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Lunch with the Clydesdale | CrossFit Growth Lessons from an Unlikely Teacher · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody welcome to
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lunch time yep we're getting some lunch
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today with the clydesdale good to see
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everybody it's up a trained olive amanda
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uh amanda says when you pause sunday night
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clydesdale to move over to lunch with the
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clydesdale that is an addiction that we
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approve of one hundred percent yes
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Natalie and doing it, doing it as well.
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Love it.
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Love it.
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Love it.
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Love it.
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Last night show was awesome.
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Really so thankful that Jamie was able to
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sit up long enough to get through ninety
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minutes.
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She said it was the first time she'd
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sat up like that for that amount of
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time.
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And so really stoked she was able to
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do that.
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um and contribute which she did
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tremendously um and a lot of good feedback
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from those two um and there was a
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lot of news going on so we're going
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to continue to follow that throughout the
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day um andrew stan five a.m squad club
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mark moss jody joseph corey all in the
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house already what's going on guys so um
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what are we gonna talk about today
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first thing I'm going to talk about is
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I went got some new glasses yesterday I
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don't know if you guys can see and
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these ones actually have that like
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transition to sunglasses.
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So when the sun's out,
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they'll actually turn into sunglasses.
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Um,
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I just had to start wearing glasses
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probably two and a half years ago.
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And, um,
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I find that driving idle out with the
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anti glare,
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it's easier to drive with the glasses.
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Um, but then when it's sunny,
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it's really hard, um, to do that.
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So anyway, um,
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So I got these to kind of do
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the drive.
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My eyesight hasn't changed tremendously
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from one to another,
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but my insurance pays for a nice chunk
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of it.
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So I went ahead and got these,
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but I can switch back and forth between
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the two and have like a pair that
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go to sunglasses when I need to drive
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those long trips.
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So super stoked for that.
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And I kind of like the way these
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look.
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So I like the vanity aspect of it.
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So anyway, cool.
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Eric Mackey,
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tell me you're old without telling me
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you're old.
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I'll tell you what's making me old is
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this.
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Whoever's idea it was to do a fantasy
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football league in this Clydesdale media
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world.
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I am Owen three, man.
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I'm Owen three.
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I have not won a game yet.
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I got smoked by Jeff Baco.
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He's been bragging about it in every chat
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under the sun that he beat me this
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week.
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i don't know man i thought i knew
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football and this year it just is man
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i i cannot find a wide receiver to
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score me points to save my life um
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yeah but whoever's idea it was good news
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is caleb looked good this past weekend
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caleb looked great this last weekend um
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That flea flicker pass,
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sixty five yards in the air,
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longest pass in the NFL this year.
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He looks amazing.
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There is somebody at my door.
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Just check in real quick.
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So.
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I don't.
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Oh, okay.
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Neighbors dropping off some stuff.
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All right, cool.
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Um,
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hi friends only finished listening to
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Sunday,
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Monday night CrossFit talk and finally
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catching the live show again.
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Good to see you, Lito.
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Um, I know it's not a fireman.
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My wife is not here cooking,
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so we're safe.
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Um,
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So there you go.
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Eric Mackey, it's a long season.
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It is.
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I need to look at the waiver wire
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today and figure out some stuff.
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But yeah, yeah, I just,
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Baco's just making it impossible because
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he's bragging in every single chat room
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under the sun that he beat me.
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That's what I just need to get over.
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But what I want to talk about is
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partnerships.
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Last night,
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we kind of touched on this subject that
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it was announced over the weekend that
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Waterpalooza and CrossFit are going to
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partner to do the announcement for twenty
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six point three at Waterpalooza, Miami.
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and dave in his week in review also
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said that he went to waterpalooza and
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dylan walked him around showed them how
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they set up the footprint and all of
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the things they were doing there dave has
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never gone to waterpalooza that was his
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first time ever and the fact that he
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was willing to go and learn about how
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they set up that footprint
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I think is a huge step in the
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right direction, um, for,
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for CrossFit and for what a Palooza for
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that matter, uh,
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for them to partner together,
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what a Palooza has been around almost as
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long as the CrossFit games.
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Um,
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If you're going to partner with someone,
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they are a long-established and standing
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competition in this world,
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and it's the right person to do the
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partnership with because there are things
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that Wadapalooza does that CrossFit does
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not do.
