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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Legends Del Mar Full Recap with Dex Hopkins Guest Hosting · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  We are here,
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  and I have a special guest.
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  Look at him.
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  Dex Hopkins, next.
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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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  am here with dex hopkins because my normal
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  co-hosts were a little busy today just a
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  little tiny tiny tiny bit uh miss carolyn
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  punched her ticket to the masters crossfit
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  games this afternoon after a dominating
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  performance at the legends my god
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  Drop kicked her ticket.
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  Only by, you know,
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  thirty-something points.
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  Yeah.
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  Crushed it.
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  And then, regretfully, Jamie, four points.
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  Oh, brother.
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  I just saw it.
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  Oh, no.
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  If you watch the race,
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  she came in second by a half a
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  step on the final lunge.
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  Those four points would have tied her for
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  third.
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  She would have won the tiebreaker.
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  She literally missed out on her game's
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  ticket by a half a step.
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  Wow.
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  Such is CrossFit year to year.
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  That'll be a good training year for her,
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  boy.
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  I could not be prouder of her.
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  She is a tiny human being.
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  And to go into that Legends programming
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  and to almost get her ticket through the
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  least conceivable way possible and put up
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  that performance was phenomenal.
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  Yeah, she's a dog.
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  She's a dog.
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  She'll have nothing to hang her head about
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  about that because she knew that going in
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  and was taking just swings.
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  So, yeah, nothing to hang her head about.
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  I compare her to Colton.
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  Like, they have the home runs,
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  and they can overcome a lot.
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  But when you're in a long weekend,
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  it just takes the toll on you.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, especially there, man.
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  I love Del Mar.
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  That is, like,
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  hollow ground to me because, I mean,
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  just for loving the game as long as
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  I have, seeing them do stuff there.
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  Yeah.
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  know regardless of what it's been all
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  weekend or how you had to see it
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  grainy footage secondhand stream or
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  instagram follow-up i was excited when
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  they announced it and so seeing people on
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  that floor again just takes me back to
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  fun memories yeah we'll get into all the
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  action at legends but first don't forget
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  to like and subscribe to the channel
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  We appreciate each and every one of you.
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  A couple quick announcements.
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  I've been releasing because Masters have
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  gone this weekend.
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  They're going to go again next weekend in
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  person.
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  I've been releasing a live episode from
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  the twenty twenty five games every day for
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  members only.
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  And then seventy two hours after its
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  release, it will go live to everybody.
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  The first one went live today to
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  everybody.
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  and it's like that every day moving
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  forward and uh so check those out and
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  don't forget to check out hattie behind
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  the scenes of the five games all of
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  the episodes are live it's a great story
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  um it didn't end the way she wanted
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  to but the capture was really good and
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  i'm really proud of it so go check
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  that out people in the in the chat
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  are asking what are you up to these
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  days
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  Dude,
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  we had our first weightlifting meet
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  Saturday.
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  While everybody's transitioning to
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  endurance and running ultras and bike
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  rides and high rocks, this and that,
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  love those things.
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  Never made me feel too terribly sexy or
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  dangerous,
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  so Dexter leaned into the other things.
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  And after my last games trip, dude,
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  being able to use both my wrists,
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  I was very hungry to put things over
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  my head.
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  And so did been doing weightlifting,
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  my buddy Dame program for me up until
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  that two week period we were talking about
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  where I started working and moving and
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  doing media full time this year has been
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  awesome.
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  But boy,
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  I've been at every high rocks since
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  Phoenix.
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  And I've seen a lot of running in
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  circles and sled pushes and pulls and all
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  the things, which has been great,
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  but have not touched a barbell in two
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  weeks.
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  And then that being my first experience,
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  I had no clue like what that game
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  is.
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  And apparently there's playing cards and
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  all these things and
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  I have buddies who do it.
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  I guess I've just never done the just
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  breadth and depth of what that game is.
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  But it's very cool.
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  It's local.
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  It's at Wheelhouse Academy.
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  My buddy Lewin's gym is a good show.
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  Masters, you know, Masters is still .
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  I'm a good .
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  So Dexter will be cutting weight because
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  while you're strong in CrossFit because
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  you're large and I can get away with
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  it on teams, weight classes are different.
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  But it was fun, man.
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  So doing that,
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  getting married in November to a lovely
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  lady,
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  Her name's Lindsey.
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  She's in the other room doing spreadsheets
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  as she lives in the Matrix.
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  We just bought a house.
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  We're still in Birmingham.
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  Daughters are happy and healthy.
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  I'm the same.
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  And so very blessed and lucky and just
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  living life, man.
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  Jeremy says, wait,
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  this isn't Marcus Hendren?
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  I wish I had the residual country strength
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  and fitness of Marcus Hendren.
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  He actually just disappeared, didn't he?
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  He did.
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  Yeah, he lives near me.
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  That's what I know.
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  He was up there with you guys.
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  I mean, he was in our region.
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  And, like, he set it on fire for,
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  like, two years and then disappeared.
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  He was the original farm guy, Colton,
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  except tall.
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  Yeah, much taller.
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  But he was a dog because he was
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  in the thick of Central East when it
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  was Central East.
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  So you're also doing some stuff for Brute.
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  Do you want to share that?
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  Yeah, yeah,
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  still remote coaching for Brute, man,
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  which –
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  You know,
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  I think every weekend we could say it's
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  been a good weekend.
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  I know Mayhem was a weird start,
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  but Emma Lawson's a dog.
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  Hattie's with us now,
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  who I texted you that weekend, like,
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  first time I met her, dude, like,
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  just a pleasure.
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  Energy is next level.
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  And she was really good at moving through
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  difficult things.
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  Like,
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  still had her little light shine and
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  didn't get down too much.
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  And my best friend coaches her, Jessica,
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  my best friend since I was eight years
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  old, so love him.
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  She's in good hands.
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  um but yeah still with brute man love
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  the boys uh brand's doing well baby
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  weekend to weekend so it's uh it's been
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  good yeah pumping out those champions you
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  know it's uh we got a lot of
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  t-shirts so if they mostly how they feel
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  on them you know we bring extras
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  All right,
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  so let's get into Legends for this
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  weekend.
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  I've got a little agenda for us to
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  go down through.
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  First,
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  it started with a bunch of craziness.
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  I talked about it on my lunch show
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  last week.
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  There was a lot of talk about everything
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  that was going on.
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  Friday morning,
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  the stream was not working well.
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  By Friday evening,
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  it was like a crystal clear picture for
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  me.
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  Yeah.
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  On Flo Lee.
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  My only complaint rest of the weekend was
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  the app is just slow.
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  It was nothing about the coverage or
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  whatever.
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  And the people doing the coverage,
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  the Savon team,
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  that was two floors was a lot.
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  Yeah.
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  Like,
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  that's spreading your team pretty thin.
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  Well, man,
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  we learned that at the Masters games they
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  had in Birmingham.
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  And, like, make no mistake,
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  them having an in-person Masters semifinal
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  –
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  Love that, right?
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  Like you said on the show the other
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  day,
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  we're never going back to regionals for
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  very obvious monetary reasons.
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  But I think having an in-person show for
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  Masters,
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  and there's several people in the space
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  that say that's the lifeblood of the sport
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  and these things, could not agree more,
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  especially after that trip we did.
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  But them having an in-person, love that.
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  I think the rest of the things are
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  working out.
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  I know Flow Elite's been in the game
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  of that forever.
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  They used to cover Waterpalooza.
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  And when I got into grappling stuff,
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  they do a good job covering that.
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  Having two floors in the same way they
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  had at Birmingham seemed impossible to
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  cover.
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  I don't think they were covering much of
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  anything that year anyway.
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  But yeah, two floors is a wild show,
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  especially with the good memories of being
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  it was just that one floor,
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  all the heats.
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  And I know it's not as doable when
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  you have that many divisions at that
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  level, right?
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  Because everybody's trying to punch a
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  ticket in every division.
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  And when you have masters and elites,
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  it's a million.
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  But I give everybody the benefit of the
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  doubt.
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  At least they were trying.
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  If we got it looking like an Etch-A-Sketch
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  for a little while, that's okay.
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  So I'll skip ahead a little bit because
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  I want to get back into elites.
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  But when it comes to masters,
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  I have argued that we should cut down
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  the age groups that do the in-person till
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  we figure it out.
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  I agree.
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  Would you say swing the in-person to like
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  the younger crowds or the older crowds?
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  The younger.
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  I say third because fifty percent of the
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  open is thirty five to forty nine.
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  right they're the ones that have paid for
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  all this if we're going to do it
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  for them they get the rewards of that
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  and if and if you can see like
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  more participation up to fifty four i
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  might go that far but i think you
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  consolidate it down to where you can
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  actually put on a show that people can
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  watch and the length of the show right
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  like the length of the show yeah
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  I agree.
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  And I mean, now, I mean,
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  I remember when it was like blast for
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  me to talk about people moving from elite
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  to masters.
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  Like, I mean, you know,
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  cause Rich will never do it,
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  which is fine,
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  but like seeing Scott and Samuel do it
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  forever, I think.
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  And I think he was just doing class
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  this year at his gym, which is awesome.
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  And he'll always be a monster when he
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  wants to be,
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  but seeing like Scott and his wife do
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  it, people like that.
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  Like, I don't, I don't hate that idea.
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  Like,
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  I don't think anybody's put out by that.
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  And honestly,
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  the age groups that didn't get invited
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  were probably much better sleep in their
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  bed anyway and do semifinals.
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  Cause I know I valued that the year
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  I did it.
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  Well,
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  and if it gets to a point where
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  there's enough participation,
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  then we'll find a way at that point.
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  But you've got to figure it out first.
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  And then the other thing is Noah Olsen
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  announced this weekend he's going for the
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  Masters gold.
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  I don't know if Dancheck and Sam Dancer
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  have something to say about that.
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  Love that.
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  Love that.
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  If Noah's in the shape,
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  I know him to stay in at an
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  eighty-five percent year.
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  It's a different race now, boys.
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  But, you know, Noah's a dog, man.
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  I hated, like, when he stepped away.
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  But, I mean, he kept doing other stuff,
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  so he stayed in space.
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  And, like, I know his heart for it.
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  And so he's always a pleasure to have
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  around.
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  So at any capacity, when he's there,
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  it's a better show.
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  So I do think that there's going to
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  be a pretty good spotlight on that .
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  Yeah.
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  I think, I mean, also like you're saying,
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  when they show that there's more
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  participation in that age group,
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  if you go down some age groups,
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  the stuff they've done at like the pit
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  with the teens,
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  because like regardless of the games or
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  not,
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  even before they brought it into them,
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  like Brock was putting on an amazing show
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  for those kids.
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  And it was,
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  and I've been a few times at his
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  gym before they had to outsource it.
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  I mean,
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  there's no amount of porta potties to
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  cover these parents and teenagers that
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  showed up like, and it was just,
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  it was so good.
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  It stressed out the infrastructure they
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  had laid out, but it's a, yeah,
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  I mean,
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  I agree with the swinging it up and
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  down.
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  Like,
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  I think the fatigue on like the show
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  of it, you know,
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  it gets a little crazy,
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  same kind of thing at Waterpalooza when
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  you have every age group of every
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  division, just it's a show all day.
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  And so, yeah.
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  You know,
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  people want to see who they want to
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  see.
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  I think everybody else should have.
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  I mean,
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  they do have the option this year to
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  stay at home,
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  but I think a lot of people would
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  rather go in person outside of like fifty
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  plus people.
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  CrossFit says Noah already kind of moves
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  like a Masters athlete.
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  Eric, Scott for CEO.
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  I don't want that gig.
