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Lunch with the Clydesdale - There is so much Tea! "Real World CrossFit"? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:34
  What is going on, everybody?
• 0:36
  Welcome to lunchtime.
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  It's lunch with the
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  Clydesdale on a Monday afternoon.
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  Hope everybody is doing well.
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  Start throw time.
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  Way high.
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  Right angle, just too damn high.
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  Okay.
• 1:02
  Man, I am...
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  I am flat out exhausted went
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  to a concert last night it
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  ended at eleven o'clock had
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  to drive an hour fifteen
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  back to columbus got in
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  about twelve fifteen twelve
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  thirty got into bed could
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  not calm down after the
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  concert and ended up uh
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  falling asleep about two a.m
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  and then up for work this
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  morning and my fifty
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  five-year-old ass is way
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  way tired holy cow I am
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  really really undressing my
• 1:41
  rebound ability compared to
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  what it used to be uh going
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  to concerts uh because I am
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  I'm dragging and uh but
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  it has been a lifelong, well,
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  since the mid nineties dream, uh,
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  to go see collective soul.
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  I used to go to concerts all the time and,
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  um,
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  And collective soul has been
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  one of my favorite bands for a long time.
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  My wife and I've tried to
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  see them a couple of times.
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  And for some reason or another,
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  the show would get canceled
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  and we never actually got to see them.
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  And so last night finally
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  got to see them after twenty five years,
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  thirty years.
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  And.
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  Did not disappoint.
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  They were freaking...
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  freaking phenomenal the lead
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  singer has not lost a
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  single step his notes were
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  crisp and in tune and the
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  so good like it was he they
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  were just really good the
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  band was top notch in sync
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  and I think it's pretty
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  much the original set the
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  original cast of characters
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  which is very rare these
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  days that after thirty
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  years uh the entire band is
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  still together
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  And then, so they were,
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  it's a co-headlining tour
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  with Collective Soul and Live.
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  They flip-flop every other night.
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  Who's going to open?
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  Who's going to finish?
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  Collective Soul opened up last night.
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  And so the only bummer for
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  me is they got an hour and
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  fifteen instead of an hour and thirty.
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  So I missed out on maybe two songs.
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  And then Live came out and did.
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  They finished off the night.
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  I'd seen them in concert before.
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  Big fan of their Throwing Copper album.
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  and um when I was in college
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  we listened to that all the
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  time uh pretty good set
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  they they got into some new
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  music in the middle which I
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  understand they're trying
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  to promote some stuff but
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  it it just it hits a lull
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  because not everybody not
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  everybody knows the stuff
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  right but I know what
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  they're trying to do and
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  they sounded great uh the lead singer was
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  as good as ever.
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  Um, so yeah,
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  but went with a friend who
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  actually worked in New York, Pennsylvania,
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  where live is from and
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  actually saw them in clubs
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  back in the day.
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  And, uh,
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  so he was super stoked last night.
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  And then when collective soul was over,
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  I literally looked at him and said,
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  that was beyond my expectations.
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  And, um,
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  and I am over the moon I
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  could not um I could not be
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  any more happy with uh the
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  concert last night I
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  actually bought a concert
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  shirt uh for the first time
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  since like um they were so
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  good I wish older bands
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  would understand we are not
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  there to hear your new music
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  Um, I go back and forth on that.
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  Like I get it because you
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  still want to be relevant.
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  Um,
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  and if you're putting out new music and
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  you've put all this heart
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  and soul into it,
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  you want to share it with the world.
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  Um, but I,
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  I wish they would have spread it
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  out through the set instead
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  of like made one set of all
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  the new music where the
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  overall concert just kind of lulled.
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  But other than that, it was great.
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  Really, I don't want to poo-poo it.
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  I had a blast.
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  My friend Mark and I had a blast.
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  But, you know,
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  I quit drinking eighteen months ago, too.
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  So like I'm not drinking at
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  these concerts.
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  It's so it's a very
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  different experience now.
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  And I'm really,
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  really loving that and had
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  had a great time.
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  So.
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  But with that,
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  I also went to Pennsylvania
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  this weekend to check on
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  Mama Schweitzer and got to
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  hang out with her for a little bit.
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  Got to fix a couple things
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  around the house.
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  Got to help her with a little bit.
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  And so we had a good time there.
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  Grant, I know your payoff secret.
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  Payoff secret.
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  I don't know what that means.
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  So, okay.
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  It's in your thumbnail.
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  Okay.
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  We'll see.
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  so I also got to hang out
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  with mama switzer that was
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  fun uh we played some cards
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  we I fixed some stuff
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  around the house we went
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  out to dinner had a great
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  time it was really nice
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  getting to meet her but
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  when I'm there like I am
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  totally out of touch with
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  technology so a lot of
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  stuff happened this weekend
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  in the crossfit space I was
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  not able to keep up with it
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  all but I did last night
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  when I couldn't sleep right
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  away did catch some of the
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  stuff and so I I just want to pose
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  this question to you all.
