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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Who Did Well in Oklahoma City · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to sunday sunday
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  sunday night crossfit talk
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  the original crossfit
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  sunday night talk show
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  what's going on everyone
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  what's up craig I made sure
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  not to wear my red shirt
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  again so I don't look like
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  I'm working I'm in prison
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  yeah lex texted me during
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  the show last week I was
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  like what are you wearing
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  And I didn't get it until
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  after someone commented and I was like,
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  Oh, I wonder if that's what she meant.
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  I thought you looked fine.
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  I guess like sitting here,
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  I didn't notice anything.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Getting a text.
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  What are you wearing in the
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  middle of a show?
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  And I was like,
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  I'm wearing my Coliseum
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  like red zip up because I coached today.
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  Like I filled in,
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  I never coach and I had to fill in.
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  So I wore like my red zip up
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  that we always wear,
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  but didn't think anything
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  of it until I saw the
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  comments and I was like, oh, okay.
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  yeah um that was funny we
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  got some good comments last
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  week I want to thank
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  everybody for jumping in
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  and doing that um before we
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  get into too much don't
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  forget like and like and
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  subscribe to the channel right
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  doing some good work this
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  week you guys helped us
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  with have a huge show last
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  week and we totally totally
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  appreciate that um we had
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  justin cutler on this week
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  we had some lunch stuff kat
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  was back this week with her
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  dating stories the
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  channel's just going strong
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  this week and uh if you've
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  not seen the collar video
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  lots of gold in that
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  Um,
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  lots of questions that I want to know
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  from a coach,
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  like how do you plan out a
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  season when there's all
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  this stuff going on?
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  Um, you know, it was,
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  and he had a very unique
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  response that I hadn't heard before.
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  So, um, so there's that, uh,
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  Andrew says I shaved, uh,
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  no riffs tonight.
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  I actually, there's still a beard there.
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  I just,
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  it was puffing out so much that I
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  just had to trim it back.
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  that's all still a beard
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  there but the lighting in
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  here makes it because it's
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  all white yeah it's just
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  kind of like you know but
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  yeah white on white nothing
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  to see um was oh I wanted I
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  wanted to to bring up this
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  in our catch-up part
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  because um one I think it
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  has a lot to do with where
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  crossfit needs help
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  And that is,
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  I watched the first episode of
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  season four of Welcome to Wrexham.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  And you guys know I love this show.
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  Andrew Sten and I watch this
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  faithfully all the time.
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  The first episode,
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  so in the last two seasons,
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  they've been promoted, both seasons.
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  And they kind of talk about
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  how they're growing so fast that
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  If they don't,
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  they're either going to have
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  to invest a lot of money to compete now,
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  or they're going to have to
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  slow down and get save
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  money because they just
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  don't have the stadium,
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  the facilities and all that
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  stuff to compete with the
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  teams that were above them.
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  That makes sense.
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  Put in CrossFit from two
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  thousand ten to two thousand eighteen.
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  Grew so fast.
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  Money over money, money over money.
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  And all of a sudden it was
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  almost like Greg said, bye-bye media.
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  We're going to reel
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  everything back and we're
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  going to start saving money
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  to make this thing right.
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  And then after that,
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  we've never been consistent
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  with that plan to make anything work.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean,
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  I sort of think that was a unique
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  situation just with Greg in general.
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  Like,
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  I just think his heart wasn't in
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  sport and his heart was in
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  fighting big sugar and the
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  NASM or whatever.
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  But,
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  but he did that with a plan in mind
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  and that plan didn't even get,
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  didn't even come to fruition.
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  Like we never saw CrossFit
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  health take off.
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  Yeah.
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  like you have to make that
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  decision at that like
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  tipping point of which way
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  you're gonna go and I'm not
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  sure it ever the if there
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  was a true plan it ever was
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  stuck to well yeah that'd
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  be a good question for Greg
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  was there a plan because
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  I'm watching the like
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  I'm watching Wrexham sit
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  down and have these
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  discussions like there are
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  two paths we can go down,
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  and we have to have the
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  right plan for whichever
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  path we go down and kind of
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  setting themselves up for
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  success with whichever way they choose.
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  From the outside,
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  it looked very knee-jerk in CrossFit.
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  Like that meeting didn't happen.
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  Yeah, I can see that.
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  I mean, he just did what he wanted to do,
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  right?
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  It was his.
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  There probably was not
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  really a conversation with people.
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  It wasn't, there wasn't a board.
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  There wasn't, what's his face?
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  Like Ryan Reynolds and there
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  wasn't backers trying to figure this out.
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  Like it's just Greg's decision and that's.
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  Well,
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  the first move they made is they did
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  hire a new CEO before they
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  put this plan in place,
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  like a new CEO to kind of
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  help lead them in that direction.
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  But anyway, we don't need to keep on this,
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  but it was just something I
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  watched today and I was like, dang,
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  like there's so many
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  parallels between that and CrossFit.
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  And I'm just wondering if
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  they skipped that step.
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  Yeah, that's good food for thought.
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  I'll have to watch this one
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  and think about that.
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  Yeah.
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  And if you've never watched Wrexham,
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  in the last five minutes of
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  this first episode were a goose bump.
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  It was so good.
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  Completely.
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  yeah so good anyway I
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  watched the liver king one
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  this weekend which I hadn't
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  seen I I don't even watch
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  like any netflix ever
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  hadn't watched a netflix
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  show since uh cobra kai but
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  I I watched the liver king
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  one and what an interesting
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  guy I don't I don't know
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  much about his story so
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  like I went in with like just like a
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  just a little bit of
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  knowledge from the videos I've seen,
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  mostly of Andrew Hiller's stuff.
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  But he's crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  The way that like, even his,
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  his kids like eat that way and stuff.
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  Like it was nuts.
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  Lynn says, Oh my God.
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  Admit it.
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  Carolyn.
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  That's such a waste.
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  Nicole, we watched River King too.
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  But like he's admitting to
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  like illegal stuff.
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  Like can't he like get in
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  big trouble for some of the
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  things that he admitted?
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  I don't know.
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  Like the printing of the
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  money and like the fake
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  receipts and Medicaid.
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  To me it seems like he was
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  like saying some illegal
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  stuff that he could get in trouble for.
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  I don't know much about it.
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  I I'd have to watch the, um,
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  I'd have to watch that to know when,
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  when the liver King stuff
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  popped up in the Hiller
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  verse and all that stuff around CrossFit,
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  I got so tired of it
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  without ever knowing
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  anything about it that I
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  just didn't even dive into it.
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  The way he trains those,
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  the way he trains those
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  seems to be like very CrossFit.
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  Is that his background is like,
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  they were doing like toaster bars.
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  Like he did GHDs at one point.
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  Like, does he,
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  does he have a CrossFit background?
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  I believe so.
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  I believe that's where it all started.
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  And I think I heard
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  somewhere that the reason
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  he even started down this
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  path at all is his kids had
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  an autoimmune disorder and
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  he was trying to help them out.
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  Yes.
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  And then he became like
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  completely addicted to
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  everything around it.
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  But, but again,
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  Lynn says the word is hybrid.
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  Larry Young says like watching tiger King,
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  but different.
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  Yeah.
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  That's the kind of mood I
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  was like in going into it.
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  I was like,
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  is this kind of like a tiger King?
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  Cause like I was into the tiger King one,
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  but this one, I was like, Oh man,
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  this is a tiger.
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  Yeah.
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  Tiger King was a train wreck.
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  You could not turn away from.
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  Well,
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  we were all stuck at home with during
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  the COVID things.
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  And we all.
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  yeah I got sucked into that
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  one I do like Netflix
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  untold series which I think
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  that the lever King is part
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  of um they've done some
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  really good documentaries
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  around the sports world uh
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  so maybe I'll check it out
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  if I have some time since
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  there's no qualifying event
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  this week maybe I'll take
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  some time to watch liver King
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  We lost power Thursday night
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  and didn't get it back on
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  until Saturday afternoon.
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  We had to stay at my parents'.
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  So we watched that Nona's
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  movie that you suggested.
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  That was very good.
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  Very cute show.
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  Which one was that again?
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  I'm sorry.
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  Oh, the Nona's.
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  Yeah, that was cute.
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  Yeah, it's a good family-friendly movie,
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  if anybody...
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  it's super safe with kids
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  adults grandparents whoever
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  um so yeah uh the best
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  playback for liver king is
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  watching joe rogan with
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  more plates more dates and
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  more plates more dates
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  liver king exposed on
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  youtube I don't need to
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  dive that far lynn that's a
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  lot I'll just have you send
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  me your essay on it and then I'll be good
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  um anyway yeah so you lost
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  power because tornadoes
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  were everywhere in michigan
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  this week yes a bunch
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  touched down around us
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  we're like fine there's
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  just so many trees and
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  power lines down um and
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  actually I showed three
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  houses today one of the
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  houses still didn't have
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  power uh about five six
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  miles from us so it's it's
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  still a mess uh good sa incoming
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  Um, yeah, we were under tornado warnings,
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  watches all Friday night
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  until like three AM.
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  It's just that season here
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  in Ohio and Ohio was,
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  I I've never heard of them in Michigan,
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  like Indiana, Ohio.
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  We get hammered like every year,
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  but a couple, I mean,
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  if you drive down one of the highways,
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  you can see where one hit a
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  few years ago.
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  I remember when I came up to.
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  Yes, that was.
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  Yeah.
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  You can see the path.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  See, in Pennsylvania,
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  we never had them because
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  of the mountains.
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  We had one bad one that got
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  into the mountains and then
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  bounced off like the mountain walls.
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  And it was huge and devastating.
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  Just crazy.
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  And you can still see it
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  like thirty years later
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  where it went through.
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  Is it the path was so wide?
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  Crazy.
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  That'd be scary.
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  Yeah.
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  The funny story was I,
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  about three miles from my
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  house was a bike trail and
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  me and my best friend were
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  bicycling to the bike trail.
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  So we get to the top of like
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  the one Ridge of a mountain
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  and we get there and look
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  and we can see the tornado
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  coming down through the Valley and
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  And we turn and I swear to God,
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  I could have beat Lance
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  Armstrong from that point to my house.
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  I mean, I was biking so hard and so fast.
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  And we got back and,
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  and then we went in the basement,
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  came out the next day.
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  Like the paper's just full
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  of like people killed people.
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  Like it was really, really bad.
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  And we were that close.
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  That's crazy.
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  Stupid.
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  There is a God.
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  That's all I know.
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  So, yeah,
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  so that's kind of the catch-up of
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  everything.
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  And now we move into some
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  people did some fitness
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  this weekend to qualify for
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  the CrossFit Games.
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  It happened in Oklahoma City.
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  I see Jay Burch is in the chat.
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  I saw him on the judging floor.
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  Yeah.
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  Out there doing his thing.
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  And I saw in the chat just
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  now he got picked to be a
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  judge at the age group
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  CrossFit Games here in Columbus.
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  That's awesome.
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  They're super stoked after
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  Jay Burch and to get to
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  meet him in person.
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  That's going to be awesome.
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  very slow judy bow judy
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  bowman bowman bowman uh
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  central illinois had a dust
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  storm that knocked trees
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  down you couldn't see it
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  went through during my
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  son's college graduation
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  ceremony could have been
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  remnants of a tornado as
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  bad as the wind wow wow not
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  the place you want a dust storm no
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  So back to TFX.
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  We didn't get to see Friday's events.
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  We'll talk about that in a minute.
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  But then through the weekend,
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  we got to see the last five
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  scored events.
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  And we have four new
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  admittance to the CrossFit Games.
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  On the men's side,
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  we have Nick Matthew and Chris Ibarra.
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  And I actually have an
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  Instagram ready to share.
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  There's their podium.
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  And Jacob Marlowe with a
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  nice finish just outside.
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  But nice finish.
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  But to be honest,
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  Nick and Chris pretty much
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  dominated the weekend.
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  They ended up winning.
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  Well,
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  Chris ended up beating Jacob by third
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  or twenty two points.
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  Twenty two points.
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  I think it is.
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  And then on the women's side,
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  we had Olivia Kerstetter took the win.
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  Sydney McElishan took second.
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  And Hannah Black took third.
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  On Friday,
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  I actually picked Olivia and Sydney.
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  And I picked Chris and Nick.
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  And I got into a fight with
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  a listener over Hannah Black.
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  I think Craig.
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  Craig.
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  Yeah,
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  Craig and I got into a fight on
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  Friday as to who was the
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  better CrossFitter, Sydney or Hannah.
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  And it really came down to a
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  showdown on the last event.
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  And I thought I was going to
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  have to eat crow on tonight or on Monday.
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  But.
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  I don't think they dominated.
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  I think Jacob had some
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  impressive performances.
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  He did.
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  He did.
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  But there was a really big points lead.
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  Before that final event,
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  Jacob did great on the final event.
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  He just couldn't get anybody
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  in between him and Chris.
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  And when you're at that point,
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  like when you're leading or
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  have some sort of lead
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  going into like an event,
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  it's like most of the time
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  you're just kind of making
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  sure that you don't screw
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  up because you already kind
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  of have it locked in.
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  So as long as you're kind of just floating,
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  you're not taking any major risks.
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  So like, I feel like those guys like,
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  like Nick, like didn't need to like,
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  He did do some touch-and-goes, which,
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  I mean, that backfired for Hannah.
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  But a lot of times,
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  if you do have that lead,
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  you just try to not screw it up.
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  And in the case of Hannah,
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  it was a screw-up.
