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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Recapping the Last Weekend of Live Semifinals · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody welcome to
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sunday sunday sunday night crossfit talk i
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don't have a mixer with me so i
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have to do it myself this week
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old-fashioned um old-fashioned way
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NorCal is still going on if people are
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watching it.
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So we'll catch up a little bit and
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then we'll get into the weekend.
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I'm going to be up front with everybody
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being at the syndicate and you can see
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I'm still in my hotel.
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I did not catch up with a ton
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of NorCal nor any of MadFit other than
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leaderboard watching.
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But we're going to talk briefly about it
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tonight and we'll see if Carolyn,
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who just,
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just finished her final event at NorCal.
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We'll see if we can do like a
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show later this week to kind of recap
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everything.
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Yeah.
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So thoughts on the event as a whole.
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I've got to say,
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you're doing better than me.
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I'm at home,
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and I haven't even caught the leaderboard
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of MAD, so you're doing better than me.
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I have watched all of NorCal and
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Syndicate,
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but I have not even peeked at the
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leaderboard for MAD.
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I don't even know.
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Is it on YouTube?
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I haven't even seen things pop up for
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where I'm at.
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Honestly, just so you know,
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at Syndicate and the Meteor area...
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We supposedly had Wi-Fi,
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but all the passwords I was given,
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none of them worked.
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So the little bit that I like was
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uploading from there was done on my
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hotspot from my phone.
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And to then stream off of that was
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nearly impossible.
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So it just made for trying to watch
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everything in the downtime impossible.
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Yeah, agree.
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I will say it was really nice that
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California is three hours different.
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So like I was able to like watch
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Syndicate and then go catch up the streams
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of NorCal afterwards and not be that far
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off.
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Vicky says NorCal was on Sivan Overflow
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Elite.
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Mad was on YouTube.
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Oh, yeah.
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I just I didn't even see a notification
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for Mad.
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I mean,
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I probably just not subscribe to the right
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channel.
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John Jenkins, who I met this weekend,
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and if that last name looks familiar,
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that is Ty's dad,
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who is probably having an amazing night
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tonight.
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Yeah.
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Carolyn is being interviewed right now at
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NorCal.
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Shoot.
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yeah so i gotta ask because i know
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i talked about it after legends um and
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you haven't been really in person in a
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little while to an event and i know
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for me it was really nice being back
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in the community and having people come
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talk and say how much they enjoy the
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show i'm guessing you were bombarded with
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that this weekend
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Uh, Friday, a ton, Friday, a ton.
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Um,
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and then it was just sprinkled in the
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rest of the weekend.
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Um,
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I met Jason Bourne who was always on
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our lunch show chat.
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Okay.
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So I now know who Jason Bourne is.
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Okay.
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Um, a lot of,
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I met a lot of people.
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John was one of the first people I
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met when I got there.
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Uh,
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who says he listens to the show every
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day on his way home from work.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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So, yeah.
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And I met his wife and Ty's mom.
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I met Lydia Fish's mom.
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She introduced herself to me.
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Shoot, I don't have.
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They gave me the clapper.
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Oh, yeah.
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That they use in the crowd.
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Yeah, it was a really fun time.
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I brought my wife,
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which she has not been to one of
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these since the Masters Games in twenty
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four.
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And usually she just, like,
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helps me get food or whatever.
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And this time she took it upon herself
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to get some content.
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And it is...
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It is awesome content.
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I'm going to put it together.
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It'll be out this week,
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probably members only for a couple of days
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and then and it'll go wide.
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But yeah,
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she it is it is so raw.
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My wife knows very little about the
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CrossFit scene, which makes it really,
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really cool.
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Really, really cool.
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I'm excited.
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You told me a bit about that.
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I'm excited to see these interviews.
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Yeah,
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like her fingers in front of the camera
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or her,
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like it's just all the stuff that you
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would expect.
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And it's really, really funny.
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And Shoop, I saw you, Scott,
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but you were busy working and didn't want
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to bother you.
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Maybe next time.
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Always bother me.
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Always bother me.
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I am.
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I'm always up for meeting new people.
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Right.
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And this weekend was just getting my feet
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back in the water of kind of being
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an event, getting through the weekend,
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pounding the pavement,
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getting my body adjusted to it.
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And and so I everybody I met this
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weekend, it was so much fun.
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Vicky said she had to go track down
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the YouTube of Matt Fitt.
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It's out there.
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J.Y.
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gave you a shout out on the broadcast
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today when they were talking about Saxon.
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I did.
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He actually.
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So when Saxon won,
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I sent John a text and it was
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just Saxon in all caps.
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that's all it was and uh and i
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heard the comment that he made i'm not
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the biggest fan i think his parents are
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the biggest fans yeah and maybe his kids
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but i'm like right a notch below that
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yeah so anyway um
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Anna Shoup says great event.
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It really was.
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They always,
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Wilson and Taylor and all those guys
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always do a great job.
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I mean,
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it looked like it ran incredibly well,
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which I would expect nothing less with JR
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helping out there on the field.
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I mean, crash runs on the dot, right?
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Putting Wilson and JR together is a force
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to be reckoned with.
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John said Scott didn't come say hi to
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me once.
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I didn't know, honestly,
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because we got there late Friday.
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I didn't know if I was allowed to
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go up near the broadcast booth.
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I just knew I was allowed where the
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purple tape was.
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So I just did my thing.
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I saw Tyler.
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I saw Hobart.
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Talked to them.
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But didn't run into John anywhere.
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Saw Hiller.
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I, I've never met Jr personally.
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And, uh, he came over,
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said hi to me, shook my hand.
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We talked for a little bit.
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Uh, I mean,
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I know who he is and I've seen
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him in, at events,
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but this is the first time we've actually
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talked.
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You didn't talk to him when we were
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there in, was it?
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Twenty-four, twenty-three.
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What year did we go?
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Orlando?
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No, no way.
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When we went to syndicate,
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I don't think I saw him.
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I talked to him like a few times,
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like while we were in the media fit
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lane, like that year.
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Don't nobody care on the last day.
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Walk your walk.
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Yeah.
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I thought about going up and saying hi
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to everybody up there, but I just,
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they're in the middle of a broadcast.
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Like I just,
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I'm trying to be respectful and all of
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that.
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so fergie comes in with this question of
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the week jamie if you could choose any
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location to host the crossfit games where
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would it be and why michigan state that's
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funny i actually would not choose michigan
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state um now i do think somewhere in
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michigan would be awesome if we could do
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it i just don't know i have thought
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about this because we have the great lakes
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i like truly i i personally think madison
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was
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the best like the best it gets for
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being able to have that festival
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environment have everyone there like those
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college towns are where it needs to be
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I don't think Michigan State would be
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great I don't even know where you would
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swim we don't have I mean I guess
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you could do a pool yeah I don't
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know I've thought about that and I
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wouldn't want to go towards Detroit I
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would I would probably choose somewhere
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towards Muskegon area um but then you you
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miss like the college
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a big enough town with enough hotels and
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food to, um, yeah, I don't know.
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That's a tough one.
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I personally think the Chicago area or
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like towards Wisconsin is, is the right.
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I just think,
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I personally think out West is it's
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everything is so much more expensive.
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I just registered for the games.
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It's five hundred dollars this year.
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Five hundred.
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I want to say it was like
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three thirty in twenty four and then like
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four hundred last year and now it's five
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hundred.
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It's insane.
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And you get less and less as an
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athlete and less every year.
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And now you've got to buy three tickets.
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Like the more I just see content coming
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out about this year's games,
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I'm just getting more and more frustrated.
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To say that you're bringing it all back
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together and it's going to be the greatest
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year and then you've completely split it
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up.
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You haven't even brought the masters
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together with their teenagers.
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And you have to buy two different tickets,
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like two separate four hundred and fifty
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dollar spectator tickets.
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And then if you're there and you want
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to go see the individuals,
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you got to spend another, what,
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five hundred dollars ticket.
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So you want a master who's competing who
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might have like a teenager there to
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possibly pay their games ticket to get in.
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Then four hundred bucks to watch their
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team.
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Then maybe.
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go watch some individual events.
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I mean, you need,
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that's why you need the environment.
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Like you had at Madison where you have
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the festival environment.
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So you can just have a beer garden
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and watch, watch the elites,
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but still you're there.