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  He does.
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  He secretly does.
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  Can you imagine Scott Scott's rants on the
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  lunch show if he was the CEO?
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  Yeah.
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  Bring up profile pictures on LinkedIn of
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  people that work for CrossFit.
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  We actually just fired her.
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  Yeah,
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  rant about myself and the bad job I'm
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  doing.
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  No, man.
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  So that's a real out front get hit
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  by all the cars.
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  Patrick Clark already making predictions
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  for the thirty-five to thirty-nine.
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  Noah one, Pancheck two, Marquand three.
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  Hey, we forget Quan.
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  Quan's in the thirty five to thirty nine.
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  Right.
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  I mean, and I love Quan.
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  Look,
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  Noah doesn't move like a master's athlete.
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  Noah's a great mover across the board.
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  But yeah,
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  I forget Quan's doing thirty five,
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  thirty nine.
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  A dog always just love Quan like good
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  buddies on bias.
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  But him and Noah,
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  it'll be a fun show, man, I think.
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  Like, the last year I did it,
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  I think it was me.
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  Who else was there that was, like,
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  higher level?
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  Like, that had been elite individual.
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  It was just Will.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that's it.
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  That year pretty much, yeah.
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  Well, him and Bronislav came and did it.
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  That's right.
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  Bronislav did it.
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  Yep.
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  But like having a deeper field where you
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  see people because my favorite thing's
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  always been like the fifty plus guys like
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  is if there's any better picture of what
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  the methodology does for you,
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  it is those people because none of them
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  probably came in with any kind of range
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  of motion or stability or blah, blah,
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  blah.
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  And that really kills the argument of it
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  not working to me if the longevity piece
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  is there for those people.
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  But having the picture of like Dallin
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  going from fourteen year old monster and
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  continuing to do that.
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  And when he gets to continue that into
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  Masters,
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  like we don't have a sample size for
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  that.
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  And so especially like at that level.
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  So I mean,
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  even like Sam and them doing it,
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  like Sam's always been pumped about it
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  when he can do it.
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  And I mean, you know,
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  maybe he could switch back and do it
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  if he wanted to.
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  But it's got, you know, certainly good.
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  But like,
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  I think when you get to the age
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  where like everybody's got kids and you're
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  running your gym or whatever job it is
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  you do away from it, you know,
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  just like Fikowski,
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  like seeing people step from elite into
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  Masters and it not be this frowned upon
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  thing.
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  I'm actually not sure if he's still doing
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  it.
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  That's a good question.
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  He just, he just shows up sometimes.
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  Yeah.
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  Like I'll be at a comp and hadn't
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  heard of them in a year.
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  And then there's easy.
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  Hey man, lift heavy.
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  Often seminars are still certainly still
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  going on.
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  I'm sure.
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  Yeah.
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  So I want to talk about the programming
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  and the complaints coming in.
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  First, I want to give the good stuff.
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  The competition, like,
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  The schedule they put out at the beginning
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  of the weekend, that was like clockwork.
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  If I wanted to watch my people,
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  every time that clock hit, boom,
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  they were there.
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  The machines that everybody thought were
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  going to break did not break.
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  They were big and they were heavy and
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  they were tough to move,
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  but they did not break.
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  Wait,
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  was that a worry that the stepper machines
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  were going to break?
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  That was it.
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  They make stair steppers that people beat
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  to death.
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  I would,
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  the metric thing was what I would have
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  been complaining about.
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  Like this is, I mean,
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  but it's the same thing with like an
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  assault Rover or a road thing,
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  but it's a,
• 15:37
  that's a funny thing to fuss about.
• 15:38
  I thought that was like a,
• 15:39
  we're taking the money with stepper,
• 15:40
  which is great.
• 15:41
  Get money.
• 15:42
  Del Mar is expensive.
• 15:44
  Yeah.
• 15:44
  And then the,
• 15:45
  the one thing I do want to say
• 15:46
  is the programming did change throughout
• 15:49
  the weekend.
• 15:51
  And to me, that's,
• 15:54
  that that's hard to swallow.
• 15:58
  i need the context right like i need
• 16:00
  the why because i think and i hate
• 16:03
  to keep referencing this but like the year
• 16:05
  we did it right is the first year
• 16:06
  they had rogue in ireland when they had
• 16:08
  in birmingham and they had to send
• 16:10
  everything by boat i found out that is
• 16:12
  why a lot of things like were supposed
• 16:14
  to be there weren't some of our stuff
• 16:15
  got changed so like contextually i
• 16:16
  understand that rogue just apparently and
• 16:19
  just learning what i've learned this year
• 16:20
  about them
• 16:22
  you know,
• 16:22
  when you sign on to be a semifinal,
• 16:25
  it is not the kind of help you
• 16:27
  get that I thought it was.
• 16:28
  They're like, hey,
• 16:29
  here's what we have available.
• 16:30
  If we don't have it,
• 16:31
  we're not sending it.
• 16:31
  You're going to have to figure it out.
• 16:33
  And which I get, but yeah,
• 16:36
  I think last minute people just have to
• 16:37
  do the, if that's the case, you pivot.
• 16:41
  Now,
• 16:41
  eighty pound dumbbells in the last
• 16:43
  workout.
• 16:44
  Somebody planted a good seed there to
• 16:46
  change that,
• 16:46
  because that workout was going to be like
• 16:48
  what everybody thought at Mayhem last
• 16:49
  weekend.
• 16:49
  Like, oh,
• 16:50
  this time cap tells me y'all trying to
• 16:51
  get out here by three p.m.
• 16:52
  for sure,
• 16:53
  because nobody's getting in under that.
• 16:55
  A few people did.
• 16:56
  That was a good workout.
• 16:57
  That was beautifully written last weekend.
• 17:00
  But I need to like the full story
• 17:01
  of why we're changing stuff outside of the
• 17:03
  eighty pound dumbbell.
• 17:04
  Somebody just woke up and had like a
• 17:05
  hey, this is a pretty silly thing.
• 17:07
  My question to you is they changed the
• 17:09
  elite dumbbell weight.
• 17:11
  But they did not change any of the
• 17:13
  Masters dumbbell weights.
• 17:15
  Don't we fuss sometimes about them baby
• 17:17
  and Masters a little bit?
• 17:18
  Isn't that a conversation we have
• 17:19
  sometimes too?
• 17:20
  Everything was heavy this weekend.
• 17:24
  This was a chipper.
• 17:25
  This was for the fitness people to show
• 17:28
  what they could do.
• 17:30
  Can we bring it up?
• 17:32
  Let's take these things apart.
• 17:34
  Do you have –
• 17:37
  Let me see if they got it.
• 17:37
  I can pull it up if you want.
• 17:38
  I don't think they have.
• 17:39
  They didn't have them on Flow Elite
• 17:40
  earlier.
• 17:41
  Oh, they do now.
• 17:42
  Still didn't put in the calories for the
• 17:44
  bike stuff.
• 17:45
  Yeah, let's bring these things up.
• 17:48
  Because I didn't hate.
• 17:48
  They never published the calories or the
• 17:51
  distance or whatever.
• 17:52
  Well,
• 17:53
  seeing Emily Rethwell do a lean back row
• 17:58
  on the skier, I was like,
• 17:59
  this must be hell.
• 18:01
  Because she's a monster on machine.
• 18:03
  Dude,
• 18:03
  I've never met anybody more built for
• 18:05
  running themselves into the ground of high
• 18:06
  rocks.
• 18:06
  Whatever it is in her brain,
• 18:07
  if you could bottle and sell it to
• 18:09
  hurt, you'd be a millionaire.
• 18:10
  Because she's a doll.
• 18:11
  But to see her have to pull some
• 18:13
  weird technique stuff, I was like,
• 18:14
  this must be brutal.
• 18:18
  So this workout was power output machine.
• 18:21
  with some double unders.
• 18:24
  I didn't hate that they made it be
• 18:25
  a beaded thing.
• 18:26
  Like Rich made everybody use their ropes,
• 18:29
  like the old school RX smart gear rope,
• 18:31
  which, you know, is awesome.
• 18:33
  But like take everybody's little binky
• 18:35
  safety net rope away and see what you
• 18:36
  can do is awesome.
• 18:37
  I didn't hate this one either.
• 18:40
  And I like the aggressive cap on this
• 18:41
  one because like that middle part,
• 18:43
  thirty chest to bar.
• 18:44
  And I'm also, you know,
• 18:46
  speaking for a lead to probably thirty
• 18:47
  five, thirty nine,
• 18:48
  thirty and thirty is kind of negligible
• 18:50
  now with that big kind of slow tempo
• 18:53
  cycle rate or whatever you want to call
• 18:55
  it for the sandbag.
• 18:56
  My beef with this is it was a
• 18:58
  all the way up to forty four.
• 19:00
  It was a hundred fifty one hundred
• 19:03
  sandbag.
• 19:05
  And for that division,
• 19:07
  they reduced the number of chest to bar.
• 19:10
  Yeah.
• 19:11
  See the sandbag being lighter would have
• 19:12
  made more sense to me.
• 19:14
  Cause that's like, I mean, but that's,
• 19:16
  that's the part they always baby people
• 19:18
  with, right?
• 19:19
  Like it's a ring muscle,
• 19:21
  less ring muscle ups or no ring muscle
• 19:22
  ups or after a certain age group.
• 19:25
  I loved this workout,
• 19:26
  especially after the contrast of last
• 19:27
  weekend.
• 19:28
  Somebody said on another show, uh,
• 19:30
  the contrast of Olivia doing touch and go
• 19:32
  and then having to just motor through this
• 19:34
  was, was very cool.
• 19:36
  Kind of, especially back to back weekends,
• 19:38
  sicko.
• 19:39
  But, um,
• 19:42
  Emily has a track background,
• 19:43
  so she's down to her.
• 19:45
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 19:46
  I have witnessed it,
• 19:47
  and she's also kindest, hearted,
• 19:49
  sweet lady ever.
• 19:50
  And, yeah,
• 19:51
  I text Holden after every time I see
• 19:53
  her.
• 19:53
  I'm like, boy,
• 19:53
  you better be nice at home.
• 19:56
  CrossFit says I need to buy a little
• 19:57
  bit of a hold to lock down.
• 19:59
  Look, Holden's a good-looking man, too.
• 20:02
  That's a pretty family.
• 20:03
  So, yeah, that's a beautiful household.
• 20:09
  So then event three,
• 20:11
  it's all barbell though.
• 20:12
  It's literally all.
• 20:14
  Well,
• 20:14
  so we talked about this other day talking
• 20:17
  about like a, a benchmark full semifinal,
• 20:21
  like back to the methodology, this, that,
• 20:23
  and other,
• 20:24
  I loved a funky twist on a DT
• 20:26
  type thing.
• 20:27
  And I didn't hate this as a skills
• 20:29
  test.
• 20:29
  Take,
• 20:30
  take any of these workouts individually.
• 20:32
  And I don't hate any of them.
• 20:34
  Yeah.
• 20:35
  You just hate a heavy weekend.
• 20:37
  Put them all together,
• 20:38
  it doesn't make a well-balanced weekend to
• 20:41
  get somebody to the CrossFit Games.
• 20:43
  If you're doing an off-season comp,
• 20:47
  be you.
• 20:47
  Do whatever you want to do.
• 20:50
  I'm cool with all that.
• 20:52
  So the longest ones we did,
• 20:53
  the first event was the longest one
• 20:54
  outside of fifteen minutes.
• 20:55
  The rest of them were more sprinty,
• 20:56
  it looks like.
• 20:58
  Well, and then five, you had that chipper.
• 21:00
  Yeah, but...