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  It was going for it when she
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  didn't need to with the
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  strength that she has.
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  It's hard to watch.
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  But I was happy for Sydney
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  at the same time.
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  Um, before I argue with Tristan, uh,
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  all four athletes that
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  qualify for the CrossFit
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  games did three weeks in a row.
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  Yeah, that's crazy.
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  So they did the in affiliate semis.
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  They all competed at WFP and
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  they all competed at TFX.
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  And all four of these
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  athletes were the highest
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  finishers that were from
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  the West competing in the online semis.
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  Yeah.
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  So I...
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  Olivia did dominate.
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  I don't think that can be argued.
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  She,
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  and then it came down to Hannah and
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  Sydney was a three point
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  difference going into the last event.
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  And my neck gave me
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  goosebumps that the last
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  event gave me goosebumps
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  with Sydney coming on.
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  If people don't remember two years ago,
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  we followed Sydney from the
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  beginning of the season,
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  the open all the way through semis,
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  where she missed out on her
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  opportunity to the CrossFit games.
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  And I've been a fan of hers ever since.
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  She has not made it back until this year.
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  So I was super,
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  super stoked for her that she did it.
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  And she ran her own race,
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  which was really impressive.
• 18:37
  With Hannah going touch and go,
• 18:39
  that could have been
• 18:40
  intimidating to another athlete.
• 18:42
  And Sydney just stayed in her own lane,
• 18:45
  did her own thing,
• 18:46
  and it paid off in the end.
• 18:49
  So Carolyn is going to argue with me now.
• 18:54
  no like like sydney was in
• 18:57
  her lane but you could see
• 18:59
  that she was a little bit
• 19:00
  defeated like when hannah
• 19:02
  just kind of took charge in
• 19:03
  that last event and then as
• 19:05
  soon as hannah missed her
• 19:06
  first um clean at two
• 19:08
  fifteen you saw like sydney
• 19:10
  be like oh like put the
• 19:12
  belt on tighten it up and
• 19:14
  it's like I have a chance
• 19:15
  now and was very it was a
• 19:18
  good finish like it was a solid
• 19:22
  But Hannah spent it all
• 19:24
  trying to get that last spot.
• 19:28
  And I maybe got reckless.
• 19:30
  I never thought we'd ever
• 19:30
  miss this much at that weight.
• 19:32
  She's so strong.
• 19:34
  It's crazy.
• 19:35
  Well,
• 19:36
  one thing I've got to give her is I
• 19:39
  thought she had too many
• 19:40
  holes to be this competitive.
• 19:43
  And...
• 19:46
  What are her major holes and
• 19:48
  were they tested?
• 19:49
  How much running was
• 19:50
  involved in that last event?
• 19:52
  Right.
• 19:52
  Five hundred meters.
• 19:53
  It was irrelevant.
• 19:56
  Upper body pulling has never
• 19:58
  been great for her.
• 20:02
  So that it did surprise me.
• 20:04
  I think she is getting better.
• 20:08
  But.
• 20:10
  I don't know.
• 20:10
  We'll see.
• 20:12
  She,
• 20:13
  she podiumed at ward fitness project
• 20:15
  in the challenger division,
• 20:16
  which I thought was a big step for her.
• 20:18
  Yeah.
• 20:21
  I just, I, I think she's getting better.
• 20:24
  I just didn't think she was
• 20:25
  ready to take this step yet.
• 20:26
  And, and here she is.
• 20:29
  Yeah, she impressed me.
• 20:30
  She did much better than I expected.
• 20:33
  I knew she'd do well at the
• 20:35
  power output event, the snatch,
• 20:36
  of course.
• 20:37
  This last one should have
• 20:39
  been a home run for her.
• 20:41
  Missed executions.
• 20:43
  You knew that at least...
• 20:45
  three events were very good for her.
• 20:48
  The first one with the wall balls,
• 20:50
  if you're tall and strong,
• 20:51
  I think that you could do
• 20:52
  damage on that one because
• 20:53
  you had wall balls,
• 20:54
  you had rowing and you had
• 20:55
  dumbbell stepovers.
• 20:56
  And as a taller athlete,
• 20:58
  that's an easier movement.
• 21:00
  So really just had to
• 21:01
  survive the toaster bars on that one.
• 21:03
  Um, so the first, the first event,
• 21:05
  she also did well.
• 21:06
  So there were some really
• 21:07
  good events for her this weekend,
• 21:08
  but I still was very
• 21:09
  impressed with like her legless event.
• 21:12
  I thought she did well.
• 21:14
  Um,
• 21:16
  What other one am I missing?
• 21:18
  The rope climb with the thrusters.
• 21:20
  I think the thruster was a
• 21:21
  separator there.
• 21:22
  So if you were strong,
• 21:23
  maybe like that would help.
• 21:24
  But she,
• 21:25
  she had some very good moments
• 21:27
  this weekend where I was like, Oh,
• 21:29
  like she's got like much
• 21:31
  less holes than I, than I thought she had,
• 21:34
  but still don't think it
• 21:35
  was as deep of a field
• 21:37
  where she would get
• 21:38
  punished on some of them,
• 21:39
  maybe in a higher end field.
• 21:45
  This is my observation and nobody else's.
• 21:47
  I think that Nick Matthew
• 21:49
  and Sydney McElish are very similar.
• 21:52
  I was about to give up on
• 21:53
  them on qualifying for the
• 21:55
  games ever again.
• 21:57
  And for some reason, now that they're more,
• 21:59
  that they are independent ish,
• 22:03
  they seem to be playing better.
• 22:07
  Does that make sense?
• 22:09
  Is Nick not proven anymore?
• 22:11
  I don't believe so.
• 22:14
  interesting they were both
• 22:19
  with proven so they both
• 22:20
  have moved on so people in
• 22:22
  the chat are asking about
• 22:23
  sydney being with proven
• 22:24
  the announcer said today or
• 22:26
  actually it was um lauren
• 22:28
  smith said that she is now
• 22:32
  coaching herself
• 22:34
  Her background in college
• 22:36
  was exercise science and
• 22:39
  listed off some credentials
• 22:40
  and that she had made the
• 22:41
  decision to coach herself.
• 22:44
  And so she's back in Canada
• 22:46
  training at home and training herself.
• 22:49
  I believe that Nick has left proven.
• 22:51
  I could be wrong.
• 22:53
  But I have not seen him in a
• 22:55
  proven video in four months.
• 23:00
  Yeah,
• 23:00
  and he wasn't with any of that crew
• 23:02
  that did in affiliate semis.
• 23:04
  No.
• 23:10
  True.
• 23:10
  So two current proven and two previous.
• 23:12
  Yep.
• 23:12
  Yeah.
• 23:14
  Yeah.
• 23:18
  But it goes to,
• 23:20
  and I'm not trying to dog
• 23:21
  on proven because maybe
• 23:23
  that is the right fit for some people,
• 23:25
  but for other people,
• 23:26
  maybe that isn't the right fit.
• 23:28
  Maybe they are better kind of on their own,
• 23:30
  just freewheeling.
• 23:31
  Like,
• 23:32
  Nick Matthew doesn't seem like a guy
• 23:33
  who is about structure.
• 23:38
  Well, he wasn't there,
• 23:40
  so it would have been remote coaching,
• 23:41
  which I think is definitely different.
• 23:44
  And he's got his family.
• 23:45
  Like, he's got his little girl.
• 23:47
  I don't know that he can – I
• 23:49
  don't know that you have
• 23:50
  the luxury of structure.
• 23:52
  Does he have his own affiliate?
• 23:55
  He coaches, I know, a lot.
• 24:02
  lot of people are talking
• 24:03
  about rebecca fusile missed
• 24:05
  on her she made a good run
• 24:06
  today when she got her one
• 24:08
  gymnastics event she killed
• 24:11
  it she's so good at that
• 24:13
  one and she is getting
• 24:14
  stronger it's it's obvious
• 24:17
  it it's just a long road to
• 24:18
  hoe for that for her to get there yup
• 24:25
  no she had some good
• 24:26
  finishes this weekend a few
• 24:27
  like quite a few top fives
• 24:29
  um yeah really just lost
• 24:32
  points on the bike power
• 24:34
  output and the snatch event
• 24:36
  and then the clean so like
• 24:37
  the two strength events
• 24:39
  with power output which is
• 24:40
  not surprising from her
• 24:42
  because but everywhere else
• 24:43
  she did great yeah dang
• 24:47
  larry young admitting a
• 24:48
  comp was strength biased I
• 24:52
  think he's already signed
• 24:53
  up for next year's comp
• 25:00
  Anyway, I don't disagree, Larry,
• 25:07
  I I would say it was a
• 25:10
  little bit strength biased.
• 25:13
  Not a ton.
• 25:13
  There was definitely you,
• 25:14
  you had to be proficient at gymnastics.
• 25:16
  So you had the one gymnastics workout,
• 25:19
  but then the other one with legless,
• 25:20
  like it was paired with a
• 25:22
  fairly like shoulder,
• 25:24
  like a shoulder to head
• 25:25
  shoulder to overhead to
• 25:27
  like cancel that one out.
• 25:28
  The toaster bars that had
• 25:30
  higher volume was offset
• 25:32
  with like taller athlete
• 25:34
  type thing with like wall
• 25:36
  balls and step overs and rowing.
• 25:38
  So there was like at least
• 25:39
  like a mixture of.
• 25:42
  a little bit for everyone, I guess,
• 25:43
  but maybe a little bit on the strength,
• 25:45
  power output, shorter time domain.
• 25:49
  Yeah.
• 25:53
  I wanted to ask you,
• 25:54
  I wanted to get your impression on this.
• 25:56
  So we,
• 25:57
  we mentioned that all four of these
• 25:58
  athletes competed three weeks in a row.
• 26:03
  Is it going to be a strategy
• 26:06
  to look at the calendar and,
• 26:09
  Because we can all admit
• 26:11
  that this probably isn't
• 26:12
  the deepest field that
• 26:14
  we've seen at a semifinal.
• 26:17
  But because of the scheduling,
• 26:19
  not because these guys did
• 26:21
  awesome for going three weeks in a row,
• 26:22
  which they did do,
• 26:24
  but because of where it's sat,
• 26:26
  people are going to
• 26:27
  withdraw because they don't
• 26:28
  want to do three weeks in a row.
• 26:30
  Is that going to be a
• 26:31
  strategy for people to say,
• 26:33
  that's my best shot because
• 26:35
  people aren't going to want
• 26:35
  to go three weeks in a row?
• 26:40
  Yeah, I can see.
• 26:42
  I'm surprised a few more people didn't.
• 26:45
  Well,
• 26:45
  I don't even know who else was
• 26:46
  available for this.
• 26:47
  I just think West isn't as strong.
• 26:52
  It sucks because the East is
• 26:53
  so freaking stacked.
• 26:58
  What's weird is I think
• 26:59
  you're going to end up
• 26:59
  seeing some people at
• 27:03
  NorCal that probably should
• 27:05
  have come here.
• 27:06
  I know Justin said it,
• 27:09
  and their plan is Norkill, but man,
• 27:12
  I almost feel like Alex
• 27:13
  should have just knocked
• 27:14
  this one out and been done
• 27:19
  and focused on the games.
• 27:22
  I know they wanted to push
• 27:23
  back when she competed,
• 27:26
  and maybe back-to-back
• 27:27
  would have been rough on her with WFP,
• 27:30
  so that was a calculated move there, but
• 27:39
  Larry Young says, yeah, it is what it is.
• 27:41
  Fun thing is our faves that
• 27:42
  missed out make Last Chance more fun.
• 27:45
  But are we going to see Last Chance?
• 27:46
  Good question.
• 27:48
  I mean, it's an online comp.
• 27:51
  We don't get to see it.
• 27:53
  Five events, two for it,
• 27:55
  which is I didn't expect
• 27:56
  like another five event one.
• 28:01
  So what were your thoughts
• 28:04
  on the overall weekend?
• 28:08
  Well, Lucas had prom this weekend,
• 28:10
  so there's like three
• 28:11
  events I didn't even get to watch yet.
• 28:13
  I didn't get to watch the finale today.
• 28:17
  I've been at the gym and showing houses.
• 28:19
  So I didn't get to watch it all,
• 28:22
  admittedly.
• 28:24
  But what I did see, pretty good broadcast.
• 28:27
  The camera angles went back
• 28:29
  to the normal camera angles
• 28:31
  that I can't stand where
• 28:32
  they just zoom in on the
• 28:33
  finisher for twelve seconds
• 28:35
  when there's a race being...
• 28:37
  run on the floor.
• 28:39
  I don't know why.
• 28:40
  I don't know why they continue to do that.
• 28:43
  I mean,
• 28:44
  I feel like we've made some
• 28:45
  progress there and then we
• 28:46
  go back to seeing stuff
• 28:47
  like this and it's like,
• 28:49
  just show the dang floor.
• 28:52
  Well,
• 28:52
  I know you haven't seen the last event.
• 28:53
  What upset me there is we missed
• 28:56
  it was important whether
• 28:58
  Sydney or Hannah finished
• 28:59
  first and they were focused
• 29:02
  on Olivia and we didn't get
• 29:03
  to see Sydney finish or hand,
• 29:06
  which ended up being Sydney.
• 29:08
  Yeah.
• 29:08
  I think they flashed back
• 29:10
  just as she like crossed the line.
• 29:11
  Yeah.
• 29:12
  But we should have seen that finish.
• 29:14
  Like that's where the drama was.
• 29:16
  Well, that's the race.