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  And that is with everything
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  going on with Danielle Brandon.
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  And, and again,
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  I have not got to watch everything,
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  so I'm still trying to catch up.
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  Is this good for CrossFit?
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  I have made the argument for
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  years that when we have a villain,
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  CrossFit is going to be
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  better because not only do
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  you have someone to root for,
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  but now you're going to
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  have someone to root against.
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  And the more she is put out
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  there as the villain of the sport,
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  or the more she puts
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  herself out there to be the
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  villain of the sport,
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  however that turns out to be, um,
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  the more I think people will
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  be engaged in her success
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  or lack thereof moving forward.
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  Now, she's going to have her fans.
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  I've had her on the show a couple times.
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  She has some of the biggest
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  numbers of anybody I've
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  ever had on the show.
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  So she is very polarizing on
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  both sides of this argument.
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  But I think the more that's
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  happening lately,
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  the more she is becoming the villain,
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  and the more she becomes the villain,
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  the better for the sport,
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  especially if she's
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  competitive this year.
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  If she finishes top five and
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  she contends with everybody,
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  with everything that's going on,
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  I will tell you the eyes
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  will be on her and how she
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  does as much as Tia or
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  anybody else in the field.
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  And Andrew Sten comes in and says,
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  is she really a villain?
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  What's happening is more to
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  do with stuff outside of
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  CrossFit than anything to
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  do with the sport.
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  Where we are with the sport
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  outside the sport, inside the sport,
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  does it even matter?
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  These people are more social
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  media influencers than they
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  are athletes at this point
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  where we're at.
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  So anything that brings to
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  the story and brings to the
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  character is what's
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  building up the drama for this event.
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  And I think that, yes, it does matter.
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  It does matter what's
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  happening because it's
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  building her up to be
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  This person who is against the affiliates,
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  against CrossFit,
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  against the other people in the gym,
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  all that stuff.
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  And now people want her to lose.
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  People are going to want her
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  to lose as much as they
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  want their favorite athlete to win.
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  And that is what's going to
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  make it even better for the sport.
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  Trent Olive says,
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  I would say it has
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  definitely drawn people
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  into all the podcasts and
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  then driving traffic to
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  personal Instagram for sure.
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  And if it's doing that,
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  it's going to do that to
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  the CrossFit Games as well.
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  If people are drawn into this story,
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  they're going to be drawn in to all of it,
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  not just the podcasts.
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  Vicky, I used to be a DB fan,
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  lost respect for her a year or so ago.
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  Now she just seems like an
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  entitled complainer.
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  But the question is,
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  are you going to root against her?
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  Howard Stern famously said
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  one time that they were
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  doing research on his
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  ratings and the people that
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  loved him listened for an
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  hour and the people that
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  hated him listened for two.
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  So I think when it is fueled by hate,
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  the ratings can even be better.
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  George Wang, i.e.
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  one through four, all look good for DB.
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  If she's contending,
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  it's going to be awesome.
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  Brock Bessette, if she finishes top five,
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  it will be an accident.
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  Look at the field.
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  Look how depleted it is this year.
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  If she's going to finish top five,
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  it's this year.
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  Andrew Sennett's devolving
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  into junior high type gossip stuff.
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  Maybe I've missed some
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  developments from over the weekend.
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  Yeah,
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  apparently there was a letter sent
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  from members of the gym
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  that she is working out at,
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  listing all of the things
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  that she's doing to piss
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  off the other members of the gym.
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  Now, all that is alleged,
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  although if you watch the Savant episode,
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  which I'm about two-thirds
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  of the way through,
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  Um,
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  they did corroborate a lot of the
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  information in it.
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  Um, so it looks like it seems to be true.
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  It's just how far do you
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  think the stuff she's doing
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  should truly affect the gym
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  and the members and who is
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  responsible for it,
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  her or the owner for allowing it?
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  It's a pretty good episode.
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  They go through a lot.
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  Again,
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  I still have about a third of the
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  way to get through before I
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  totally give my full opinion on that.
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  Denise,
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  there will also be those out there
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  who want her to win, too.
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  I agree.
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  She is very polarizing.
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  People either love or hate her.
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  Lito, same, Vicky.
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  I liked her more after that documentary,
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  and now I'm back to being
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  indifferent about her.
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  She's back to being unlikable.
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  I don't know if I'd call her a villain,
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  though.
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  Fergie, it's her fifteen minutes.
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  Sports is full of shit shows.
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  But people tune in for shit shows.
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  Why do people always gawk
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  around at the car accident
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  or the train wreck?
