope they're not moving with their,
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  you know,
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  asses on fire and their heads is catching
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  type deal.
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  Like I would think they would have had
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  at least a venue,
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  like on kind of a standby thing to
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  go, Hey,
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  we might need y'all for something.
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  Um, uh,
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  Aku Black Dragon, oh wow, okay,
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  guess I'm going to WFP.
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  It's twenty minutes away.
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  See,
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  there's going to be people like Lito and
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  Aku Black Dragon who are going to be
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  so pumped that they have an event right
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  there down the road.
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  I'm anxious to see what it actually does
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  for ticket sales.
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  Right?
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  Because Canada, not Canada,
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  Europe showed up in Copenhagen
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  It's going to be interesting to see how
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  they show up in England.
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  Europe showed up in Copenhagen Christmas
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  week.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  That's kind of a big deal.
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  In my book, anyway, I have no idea.
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  It's celebrated as a bunch of a big
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  deal as it is here in the States,
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  but it seems like it's a big deal.
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  So for them to move it on three
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  days notice, four days notice,
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  however you want to look at it,
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  Going to London and it's now beginning of
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  May.
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  I feel like it's going to be a
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  good turnout.
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  I hope it is.
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  I hope it is for them.
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  Again,
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  as much as we've smacked them around and
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  pointed out things and whatnot,
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  I will repeat for the hundredth time that
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  we do not want to see them fail.
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  No,
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  we want to see them try new things
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  and see if they work.
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  Yes.
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  That's what this was all about, right?
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  Correct.
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  We've done it the same way for twenty
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  years.
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  Let's see if there's another way that may
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  work better.
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  Sure.
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  Because if I've complained about one thing
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  about the CrossFit Games season,
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  it is so inconsistent on how it's run.
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  It is hard to follow.
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  It is not easy to explain to a
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  friend who's never seen it before.
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  Right.
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  And what WFP was trying to do is
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  set up a season structure that you could
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  explain.
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  Now,
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  they haven't done a great job of doing
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  that themselves,
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  but at least it's built in a way
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  that should be easier to explain.
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  It's something brand new.
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  It was their first season.
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  They're working it out.
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  Look, again...
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  We may not agree with how they handle
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  things, how they do things and whatnot,
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  but I do feel like for the most
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  part,
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  they have their heads or their hearts,
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  I should say, in the right place.
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  And our ever pessimistic friend,
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  Joseph Ramirez,
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  even a broken watch is right twice a
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  day.
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  As my papa used to say,
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  sunshine's on a dog's ass every now and
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  again.
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  So good for him.
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  I wonder if there are people doing the
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  qualifier that will change their mind
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  based on location could be a significant
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  cost increase for those non-pro card
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  holders.
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  I agree with you, Wayne.
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  I do think it'll probably affect the
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  qualifiers.
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  However,
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  I think getting people safe was the most
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  important objective and they did that
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  well.
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  Here's the other thing too,
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  as far as the qualifiers is concerned,
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  people who might not have done them
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  because it was a chance of them having
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  to go to Mexico City who are in
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  Europe.
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  which is probably a pretty big deal.
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  Now we're probably looking at going, well,
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  maybe I'll throw my hat in the ring
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  for the qualifier.
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  So I think for as many as you
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  might lose, you'll probably gain.
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  So this is another part of the press
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  release.
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  Due to the location change,
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  the WFP is also extending the Tour Stop
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  One online qualifier an additional seven
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  days.
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  Yeah.
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  Scores will be submitted now by March
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  fourth at eight p.m.
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  Central Standard Time.
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  A minimum of fifteen men and women will
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  qualify to compete against the signed and
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  invited pros at the London Pro.
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  Registration is still live.
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  Good.
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  So if you didn't want to go because
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  it was in Mexico city and now,
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  you know,
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  it's in London and I am sure a
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  ton of European athletes will now jump on
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  the,
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  the opportunity to go to London for this
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  week to do the qualifier.
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  They'd be silly not to honestly.
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  Jody says that's a lot of administrative
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  gymnastics to move this type of event.
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  Kudos.
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  Uh, it is,
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  it is a lot of moving parts to
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  move very,
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  very quickly and to put out that press
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  release and say, Hey,
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  this is what we're doing.
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  Thank goodness.
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  Like rogue has a distribution center in
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  Europe.
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  And so that part hopefully is less
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  gymnastic key,
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  but to get a venue that fast, um,
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  I'm going to have to go look that
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  place up.
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  Yeah.
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  But kudos to them.
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  Yeah.
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  Great job.
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  The other thing I wanted to talk about
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  WFP is since,
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  since Jamie and I were arguing so
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  vehemently on Sunday night about,
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  I get to like finish my sentence today
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  without being yelled at.
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  The one thing I do think,
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  Well,
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  I think there are drawbacks to guaranteed
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  money.
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  Yeah.
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  I think it's the only way a new
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  up and coming entity in this space can
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  get athletes.
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  Sure.
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  It's the only way to draw them over.
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  If not,
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  they're going to take their chances during
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  the season.
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  and go for the crossfit games something
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  that's known and something that they know
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  is going to be there too many times
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  we've had events that at the end of
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  the day didn't even have the money to
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  pay out the athletes can't west i'm sorry
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  name several
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  the first one that comes to mind and
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  so the only way to get people to
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  buy in is to show that you have
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  the money and that you're guaranteeing
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  that money up front for them to come
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  and give you a shot now the key
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  moment to this is that they have to
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  put on a show and treat these athletes
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  in a way that makes sense and creates
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  brand loyalty
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  Yeah, it's more than just money.
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  Right.
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  Money gets them in the door.
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  Now you got to show them that you
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  can put on a professional show.
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  Yeah.
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  And a show that makes sense and to
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  keep them there.
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  That is the only way you're going to
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  make inroads against or with the CrossFit
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  game season.
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  A hundred percent.
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  A hundred percent.
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  I agree with you on that one for
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  sure.
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  But it was fun listening to Jamie yell
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  at you.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, if you've never traveled with us,
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  that's all Jamie and I do.
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  I shouldn't say this.
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  There are a lot of things we do
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  agree on.
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  But man, when we fight,
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  it is knock down, drag out.
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  It's almost like I have a second wife
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  at times.
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  Yeah, that's fair.
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  And her husband's there taking it on as
• 14:35
  much as I am.
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  So like,
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  she does the same to her husband that
• 14:40
  she does to me.
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  So anyway, I think it's a good move.
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  Kudos to the WFP.
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  No smear today.
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  Nothing but love.
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  The way to turn that around in four
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  days is and maybe even give them seven
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  days when it started to escalate.