• 29:17
  I mean, Olivia has it locked up.
• 29:19
  That's not the race.
• 29:21
  Yeah.
• 29:21
  And we,
• 29:22
  we don't need to see her Olivia
• 29:23
  standing at the finish line or like,
• 29:24
  I mean, it's just silly.
• 29:25
  Yeah.
• 29:28
  Yeah.
• 29:29
  So that it was, it was fine.
• 29:31
  It was your typical broadcast angles.
• 29:37
  The run,
• 29:37
  they only had a camera at one part
• 29:39
  of the run.
• 29:40
  So once that was over, they,
• 29:42
  you just went to an empty
• 29:43
  floor until they got back
• 29:45
  to that part of the run.
• 29:48
  But other than that, I would give it like,
• 29:50
  it would,
• 29:51
  it was way better than not
• 29:52
  having a stream.
• 29:52
  I will.
• 29:53
  So I don't want to dog it too much.
• 29:55
  Like it was good enough to
• 29:57
  enjoy the weekend.
• 30:01
  But it was not... And
• 30:03
  everybody in the chat was
• 30:04
  dogging WFP during this whole thing.
• 30:07
  But that was much more
• 30:08
  enjoyable for me to watch.
• 30:09
  And the camera angles were
• 30:11
  way better than this.
• 30:13
  Just saying.
• 30:15
  And even Mayhem was much
• 30:16
  better because of the smaller,
• 30:18
  more intimate floor.
• 30:20
  But it was... It was insane...
• 30:26
  the comments so I always
• 30:28
  close I can't I can't look
• 30:30
  at some of the comments I
• 30:31
  get so like eye roll so I'm
• 30:33
  like close that I just want
• 30:35
  to see the full screen of
• 30:36
  of the action yeah I
• 30:38
  thought the team that was
• 30:38
  broadcasting did well I
• 30:39
  thought angelo um did did
• 30:43
  very well um the mixture of
• 30:46
  chase and lauren was was
• 30:48
  good as well and the other
• 30:49
  lauren smith on the floor
• 30:51
  um the whole the whole team
• 30:52
  I thought like did well at calling
• 30:55
  playing the action and
• 30:57
  talking about you know what
• 30:58
  was going on um I was sad
• 31:00
  that there was no stream on
• 31:01
  friday I was like looking
• 31:02
  for it and then I ended up
• 31:04
  watching like allison
• 31:06
  scud's I think like live
• 31:08
  video on her instagram to
• 31:10
  see one of her heats and
• 31:11
  then I was like oh I guess
• 31:13
  we won't get to watch the
• 31:14
  rest of it and can't say
• 31:16
  that I really cared to
• 31:17
  watch another isabel yeah I
• 31:20
  thought angela was great
• 31:21
  doing color for doing color
• 31:23
  for every heat
• 31:25
  and being the only one like you have to,
• 31:29
  to still be fresh through
• 31:30
  that whole thing was pretty amazing.
• 31:33
  Um,
• 31:34
  I have never been a Lauren Khalil fan
• 31:35
  as an announcer in the booth.
• 31:38
  She got better.
• 31:40
  She was way better than she
• 31:41
  was at West coast last year.
• 31:43
  Um,
• 31:43
  I think she's taken some of the
• 31:44
  constructive criticism and
• 31:46
  she got better.
• 31:47
  And, um,
• 31:48
  I thought she was pretty good this
• 31:49
  weekend.
• 31:50
  I agree what I caught of her.
• 31:51
  I was like, okay, this is sounding matter.
• 31:54
  making progress.
• 31:56
  So I, I thought that was awesome.
• 31:59
  Um, but again,
• 32:01
  it's just the camera angles.
• 32:02
  I wish I want to see the races and I,
• 32:06
  I don't know why the T the
• 32:08
  screen stream people cannot,
• 32:11
  cannot get that,
• 32:12
  that people want to see the race,
• 32:14
  not one person.
• 32:16
  Right.
• 32:18
  Anyway.
• 32:20
  Um,
• 32:23
  Yeah, that's about it.
• 32:25
  But again,
• 32:26
  I got to watch people that I
• 32:28
  love to watch.
• 32:30
  I got to watch friends of mine.
• 32:32
  I know it was not as deep a field,
• 32:33
  but it was my people,
• 32:35
  the people that we
• 32:36
  interview every year in semifinals.
• 32:39
  So I got to see Matt Brady,
• 32:40
  and I got to see Traven Benton,
• 32:42
  and I got to see all the
• 32:43
  people that I've been
• 32:44
  hanging out with for years.
• 32:47
  And so it was cool to root
• 32:49
  those people on.
• 32:52
  Larry Young wrote scuds in the chat.
• 32:56
  But I feel like she's had a
• 32:57
  really good year so far.
• 32:58
  You know,
• 32:59
  she's had a few tough years on
• 33:01
  the individual side.
• 33:02
  She did really well on the
• 33:04
  online semifinal.
• 33:05
  And I thought she looked
• 33:07
  good this weekend.
• 33:08
  And, you know, a top ten finish.
• 33:10
  I find a lot of time, like,
• 33:12
  she hasn't really put it
• 33:13
  all together in person at
• 33:16
  some of the events.
• 33:17
  And I feel like her
• 33:18
  potential is always higher
• 33:19
  than what she's executed in
• 33:21
  But I feel like she I don't
• 33:22
  know this year.
• 33:23
  It seems like she's putting
• 33:24
  together some good
• 33:26
  performances that hasn't
• 33:28
  necessarily always been
• 33:29
  there in the last couple of
• 33:30
  years that I've seen her.
• 33:32
  So happy to see her doing well.
• 33:35
  Yeah, I always root for her.
• 33:37
  She's so she's just cool.
• 33:40
  She's cool.
• 33:42
  And her partner is great as well.
• 33:46
  I just wish she would do a team with him.
• 33:50
  I'd love for them to be on a
• 33:51
  team together.
• 33:52
  Has she never been to a team with him?
• 33:57
  Nope.
• 33:59
  But she's gone to the games on a team.
• 34:01
  Has she?
• 34:02
  I don't think she has.
• 34:06
  Just done the demo a bunch of times,
• 34:08
  but never actually...
• 34:10
  Done team?
• 34:11
  I don't think she's done team.
• 34:13
  Maybe not.
• 34:14
  I don't think so.
• 34:16
  It is crazy that she doesn't do it.
• 34:17
  Yeah.
• 34:17
  Yeah.
• 34:18
  I think I asked them one time.
• 34:26
  Well, the last few years,
• 34:28
  you've been able to do both.
• 34:30
  You can go both paths.
• 34:34
  If she doesn't make it here,
• 34:35
  she would have at least had
• 34:36
  the opportunity to go team.
• 34:38
  I don't know why she's not...
• 34:40
  going that route but yeah I
• 34:45
  think some people don't
• 34:46
  like to have a plan b yeah
• 34:51
  but or maybe she wants to
• 34:52
  go individual as long as
• 34:54
  like as as long as possible
• 34:57
  until like that path is
• 34:59
  fully closed and then after
• 35:01
  that it's like team will
• 35:02
  always be there maybe in her mind um but
• 35:08
  I feel like that would be a
• 35:08
  good team to look at.
• 35:10
  Raph himself.
• 35:14
  Allie is Indy all the way.
• 35:16
  Well, OK,
• 35:18
  but we would love to see her
• 35:19
  compete with you.
• 35:19
  I think it'd be an incredible team.
• 35:22
  I think I asked them and he
• 35:24
  can correct me if I'm wrong.
• 35:26
  I think they were worried
• 35:27
  about the relationship if
• 35:28
  they actually were on a team together.
• 35:31
  OK, I could see that.
• 35:34
  That makes sense.
• 35:35
  She's too good for me.
• 35:37
  She was an alternate on a team once.
• 35:41
  I wasn't sure whether she's
• 35:42
  done teams before,
• 35:43
  but I feel like she had a
• 35:44
  good weekend and a solid finish.
• 35:49
  Again, she's just the coolest.
• 35:51
  I will always root for her and Raph.
• 35:53
  They're both the best.
• 35:54
  You can always point her out on the floor.
• 35:56
  Yep.
• 35:59
  Scrunchies, a little tutu stuff.
• 36:01
  Yeah.
• 36:06
  um so yeah all right so that
• 36:12
  wraps up tfx four more
• 36:14
  people heading to the games
• 36:17
  and we have nothing this
• 36:18
  weekend and then we have
• 36:21
  four the weekend after that
• 36:25
  is this like the first time
• 36:26
  they haven't had a
• 36:29
  a semifinal on Memorial weekend.
• 36:31
  Cause I swear every year there's one.
• 36:34
  There's always one.
• 36:36
  Yeah.
• 36:37
  I'm so happy.
• 36:38
  There's not one.
• 36:40
  Yeah.
• 36:41
  Um, so yeah.
• 36:44
  And then, then we have what we have rebel,
• 36:47
  rebel, renegade rebel games.
• 36:53
  We have the Korean one.
• 36:55
  What's Torian?
• 36:57
  That's the Far East one?
• 36:58
  Yeah, NorCal.
• 36:59
  All on the weekend after.
• 37:03
  Torian and NorCal the same weekend?
• 37:06
  Torian, NorCal, the one in Korea,
• 37:10
  and the one in Africa are
• 37:12
  all on the same weekend.
• 37:13
  Wow.
• 37:16
  That's going to be a lot to follow.
• 37:20
  Just doing Torian and Norkel
• 37:21
  is going to be a lot to follow.
• 37:23
  Holy smokes.
• 37:24
  I think they're all in a
• 37:25
  different time zone too.
• 37:28
  It's not helpful.
• 37:30
  I mean,
• 37:31
  I'll probably only focus on Torian
• 37:33
  and Norkel if that's what
• 37:34
  we're going to like recap.
• 37:35
  I'm sorry.
• 37:37
  C four energies and some Doritos.
• 37:40
  The only way you're going to
• 37:41
  make it through all of them.
• 37:45
  Yeah.
• 37:45
  With all the different time zones,
• 37:47
  I feel like you could still
• 37:48
  catch quite a bit.
• 37:50
  Oh, man.
• 37:51
  This referee in the hockey
• 37:52
  game is a lot of blood.
• 37:55
  Toronto Maple Leafs and
• 37:57
  Florida Panther game.
• 38:01
  Raph says what Carolyn said.
• 38:02
  Team always there for her.
• 38:04
  I'm ready when she is.
• 38:06
  Actually,
• 38:06
  we would love to do team together.
• 38:07
  Our relationship would only be closer.
• 38:10
  Thanks for the kind words.
• 38:11
  That's awesome.
• 38:12
  He's only saying that
• 38:13
  because she's watching.
• 38:16
  I'm just kidding.
• 38:20
  um train to live man the
• 38:22
  every comment you put up is
• 38:23
  in my notes I swear we're
• 38:26
  gonna get there just
• 38:28
  kidding just kidding um
• 38:32
  yeah chris alford uh
• 38:33
  colton's fiance finished
• 38:34
  top ten yeah that was
• 38:36
  pretty cool she was a
• 38:37
  backfill backfill the top
• 38:40
  ten is pretty impressive
• 38:42
  she's good yeah yeah I was
• 38:43
  impressed by her
• 38:46
  I first, like, I didn't know who she was.
• 38:49
  And then I think it was last
• 38:50
  year or the year before we
• 38:51
  did the service stuff.
• 38:55
  And she was in the teacher
• 38:56
  division against me.
• 38:59
  So then I saw her name.
• 39:00
  And then it was Lex that
• 39:01
  told me that that was like
• 39:02
  Colton's girlfriend back then,
• 39:03
  now fiance.
• 39:05
  And then I just kind of have followed the,
• 39:08
  I follow some of the
• 39:09
  educators in the space.
• 39:10
  And then, yeah, she did well.
• 39:13
  NorCal is not the same weekend.
• 39:14
  It's syndicate.
• 39:16
  It's syndicate, Torian, Far East,
• 39:20
  and Renegade Rebel.
• 39:22
  And then NorCal is the week after that.
• 39:24
  Sorry.
• 39:25
  Okay.
• 39:29
  Jay Birch asks, Carolyn, how's the finger?
• 39:34
  Oh, it's going.
• 39:35
  I haven't done any hanging movements yet.
• 39:36
  I did Murph this weekend,
• 39:38
  but I did a inverted row instead.
• 39:42
  I think I'll do some hanging
• 39:45
  this week for the first time.
• 39:47
  I just feel like with the
• 39:48
  way that I use my
• 39:49
  fingertips to hold onto the bar,
• 39:53
  I don't want to open it up
• 39:56
  or anything like that.
• 39:57
  But I've been able to do
• 40:00
  like lifting and stuff.
• 40:01
  It's just, I keep a tape...
• 40:03
  basically the whole time so
• 40:06
  sometimes like my pinkies
• 40:07
  out with my ring finger off
• 40:10
  to the side when I'm
• 40:11
  holding the barbell but all
• 40:13
  is good well train to live
• 40:17
  wanted to talk about it so
• 40:18
  let's talk about the last
• 40:19
  chance qualifier they
• 40:21
  actually brought it up on
• 40:21
  the broadcast today that
• 40:24
  like trista smith was on
• 40:25
  the line of qualifying for
• 40:26
  the last chance qualifier
• 40:28
  And that if she didn't stay where she was,
• 40:31
  she could be out, but I,
• 40:32
  she did do enough to stay
• 40:34
  inside the line for that.
• 40:35
  So what does that mean?