• 21:03
  That's I mean,
• 21:04
  heavy wall ball because it was thirty
• 21:06
  twenty four box jump.
• 21:08
  Right.
• 21:08
  This one, I mean,
• 21:10
  this essentially was like designed to be
• 21:12
  able to take some chances because, I mean,
• 21:14
  it was really a race to the double
• 21:15
  press,
• 21:15
  especially if they left it that way.
• 21:17
  Because, I mean,
• 21:18
  you're not going to kill anything by going
• 21:20
  big on toast bar like box jump overs.
• 21:23
  They make you step down now.
• 21:24
  So you're going to settle yourself.
• 21:25
  Arms are flush a little bit.
• 21:26
  But thirty double press at eighty and what
• 21:29
  they wanted to do.
• 21:31
  This was a how many,
• 21:32
  Devil Press AMRAP after a buy-in.
• 21:35
  And that was my favorite thing about
• 21:37
  Mayhem.
• 21:39
  And hats off to those fellows that
• 21:40
  conglomerate of people that did that
• 21:42
  program in like an hour, like Rich said.
• 21:45
  Every finish was like,
• 21:47
  keep your camera on, smack the buzzer.
• 21:50
  And if it wasn't that,
• 21:51
  it was Gwen where you saw people like
• 21:53
  take themselves into deep water and roll
• 21:55
  the dice and just fall apart and stand
• 21:56
  there.
• 21:57
  which was not the people I thought would
• 21:59
  do it, right?
• 22:00
  Like,
• 22:00
  I hope for Haley to smash that workout
• 22:02
  just to see the progression of her.
• 22:05
  But, like,
• 22:05
  we're not surprised when that happens to
• 22:07
  her.
• 22:07
  But people,
• 22:09
  like some of the guys that did it,
• 22:10
  man,
• 22:10
  where it's just popping out of their
• 22:11
  hands, that's beautiful.
• 22:13
  And, like,
• 22:14
  when I joked with you the other day,
• 22:15
  the only time I've ever seen Rich go
• 22:17
  touch and go when he knew what he
• 22:18
  was doing is when he was, like,
• 22:19
  punishing Matt Hewitt on a snatch ladder
• 22:21
  in twenty seventeen.
• 22:22
  like Rich is a singles guy till he
• 22:25
  dies and he can but like that that
• 22:27
  was beautifully written last weekend some
• 22:29
  of these I think had the same kind
• 22:32
  of concept I think everybody wants that
• 22:33
  for the show right and they talked about
• 22:35
  like having a good test and a good
• 22:36
  show is very often a hard Venn diagram
• 22:39
  to merge together that's absolutely right
• 22:41
  I think uh you got the benefit of
• 22:42
  where you are Delmar stirs up a lot
• 22:44
  of good fields for West Coast people and
• 22:46
  CrossFit people in general because like I
• 22:47
  mean
• 22:48
  all the things that have happened there.
• 22:49
  So you come in with good juju.
• 22:51
  And these guys get hammered for the
• 22:52
  program in every year.
• 22:54
  You know, whoever these two guys are,
• 22:55
  I can't remember their names, but boy,
• 22:57
  do they get lit into every year.
• 23:00
  Bob and Joe.
• 23:01
  Yeah, Bob and Joe.
• 23:02
  Bless your hearts.
• 23:03
  Let me throw the southern thing in there.
• 23:04
  Bless your hearts, Bob and Joe.
• 23:06
  But I don't hate any of these.
• 23:08
  I'm also a large CrossFit athlete.
• 23:11
  I'm biased, too.
• 23:11
  Real heavy, real short.
• 23:12
  I'll call this the Clydesdale-Delmar
• 23:15
  invitation.
• 23:15
  All right.
• 23:18
  Last weekend was heavy and well spread
• 23:21
  out.
• 23:21
  And, I mean,
• 23:23
  nobody's going to argue you need any more
• 23:24
  length after the run.
• 23:26
  And when I tell you the videos did
• 23:27
  not do that first hill justice –
• 23:30
  I felt bad driving the rental car up
• 23:32
  that hill.
• 23:33
  Transmission shot.
• 23:33
  But...
• 23:35
  There's no more.
• 23:36
  We don't need more distance after that.
• 23:38
  They didn't go machine heavy.
• 23:39
  I thought it was really well thought out.
• 23:41
  This had wrinkles like a new machine
• 23:42
  nobody likes.
• 23:43
  That is nod to unknown and unknowable
• 23:45
  things.
• 23:46
  I don't hate that.
• 23:47
  It is a little sprinty and a little
• 23:49
  a little heavy,
• 23:49
  but like I always joke about like twenty
• 23:52
  thirteen regionals being like the CNS
• 23:54
  destruction here.
• 23:54
  But I missed that because everything was
• 23:56
  heavy.
• 23:57
  The only gaps were pistols and like skill
• 24:00
  based things.
• 24:01
  And that was before we had sexy stuff
• 24:03
  like handstand walk.
• 24:03
  So.
• 24:06
  right let's get into the individuals um so
• 24:10
  on the women's side what a freaking race
• 24:13
  oh brother this this being so not like
• 24:18
  yeah she got olivia smashed but like the
• 24:21
  highlight to me and i'm gonna i'm gonna
• 24:23
  give some flowers here emily rothwell dog
• 24:25
  we talked about her um sydney smith dude
• 24:29
  who has you know lived in birmingham so
• 24:31
  she moved san diego one insanely happy she
• 24:34
  moved she's in a room full of women
• 24:36
  that will get her where she needs to
• 24:38
  go because there is no physical capability
• 24:39
  she does not have this showing is going
• 24:42
  to be gas on a bonfire for this
• 24:44
  kid her being fifteen points out of
• 24:47
  qualifying is she's about to have a
• 24:50
  monster year uh i was i was the
• 24:52
  most impressed with that and i just want
• 24:54
  to point out the math of this
• 24:56
  Sidney Smith out-legged Lydia Fish at the
• 25:02
  finish line by a half a step,
• 25:05
  and it changed who got the games ticket.
• 25:07
  Yep.
• 25:09
  And it does be like that.
• 25:11
  Surprised everybody.
• 25:13
  Abigail Domet and Lydia Fish ended up
• 25:15
  tying.
• 25:16
  It went down to a tiebreaker,
• 25:18
  and Daniel Brandon was only one point
• 25:21
  behind the two of them.
• 25:22
  Yeah.
• 25:23
  Who, I mean, for a heavy weekend,
• 25:26
  you know, she may have overachieved,
• 25:27
  but it's the story for a lot of
• 25:30
  this stuff too, man,
• 25:31
  is after last weekend being so rough for
• 25:33
  Olivia, Abby, Kyra, Emily Ross,
• 25:37
  like I can't imagine turning around and
• 25:39
  doing a whole nother semi the next
• 25:41
  weekend.
• 25:42
  Cause that was not one to shake a
• 25:43
  stick at last weekend from like just a
• 25:45
  physiological taking on that whole
• 25:47
  weekend.
• 25:48
  And I mean,
• 25:49
  what did you do Monday through Wednesday?
• 25:51
  Like,
• 25:52
  Yet there was no downtime.
• 25:54
  We packed our stuff and got right on
• 25:56
  the plane, went early to this.
• 25:58
  So shout out to those coaches for managing
• 26:00
  that and these guys for holding up.
• 26:01
  That's a testament to their body of work.
• 26:03
  But yeah,
• 26:04
  I would love to see Emily get in.
• 26:08
  But Sid, man,
• 26:08
  I couldn't believe Kyra didn't smash
• 26:10
  these.
• 26:11
  And I didn't get to watch that whole
• 26:13
  heat for a lot of them.
• 26:14
  But I thought it was teed up for
• 26:16
  a lot of the power kind of output
• 26:18
  people.
• 26:19
  And there was no, like you said,
• 26:20
  even the long one was machine,
• 26:23
  which is great.
• 26:24
  I think good contrast from last weekend.
• 26:27
  But yeah, dude, Abby Doman's a monster.
• 26:29
  Her last weekend on Gwen was one of
• 26:31
  the more impressive things I've seen
• 26:32
  because like, and Olivia,
• 26:34
  we expect that from her.
• 26:35
  I think that's the first time I've seen
• 26:36
  Abby Doman do it up close.
• 26:38
  And Lydia Fish being that close,
• 26:39
  not being just a monster with a barbell
• 26:41
  is impressive.
• 26:43
  The fact that these two went back-to-back
• 26:44
  weekends and got their games qualified in
• 26:48
  the second of those weekends was just
• 26:52
  crazy.
• 26:53
  Yeah,
• 26:53
  that would not have had that in my
• 26:56
  deck of cards for that, for sure.
• 26:58
  And on the men's side,
• 26:59
  pretty much a runaway.
• 27:01
  Come on, baby.
• 27:02
  Pretty much a runaway.
• 27:03
  Come on.
• 27:04
  Two new kids.
• 27:06
  Dallin Pepper, James Sprague.
• 27:09
  ran away with this.
• 27:09
  .
• 27:09
  .
• 27:09
  .
• 27:10
  .
• 27:10
  .
• 27:10
  . .
• 27:23
  Like, very strong.
• 27:24
  But his complete game, I mean,
• 27:27
  I hope he's – I think my brain's
• 27:29
  so messed up for the format this year
• 27:31
  because, like,
• 27:31
  you don't know if it's their last shot.
• 27:34
  Are they going to do whatever?
• 27:36
  And so, yeah,
• 27:37
  he – I also thought Tudor would have
• 27:40
  mashed the weekend,
• 27:41
  just set up for success with the program.
• 27:44
  But super impressed with Dylan Hammond
• 27:45
  coming off the teams and having a good
• 27:46
  individual showing.
• 27:47
  That's near and dear to my heart.
• 27:50
  But, yeah, dude, the boys –
• 27:52
  I think they pick ones they want to
• 27:54
  go to now where they have the best
• 27:55
  races because that's essentially what it's
• 27:57
  going to be.
• 27:58
  Dallin getting on top.
• 27:58
  I think this is the first time he's
• 28:00
  put James down in a while,
• 28:01
  so hats off to my man.
• 28:02
  But James Sprague is no longer fit enough
• 28:05
  to play the game but not strong enough.
• 28:08
  So it's about to be a hell of
• 28:09
  a year for just the men's field and,
• 28:11
  like,
• 28:11
  who's going to be able to go in
• 28:12
  and take haymakers because it's a lot more
• 28:14
  guys.
• 28:16
  And I'm always excited to see that kid
• 28:17
  go.
• 28:18
  Grace says, I wouldn't call it a runaway.
• 28:20
  Dylan was in contention until the last
• 28:22
  event.
• 28:24
  I would only call it a runaway in
• 28:25
  comparison to the women.
• 28:26
  When everybody's fifteen points away.
• 28:29
  One point between second and fourth.
• 28:34
  Like, that's so tight.
• 28:36
  Yeah.
• 28:40
  That's a fumble away.
• 28:41
  Thirty-five point difference on the men's
• 28:43
  side seems huge.
• 28:45
  That is.
• 28:46
  I mean, and math in this thing,
• 28:48
  he would have needed a lot of help
• 28:50
  to, like, be in contention for sure.
• 28:52
  But Dylan's a hell of an athlete, man.
• 28:53
  Like, I mean, one bigger guy,
• 28:56
  moves well with the barbell, but, like,
• 28:57
  that complete game he had this weekend,
• 28:59
  like, I hope he's got another shot.
• 29:02
  And I would say at this point in
• 29:03
  his career, Ilya,
• 29:05
  this was his best chance.
• 29:06
  This programming was his best chance.
• 29:09
  Yeah, for sure.