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  Yeah.
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  Like impressive.
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  That was kudos to them for picking up
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  and moving to a safer location for the
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  athletes, the fans and the volunteers.
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  That is impressive.
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  Very much so.
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  And maybe this is a trend in the
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  right direction for them.
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  We'll go ahead and let that play out
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  first, and then we'll see.
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  Just trying to offset Joseph's pessimism.
• 15:27
  Well, you can offset Joseph's pessimism,
• 15:30
  but you will not offset his beard.
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  I'll go positive.
• 15:33
  Joseph can go negative.
• 15:36
  You can offset his pessimism,
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  but you will not offset his beard.
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  Have you seen that thing?
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  Oh, yeah, I saw it live, man.
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  Dude, it's so nice.
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  I saw it live and in person, man.
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  I saw it.
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  I got a reel or something, a picture,
• 15:55
  whatever it was,
• 15:55
  on Instagram yesterday morning,
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  and then I saw him yesterday on Glinton's,
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  and I was like, damn,
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  that thing is nice.
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  Mine would never do that.
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  It takes me back to my Jim the
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  Anvil Knight heart days and pro wrestling,
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  you know.
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  Absolutely.
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  I think his is better.
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  His is better.
• 16:15
  Oh, yeah.
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  No, Ramirez's is absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  So, all right.
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  Let's dive into this one.
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  So, last night,
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  Hiller went live again to respond to his
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  – it really was another response to Taylor
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  –
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  on his own but it was after his
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  other response to taylor with tyler so
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  then so now we have hiller's response in
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  addition to hiller's response to taylor's
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  response to hiller's video and now today
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  at five p.m
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  we have Taylor going for another response
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  at five p.m.
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  Eastern time today.
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  I want you to think about this for
• 17:12
  a second.
• 17:12
  Jay Burch says once his gets that long,
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  it dips in his ramen.
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  That's a fact.
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  I want you to think about this for
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  a second.
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  Hiller is eating this up because it's
• 17:24
  views and it's clicks.
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  I get that, but I...
• 17:30
  He's on vacation.
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  I'm aware.
• 17:34
  He's doing these poolside.
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  Yeah.
• 17:37
  Poolside from the hotel room.
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  And I got last night, like,
• 17:42
  he made some conceding.
• 17:45
  They seemed like he was making concessions
• 17:48
  to things that...
• 17:50
  taylor said in his um in his video
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  but i'm not sure they were true
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  concessions because then he would show a
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  contradiction between the one thing he
• 18:02
  made a concession to and then taylor
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  contradicting himself on the next slide or
• 18:07
  whatever it was um it's absolutely insane
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  that this is going on this long
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  I'm over it.
• 18:23
  I'll tell you that.
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  Like I got the notification that Hiller
• 18:25
  was live last night at some point.
• 18:29
  And I didn't know why I say that.
• 18:30
  I got a notification from whatever Hiller
• 18:33
  channel it was on, Andrew Hiller,
• 18:35
  whatever.
• 18:36
  And I thought he had just released another
• 18:37
  video.
• 18:38
  I didn't realize he had gone live until
• 18:39
  this morning.
• 18:41
  I pull up YouTube and I see I
• 18:43
  had a notification.
• 18:43
  I was like, oh no, no,
• 18:44
  he went live again.
• 18:46
  Holy smokes, dude.
• 18:48
  It's like back forth, back forth,
• 18:49
  back forth, back forth.
• 18:50
  The world's longest, slowest tennis match,
• 18:53
  which is happening back and forth,
• 18:55
  just lobs over the net and then lobs
• 18:57
  over the net.
• 18:58
  And I understand like neither one,
• 19:01
  I won't say neither one's backing down.
• 19:02
  Cause I don't really think it's as much
• 19:04
  of a fight as everybody makes it out
• 19:05
  to be,
• 19:06
  but neither one of them could not have
• 19:09
  the last word.
• 19:12
  Cause that's where we're at.
• 19:14
  Right.
• 19:16
  That's what it seems like because it
• 19:17
  should have been just after the first one,
• 19:19
  just, hey, I know you're wrong, I'm right,
• 19:22
  or whatever.
• 19:22
  Okay, I'm going to be better.
• 19:24
  And then done,
• 19:26
  move on to the next thing.
• 19:28
  Hiller has said it a million times.
• 19:32
  Clicks and views.
• 19:33
  Clicks and views.
• 19:35
  So the more Taylor responds,
• 19:37
  Hiller's just going to come on back and
• 19:38
  be like, this is growing my channel.
• 19:40
  Cool, let's do it again.
• 19:41
  I think...
• 19:43
  I hear what you're saying.
• 19:45
  And nobody pays attention to the analytics
• 19:47
  more than Hiller.
• 19:49
  I mean, I've,
• 19:49
  I sat with the guy and asked him
• 19:51
  questions about the analytics so that I
• 19:53
  could understand it better one day.
• 19:55
  Nobody,
• 19:56
  nobody dives into the analytics like that
• 19:58
  man.
• 20:00
  It's way over my head and he dives
• 20:03
  in hard,
• 20:04
  but this is seemingly getting personal and
• 20:08
  not in a way like I hate you,
• 20:10
  but in a way like I want to
• 20:12
  be right.
• 20:13
  Yes.
• 20:14
  And I want to have the last word.
• 20:19
  And it's crazy.
• 20:21
  Ken Walter says, like,
• 20:22
  two sorority girls fighting over the same
• 20:24
  guy.
• 20:25
  Not saying I know from experience.
• 20:27
  Oh, man, you're a handsome man.
• 20:28
  I didn't know Ken was in a sorority.
• 20:33
  That's news to me.
• 20:35
  Good on you, Ken.
• 20:36
  Breaking the social norms way back in the
• 20:38
  seventies or whenever it was you was in
• 20:39
  college.
• 20:40
  I think Killer knows that any video he
• 20:42
  puts out is going to elicit an unhinged
• 20:44
  response from Taylor,
• 20:46
  which means more videos,
• 20:47
  more views poking the bear.
• 20:50
  but I think it's a little bit more
• 20:52
  than that.
• 20:52
  I think it is that Hiller wants to
• 20:54
  be right.
• 20:57
  I think he believes he's right.
• 20:58
  I think that he wants success for this
• 21:01
  show.
• 21:02
  And I think he believes that if they
• 21:04
  take some of his advice,
• 21:06
  it will become even more successful.
• 21:09
  CrossFit needs more events to happen.
• 21:11
  So media has better things to talk about
• 21:13
  than stupid YouTube drama,
• 21:14
  which is likely all made up anyway.