• 40:37
  The last chance qualifier is
• 40:40
  the top fifty non games,
• 40:42
  qualifying athletes from
• 40:44
  the affiliate in affiliate semifinal.
• 40:46
  So you take the in affiliate semifinal,
• 40:48
  everybody who's qualified
• 40:50
  for the games comes off that list.
• 40:52
  And then you take the top fifty.
• 40:56
  Okay.
• 40:58
  Then the next group that
• 41:00
  qualify are the top ten
• 41:02
  non-games qualifying
• 41:03
  athletes from each in-person qualifier.
• 41:07
  Okay, so like the top twelve,
• 41:10
  like you take the one and two out,
• 41:12
  so three through twelve?
• 41:14
  Yeah, but because of the way everything is,
• 41:16
  like Elisa Fuliano would
• 41:18
  come off of that list.
• 41:20
  Moritz Fiebig would come off
• 41:21
  the list last week.
• 41:23
  So it's not necessarily top twelve.
• 41:25
  You've got to take everybody
• 41:27
  out that doesn't.
• 41:28
  OK,
• 41:28
  that either has a spot or does not not
• 41:31
  in the top one percent of the open.
• 41:33
  And then you take the ten.
• 41:35
  OK.
• 41:36
  It'll be easier for
• 41:38
  syndicate to figure that out.
• 41:39
  But yeah, I get it.
• 41:43
  So, yeah.
• 41:45
  So, Lynn,
• 41:46
  you would hope it was top-fifteen
• 41:48
  semis in three to ten, twelve.
• 41:50
  It's not actually.
• 41:51
  And that's what makes everything.
• 41:54
  I actually had a comment on
• 41:56
  one of my lunches last week that said,
• 41:58
  what's the one thing you
• 41:59
  think that CrossFit needs
• 42:01
  to fix to move forward?
• 42:04
  And this is it.
• 42:05
  Everything in their season
• 42:07
  takes extra explanation.
• 42:10
  If I could say what Lynn says here,
• 42:12
  that would be much easier
• 42:14
  than saying the top fifty
• 42:17
  non-qualifying athletes.
• 42:20
  Yeah.
• 42:24
  Yeah, I mean,
• 42:25
  you could have made up an
• 42:26
  arbitrary number to account for that.
• 42:28
  You could have said top
• 42:29
  seventy in semifinals just
• 42:31
  to just to make a cut line
• 42:32
  and there be no question
• 42:33
  and not figuring out.
• 42:35
  But
• 42:37
  without sem the semifinals
• 42:39
  having some standards like
• 42:41
  syndicate is you can't
• 42:44
  really do that there I mean
• 42:46
  they would they all needed
• 42:48
  to basically be like
• 42:49
  syndicate like you aren't
• 42:50
  welcome if you aren't in an
• 42:52
  avail like if you didn't do
• 42:54
  the open you don't get to
• 42:55
  come and if you you know if
• 42:58
  you if you're already
• 42:59
  qualified you're not coming
• 43:02
  Right.
• 43:02
  So syndicate's actually going to be easy.
• 43:04
  Yeah.
• 43:04
  If you've already qualified for the games,
• 43:07
  you're not in the lineup.
• 43:08
  Yeah.
• 43:09
  So they're up to go to the games.
• 43:11
  Yeah.
• 43:11
  The next ten go to the last
• 43:13
  chance qualifier.
• 43:13
  Yes.
• 43:17
  So that means Unless you
• 43:19
  then go to NorCal and qualify at NorCal,
• 43:22
  then you come out of the list.
• 43:25
  Yeah.
• 43:26
  So that means like Brooke
• 43:27
  needs to finish top twelve at
• 43:32
  Syndicate.
• 43:33
  Is she going to, has she confirmed?
• 43:34
  Is she going, I've not seen anything.
• 43:37
  Cause she dropped well
• 43:37
  outside of the fifties.
• 43:39
  I mean,
• 43:39
  she didn't show like a hundred or
• 43:41
  something in the,
• 43:41
  in affiliate semis with her.
• 43:43
  Yeah.
• 43:44
  So she's out of that cut line.
• 43:45
  So she needs to place high enough.
• 43:49
  So that's who's in it's an
• 43:53
  online competition with
• 43:54
  five events again.
• 43:58
  So I know my co-host Carolyn
• 44:00
  has said things in our chat.
• 44:02
  She's been making public
• 44:04
  comments on other people's posts.
• 44:06
  Anytime I can.
• 44:09
  Your response to this is,
• 44:11
  I think to us was,
• 44:13
  you mean we have to compete
• 44:14
  against the same people again?
• 44:18
  Online, again.
• 44:19
  When we already have eight
• 44:20
  tests that we've all done online,
• 44:22
  take whatever that field is that you want,
• 44:24
  the top fifty that haven't
• 44:26
  qualified by the top ten,
• 44:28
  put them all on the
• 44:28
  leaderboard against each other.
• 44:32
  And eight scores are already there.
• 44:33
  Why do we need another five
• 44:35
  to make thirteen?
• 44:38
  We already have eight scores
• 44:39
  through the open and on the
• 44:41
  in-affiliate semifinals.
• 44:43
  Put all the videos public
• 44:44
  and no need for another qualifier.
• 44:46
  And then you reward
• 44:47
  consistency with the open
• 44:49
  and the online semi.
• 44:50
  And you would force people
• 44:51
  to have to do the online semi,
• 44:53
  which would be more income
• 44:54
  for the CrossFit Games.
• 44:55
  Yeah.
• 44:56
  For athletes like Gazan that
• 44:58
  can skip it or Rolf.
• 44:59
  Like you force them to,
• 45:01
  if they want to take part
• 45:02
  in the last chance qualifier,
• 45:04
  which like within the field,
• 45:08
  there's no workout.
• 45:08
  But like you already have
• 45:10
  enough data right there.
• 45:12
  You have open style workouts
• 45:13
  and then you have semi style workouts.
• 45:15
  Different types of tests.
• 45:17
  Who's the most well-rounded?
• 45:19
  All those tests are valid.
• 45:24
  No one's done.
• 45:24
  We made this more
• 45:25
  complicated than sanctional years.
• 45:32
  It is.
• 45:32
  I'd be curious on what that
• 45:34
  leaderboard looks like.
• 45:36
  Yeah,
• 45:37
  we should have Holly try to run some
• 45:38
  numbers.
• 45:39
  Are you guys going to do
• 45:42
  Heavy Isabel again?
• 45:43
  We do Heavy Isabel again.
• 45:47
  I've already done it.
• 45:48
  NorCal's going to be my
• 45:49
  third time because I've
• 45:50
  done it with the age group
• 45:51
  with the end person.
• 45:53
  And people have already
• 45:54
  probably done it four times
• 45:55
  by that point.
• 45:56
  Yeah.
• 45:57
  It's going to be Heavy Grace.
• 45:59
  Watch it.
• 45:59
  It's going to be Heavy Grace.
• 46:01
  Yeah, I could see that.
• 46:06
  it's just it's it's just a
• 46:08
  mess uh raf says I'm
• 46:13
  betting a good number of
• 46:14
  athletes will pick between
• 46:15
  lcq and ncc well they
• 46:20
  shouldn't be able to pick
• 46:23
  between ncc at all they
• 46:24
  either sign up or they
• 46:25
  don't I mean yeah they
• 46:27
  shouldn't just be able to
• 46:28
  sign up like it yeah it was a process
• 46:33
  To me,
• 46:33
  if you asked at-large athletes at
• 46:36
  the beginning of the season
• 46:37
  and they turned it down, at this point,
• 46:39
  they should be going to
• 46:40
  their online qualifier of
• 46:41
  athletes that did it to fill their spots.
• 46:46
  Not like right after Syndicate and be like,
• 46:48
  hey,
• 46:49
  who wants to come to NorCal to compete?
• 46:57
  Craig did remind me
• 46:59
  Um,
• 46:59
  that I forgot one little caveat and
• 47:01
  that is that these five
• 47:02
  workouts will be picked at
• 47:04
  large from coaches from around the world.
• 47:08
  No, that's the, that's the in-house.
• 47:14
  No,
• 47:15
  it's going to be the mayhem and proven
• 47:16
  groups that probably got
• 47:17
  their workouts in there for
• 47:19
  their athletes.
• 47:20
  Yeah.
• 47:23
  Who, how do they pick the five coaches?
• 47:26
  Um,
• 47:32
  Are you kidding me?
• 47:34
  Carolyn better start submitting.
• 47:35
  Come on.
• 47:37
  I should have submitted
• 47:38
  freaking burpees and
• 47:40
  deadlifts at two twenty five.
• 47:42
  It is hysterical.
• 47:43
  Yeah.
• 47:45
  I'm Carolyn Prevo.
• 47:46
  I have my L two.
• 47:47
  I would like to be one of
• 47:48
  the coaches that pick an
• 47:49
  event for the last year.
• 47:51
  Please let me pick some five
• 47:53
  hundred deadlifts and five
• 47:55
  hundred burpees for time.
• 47:57
  No,
• 47:57
  I just want twenty one fifty nine
• 47:58
  deadlifts bar facing burpees.
• 48:00
  I'll take that.
• 48:02
  box jump overs boom done
• 48:06
  that is bonkers that is
• 48:09
  actually hysterical but
• 48:11
  like what kind of a process
• 48:12
  is that like the coaches
• 48:13
  are picking the last chance
• 48:14
  qualifier workouts uh it's
• 48:18
  the we're picking by
• 48:19
  highest ig following please
• 48:23
  no I mean it needs to be a
• 48:28
  good set of tests like I don't know this
• 48:32
  This has the potential to then once know,
• 48:34
  is it going to be two judges again?
• 48:36
  Well, it's an online comp.
• 48:37
  I'm sure they're going to
• 48:38
  make you do that again too.
• 48:40
  And I'm going to assume in an affiliate.
• 48:42
  Yup.
• 48:49
  It is like,
• 48:51
  you can't even make this stuff.
• 48:53
  Like how do they come up with this stuff?
• 48:54
  I don't know.
• 48:57
  I tell you what,
• 48:58
  the Masters Fitness
• 49:00
  Championship qualifier
• 49:01
  workouts were this last week.
• 49:03
  They were excellent workouts.
• 49:07
  Those should be submitted
• 49:08
  for... I felt like they
• 49:09
  were semifinals level workouts.
• 49:13
  I could totally see them.
• 49:15
  Those should be the ones
• 49:16
  that should be submitted
• 49:17
  for last year's qualifier.
• 49:19
  Who programmed them?
• 49:21
  I don't know who programmed them.
• 49:23
  Probably Mayhem.
• 49:23
  I actually think Mayhem programmed them,
• 49:25
  so...
• 49:26
  Don't they program everything?
• 49:27
  Yeah,
• 49:28
  I think they had a little bit of...
• 49:30
  They were really good workouts, though.
• 49:34
  Dan Church says they were brutal.
• 49:38
  I have no problem with Mayhem.
• 49:40
  Mayhem does program some nice stuff.
• 49:42
  I mean, some of the events,
• 49:43
  I haven't liked their stuff.
• 49:45
  But it's just the fact that
• 49:46
  they have athletes
• 49:47
  competing at some of these things.
• 49:49
  That's where I think there's
• 49:50
  the big conflict.
• 49:51
  It's not necessarily like...
• 49:52
  I'm not saying they can't program.
• 49:53
  Their grant programming is just...
• 49:56
  a huge conflict of interest
• 49:57
  in a sport of unknown yeah
• 50:01
  they were just excellent
• 50:02
  well-rounded tests well I
• 50:04
  think after this season
• 50:05
  everybody every elite
• 50:07
  athlete qualifies to be a
• 50:08
  mayhem athlete you get to
• 50:10
  wear that shirt now because
• 50:11
  you've done so much of
• 50:12
  their programming uh
• 50:19
  kenneth elapses is like one
• 50:20
  of those drunk pedro skits but for real
• 50:29
  Dan Church says,
• 50:30
  two K row into a hundred
• 50:31
  and fifty burpees over the
• 50:32
  rower for time.
• 50:34
  That's why you liked it.
• 50:36
  Yeah, I did love that one.
• 50:37
  That was a workout?
• 50:37
  Yep.
• 50:38
  Ew.
• 50:38
  Yeah, I had pretty fast time on it.
• 50:44
  Was it two different scores?
• 50:46
  No, one score.
• 50:47
  So the tiebreaker was your two K time.
• 50:51
  So you don't have to go that
• 50:52
  hard on the two K. If
• 50:53
  you're tying after a
• 50:54
  hundred and fifty burpees...
• 50:58
  you don't have to go that
• 50:58
  hard on the two k if it's
• 51:00
  right now that's dumb that
• 51:02
  is dumb I know a few people
• 51:03
  who did that twice and I
• 51:05
  was like why I have a
• 51:08
  feeling people rode too
• 51:09
  hard the first time but
• 51:10
  like because they said it
• 51:12
  was a the two k was the
• 51:14
  tiebreaker it like pulls
• 51:16
  you in to try to have a
• 51:18
  decent two k time but
• 51:19
  that's not where the
• 51:20
  workout was but it's just
• 51:23
  over the rower just by
• 51:25
  itself like not separated by anything
• 51:28
  No.
• 51:30
  Gosh, that sucks to count.
• 51:32
  Like a video review?
• 51:34
  I'd need a calendar instead
• 51:36
  of a stopwatch.
• 51:38
  Yeah.
• 51:40
  I would hate to online judge that.
• 51:44
  Some of their workouts, I'm like, man,
• 51:45
  who's reviewing these?