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Right.
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I don't know.
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I, I,
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I'm never a person that like looks
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backward at where,
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where I want CrossFit to go.
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Yeah.
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I'm kind of with you.
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Like,
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The festival atmosphere at Madison was
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unmatched at any other location.
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Now,
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I'm sure you could get that elsewhere,
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but the biggest drawback was the Airbnbs
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and the
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um hotels were outrageously caught priced
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because it was a smaller town yeah and
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and space was limited but you go to
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like a chicago you're gonna get swallowed
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up in that big city like ohio state
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has all the amenities that madison does
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but it's such a much bigger town in
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columbus that and as much as i'd love
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it to be there you just get swallowed
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up you do i think
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That was when he said that.
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That was kind of where my head went
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was back to like somewhere so that you
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could be around Rogue.
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I think though if it was all back
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together, like we did get swallowed up.
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I'm not going to lie.
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The Masters teenagers last year being in
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Columbus got like people,
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like we were just
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not even a tenth of a mile away
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eating dinner.
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And people were like,
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what are you here for?
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So yes, people didn't know.
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I do think like had the twentieth
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anniversary and CrossFit got on board to
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go somewhere like Columbus this year and
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make a big deal out of it.
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I don't know.
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I think they could do it right and
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not get swallowed up.
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If it was all together.
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Yeah, I'm sure they all will gouge.
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Madison just seemed out of, I mean,
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what we paid for like a fleabag hotel.
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Bullet holes in the wall.
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Like, it was crazy.
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But I agree with, like,
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the campground not being there.
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Big loss.
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So many people took advantage of that.
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It was a community atmosphere in the
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campground where people were doing
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workouts all evening long.
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Those are the things you lose when you
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go away from a place like Madison.
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And Madison's as close to the middle as
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you can kind of get.
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Right.
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We're not,
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anybody's flying clear across the country.
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I mean, I feel that way with,
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I think Columbus sort of has that going
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for it too.
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I just,
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you want the fans to want to come
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and be there for everything that they can
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be there for,
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and you can't price them out of it.
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You can't charge them for three different
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tickets.
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It needs to be one fee to get
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in.
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President says Nashville, Raleigh,
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Indianapolis.
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I like Indianapolis.
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I don't think you would get swallowed up
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there.
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It is a convention hub.
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So they have tons of hotels,
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tons of amenities.
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Nashville, it's always under construction.
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Every time I've been there,
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traffic just getting in and out of that
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place is nuts.
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But every central regional that I went to
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was in Nashville.
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Well, not everyone, but the last several.
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That's a lot smaller scale, though.
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Yeah, a lot smaller.
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I mean,
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than if you did the entire games,
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everyone all together.
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I suppose just the individuals.
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I don't know.
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With the kind of foot traffic you want
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to get in for spectators, I don't know.
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Larry Young says so far,
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I think Madison is the only one that
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overperformed.
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And you know why it overperformed?
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Because you could do ninety dollar tickets
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for the week.
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Right.
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And hang out in the beer garden or
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hang out at Orange Park or whatever they
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call it.
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North Park.
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North Park.
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That's what I don't.
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That's where I don't understand where
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they're where their head is like.
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you had so many people come because it
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was affordable to get into and they just
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keep pricing people out.
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I,
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I know there's like,
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it's the same thing with the affiliates,
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right?
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Like you went from,
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you went from like thirteen thousand
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affiliates at three thousand a year to
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eight thousand at forty five hundred.
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I guess you're still netting almost the
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exact same.
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Maybe they are even making a little bit
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more money, but it's not better.
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It's we have fewer like that's not the
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way to just because you netted the same,
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it doesn't make it a better model.
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Right.
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Keep it portable and get more people in
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in the doors.
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Yeah,
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we've lost sight of trying to get people
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addicted to watching this by making it
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affordable to come see it.
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We're not SEC football or Big Ten football
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that can charge a hundred dollars a game.
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And that's low end, that's upper deck.
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But yeah,
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I don't understand the pricing at all.
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I heard a rumor.
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I heard a rumor.
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Someone told me that it might be Larry
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Young's birthday.
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It is.
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I wish I had a birthday earlier,
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but yeah.
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Happy birthday, Larry.
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So huge shout out to Larry Young.
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I'm sure he is young.
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He's always young.
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Always young.
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But happy birthday, Larry.
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The chat wouldn't be the same without you.
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So let's talk syndicate crown.
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If you didn't see the winners or the
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people who got their ticket to the games,
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the women's side was pretty much over and
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done with going into the final event.
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Like it wasn't mathematically done.
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But Lydia Fish had like an eighty four
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point.
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Sure.
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Lydia was locked in.
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Yeah,
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but that third spot was not locked in.
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That was no, no, no, no.
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That was wild.
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But Lydia, the win was in.
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Yeah.
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And then.
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Yeah, for sure.
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And then Haley came in second.
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And third place was Danielle Brandon.
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And she came from fifth.
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Yeah.
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To get that spot and had to win
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the event.
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To do it and only did it by
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a couple points.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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One or two spots.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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It was very close.
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Uh,
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is how wire to wire Lydia was the
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most shocking part.
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I'll tell you what the most shocking
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parts.
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Cause I was right in her lane for
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a lot of the weekend.
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She's found a switch.
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she's found it like she can just
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completely know oh and like when it was
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go time you could just see the demeanor
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change it was really cool to see that's
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awesome um and then you have the like
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is it chevrolet genie chevrolet genie
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chevrolet
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I was right there.
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She was devastated.
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I felt really bad for her.
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It was crazy, crazy, crazy.
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And I think going into the announcement,
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Danielle did not think she did enough.
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Agreed.
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She looked a little surprised.
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I know Janie just needed...
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hair faster on those.
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I mean, honestly,
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it might even have been her Kota bar.
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She had a break a few times.
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Yeah, I felt so bad for her.
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I guess there was some drama at a
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semifinal where it wasn't elimination,
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but maybe because we're towards the end of
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the semifinals.
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She's good, man.
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I mean,
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I think she's got a shot on line.
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I enjoyed watching her this weekend.
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I, I mean,
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I've kept an eye on her through WFP.
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She's, she's the real deal.
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There were so many couples,
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so many couples.
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I know they're all coupled up now, huh?
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It was crazy.
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Um, and, and,
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Austin and Haley are about as in love
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as I've ever seen a couple be.
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And the way that their families support
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the other athlete is insane.
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That's awesome.
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And there were a whole lot of Hatfields
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at this venue,
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all with their Coors lights and all going
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crazy.
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Scott,
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what did you think of the Syndicate venue?
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Not the newest,
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but also not a bad seat in the
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house.
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I kind of like it because it's elevated
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above the floor.
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So if you're in the seats,
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you can see.
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You don't have to worry about getting over
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media or the judges or whatever,
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or the equipment.
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You're elevated.
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And they did a really nice job inside,
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really kind of sprucing it up.
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On the men's side,
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there was a comment about Danielle.
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Everybody was writing her off.
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People were telling me she's out of it.
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I was like,
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there's no way she's out of it.
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Because she can win at any time.
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But she needed help.
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She did need help.
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I thought she was going to miss out.
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I thought it was going to be another
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legend for Danielle.
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I knew Lydia had it locked up,
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but I thought...
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I thought Janie would be able to hold
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her off just enough that Danielle would be
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one spot looking out again by one
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placement.
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And yeah, I just,
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that sucks for Janie because I think she's
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that fit.
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I think this was a little bit of
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a.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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This was not my favorite final,
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if I'm being honest.
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I don't like racing an overhead squat.
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Not that heavy.
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It was exciting in the venue.
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I'm sure it was.
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I really enjoyed it.
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I wish there was a way you could
22:57
know what number total bar they were on.
23:00
Yeah.
23:01
Because at forty nine, you're just.
23:04
I kept looking at the clock.
23:05
Well, it's going to be over a minute,
23:07
like before someone jumps down and waiting
23:10
for a hand to go up.
23:11
And, but yeah,
23:17
does Daniel Brandon's muscle mass hurt her
23:19
engine?
23:20
No,
23:23
it is weird seeing her next to the
23:26
other girls though.
23:27
Cause she, she kind of, I mean,
23:30
she just towers over them.
23:35
She does.
23:36
She is so much.