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  People want to see that stuff.
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  C O O one.
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  We prefer the hate.
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  I think, are you cool?
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  Is that what you're trying
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  to do with that?
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  Cool.
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  I don't know.
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  Um, um,
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  why fox news runs clips of
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  msnbc they have five times
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  the audience but make be
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  making people grabs
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  eyeballs it's probably
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  right andrew the games are
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  about entertainment that's
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  what it is it is a show
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  It is a show that they're
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  trying to get people's eyes to watch.
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  Yes, there's a winner at the end.
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  We need to develop more
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  before it's a sport.
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  But all this stuff happens
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  in every other sport that's out there.
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  Because at the end of the day,
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  the NFL is entertainment.
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  The NBA is entertainment.
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  They are on TV.
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  They are trying to grab an audience.
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  They are trying to grab ratings.
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  And so anything that pulls
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  eyes to that is what they're looking for.
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  Jay Birch says, hate is a strong emotion.
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  train all of it.
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  Honestly, I don't mind the drama.
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  It's keeping engaged until the game start.
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  I get it.
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  Exactly.
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  There's not a lot going on, guys.
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  There's not a lot going on.
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  Us people in this business
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  are looking for the things to talk about.
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  George Wang,
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  so far the only people we've
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  heard from except the one caller,
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  all have anti-DB agenda.
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  Hiller was her best defender.
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  Sethi D.,
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  her talent and attitude outweigh
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  the negatives.
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  See, got people in both camps.
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  understand they are now not
• 16:47
  what they were created to be.
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  When it was first created, it was a,
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  it was a festival at a
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  ranch and people camped out
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  and they barbecued and they
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  did all of that stuff.
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  And it was a test to prove a theory.
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  The minute they moved to the
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  home Depot center, stub hub center,
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  whatever it was at that time,
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  it became entertainment.
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  The minute you are in a
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  stadium and you're trying
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  to fill that stadium with people to watch,
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  you are making it entertainment.
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  And the more you can bring
• 17:24
  to the entertainment aspect of that,
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  the more eyes will watch.
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  Terry,
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  there's no way she's coming in top ten.
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  There's no way she can't.
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  I mean,
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  I hate to be... I hate to be...
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  You're one of our best viewers,
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  but you are so... You're
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  overlooking how many people
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  are not going to be at the
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  games this year.
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  Her talent alone will get her top ten.
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  She's just too talented not
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  to finish top ten.
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  Too talented.
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  Too talented.
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  Fergie,
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  remember when Ricky G was the villain?
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  Turns out he was a cool guy
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  that made a bad mistake.
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  I agree.
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  And we all wanted that villain.
• 18:22
  The most exciting year at
• 18:23
  the games is when Matt
• 18:24
  Frazier was a villain.
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  And he was trying to beat Rich.
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  That was the most exciting
• 18:31
  games finish in a long time.
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  And when Rich beat the villain,
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  it was huge.
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  Huge.
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  Um, so Vaughn podcast,
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  we were far from anti DB.
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  No, you are far from anti DB.
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  So Vaughn, you are truly in her corner.
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  Um, Jody Lynn,
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  did you ever go to the rant?
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  I have not.
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  Denise Moore speaking the truth.
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  The more tickets you sell,
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  the more money the athletes get.
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  DB under delivers in every competition.
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  She made under deliver in
• 19:28
  every competition,
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  but even under delivering,
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  she's going to finish top ten.
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  She just finished second at
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  WFP against a more stacked
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  field than she'll see at the games.
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  I mean,
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  say what you will about that
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  competition at this point
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  and where they are,
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  but that was a pretty damn good field,
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  and she finished second.
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  She is very, very talented.
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  Lito,
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  is DB good for CrossFit if we're
• 20:05
  talking about her affiliate?
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  Probably not.
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  And she also doesn't promote
• 20:09
  or like CrossFit, which is crazy to me.
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  But is she good for the CrossFit Games?
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  For sure.
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  Anything that brings eyes to
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  it to find out why she doesn't like it,
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  hopefully people will find
• 20:21
  out why they would like it.
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  And Larry Young proving all
• 20:40
  the reasons why she's going
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  to finish top ten for sure.
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  In wrestling, she would be called a heel.
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  It's all just a show for the fans.
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  I do not disagree.
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  That is exactly why I think she is.
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  This is good for the sport
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  and good for CrossFit.
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  The drama is good for CrossFit.
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  You know, WFP was a good field.
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  There just wasn't enough
• 21:25
  events for her to have a breakdown.
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  So she did very well.
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  Come on.
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  You have to look at this
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  field that she's going up
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  against and her talent.
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  It is going to be top ten for sure.