• 51:47
  But I think they're reviewing them.
• 51:49
  I don't know.
• 51:49
  I mean,
• 51:50
  they didn't really review the
• 51:51
  individual workouts.
• 51:54
  Okay.
• 51:54
  Train to live.
• 51:55
  I'm going to share my screen
• 51:56
  for one second.
• 51:58
  This is what I'm talking about.
• 51:59
  You snooping into my notes.
• 52:01
  I swear you're outside my window.
• 52:04
  So here's our rundown.
• 52:07
  If I blow up our next topic,
• 52:09
  see last chance qualifier
• 52:10
  right there on our topic.
• 52:12
  Are we getting the right
• 52:13
  people to the CrossFit games?
• 52:19
  Stop snooping.
• 52:27
  Um,
• 52:34
  I need a week long.
• 52:35
  I'm with you, Larry.
• 52:38
  Raf, speaking of programming,
• 52:39
  we need to see comps with
• 52:40
  gymnastics only events.
• 52:42
  You can bank on every event
• 52:44
  having a one rep max
• 52:46
  complex heavy Isabel.
• 52:47
  Rarely do you see a
• 52:48
  gymnastics only event before the games.
• 52:52
  Larry Young just threw up in his mouth.
• 52:56
  I'm on board.
• 52:57
  Same.
• 53:04
  All right.
• 53:05
  So since Train to Live brought it up,
• 53:08
  are we getting the right
• 53:09
  people to the CrossFit Games this season?
• 53:13
  I think from the field at each competition,
• 53:17
  yes.
• 53:18
  From the people that showed up,
• 53:20
  the best ones from the events, at least,
• 53:25
  for the most part, made it.
• 53:28
  Sure.
• 53:28
  In my opinion.
• 53:29
  Yeah.
• 53:31
  I'd agree with that.
• 53:32
  Like there wasn't like
• 53:32
  politically correct way to say, no,
• 53:34
  we're not.
• 53:36
  But no, like you can't put.
• 53:40
  To athletes and then have
• 53:43
  restrictions in some areas
• 53:45
  and not in others,
• 53:47
  because it was either going to like,
• 53:48
  if it was a fully open
• 53:50
  field and you could go anywhere,
• 53:52
  I think that changes it.
• 53:53
  But the fact that you still
• 53:55
  had restrictions on regions
• 53:58
  does not get the right field.
• 54:02
  And the strength of field at
• 54:03
  different comps is completely different.
• 54:05
  Absolutely.
• 54:06
  It's huge.
• 54:10
  I mean,
• 54:10
  I think people are going to see
• 54:12
  that when you watch
• 54:13
  Syndicate versus TFX that
• 54:16
  we just watched.
• 54:19
  The strength of field is
• 54:20
  different for sure.
• 54:22
  Far East.
• 54:22
  Renegade Rebel.
• 54:28
  Yeah, that one.
• 54:33
  So Far East did not restrict.
• 54:34
  They're open to the world.
• 54:36
  Yeah.
• 54:36
  Copasaur was regional.
• 54:38
  Renegade Rebel is regional.
• 54:40
  TFX and Syndicate are regional.
• 54:43
  How can you use half of them
• 54:44
  one way and half of them another?
• 54:50
  Honestly, like if I'm in Asia,
• 54:52
  I'm pissed because protect us.
• 54:55
  Everybody else protected their own.
• 54:56
  Why are you protecting us?
• 54:59
  So Asia didn't have a restricted field?
• 55:01
  If you hold my beer,
• 55:02
  I'm going over to London.
• 55:03
  Far East did not restrict field.
• 55:05
  That's where Luke Parker went.
• 55:08
  They haven't gone yet.
• 55:11
  Oh, where was he just at?
• 55:13
  He was at French Throwdown.
• 55:14
  Oh, yeah, French Throwdown.
• 55:17
  Has anyone gone to the Far East one?
• 55:20
  Like our North America or Europe?
• 55:23
  Yeah, do we know who signed up?
• 55:24
  I don't know who signed up.
• 55:27
  But like,
• 55:28
  Shung Young Choi already
• 55:29
  qualified out of Wadland Fest,
• 55:32
  so she's one of the people
• 55:33
  that would have taken one
• 55:34
  of the two spots out of the Far East.
• 55:36
  Now you have this other,
• 55:38
  unless someone goes from
• 55:41
  Europe or North America,
• 55:43
  we've never had a field
• 55:44
  deep enough to have three
• 55:45
  women from the Far East go.
• 55:48
  Because normally it's Sahar... Sahar?
• 55:52
  Sahar Kaya.
• 55:53
  And...
• 55:56
  and Chung Young Choi.
• 55:59
  Those two have always been
• 56:00
  legit contenders.
• 56:03
  Yeah, Kaia has some good strengths.
• 56:09
  But now we're going to open
• 56:10
  it up to a third person over there.
• 56:11
  I don't know.
• 56:14
  We'll see.
• 56:16
  I don't think... There's no
• 56:17
  way you can tell me the
• 56:18
  people that qualified out
• 56:20
  of Brazil are the top three in the world.
• 56:22
  Yeah, I see Tristan ask that.
• 56:24
  Who's qualified?
• 56:25
  I
• 56:27
  If you put Kopasor and Syndicate together,
• 56:32
  there's zero chance that
• 56:33
  those two athletes would make it out.
• 56:35
  Zero chance.
• 56:37
  You could put Kopasor at
• 56:39
  Wadland Fest and those four
• 56:42
  athletes wouldn't have made it out.
• 56:49
  Yeah.
• 56:50
  So, in conclusion, no,
• 56:51
  we're not getting the top three.
• 56:55
  Right.
• 56:55
  Like that's one of your
• 56:56
  thirty people or that's two
• 56:58
  of your thirty people.
• 57:01
  Did anyone ever tell Dave that?
• 57:03
  Because remember when he was like, yeah,
• 57:04
  he thinks that we have the
• 57:06
  top thirty in the world
• 57:07
  going to the games and we
• 57:08
  certainly do not.
• 57:09
  I don't know if that got
• 57:11
  brought to his attention.
• 57:13
  When we took the regional approach,
• 57:14
  there was forty athletes going.
• 57:16
  So ten of them,
• 57:18
  you could say that first
• 57:19
  heat was for all the people
• 57:21
  to get global expansion or
• 57:23
  whatever you want to say.
• 57:26
  To go down to thirty and
• 57:27
  keep that approach in half of the semis,
• 57:31
  I think is utterly ridiculous.
• 57:32
  I do, too.
• 57:33
  Tristan, I agree.
• 57:35
  That's the case.
• 57:36
  Asia,
• 57:36
  South America and Africa don't get
• 57:37
  GameStop.
• 57:38
  That's how I think it should
• 57:39
  be if we're dropping to thirty people.
• 57:45
  Or they need to like it
• 57:47
  needs to not be region
• 57:48
  based and we need to make sure that.
• 57:52
  That's where I'd rather just
• 57:54
  see a global leaderboard
• 57:56
  and understand equipment's different,
• 57:57
  floors are different.
• 57:59
  I don't know.
• 57:59
  Got to be better at the
• 58:00
  tests we program and
• 58:02
  actually send the top thirty.
• 58:06
  The global leaderboard for
• 58:07
  regional stuff is tough
• 58:09
  because it has to be the same weekend.
• 58:12
  Because if you know scores
• 58:14
  from previous weekends...
• 58:16
  like as the weekend's gone
• 58:17
  on for regionals,
• 58:18
  like that was one of the
• 58:18
  reasons why you couldn't
• 58:20
  really do the global
• 58:21
  leaderboard just because of the,
• 58:22
  like knowing the strategies, no,
• 58:24
  knowing the scores,
• 58:24
  but like the online version
• 58:26
  works because everyone's
• 58:27
  doing it that weekend with
• 58:28
  the same amount of time.
• 58:32
  Some people think Dave isn't
• 58:33
  a great listener.
• 58:34
  It says Larry young.
• 58:37
  I mean,
• 58:37
  I'd almost rather see the be all in
• 58:40
  affiliate as much as I
• 58:41
  freaking hate online comps.
• 58:43
  Like, like you said, the top,
• 58:46
  two from the in affiliate
• 58:49
  just made it so like had we
• 58:51
  doing that's what I'm
• 58:53
  saying like would these
• 58:54
  copa sur athletes even have
• 58:55
  finished top fifty top
• 58:57
  thirty top forty whatever
• 58:58
  we're taking in an in
• 58:59
  affiliate so maybe that's
• 59:02
  the way the workouts that
• 59:03
  they program go ahead for
• 59:07
  no I'm just maybe that's
• 59:08
  the way to make sure we are
• 59:09
  getting the worldwide top instead of
• 59:14
  So Jay Birch,
• 59:15
  what you're saying here is I
• 59:16
  don't like that approach.
• 59:18
  I would take that approach
• 59:19
  over what we're doing now
• 59:21
  because you let in a
• 59:22
  hundred and fifty men and a
• 59:24
  hundred and forty women.
• 59:26
  And then you cut down throughout the week.
• 59:30
  You ended up getting
• 59:31
  everybody had their
• 59:32
  opportunity to get in.
• 59:35
  We didn't miss anybody that year.
• 59:37
  Right.
• 59:41
  And if you wanted it to be
• 59:42
  an Olympic spectacle like
• 59:44
  it was that year,
• 59:45
  then I was cool with it.
• 59:48
  But when you get it down to thirty,
• 59:53
  it makes absolutely no sense.
• 59:55
  When you're down to thirty,
• 59:56
  it needs to be the best
• 59:57
  thirty in the world.
• 1:00:03
  I think for the most part,
• 1:00:05
  the people that qualified
• 1:00:06
  out of the in-affiliate semifinals,
• 1:00:08
  besides the one athlete
• 1:00:09
  that we didn't really see
• 1:00:10
  much like competition from
• 1:00:13
  like all those athletes are
• 1:00:14
  well known in the space
• 1:00:16
  have been to the games or
• 1:00:18
  have been right there.
• 1:00:19
  Um,
• 1:00:20
  and then even the athletes that are
• 1:00:21
  just behind that list,
• 1:00:23
  like all those athletes
• 1:00:24
  just qualified at TFX,
• 1:00:25
  like all the top rank there, um,
• 1:00:29
  fee and Colton and who else
• 1:00:31
  from the mayhem qualified
• 1:00:33
  and they were all the top of the open.
• 1:00:34
  So it seems like from the,
• 1:00:36
  like the CrossFit side of things, like,
• 1:00:38
  the top qualifiers from the
• 1:00:40
  open and the like in
• 1:00:43
  affiliate semifinals did well.
• 1:00:45
  So that goes to the, you know,
• 1:00:49
  I think like the in
• 1:00:50
  affiliate semifinals was,
• 1:00:51
  was good programming.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah.
• 1:00:57
  Open that up more and do
• 1:00:59
  more video review and I'm cool.
• 1:01:01
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:01:02
  Yeah, because they didn't review anything.
• 1:01:04
  They reviewed only the ones
• 1:01:05
  that had thumbs down
• 1:01:06
  because even inside the top ten,
• 1:01:10
  they did not do a secondary
• 1:01:11
  review of athletes going through.
• 1:01:16
  Which I thought should be an
• 1:01:17
  automatic thing,
• 1:01:17
  like you automatically look at the top,
• 1:01:20
  like the eleven going through,
• 1:01:22
  you automatically have to
• 1:01:23
  look at the top.
• 1:01:24
  There are five videos that
• 1:01:26
  should have been a bare
• 1:01:26
  minimum of twenty two athletes.
• 1:01:28
  You look at all five of their videos.
• 1:01:31
  but there was no secondary look.
• 1:01:39
  Tristan,
• 1:01:40
  what do you mean an affiliate
• 1:01:41
  semis was rough?
• 1:01:51
  I'm curious, expand on that for me.
• 1:01:54
  I got an issue with Mr. Church here.
• 1:01:57
  Nick Matthew just got a ticket.
• 1:01:58
  He was eighth at Mayhem.
• 1:01:59
  I'm not saying he isn't fit,
• 1:02:01
  but if we took the Cutler approach, sorry,
• 1:02:02
  Charlie, you weren't even close.
• 1:02:04
  But if we were down to one shot,
• 1:02:06
  it wouldn't be just the top two.
• 1:02:10
  It would be a deeper field
• 1:02:11
  that we would take from there.
• 1:02:15
  That's a problem.
• 1:02:18
  Right.
• 1:02:20
  I don't like, and you know,
• 1:02:21
  after talking to Justin and
• 1:02:23
  thinking about it,
• 1:02:23
  I don't like people get
• 1:02:25
  like four shots at the apple.
• 1:02:28
  Right.
• 1:02:30
  Like, and, but I do get the thing.
• 1:02:31
  Like if you're sick on this weekend,
• 1:02:33
  you're, you're out.
• 1:02:34
  I don't know why we can't
• 1:02:35
  just have like a handful of events,
• 1:02:40
  one or two shots and that's it.
• 1:02:42
  I don't know.
• 1:02:51
  I mean,
• 1:02:51
  most of the guys that were ahead of
• 1:02:53
  Nick Matthew have already
• 1:02:54
  gotten their spots.
• 1:02:57
  From.
• 1:02:58
  Yeah.
• 1:02:59
  What place did Nick get?
• 1:03:00
  Austin already has a spot.
• 1:03:01
  Colton, Roman, James, Jason.