• 21:17
  The open starts tomorrow.
• 21:20
  It's probably horrible timing.
• 21:23
  The open starts tomorrow at two central on
• 21:27
  time.
• 21:29
  Holy smokes, dude.
• 21:31
  Hiller can't help but answer,
• 21:33
  it's his only outlet.
• 21:34
  And yes, it gets clicks,
• 21:35
  but is it for clicks?
• 21:37
  That's my question.
• 21:38
  I am not sure it's for clicks.
• 21:41
  Let me ask you this.
• 21:43
  Why can't both things be true?
• 21:45
  Could be.
• 21:46
  Could be both true.
• 21:48
  Here's my thing.
• 21:49
  I don't even,
• 21:50
  I didn't know I had beef with Trish.
• 21:52
  You know,
• 21:53
  like a beef stroganoff or what kind of
• 21:56
  beef are we talking about there, Trish?
• 21:58
  Because I'm sure she has a corningware
• 22:03
  dish somewhere or something or another.
• 22:05
  A casserole with some beef in it.
• 22:08
  I'm all in.
• 22:11
  I love beef.
• 22:12
  Big fan of beef.
• 22:15
  uh mark phillips says i have a teen
• 22:16
  daughter and i have to just let her
• 22:18
  get the last word or we never stop
• 22:21
  amen brother i have lived that life and
• 22:26
  i know it to be true ben says
• 22:30
  just call him instead that's not how it
• 22:32
  works that's not how it works for you
• 22:34
  public people they've put themselves out
• 22:38
  um
• 22:40
  They put themselves out on the internet.
• 22:42
  And because of that,
• 22:43
  they become public people and they are
• 22:45
  opening themselves up to criticism.
• 22:48
  This all started as a critique of a
• 22:51
  show, not the critique of a person,
• 22:55
  the critique of a show and its format.
• 22:59
  And in Hiller's video last night,
• 23:01
  he points out that the part of the
• 23:03
  critique that he spent all the time
• 23:05
  putting together the analytics on Taylor
• 23:07
  skipped over.
• 23:08
  Yeah.
• 23:10
  Because he said it wasn't relevant.
• 23:18
  Did it start there or did it start
• 23:20
  with the dumbbell snatch video and then
• 23:24
  lead into Taylor versus the world?
• 23:29
  I don't know.
• 23:31
  Kill Taylor.
• 23:33
  Taylor's two-hour reaction was one hour
• 23:34
  and fifty-five minutes too long.
• 23:37
  Respond and move on.
• 23:38
  Actions speak louder.
• 23:43
  I'm wondering if he goes two hours again
• 23:44
  today.
• 23:47
  I'll never know.
• 23:50
  I'll never know.
• 23:51
  I'm so over it, dude.
• 23:54
  Why are mom and daddy fighting?
• 23:56
  I don't understand it.
• 23:57
  I really, really don't.
• 23:59
  I just get it all out of the
• 24:01
  way, dude.
• 24:03
  Get over it.
• 24:04
  The more you post,
• 24:05
  the more videos you put out,
• 24:07
  the more it's just going to keep going.
• 24:11
  Trish's response, my wife would not like.
• 24:15
  Go ahead and leave that one alone.
• 24:22
  Vicky,
• 24:22
  I hate my day job and I can't
• 24:24
  quit.
• 24:24
  Both things are true at the moment.
• 24:27
  Amen, sister.
• 24:28
  I know that one too.
• 24:32
  CrossFit, more people are leaving Savant.
• 24:35
  I wonder why.
• 24:36
  I don't see people begging to get on.
• 24:39
  I'm not... Listen, for me,
• 24:42
  this isn't about taking sides.
• 24:43
  No.
• 24:44
  This is just about watching from the cheap
• 24:47
  seats.
• 24:48
  I am not internal to any of these
• 24:50
  conversations.
• 24:52
  I watch both channels.
• 24:54
  I have my own beliefs as to what
• 24:56
  is the stuff I like to watch on
• 24:59
  those channels.
• 25:00
  And... At first, it was fascinating.
• 25:04
  Because you're like, oh...
• 25:06
  Okay.
• 25:07
  These are people that know each other.
• 25:08
  Whenever Hiller did the WFP video review,
• 25:12
  he doesn't know those people.
• 25:15
  Him and Will aren't tight or whatnot,
• 25:17
  having been on the same shows together,
• 25:18
  that kind of stuff.
• 25:20
  Now we're talking about Taylor's show.
• 25:23
  Okay, this is different.
• 25:25
  And then it just snowballed.
• 25:28
  And now we're on video number four,
• 25:29
  going to get video number five this
• 25:31
  afternoon.
• 25:33
  That's too much, dude.
• 25:34
  Leave it alone.
• 25:37
  Omar Cornejo.
• 25:39
  But is it fake then?
• 25:41
  I don't think it's fake.
• 25:44
  I actually,
• 25:45
  and I said this on yesterday's show,
• 25:47
  I thought at first this was staged.
• 25:51
  And then when Tyler came on with Hiller
• 25:55
  on Sunday night,
• 25:57
  that changed my point of view.
• 25:58
  And I did not believe it was fake
• 26:01
  anymore.
• 26:03
  Or staged or whatever it was.
• 26:05
  Because Hiller has staged it.
• 26:07
  John admitted it on WOD prep on Monday
• 26:10
  night that they staged the whole Brian
• 26:13
  friend John thing.
• 26:16
  So it's not beyond Hiller to stage
• 26:19
  something up like this.
• 26:20
  Right.
• 26:21
  But when Tyler came in with his reactions,
• 26:24
  then that validated it for me.
• 26:27
  But I could be wrong there, too.
• 26:33
  Um, Shanna,
• 26:34
  it seems like all this just validates
• 26:36
  Hiller's point that maybe the Savon group
• 26:38
  can't handle criticism.
• 26:40
  Again, I don't think,
• 26:42
  I don't think it's a Savon rip.
• 26:44
  I think it was a criticism of a
• 26:46
  show,
• 26:47
  a criticism of a show that in its,
• 26:50
  in its,
• 26:52
  what it was supposed to be was huge
• 26:55
  at first and had the potential to be
• 26:58
  huge.
• 27:00
  And I think that Hiller's point is it's
• 27:03
  not reaching that level of magnitude that
• 27:07
  everybody thought it would when they came
• 27:09
  up with the idea.
• 27:12
  Yeah.
• 27:13
  And here's the reasons why.
• 27:14
  What could be the reasons why?
• 27:15
  Right.
• 27:21
  Because the concept of the show is
• 27:23
  amazing.