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And the first thing is,
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and I see Vindicate in here,
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considering doing a booth at Waz in Miami
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next year.
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The Wadapalooza Vendor Village is way
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better than any competition,
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even the CrossFit Games.
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It is much bigger.
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It is much more vast.
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When you go to Wadapalooza, Miami,
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in the old,
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because I've not been to the new location,
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the Vendor Village was huge, huge.
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And on one of the days,
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they let people in for free.
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so people can walk into the park and
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they can walk around and go to all
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the vendors and watch all the competition
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on the first day for free and what
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that does is it gets foot traffic in
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the door for the vendors so that they
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can sell to these people plus you're
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selling the idea of crossfit
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to these people who are walking in who
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may not even know what it is but
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it's free so they walk in it's a
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nice day in the park they want to
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go walk around they see this competition
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and who the heck knows maybe they're like
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what is this i want to try that
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um
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it it it's amazing what they do and
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if you look at the way they set
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up their bleachers and their stands
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especially in the miami one i've not it
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because it is much bigger in miami than
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what i saw on the broadcast for socal
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you can get a lot a lot of
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um
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A lot of people in a little space,
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and Wadapalooza has kind of mastered that,
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and they have a problem that other
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competitions don't have.
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Wadapalooza's biggest problem up until
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last year was they couldn't fit everybody
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in that wanted to be there.
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Imagine that.
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There are more people that want to be
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there and buy tickets than you can fit
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in the space.
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If they're doing that,
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what are they doing differently that
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you're not doing to attract people?
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Yes, the location is Miami,
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but CrossFit can think about that too.
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What are the locations we can make to
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do the exact same thing?
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Albany is not Miami.
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Albany is not awesome.
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Why would you put a place there?
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I know their hands were probably forced,
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but we have an early details on the
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season.
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How do we figure that out so that
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you're in a location that makes sense and
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is very much
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like the footprint of Waterpalooza,
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and you figure out how to get people
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in the seats.
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And the more people you get in the
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seats, the more vendors want to be there.
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The more vendors want to be there,
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the bigger the revenue stream.
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It just makes sense.
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And I'm so glad, I'm so glad that
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They have opened up their minds to go
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to to Wadapalooza and check those things
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out.
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Look at the footprint and see what's going
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on.
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Vindicate SoCal Wadapalooza vendor village
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was free all weekend.
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Tons of foot traffic traffic from people
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who had no idea what was going on.
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Yes.
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Learn those tricks.
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Learn those tricks.
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I know in Fort Wayne, Fort, yeah.
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No, not Fort Wayne.
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Fort, whatever.
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The Dallas, Fort Worth, Fort Worth.
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The vendor village was off-site,
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but the line to get in was so
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hard.
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They had to go through metal detectors,
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and the line was down the street.
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People couldn't even get in the door.
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You need to make it available for people
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easily.
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Yeah, I know, Corey.
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I'm old, so I switch things up.
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Probably bigger this year because they're
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combining that fitness thing they got a
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grant from.
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Vicky,
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are you talking Waterpalooza or are you
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talking the games?
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You guys are not picking good places to
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go.
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Louisiana in August is not delightful.
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Not at all.
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Canada in the winter is not awesome.
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Waza, Miami.
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I hope so.
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I mean...
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I think, hopefully,
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by moving it from January to March,
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you're out of the rainy season.
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When I lived in Florida,
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the rainy season was relentless.
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It rained every single day at three p.m.
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when I lived in Florida.
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If they can get out of that rainy
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season and have a more dependable...
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a more dependable schedule and not factor
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in rain and bad weather.
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I think that's going to be huge for
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them just making that two month change.
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And now,
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now that you can go to Guadalupalooza and
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do your open workout on the third week
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of the open,
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or if you're competing at Guadalupalooza,
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it will be part of the workout lineup
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for you to do that weekend.
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I think that's going to be awesome.
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what a Palooza got a grant from Miami
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city.
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Didn't they?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Miami is doing a huge fitness,
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fitness push for about a month at that
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time.
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That's incredible.
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That's awesome that a city is getting
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behind fitness like that.
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So,
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so I'm really happy that they have decided
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to do
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to do these partnerships and open their
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mind to see what other people are doing
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and hopefully learn from them.