• 29:12
  And then just a personal shout-out,
• 29:13
  Alexander Majors was my coach at CrossFit
• 29:16
  Polaris.
• 29:17
  The new class every day, coming in eighth.
• 29:21
  Huge shout-out.
• 29:23
  Yeah, and that field, I mean,
• 29:24
  that's a good field, man.
• 29:25
  Like, I – yeah.
• 29:28
  It was – James and Dallin,
• 29:31
  it's going to be a show, baby.
• 29:32
  But, yeah, they were – Tudor,
• 29:34
  I thought – I wish I could have
• 29:35
  seen more of complete heats.
• 29:37
  But, dude,
• 29:38
  Tudor with Jason Lyon has been –
• 29:41
  and incredible to watch.
• 29:43
  Just, like, mentality-wise, like,
• 29:45
  he's a deep thinker,
• 29:45
  and you can tell how he articulates
• 29:46
  himself in interviews and stuff after the
• 29:48
  fact.
• 29:49
  And the kid has always had the tools.
• 29:50
  I think the first Brute event I ever
• 29:51
  went to was West Coast Classic when they
• 29:53
  had it in Vegas.
• 29:56
  But from then to now,
• 29:59
  the kid's a monster.
• 30:00
  And so I don't think there's any weekend
• 30:01
  where he's out of it.
• 30:03
  So I would, you know,
• 30:03
  I wonder how the execution stuff went for
• 30:05
  him to be just, you know,
• 30:07
  in fourth and not sniffing the ass in
• 30:09
  second place.
• 30:11
  And then I just have to point out
• 30:12
  our very own Carolyn Prevost.
• 30:15
  Nobody doubted it.
• 30:17
  Nobody doubted it.
• 30:18
  Three event wins.
• 30:20
  Three out of five event wins.
• 30:23
  And a second.
• 30:25
  And then I think a fifth.
• 30:28
  Yeah.
• 30:30
  She was skating, hockey lady.
• 30:31
  She was skating.
• 30:34
  And there we have Pancheck and Dancer with
• 30:37
  Brendan Willis getting the third spot.
• 30:39
  Love that.
• 30:41
  Love that.
• 30:41
  How did they decide to take two from
• 30:43
  this one, but three in the Masters fields?
• 30:46
  So it's,
• 30:47
  I think it's a percentage of the overall
• 30:48
  field.
• 30:50
  There's only five in-person Masters semis.
• 30:54
  So you can give more out at each
• 30:56
  one than you can because there's, what,
• 31:00
  eleven?
• 31:02
  Yeah.
• 31:02
  Elites.
• 31:03
  So they had to spread it over more
• 31:06
  semifinals.
• 31:08
  That's fair.
• 31:08
  Yeah.
• 31:11
  So there we go.
• 31:13
  Again, great races.
• 31:15
  Congratulations to all the athletes that
• 31:18
  made it to the CrossFit Games.
• 31:20
  If you want to see the full list,
• 31:23
  Just a couple quick shout-outs because
• 31:24
  they're listeners of this show.
• 31:25
  Denise Moore,
• 31:27
  one in the sixty-five to sixty-nine.
• 31:29
  Cindy Hinkle,
• 31:31
  one in the fifty-five to fifty-nine.
• 31:34
  They're both listeners of the show.
• 31:36
  And so, huge shout-out to them.
• 31:39
  They both won their divisions.
• 31:42
  I love that they had them in person,
• 31:43
  dude.
• 31:44
  I do like for the show.
• 31:45
  Yes.
• 31:45
  Cut it off.
• 31:47
  My favorite thing is to see those people
• 31:49
  doing skills,
• 31:50
  doing overhead squats to whatever degree
• 31:53
  they can hammer them for no reps,
• 31:54
  whatever.
• 31:55
  But the being that old and still
• 31:57
  practicing this thing is so like just the
• 31:59
  entire body of work.
• 32:01
  For what we do and love,
• 32:03
  that's the picture of it.
• 32:04
  Like,
• 32:04
  not just being able to wipe your own
• 32:06
  ass your whole life.
• 32:07
  You can still overhead squat at speed,
• 32:09
  you know?
• 32:10
  Like,
• 32:10
  we're not a penguin sliding around
• 32:12
  surviving.
• 32:13
  You're the hawk swooping down to kill.
• 32:14
  So that's – I love – that's my
• 32:16
  favorite age groups to watch.
• 32:19
  Barry McConkner,
• 32:20
  Data Watt is fast with info.
• 32:22
  Holly Dugan, Data Watt on Instagram,
• 32:25
  is our stats and info person.
• 32:27
  She is blazing fast.
• 32:30
  She's so good.
• 32:30
  And this guy has the best profile picture
• 32:32
  of the craziest person to ever do
• 32:34
  CrossFit.
• 32:34
  That may have been why I stayed in.
• 32:36
  It's him doing the clean and jerk ladder
• 32:37
  in twenty thirteen and go in a singlet
• 32:40
  that nobody else was wearing.
• 32:42
  Yeah.
• 32:43
  Lucas Parker, what a guy.
• 32:44
  Lucas Parker was
• 32:46
  He was the show at the game in
• 32:49
  the day.
• 32:50
  Brother, that's what we had.
• 32:51
  That's what it was like wrestling.
• 32:52
  We had characters.
• 32:53
  Rich was like Tim Tebow,
• 32:54
  probably going to beat everybody.
• 32:56
  Lucas, psychopath.
• 32:57
  Aja Bartow was like Andre the Giant
• 32:59
  because he was the only guy over six
• 33:00
  foot at the time besides like Chad McKay.
• 33:02
  But this is where I get to nerd.
• 33:07
  That's where I think finally we're kind of
• 33:10
  dipping our toe back into that.
• 33:12
  Oh yeah.
• 33:13
  Finally.
• 33:14
  Well, people talk shit here now.
• 33:16
  Like it's a real sport.
• 33:17
  Like I said that last weekend,
• 33:19
  like the better that like, um,
• 33:24
  The better the pig farmer's doing,
• 33:25
  the more shit he talks.
• 33:27
  And when he knows he's about to go
• 33:28
  mash, turns it up.
• 33:30
  And like, I love that.
• 33:31
  And everybody interacts with each other.
• 33:33
  They still see each other.
• 33:34
  They'll talk the same hot shit in person.
• 33:36
  Like I've wished people would play this
• 33:38
  like real sports all the time.
• 33:40
  Like we weren't friends on the floor,
• 33:41
  on the field.
• 33:43
  Like, we'll be friends in the back, but,
• 33:44
  like, if you've played ball ever,
• 33:46
  you weren't cool with anybody while you
• 33:47
  were on the field.
• 33:48
  And they, like,
• 33:49
  them engaging in it and it still being,
• 33:50
  like, good-spirited.
• 33:51
  They're not, you know,
• 33:52
  hurting each other's feelings too bad,
• 33:54
  but it's all good-spirited stuff.
• 33:55
  Like, yeah, it's getting back to where,
• 33:57
  like,
• 33:58
  when it was fun and we had personalities
• 34:00
  and things like that and they're not
• 34:01
  scared to – once Mike crams a mic
• 34:02
  in their face,
• 34:02
  they're not trying to give the –
• 34:04
  the soft answer, so I love that.
• 34:06
  That's why I like Colton, man.
• 34:07
  I shook his hand and told him,
• 34:08
  I said, dude, I've never met you,
• 34:10
  been around,
• 34:10
  your coach has been one of my best
• 34:12
  friends in space forever,
• 34:13
  but you're hilarious.
• 34:16
  And he means it.
• 34:17
  Joey T is just one of the best.
• 34:20
  I met him when he owned CrossFit
• 34:22
  Grandview.
• 34:25
  Yeah, that's my dog.
• 34:25
  Him and Andy, man.
• 34:27
  Those years doing teams when it was like
• 34:29
  us, Jared at four and seven,
• 34:30
  his whole group of just monsters they'd
• 34:33
  cycle through.
• 34:33
  I don't know where they got an endless
• 34:35
  supply of women who snatched two hundred,
• 34:37
  but they have them at that gym.
• 34:38
  But, like, Joey and Andy,
• 34:39
  and then they cycled through.
• 34:40
  They had a similar situation.
• 34:42
  But, I mean,
• 34:43
  they still have a good team, man.
• 34:44
  And Joey's, like,
• 34:44
  his lady's out of residency,
• 34:47
  married to a doctor,
• 34:47
  wherever they live now.
• 34:48
  I think they're back in Columbus,
• 34:50
  actually.
• 34:51
  But, yeah, they had a bunch of monsters.
• 34:53
  And he's still, like,
• 34:54
  very high-level coach.
• 34:55
  Man knows what he's doing.
• 34:56
  Like, Joey's great.
• 34:59
  Lucas had an amazing balance.
• 35:01
  Guy could work a tightrope.
• 35:03
  Dude,
• 35:03
  the games behind the scenes things where
• 35:05
  they went to his house and he was
• 35:06
  carrying a log around his beachfront
• 35:08
  property.
• 35:09
  I was like, okay,
• 35:12
  all of this makes so much sense.
• 35:13
  But he was also a very smart and
• 35:15
  articulate dude.
• 35:16
  I was like,
• 35:16
  you sit at home and smoke out of
• 35:18
  a pipe and listen to classical music in
• 35:20
  your spare time.
• 35:21
  Certainly.
• 35:23
  That's it.
• 35:24
  That's,
• 35:25
  it was the contradiction in everything he
• 35:27
  did, man.
• 35:28
  It was, he was so, so good.
• 35:31
  And like,
• 35:32
  I'm glad Colton has brought that back.
• 35:34
  Yeah.
• 35:35
  Colton is,
• 35:35
  if Lucas was like the CrossFit version of
• 35:37
  Patrick Bateman,
• 35:38
  when they show him the business card,
• 35:39
  he's like, is that eggshell white?
• 35:41
  I'll kill you.
• 35:42
  That, that was Lucas.
• 35:43
  And that is Colton now.
• 35:46
  Yeah.
• 35:47
  Yeah.
• 35:47
  That's good.
• 35:48
  Yeah.
• 35:50
  As for,
• 35:51
  we already talked about Flow Elite.
• 35:54
  I want to talk about the announcers,
• 35:55
  Pool Boy and Bill Grundler.
• 35:58
  Yeoman's work, man.
• 35:59
  Day one,
• 36:01
  they called every heat for the entire day.
• 36:05
  Yeah.
• 36:06
  And like seeing pool boy do it is
• 36:08
  very cool because I think hopping on a
• 36:09
  show and doing a good thirty forty five
• 36:12
  is cool.
• 36:12
  But like, you know,
• 36:13
  I've emceed events and been horse in an
• 36:15
  hour and a half and I've told Bell
• 36:16
  and I was like,
• 36:16
  I don't know how you do this all
• 36:17
  day.
• 36:17
  And they have all kind of like cheat
• 36:18
  code sprays and golf cough drops and this,
• 36:22
  that and other.
• 36:22
  But it's a different ballgame having to do
• 36:24
  everything,
• 36:25
  even if you're in the booth and Bill's
• 36:26
  a pro for years and years.
• 36:28
  Right.
• 36:28
  But it was cool to see him step
• 36:30
  in and do well with it, man.
• 36:31
  Like he knows and loves the game,
• 36:33
  you know,
• 36:33
  despite like
• 36:34
  the shit talk crazy stuff which i don't
• 36:36
  mind but yeah he has a great voice
• 36:40
  yeah pool boy has a great voice and
• 36:43
  i was texting with friends and the
• 36:44
  comments were he hasn't repeated himself
• 36:46
  at all
• 36:47
  Yeah.