23:38
She's just thicker.
23:39
I mean, she's, she's taller for sure.
23:41
But Haley's like on the little bit of
23:43
the taller side too.
23:43
And even those two standing next to each
23:45
other.
23:45
I mean, Lydia's small, right?
23:47
She's one of the smallest ones out there.
23:48
So they're both going to look bigger next
23:51
to Lydia.
23:52
But I mean, Daniel.
23:54
Even Lydia's taller than like Lexi Mealy.
23:56
Oh, for sure.
23:58
You know, but yeah.
24:02
Yeah,
24:02
I said there was a lot of Hatfields
24:03
and CrossFit and a lot less McCoys.
24:08
Danielle's, I think, got a good engine.
24:10
I mean, she's not like your,
24:12
it's not like the men when you get
24:14
so big and so muscular that you can
24:17
see that they just can't keep up in
24:19
the really long like cardio workouts.
24:24
Danielle, I mean,
24:26
Danielle's got a good engine.
24:30
I just think these girls coming up,
24:33
like the Janie and Lydia, obviously,
24:35
are just... I mean,
24:38
it's a problem for Alexis, even.
24:40
The field is getting fitter.
24:44
Daniel Arnson, dollar ninety-nine.
24:46
Thank you so much.
24:47
Is Haley no longer at Mayhem?
24:50
So on my rundown,
24:53
the announcement came out this weekend.
24:55
She is now with Brute and not Mayhem.
24:58
Brute made the announcement on Instagram,
25:01
so it's Instagram official.
25:05
But yeah,
25:05
Coach L was with her the entire weekend.
25:09
He was even sitting with her when she
25:10
was watching Austin.
25:15
It's, it's a strange, I mean,
25:16
we talked about this on text.
25:18
It's a strange announcement to me,
25:19
especially to hear you say how like in
25:22
love Austin and Haley seem.
25:24
Cause that means to me,
25:25
that means she's not moving out of
25:28
Cookville.
25:30
And so are her and Austin not going
25:32
to train together anymore?
25:33
I mean, I know you're like, well,
25:34
there's other gyms around there.
25:35
So she's in a drive to a different
25:37
gym every day.
25:38
It's just,
25:39
it's weird move to me when you're,
25:42
I don't know.
25:42
Maybe she thinks she's too comfortable.
25:44
I don't know.
25:45
And I don't,
25:45
I don't disagree that she needs a change.
25:50
Um, it's just, it's weird.
25:52
It's weird timing to me.
25:54
I, I saw it and I was like,
25:57
are they broken up?
25:57
And then you were like, no.
25:59
And I'm like, this is just really weird.
26:01
I don't know,
26:02
but I hope it's for the best.
26:07
Yeah.
26:08
I, um,
26:10
I made the comment that she's starting to
26:12
change coaches like Sarah.
26:13
Yeah.
26:15
Um, and I, I got told no immediately.
26:20
Not that's not Sarah level,
26:23
but she's started a brute.
26:25
She went to mayhem.
26:26
She went to Mario back to mayhem and
26:29
now back to root.
26:30
So it's like an up and down ladder
26:32
of coaches.
26:32
Yep.
26:33
Back to her roots.
26:36
Um,
26:39
And I hope she finds something right.
26:40
Like that.
26:42
And maybe what I told you on text
26:44
is maybe her and Austin need a little
26:46
separation during the day.
26:48
Just some, I mean,
26:52
I've been married for twenty nine years.
26:55
Occasionally you needed some time apart.
26:58
I mean,
26:59
he's Austin said it like she does will
27:02
not talk CrossFit.
27:05
When they're at home, like.
27:07
That's not what she wants to talk about.
27:11
I kind of wonder if they aren't training
27:13
together though,
27:14
if there will be some CrossFit talk since
27:17
they aren't.
27:18
I mean, if you've,
27:19
if you're with them all day at the
27:20
gym and doing workouts together,
27:22
you have no business talking about it once
27:24
you get home,
27:25
but it'll be different if we're not
27:26
training together.
27:29
So before we move on the men.
27:32
The men, Saxon Pancheck with the win.
27:37
My guy.
27:39
My guy.
27:40
The one time I don't,
27:42
the one time I did not pick him
27:44
in the top three.
27:46
I figured this would be a good event
27:48
for him.
27:48
Like this is, I mean,
27:51
JR program's pretty classic CrossFit stuff
27:54
that that's right up Pancheck's alley.
27:58
He won two events.
28:00
Yeah.
28:02
More than Colton, right?
28:07
I think Colton won two, too, didn't he?
28:08
No.
28:09
I think he only won the one because,
28:10
well,
28:11
Saxon beat him in the one that we
28:12
thought he'd win.
28:13
So there you go.
28:15
Yep.
28:15
But Ty won two.
28:17
I know.
28:19
So it ends up Saxon in first,
28:21
Ty Jenkins in second,
28:23
and Austin Hatfield tied with Ty.
28:26
But because Ty won the two events,
28:29
Ty got the tiebreaker.
28:31
And then you have Nate Ackerman just on
28:33
the outside again.
28:37
And then Colton Mertens in fifth.
28:41
Nate looked devastated.
28:44
I mean,
28:44
Nate and Janie both looked heartbroken.
28:49
For her, this is like, you know,
28:53
kind of the first real shot.
28:54
So hopefully she takes some things from
28:57
this.
28:58
For him, I feel like, you know,
29:00
kind of got a little bit robbed last
29:02
year and,
29:04
and now you do everything you can and
29:06
it's just still not enough.
29:08
It's, it sucks.
29:15
Yeah.
29:16
I, on one hand, I hope,
29:19
I hope he comes back fighting online.
29:23
A lot of the big names are already
29:25
in.
29:26
Yeah.
29:27
He has an excellent shot at making it
29:29
online and,
29:34
But the youth in the sport,
29:37
like Ty and Nate both beat Colton in
29:42
an event that a lot of people said
29:44
Colton would win four events.
29:45
I know.
29:50
Like Ty won two.
29:52
I know.
29:54
The youth in the sport is crazy good.
30:00
Crazy good.
30:01
And then you have OG Saxon winning it.
30:05
Hell, Travis Mayer was top ten.
30:08
I figured he would be.
30:12
I wanted Quinn to get a spot.
30:14
I was bummed for him.
30:19
Yeah,
30:21
I don't know much about Quinn other than
30:22
what I've seen at Crash and at Mayhem.
30:26
The guy looks like he's right on the
30:28
verge.
30:29
I know.
30:32
I mean, it was a strong field.
30:35
I don't think anyone would have had a
30:37
better shot at Norkel.
30:39
I mean,
30:39
there was only the two spots there,
30:41
and I think the right two made it
30:43
out of there.
30:43
Yeah.
30:53
The shakeups on the leaderboard were
30:54
crazy.
30:55
The programming was great at creating
30:57
leaderboard chaos.
30:58
And yes,
31:00
it was really sad seeing Nate afterwards.
31:03
I was right behind him when he finished
31:06
that workout and he sunk right to the
31:09
cooler.
31:10
And yeah.
31:16
I get it.
31:17
Yeah, I think Dave likes Nate.
31:19
I think Dave will be calling him to
31:20
demo again if he doesn't get it online.
31:24
I think he'll get it online.
31:26
I think he will too.
31:27
He's got a great shot online.
31:31
What else?
31:34
Alexis,
31:35
she overheated on the first workout.
31:37
Yeah.
31:39
It seems like every big event,
31:42
she's having some kind of medical issue
31:44
with
31:46
I hope she gets it fixed.
31:48
Because when she looks good,
31:49
she looks really good on the floor.
31:55
Yeah,
31:56
but every workout's not going to be a
31:57
softball ball toss right up the middle for
31:59
you.
32:01
She's got to learn to deal with these
32:05
workouts that aren't perfect for her.
32:10
And what is it?
32:11
Is it because she's nervous and she's
32:14
trying to go out too hot and stay
32:15
with field in a workout that she shouldn't
32:17
be?
32:17
Like, I don't know.
32:18
I mean,
32:19
I think there's a lot to delve into
32:20
there to figure out what's going on with
32:22
her.
32:24
Yeah, I don't know.
32:26
I saw Kyle Ruth briefly,
32:28
but no time to like really talk to
32:29
him.