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Um,
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And it's okay for Dave to go look
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at another competition and see how they do
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it, especially the footprint,
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especially the overall.
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How can you set up the footprint that
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makes more sense for the community,
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for a festival feel?
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I think that that's what Waterpalooza has.
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It is the best festival feel that we
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have right now.
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And...
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And that's what CrossFit needs back is
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that festival feel at the CrossFit Games.
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And how can they do it where it
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makes economic sense?
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And maybe if you partner with
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Waterpalooza, you can share resources,
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you can share equipment,
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and you can get that done in a
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way that makes sense.
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Corey says, is it a fitness tush push?
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Vindicate says, show up, Corey,
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and you might get lucky.
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There you go.
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Right there for you, buddy.
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So, so that's that.
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And then this is a good transition for
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me.
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Do they have a high rocks down there
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next year?
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That I do not know.
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I don't follow a high rock season.
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Not that I'm a hater,
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just I hate running.
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So it's never going to be something that
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I care about.
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Um, so I don't know,
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but last night on our show,
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we talked about the air national guard
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becoming a new sponsor for, uh, the, the,
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the presenting sponsor for the,
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the CrossFit open.
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And in that, um, and in that announcement,
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there was,
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there will be eight activations done
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throughout, uh, the season by, uh,
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presented by the Air National Guard.
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My hope was that that was a way
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for CrossFit to kind of start their own
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High Rocks event.
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High Rocks already is a CrossFit workout.
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And it's kind of being,
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the idea is kind of being stolen from
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CrossFit.
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They're off doing their own thing.
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And they have these events where a
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community comes and supports each other.
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And I think that's cool.
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But why doesn't CrossFit start their own
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with a less monostructural biased thing
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and they can do it on their own?
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And last night when I brought this up,
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the naysayer women of my co-hosts told me
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there's no way that's what it is and
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there's no way that CrossFit could pull
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this off.
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It's too expensive, blah, blah, blah.
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What I'm going to say is I think
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they can't pull it off.
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And here is,
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here's what I'm going to say.
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Eight activations around the world.
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And you go do this CrossFit event.
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You have a worldwide leaderboard for these
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eight events.
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And,
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but you make it the old school grassroots
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CrossFit.
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Think, think NorCal on the road.
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Nowhere where you have to go get a
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big venue, nothing like that.
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Think of what can we do outside in
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a park somewhere around throughout the
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year around the world,
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have a couple CrossFit athletes show up to
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work out with the crowd and figure out
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a workout that you don't need to be
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this, um, homogenized, um,
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clean high rocks thing right clean is like
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in in this arena with all the fancy
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flooring with all the fancy rig with the
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rep counters all that kind of stuff
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and this is more grassroots like almost
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like a crossfit fantasy camp come work out
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with rich froning and angelo and maybe two
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others uh hailey adams and whatever and
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come to cookville and we're gonna find a
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park and we're gonna do this workout as
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a group we'll send you through just like
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a five k would we'll have a um
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We'll have a worldwide leaderboard,
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and you can see where you can stand
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in the world.
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And you come together as a community,
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and you have some vendors there that set
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up a little tent,
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and you do some things just like NorCal,
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right?
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And I like these suggestions,
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like similar to what the ranch was
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exactly, like a hill run,
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like different things like that that you
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can do outside as an event for the
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community to rally around.
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High school football stadiums,
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that's another option.
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Someplace cheap.
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I don't want it to be this clean,
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generic thing that High Rocks is doing.
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Let's go in the other direction.
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Let's go to a thing that's gritty and
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dirty and dusty and do CrossFit the old
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school way around the world in these
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activations.
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And if you're doing it publicly in a
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park,
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people are going to be walking around
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going, what is that?
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What is that?
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Well, let me tell you what that is.
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That's CrossFit.
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That's how I lost two hundred pounds.
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That's how this guy staved off heart
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disease.
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This is how this person beat diabetes,
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blah, blah, blah.
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And then have people at boost that can
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talk about what it is.
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But you're doing it publicly in front of
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the whole world in a park and you're
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doing it for a competition.
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You're bringing the community together and
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people can see what it is at its
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grassroots level.
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And I think that that is the romantic
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part of what CrossFit is.
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Think about the old school days.