• 27:24
  I love it.
• 27:26
  When they did Taylor versus the world,
• 27:29
  when they did all of those things,
• 27:32
  I was tuned in for every single aspect
• 27:35
  of all of those.
• 27:39
  But again,
• 27:41
  I think it's all about the criticism of
• 27:44
  that one show that everybody thought could
• 27:47
  be the biggest show on the internet.
• 27:49
  And it's not meeting that expectation
• 27:51
  right now.
• 27:57
  There's all kinds of stuff in there.
• 28:04
  Hiller needs to invite Taylor on the show
• 28:06
  for a sit down.
• 28:07
  Probably will happen at some point.
• 28:09
  I wouldn't surprise me.
• 28:14
  I like my peas and mash not to
• 28:16
  touch each other.
• 28:16
  Same with my podcast.
• 28:19
  There you go.
• 28:24
  Lisa just hates the TMZ factor of the
• 28:26
  same old chit.
• 28:30
  Yeah,
• 28:31
  we could be talking about the open and
• 28:33
  we will.
• 28:34
  Yes.
• 28:35
  It does not help promote the open.
• 28:41
  I don't know.
• 28:42
  I don't know.
• 28:44
  I mean,
• 28:45
  they're not talking about the open.
• 28:46
  That's for certain.
• 28:47
  They're just talking about each other at
• 28:48
  this point.
• 28:50
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  It's like listening to your favorite song
• 28:56
  on the radio, DeForest Streaming,
• 29:00
  and it would play over and over and
• 29:03
  over in the course of a month,
• 29:04
  and then you get bothered by it.
• 29:07
  Yeah, I know that.
• 29:13
  In CrossFit media,
• 29:14
  and if I'm happy about USA winning medals,
• 29:21
  I must have missed the first part of
• 29:23
  that.
• 29:23
  Probably.
• 29:27
  Taylor wouldn't bring up his dead child if
• 29:28
  it were fake.
• 29:29
  Probably another good point.
• 29:35
  ACR, I don't have a side,
• 29:37
  but I do think if I was a
• 29:39
  YouTuber,
• 29:39
  I would not be only focused on the
• 29:41
  views like Hiller.
• 29:44
  I don't think he's only focused on it,
• 29:45
  but I think he does use them.
• 29:50
  You can't say that Hiller doesn't put out
• 29:51
  good content.
• 29:54
  Because he does.
• 29:55
  You can't say Savant doesn't put out good
• 29:57
  content because he does.
• 29:59
  And they both go about it in different
• 30:01
  ways.
• 30:03
  And I think that is the crux of
• 30:04
  the problem.
• 30:05
  Yeah.
• 30:07
  Because one thinks it should be done the
• 30:09
  other way.
• 30:09
  One thinks it should be done another way.
• 30:20
  Yep.
• 30:20
  I agree.
• 30:21
  And, man, it's just blowing up.
• 30:22
  Yeah.
• 30:23
  Worst problems to have.
• 30:28
  What is plugged in behind Corey?
• 30:29
  It stresses me out.
• 30:31
  That's actually all the stuff that is
• 30:33
  powering my laptop and this mixer and
• 30:37
  everything else.
• 30:37
  So it's going to stay plugged in.
• 30:41
  A barbell spin should be interesting
• 30:42
  tonight.
• 30:44
  because john started to say some things on
• 30:48
  monday yeah yeah podcast on monday night
• 30:51
  so with tyler already saying things and
• 30:57
  that will give john the freedom to go
• 30:59
  further it'll be interesting to see what
• 31:01
  comes out yeah i don't usually i don't
• 31:04
  usually have the opportunity to catch them
• 31:07
  and i'm coaching this evening but i might
• 31:09
  watch that in in its entirety tomorrow
• 31:11
  morning when i get when i get to
• 31:12
  work so
• 31:15
  The reasons it doesn't is because we live
• 31:17
  in a world where people get too bored,
• 31:19
  too fast, and they're always wanting more,
• 31:21
  more, more.
• 31:25
  She ain't wrong.
• 31:26
  Ortega wants to know if he's the only
• 31:27
  one that thinks this is amazing.
• 31:30
  I guarantee you're not.
• 31:32
  No.
• 31:35
  There are people who think it's super
• 31:36
  entertaining.
• 31:37
  I can promise you that.
• 31:43
  Especially if you don't have a dog in
• 31:44
  the fight and you're just watching two
• 31:46
  people just kind of go back and forth
• 31:48
  at each other and you enjoy that kind
• 31:50
  of stuff, then yeah, no,
• 31:51
  you're not the only one, Tega.
• 31:53
  Not at all.
• 31:54
  Normal people voice their opinion or
• 31:55
  critique.
• 31:56
  If they don't listen, then fine.
• 31:59
  It's Taylor and Sivan's show,
• 32:00
  Just Walk Away.
• 32:07
  I have so many thoughts.
• 32:08
  I just think that
• 32:12
  Hiller gave feedback and the same can be
• 32:15
  said for Savon and Taylor.
• 32:17
  Either you take the feedback or you walk
• 32:19
  away.
• 32:22
  We'll just go cool.
• 32:24
  Yep.
• 32:25
  We're going to keep playing it our way.
• 32:27
  And then just go and keep doing what
• 32:29
  the hell you were doing.
• 32:31
  It's really not that difficult.
• 32:34
  I've gotten lots of advice from tons of
• 32:36
  people, some good, some bad.
• 32:39
  The good, I thank them for their time.
• 32:41
  The bad, I thank them for their time.
• 32:42
  And I go, yep, I'm never doing that.
• 32:44
  I'm just going about my business.
• 32:46
  But that's just me.
• 32:49
  Not everybody's wired that way.
• 32:54
  Did Will and WFP react the same way
• 32:57
  after receiving criticism about his new
• 32:59
  thing that was supposed to be the greatest
• 33:00
  thing?
• 33:03
  I can't even explain the reaction of that.
• 33:07
  I think they've been way too slow to
• 33:08
  react.
• 33:09
  I think they're actually in a place now
• 33:11
  where they could actually see success as
• 33:14
  something a little bit different than what
• 33:16
  they portrayed it to be,
• 33:17
  if they're willing to go all in on
• 33:19
  that.
• 33:21
  But that is yet to be seen,
• 33:23
  as Corey eloquently said earlier.