• 36:48
  And he's been on the air for like
• 36:49
  ten hours.
• 36:51
  Yeah, but I mean,
• 36:52
  I think he owns an affiliate.
• 36:53
  I think, well,
• 36:54
  if you can get up in front of
• 36:55
  people and talk them into hurting
• 36:57
  themselves with fitness and you do that
• 36:58
  for years,
• 36:59
  you get all right at spending some stuff
• 37:01
  off top of your head.
• 37:02
  And also it's cool to see him and
• 37:04
  as much as I love Chase and everybody
• 37:06
  that's ever been in the booth,
• 37:08
  CrossFit has a voice to me and it's
• 37:09
  Sean for sure.
• 37:11
  But it's like Chase and Roe and those
• 37:12
  people, them cycling new people in.
• 37:14
  Even when they brought Adrian into the
• 37:15
  booth, man,
• 37:16
  it's cool to have fresh takes on things
• 37:19
  and all that good stuff.
• 37:20
  So I thought it was great.
• 37:22
  Well,
• 37:22
  what I love about this is it's developing
• 37:24
  new talent for the booth.
• 37:25
  Exactly.
• 37:26
  Two, the other thing I learned is...
• 37:29
  Not only did Pool Boy know every
• 37:31
  Californian CrossFitter,
• 37:33
  but he had worked out with them at
• 37:34
  one point in time during their career.
• 37:38
  Love it.
• 37:38
  Love that.
• 37:40
  Look, I'm a home team guy.
• 37:42
  If he had it like that,
• 37:43
  I'm with it even more.
• 37:46
  And I think that's the piece that I
• 37:48
  love about this sport is there are people
• 37:50
  so passionate about it that they'll just
• 37:52
  go do a drop in here and there
• 37:55
  and work out with whoever.
• 37:55
  Yeah.
• 37:56
  Yeah.
• 37:57
  And they're always cool about it.
• 37:58
  Like,
• 37:58
  I've never went and dropped into a gym
• 38:01
  and, like,
• 38:01
  the good person at gym be a dick.
• 38:03
  They're like, no, yeah,
• 38:04
  please come work out.
• 38:04
  Like,
• 38:05
  especially if it's an open gym thing.
• 38:07
  But, no, dude, dropping into gyms,
• 38:10
  lost art,
• 38:10
  and I think we're getting – everybody
• 38:12
  loves that.
• 38:14
  Jeremy says, hats off to Paul, Boy,
• 38:15
  and Bill.
• 38:15
  Amazing broadcast.
• 38:17
  Yeah, they did great.
• 38:19
  i wonder if bill had to like write
• 38:21
  the ship also because like bill bill's a
• 38:23
  guy right like he's a headset guy and
• 38:25
  so one i wonder if that's like a
• 38:27
  picture of like pool boys either just
• 38:29
  natural talent or two like bill being able
• 38:30
  to put him on game really fast and
• 38:32
  him just be a fast learner but yeah
• 38:35
  they did great well what i would say
• 38:38
  is it's smart because you have the you
• 38:40
  have the savvy veteran with the rookie to
• 38:44
  make sure that they the game is elevated
• 38:46
  to a point where it makes sense absolutely
• 38:50
  Um, so it was just,
• 38:51
  it was a smart pairing, uh, Jason Bourne,
• 38:54
  who it just scares me.
• 38:55
  He's in the chat.
• 38:56
  Cause you just,
• 38:57
  know uh dylan militsky is the voice of
• 39:00
  the games on the mic dylan has a
• 39:03
  is great on the floor oh yeah dylan's
• 39:05
  dylan's the voice of water palooza in my
• 39:07
  brain for the rest of my life and
• 39:09
  that's his baby now but yeah he uh
• 39:11
  dylan's is also another problem with him
• 39:13
  brent rogo is my guy uh always did
• 39:16
  age groups and like they'd shuffle them
• 39:17
  around but like yeah there's so many
• 39:19
  people that do it like everybody knows
• 39:21
  kiki on the floor and people like that
• 39:23
  but like
• 39:24
  You know, Brenton was always the guy.
• 39:27
  I mean, one, we're good friends, but,
• 39:28
  like, he was one of the voices.
• 39:30
  Dylan's always going to be waterpalooza to
• 39:32
  me.
• 39:32
  Larry and Mike.
• 39:32
  Yeah.
• 39:35
  And they're first responders,
• 39:36
  Larry and Mike.
• 39:38
  Yeah.
• 39:38
  Dude, Larry at Central East Regionals,
• 39:40
  Larry's the voice of my regional forever.
• 39:42
  And then, like,
• 39:42
  I was so glad we were friends because
• 39:44
  it didn't matter if I was dead ass
• 39:45
  last, Larry was going to say my name.
• 39:46
  And it sounds so good when Larry says
• 39:48
  it.
• 39:48
  It doesn't matter what he's saying.
• 39:49
  He could read Dr. Seuss,
• 39:50
  but Larry's voice is just –
• 39:52
  Yeah,
• 39:52
  I think Larry might be getting close to
• 39:54
  getting out.
• 39:54
  It might be fishing time for Larry.
• 39:56
  It might be because he's like SWAT in
• 39:59
  Louisiana.
• 40:01
  He's like a SWAT instructor, I believe.
• 40:04
  All those guys are, man.
• 40:05
  All those guys are.
• 40:06
  I think most of the medical team is
• 40:07
  Mississippi firefighters.
• 40:10
  They all are, dude.
• 40:11
  Slav and all of them,
• 40:13
  they're all Mississippi firefighter guys.
• 40:14
  Some of them are from Texas,
• 40:16
  but the main ones are from Mississippi.
• 40:18
  Yeah.
• 40:20
  Yeah.
• 40:21
  Hicks is my man with the medical team.
• 40:23
  He gets me in with them.
• 40:25
  You always want to be tight with the
• 40:26
  medical team at the end.
• 40:27
  Do you know Slav, Jeremy?
• 40:30
  Ball-headed guy?
• 40:31
  He's always with Hicks.
• 40:32
  I know him.
• 40:33
  I don't know him.
• 40:35
  So we drank a beer at the hotel
• 40:37
  at Mayhem,
• 40:38
  and I don't forget these stories because
• 40:39
  they're just the first year I did
• 40:42
  CrossFit.
• 40:42
  I moved to North Mississippi,
• 40:43
  and Slav was in that gym.
• 40:45
  And he was like, oh, man,
• 40:46
  you were so good.
• 40:47
  I was like, brother,
• 40:48
  I was absolute garbage.
• 40:49
  You were forty already and you tried to
• 40:51
  kill me.
• 40:52
  And I was just holding on for dear
• 40:53
  life so I could go home and take
• 40:54
  a nap.
• 40:55
  And but he yeah,
• 40:56
  that's I've known him that long.
• 40:58
  I think it's been twenty thirteen and
• 41:00
  seeing him in advance, man.
• 41:01
  It's always good.
• 41:02
  Hicks and Slav.
• 41:04
  Slav's got the shiniest head out there.
• 41:06
  Smooth as eggs.
• 41:10
  And.
• 41:11
  Dada Wad, Holly,
• 41:12
  is taking a break just to come in
• 41:13
  and listen to the show for a minute.
• 41:15
  I'm judging it.
• 41:16
  She put in as much work this weekend
• 41:18
  as anybody else,
• 41:20
  except for maybe Pool Boy and Bill.
• 41:22
  Oh, then they weren't lying.
• 41:22
  She quick with it.
• 41:23
  She must be like,
• 41:24
  no sleep on these weekends.
• 41:27
  And the presentation, just.
• 41:30
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  She has a family and everything and does
• 41:32
  it all around that.
• 41:33
  How dare she?
• 41:34
  I know.
• 41:34
  How dare she do both?
• 41:38
  Patrick Clark,
• 41:39
  me and Slab were crushing old fashions at
• 41:40
  Mayhem.
• 41:41
  If you didn't make him take a Polaroid
• 41:43
  picture, Patrick, it doesn't count.
• 41:47
  A couple quick questions for you.
• 41:50
  After watching the weekend and seeing the
• 41:51
  programming,
• 41:52
  should CrossFit HQ have more oversight
• 41:54
  with the programming?
• 41:56
  So I talked to this about some people
• 41:58
  from Magic City because they both picked
• 42:00
  Gwen, which love it.
• 42:02
  I love when they mandate one.
• 42:04
  Everybody has to do.
• 42:06
  I think it's a sweet mix of,
• 42:07
  you know,
• 42:09
  you used to want the luck of the
• 42:10
  draw of going first or last,
• 42:12
  never in the middle, right?
• 42:14
  So you had the most information or you
• 42:15
  had none, and that was it.
• 42:17
  We showed up.
• 42:17
  Maybe you get a few workouts early.
• 42:19
  I do like,
• 42:20
  especially like during sanctionals and
• 42:21
  stuff like that,
• 42:21
  when they had one workout,
• 42:22
  everybody was going to do.
• 42:24
  I don't hate that.
• 42:25
  Then you can build your weekend around it.
• 42:27
  You could do whatever you wanted anyway
• 42:29
  based on what they gave you.
• 42:30
  but there was some little hand they had
• 42:32
  in it.
• 42:32
  And I think what I'm learning is they
• 42:34
  don't have the hand in it that you
• 42:36
  would think they do as a support system
• 42:38
  when you sign up to be a semi.
• 42:41
  And so,
• 42:41
  and you see that with like the equipment's
• 42:43
  not being standard, you know,
• 42:44
  across the board.
• 42:45
  Like I get it, it is a ski,
• 42:46
  it is a bike, that's fine.
• 42:48
  But I like when they have...
• 42:50
  One that everybody has to do,
• 42:52
  then do your own thing with it within,
• 42:54
  you know, reason.
• 42:55
  I don't know if they have to run
• 42:56
  that by everybody,
• 42:56
  but I think one that everybody has to
• 42:58
  do is very cool.
• 42:59
  One for like fans,
• 43:01
  especially like if you're new or you're
• 43:03
  old,
• 43:03
  you love to see that data across weekends
• 43:05
  and then like the environment or whatever
• 43:07
  it was.
• 43:09
  And then it's just cool to have metrics
• 43:10
  that everybody did.
• 43:13
  I see comments in here asking if we're
• 43:15
  going to do Copa Sur breakdown or Far
• 43:17
  East breakdown.
• 43:19
  We're going to do it in Mandarin.
• 43:24
  Dense, dense sports weekend.
• 43:26
  And I'm not talking about Jenny.
• 43:28
  I'm talking about my Chicago Bears NFL
• 43:29
  draft.
• 43:30
  I'm talking about Penguins in the
• 43:32
  playoffs.
• 43:33
  And I'm talking about trying to watch all
• 43:35
  of Legends, Masters, and Elite.
• 43:38
  Yeah.
• 43:39
  No sleep weekend.
• 43:40
  Eighth on my list was checking out the
• 43:42
  Copa Sur workouts.
• 43:45
  And we didn't make it there.
• 43:48
  But I will look at them and we
• 43:50
  will talk about them on the lunch show
• 43:52
  this week.
• 43:53
  How about that?
• 43:55
  Yeah.
• 43:56
  We'll get down unless they're covering it
• 43:58
  with an Etch-A-Sketch.
• 43:59
  I don't have to pay thirty dollars to
• 44:00
  watch it.
• 44:01
  So I'll look at Far East and I'll
• 44:04
  look at Copa Sur.
• 44:06
  But, man,
• 44:06
  this weekend I had to see if the
• 44:08
  Bears were going to get a pass rusher,
• 44:10
  which we did not.
• 44:12
  No, rough draft for them, Scotty.
• 44:14
  But I will say, future's bright.