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We do CrossFit in a box that's not
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well furnished.
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It's just an open slab of concrete.
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Maybe we put down some rubber tiles and
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we, we lift some weights.
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We jump on boxes.
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We do some pull-ups.
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We do some things like that back to
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the grassroots.
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And when I was at my first CrossFit
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gym,
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we worked out outside as much as we
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could in the summer.
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We would go out in the parking lot
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with whatever we had,
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take some jump ropes, take some, uh,
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barbells out there to you know whatever we
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wanted to do and it we eliminated the
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machines from it because you didn't really
19:47
want to take them outside at the time
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but you could do the whole workout outside
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why not do some kind of grassroots hyroxy
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thing only it's you you did this first
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yes megan
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you proving you can do CrossFit anywhere
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with whatever equipment you have.
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Perfect.
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Yes.
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We are the machines.
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Yes.
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Maybe that's what you call this event,
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right?
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This is CrossFit.
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We are the machines and we're going to
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go around the world and we're going to
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do these workouts in a park.
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We're going to do these workouts in a
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high school football stadium,
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whatever it is.
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Um,
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And we're going to have a good time
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as a community and we're going to share
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what it is that we do.
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Uh,
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Kaya has anyone checked out the functional
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fitness thing in Scandinavia and how it's
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run.
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They have a TV deal and are making
20:58
money with it asking because they're not
21:00
on YouTube because of the TV deal.
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Um,
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I didn't even know of that.
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I'll start looking into that.
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So, but I just think like
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High Rock stole this idea from us by
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taking a workout,
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making it like the little five K that
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you sign up for or the four miler
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or the five miler or whatever it is.
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And you go do it as a community.
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Why can't we take that back and go
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grassroots back to the old days of we
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are the machines and you go out in
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the park and you figure it out.
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know and you figure out a workout that
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you can do and take from town to
21:52
town without a large footprint right maybe
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you fill a trailer with a little bit
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of equipment that you can go from town
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to town um maybe some dumbbells maybe some
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sandbags something like that show up at a
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park and and have a good time as
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a community
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I think that would be epic because it
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not only gets the community back together
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and fires up the base,
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but it also does it publicly where new
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people can look and go,
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what are they doing?
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And why are they having so much fun
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doing it?
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And how do I become a part of
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that?
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And then you have local affiliates come
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and hang out there to talk about to
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people about what CrossFit is and how they
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can get signed up.
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And it's all presented by the Air National
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Guard in their eight activations around
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the world.
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Now,
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maybe this is too pie in the sky.
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Maybe I'm thinking too big.
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I don't know,
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but I think it's something that has been
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proven to work when HIROX takes this from
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convention center to convention center
23:14
around the world,
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and they get thousands of people to sign
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up,
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why couldn't CrossFit do the same thing in
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a more gritty, dusty way?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Ken Walters,
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it's a shame Scott hasn't put any thought
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into this.
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I know.
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We...
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we talked about this on our show a
23:41
while ago and we actually came up with
23:43
workouts that could be done gauntlet
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styled, like,
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like what a Palooza Miami does where
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people can come and sign up and do
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the gauntlet for an hour.
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Um,
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But if you do it more grassroots,
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you'd have to figure out a programming
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that you could do where you travel with
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a load of stuff in a trailer and
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just dump it into a park and let
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everybody do it.
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Frida,
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plain old body weight can be enough to
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get anyone floored.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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but I think like if you had like
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some sandbags or maybe some dumbbells,
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it just adds the like intrigue for the,
24:32
for the methodology a little bit more.
24:41
Um,
24:43
Jonathan affiliates can sign up for
24:45
fitness conventions like strong New York.
24:47
Yeah.
24:48
I know those are around.
24:49
This is something I want.
24:50
I think that CrossFit should do as an
24:52
organization to attract people to what we
24:56
do to not just cater to the base.
25:01
It does cater to the base,
25:03
but it also lets people see what we
25:05
could do and that we're having a good
25:07
time doing it and that make them want
25:10
to be a part of it.
25:16
so anyway that's all i have to say
25:21
about that um maybe someone will listen
25:29
maybe not i think it's just it's just
25:31
a cool way to spread the word of
25:33
what crossfit has done for so many people
25:35
in the world um we'll see
25:42
Last thing I want to kind of share
25:44
with you is about a little over a
25:48
year ago,
25:49
I formed a partnership with Ishmael
25:53
Garcia.