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  so yeah so uh we're gonna
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  probably talk about this
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  more tonight on monday
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  night crossfit talk again I
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  was at a concert last night
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  uh and so the ladies
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  decided we would do a show
• 21:58
  tonight I gave them the
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  option to do a ladies only
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  show last night but they
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  wanted to do it tonight
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  with everybody so we are
• 22:05
  going live at eight p.m
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  eastern time tonight the
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  Other thing I wanted to talk about is,
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  and this is, okay.
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  I guess the drama gives
• 22:22
  podcast something to talk about.
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  It's more than that, Andrew.
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  It's about the eyes on the competition,
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  which I don't know if, well,
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  we'll talk about it tonight.
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  We have a new broadcasting
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  partner this year.
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  I didn't even see this.
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  It was hidden in who they
• 22:41
  announced as a broadcast team.
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  And on a different slide,
• 22:44
  they announced who's going
• 22:45
  to be covering it.
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  And I think there are some
• 22:50
  advantages to this over ESPN.
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  But we'll talk about that
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  tonight in way more detail.
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  Andrew, we're going to disagree on this.
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  That's fine.
• 23:05
  can we can have go face to
• 23:06
  face head to head have it
• 23:08
  out or just agree to
• 23:11
  disagree to be honest I
• 23:15
  think she needs a therapist
• 23:16
  it's not healthy to lose
• 23:17
  her or blow her personal
• 23:18
  life up the way she does
• 23:20
  she lacks self-control
• 23:21
  emotionally uh she probably
• 23:29
  does and maybe she is we
• 23:31
  don't know she could be getting help
• 23:34
  But just because you're
• 23:35
  getting help doesn't mean
• 23:36
  you don't have lapses in judgment.
• 23:41
  Hell,
• 23:41
  I've gone to therapy and I still
• 23:44
  lapse on what we talk about.
• 23:46
  It happens.
• 23:50
  I will say for the record,
• 23:52
  I have been in Danielle's
• 23:55
  presence a handful of times
• 23:57
  and she has been nothing
• 23:59
  but gracious and nice and kind.
• 24:03
  very accommodating to
• 24:04
  everything that we have
• 24:05
  asked and been very nice to
• 24:08
  me in person every time.
• 24:11
  I have never had a bad
• 24:12
  experience with Danielle.
• 24:22
  So I want to talk a little
• 24:25
  bit about a little bit
• 24:27
  history of this podcast and
• 24:30
  kind of what happened this weekend.
• 24:32
  As everybody knows,
• 24:34
  the Lauren Khalil thing has
• 24:35
  been clipped and run about
• 24:37
  her not getting enhanced
• 24:39
  access to the games.
• 24:44
  When we started this podcast,
• 24:45
  I had no idea that I would
• 24:48
  I didn't think we'd have
• 24:49
  more than ten viewers.
• 24:50
  I was just doing it for fun
• 24:51
  because I wanted to be a
• 24:53
  sports broadcaster at some point,
• 24:54
  gave up on that dream.
• 24:56
  And with other things going
• 24:58
  crappy in my life, I decided,
• 24:59
  let's just start this.
• 25:02
  And in twenty twenty one,
• 25:05
  I wrote a letter to Justin
• 25:06
  LaFranco because they had
• 25:07
  stopped using their YouTube
• 25:08
  channel and I offered to take it over.
• 25:12
  And he agreed to let us do that.
• 25:15
  we got to morning chalk up
• 25:17
  everybody there hated that
• 25:18
  we were there um except for
• 25:21
  one or two people and we
• 25:23
  got sabotaged every
• 25:25
  opportunity people had to
• 25:27
  sabotage us we then go to
• 25:33
  the games I do interviews I
• 25:35
  had a great one with colton
• 25:37
  mertens that got lost with
• 25:38
  morning chalk up um ellie
• 25:41
  turner that got lost
• 25:44
  bunch of others.
• 25:45
  And I just was like,
• 25:46
  I'm done with this shit.
• 25:48
  And I decided I was going to
• 25:49
  go on my own and I was just
• 25:50
  going to grind and grind and grind.
• 25:52
  So the next year we get the semifinals,
• 25:55
  I get media credentials.
• 25:57
  I show up in Knoxville for
• 26:00
  the syndicate and the Mac.
• 26:01
  They were back-to-back years that,
• 26:02
  that year.
• 26:04
  And in the second week of that event,
• 26:07
  I got kicked out of,
• 26:09
  I got kicked out of the
• 26:10
  media room to make room for
• 26:12
  the buttery bros.
• 26:15
  And I was put into an area
• 26:16
  with the judges where they
• 26:20
  were talking loud.
• 26:22
  We couldn't get any work done.
• 26:23
  We were looking for...
• 26:25
  they were looking at their
• 26:26
  schedules and stepping on
• 26:27
  our table with our laptops
• 26:28
  and our equipment.