32:30
And not that he would want to talk
32:32
about it this weekend anyway.
32:35
But yeah.
32:35
Yeah.
32:38
I did have two little shout-outs.
32:43
My old coach at Polaris took thirteenth.
32:46
He looked really good.
32:47
Yeah, Alexander Majors,
32:50
he was my coach at Polaris.
32:52
Every noon class I would go to.
32:56
One of the nicest guys ever.
32:58
And he had some real,
33:00
he had some nice home runs.
33:02
He did great on Nate.
33:02
He looked great.
33:06
So that was really,
33:07
really exciting to see him.
33:09
And then on the women's side,
33:10
Elena Pomerisi,
33:12
I saw her at a local comp three
33:15
years ago and thought this girl is going
33:18
to do something.
33:19
And we asked her if we could follow
33:21
her through the open and we did.
33:24
And it's so cool to see her on
33:26
a semifinal stage now.
33:29
And, uh,
33:31
And she looked good on some of the
33:32
events too.
33:33
I agree.
33:33
Her and Tracy Johnson.
33:34
I remember you kind of followed both of
33:35
them.
33:35
Yeah.
33:39
Yeah,
33:39
that's when I first met you and asked
33:40
you if we could follow you.
33:41
Yeah.
33:42
So you all three were in that.
33:45
Yeah,
33:46
I was keen on watching them this weekend.
33:48
I was thinking the same thing the whole
33:49
time.
33:51
The funny thing is Elena,
33:53
her last name is Pomerisi,
33:55
and her fans in the crowd would do
33:57
this as she was racing the Italian race.
34:01
Yeah.
34:03
It was really cool.
34:04
That's like the Nicolette Toragiani.
34:06
They were, I mean,
34:07
Bill and Cool Boy would do that a
34:09
lot on the broadcast.
34:14
Mark Phillips,
34:15
I kept seeing Griffin roll out there.
34:16
No, that's my guy, Alex Majors.
34:18
He does give Griffin vibes for sure.
34:22
Yeah, long-haired blonde.
34:24
Yeah.
34:25
Griffin's was a little redder,
34:26
I would say.
34:28
Yeah.
34:30
Alex is a little taller.
34:32
Yeah.
34:33
And probably a little more lean.
34:37
So how about Rhino punching their ticket
34:42
there at the end?
34:44
Were you so excited for Allison?
34:46
I...
34:49
So for people who don't know both Raph
34:52
and Alison have been, uh,
34:55
commentators for us during the games in
34:58
the past,
34:59
Alison did it last year with us.
35:01
Raph did it in like, gosh, twenty-two,
35:04
twenty-three and Raph and his team have
35:08
made it to the games two years in
35:10
a row.
35:11
Alison,
35:12
everybody knows has been struggling to get
35:15
to the games since like what,
35:17
twenty-fifteen?
35:18
Yeah.
35:22
And they came into that last event in
35:24
fifth.
35:25
Yeah.
35:26
And they won it by a lot.
35:29
Yeah.
35:29
They looked really good.
35:32
And to see her cry as soon as
35:35
it was over,
35:36
like the tears just gushing down her face
35:40
and how excited Raph was.
35:42
And I think he was as excited that
35:44
they got her there.
35:45
I agree.
35:46
As he was going himself.
35:48
Yeah.
35:50
We've been saying we wanted her on the
35:52
team with them.
35:54
I'm excited that she's doing it.
35:57
And Raph would always answer,
35:59
I'm not good enough to compete with her.
36:01
Right.
36:04
And yeah, they made it.
36:08
It was really, really great.
36:11
Really great.
36:11
I'm so excited.
36:16
She did it.
36:20
Syndicate is greater than Torian.
36:25
I've never been to Torian.
36:27
Yeah.
36:30
And Wilson is like my guy.
36:32
Yeah.
36:33
I'll never go against Wilson Pac.
36:37
So I can't pick with my head.
36:42
I loved that they did the... Like the...
36:46
regular joes at whatever athlete spotlight
36:48
workouts i mean that showcases yeah that
36:53
was a that was a good idea and
36:55
it's like it's good for the fans there
36:58
or even watching it on tv to like
37:00
see the workout flow through and then you
37:02
know what to sort of expect from the
37:04
athletes you had really great athletes you
37:06
had regular i like uh so there were
37:13
a lot of comments so
37:18
Allison was a noble model, right?
37:21
She was a born primitive model.
37:23
Correct.
37:25
She's got like.
37:28
She had a line with them.
37:29
She did after her cat.
37:31
I cannot think of what she called her
37:35
cat.
37:35
But yes, she had.
37:39
But she's not she's not with them anymore.
37:41
But for a while she had her own
37:43
signature line and she was a model for
37:46
them.
37:47
Yeah.
37:49
How was the showcase in person?
37:51
Everybody there loved it.
37:53
Yeah.
37:54
Um,
37:55
I think everybody loved getting to see
37:57
Hobart out on the floor.
37:59
They loved when Hopper and Kyra and Paige
38:03
went head to head to head.
38:06
Um,
38:06
today they loved Miley Wade out there
38:11
doing her thing.
38:12
Um,
38:15
It just was really fun.
38:16
And when there's downtime,
38:17
why not fill the space with something fun?
38:20
Agree.
38:23
Now,
38:23
what I'll say is what was really funny
38:27
is Hiller didn't do the workout correctly.
38:31
I know.
38:32
Immediately went to the rope and not the
38:34
sled.
38:35
Yeah.
38:36
Well, he came out to the handstand walk,
38:39
did one sled when you had to do
38:41
two laps because it was two hundred feet.
38:48
And went to the rope and J.R.
38:50
came down and had to yell at him.
38:53
But Mr.
38:53
Standards himself couldn't even follow the
38:57
standards for the rope.
38:58
I kind of wondered if he wasn't testing
39:00
the judges.
39:03
He was not.
39:05
I mean, because people are always like,
39:06
you do what you can get away with.
39:08
I mean, if the judge lets you go,
39:10
then you go.
39:12
No, he messed up.
39:15
He knew him, and then he felt bad.
39:18
I mean, I was standing right there.
39:19
He was, yeah.
39:22
He did not mean to do that.
39:25
Speaking of judges,
39:26
the judges were pretty good this weekend
39:28
calling no reps from what I could see
39:32
from my angle.
39:34
Now TV broadcast might get a better angle,
39:38
but there was one judge that should not
39:40
have been on the floor.
39:42
That guy was going to hurt somebody or
39:44
get hurt himself.
39:46
He didn't know where to move on the
39:47
floor.
39:48
He almost got run over by a wheelbarrow.
39:52
Like it was bad.
39:56
That's not good.
39:59
Yeah.
39:59
I tried to get booze going for Hiller.
40:01
I don't think anybody was in a booing
40:03
mood.
40:06
Paige is a finisher.
40:09
She came on at the end of that
40:10
showcase.
40:12
At first,
40:12
I thought she didn't even care about this
40:15
event.
40:16
She's just out here.
40:17
And then the next thing you know,
40:19
she is blazing a trail up to catch
40:22
everybody.
40:27
Kyra was there the whole weekend,
40:29
both Saturday and Sunday,
40:31
supporting the Proven Athletes.
40:33
That's awesome.
40:36
Um, yeah, I thought that was really cool.
40:44
Did any, so who, I mean,
40:48
you have TTT with Lydia and then brew
40:56
and then knifer with, uh, Danielle, who,
41:00
what are,
41:01
what are they on the men's side?
41:02
I'm it.
41:02
Did anyone from proven make it?
41:03
Cause it was all like all proven at
41:05
Korean.
41:08
No, because it's mostly Mayhem.
41:11
Saxon's Mayhem.
41:13
Austin's Mayhem.
41:15
And Ty is Brute.
41:17
And Brute.
41:18
So there you go.
41:19
Brute and Mayhem.
41:25
And Knifer.
41:26
DB yelled at a judge, right?
41:27
Almost.
41:28
Not surprising.
41:30
Do you want to know the real tea,
41:31
Ed?
41:32
Do you want to know the real tea?
41:34
Yeah, with the real tea,
41:34
because I missed that.
41:38
I think she was yelling at Ortega.
41:40
Oh.
41:42
Okay, that tracks.
41:43
There was a few times that I saw
41:46
media getting in the way again.
41:51
Oh.