• 33:36
  um wow there's so many here let's throw
• 33:40
  this one up here right quick like just
• 33:43
  i can't even keep up with the comments
• 33:44
  right now crossfit said reddit picked up
• 33:47
  on the drama it's there if it's on
• 33:50
  reddit god help i cannot go there because
• 33:53
  it's a dumpster fire but if reddit picked
• 33:56
  up on it then it's definitely a thing
• 33:58
  then that means that ortega is not alone
• 34:00
  because they're enjoying the out of it
• 34:03
  people on reddit are looking at and
• 34:04
  thinking that crossfit team itself because
• 34:06
  those two are fighting um hexi lover to
• 34:13
  me i gave up i'm with clydesdale's wife
• 34:16
  i will only watch muted talking smack can
• 34:18
  be done without insulting indian india
• 34:21
  people accents and in showers
• 34:35
  This is actually probably the most
• 34:37
  relevant statement,
• 34:38
  if you consider how much you make per
• 34:40
  hour spending hours making content about
• 34:42
  this is a fool's errand for both parties.
• 34:47
  There's a lot more productive ways to
• 34:49
  spend your time.
• 34:49
  Yeah.
• 34:51
  Agreed.
• 34:59
  So that's that rebuttal number five is
• 35:03
  happening tonight.
• 35:04
  If you're interested at five PM Eastern
• 35:06
  time and we're going to move on.
• 35:11
  Yeah.
• 35:12
  I'll be on my way to coach the
• 35:13
  five.
• 35:14
  No, thanks.
• 35:15
  So I've decided to do something that I
• 35:18
  didn't think I would do.
• 35:18
  And that is I'm going to do a
• 35:20
  thirds of giveaway.
• 35:22
  Oh, I have one travel pack.
• 35:25
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• 35:28
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• 35:54
  and have a shot,
• 35:56
  go to the comments section of this video
• 35:59
  or any video until Sunday night.
• 36:03
  and say, Thirdsy is jazzy.
• 36:07
  Thirdsy is jazzy.
• 36:10
  I will then select one of the people
• 36:12
  who say that,
• 36:13
  and I will send you this bag,
• 36:16
  this travel-sized bag of salted caramel
• 36:18
  chocolate.
• 36:20
  The problem with Corey is,
• 36:21
  if you're affiliated with the show,
• 36:23
  you are not eligible.
• 36:24
  This is the first day since being a
• 36:26
  member of this channel and being on this
• 36:28
  show that I've regretted being a member of
• 36:30
  this channel and being on this show
• 36:32
  because I don't have a chance to win.
• 36:34
  That stuff is so good.
• 36:36
  Teresa, not in the chat.
• 36:38
  Not in the chat.
• 36:39
  It's got to be in the comments.
• 36:41
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• 36:44
  It is delicious.
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  You cannot get this in the store.
• 36:47
  You can't.
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  That's the last.
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  That's probably the last one.
• 36:50
  The last unopened bag for damn sure.
• 36:53
  Possibly on the planet.
• 36:56
  You can't get it at thirdsy.com.
• 36:58
  All they have is strawberry lemonade,
• 36:59
  which is fantastic.
• 37:02
  FYI.
• 37:03
  But you can't get it.
• 37:05
  And that's a big deal for Scott to
• 37:07
  be giving it away.
• 37:08
  And I'm sad right now.
• 37:12
  Corey's resignation is incoming.
• 37:17
  Kenneth's Lab.
• 37:18
  No other shows treat you this good.
• 37:21
  Yeah.
• 37:21
  If you were one of the original members
• 37:23
  of this channel when we were with C-Four,
• 37:26
  the palette of stuff that C-Four gave you
• 37:29
  for being a member was freaking awesome.
• 37:31
  Bro,
• 37:33
  I still got two shaker bottles from C-Four
• 37:35
  written on them from the free stuff I
• 37:37
  got from y'all.
• 37:39
  Yeah.
• 37:41
  Someday I hope to get them back because
• 37:44
  they were such a great sponsor too.
• 37:49
  Teresa is going to put third Z is
• 37:50
  jazzy everywhere.
• 37:52
  Go for it.
• 37:54
  In case C four is watching.
• 37:56
  I'm just saying I keep it right there
• 37:57
  by the desk.
• 37:58
  Bam.
• 38:02
  C four to wake you up.
• 38:03
  Third Z to put you to sleep.
• 38:05
  I'm just saying, man,
• 38:05
  it's a great combination right there.
• 38:09
  I remember during the sanctional day,
• 38:11
  C four pallets were being given away.
• 38:13
  Nearly stopped my heart several times.
• 38:17
  Literally,
• 38:17
  they would show up at my house and
• 38:20
  a semi would drop off a pallet of
• 38:21
  C-Force stuff for me.
• 38:23
  It was the greatest sponsor ever.
• 38:28
  And I've had some really good sponsors.
• 38:30
  Really good sponsors.
• 38:33
  But I love that.
• 38:35
  Yeah.
• 38:36
  Anyway, we don't need to keep going on.
• 38:37
  They're no longer a sponsor of the show.
• 38:39
  Moving on.
• 38:40
  That is what it is.
• 38:41
  So,
• 38:41
  Thirdsy is Jazzy in any comment section of
• 38:44
  any video from today through Sunday night.
• 38:48
  And then, just like the open,
• 38:51
  as we submit our scores on Monday,
• 38:55
  on Monday's lunch show,
• 38:56
  I will give away the bag of Thirdsy
• 39:00
  salted caramel chocolate.
• 39:01
  So, that is the twenty-fifth,
• 39:03
  the twenty-sixth, the twenty-seventh.
• 39:05
  And then Sunday is the first.
• 39:10
  So you got one, two, three, four,
• 39:13
  five days counting today.
• 39:16
  Yeah, there's no show Saturday,
• 39:17
  so that takes away one of your
• 39:18
  opportunities.
• 39:19
  You got four days.
• 39:20
  And you have the shows.
• 39:22
  You put that in the comments.
• 39:24
  Monday on the lunch show,
• 39:25
  we are giving away the bag.
• 39:27
  There it is.
• 39:28
  If you're international, though...
• 39:30
  I can probably do Canada.
• 39:32
  I'm not sure I can do Europe for
• 39:34
  the shipping cost for one travel bag.
• 39:37
  Yeah.
• 39:40
  There it is.
• 39:41
  Jody.
• 39:44
  And we double clicked it.
• 39:45
  There we go.
• 39:45
  Wait, my question is a pill powder gummy.
• 39:47
  Just curious.
• 39:48
  It is a powder.
• 39:50
  It is just like protein powder.
• 39:52
  You put it in the salted caramel chocolate
• 39:54
  I mix with milk that has been heated
• 39:56
  in the microwave in my Ninja Bullet,
• 39:59
  and it gets really frothy like a coffee.
• 40:03
  It's so good.