• 26:30
  And I just said the hell with this.
• 26:31
  And I went and I parked my
• 26:33
  ass right outside the
• 26:34
  tunnel coming off the floor.
• 26:36
  And I just started
• 26:37
  interviewing athlete after
• 26:38
  athlete from every heat
• 26:39
  coming off and recording
• 26:41
  them as fast as I could and
• 26:43
  getting them up on
• 26:43
  Instagram as fast as I could.
• 26:47
  And by the end of the weekend,
• 26:49
  Wilson and his team
• 26:50
  provided me with a table
• 26:51
  and chairs and the whole
• 26:52
  bit to do that in that tunnel.
• 26:56
  So then we get to Granite
• 26:57
  Games the next weekend.
• 26:59
  Same thing happens.
• 27:00
  I'm booted out of the media room.
• 27:02
  And so I go over and I use
• 27:04
  my hotspot on my phone and
• 27:06
  I park outside the warmup
• 27:07
  area where the athletes were.
• 27:11
  And as they came up from the field,
• 27:13
  I was interviewing them
• 27:14
  over and over and over again.
• 27:15
  And this just became my thing.
• 27:18
  Then the next year,
• 27:19
  everybody wants to do what I was doing.
• 27:22
  And so they're jumping in to
• 27:23
  interview these athletes
• 27:24
  coming off the floor.
• 27:27
  At that point, I brought on Jamie.
• 27:29
  I had Cheryl Nasso.
• 27:31
  And there was Kat.
• 27:33
  And people were bullying them,
• 27:36
  saying that they get dibs
• 27:37
  on the interviews because
• 27:38
  of the company that they were with.
• 27:42
  Some of those being Talking Elite Fitness.
• 27:44
  Some of those being Morning Chalk Up.
• 27:49
  And that really pissed me off.
• 27:52
  And so I went back to doing
• 27:55
  some of the interviews so
• 27:56
  that I could protect the
• 27:58
  ground of these ladies that
• 28:00
  had come to try to help me.
• 28:02
  And so we were doing our thing.
• 28:08
  Every place we went to,
• 28:10
  we battled for space.
• 28:12
  Even last year at the Syndicate Crown,
• 28:14
  security tried to kick us
• 28:15
  out of the tunnel where the
• 28:17
  athletes were coming off the floor,
• 28:19
  even though other people
• 28:22
  from other companies were
• 28:23
  in that tunnel the whole time.
• 28:26
  It is... And...
• 28:29
  wilson has always been the
• 28:30
  the best and his team has
• 28:32
  always been the best and
• 28:33
  they gave us an alternative
• 28:35
  but it just sucks that
• 28:37
  these people kept getting
• 28:39
  like better situations and
• 28:41
  better places to be and uh
• 28:46
  and so this year you know I
• 28:47
  didn't make it out to the
• 28:48
  semifinals because my wife
• 28:50
  was going through surgery
• 28:51
  my mom had a stroke a lot
• 28:53
  of stuff were going on like that so
• 28:58
  What was cool this year is
• 29:00
  Lauren makes the statement
• 29:01
  that she doesn't get
• 29:03
  enhanced media credentials.
• 29:06
  And I have to say, finally,
• 29:11
  karma has come around.
• 29:20
  Me and my team this year did the Open.
• 29:23
  Two of my team members won
• 29:25
  the Open in their age group.
• 29:28
  One of those people is going
• 29:29
  to the CrossFit Games.
• 29:31
  Both of them are going to
• 29:32
  the Masters CrossFit Games.
• 29:35
  We have done as much for the
• 29:37
  CrossFit community as anybody.
• 29:39
  We're participating.
• 29:41
  We are backing.
• 29:42
  We are promoting.
• 29:43
  We're doing all that stuff.
• 29:46
  There are some amazing
• 29:49
  people in this space.
• 29:51
  And they have asked me to
• 29:53
  not mention their names.
• 29:54
  And they know who they are.
• 29:56
  They're amazing people in
• 29:57
  this sport and this space
• 30:00
  and they help people out.
• 30:02
  And I'm so grateful to them
• 30:06
  because they are awesome.
• 30:08
  And it's never the people you think it is.
• 30:10
  Those people work in silence
• 30:13
  and in the background and
• 30:15
  they're great people.
• 30:16
  And I appreciate them so much.
• 30:19
  And this year,
• 30:21
  we,
• 30:21
  this weekend we found out I'm getting
• 30:23
  emotional.
• 30:24
  We found out this weekend
• 30:26
  that we have enhanced
• 30:27
  access at the CrossFit
• 30:28
  games for the first time ever.
• 30:32
  And it's going to make what
• 30:32
  we can put out so much better.
• 30:35
  I am so pumped.