• 44:17
  Your boy quarterback's going to hold them
• 44:18
  down.
• 44:20
  This is what I'm telling myself is,
• 44:23
  when you get good,
• 44:26
  you take best available so you have
• 44:28
  assets.
• 44:30
  It's not about filling your need at this
• 44:32
  point.
• 44:33
  It's about having assets to move the chess
• 44:36
  pieces later.
• 44:40
  That's what I'm telling myself.
• 44:44
  And either Dex is frozen or he doesn't
• 44:45
  believe me at all.
• 44:48
  I'm going to go with frozen.
• 44:51
  But you know what's not frozen is third
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  Z.
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  strawberry lemonade which I love both of
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  them.
• 45:20
  So anyway, with that, go check that out.
• 45:23
  Hopefully,
• 45:24
  We get Dex back here in a minute
• 45:26
  or two, and now he's just gone.
• 45:30
  He gone.
• 45:33
  My girl, Jody, give me the props.
• 45:37
  King of segues.
• 45:39
  I work hard at segues.
• 45:40
  Work hard at them.
• 45:45
  With that,
• 45:46
  I was going to move into the Magic
• 45:49
  City games.
• 45:53
  so uh vicky thanking data wad for all
• 45:56
  of her work yes everybody should thank her
• 46:01
  i i just got a text from dex
• 46:04
  he has lost his power lost power jeremy's
• 46:14
  asking me to send him a link but
• 46:15
  i don't i don't socialize with packer fans
• 46:22
  and data what given the hearts back cool
• 46:32
  so while we're waiting for decks what i'm
• 46:33
  going to do is i'm going to show
• 46:39
  real quick we're just going to go down
• 46:40
  the list of people who have qualified for
• 46:46
  the crossfit games holly did this awesome
• 46:49
  graphic
• 46:50
  And basically what you see is blacked out
• 46:53
  are the events that have already happened.
• 46:55
  The white are the events that are about
• 46:58
  to happen.
• 47:00
  And below are all of the people who
• 47:07
  qualified in that event.
• 47:14
  And he's back.
• 47:16
  Power outage victim, Dex Hopkins.
• 47:19
  So at this point in the season,
• 47:20
  we have Victor Hoffer, Roman Krennikoff,
• 47:22
  Jeffrey Adler, Talon Pepper,
• 47:23
  and James Sprague on the men's side.
• 47:26
  You have Paige Rogers, Emma Lawson,
• 47:28
  Lucy Campbell, Olivia Kerstetter,
• 47:30
  and Abigail Doman on the women's side.
• 47:34
  And she even has every division of Masters
• 47:38
  and who has qualified for the games.
• 47:41
  Becca Voigt-Miller.
• 47:43
  Love to see it.
• 47:45
  Kyle Ruth.
• 47:45
  Saw him last weekend.
• 47:47
  Incredibly jacked and going to break a
• 47:48
  swimming record this year in his age
• 47:50
  group.
• 47:50
  Apparently he is a motorboat.
• 47:55
  Oh, dude.
• 47:56
  I forgot Grubbs aged up this year.
• 47:58
  He's a young man.
• 47:59
  Him and Jeremiah Head.
• 48:00
  Romwad OG.
• 48:01
  Rest in peace.
• 48:05
  Real quick,
• 48:05
  we have Terry Carey and David Hipton,
• 48:07
  Steel, Seventy Plus.
• 48:09
  Our very own Denise Moore,
• 48:10
  Arthur Osterino, Sixty-Five, Sixty-Nine.
• 48:14
  Rose Wall, Paul McCary, Sixty, Sixty-Four.
• 48:17
  Cindy Henkel, Eric Smith, and Fifty-Five,
• 48:19
  Fifty-Nine.
• 48:21
  Carol Muzzin, T. Gebby, Jason Grubb,
• 48:23
  Jeremiah Head, Fifty to Fifty-Four.
• 48:26
  Forty-five to forty-nine is Rebecca
• 48:28
  Voigt-Miller, Jen Mickish, Andy Tim,
• 48:31
  Buck Jacobs.
• 48:32
  Buck Jacobs is a name for a Masters
• 48:34
  athlete, right?
• 48:35
  Buck Jacobs is a name for a lot
• 48:37
  of things.
• 48:37
  Linebacker, highway patrolman.
• 48:41
  I don't want to get pulled over by
• 48:42
  a Buck.
• 48:43
  No.
• 48:44
  And then forty to forty-four is Carly
• 48:46
  Newlands, Stivalis Mendez, Nikki Berman,
• 48:51
  Bradley Alcock.
• 48:52
  Alcock?
• 48:53
  Alcock?
• 48:55
  Sounds like a good name to me.
• 48:56
  You just want to keep saying it at
• 48:57
  this point.
• 49:00
  Nicholas Altgibbers.
• 49:03
  And then, thirty-five to thirty-nine,
• 49:04
  Carolyn Prevost, Katie Canning,
• 49:06
  Katrina Rasmussen, Scott Pancheck,
• 49:08
  Sam Dancer, Brendan Willis.
• 49:13
  Dogs.
• 49:13
  All dogs.
• 49:15
  And then,
• 49:16
  on both my Instagram and Holly's at
• 49:19
  DataWad, she created that awesome graphic.
• 49:24
  Again, she needs all the flowers,
• 49:27
  and I will continue to give them.
• 49:28
  Hey, come here, lady.
• 49:30
  So next up.
• 49:32
  Oh.
• 49:34
  You've not met her yet, Scott,
• 49:35
  so you need to meet her.
• 49:36
  I met her.
• 49:37
  I talked about it.
• 49:38
  Did you meet her?
• 49:38
  Oh, you met her at the games.
• 49:39
  I met her at the games.
• 49:40
  That's right.
• 49:41
  All right.
• 49:42
  I did say I was engaged.
• 49:43
  This is her.
• 49:43
  Poke your little head in.
• 49:44
  She does exist.
• 49:45
  Hello.
• 49:45
  All right.
• 49:46
  Hi again.
• 49:47
  Wildly kind-hearted and attractive in all
• 49:50
  the things.
• 49:50
  Puts up with me.
• 49:51
  I'm not dead, so just go ahead.
• 49:54
  Um, no more flow elite, please.
• 49:58
  I agree, dude.
• 49:59
  Look, nobody covers it like their people,
• 50:02
  but when beggars can't be choosers, boy,
• 50:05
  we gotta choose with the guy.
• 50:06
  So we can fuss about no coverage or
• 50:09
  we can have coverage and bitch about that.
• 50:11
  So that's.
• 50:13
  So here's what I would,
• 50:14
  I would just say is if I go
• 50:16
  see a movie with my wife and get
• 50:19
  some popcorn,
• 50:20
  I'm spending twenty five bucks to see that
• 50:23
  movie.
• 50:24
  And on popcorn.
• 50:26
  And it lasts two hours.
• 50:28
  And I'm coming home.
• 50:30
  This was twenty nine ninety five.
• 50:33
  I get to watch Legends this week.
• 50:35
  Magic City next week.
• 50:37
  That's at least.
• 50:39
  Forty hours of coverage.
• 50:42
  Oh, it covers both.
• 50:43
  You want to pay one time?
• 50:44
  It's a month.
• 50:45
  I'll take it back.
• 50:46
  It's a month.
• 50:47
  I'll take it back.
• 50:47
  And then you can watch all the all
• 50:48
  the jujitsu you want to on Flow Elite,
• 50:50
  brother.
• 50:51
  Dudes choking dudes.
• 50:52
  What's better?
• 50:54
  So if you look at it from that
• 50:55
  perspective,
• 50:56
  I'm getting a hell of a lot more
• 50:58
  entertainment out of twenty nine ninety
• 51:01
  five than I would if I was going
• 51:02
  to go see Marty Supreme.
• 51:05
  Well, and at the end of the day,
• 51:07
  the years we've missed where there's only
• 51:09
  iPhones on selfie stick coverage.
• 51:13
  Like, come on, guys, like.
• 51:22
  All it is is a streaming platform.
• 51:23
  Flow Elite has nothing to do with being
• 51:25
  broadcast.
• 51:26
  They just offer up a percentage of their
• 51:28
  sales to the event.
• 51:30
  That tells me Patrick Clark has just tried
• 51:32
  to hustle this whole thing.
• 51:35
  That's why it's bad.
• 51:35
  Actually, who used to work for Flow Elite?
• 51:37
  Armand?
• 51:38
  Armand Hammer used to work for Flow?
• 51:39
  God, I miss him, dude.
• 51:41
  But he did not like the experience.
• 51:43
  He did not.
• 51:44
  He did not.
• 51:46
  God, do I miss Armin.
• 51:48
  He's choking people full-time and coaching
• 51:49
  jiu-jitsu now and running Popeyes in
• 51:52
  California or something, being a dad.
• 51:53
  Yeah.
• 51:56
  I miss Pat, too.
• 51:57
  I saw Pat.
• 51:58
  Pat also is from St.
• 51:59
  Louis, where Lindsey's from,
• 52:00
  and he gives me shit about taking one
• 52:02
  of their best exports outside of Nelly and
• 52:06
  Metro Booman, of course.
• 52:10
  Some guy named Buck and Alcock and Choking
• 52:13
  Dude, Sick Decks.
• 52:15
  Yeah, you're welcome.
• 52:15
  All right.
• 52:16
  We like to bring it all together here.
• 52:17
  That's what we do when we get together
• 52:18
  on Sunday nights.
• 52:19
  That's why we do it after dark.
• 52:24
  I would like to point out that Scott
• 52:26
  said Alcock.
• 52:26
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:27
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:28
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:29
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:30
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:32
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:33
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:34
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:35
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:36
  Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:37
  Alcock, Alcock,
• 52:40
  All right, so coming your way next week.
• 52:45
  Hometown.
• 52:46
  It's Birmingham, Alabama.
• 52:49
  It's Magic City Games.
• 52:51
  Have you looked at their programming yet?
• 52:54
  I looked at the ones he's tossing out,
• 52:55
  and I don't think that he's throwing out
• 52:57
  the whole picture.
• 53:00
  So they posted it.
• 53:02
  Here they are.
• 53:03
  Did he break them all?
• 53:04
  okay so i haven't updated my yeah love
• 53:07
  that again if they did a semi-final that
• 53:10
  was just benchmarks twist them up a little
• 53:12
  bit add some low take some low love
• 53:15
  that uh then we have semi-nate
• 53:19
  Do you remember when they made everybody
• 53:21
  do strict ring muscle-ups?
• 53:23
  This will be much more fun to watch.
• 53:25
  Same, yeah.
• 53:26
  He did JT last year,
• 53:27
  which I did not hate,
• 53:28
  but he did bench press instead of
• 53:29
  push-ups.
• 53:30
  Cool.
• 53:31
  Minimal catastrophe.
• 53:34
  I'll tell you what, with their team, dude,
• 53:37
  Micah and Lewin,
• 53:38
  a guy that just did the weightlifting meet
• 53:40
  at his gym,
• 53:41
  and their whole team do an amazing job
• 53:43
  putting these things together.
• 53:44
  And, like, if you saw the first time,
• 53:46
  it used to be called a two-oh-five
• 53:47
  throwdown,
• 53:48
  and we did it at a field in
• 53:49
  Sanford, the local university here.
• 53:52
  Did it on their track, the whole thing.
• 53:53
  We're outdoors all day.
• 53:54
  It was the summer.
• 53:55
  Everybody's melting.
• 53:56
  We had a great time.
• 53:57
  And it's only gotten better every year.
• 53:59
  And now they're at Bill Harris Arena,
• 54:00
  and they're getting to do a semifinal.