25:55
And he has been at events taking pictures
26:00
and video for me.
26:02
And it has worked out really well.
26:04
I just want to brag on him.
26:07
His stuff is so good and so artistic.
26:12
Here's some of the stuff that he has
26:13
done.
26:15
I love his angles.
26:17
I love what he does.
26:18
tries to accomplish with his photos and He
26:22
gives us a presence at so many different
26:25
events I'm just really happy that we
26:28
formed this partnership and if you aren't
26:32
already Please go check him out Here is
26:36
his Instagram Eastma captures
26:47
Go check him out on Instagram.
26:51
He does an amazing job.
26:54
And really,
26:54
really love the stuff he puts out.
26:58
And like I can text him and say,
27:00
hey, I need a picture of this.
27:02
And he sends it to me to use
27:04
in thumbnails.
27:08
But here's some of his stuff from Tear
27:11
Cup this weekend.
27:14
And what I really love is he didn't
27:17
just do elites.
27:19
He did a whole series here of the
27:23
RX and the,
27:24
the community divisions of people working
27:28
out.
27:31
I thought this was really cool.
27:45
so make sure you go check him out
27:51
here's some more from the community
27:52
division or this is ellie turner uh so
27:57
that's all ellie turner this one these are
27:59
really good um i love the the shooting
28:04
ones i mean that picture came out really
28:14
well
28:24
But anyway,
28:29
make sure to go check him out, please,
28:31
because he's just really good.
28:39
The Erg shoot was dope,
28:40
and they have an AR, too.
28:42
It's cool.
28:43
Yeah, I'd like to try it sometime.
28:51
Like we said last night,
28:51
I think that would have been a really
28:52
cool event.
28:54
except for the broadcast,
28:55
you could not see the colors of the
28:57
light.
28:58
So you couldn't tell if they hit or
28:59
missed.
29:00
You're just kind of guessing.
29:03
And my one little criticism with the tear
29:08
cup was the rep counters were not doing
29:10
a good job on the broadcast.
29:13
those needed to be better.
29:15
So it was really hard to see who
29:16
was in the lead or not because you
29:18
couldn't see the lights turn red or green.
29:21
Um,
29:21
but at the Olympics they have like a
29:24
dedicated camera right for the target.
29:26
And it's usually in a little box in
29:28
the lower corner of the screen.
29:30
And then you can see like,
29:31
did they hit or not?
29:33
Um,
29:35
So I think that if they did something
29:38
like that,
29:39
it would be an epic event where the
29:41
broadcast could actually see if they hit
29:43
or didn't hit.
29:44
So, yeah.
29:52
I missed all that action.
29:53
It would have been like two or three
29:54
a.m.
29:55
for me.
29:56
Yeah,
29:56
that's why you do what I do and
29:57
just go to sleep and then wake up
29:59
the next morning.
29:59
And that's what I do in the morning
30:04
over my breakfast.
30:09
Joseph Ramirez,
30:10
we used a version of it for op
30:11
training a few times.
30:14
That's cool.
30:14
That's really cool.
30:17
Chris Beesterfield, I need a ding sound.
30:21
Like a ching, something like that.
30:25
Like bullet hitting metal.
30:28
That'd be cool too.
30:31
Uh, I just, yeah,
30:33
something to indicate that they hit or
30:35
missed.
30:36
I think,
30:36
I guess from people that were there,
30:39
I heard that the lights were much easier
30:40
to see.
30:41
You could tell green or red.
30:44
Um, but on the broadcast,
30:45
you could not see that light at all.
30:48
Um,
30:49
so it really just was someone like
30:50
pointing and you didn't even know they'd
30:52
pulled the trigger or not.
30:54
Um,
30:57
So, yeah.
30:58
But again, if you go watch, like,
31:00
I think it's the biathlon in the Winter
31:03
Olympics where they ski and then shoot.
31:06
They have a little dedicated box in the
31:08
lower corner of the screen that is the
31:11
target.
31:12
And you can see if they hit or
31:14
didn't hit.
31:15
And then above that,
31:16
they usually have like.
31:19
however many targets they have to hit,
31:20
like five, I think it is,
31:24
they leave them, they're blank,
31:26
and then they're either filled with an X
31:29
or they fill in a hole if they
31:31
hit or missed.