41:52
They were all over the floor.
41:53
I was getting really frustrated.
41:59
Yeah.
41:59
Yeah, it was...
42:02
It was nearly impossible.
42:03
I shouldn't say impossible.
42:05
Every time I had like a good shot
42:07
lined up, a media person would.
42:12
And then if the person is winning,
42:15
it was like eight media people came to
42:17
that lane.
42:18
And that's what the fans want to see
42:20
too.
42:21
Why do we need eight camera angles on
42:23
the same lane?
42:27
There were times that there was, like,
42:28
a perfect camera angle from the floor.
42:30
It would have been, like,
42:31
kind of back behind your media pit.
42:33
And a media person would get in the
42:37
way on the floor.
42:38
And then you couldn't, like,
42:38
you couldn't see the shot anymore.
42:40
And they, like, would try to move, but,
42:42
like, oh, yeah.
42:44
The media people just need to be off
42:47
the floor.
42:48
I hate it.
42:48
No, Ortega's not a judge, Gabby.
42:53
Yeah,
42:53
Ortega was doing the spin broadcast as a
42:55
cameraman.
42:57
I wish HQ would kick in some dough
42:59
for scoring graphics every semi.
43:01
Agreed.
43:02
So what I learned this weekend is
43:05
Competition Corner has created a rep
43:08
counter system that they're letting people
43:11
use for free.
43:13
You have to buy like the app system,
43:15
right?
43:17
They said as long as you have iPhones.
43:19
And I think if your event is using
43:22
Competition Corner.
43:22
Gotcha.
43:23
Yeah.
43:26
for the leaderboard,
43:28
then you get to use it for free.
43:32
I saw the night before preview that I
43:37
think Spin did where Wilson was showing
43:40
that system.
43:41
It wasn't Wilson that was showing it.
43:43
Who was that?
43:48
I don't know.
43:48
I think the guy from Competition Corner.
43:51
I was like, this is awesome.
44:01
did you see what happened to Henry
44:02
Matthews and his judge with the handstands
44:05
chirping back some I'll be honest like the
44:09
one event I did not enjoy was Nate
44:12
from because being in person everything is
44:15
inside the rig yeah so it's really hard
44:19
to see anything live he's talking about
44:21
the handstand walk today Matthew's got two
44:24
no reps on the handstand walk but I
44:25
can see what you're saying about Nate yeah
44:28
But yeah,
44:29
Matthew's got sent back twice on the
44:31
handstand walk today with the wheelbarrow.
44:35
Okay.
44:35
He was getting frustrated.
44:38
You didn't see it happen?
44:41
I saw him get sent back.
44:42
I didn't see the chirping.
44:49
Scott and floor cameras.
44:50
Oh, dude.
44:52
It and finish lines are my two things.
44:56
But JR was awesome about finish lines.
45:00
what's great about that like touching
45:02
there's no buzzer but touching that cone
45:05
just let you know like who who was
45:08
in the lead um john didn't enjoy me
45:18
either i'm guessing
45:21
AZ, Zachy, I thought it was a lot.
45:24
There were streaming cameras,
45:25
but the amount of cameras that were just
45:27
taking photos on the floor is just too
45:30
much.
45:30
Yes.
45:33
And there's people there with lenses like
45:37
this long.
45:38
Exactly.
45:39
You can get nose hair from the sideline.
45:42
Agreed.
45:53
I didn't enjoy Nate either.
45:55
Yeah.
45:59
I can't believe you couldn't get one more
46:00
muscle up than Tyler.
46:13
Yes, they did it.
46:15
I like the broadcast.
46:16
You guys crushed it, Spin.
46:20
some of the i mean obviously that's like
46:22
the some of that camera stuff is it
46:23
is what it is i mean it's what
46:26
the comp allows if you're gonna allow
46:27
people on the floor that's what it's gonna
46:30
be the way it is commentary was good
46:35
i think both sides with both both norcale
46:38
and uh spin they could both work on
46:44
learning the names and pronouncing them
46:48
beforehand a little practice but I mean
46:54
once you get rolling it's you're just
46:57
speaking it's whatever you see quickly
47:02
comes out however it comes out favorite
47:06
moments from the weekend so personally it
47:10
would be Rhino punching their ticket
47:13
because two of my friends and one of
47:15
them who has never made it to the
47:16
games is going
47:19
Saxon winning was epic for me personally.
47:24
But probably the favorite moment of the
47:26
weekend was seeing Lydia Fish learn the
47:32
switch,
47:33
learn to be able to go into that
47:36
space for an event and just turn it
47:40
on.
47:42
It was so cool to see that in
47:44
person.
47:46
Yeah.
47:55
So someone said that John and Tyler should
47:57
be photoshopped into Bert and Ernie.
48:01
Who's Bert?
48:02
Who's Ernie?
48:03
CrossFit says Ernie's Tyler easily.
48:11
Okay.
48:11
Terry's favorite moment is seeing Haley
48:13
get emotional.
48:16
Yeah.
48:20
Tyler learned how to say Zoe.
48:24
I mean, I feel like you guys,
48:26
as like people chat or maybe people came
48:28
and talked to you and would give you
48:30
guys some pronunciations you try to do
48:32
better.
48:33
But yeah, I understand.
48:37
Probably a lot harder than it seems.
48:40
Yeah.
48:41
I didn't see most of the broadcast.
48:44
I was commentating in my own head as
48:45
I was telling people.
48:47
So I didn't get to hear any of
48:48
it.
48:49
I was coming on my own head too.
48:53
I would just like say the names for
48:55
them.
48:57
I was yelling at a lot this weekend.
49:02
Yeah.
49:03
I thought they were epic competitions.
49:06
The way the leaderboard shuffled at the
49:07
end of both were great.
49:10
It was exciting.
49:12
I mean, nothing was locked up.
49:25
The venue,
49:26
the crowd was pretty decent on Saturday.
49:32
I talked to Gabe from Paper Street.
49:34
He had his best day in two years
49:36
on Saturday.
49:36
That's awesome.
49:40
And, um, and then what,
49:42
but there weren't many vendors like there,
49:45
which was sad.
49:46
They had one acai bowl tent that had
49:49
a mile six,
49:51
had a line six miles long.
49:53
Always do.
49:55
Um,
49:58
the vindicate paper street booth was
50:00
hopping the whole weekend um but there
50:04
wasn't much it was really it was sad
50:07
because i remember the days of like vendor
50:10
village being packed at these events and i
50:13
hope we can get back there someday because
50:17
it was definitely there just weren't many
50:20
options
50:23
And they had the spectator,
50:25
they had like a spectator workout area.
50:27
Cause the one we were there was outside,
50:30
but they had that inside this time.
50:32
So when we were there,
50:33
there was a competition outside.
50:35
Right.
50:36
Now there's right.
50:38
So where John and,
50:39
and Tyler and spin were right behind them
50:43
was a floor.
50:44
And what they do is they bring the
50:46
equipment that the athletes were going to
50:47
use and
50:49
And so you could do the wheelbarrow.
50:51
Nice.
50:52
And they had workouts set up.
50:55
You just registered through a QR code.
50:58
And if you worked out,
50:59
you got a free t-shirt.
51:01
That's awesome.
51:04
But yeah,
51:04
you got to play with the wheelbarrow or
51:07
whatever apparatus they were,
51:08
D-balls or whatever they were using that
51:10
day.
51:13
Yeah,
51:14
I think that's key at these comps to
51:15
have something like that set up.
51:18
Uh, Vicki says,
51:19
I knew I should have started my food
51:20
truck instead of this government job.
51:23
If you would add a food,
51:24
there was not,
51:25
there were not many options for food,
51:29
but there was a guy there with, uh,
51:31
making charcuterie boards.
51:35
And he said, he said to Julie,
51:38
I cannot believe how much meat and cheese
51:41
these CrossFitters eat.
51:42
Yeah, that's true.
51:48
But they were nice, too.
51:49
They had, like,
51:50
different meats and cheeses with carrots
51:53
and pickles and olives and, like,
51:56
all the stuff.
51:56
And he was almost sold out at the
52:00
end of the day Saturday.
52:01
Wow.
52:09
Does Torian have a vendor village?
52:12
Sure they do.
52:12
Torian is a community event as well.
52:16
Yeah.