• 30:36
  I am so jazzed about this
• 30:39
  and I'm fired up to do the
• 30:41
  best job I can to bring you
• 30:43
  guys the best content we can bring.
• 30:46
  Um,
• 30:48
  But I love the fact that
• 30:51
  there are people that still
• 30:52
  feel it's important to have your back.
• 30:56
  And they do it without
• 30:58
  wanting recognition or
• 31:01
  anything like that.
• 31:03
  And when you watch some of this content,
• 31:05
  there's people that play
• 31:07
  the nice guy and there are
• 31:08
  people that are the nice guy.
• 31:11
  And I just want to thank
• 31:12
  those who truly are the
• 31:13
  nice guys and truly are the
• 31:16
  ones who help you out.
• 31:21
  And I love the fact that
• 31:22
  they did that for us.
• 31:23
  And I love the fact that we
• 31:25
  get an opportunity to show
• 31:26
  what we can do.
• 31:27
  And I love the fact that we
• 31:29
  can really hone in there
• 31:31
  and get our skills better
• 31:33
  and do better and better as
• 31:34
  we move along.
• 31:36
  So.
• 31:38
  You guys are my crowd.
• 31:39
  You guys are my people.
• 31:40
  You're with me each and every day.
• 31:42
  And I want to thank you so
• 31:43
  much for being here.
• 31:44
  And I wanted to let you guys know what...
• 31:49
  what happened and that this
• 31:52
  weekend while I was at my
• 31:53
  mom's house taking care of
• 31:55
  her I got the email I got
• 31:58
  actually a dm from crossfit
• 32:00
  saying you have enhanced
• 32:02
  access we'll send you more
• 32:04
  details in the coming week
• 32:06
  and can't wait to meet you at the games
• 32:09
  and so with that thank you
• 32:10
  guys thank you and you know
• 32:12
  who you guys are if you'll
• 32:13
  help me out um and I want
• 32:15
  to thank you the audience
• 32:16
  for being here every single
• 32:17
  day and hanging out with us
• 32:21
  so thank you all for the
• 32:23
  congratulations uh cross
• 32:25
  fat says uh did you text
• 32:28
  lauren then and a boo-boo I
• 32:31
  really wanted to I really
• 32:33
  really wanted to
• 32:38
  um denise moore enhanced
• 32:41
  access amazing uh lana
• 32:46
  congrats scott well
• 32:47
  deserved uh someone's
• 32:52
  cutting onions congrats to
• 32:53
  scott team it's been fun
• 32:54
  following around clydesdale
• 32:55
  media's journey for the
• 32:56
  last few years uh don't
• 33:03
  piss down dave's back and
• 33:04
  tell him it's raining karma for tef
• 33:12
  Vicky, you earned it.
• 33:20
  By the way, speaking of Tommy,
• 33:21
  did you know he'll be in
• 33:22
  the broadcast team for the
• 33:24
  Masters with Sean Woodland this year?
• 33:26
  He was last year.
• 33:28
  I do want to say this,
• 33:29
  and I know Grant did a thing with Tommy.
• 33:33
  Tommy has always been cool to me.
• 33:36
  Tommy was the one person at
• 33:37
  Morning Chalk Up that didn't F me over.
• 33:42
  Um, and I do have to say that out loud,
• 33:45
  Tommy has always been a class act.
• 33:49
  So has Sean.
• 33:50
  The two of them have never,
• 33:51
  ever done a thing to me in any way.
• 33:54
  Um, that was disrespectful.
• 33:58
  So I'm,
• 33:59
  I'll never speak ill of those two people,
• 34:02
  uh,
• 34:02
  because when everybody else was
• 34:04
  dogging me, they were not, um,
• 34:09
  But there are plenty of
• 34:10
  others who took their shots
• 34:11
  when they could.
• 34:22
  Just made that a simple math
• 34:24
  equation for all of us.
• 34:28
  Hey, I'm not naming names,
• 34:31
  but I don't really care anymore.
• 34:35
  I hit that fifty five and I
• 34:36
  just don't give a shit what people think.
• 34:41
  I just,
• 34:42
  I want to be a head down and grind
• 34:43
  away guy, do my thing the best I can.
• 35:03
  Corey, stop that.
• 35:06
  I cannot express to y'all
• 35:07
  how much Scott deserves this.
• 35:08
  This dude does so much for
• 35:09
  so many without asking for
• 35:11
  anything in return.
• 35:12
  Truly a class act.
• 35:17
  CrossFit here for unfiltered old man,
• 35:18
  Scott.
• 35:19
  Yeah, I am.
• 35:20
  I am the guy that goes out
• 35:21
  and screams at the clouds
• 35:23
  and I am embracing that and
• 35:25
  leaning into that character completely.