• 1:03:05
  Just Jorge is the only
• 1:03:06
  athlete that finished ahead
• 1:03:07
  of Nick Matthew from Mayhem
• 1:03:10
  that hasn't gotten his spot.
• 1:03:11
  Everyone else above him
• 1:03:13
  already have their spots.
• 1:03:14
  Yeah, that makes sense.
• 1:03:15
  He's.
• 1:03:22
  oh okay dan says one online
• 1:03:26
  one live yeah I guess you
• 1:03:30
  could do one big one here
• 1:03:32
  and I mean it sucks you
• 1:03:34
  gotta tell all the european
• 1:03:35
  athletes to get over here
• 1:03:36
  but you could make one big
• 1:03:39
  semi-finals here somewhere
• 1:03:41
  I think he's saying each
• 1:03:42
  person only gets one live
• 1:03:43
  one one oh you get one like
• 1:03:45
  everyone does the online
• 1:03:47
  and then there's a certain
• 1:03:48
  amount and then
• 1:03:51
  The only thing is,
• 1:03:51
  if everyone happens to pick
• 1:03:53
  the same live one,
• 1:03:54
  it just becomes the same
• 1:03:55
  problem again because the
• 1:03:56
  strength of field isn't
• 1:03:57
  taken into consideration.
• 1:03:59
  That's the only issue.
• 1:04:01
  Yeah.
• 1:04:01
  It comes down to the same
• 1:04:02
  thing that we just did here.
• 1:04:04
  Right.
• 1:04:04
  Lucky to draw.
• 1:04:09
  Yeah.
• 1:04:11
  I don't know.
• 1:04:12
  It sucks, but I think the public videos...
• 1:04:16
  I think you, I know Tristan, I hate online,
• 1:04:19
  but, and it is a big ask,
• 1:04:21
  but I think making those public videos,
• 1:04:28
  making them be public,
• 1:04:29
  put some accountability on, I think,
• 1:04:32
  you know,
• 1:04:32
  people like Brooke getting called out.
• 1:04:34
  I feel like people are going
• 1:04:36
  to review things better and be like,
• 1:04:39
  I got to redo that.
• 1:04:40
  I don't like the way that looks.
• 1:04:42
  But that's actually our next topic,
• 1:04:44
  and that's the penalties from last week.
• 1:04:47
  And so Brooke was dinged.
• 1:04:49
  Caroline Stanley and Olivia
• 1:04:51
  Kerstetter lost their
• 1:04:53
  qualifications to the games
• 1:04:55
  in the online.
• 1:04:56
  On the men's side, nothing, scores changed,
• 1:05:00
  but no movement on the
• 1:05:01
  leaderboard happened.
• 1:05:04
  I was shocked that Ricky
• 1:05:08
  showed the same video angle.
• 1:05:12
  I feel like it was,
• 1:05:14
  look at Brooke over here.
• 1:05:15
  Oh, I can't see.
• 1:05:16
  Look at Brooke over here.
• 1:05:17
  And then the guys over here
• 1:05:18
  getting away with everything.
• 1:05:23
  Because there was no movement on the,
• 1:05:26
  on the male leaderboard.
• 1:05:26
  Right.
• 1:05:27
  Other than Tudor moved up to
• 1:05:29
  tie for fourth.
• 1:05:36
  Like.
• 1:05:36
  Cause there was one James.
• 1:05:39
  I'm sorry.
• 1:05:40
  It was just James Sprague
• 1:05:41
  that got the most penalty from the men,
• 1:05:45
  right?
• 1:05:46
  The only movement I saw, though,
• 1:05:48
  was Tudor moved up to tie for fourth.
• 1:05:54
  But I thought Ricky was
• 1:05:56
  going to get the same
• 1:05:57
  penalty as the Proven group
• 1:05:58
  because of the video angle
• 1:06:00
  that he gave was the same as...
• 1:06:02
  Like Olivia, Kyra, Caroline Stanley.
• 1:06:07
  Like Maddie Sturt and Jay,
• 1:06:09
  they gave a different angle
• 1:06:11
  of the rings without the rig blocking.
• 1:06:14
  But again,
• 1:06:14
  it just comes down to luck of whose video,
• 1:06:16
  like maybe not enough
• 1:06:17
  people reviewed his video
• 1:06:20
  and he didn't get enough thumbs down.
• 1:06:22
  So then it just becomes a
• 1:06:22
  community vote and they
• 1:06:23
  don't look at anything secondary.
• 1:06:25
  So I don't know what the
• 1:06:26
  threshold line of thumbs down was,
• 1:06:29
  but they ended up looking
• 1:06:30
  at the female side of
• 1:06:31
  certain videos more than the male side.
• 1:06:36
  Yeah.
• 1:06:37
  Or did the females just have more votes?
• 1:06:41
  I mean,
• 1:06:41
  I think they completely relied on
• 1:06:43
  the public.
• 1:06:43
  So like, did Ricky's,
• 1:06:46
  did you look at Ricky's?
• 1:06:47
  Did he have an overwhelming number?
• 1:06:51
  How many needs review did he have?
• 1:06:53
  I don't remember.
• 1:06:54
  I just remember it was like,
• 1:06:55
  I just looked at it very, very quickly.
• 1:06:56
  Cause I'm like, Oh,
• 1:06:57
  what other proven athlete had this angle?
• 1:07:01
  I mean,
• 1:07:02
  if I remember seeing his on the
• 1:07:03
  other side.
• 1:07:05
  And I w I want it to be clear.
• 1:07:06
  Like Brooke deserved to be penalized.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah.
• 1:07:09
  When I'm saying like, Hey, look over here.
• 1:07:11
  Like she did, we needed to look over here,
• 1:07:14
  but that doesn't mean you
• 1:07:15
  don't need to look over in
• 1:07:16
  these other houses.
• 1:07:18
  Right.
• 1:07:19
  But I still think all the
• 1:07:21
  videos should be reviewed
• 1:07:22
  for at least the top twenty.
• 1:07:24
  Top twenty, all five videos reviewed.
• 1:07:29
  It's not that hard.
• 1:07:30
  I get they put the
• 1:07:32
  responsibility to the community,
• 1:07:34
  but your team needs,
• 1:07:36
  CrossFit needs to review
• 1:07:38
  the top twenty of all five videos.
• 1:07:40
  Top twenty-five, whatever it is.
• 1:07:42
  But at least for the people
• 1:07:43
  that are going.
• 1:07:45
  I think it was the muscle up one.
• 1:07:47
  I want to say that.
• 1:07:49
  That's number one.
• 1:07:49
  Number one.
• 1:07:50
  Number one.
• 1:07:53
  It is.
• 1:07:54
  He had four needs review.
• 1:07:56
  Twenty five.
• 1:07:57
  Good.
• 1:08:00
  But it's the same angle, wasn't it?
• 1:08:02
  I'm pulling it up now.
• 1:08:07
  The videos are still live.
• 1:08:11
  Maybe that's a different angle.
• 1:08:13
  I'll just fast forward.
• 1:08:17
  Right there you can see the rings moving.
• 1:08:20
  Maybe because he's taller
• 1:08:22
  athlete that like his
• 1:08:23
  elbows are higher than the rig.
• 1:08:26
  You can fast forward a little bit.
• 1:08:30
  Because it's the same thing
• 1:08:32
  as like like you can't see really.
• 1:08:41
  Is that a different angle
• 1:08:42
  than the girl said?
• 1:08:44
  So that was his.
• 1:08:45
  No,
• 1:08:45
  but he'll be taller maybe a little bit.
• 1:08:49
  Okay.
• 1:08:49
  I'm just going to go to the
• 1:08:50
  girls and share that screen.
• 1:08:57
  I just thought that they
• 1:08:58
  would have had a camera
• 1:09:00
  like on the other side as a backup,
• 1:09:01
  just filming their ring the whole time.
• 1:09:03
  Like you just put it against
• 1:09:04
  the wall on that side,
• 1:09:06
  you do the measurement
• 1:09:07
  stuff and then you put that
• 1:09:09
  and you just have that as your backup.
• 1:09:10
  Like if they wanted to see
• 1:09:11
  that angle of the rings, you just like,
• 1:09:13
  let's say you, you have your,
• 1:09:14
  your video for the whole workout.
• 1:09:17
  And then you have a
• 1:09:17
  secondary video that just
• 1:09:19
  shows just the ring muscle up.
• 1:09:21
  Um,
• 1:09:24
  like just the ring muscle up from the
• 1:09:26
  other angle.
• 1:09:27
  That's just rolling the entire time.
• 1:09:31
  Like wouldn't that work?
• 1:09:33
  Oh, this one's not even turned.
• 1:09:35
  Holy cow.
• 1:09:37
  I can't stand these.
• 1:09:41
  Fix your orientation, please.
• 1:09:43
  Yeah, that's rough.
• 1:09:45
  Oh.
• 1:09:49
  Like a million miles away.
• 1:09:51
  That should just be vetoed.
• 1:09:54
  Just Olivia and her
• 1:09:56
  interview from the weekend
• 1:09:57
  at TFX at like half of her
• 1:09:59
  reps was like her pushing
• 1:10:00
  back or out or whatever.
• 1:10:02
  And half of it was like,
• 1:10:03
  just like the angle that they gave.
• 1:10:06
  Well, you can right there.
• 1:10:07
  Caroline's going and.
• 1:10:13
  it was just tough to see
• 1:10:13
  like I just I figured that
• 1:10:15
  they would have had a
• 1:10:16
  secondary video like I was
• 1:10:17
  like oh like they could be
• 1:10:18
  for sure strict but like I
• 1:10:20
  thought for sure they would
• 1:10:21
  have had a different angle
• 1:10:23
  of the rings as like they
• 1:10:25
  have like a straight on at
• 1:10:27
  least to a minimum like I
• 1:10:29
  don't understand that well
• 1:10:33
  and it is it is different
• 1:10:34
  up and down like
• 1:10:37
  the angle up at the rings, like it,
• 1:10:39
  it hits just the top where
• 1:10:40
  the bar comes across.
• 1:10:42
  You cannot see the top of
• 1:10:43
  the ring on Caroline Stanley.
• 1:10:46
  You can on Ricky, like his,
• 1:10:48
  you could see above the bar
• 1:10:49
  because of the angle of the camera.
• 1:10:51
  It's in the same spot, different angle.
• 1:10:58
  I don't know.
• 1:10:59
  Yeah.
• 1:10:59
  And no, no,
• 1:10:59
  but nobody got dinged for their
• 1:11:01
  GHDs that I'm aware of.
• 1:11:05
  Yeah, I don't think so.
• 1:11:06
  Which is ridiculous.
• 1:11:08
  That should have been hit hard.
• 1:11:12
  The one thing I haven't liked, though,
• 1:11:13
  with the ring muscle-ups lately,
• 1:11:14
  I see a lot more people doing it,
• 1:11:16
  is the extension.
• 1:11:17
  Not away, but out wide.
• 1:11:19
  Yeah.
• 1:11:19
  And that makes it that you have no... Like,
• 1:11:22
  that's not a supported position.
• 1:11:24
  And that is so much easier on the triceps.
• 1:11:27
  And you get a lot of people
• 1:11:28
  that as they extend their rings,
• 1:11:31
  like some of them, yes, they push back.
• 1:11:34
  But if you ask them to stop,
• 1:11:36
  like they're almost doing
• 1:11:36
  an iron cross because
• 1:11:37
  they're kicking out wide.
• 1:11:39
  But like you see a nice...
• 1:11:41
  elbow lock.
• 1:11:43
  It looks great from the elbow.
• 1:11:44
  Like you, you finished it,
• 1:11:45
  but is that like,
• 1:11:46
  should that not be a no rep?
• 1:11:47
  Like,
• 1:11:48
  are we just not being as strict now
• 1:11:49
  with that type of technique
• 1:11:51
  on the ring muscle up?
• 1:11:52
  Cause I always thought that
• 1:11:53
  like you had to be in a
• 1:11:54
  more supported position.
• 1:11:55
  And when people kick out,
• 1:11:56
  I don't know if you can see my arms,
• 1:11:58
  but like sideways with a
• 1:11:59
  big gap between the hips and the
• 1:12:02
  the elbows like that's
• 1:12:03
  significantly easier on ring muscle.
• 1:12:07
  I agree.
• 1:12:08
  Way easier.
• 1:12:09
  You have no,
• 1:12:09
  you have no body weight
• 1:12:10
  supporting on the triceps.
• 1:12:13
  You're seeing a lot more
• 1:12:14
  females do that style too.
• 1:12:15
  Yup.
• 1:12:17
  At least the team's videos weren't,
• 1:12:19
  weren't well.
• 1:12:22
  Who said that?
• 1:12:24
  Yeah.
• 1:12:28
  No issues there at all.
• 1:12:31
  Nothing to see here.
• 1:12:34
  I do think James may have
• 1:12:36
  gotten a penalty on GHD.
• 1:12:39
  His looked better.
• 1:12:41
  I looked at him.
• 1:12:42
  I thought they were okay.
• 1:12:44
  I think it's where he's touching.
• 1:12:46
  That's what it was.
• 1:12:47
  It's because he went wide.
• 1:12:50
  That's why he got the GHD penalty.
• 1:12:52
  His butt was better.
• 1:12:55
  I don't know that anyone got
• 1:12:56
  a penalty for their butt position.
• 1:13:00
  Ariel did.
• 1:13:00
  Yeah.
• 1:13:00
  Landon,
• 1:13:00
  we were talking about the men more
• 1:13:02
  specifically on this
• 1:13:04
  because the women all there
• 1:13:05
  was movement on the leaderboard.