52:23
Scott,
52:23
if the wheelbarrow is anything like a
52:25
pushing a sled in football,
52:27
I'm sure you would own that race.
52:30
I used to be really good at sleds,
52:32
like CrossFit sleds even.
52:36
Really good at them.
52:38
It's been a while.
52:39
It's been a while.
52:42
Someone's asking if Emily qualified at
52:44
NorCal.
52:46
I don't think so.
52:50
Sorry.
52:51
I didn't realize that.
52:54
It changed my voice.
52:57
I got scolded.
52:58
I'm in a hotel with a really bad
53:00
chair.
53:06
What I would tell Andrew is maybe you
53:08
should read the standards before you do an
53:09
event.
53:11
How about that?
53:13
Sometimes you just kind of blink when you
53:15
get out there.
53:16
Your brain has to like just focus on
53:19
moving.
53:23
Yeah, yeah.
53:25
Trust me, in the gym,
53:26
I'm the guy squinting at the board trying
53:28
to see what the next movement is.
53:35
So Ortega says,
53:36
nice seeing you this weekend.
53:38
So Jonathan, I got to know,
53:40
was Danielle yelling at you at the end
53:46
of...
53:49
It was the one with the wheelbarrow and...
53:59
He's blaming the judge.
54:01
Okay.
54:02
I don't know.
54:03
It kind of looked like she was yelling
54:05
at you, Jonathan.
54:07
Just saying.
54:08
I got to go find that clip.
54:09
Somebody put it up.
54:17
Oh, was it counting loud enough?
54:20
I could see that, too.
54:22
I've seen Danielle yell at other judges
54:24
for not counting out loud.
54:25
Yeah.
54:26
Counting down the clock.
54:28
famously in her open video.
54:33
That's fair.
54:38
Grace has said the showcases were so much
54:39
fun.
54:39
I loved them.
54:40
They were fun, man.
54:42
And everybody I talked to in the crowd
54:43
loved them.
54:45
It was a nice break from the day.
54:49
Yeah.
54:51
I think more accounts should adopt that.
55:01
I saw her mouth move auto.
55:06
Well, if it was during the handstand walk,
55:07
what would the judge be counting?
55:10
What does she need?
55:11
I mean.
55:13
It might have been on the double under
55:15
part of that workout.
55:17
I don't know.
55:21
The flex cam.
55:22
I loved that.
55:24
That was pretty fun.
55:25
That was a great addition.
55:30
I mean,
55:31
it was cool sitting at home to see
55:33
that camera pan around the audience to see
55:35
who's there.
55:36
Yeah, that was fun.
55:39
CrossFit.
55:40
So showcases are the CrossFit version of
55:42
the Red Panda.
55:45
And if you don't know who the Red
55:45
Panda is,
55:47
it's the Asian woman on a unicycle who
55:50
flips onto her head.
55:54
Yep.
56:00
So, yes, Syndicate was a blast.
56:06
Since Hiller's here,
56:07
I do want to say this.
56:09
I've loved all of his behind-the-scenes
56:11
content that I could watch.
56:14
I need to get caught up on a
56:15
lot of it.
56:15
Me too.
56:19
But he did put out a comment that
56:21
he thinks it's the best it's ever been.
56:24
Why do we have to fight?
56:26
Why do we have to nudge?
56:29
what's the best it's ever been i that
56:32
he filler put out a comment that i
56:34
think that this behind the scenes is the
56:36
best that's ever been oh why do we
56:40
have to poke the bear why can't you
56:42
just i like when i have multiple
56:45
storytellers and i get to get different
56:47
perspectives in different ways and i've
56:51
loved taylor's behind the scenes so far
56:58
But I think it's going both ways.
56:59
People are taking nudges or shots or jabs
57:03
in both directions.
57:05
And I've said this a million times.
57:07
To me, I'm not watching for that.
57:10
I'm watching for the content.
57:15
I just want to enjoy the content again.
57:21
Yep.
57:26
Besides using a Hoobastank song,
57:29
behind the scenes have been great.
57:32
I feel like there was comments on there
57:33
that people loved the music.
57:37
Andrew, I've loved everything.
57:40
But I watch so much content,
57:42
I like different storytellers.
57:45
But I've loved what I've seen so far.
57:48
Loved it.
57:52
Kenneth, did you talk to Dave?
57:56
Well, Dave talked to me.
57:57
How about that?
58:00
Dave slapped me in the back and said,
58:02
what up, dog?
58:03
Which I did not expect coming from Dave.
58:07
And then he turned,
58:12
we fist bumped and talked briefly.
58:14
But you don't get long conversations with
58:17
Dave.
58:17
No.
58:27
And CrossFit now is singing Hoobastank.
58:33
I mean,
58:34
I think your pieces speak for themselves.
58:36
You get the views.
58:38
There's lots of comments.
58:39
People love them.
58:42
Three separate pieces in that video make
58:45
the claim legit.
58:46
I don't think it was meant in the
58:48
way you understood it.
58:52
Maybe, Peter.
58:52
Maybe.
58:54
Just give them my opinion.
58:59
Other behind the scenes I've put on as
59:02
background noise without watching first.
59:04
Hiller's behind the scenes.
59:06
I sit down and pay attention.
59:11
Man, these are moving too fast.
59:13
Hiller's is also mostly just proud.
59:16
And you should be proud.
59:18
You should be.
59:19
They're really, really good.
59:22
Great, in fact.
59:32
I have not seen the one with Danielle
59:33
yet.
59:35
Seems like she was a lot more open.
59:39
She seemed open to media in general this
59:42
weekend.
59:43
That's good.
59:47
I think when she didn't think she was
59:49
going to make it was the one time
59:51
she kind of closed off.
59:53
Yeah.
59:54
But I think that's understandable.
59:55
Mm-hmm.
1:00:00
You heard her here first, guys.
1:00:01
Dave put his hands on Scott.
1:00:03
Fire him now.
1:00:12
Mama Brandon was in the chat.
1:00:14
She's usually pretty active.
1:00:25
Agreed, Wayne.
1:00:26
I was surprised she let her guard down
1:00:28
even a little like that.
1:00:29
I've always had great experiences talking
1:00:31
with Danielle.
1:00:34
Always.
1:00:36
And she's always been very open about
1:00:38
things with me.
1:00:41
It's just in the last little bit,
1:00:43
I think she felt attacked and she started
1:00:46
closing off.
1:00:47
And it looks like she's kind of throwing
1:00:51
that away and kind of opening up again.
1:01:03
All right.
1:01:04
So that's the syndicate.
1:01:05
It was a great time.
1:01:08
I'll definitely be back again next year if
1:01:10
they do it again.
1:01:13
Or who knows what kind of format we'll
1:01:15
have next year.
1:01:18
That's the one thing I wanted to ask
1:01:19
Hiller, but he was always on the move.
1:01:22
Hiller always has good music playing,
1:01:24
even when he had Alexis working out.
1:01:28
How he gets to use real music,
1:01:31
I would love to know the secret.
1:01:35
I need to message him.
1:01:37
I need to find that out.
1:01:39
Well, he's listening.
1:01:40
Maybe he'll tell you.
1:01:45
Because I think that makes the content so
1:01:46
much better.
1:01:54
Something about Knoxville feels like
1:01:55
almost the right city.
1:01:57
I'll tell you why CrossFat is.
1:02:00
I posted some stuff and I tagged Knoxville
1:02:03
in it as my location.
1:02:06
They like and respond to all of that
1:02:09
stuff as a city.
1:02:12
You don't always get that with a city.
1:02:22
I just can't speak properly.
1:02:23
Fergie,
1:02:24
you're the first person to point it out.
1:02:27
I thought you were great.
1:02:29
I listened to teams a couple times coming
1:02:32
in.
1:02:33
I thought Peter was great on the
1:02:35
broadcast.
1:02:37
I loved Peter on every broadcast he's
1:02:39
done.
1:02:41
I think he should be one of the
1:02:42
new talking heads.
1:02:43
Yeah.
1:02:50
So we had two other events going on
1:02:52
this weekend.
1:02:53
Again,
1:02:54
I have not caught up a lot on
1:02:58
these.
1:02:59
I'm going to see if NorCal is final.
1:03:03
Well,
1:03:03
we know the men was final before we
1:03:05
got on.