• 35:38
  Denise.
• 35:40
  Denise, you're the best.
• 35:48
  Scott doesn't push me on shoes.
• 35:50
  Sleep aids, pre-workouts.
• 35:51
  It's very genuine.
• 35:54
  Even when we had sponsors back in the day,
• 35:56
  we never did ad reads.
• 35:58
  I will never, ever do an ad read.
• 36:00
  Either I use the product and
• 36:01
  I just talk about it in
• 36:02
  general conversation or I
• 36:04
  don't use it and I'm not
• 36:05
  going to have them sponsor us.
• 36:08
  Right now we have zero sponsors,
• 36:09
  so it's really easy.
• 36:11
  But when we had C-IV,
• 36:12
  I actually drank C-IV and
• 36:13
  it was really easy to drink
• 36:14
  it while I was doing the show.
• 36:25
  Um, yes.
• 36:26
  Yells at people parking in
• 36:28
  front of your house.
• 36:29
  I hate that.
• 36:31
  I hate that.
• 36:34
  If you're not coming to see me,
• 36:34
  why are you parking in front of my house?
• 36:43
  Uh, Shannon, you're the best.
• 36:45
  Truly love getting to see you every year.
• 36:59
  Only my second time watching,
• 37:01
  so I'll just stand to the
• 37:02
  side and clap for everyone else.
• 37:04
  Thanks, Mark.
• 37:05
  Come back, check us out.
• 37:15
  All right.
• 37:21
  to what lito said about the
• 37:22
  masters crossfit games um
• 37:25
  the one thing I'll say
• 37:26
  today that we'll talk more
• 37:28
  about it tonight I I wish
• 37:31
  that crossfit would try
• 37:32
  other people at the mic in
• 37:35
  the broadcasting like they
• 37:38
  did with lucy campbell she
• 37:40
  got to hang out with chase
• 37:42
  she got really good at what
• 37:43
  she was doing and I want
• 37:45
  them to try new people
• 37:49
  I don't mind if Sean's doing
• 37:50
  the CrossFit Games Masters.
• 37:52
  Put him with someone else
• 37:53
  though for a trial of
• 37:56
  another color analyst.
• 37:59
  It seems like we just keep
• 38:01
  retreading the same people
• 38:03
  over and over and over again.
• 38:06
  It just, it gets old.
• 38:11
  It's the same analogies and
• 38:13
  the same stories if you've
• 38:14
  been watching since the beginning.
• 38:17
  Like we see the same stuff
• 38:18
  over and over again.
• 38:21
  That's why I liked it when
• 38:22
  John and Bill were doing
• 38:23
  something or like Lucy Campbell.
• 38:29
  Like I know people dug Stacey Tovar.
• 38:31
  At least it was different.
• 38:33
  Jason Kalipa, different.
• 38:38
  And maybe they won't all succeed.
• 38:39
  Maybe you don't keep any of them on,
• 38:42
  but at least try some different people.
• 38:47
  Amanda Hari would crush.
• 38:48
  Hey, I believe so.
• 38:51
  I think Carolyn Prevost would be awesome.
• 38:54
  And I have made that claim
• 38:55
  over and over again.
• 38:56
  That woman is a CrossFit nerd.
• 38:58
  She knows so much about this sport,
• 39:00
  not just as an athlete.
• 39:02
  She watches everything.
• 39:05
  She knows all the stuff that's going on.
• 39:07
  She would be incredible at it.
• 39:09
  And she was great at Rogue
• 39:10
  on the side desk last year,
• 39:13
  but she's a little busy this year.
• 39:23
  Yeah, Angelo was good.
• 39:24
  I think Angelo would be great.
• 39:33
  For you, play-by-play is a high-skill role,
• 39:35
  only about three in
• 39:35
  CrossFit that are qualified.
• 39:38
  I think the color analyst
• 39:39
  needs to change more than
• 39:41
  the play-by-play.
• 39:43
  But you're never going to
• 39:44
  get another play-by-play
• 39:46
  person unless you start
• 39:47
  training somebody.
• 39:51
  And maybe the Masters and
• 39:53
  the Teens is a place to do some of that.
• 39:56
  They don't have to do every heat.
• 39:59
  Just get them some work.
• 40:09
  uh vicky and tommy has been
• 40:10
  very vocal about not really
• 40:11
  supporting crossfit it
• 40:13
  seems like a weird decision
• 40:15
  I know can't we say
• 40:25
  something about the
• 40:26
  programming of the games
• 40:28
  I'm sure I know we have larry we have
• 40:32
  You remind us every night,
• 40:35
  every Sunday night show we do,
• 40:36
  every lunch show,
• 40:38
  you remind us that we need
• 40:39
  new programming.
• 40:41
  And it needs to be heavier.