• 1:13:07
  Ariel went from first to third.
• 1:13:09
  People moved around.
• 1:13:11
  We talked about Bethany last week.
• 1:13:13
  It was she had a judge that
• 1:13:15
  was not certified on two of her.
• 1:13:19
  So she got zeroed out on those two.
• 1:13:21
  I saw a video of or a post
• 1:13:26
  of a teenage girl.
• 1:13:27
  She's a Canadian girl.
• 1:13:29
  It's been circling around
• 1:13:30
  because one of her, uh,
• 1:13:32
  judges didn't have the
• 1:13:34
  advanced judges course
• 1:13:35
  during the age group.
• 1:13:36
  And like they were,
• 1:13:38
  they zeroed out a lot of
• 1:13:39
  other people's stuff, but they'd never,
• 1:13:41
  or they didn't allow her
• 1:13:42
  score to count because she
• 1:13:43
  was inside the age group,
• 1:13:45
  like teenage division to qualify.
• 1:13:47
  Have you guys picked up on
• 1:13:48
  that story or no,
• 1:13:51
  it was advanced judges course later,
• 1:13:53
  but they said no.
• 1:13:56
  Someone in the chat brought
• 1:13:57
  it up earlier in the show,
• 1:14:00
  but I had not seen it
• 1:14:02
  specifically to speak on it.
• 1:14:07
  It was inconsistent.
• 1:14:10
  Cause some people could get
• 1:14:12
  their videos reviewed for
• 1:14:14
  the age group without their
• 1:14:16
  level one that was there.
• 1:14:18
  Hers was not the,
• 1:14:19
  like the one judge didn't
• 1:14:20
  have the advanced,
• 1:14:21
  but then ended up taking
• 1:14:22
  the advanced judges course
• 1:14:23
  after they got that like notification.
• 1:14:25
  But at that point it was too late.
• 1:14:28
  So it was just more like groups.
• 1:14:30
  They gave the exception.
• 1:14:32
  So that's just odd that she didn't get it.
• 1:14:34
  And that was her point was
• 1:14:36
  that it seemed like it
• 1:14:38
  wasn't fair in terms.
• 1:14:39
  I mean, fair.
• 1:14:40
  What?
• 1:14:41
  I don't like that word in that situation,
• 1:14:44
  but wasn't consistent.
• 1:14:46
  Right.
• 1:14:49
  It's hard to keep up with the chat,
• 1:14:50
  but Raf's bringing up an
• 1:14:51
  idea of just having
• 1:14:53
  minimizing down the
• 1:14:54
  qualifying in-person events
• 1:14:56
  to just Australia, Europe,
• 1:14:58
  and the United States.
• 1:15:00
  And
• 1:15:02
  That way you get more attendance,
• 1:15:04
  you get more,
• 1:15:05
  because there's much fewer of them.
• 1:15:08
  I think I'm capturing that
• 1:15:10
  as much as I can,
• 1:15:11
  but it was flying by so fast.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah, I was reading some of that too.
• 1:15:15
  I liked the thought of that.
• 1:15:16
  And I heard, and it's one of them,
• 1:15:18
  Lynn or someone questioned
• 1:15:20
  the growth in Middle East and-
• 1:15:23
  whatnot, but I mean, the thing is,
• 1:15:26
  if they truly have an
• 1:15:27
  exceptional athlete who like could,
• 1:15:30
  could make it,
• 1:15:31
  they would send them to
• 1:15:32
  Europe or some like, like Choi, she went,
• 1:15:36
  like,
• 1:15:36
  if you are that you're going to go
• 1:15:37
  and you're going to qualify,
• 1:15:38
  if you're that good,
• 1:15:40
  they can have a local, big local cop.
• 1:15:42
  Copa can still exist and be
• 1:15:45
  their big local cop for them that like,
• 1:15:49
  I mean, you,
• 1:15:50
  it doesn't need to be a
• 1:15:50
  qualifier to the games.
• 1:15:52
  Yeah.
• 1:15:54
  Yeah,
• 1:15:55
  I think that's a pretty good idea is
• 1:15:57
  to limit the number of
• 1:15:58
  in-person to just a couple.
• 1:16:02
  And then it means more
• 1:16:04
  because there aren't ten or
• 1:16:06
  eleven of them.
• 1:16:07
  There's just three or four.
• 1:16:14
  Next thing, this was earlier in the week,
• 1:16:16
  WFP announced automatic
• 1:16:17
  bids for the top qualifying
• 1:16:19
  pro division challenger.
• 1:16:21
  That went to Fee and Colton.
• 1:16:23
  So we argued last week a lot
• 1:16:26
  that it's hard for the
• 1:16:28
  challenger to then come
• 1:16:29
  back and do the qualifier
• 1:16:30
  and then do the next tour stop.
• 1:16:33
  Those two get a bye.
• 1:16:34
  They don't have to do the qualifier.
• 1:16:36
  They get to move straight to.
• 1:16:38
  Does that ease your pain at all,
• 1:16:40
  Miss Latimer?
• 1:16:42
  I think that was a good choice.
• 1:16:44
  I saw there was some
• 1:16:46
  question whether that means
• 1:16:48
  the pro card doesn't mean anything.
• 1:16:51
  I mean, yeah,
• 1:16:54
  just because they're getting
• 1:16:55
  their invite doesn't mean
• 1:16:56
  the pro card doesn't hold validity.
• 1:17:00
  I think it's the right rule change.
• 1:17:03
  I don't like changing rules
• 1:17:05
  middle of the season,
• 1:17:08
  just making it up as you go.
• 1:17:11
  But I think those two
• 1:17:11
  athletes earn their placing there.
• 1:17:16
  And I do like the rule that
• 1:17:18
  if you are the top challenger,
• 1:17:20
  you get an invite.
• 1:17:22
  Now, I'm just curious,
• 1:17:23
  does that mean that the
• 1:17:24
  next online qualifier turns
• 1:17:26
  to nine athletes instead of
• 1:17:28
  ten that qualify to make it
• 1:17:31
  a field of thirty?
• 1:17:34
  Well, unless some people would draw again.
• 1:17:38
  There are rumors out there
• 1:17:39
  that Emily has injured her elbow.
• 1:17:42
  If you look at the still picture,
• 1:17:44
  it does not look good.
• 1:17:46
  If she has to withdraw,
• 1:17:48
  then there would be another open spot.
• 1:17:54
  Happy for them.
• 1:17:55
  Those two athletes have been
• 1:17:57
  on a tear so far this year
• 1:17:58
  and have looked awesome.
• 1:18:00
  Good for them.
• 1:18:05
  raf that is exactly what I
• 1:18:07
  said last week don't don't
• 1:18:12
  go there don't get me
• 1:18:13
  started I'm still hot about
• 1:18:15
  it um you have to have a
• 1:18:20
  carrot for people to want
• 1:18:23
  to make it interesting
• 1:18:25
  that's it it's like playing
• 1:18:27
  king of the hill without
• 1:18:28
  someone at the top of the mountain
• 1:18:32
  I just have a lot of
• 1:18:33
  thoughts about it still.
• 1:18:34
  I want to put together a
• 1:18:39
  PowerPoint and have
• 1:18:41
  questions for Saxon or whoever comes on.
• 1:18:47
  I had the promise before the event,
• 1:18:49
  and I'm not getting much back right now,
• 1:18:52
  so we'll see how that goes.
• 1:18:56
  Oh, God.
• 1:18:57
  I said mountain, and look who shows up.
• 1:19:01
  Oh, Siobhan's stream must have ended.
• 1:19:04
  Are you kidding me?
• 1:19:06
  But I think that's the best
• 1:19:07
  way to describe it.
• 1:19:08
  Like if you look at the WFP
• 1:19:09
  as king of the mountain, right?
• 1:19:12
  You have to have someone at
• 1:19:13
  the mountain to take down
• 1:19:15
  for it to be an interesting game.
• 1:19:18
  If there's nobody up there to go after,
• 1:19:20
  then the storyline is not there.
• 1:19:25
  Raph, that's exactly how I feel.
• 1:19:28
  It's darn near impossible.
• 1:19:30
  Like other than this year,
• 1:19:32
  because it's easier with Colton and Fee,
• 1:19:34
  like clearly there's some
• 1:19:35
  people who don't belong there.
• 1:19:38
  I think in the future.
• 1:19:39
  It's not impossible.
• 1:19:40
  You just have to get better
• 1:19:41
  than the twenty that are there.
• 1:19:44
  No, that's not true.
• 1:19:48
  What about if you're in the
• 1:19:49
  bottom five as a pro?
• 1:19:52
  You have to enter the
• 1:19:53
  qualifier division next time.
• 1:19:55
  Exactly.
• 1:19:58
  I get that they need twenty
• 1:20:00
  people to begin the season
• 1:20:01
  and you have to pick twenty.
• 1:20:03
  They're taking away the
• 1:20:04
  beauty of what they're
• 1:20:05
  trying to accomplish.
• 1:20:06
  Yes, just to avoid the qualifiers,
• 1:20:07
  I guess.
• 1:20:07
  Yeah, but I don't like rewarding.
• 1:20:10
  That's not how CrossFit works.
• 1:20:12
  They earned it through a
• 1:20:13
  season the year before.
• 1:20:16
  That's not how CrossFit works.
• 1:20:17
  You need to show up at every event.
• 1:20:19
  You're not even allowed to say CrossFit.
• 1:20:24
  It's not.
• 1:20:24
  It's something different.
• 1:20:26
  We're trying something different.
• 1:20:28
  People want to watch people
• 1:20:30
  try their hardest at each event,
• 1:20:32
  not just get through.
• 1:20:34
  Those athletes are trying their hardest.
• 1:20:38
  Questionable.
• 1:20:40
  I'd rather see people be fit.
• 1:20:43
  year round.
• 1:20:44
  Like I think,
• 1:20:45
  I actually think this could like, for me,
• 1:20:49
  I don't like the way the
• 1:20:50
  sport's gone and people peaking and,
• 1:20:54
  and breaking and pushing weights.
• 1:20:56
  Like they do these huge strength cycles.
• 1:20:58
  So we push weight.
• 1:20:58
  Like I think there'd be,
• 1:21:00
  I almost think there'd be
• 1:21:01
  less injuries if we backed
• 1:21:03
  off the weights and just
• 1:21:04
  did CrossFit and people
• 1:21:06
  stayed fit for nine,
• 1:21:08
  ten months of the year.
• 1:21:10
  I don't like these peaking cycles.
• 1:21:15
  I don't either.
• 1:21:16
  Other sports don't have peaking cycles.
• 1:21:18
  Exactly.
• 1:21:18
  They have to be good all year.
• 1:21:20
  Exactly.
• 1:21:21
  However, they also have off seasons,
• 1:21:23
  which CrossFit is elected
• 1:21:24
  not to do because they have
• 1:21:26
  all these big events in the off season.
• 1:21:28
  So athletes don't get an off season.
• 1:21:33
  Andrew Sten, my God,
• 1:21:34
  he's trying to push my buttons again.
• 1:21:36
  We're going down the same
• 1:21:37
  path as last week.
• 1:21:40
  You had to establish the
• 1:21:42
  king of the mountain for
• 1:21:43
  people to take down.
• 1:21:45
  So you couldn't just leave
• 1:21:46
  it open this year to then get twenty.
• 1:21:49
  Or you are just the same
• 1:21:51
  thing CrossFit is doing.
• 1:21:53
  You had to establish it.
• 1:21:54
  So you say to those people, hey,
• 1:21:57
  you've had some good careers.
• 1:21:59
  You have a good Instagram following.
• 1:22:00
  Whatever the criteria is,
• 1:22:02
  you get our twenty cards this year.
• 1:22:04
  But if you want it next year,
• 1:22:05
  you better hold on.
• 1:22:07
  Because people are coming after it.
• 1:22:12
  We shall see.
• 1:22:16
  Without the carrot.
• 1:22:19
  And they wouldn't have got
• 1:22:20
  all the athletes they got
• 1:22:21
  if they didn't hand out money.
• 1:22:22
  They had to hand money to
• 1:22:23
  somebody to make it
• 1:22:24
  enticing for people to come.
• 1:22:27
  If they just said, hey,
• 1:22:28
  we're doing this thing, come sign up.
• 1:22:30
  And if you do,
• 1:22:31
  maybe you will earn some money.
• 1:22:32
  Nobody's coming.
• 1:22:34
  They had to go, hey,
• 1:22:35
  we're giving you ten grand
• 1:22:36
  and we're giving you thirty
• 1:22:37
  grand and we're giving you twenty grand.
• 1:22:38
  And that's the only reason
• 1:22:39
  people came over.
• 1:22:42
  It's the same thing Liv Golf
• 1:22:43
  did to the PGA.
• 1:22:45
  Those guys were not going to
• 1:22:45
  go play in Saudi Arabia for fun.
• 1:22:49
  The only reason they went is
• 1:22:50
  because the Saudis said,
• 1:22:51
  here's some money, come get it.
• 1:22:57
  Stop saying start year one without cards.
• 1:23:00
  You have to have the card
• 1:23:01
  for people to want it.
• 1:23:03
  They have to know what it is
• 1:23:04
  and the extras that you get.
• 1:23:08
  Yeah,
• 1:23:08
  it's just weird coming in and seeing
• 1:23:10
  it this way.
• 1:23:11
  I mean, I get why they did what they did.
• 1:23:13
  It's just weird.
• 1:23:14
  It's an interesting start.