• 54:03
  It's not – he doesn't think about this
• 54:04
  seasonally.
• 54:05
  It's all he thinks about all year.
• 54:07
  And, like,
• 54:07
  so all of these things have been well
• 54:09
  tested by, I think,
• 54:10
  Heath at Lamin and tested all these,
• 54:12
  Sidney Smith's old gym.
• 54:14
  But, yeah, dude, I love this.
• 54:17
  And, like,
• 54:17
  he's not put on a bad program and
• 54:19
  show that I've seen since we did the
• 54:20
  first one.
• 54:22
  CrossFit is the – what was it?
• 54:25
  When it was regional, Nate,
• 54:26
  it was strict-ish ring muscle.
• 54:28
  It was six-sixteen, the no dumbbell year.
• 54:31
  Why do I remember that?
• 54:32
  Me and Joey T,
• 54:33
  about six points from qualifying that
• 54:35
  year.
• 54:35
  A lot of sad drinking in that semi-hearth
• 54:39
  regional.
• 54:41
  Then we have the bike workout.
• 54:43
  He's never going to let the mountain bikes
• 54:44
  go, folks, for any Magic City event.
• 54:46
  Also, don't hate this.
• 54:47
  Good numbers,
• 54:48
  and it's are you a dog is the
• 54:50
  test.
• 54:51
  A little aerobic, but, yeah,
• 54:54
  I don't hate this.
• 54:54
  It's going to be mountain bikes.
• 54:55
  I want to say Cahaba Cycles locally helps
• 54:58
  him out with that.
• 54:58
  That's who we worked with last year.
• 54:59
  Yeah, that's the sponsor for that one.
• 55:01
  So he does a good job of tying
• 55:03
  in community events with that, too.
• 55:04
  So their mountain bike course is in the
• 55:06
  parking lot of Bill Harris,
• 55:07
  if it's the same,
• 55:08
  what it's been in the past.
• 55:09
  But there's a little hop the curb,
• 55:11
  little gamesmanship,
• 55:12
  and then there's a holy shit go fast
• 55:14
  straightaway into a hot turn where you can
• 55:16
  kind of do some raise hell, praise Dale,
• 55:19
  rubbing his racing scenarios.
• 55:21
  So I love this one.
• 55:22
  He's going to stick to it, boy.
• 55:23
  He loves that mountain bike.
• 55:26
  So Larry Young,
• 55:29
  who is a frequent listener,
• 55:31
  his wife qualified for this.
• 55:33
  He had to teach her how to ride
• 55:34
  a bike last week.
• 55:36
  Okay, my best friend,
• 55:37
  one of my best friends, Xander,
• 55:38
  learned how to ride a bike at thirty-two.
• 55:39
  We joke about it all the time.
• 55:40
  So,
• 55:41
  she better get her to practice hopping
• 55:43
  curbs and throwing elbows.
• 55:46
  So,
• 55:46
  might have to get out there and ride
• 55:47
  next to her and scare her a little
• 55:48
  bit.
• 55:51
  Then we have tie-down.
• 55:53
  Man, one hundred and fifty double-unders,
• 55:55
  five rope climbs,
• 55:56
  one hundred and fifty foot sandbag on
• 55:58
  shoulder walking lunge.
• 56:00
  And then we bring down the double-unders
• 56:02
  and the sandbag carry,
• 56:03
  but the rope climbs stay the same.
• 56:08
  I dig that.
• 56:10
  Yeah, I dig that.
• 56:10
  I want a sandbag on shoulder.
• 56:11
  I like how specific that is.
• 56:13
  Love that.
• 56:14
  And the way he set this up is
• 56:17
  you can charge it, right?
• 56:18
  Like it's not a hundred and fifty pound,
• 56:19
  a hundred pound sandbag.
• 56:20
  So people are going to be able to
• 56:21
  handle it and be an on shoulder.
• 56:23
  Like I know we had some like kind
• 56:25
  of ambiguous standards about where you
• 56:27
  could and couldn't and hands on last week
• 56:29
  with the back squats or those back squats.
• 56:32
  But this one is set up for like,
• 56:35
  hey,
• 56:35
  it's out there for you to hold on
• 56:36
  to.
• 56:37
  And the reps get smaller.
• 56:38
  But, yeah, I love that.
• 56:40
  Don't hate it.
• 56:43
  Shelly Young pops in.
• 56:44
  Hop the curve?
• 56:45
  I can't do that.
• 56:47
  They put a little ramp,
• 56:48
  but it's still a little,
• 56:50
  it's a little bump.
• 56:51
  So it's a good curveball, man.
• 56:53
  It's never,
• 56:55
  I think the worst thing that's happened is
• 56:56
  a chain broke.
• 56:58
  But nobody has just eaten absolute shit
• 57:01
  like I thought they would the first year.
• 57:03
  Cuz we went and tested, I was like,
• 57:04
  brother, somebody's about to just whip.
• 57:07
  I mean,
• 57:07
  I remember watching the Crittenden thing
• 57:09
  or the first time they did that and
• 57:11
  seeing, I can't remember who it was.
• 57:13
  It might have been Cat.
• 57:15
  came around the corner and just boom into
• 57:18
  the ground.
• 57:19
  I was like,
• 57:19
  we'll never see bikes at the games again.
• 57:24
  Was it Mundweiler that like flew like he
• 57:28
  had been on a bike his whole life?
• 57:30
  Yeah.
• 57:31
  Well, dude, European guys,
• 57:32
  like I feel like they cycles a thing
• 57:34
  there.
• 57:34
  It's like lacrosse here.
• 57:36
  I didn't know that was a thing below
• 57:37
  like your state.
• 57:39
  Like I didn't know below Ohio we had
• 57:40
  lacrosse, but we do now.
• 57:42
  Like,
• 57:43
  have to learn that i have daughters i
• 57:44
  also learned soccer soccer has offsides
• 57:47
  scott if you didn't know that i didn't
• 57:48
  know soccer rules uh yeah i my daughter's
• 57:51
  twenty five now i've been through the the
• 57:53
  youth soccer dude girl soccer way
• 57:55
  different than guy soccer drama like go
• 57:59
  join the drama club a very much a
• 58:01
  you breathe on me hard ah but girl
• 58:04
  soccer is like ufc fighting so we can
• 58:06
  get down with that i think crossfats to
• 58:09
  um
• 58:11
  disparage your hometown?
• 58:15
  Okay, that's what you need to know.
• 58:16
  Around Bill Harris,
• 58:17
  you don't want to ride through those
• 58:18
  neighborhoods.
• 58:19
  Now,
• 58:19
  if we're in Mountain Brook or Homewood or
• 58:21
  I live out by Oak Mountain, yeah,
• 58:23
  you could be out here.
• 58:24
  But around Bill Harris,
• 58:25
  they're going to stop your bike,
• 58:26
  steal your bike,
• 58:27
  and if you've got money in your pocket,
• 58:28
  just go on with it.
• 58:29
  So, yeah,
• 58:30
  it'll definitely be in the parking lot,
• 58:31
  but it will not be in the neighborhood.
• 58:34
  Bill Harris is that great arena,
• 58:37
  great arena, good pool,
• 58:38
  all that good stuff.
• 58:39
  The surrounding area,
• 58:41
  we're going to say it's developing.
• 58:44
  It's developing.
• 58:48
  Corey Leonard, the cowboy,
• 58:51
  someone is going to eat shit this weekend.
• 58:52
  I just pray it's not me.
• 58:54
  Dude, if you try to ride super careful,
• 58:57
  you will eat shit.
• 58:58
  If you go cold trickle rubbing his race
• 59:01
  in this thing, you're fine.
• 59:03
  it's a super fun like one you could
• 59:06
  just send the burpees and try to get
• 59:07
  on the bike first but i do know
• 59:09
  they'll probably make you park it like
• 59:11
  unrack it from the little thing they built
• 59:13
  i'm sure they've upgraded since last year
• 59:14
  go on your bike ride the hardest thing
• 59:16
  people had trouble with last year was
• 59:18
  re-racking the bike like putting it back
• 59:20
  in the thing and you have to go
• 59:21
  back and they did they stopped people and
• 59:22
  made them go back it was it's cool
• 59:24
  man he does a good job with the
• 59:26
  bike last year it was like everybody's
• 59:27
  doing bar muscle-ups and toes to bar i
• 59:29
  think in a helmet
• 59:30
  which was just awesome and hilarious.
• 59:33
  So, but yeah,
• 59:35
  this one dubs the sandbag launch to be
• 59:37
  sexy.
• 59:37
  What else we got?
• 59:40
  Semi Gwen, which we've already seen.
• 59:42
  God love it.
• 59:43
  We know what that does to people.
• 59:46
  Love it.
• 59:47
  Keeping it one eighty five for thirty five
• 59:49
  thirty nine.
• 59:49
  Also love that this one.
• 59:51
  First year I went to regionals near and
• 59:52
  dear to my heart.
• 59:53
  Love this workout.
• 59:56
  Love this workout.
• 59:57
  Yeah.
• 59:57
  Not the one from that year I would
• 59:59
  have picked to repeat.
• 1:00:01
  If I had to pluck one out just
• 1:00:03
  to see the contrast of athletes then
• 1:00:05
  versus athlete now,
• 1:00:06
  because that was the first year you had
• 1:00:07
  to send a video in to go.
• 1:00:10
  And then the chipper that year.
• 1:00:13
  was the fifties chipper, right?
• 1:00:15
  Like it was box jump over row,
• 1:00:17
  box jump over the turnaround was fifty
• 1:00:19
  ring dips and had the strap over your
• 1:00:21
  shoulder.
• 1:00:21
  But it was like fifty wall balls,
• 1:00:22
  fifty ring dips,
• 1:00:23
  fifty wall balls work back.
• 1:00:24
  I think there's only a handful of people
• 1:00:26
  that finished it.
• 1:00:26
  And it was one of those days where
• 1:00:27
  Fikowski put on just a pacing clinic and
• 1:00:30
  what it ran away with one.
• 1:00:31
  This was the last one.
• 1:00:33
  And me and all my buddies had settled
• 1:00:35
  into like fifteen to twentieth.
• 1:00:36
  It was like me, Travis Williams,
• 1:00:38
  Jordan Cook won that year.
• 1:00:40
  Cam Wilson, rest his soul.
• 1:00:41
  He's not dead,
• 1:00:42
  but he doesn't do CrossFit anymore.
• 1:00:44
  But this one was like an ascendant.
• 1:00:46
  I say that about Tim Tebow, too.
• 1:00:49
  He's not dead.
• 1:00:49
  He's just dead to you because he quit
• 1:00:51
  CrossFit.
• 1:00:52
  No, it's CrossFit careers did.
• 1:00:53
  Like Tim Tebow,
• 1:00:54
  I say rest in peace all the time.
• 1:00:55
  Football career did.
• 1:00:56
  But this one now,
• 1:00:58
  where like most people are going to –
• 1:01:00
  like our deal was like you have to
• 1:01:01
  snatch the first one because a lot of
• 1:01:03
  people that year were like popping it
• 1:01:04
  over,
• 1:01:05
  doing the old off-the-back shoulder thing.
• 1:01:07
  This will be a much more fun race
• 1:01:09
  to watch.
• 1:01:10
  Isn't this the infamous froning,
• 1:01:12
  throwing it back to beat Pancheck at the
• 1:01:14
  line?
• 1:01:14
  A hundred percent.
• 1:01:15
  A hundred percent.
• 1:01:17
  This is that workout.
• 1:01:18
  This is why that's a rule.
• 1:01:20
  Yes, you're right.
• 1:01:22
  Yeah, I was there.