1:03:06
So the women's is final.
1:03:11
Alex Kazan overtook Rachel.
1:03:13
Wow.
1:03:17
Must not have been a great event for
1:03:19
Rachel.
1:03:20
I mean, you figure... Rachel took second.
1:03:24
Yeah,
1:03:25
I don't even know if she could have
1:03:26
possibly fallen out of second.
1:03:30
Rachel took a twenty-fourth on the last
1:03:32
event.
1:03:32
Yeah.
1:03:34
Who took third?
1:03:38
Leah Storn.
1:03:39
Okay.
1:03:41
Emily Rolfe took fourth.
1:03:43
Good for her.
1:03:44
I mean, that's a good showing there.
1:03:48
Not an easy count.
1:03:51
How about Carissa Stapp?
1:03:54
Longtime friend of the show.
1:03:56
Finishing sixth.
1:04:00
And she was in a qualifying spot for
1:04:01
me.
1:04:01
I know.
1:04:02
She was, I mean,
1:04:04
it sucked for her because I feel like
1:04:06
everything Rachel was good at, she was,
1:04:08
that's what she was good at.
1:04:09
So she wasn't going to be able to
1:04:10
surpass Rachel.
1:04:13
They were like neck and neck on the
1:04:15
two events.
1:04:16
Literally back and back.
1:04:21
And I guess Carolyn won the last event.
1:04:23
That's awesome.
1:04:26
That's awesome.
1:04:30
Good for her.
1:04:30
She was on just as we were finishing
1:04:33
up.
1:04:34
Just getting ready to come on the show.
1:04:37
So I didn't know where that ended up.
1:04:40
Good for her.
1:04:43
And on the men's side, Tudor, of course,
1:04:47
won.
1:04:49
And Dylan Hamming got second.
1:04:52
Yeah,
1:04:53
Victor Lundahl was not good at that event.
1:04:59
Mitchell Stevenson was third.
1:05:01
Spencer Pancheck was fourth.
1:05:07
So the only reason I know who Dylan
1:05:09
Hamming is is because I've had to hang
1:05:12
out with you for the last three years,
1:05:14
and you make me watch eighth day CrossFit
1:05:16
every time they compete.
1:05:19
So I've known Dylan for a while.
1:05:22
crazy that he's going to the games as
1:05:23
an individual.
1:05:26
Yeah.
1:05:26
I mean, he was close at Legends.
1:05:28
He just sent it and couldn't hold on.
1:05:33
That dude's fit.
1:05:34
I mean,
1:05:35
I've seen him here at local comps for
1:05:36
years,
1:05:37
so it's fun to see someone come out
1:05:41
of the teens and make a run at
1:05:43
individuals and be able to make it.
1:05:44
Yeah.
1:05:48
Now, on the women's side, I...
1:05:50
I have followed Rachel Noel for a while.
1:05:53
This blew me away.
1:05:55
Agreed.
1:05:59
This many event wins?
1:06:00
Yeah, agreed.
1:06:03
She won three events at a minimum?
1:06:08
She had four.
1:06:12
I count three.
1:06:13
Three.
1:06:25
Yeah,
1:06:25
eighth day has been around and sending
1:06:27
teams for a long time.
1:06:29
I think it was four.
1:06:30
Yeah,
1:06:31
I think she had four going into the
1:06:32
last day.
1:06:36
Yep.
1:06:36
She won quad trio, the mountain,
1:06:40
sand trap, and a bar exam.
1:06:45
Yep.
1:06:50
So...
1:06:51
To come out of nowhere.
1:06:52
And like her best semifinal finish is like
1:06:55
twenty fourth.
1:06:56
Yeah.
1:06:59
And to come out of nowhere and win
1:07:00
four events at NorCal.
1:07:03
Against the likes of LZN.
1:07:05
Crazy.
1:07:10
I. I don't even know what to say.
1:07:13
I don't.
1:07:14
Because she's been around a while.
1:07:16
Yeah.
1:07:20
I mean,
1:07:20
was this just like perfect programming for
1:07:22
her or what?
1:07:23
Like it's, it is really, it's crazy.
1:07:27
Yeah.
1:07:30
I really don't know.
1:07:37
Having strict dumbbell press be your
1:07:39
pressing event and eighteen K biker be
1:07:42
your heavy endurance event takes two big
1:07:44
weaknesses and turns them into event wins.
1:07:47
I'm not a fan of this,
1:07:48
but congrats to her.
1:07:52
I can see that.
1:07:56
How did Gazan do?
1:07:56
She won.
1:07:58
She won,
1:07:59
but only because Rachel took a
1:08:01
twenty-fourth.
1:08:03
Yeah.
1:08:07
It looks like Gazan's lowest finish was an
1:08:10
eighth.
1:08:12
Ninth.
1:08:15
Was a ninth.
1:08:16
Ninth.
1:08:17
Oh,
1:08:17
so she's so she can't do handstand push
1:08:19
ups.
1:08:20
That's, that's a bit of a problem.
1:08:22
How'd she make it?
1:08:23
We tested strict handstand push ups.
1:08:27
Plenty.
1:08:27
Well,
1:08:27
I guess she's a group with a second
1:08:29
place, but we tested in quarterfinals.
1:08:31
We tested strict handstand push ups.
1:08:35
I watch Mrs. Rachel as a twin.
1:08:37
My theory is her sister did the even
1:08:39
and Rachel did the odds.
1:08:54
Well, it is.
1:08:55
It just may not be the test you...
1:09:00
It is to an extent.
1:09:02
I mean,
1:09:02
I think part of the problem is,
1:09:06
especially watching people do strict
1:09:08
handstand push-ups at these comps,
1:09:13
it's evident to me, it's always been,
1:09:15
but it's very evident to me that people
1:09:17
do whatever the hell they want to do
1:09:18
in their own gym and just get away
1:09:24
with whatever they want to do.
1:09:25
And that's how they get through.
1:09:31
So again,
1:09:32
we may do like an emergency podcast
1:09:36
midweek with Carolyn to get her feedback
1:09:38
on NorCal and, um,
1:09:43
And talk about that and Mad Fit once
1:09:46
we get caught up.
1:09:48
But Mad Fit finished first of all three
1:09:51
events.
1:09:53
Three men,
1:09:53
three women made the games from this.
1:09:58
On the men's side, Enola Kai won.
1:10:02
Lewis.
1:10:02
See,
1:10:06
you had to say mispronunciation of names.
1:10:08
And now I've got to read this.
1:10:11
Luis Cielar.
1:10:15
Oh, he was at French Throwdown.
1:10:20
I want to say it's like Cuiar.
1:10:26
And Callum Clements.
1:10:28
Oh, Callum made it.
1:10:28
Those are your top three.
1:10:30
One spot out by two points was Yonikoski.
1:10:41
Man,
1:10:42
I feel like maybe Nate or someone should
1:10:44
have gone out there.
1:10:47
Maybe.
1:10:48
It was an all-Spanish podium.
1:10:50
Yeah, that's crazy.
1:10:52
It's Cuellar.
1:10:52
That's close.
1:10:59
On the elite female side, big shocker,
1:11:02
Gabby Magawa.
1:11:04
Oh, I didn't even know she was there.
1:11:07
Okay.
1:11:08
Lucy McGonigal took second.
1:11:11
Okay.
1:11:11
And Elle Wilkinson took third.
1:11:13
Good for her.
1:11:18
Claudia Gluck took fifth.
1:11:20
Mathilde Garnes took sixth.
1:11:24
Dang, Claudia Gluck missed out again.
1:11:27
Poor girl.
1:11:29
Goodness gracious.
1:11:31
And Aileen Wurz took the fourth position.
1:11:35
I skipped over.
1:11:40
Yeah, online's going to be...
1:11:42
There's still some names that need to do
1:11:43
some work.
1:11:45
What are you thinking about...
1:11:48
Pat and Emily.
1:11:49
Rolf's chances.
1:11:53
Emily's good online.
1:11:54
I think she'll be fine.
1:11:57
Again,
1:11:58
I think Claudia Gluck's going to be fine.
1:12:00
Matilde's probably going to be fine.
1:12:02
Emily Rolf's going to be fine.
1:12:07
Who I'm worried about is Alexis Raptus.
1:12:10
She's got to get better.
1:12:11
Yeah.