• 40:03
  And it is so good at night.
• 40:05
  Nice warm drink before bed.
• 40:09
  And the strawberry lemonade,
• 40:10
  you mix it with cold water,
• 40:12
  and it is strawberry lemonade.
• 40:14
  It's delicious.
• 40:15
  If you are willing to pay for the
• 40:17
  shipping, I will send it.
• 40:22
  But if you're in the States or Canada,
• 40:23
  I will send it to you and pay
• 40:25
  for the shipping.
• 40:30
  Does it hit faster if you snort it
• 40:31
  asking for a friend?
• 40:33
  I would not know.
• 40:35
  Yeah, I don't know, Joe,
• 40:37
  but let me know if that works out
• 40:40
  for you.
• 40:42
  Matter of fact, video it.
• 40:44
  I would love to see that.
• 40:45
  Never seen anybody do a bump of thirdsy.
• 40:50
  No, no, no, no.
• 40:51
  But there's a first time for everything.
• 40:59
  Yeah, we're not boofing it either.
• 41:02
  Not messing with any of that.
• 41:04
  Thanks.
• 41:07
  So.
• 41:09
  Anyway, there's that.
• 41:11
  So tomorrow is the first open
• 41:13
  announcement.
• 41:14
  And for me,
• 41:15
  what's even cooler about that is that it's
• 41:18
  the open of the twenty twenty six CrossFit
• 41:20
  game season.
• 41:22
  It all kicks off tomorrow.
• 41:25
  We get to play for a little while.
• 41:28
  And then it moves on into higher stages
• 41:31
  and we get to follow the season and
• 41:33
  we get to talk about the athletes and
• 41:35
  we get to see who's higher on the
• 41:36
  leaderboard.
• 41:37
  And then we get to talk about all
• 41:39
  that cool stuff tomorrow at three PM
• 41:42
  Eastern time,
• 41:43
  we will have a workout to discuss.
• 41:46
  I'm excited.
• 41:49
  And we will get into not the drama,
• 41:52
  but the actual sport of CrossFit and what
• 41:55
  it means.
• 41:58
  I have to say, so far,
• 42:00
  CrossFit has been hitting it out of the
• 42:02
  park with the people they have doing the
• 42:04
  announcements,
• 42:06
  with the media coverage leading up into
• 42:08
  it.
• 42:10
  They have been crushing it.
• 42:12
  I am so excited for tomorrow's
• 42:14
  announcement to see how creative they have
• 42:17
  gotten with these workouts.
• 42:20
  Did you see a weapons grade grace with
• 42:24
  a hopper and spray and they put it
• 42:27
  against Dan Bailey's?
• 42:29
  I did not.
• 42:30
  Bro.
• 42:32
  I'll have to go check that out.
• 42:34
  I'm not because it's hard to see like
• 42:37
  what their actual times were,
• 42:38
  but people are saying or CrossFit actually
• 42:40
  said spray got him by like one second.
• 42:42
  Got Dan Bailey by like one second from
• 42:44
  back in the day,
• 42:45
  which is crazy as far as the time
• 42:49
  is concerned.
• 42:50
  It is.
• 42:51
  CrossFat,
• 42:52
  it appears they actually have a media
• 42:53
  timing plan.
• 42:55
  Yeah.
• 42:56
  I wish they'd move it up about two
• 42:58
  weeks, but other than that,
• 42:59
  that's my only criticism.
• 43:00
  That's valid.
• 43:05
  Do we know how many people have signed
• 43:06
  up for the Open?
• 43:09
  It was... I'll check and see now.
• 43:13
  We should be approaching this number right
• 43:15
  about this time every day.
• 43:16
  Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't.
• 43:21
  should be approaching two hundred and
• 43:22
  shouldn't it it should be i know at
• 43:27
  my gym we had a bunch of new
• 43:28
  people we are doing my first intramural
• 43:32
  open i am the captain of a team
• 43:34
  we got three teams going everybody in the
• 43:36
  gym is on a team whether you sign
• 43:37
  up for the open or not does not
• 43:39
  matter you know yep there we go so
• 43:42
  this was two hours ago this is not
• 43:43
  helping it is his story but he grabbed
• 43:46
  it from somebody else it's a live
• 43:48
  registration tracker and he provides a
• 43:50
  link
• 43:52
  Two hours ago,
• 43:53
  one hundred seventy three thousand five
• 43:55
  hundred and seventy eight.
• 43:57
  That is up a little bit.
• 43:59
  And people are going to allow when people
• 44:00
  get signed up between today and tomorrow
• 44:03
  and between today and Friday, honestly.
• 44:07
  Here is the live.
• 44:08
  Well, didn't go to the screen.
• 44:10
  The live screen is about for a little
• 44:14
  over four hundred more than that.
• 44:17
  Cool.
• 44:17
  No.
• 44:17
  A thousand four hundred.
• 44:19
  Oh, fourteen hundred.
• 44:20
  All right.
• 44:20
  Yeah.
• 44:21
  So we're at one seventy four nine eight
• 44:22
  two as of this minute.
• 44:25
  Love it.
• 44:28
  Anyway,
• 44:28
  we have a bunch of new people in
• 44:29
  the gym and a lot of the brand
• 44:31
  new people are signing up fully open.
• 44:35
  Because they are bought in and they are,
• 44:37
  you know, breaking down for them.
• 44:39
  Hey, look, this is perfect for you.
• 44:41
  You just started.
• 44:42
  This is a great way to see where
• 44:44
  you're at this year.
• 44:46
  stick with us for a year open rolls
• 44:48
  back around you get to compare yourself
• 44:50
  and see just how much you've actually got
• 44:53
  and it seems to be working so we're
• 44:56
  uh super excited uh over at crossfit
• 44:58
  vertis yeah i am uh i'm a fan
• 45:04
  of the intramural open
• 45:06
  When I was at shred CrossFit,
• 45:07
  we packed the house every Friday night,
• 45:11
  every Saturday morning was packed with not
• 45:14
  only people doing the open,
• 45:17
  but people supporting those who did the
• 45:19
  open because they were on your team.
• 45:21
  We split the gym into four teams and
• 45:24
  we competed for points.
• 45:26
  And at the end of the thing,
• 45:28
  the winning team got, got swag.
• 45:32
  I can't wait, dude.
• 45:33
  Like,
• 45:33
  we got – we are the varsity team.
• 45:38
  Just throwing that out there.
• 45:39
  We're the varsity team.
• 45:41
  Black shirts.
• 45:43
  You bring your people to come and watch.
• 45:45
  You know, come check us out.
• 45:46
  Come help.