31:32
If they hit it,
31:33
it fills in a hole.
31:35
If they missed,
31:36
it's an X in that little spot.
31:42
And then in that sport, if you miss,
31:45
you have to do a penalty lap.
31:48
So there's a little small circle that you
31:51
have to go around each time you miss
31:53
the target.
31:55
And that'd be a cool way to add
31:56
that into a CrossFit event.
32:00
You have five shots for everyone you hit.
32:05
You're clean for everyone you missed.
32:07
Maybe you do a muscle-up or maybe you
32:09
do a burpee or something like that.
32:15
That would be cool.
32:18
or even, you know,
32:19
remember the one year at the games,
32:21
every time you broke your muscle ups,
32:22
you had to run, um,
32:24
a lap around the rig.
32:26
Um,
32:26
that was back in Carson in the day.
32:28
So they actually had penalty laps, um,
32:31
back.
32:31
I think it was like,
32:33
it was like Noah's rookie season, like,
32:35
uh, if you broke your muscle ups,
32:39
you had to run a penalty lap around
32:41
the rig.
32:42
And that was,
32:43
that added a lot to the event.
32:46
Um,
32:48
So yeah.
32:52
Burpees if you miss.
32:53
Perfect.
32:55
Shanna, hopefully they aren't colorblind.
32:57
Yeah.
32:58
Yeah,
32:59
there's ways to do it without using color,
33:01
but I just wish it was something for
33:04
us to understand.
33:05
Sometimes you had the judge in the picture
33:09
and he would throw his arm up if
33:10
they hit.
33:11
And so that made it better for that.
33:14
But the judge wasn't always there in the
33:18
picture on the broadcast.
33:21
Yeah.
33:23
But I think it's a cool event for
33:25
something like this.
33:26
I don't think it would ever be at
33:27
the games,
33:29
but I like it in these types of
33:31
events.
33:31
And again,
33:32
what I said last night is I thought
33:34
that the tier cup was very watchable and
33:38
one of my favorite events from the year.
33:40
I love the trash talking.
33:41
I love the back and forth.
33:43
Um, I love the events.
33:45
I thought they were fun to watch.
33:47
The only one that I really had a
33:49
hard time was the erg shoot just because
33:51
you couldn't see if they hit or missed,
33:54
but like I tell you that burpee deadlift
33:58
workout,
33:59
which I would never have thought was cool,
34:01
looked like art when they were
34:03
synchronized.
34:04
Um,
34:06
When you look at Dallin and Alexis
34:08
synchroed so much,
34:10
and even Pat and Danielle,
34:13
they were just on fire.
34:15
And it looked so cool.
34:19
It was very, very watchable,
34:20
very fun to watch.
34:24
And I really enjoyed it.
34:29
And maybe we can learn something from this
34:32
for the teams going forward to make them
34:34
more watchable.
34:36
Cause I like the concept of the team,
34:38
but man, it's, it's,
34:41
it's hard to watch when there's so many
34:43
people on the floor.
34:46
I wish we could figure that out,
34:51
but that is for another day.
34:54
I want to thank everybody for being here.
34:58
Tomorrow we do Cook and Cajun with Corey.
35:01
So he'll be on tomorrow with me.
35:03
And then, yeah, we'll finish out the week.
35:12
Lito,
35:12
thoughts on Alexis Raptus and her injury
35:14
conditions.
35:16
Is she the new Bethany Flores?
35:21
So here's what I'll say about Bethany.
35:23
She's one of the toughest people I've ever
35:25
met in my life.
35:27
What she fought through all those years to
35:30
finish top ten at the Games twice was
35:34
amazing.
35:39
I don't think she ever reached her full
35:41
potential because of the injuries,
35:43
and that's sad to me.
35:46
and the year that she tested positive for
35:48
covid at the games and couldn't compete
35:51
makes me very sad I watched her at
35:53
West Coast Classic dominate dominate a
35:56
very tough field beating Carrie Pierce and
35:59
Danielle Brandon at that event and crush
36:02
them um
36:08
So while, yes,
36:10
she had a lot of injuries, and yes,
36:12
you never knew if she was going to
36:13
be able to make it through the season
36:14
or not, when she did,
36:16
she was phenomenal in what she pushed
36:18
through.