• 1:23:16
  CrossFit season has twenty
• 1:23:18
  years of establishment that
• 1:23:20
  people love and follow.
• 1:23:23
  A new entity coming into the
• 1:23:24
  game is going to have to do
• 1:23:26
  something to at least get
• 1:23:28
  close to the same level of
• 1:23:30
  playing field as CrossFit
• 1:23:32
  because they're not established.
• 1:23:34
  And what WFP did was say, hey,
• 1:23:37
  here's a bunch of money.
• 1:23:38
  Come over and join us on this venture.
• 1:23:42
  And it's a big gamble
• 1:23:43
  because they're throwing out money.
• 1:23:46
  And it may or may not fly.
• 1:23:47
  We don't know.
• 1:23:49
  But without the money,
• 1:23:51
  they were not even going to be,
• 1:23:53
  they would just be Metcon
• 1:23:54
  Rush and Fittest of the
• 1:23:57
  Coast and all of those
• 1:23:59
  others that happened during the year.
• 1:24:02
  With the money,
• 1:24:03
  they're being talked about every week.
• 1:24:05
  They're out there.
• 1:24:06
  Everybody knows who they are.
• 1:24:08
  They have a shot.
• 1:24:10
  Whether it's a legit shot or not,
• 1:24:12
  who the hell knows?
• 1:24:13
  But without doing what they did,
• 1:24:15
  then we wouldn't be here today.
• 1:24:19
  I just wonder how many of
• 1:24:20
  the challengers will
• 1:24:21
  requalify with the second
• 1:24:23
  round of qualifier.
• 1:24:25
  that is it like it's like
• 1:24:28
  that that's the top part
• 1:24:29
  right with only three
• 1:24:31
  events and two of them are
• 1:24:33
  counting like are prepared
• 1:24:35
  because they don't have a
• 1:24:36
  third do they have a third
• 1:24:38
  qualifier no so it's
• 1:24:39
  basically the first two
• 1:24:40
  events so unless like you
• 1:24:42
  have to as a you you
• 1:24:45
  essentially have to have
• 1:24:45
  won the challenger the
• 1:24:47
  challenger and then you
• 1:24:48
  qualify or you've done the
• 1:24:51
  pro and then you go into the
• 1:24:53
  challenger at a minimum you
• 1:24:55
  have to have done at least
• 1:24:56
  two right to probably earn
• 1:24:57
  a point absolutely because
• 1:25:00
  I I don't think doing one
• 1:25:02
  event of the pro is even
• 1:25:04
  enough even if you finish
• 1:25:05
  like fifteenth I don't know
• 1:25:06
  if that would be enough
• 1:25:07
  points to bring you on to
• 1:25:08
  the next I mean maybe there
• 1:25:10
  you would get enough but
• 1:25:12
  it'll be interesting yeah
• 1:25:17
  it has it's going to
• 1:25:20
  Getting beating the top
• 1:25:22
  twenty should be hard.
• 1:25:24
  These people earn something.
• 1:25:26
  That means it shouldn't.
• 1:25:28
  That's why some of the king
• 1:25:29
  of the mountain has the
• 1:25:30
  upper hand because they
• 1:25:31
  have the leverage over the
• 1:25:32
  people climbing up the mountain.
• 1:25:37
  It should be hard.
• 1:25:42
  Believe it.
• 1:25:42
  But what if these athletes
• 1:25:44
  continuously beat them like
• 1:25:45
  it should be hard, but.
• 1:25:46
  They are beating them.
• 1:25:47
  They just have to.
• 1:25:48
  Even if they're getting beat
• 1:25:50
  and it's still impossible?
• 1:25:51
  Tia keeps saying it.
• 1:25:52
  That's my issue.
• 1:25:54
  Tia keeps winning.
• 1:25:56
  Tia keeps winning.
• 1:25:57
  She's a goat.
• 1:25:59
  Right.
• 1:26:00
  Well,
• 1:26:00
  you may have some goat athletes that
• 1:26:02
  aren't going to lose their pro cards.
• 1:26:07
  You can have some moderate
• 1:26:08
  athletes who aren't going
• 1:26:09
  to lose their pro cards.
• 1:26:10
  We don't know that.
• 1:26:14
  We have not seen this play out.
• 1:26:15
  Let's see what happens in
• 1:26:16
  the next qualifier.
• 1:26:18
  That's what's going to be really telling.
• 1:26:21
  If you watch other sports
• 1:26:22
  with this same system,
• 1:26:25
  athletes keep their pro
• 1:26:27
  cards for years and years and years.
• 1:26:30
  And others don't.
• 1:26:31
  They fall out.
• 1:26:32
  They fall off.
• 1:26:34
  If you win a green jacket,
• 1:26:36
  aren't you invited for life?
• 1:26:39
  For many, many years.
• 1:26:41
  That doesn't get you a pro card.
• 1:26:43
  Just to that event.
• 1:26:48
  So.
• 1:26:51
  Anything.
• 1:26:51
  All right.
• 1:27:01
  Okay.
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  Do we have anything else?
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  No.
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  We have some quick hitters
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  just to end the show.
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  And that is Guy signed up for Torian.
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  I guess Torian.
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  was too much to do the
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  crossfit game season but
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  it's not too much to fly to
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  australia yeah him and
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  elisa it's just silly um
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  and then we had our first
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  positive drug test of the
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  year it doesn't really
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  matter because she was
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  fifth place at copasor
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  meaning she's about
• 1:27:30
  eightieth at syndicate um
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  patricia gonclaves
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  goncalves is the first
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  athlete in two thousand
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  five to fail a drug test
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  this is directly from barbell spin
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  She took fifth overall
• 1:27:44
  copacir and she tested
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  positive for a sample of
• 1:27:48
  oxandrolone and its metabolites,
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  a whole bunch of pharmacy stuff.
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  Do you think she's the only
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  one out of COPA, sir?
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  Or do we think maybe she's
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  the only one not fighting it?
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  She did not appeal,
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  so she only took the suspension.
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  Right.
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  So that means there could be more,
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  and we just don't know.
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  That's what I'm wondering.
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  Because it's just usually
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  pretty rampant there.
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  And our steroid expert is in the chat,
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  Anavar.
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  That's what it is.
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  Yes, we did weigh in on the TFX program.
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  We said it was slightly heavy bias,
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  but we liked it.
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  Got the right people.
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  But at the end of the day,
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  the two people on each side
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  that qualified were the top
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  two people in the online in
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  affiliate semifinals from the West.
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  The only one of the guys was Quant,
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  but he didn't.
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  Is he still on the West side?
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  Because he didn't come.
• 1:28:51
  Yeah.
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  He would have been the only
• 1:28:54
  one that was ahead, I think,
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  of Nick Matthew that was on
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  the west side.
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  Well, John,
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  I always say everything's too heavy,
• 1:29:05
  so I'm trying to be kind.
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  What's funny is Larry Young
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  said it was the best
• 1:29:09
  programming of any
• 1:29:09
  affiliate or any semifinal.
• 1:29:11
  No, he said it was heavy.
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  That's my joke, man.
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  He loves heavy.
• 1:29:18
  Yes.
• 1:29:28
  John would have liked that
• 1:29:28
  last event with just a
• 1:29:30
  little bit of running and all barbell.
• 1:29:36
  Yeah, I agree.
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  That is a problem.
• 1:29:45
  Yeah, it,
• 1:29:48
  I think it got the right people there.
• 1:29:49
  I was not riveted by,
• 1:29:51
  I didn't think it was very
• 1:29:52
  watchable programming.
• 1:29:56
  Having bike events where you
• 1:29:58
  can't see the count up or
• 1:30:00
  the makes it hard to watch that event.
• 1:30:04
  A run where you can only see
• 1:30:05
  like a quarter of the run.
• 1:30:07
  But the run didn't mean
• 1:30:08
  anything and it was short.
• 1:30:09
  The run didn't mean anything.
• 1:30:11
  And that's the only running that they had.
• 1:30:15
  It wasn't great to watch as a spectator.
• 1:30:19
  From a programming standpoint.
• 1:30:21
  I think it got the right
• 1:30:21
  people there at the end of the day,
• 1:30:23
  but it wasn't a deep field
• 1:30:25
  and the cream rose to the top.
• 1:30:30
  Yeah,
• 1:30:30
  I think the best came out qualifying.
• 1:30:37
  Dex says, John, shut up.
• 1:30:39
  Grid sucks.
• 1:30:41
  When is the grid count?
• 1:30:42
  I think it's this weekend.
• 1:30:44
  Is it this weekend, John?
• 1:30:46
  Memorial weekend?
• 1:30:47
  I think so.
• 1:30:48
  They stopped all the
• 1:30:48
  CrossFit events just so we
• 1:30:50
  can have all eyes on grid this weekend.
• 1:30:54
  They're like, nope,
• 1:30:54
  let's not program any
• 1:30:58
  events this weekend.
• 1:31:00
  Yep.
• 1:31:01
  Clear the runway.
• 1:31:02
  John Young is competing.
• 1:31:04
  All right, let's go.
• 1:31:07
  Can we see it on a stream?
• 1:31:10
  That's a good question.
• 1:31:17
  is grid competing with
• 1:31:19
  crossfit no it's on the
• 1:31:20
  only weekend that's open uh
• 1:31:29
  two of the workouts were
• 1:31:30
  okay to watch once you got
• 1:31:31
  past the first heat it was
• 1:31:32
  like this over yet yeah the
• 1:31:35
  last of the last event of
• 1:31:36
  the women's just because of
• 1:31:37
  the drama was really fun to
• 1:31:38
  watch even though you could
• 1:31:41
  only see a quarter of the run
• 1:31:44
  Yeah.
• 1:31:44
  Cause you knew both of them are strong.
• 1:31:45
  Like Sydney's great with the
• 1:31:47
  barbell and Hannah's elite
• 1:31:49
  with the barbell.
• 1:31:49
  I mean, Sydney's elite as well.
• 1:31:52
  So you're like, Oh,
• 1:31:53
  like this is going to be a
• 1:31:54
  close battle between them.
• 1:31:55
  And then when you saw the
• 1:31:56
  last viral unfold, you're like, wow, this,
• 1:31:58
  I didn't expect that.
• 1:32:02
  John says, if I'm trash,
• 1:32:04
  it'll be hilarious.
• 1:32:05
  If I'm great, it'll, I'll be insufferable.
• 1:32:09
  I would, I would say what's different.
• 1:32:19
  Grid didn't even know who he was.
• 1:32:21
  Only rookie not named.
• 1:32:23
  I did see that rookie class.
• 1:32:25
  They have some good
• 1:32:28
  credentials on like there's
• 1:32:29
  like Olympians and like NCAA.
• 1:32:31
  I think I saw like gymnast
• 1:32:35
  and stuff like that.
• 1:32:36
  Like you get really I mean,
• 1:32:38
  that's what grid is.
• 1:32:39
  It's a bunch of specialists
• 1:32:41
  of different thing.
• 1:32:41
  But yeah,
• 1:32:43
  it's just crazy to see like
• 1:32:44
  strong man guy like an Olympic lifter.
• 1:32:48
  But yeah, it's cool.
• 1:32:50
  And Kelsey Keel's doing it now.
• 1:32:54
  There are some former
• 1:32:54
  CrossFitters that are still doing it.
• 1:32:57
  Kelsey Keel's going to be
• 1:32:58
  doing it this year.
• 1:33:00
  I think CrossFit Thor's still doing it,
• 1:33:01
  right?
• 1:33:02
  I think so.
• 1:33:03
  So, yeah.
• 1:33:04
  And a podcaster.
• 1:33:11
  A bunch of podcasters.
• 1:33:13
  There we go.
• 1:33:16
  That's what they should have
• 1:33:17
  put on his bio.
• 1:33:19
  The NCAA where most of us
• 1:33:20
  are going pro in something
• 1:33:21
  other than sports.
• 1:33:27
  All right, guys.
• 1:33:28
  You guys are the best.
• 1:33:29
  It's been a fun chat tonight.
• 1:33:33
  Gosh,
• 1:33:34
  I was hoping next week we weren't
• 1:33:35
  going to talk WFP and get
• 1:33:36
  me all fired up again,
• 1:33:37
  but I'm sure it'll come up
• 1:33:38
  again because the chat
• 1:33:40
  knows how to push my buttons.
• 1:33:41
  Looks like we're going to be
• 1:33:42
  talking about grids.
• 1:33:46
  yeah might be talking about
• 1:33:46
  grid full-on analysis of my
• 1:33:50
  next week my grid league
• 1:33:52
  mountain well the
• 1:33:57
  leaderboard for the indies
• 1:33:58
  also the leaderboard also
• 1:34:00
  becomes official I think uh
• 1:34:02
  tomorrow for the indies um
• 1:34:07
  you think you think that
• 1:34:08
  it's not final already no I
• 1:34:10
  know yeah they just haven't
• 1:34:14
  said it's final
• 1:34:17
  All right, guys.
• 1:34:18
  All right.
• 1:34:18
  I never said that, John.
• 1:34:23
  All right.
• 1:34:24
  Everybody,
• 1:34:24
  thank you so much for being here.
• 1:34:25
  You're great in the chat.
• 1:34:26
  We love each and every one of you.
• 1:34:29
  We will be back tomorrow for
• 1:34:30
  lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 1:34:31
  And again,
• 1:34:32
  next Sunday night for the original Sunday,
• 1:34:35
  Sunday, Sunday night CrossFit talk.
• 1:34:38
  Bye, guys.