• 45:47
  You don't have to be a member of
• 45:48
  the gym.
• 45:49
  But, like,
• 45:50
  we got points for the most people all
• 45:52
  dressed in their team colors.
• 45:53
  We got the most points for – points
• 45:55
  available for performance in the open,
• 45:58
  for just the amount of people on your
• 46:00
  team just showing up,
• 46:01
  like –
• 46:03
  Aaron spent a lot of time working out
• 46:05
  the point system and whatnot.
• 46:06
  It's going to be,
• 46:06
  it's going to be a good time.
• 46:07
  It's going to be a good time.
• 46:08
  I can't wait.
• 46:10
  Shana.
• 46:11
  That's how I got roped into CrossFit and
• 46:12
  ultimately competing sign up for the open
• 46:15
  and see how you do next year.
• 46:16
  And the year after that,
• 46:18
  and eventually become CrossFit games
• 46:19
  champion as a master's athlete.
• 46:21
  Wait, wait, she didn't write that.
• 46:23
  That was, that was my editorial ad.
• 46:25
  Yeah.
• 46:27
  Well, it's that part's implied.
• 46:29
  Yeah.
• 46:31
  My gym also has three groups and captains
• 46:33
  and colors.
• 46:34
  Love it.
• 46:35
  Yeah, my old gym, Shred,
• 46:37
  they're probably over three hundred
• 46:39
  members now.
• 46:40
  It is almost probably eighty to eighty
• 46:43
  five percent participation.
• 46:45
  And it is split into four teams.
• 46:47
  four four different colors shirts are made
• 46:50
  so you wear your shirt every week so
• 46:52
  everybody knows what team you're
• 46:53
  representing and there's always a theme
• 46:56
  every week and you can earn points with
• 46:59
  your themes and who who embraced it the
• 47:02
  most we do a canned food drive during
• 47:04
  that time as well that's a good idea
• 47:08
  that and uh i'll be honest we it
• 47:12
  hit gosh they're probably on year ten of
• 47:14
  this now
• 47:16
  And the first couple of years, you know,
• 47:17
  we were finding our way.
• 47:18
  And now it's like a well-oiled machine
• 47:20
  with,
• 47:22
  we have a head judge who makes sure
• 47:24
  judges are assigned to every lane for
• 47:26
  every attempt.
• 47:28
  It's crazy, man.
• 47:29
  They do such an amazing job of it
• 47:31
  there.
• 47:33
  I'm excited.
• 47:34
  Like I said,
• 47:34
  this is my eighth CrossFit Open.
• 47:36
  They've done them,
• 47:37
  we've done them at Birders before,
• 47:38
  but it was before I was a member.
• 47:40
  It's just been a long time.
• 47:43
  And when we had two locations,
• 47:46
  the open was a big deal.
• 47:48
  We'd have Friday Night Lights.
• 47:49
  That's when the open was still five weeks.
• 47:51
  One location at the beginning of the open,
• 47:53
  one location at the end of the open
• 47:55
  for a big Friday Night Lights thing.
• 47:59
  And it was awesome, dude.
• 48:00
  And then sold the other location.
• 48:03
  kind of, you know, less membership.
• 48:04
  I won't say falling off,
• 48:06
  but then just a general,
• 48:09
  hasn't been as hype before,
• 48:11
  but this year you can,
• 48:12
  I can feel it.
• 48:13
  I feel like it's going to be a
• 48:14
  good time Friday night.
• 48:15
  So I'm pumped, dude.
• 48:16
  I really, really am.
• 48:17
  I am a little upset because we got
• 48:19
  points for performance.
• 48:21
  in like each of the workouts but because
• 48:23
  i'm a captain i don't get points if
• 48:26
  i win the workout in our gym so
• 48:29
  um i was like that's kind of it's
• 48:32
  kind of crappy but i mean whatever moving
• 48:34
  right along yeah yeah that's that we do
• 48:37
  that i i think the captains can score
• 48:39
  on ours but um
• 48:43
  But yeah.
• 48:43
  And the best thing they do is they
• 48:45
  do a week four of the open,
• 48:47
  which is just a big community workout.
• 48:49
  And then the award ceremony and like a
• 48:52
  picnic.
• 48:54
  We're doing we're going to get a banner
• 48:56
  made.
• 48:58
  And then whatever team wins,
• 49:00
  you can sign your name on the banner.
• 49:02
  You know, CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:04
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:06
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:08
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:09
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:10
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:12
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:13
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:16
  CrossFit Games Open.
• 49:28
  So with that,
• 49:30
  I know what today's Wednesday, right?
• 49:33
  Usually.
• 49:34
  Yeah.
• 49:34
  So today is a sport of fitness podcast.
• 49:37
  It's probably going live now with
• 49:38
  something.
• 49:39
  If not soon,
• 49:40
  they're saving it for tomorrow.
• 49:44
  Look at you, Vicky.
• 49:46
  My hubby signed up for the open.
• 49:48
  There you go.
• 49:54
  Lupus is average high rocks male,
• 49:55
  thirty three point one versus CrossFit
• 49:58
  open thirty six point eight and
• 49:59
  increasing.
• 50:01
  However,
• 50:02
  if you read Halpin's analysis yesterday,
• 50:05
  the American signups are actually getting
• 50:07
  younger.
• 50:09
  They are actually trending downward.
• 50:12
  it feels like an upswing.
• 50:14
  It feels like it did to me anyway,
• 50:18
  like the year after I signed up like,
• 50:21
  it feels like there's momentum and like
• 50:24
  people are getting excited.
• 50:26
  If another reason, in fact, that like,
• 50:27
  we just put on like eight to ten
• 50:29
  members since the first of the year and
• 50:32
  like,
• 50:33
  That's a lot at our place.
• 50:34
  We only got a five, a hundred members,
• 50:37
  something like that.
• 50:38
  So like you put on ten percent ish
• 50:41
  of your membership within three weeks,
• 50:44
  excuse me, two months.
• 50:46
  It's kind of a big deal.
• 50:46
  And they're there because they want to do
• 50:47
  CrossFit,
• 50:48
  not because they want to get fit.
• 50:50
  Like we got one lady that's part of
• 50:52
  my six a.m.
• 50:53
  crew now that was doing kid classes and
• 50:56
  stuff at the Y,
• 50:57
  but they just wouldn't push me.
• 50:58
  And I feel like this is going to
• 51:00
  be more of the stuff I was looking
• 51:02
  for.
• 51:02
  Like I want to be pushed.
• 51:04
  I want to do heavy stuff.
• 51:05
  And I was like, let's go.
• 51:07
  You're in the right place.