1:12:19
I'm just trying to think of all the
1:12:20
people who've missed.
1:12:24
I think both Emily and Pat should have
1:12:27
done Masters.
1:12:31
I think Pat makes it online.
1:12:35
But it's going to be tight.
1:12:36
It's going to be real tight.
1:12:42
So Wajima's putting up Pat, Justin,
1:12:46
Colton, Nate, Quinn.
1:12:49
I think Nate has a great chance.
1:12:51
I think Justin has a great chance.
1:12:57
Colin probably does.
1:12:58
Colin does well online.
1:13:00
Colin will probably win it.
1:13:09
I don't know.
1:13:11
The thing about the judge thing, though,
1:13:13
Colton can do the same workout six times
1:13:15
in a weekend.
1:13:16
Yeah.
1:13:19
And he has a lot of times.
1:13:21
Well,
1:13:21
he better review all of his video and
1:13:23
make sure everything's perfect because
1:13:25
that's the last thing he needs.
1:13:27
And I feel like there will be other
1:13:28
people who don't,
1:13:30
who hopefully get knocked for...
1:13:35
It is going to be hard online.
1:13:37
This is going to be crazy.
1:13:39
Yeah, we've got Ariel.
1:13:41
We've got Alexis, Rolf, Gluck.
1:13:45
It's what, seven spots?
1:13:47
Mm-hmm.
1:13:49
There's way more names than seven names.
1:13:50
It'd be cool if it was televised.
1:13:59
That would be cool.
1:14:08
Kenyo, Grace Walton.
1:14:14
Yeah, that's going to be tough.
1:14:19
My thoughts are also,
1:14:20
what are the workouts?
1:14:22
And there's going to be a surprise.
1:14:26
There's going to be your Rachel Noel's or
1:14:28
your.
1:14:28
Yeah.
1:14:28
It's crazy.
1:14:40
Peter Ellis.
1:14:42
Harry Lightfoot.
1:14:47
now that your name we're naming all the
1:14:49
names yeah there's so many so vicky says
1:14:57
there's the season drama i wanted yeah and
1:14:59
none of it's shown to us it's all
1:15:03
in her own gyms doing her own thing
1:15:07
and none of us get to see the
1:15:08
drama
1:15:10
And it'll be a hidden leaderboard until
1:15:12
Monday night.
1:15:13
And then you just get to read it.
1:15:16
You don't get to see it.
1:15:18
You just get to read it.
1:15:19
Oh, we'll get to see it.
1:15:20
There will be some serious judging going
1:15:22
on.
1:15:23
But there's no head-to-head competition.
1:15:25
I know.
1:15:33
Well, when it comes out on Monday,
1:15:36
I don't think Colton would have won NCC,
1:15:38
no.
1:15:40
I don't think he beats Tudor.
1:15:42
I don't think he can beat Dylan at
1:15:44
those events.
1:15:44
Not with that.
1:15:47
The run.
1:15:50
Dylan's an excellent runner.
1:15:52
So that first event with the run.
1:15:54
He won that event.
1:15:55
The.
1:15:57
He would have done great at the clean
1:16:01
at the bar exam.
1:16:01
The clean and jerk.
1:16:07
The rope climb.
1:16:09
I.
1:16:10
think would have gotten colton as well
1:16:11
that it was like that one and a
1:16:12
half rope climbs i think that would have
1:16:15
gotten him you know who else is really
1:16:19
good online is carolyn privo she's always
1:16:27
i i totally get her wanting to go
1:16:30
if she can make it but man she
1:16:31
just needs to go win the twenty thousand
1:16:33
dollars
1:16:39
I mean, Klutz is going team.
1:16:40
I'm about to have to sleep.
1:16:45
Congrats on Saxon, Scott.
1:16:46
You were the first person I thought of.
1:16:48
I even called him to win an event.
1:16:50
So I'm basically pro-pancho.
1:16:51
I heard that, yeah.
1:16:53
I don't believe it.
1:16:53
I don't believe it.
1:16:54
There's not enough room on the bandwagon.
1:17:03
What do you think about Justin at NCC?
1:17:07
He has to look better than he did
1:17:09
at Dorian.
1:17:11
That is a good question.
1:17:17
Because Justin would have done better at
1:17:20
NorCal Sioux than Dylan did.
1:17:22
That one hurt Dylan.
1:17:27
I don't know.
1:17:30
Tudor beats Justin.
1:17:32
Tudor's a top ten games athlete now.
1:17:34
That's the thing.
1:17:35
And I think you guys are somewhat selling
1:17:39
Dylan a little bit short.
1:17:40
I mean, he was beating Tudor at Legends.
1:17:46
And James.
1:17:49
So, the dude is fit.
1:17:58
um big becca has a legit shot gosh
1:18:03
she that overhead squatted if she would
1:18:06
have caught the first one right i know
1:18:10
not that she would have got it but
1:18:13
she would have been close yeah and as
1:18:18
tiny as that girl is like to be
1:18:22
able to do that overhead squat like she
1:18:24
did once she got it locked
1:18:29
Yeah, she amazes me.
1:18:31
I wouldn't have been able to do that.
1:18:35
It is seven men and seven women.
1:18:36
You are correct, yes.
1:18:37
All right, well,
1:18:47
I think that's all I got in me
1:18:49
tonight.
1:18:49
Yeah, you've had a long weekend.
1:18:57
She looked great.
1:18:58
She's so much stronger than when she made
1:19:01
the games.
1:19:02
Field is crazy deep now.
1:19:05
She's way stronger.
1:19:07
That's for sure.
1:19:09
And if it's a gymnastic event,
1:19:10
she is really, really good.
1:19:16
Larry Young, four ninety nine.
1:19:18
Really, Spin was the MVP of that show.
1:19:21
I wanted Becca to get back.
1:19:24
Yeah,
1:19:25
Brian Spinn did a lot of work behind
1:19:27
the scenes of that broadcast.
1:19:30
The graphics looked awesome.
1:19:32
The leaderboards were updated quickly.
1:19:35
And you know that's all him on the
1:19:36
back end.
1:19:37
Yeah.
1:19:39
And they were showing that on the
1:19:41
Jumbotron during the competition.
1:19:45
That's awesome.
1:19:49
Yeah.
1:19:50
He lost ten pounds this weekend.
1:19:52
Oh, man.
1:19:54
I think it's got to be hard for
1:19:55
all of you.
1:20:00
Yeah.
1:20:01
I dude,
1:20:02
I don't eat when I go to these
1:20:03
things.
1:20:04
Yeah.
1:20:04
I, and I get hangry.
1:20:06
Like, you know, I'm always like,
1:20:08
I gotta go get some food.
1:20:09
I like, I can't deal with that.
1:20:13
Last thing is, uh,
1:20:15
Julian are staying in the exact same
1:20:16
hotel.
1:20:17
You and I stayed in last time we
1:20:19
were here.
1:20:20
And we explored the food scene a little
1:20:22
more around the hotel.
1:20:23
And there are way many more places than
1:20:27
we found.
1:20:38
Fergie ate for both of us.
1:20:40
Thank you, Fergie.
1:20:45
All right, with that, it's been awesome.
1:20:48
I love jumping on with you guys tonight.
1:20:50
I had a blast at Syndicate.
1:20:51
It's good to get the feedback in the
1:20:53
water.
1:20:55
Can't wait for the games now.
1:20:57
Just got to figure out what the hell
1:20:58
I'm doing for that.
1:21:00
With that,
1:21:01
I hope you guys have a great weekend.
1:21:04
rest of your night and into the week.
1:21:06
There will be no lunch with the Clydesdale
1:21:08
tomorrow as I'll be on the road on
1:21:11
the way back to Columbus.
1:21:13
And,
1:21:14
but we'll be back on Tuesday and I'm
1:21:17
going to leave you with this because,
1:21:18
and I'm going to let Corey talk about
1:21:20
it more this week.
1:21:22
If you didn't go to the event or
1:21:25
any of the events,
1:21:27
you don't have the right to bitch in
1:21:28
the comments about people not being at the
1:21:31
event.
1:21:33
Very true.
1:21:35
With that, we'll say goodnight.
1:21:38
And I'll let Corey back that up this
1:21:40
week.
1:21:41
Hope you have a great night, guys.
1:21:43
Bye.