36:23
But it's sad to me that she never
36:26
reached the full potential of what she
36:28
could have been on the floor.
36:30
If you talk to her,
36:33
She's really,
36:33
really wrestled with it and gotten to a
36:36
place where she understands it.
36:38
And there are bigger things in her life
36:39
now than that.
36:41
And I need to have her on the
36:45
show again and talk to her about that.
36:47
But when it comes to Alexis,
36:50
I think Alexis is just struggling to
36:52
figure out what her body can and cannot
36:54
take.
36:56
She has that condition where her digestive
37:00
system
37:01
goes wacky on her and i'm sure the
37:05
stress of a competition adds to that and
37:09
i don't know what the cause of the
37:12
echo fran issue was whether it was her
37:15
digestive system or whether it was just
37:17
her hitting complete fatigue um or
37:24
complete dehydration or whatever it was
37:28
but
37:29
it just seems like the one thing holding
37:31
her back is figuring out how to feed
37:35
and fuel her body during a competition
37:38
week where it doesn't upset her body.
37:41
And I just, I, I,
37:46
is she going to be the next Bethany
37:47
Flores?
37:47
She may be that.
37:49
We just don't know if she's ever going
37:50
to be healthy in that moment that she
37:52
needs to be.
37:54
Um,
37:58
So, yeah, I think it's a valid question,
38:00
Lito.
38:01
I just don't know the answer yet because
38:04
it was my understanding that she had
38:06
figured it all out and that she was
38:08
going to be able to – she figured
38:12
out what the fuel needed to be for
38:14
a competition weekend.
38:20
So I hope she can figure it out.
38:23
Shanna, our resident medical expert,
38:26
probably a combination of both.
38:28
Crohn's is autoimmune and stressing the
38:30
body isn't helpful.
38:36
I've had a few athletes on, uh,
38:39
from the semi final level and they fight
38:43
autoimmune all the time.
38:45
And it's really like,
38:48
it takes a lot of work to figure
38:49
out what you can push,
38:51
what you can't push,
38:53
how you can relax more in those
38:54
situations.
38:55
So you don't get a flare up during
38:57
the weekend.
38:59
Um,
39:01
and so I have the utmost respect for
39:02
people who are able to compete through
39:05
those,
39:06
those issues and try to figure it out.
39:09
Um, and,
39:13
and I know a handful of them through
39:14
conversations with them over the years.
39:17
Um,
39:17
and it just amazes me what they're able
39:19
to do.
39:21
You know, here I am, I,
39:24
a little bit achy and I'm complaining at,
39:26
uh, um,
39:29
I'm a little bit achy and I'm a
39:31
workout and I act like a baby sometimes.
39:35
And these people are trying to figure out
39:37
like way bigger issues.
39:42
Didn't Colton have an autoimmune too?
39:43
He did.
39:46
And I think if you asked him,
39:47
he had a hard time figuring out things
39:50
as well.
39:50
Now he hired, um,
39:53
he hired a nutrition expert to help him
39:55
out.
39:56
And he says that has made a world
39:58
of difference.
39:59
And I know that that is a thing
40:00
too, with autoimmune,
40:01
if you can figure the right diet to
40:03
support it, uh, it can,
40:05
it can help alleviate some of the symptoms
40:08
and some of the flare ups that come
40:10
with that.
40:11
So, um,
40:14
So I know when I've talked to Colton
40:16
at events,
40:17
he has really given a lot of thanks
40:23
to, I think her name is Amy,
40:25
who has helped him with his nutrition
40:29
because it's made a world of difference
40:31
for him.
40:36
So, yeah.
40:39
It's crazy what they go through and what
40:43
they're willing to do to compete in this
40:48
sport while going through all that.
40:51
It's crazy.
40:52
And Colton's flare-up was really serious.
40:54
I think he lost his eyesight for a
40:58
little bit of time.
41:01
So it's no joke.
41:04
I'm glad he's been able to figure out
41:06
a way to not flare up as much.
41:12
With that, guys,
41:14
I'm going to get back to work.
41:18
You knuckleheads,
41:19
you better get back to work too.
41:21
But we'll see you tomorrow for lunch with
41:23
the Clydesdale.
41:24
Bye, guys.