• 51:09
  See,
• 51:09
  I think that's where we're missing a
• 51:12
  piece.
• 51:13
  And that is that instead of bashing High
• 51:19
  Rocks,
• 51:21
  people are going to want something
• 51:22
  different.
• 51:24
  They're going to want to pick up a
• 51:25
  barbell.
• 51:26
  They're going to want to do more than
• 51:28
  a wall ball and a burpee.
• 51:30
  And where are they going to go find
• 51:32
  that?
• 51:33
  Well, at the gym,
• 51:34
  they're probably already training at,
• 51:35
  but just doing high rocks is across the
• 51:38
  hall, across the class going on.
• 51:40
  Yeah.
• 51:42
  Right.
• 51:42
  So instead of like bashing each other,
• 51:45
  just meet them where they are.
• 51:48
  And when they're ready to do more,
• 51:51
  Bring them on because look how many
• 51:52
  CrossFit athletes are going to these high
• 51:54
  rocks events and winning or taking second.
• 51:58
  It's going to start showing them that
• 52:00
  maybe even more overall fitness is better
• 52:04
  for our training for high rocks than just
• 52:06
  training high rocks.
• 52:09
  As it turns out.
• 52:10
  Right.
• 52:13
  So instead of like shunning them,
• 52:16
  embrace them.
• 52:18
  And when it's their time and they're
• 52:19
  ready,
• 52:21
  Maybe they'll come see you.
• 52:22
  Sure.
• 52:23
  I'd love to see.
• 52:25
  At the end of the day,
• 52:27
  it's a CrossFit workout.
• 52:28
  It is.
• 52:28
  Yes.
• 52:36
  Embracing different methodologies is what
• 52:38
  made CrossFit what it is.
• 52:39
  Yes.
• 52:40
  Yes.
• 52:41
  And you cannot get the sound of barbells
• 52:44
  crashing to the floor at a high rocks
• 52:47
  event.
• 52:48
  And there's nothing like that.
• 52:50
  when you hear because everybody's just
• 52:55
  cycling barbells, cleaning jerks,
• 52:57
  or just cleans.
• 53:00
  I love it, dude.
• 53:01
  I absolutely love that noise.
• 53:03
  So I've been,
• 53:04
  I don't know if you've noticed,
• 53:04
  I've been putting out like past open
• 53:06
  pictures.
• 53:07
  I have.
• 53:08
  On Instagram.
• 53:09
  My thumbnails this week are going to be
• 53:11
  past open CrossFit workouts,
• 53:14
  open events that I've done.
• 53:16
  Let's go.
• 53:17
  Today was me doing cleans.
• 53:21
  One of my favorite.
• 53:22
  I just love lifting.
• 53:23
  I love feeling strong.
• 53:26
  And that's how I've been making the
• 53:28
  thumbnails this week.
• 53:29
  I love it, dude.
• 53:32
  Yeah, there's nothing like saying pow,
• 53:36
  pow, pow.
• 53:40
  It's a fantastic noise.
• 53:42
  Y'all pick at me all y'all want,
• 53:43
  but y'all know what I'm talking about.
• 53:45
  If you've been in there during grace,
• 53:48
  during, oh, I like that.
• 53:52
  High Rocks is a running event interrupted
• 53:54
  by CrossFit movements.
• 53:56
  Whatever you want to call it, Peter,
• 53:58
  I just think that we as a community
• 54:01
  should embrace those people because they
• 54:05
  are so close to doing full CrossFit.
• 54:08
  So close.
• 54:10
  And at some point,
• 54:12
  they may get bored with what they're doing
• 54:14
  the same thing over and over again.
• 54:16
  And let's be ready to embrace them and
• 54:18
  bring them in when they want to try
• 54:20
  something a little bit more.
• 54:22
  It's like, you know,
• 54:23
  I know you're having fun doing this.
• 54:25
  But let me introduce you to the clean
• 54:27
  and jerk.
• 54:27
  Yeah.
• 54:31
  That sound is the best on CrossFit PR
• 54:33
  days.
• 54:35
  And there's nothing like slamming down a
• 54:36
  bar.
• 54:38
  Like you hit the lift and you just
• 54:41
  slam down the bar and scream.
• 54:45
  I did a double earlier during the week
• 54:48
  because we just started a new snatch
• 54:49
  cycle.
• 54:49
  And I sent a video to one of
• 54:50
  my partners and he said,
• 54:52
  next time slam that barbell down.
• 54:55
  And I was like, I'll consider it.
• 55:04
  All right.
• 55:05
  Well, with that, guys,
• 55:06
  I need to get back to work.
• 55:08
  Regretfully.
• 55:09
  Unfortunately.
• 55:11
  That is what pays the bills.
• 55:13
  With that,
• 55:15
  we'll be back here tomorrow on open
• 55:18
  announcement day.
• 55:22
  And I know a lot of people are
• 55:23
  doing watch alongs.
• 55:26
  So we'll let them do that.
• 55:27
  We'll just do our own little thing.
• 55:29
  And then Friday,
• 55:29
  we'll talk about what we learned.
• 55:31
  And we might even have some footage of
• 55:33
  some people doing it.
• 55:35
  And we'll kind of walk through that on
• 55:36
  Friday.
• 55:37
  And don't forget in the chat,
• 55:39
  if you put third Z,
• 55:40
  not the chat in the comments,
• 55:42
  if you put third Z is jazzy,
• 55:44
  you are in the running for a very
• 55:46
  rare package of salted caramel chocolate.
• 55:51
  So.
• 55:53
  I'm going to get a bunch of running
• 55:54
  bunnies showing up to smoke me at Murph.
• 55:57
  Great.
• 55:58
  That's fine.
• 55:59
  And then when, and then when you,
• 56:01
  when you get to the lifts, yeah,
• 56:03
  you get to lift the next day.
• 56:04
  You just be like, Oh yeah.
• 56:05
  How's that?
• 56:06
  How's that feel?
• 56:06
  Yeah.
• 56:08
  Glad you got your run in yesterday.
• 56:09
  Yeah.
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  Good for you.
• 56:12
  We have a group of ladies that started
• 56:13
  CrossFit last month doing the open this
• 56:15
  year.
• 56:15
  That is awesome.
• 56:16
  That's what I'm talking about.
• 56:17
  Bringing the optimism, Joseph.
• 56:19
  Yes.
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  Optimism that matches the beard.
• 56:21
  Yeah.
• 56:24
  That's what I'm talking about.
• 56:25
  All right, guys.
• 56:26
  Have a great day.
• 56:27
  We'll see everybody next time.
• 56:29
  Bye.