• 40:55
  Kalipa was caffeined up
• 40:56
  yellow lab on the broadcast.
• 40:58
  Broadcast.
• 41:11
  sean does his homework I
• 41:12
  really enjoy his
• 41:13
  broadcasting can you
• 41:14
  imagine him with carolyn
• 41:16
  yeah man so much here uh
• 41:29
  that lady from grid league
• 41:31
  yeah I I'm I would think
• 41:34
  she would probably know
• 41:34
  what the crossfit stuff is
• 41:36
  if you know grid I mean
• 41:37
  it's not a huge leap
• 41:39
  But she's great.
• 41:40
  She's a huge personality.
• 41:48
  Big question.
• 41:48
  Does our play-by-play person
• 41:50
  need to be CrossFit?
• 41:51
  Most sports, they aren't.
• 41:53
  I think in this community,
• 41:54
  there has to be some kind of tie.
• 41:56
  Either they at least do the
• 41:57
  workouts at a minimum.
• 42:04
  Fergie,
• 42:04
  Carolyn would be great at color
• 42:05
  commentary.
• 42:06
  I so agree with that.
• 42:19
  Imagine Dave and JR
• 42:20
  programming the games together.
• 42:28
  Would it be incredible or
• 42:29
  two alphas going at it?
• 42:41
  Denise, our strong,
• 42:44
  sixty-five to sixty-nine-year-old woman,
• 42:46
  wants that group programmed heavier,
• 42:51
  because then she'd win the games.
• 43:04
  Tour de France and tennis
• 43:05
  have iconic announcers that
• 43:06
  didn't play the sport.
• 43:09
  I'm not saying the
• 43:10
  play-by-play has to have
• 43:11
  played the sport.
• 43:13
  I think they need to be a
• 43:14
  crossfitter because that is
• 43:17
  what this community wants.
• 43:21
  There has to be a tie back
• 43:22
  to the affiliates at some level.
• 43:26
  It doesn't have to be huge,
• 43:27
  but at some level it has to be.
• 43:36
  Train Olive doesn't like the
• 43:37
  lady from Grid.
• 43:41
  think she's good I think
• 43:42
  that their color people
• 43:46
  depending on who they are
• 43:49
  are either great or or less
• 43:53
  I don't know what I just
• 43:54
  said there but uh
• 44:11
  I bet a decent flow master could do it.
• 44:14
  I agree.
• 44:15
  I think so.
• 44:26
  I understand the sport is
• 44:26
  still too new to have a
• 44:28
  non-crossfit person as play-by-play.
• 44:30
  Most don't understand what's going on.
• 44:39
  She doesn't watch everything.
• 44:41
  You'd be surprised.
• 44:49
  There's some nuance to that, Siobhan.
• 44:55
  with that guys,
• 44:55
  my forty five minutes is up
• 44:57
  and it is time for me to
• 44:58
  get back to work.
• 45:00
  It was awesome hanging out with you.
• 45:02
  It's been a great weekend.
• 45:04
  I'm going to finish up the
• 45:05
  Daniel Brandon episode from last night.
• 45:09
  I'll dig into some other stuff.
• 45:11
  And then Jamie and Carolyn
• 45:13
  and myself will be here tonight,
• 45:15
  eight p.m.
• 45:16
  to go over the event announcements,
• 45:18
  to go over all the other stuff.
• 45:19
  We got factor fiction again tonight.
• 45:24
  should be fun we're only ten
• 45:26
  days out from the crossfit
• 45:27
  games man crazy with that
• 45:32
  guys make sure you like and
• 45:35
  subscribe to the channel
• 45:37
  and then I am going to do
• 45:39
  some little vignettes from
• 45:41
  the games and I am going to
• 45:43
  make the members only for hours
• 45:46
  We got five new members last
• 45:48
  week and I want to reward
• 45:49
  the people that have been helping us out.
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  So I'm going to let them
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  have the vignettes that I
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  released for twenty four
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  hours and I'll release it to everybody.
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  So I'm not keeping it a long
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  gone for a long time.
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  And you can join at the
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  lowest level to ninety nine a month.
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  For those people who do that.
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  You hit the Join button,
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  two-ninety-nine a month.
• 46:10
  It makes you a member.
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  It helps us out, helps us run the show.
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  And then I'll do some
• 46:14
  vignettes from the games.
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  They'll be out for members
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  only for twenty-four hours.
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  Then after that,
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  we'll release them to
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  everybody worldwide.
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  If that is it, that's it for me.
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  Like and subscribe.
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  Join us tonight, eight p.m.
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  I think that's everything.
• 46:31
  And you knuckleheads get
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  back to work because I got
• 46:33
  to get back there now.
• 46:34
  With that, see everybody soon.
• 46:37
  Bye, guys.