• 1:01:25
  Did he whoop Scott every year at that
• 1:01:26
  regional?
• 1:01:27
  Just the hope everybody would come into
• 1:01:28
  that one that this was the year for
• 1:01:30
  Scott.
• 1:01:31
  And every – back in the warm-up area,
• 1:01:34
  he was hacking up a lung.
• 1:01:35
  Froehling was so sick that weekend.
• 1:01:38
  It's underrated the psycho he is.
• 1:01:41
  And the nicest guy.
• 1:01:42
  Like, I love how – dude,
• 1:01:44
  we were in the athlete brief before the
• 1:01:45
  run, and, like,
• 1:01:46
  one of the – and I remember when
• 1:01:47
  everybody thought Rich was like Tim Tebow,
• 1:01:49
  like –
• 1:01:50
  you know, whatever.
• 1:01:51
  And he's just a regular bro.
• 1:01:52
  And like literally one of the,
• 1:01:54
  the things for the running event was like,
• 1:01:55
  Hey, when you do the burpees, yada, yada,
• 1:01:57
  yada, don't be an asshole.
• 1:01:58
  I was like, what a full circle time.
• 1:02:01
  Rich is telling everybody don't be an
• 1:02:02
  asshole.
• 1:02:03
  I was like, that's great.
• 1:02:05
  Yeah.
• 1:02:05
  I love,
• 1:02:05
  I love to see a repeat though,
• 1:02:06
  especially like from way back and when it
• 1:02:09
  makes sense, but this is,
• 1:02:11
  it was snatched that year.
• 1:02:12
  So reloaded his thrusters.
• 1:02:14
  I liked it.
• 1:02:14
  It's heavy thrusters.
• 1:02:15
  I think that's still going to be something
• 1:02:16
  that's rough to hold on to after a
• 1:02:17
  weekend of what they're going to have to
• 1:02:19
  do.
• 1:02:20
  But, sixty-four, sweet number.
• 1:02:23
  Regular pull-ups.
• 1:02:24
  We're going to see people getting
• 1:02:25
  no-repped.
• 1:02:26
  See who's trying to get judge of the
• 1:02:28
  year, as you do.
• 1:02:31
  Hey,
• 1:02:31
  everybody was trying to get judge of the
• 1:02:32
  year on sandbag squats at Mayhem.
• 1:02:36
  And I thought on Gwen, dude,
• 1:02:38
  the discrepancy on what was lapping the
• 1:02:41
  bar versus resting in the hang.
• 1:02:43
  Because from how I understood it,
• 1:02:44
  you could not rest anywhere but overhead
• 1:02:46
  of the front mat.
• 1:02:47
  So it depended on who you got that
• 1:02:50
  was trying to get, like,
• 1:02:51
  the judge of the weekend award because
• 1:02:53
  they were, you know,
• 1:02:55
  it was a real discrepancy.
• 1:02:57
  But I'll be interested to see how Micah
• 1:03:00
  kind of nails that down if he doesn't
• 1:03:01
  let him rest in the hang at all.
• 1:03:03
  But this looks like a good body of
• 1:03:04
  work to me.
• 1:03:04
  There's some longish ones,
• 1:03:07
  some time caps outside of eight minutes.
• 1:03:08
  That's cool.
• 1:03:10
  But he does a good job with the
• 1:03:11
  show and the programming, man.
• 1:03:13
  It's very well thought out and tested and
• 1:03:15
  tested and tested and tested.
• 1:03:16
  A few different athletes will test it.
• 1:03:19
  But, yeah,
• 1:03:20
  I think it's going to be great.
• 1:03:23
  Max O'Malley is correcting us.
• 1:03:24
  It was the overhead squat in XIV.
• 1:03:26
  It was.
• 1:03:26
  That's why I said everybody had to snatch
• 1:03:28
  the first one.
• 1:03:28
  Yeah,
• 1:03:28
  this was me not reading the reloaded part.
• 1:03:31
  Thank you, sir.
• 1:03:32
  But, yeah, thrushes will be cool.
• 1:03:35
  Mark Phillips says the thruster weights
• 1:03:38
  are dialed in really nicely for the age
• 1:03:40
  groups.
• 1:03:41
  Well, Mike is of the mindset too,
• 1:03:42
  that he don't want to baby masters people.
• 1:03:45
  And so, and Magic City is his baby.
• 1:03:48
  And I spoke with him about like the
• 1:03:51
  integrity of the show and keeping it,
• 1:03:53
  you know, what he wants it to be.
• 1:03:54
  And like,
• 1:03:55
  I like seeing it grow every year, man.
• 1:03:56
  Like I said, he does a great job,
• 1:03:58
  but him not taking on a lease was
• 1:04:00
  very intentional and,
• 1:04:02
  This growing into what it is and him
• 1:04:06
  kind of keeping the quality of what he
• 1:04:08
  wants to put out show-wise and being able
• 1:04:10
  to showcase it with the programming and
• 1:04:11
  all that stuff and make it a good
• 1:04:12
  experience for everybody was very cool.
• 1:04:15
  So they wanted him to have elites,
• 1:04:17
  chose not to,
• 1:04:18
  which I don't hate now after this weekend,
• 1:04:21
  like you said,
• 1:04:21
  having to have two floors and go crazy.
• 1:04:24
  What I love about this is it is
• 1:04:26
  very well balanced.
• 1:04:27
  Very well balanced.
• 1:04:28
  There's high school gymnastics.
• 1:04:30
  There is barbell work.
• 1:04:32
  There is monostructural.
• 1:04:34
  Hell,
• 1:04:35
  you're getting on a freaking bicycle.
• 1:04:38
  Yep.
• 1:04:38
  And there's not a machine.
• 1:04:41
  Not a machine in sight.
• 1:04:43
  You are the machine.
• 1:04:44
  Old school CrossFit.
• 1:04:46
  Your workouts are warmup.
• 1:04:47
  We are the machines.
• 1:04:48
  Let's go there.
• 1:04:51
  I just, I love the programming.
• 1:04:54
  I thought it was good.
• 1:04:56
  I like this as well.
• 1:04:59
  I got a basement, Scott.
• 1:05:00
  Come sleep in this basement, baby.
• 1:05:01
  I'm shooting that weekend anyway.
• 1:05:05
  Man, I am – gosh,
• 1:05:06
  I want to go so bad.
• 1:05:09
  You let that old ticker get good.
• 1:05:10
  I'm going to see you.
• 1:05:12
  Man, tomorrow I'm cleared.
• 1:05:14
  Tomorrow I'm cleared to work out again.
• 1:05:17
  Hold on.
• 1:05:17
  So before you got cleared,
• 1:05:19
  we were trying to build a deck or
• 1:05:20
  whatever you were doing?
• 1:05:22
  Yeah.
• 1:05:22
  Yeah.
• 1:05:23
  Well, you don't make no sense.
• 1:05:24
  What'd that woman do to you?
• 1:05:26
  She told you to get your ass out
• 1:05:27
  of the house.
• 1:05:27
  I really was just getting supplies to
• 1:05:30
  build the deck.
• 1:05:30
  I wasn't thinking I was going to build
• 1:05:32
  it.
• 1:05:33
  And you felt good getting the supplies.
• 1:05:34
  You're like, daddy still got it.
• 1:05:35
  I'm gonna get out here and do some
• 1:05:36
  stuff.
• 1:05:37
  Well,
• 1:05:37
  it was actually picking up the bags of
• 1:05:39
  quick creep where I felt hernia developing
• 1:05:42
  quickly.
• 1:05:44
  Oh,
• 1:05:45
  so you tricked her into having a check
• 1:05:46
  before.
• 1:05:46
  I see what we're doing.
• 1:05:48
  Where they went up through my groin to
• 1:05:51
  do the inside.
• 1:05:52
  They went the long way.
• 1:05:53
  That's fine.
• 1:05:55
  That's fine.
• 1:05:56
  Yeah, so right in that area,
• 1:05:57
  I felt like this thing,
• 1:06:00
  and I was like, yeah,
• 1:06:01
  time to put the quick creep down.
• 1:06:05
  I felt I'd moved around a bunch of
• 1:06:06
  stuff in the garage gym today.
• 1:06:07
  I might have felt one.
• 1:06:09
  I am unruly sore from doing five lifts
• 1:06:11
  yesterday.
• 1:06:12
  So we are definitely almost forty.
• 1:06:18
  Ortega says the long way.
• 1:06:20
  That's because me and Ortega had talks
• 1:06:22
  about going a long way to different things
• 1:06:24
  this past weekend.
• 1:06:29
  That's what I was about to say.
• 1:06:31
  You faked a hernia so she'd check you
• 1:06:32
  out.
• 1:06:32
  That's all right.
• 1:06:38
  No matter where you go to get the
• 1:06:39
  heart, it's a quick,
• 1:06:40
  quick stop for Ortega for you and me.
• 1:06:43
  Okay.
• 1:06:44
  Jonathan Ortega is a tall,
• 1:06:45
  he's at least six, four.
• 1:06:46
  All right.
• 1:06:48
  On Tinder.
• 1:06:52
  Colton Mertens hangs out with Ortega just
• 1:06:54
  to feel normal.
• 1:06:56
  Oh, okay.
• 1:06:57
  Another fun Colton story.
• 1:06:58
  So he's sponsored by that Lou,
• 1:07:00
  whatever company, right?
• 1:07:01
  For shoes.
• 1:07:02
  Yeah.
• 1:07:03
  You remember in Friday Night Lights when
• 1:07:05
  they're in the locker room and he's
• 1:07:07
  painting his cleats black with a Sharpie?
• 1:07:10
  He had on white Nike runners,
• 1:07:12
  and he took a Sharpie and scribbled it.
• 1:07:14
  I said,
• 1:07:15
  you should have done the whole thing,
• 1:07:16
  Waterbug.
• 1:07:16
  You could have been, this is great.
• 1:07:19
  He said, they don't make runners.
• 1:07:20
  I can't wear them.
• 1:07:21
  I was like, okay, buddy.
• 1:07:23
  He does six-four personalities.
• 1:07:25
  He's got a six-four personality.
• 1:07:27
  My man's shooting this weekend.
• 1:07:28
  He's out there, sniper.
• 1:07:30
  When did this turn into an Ortega roast?
• 1:07:33
  Whenever we have the chance, Jonathan.
• 1:07:38
  Whenever we've got the opportunity.
• 1:07:40
  Whenever.
• 1:07:40
  Just because he didn't snuggle me last
• 1:07:42
  weekend.
• 1:07:42
  I had to snuggle with Jeff.
• 1:07:44
  Damn it.
• 1:07:48
  So I just have a couple,
• 1:07:49
  as we finish up tonight,
• 1:07:51
  just a couple quick questions for you.
• 1:07:55
  What are your thoughts on the way this
• 1:07:58
  season is playing out?
• 1:08:00
  With eleven semifinals,
• 1:08:04
  if you don't make one,
• 1:08:05
  you can go to another.
• 1:08:08
  That's my only issue.
• 1:08:09
  That's my only issue.
• 1:08:10
  I think, again,
• 1:08:12
  you talked about it the other day.
• 1:08:13
  I understand why we can't go back to
• 1:08:15
  regionals, right?
• 1:08:17
  My heart for competing, five-week open,
• 1:08:20
  regional.
• 1:08:20
  The homies come to regionals.
• 1:08:22
  I can go watch the other homies if
• 1:08:23
  they don't go my same weekend.
• 1:08:25
  I understand from a monetary standpoint,
• 1:08:27
  not doable.
• 1:08:28
  But if we're going to do it this
• 1:08:30
  way, it cannot be sanctionals.
• 1:08:33
  You get one shot.
• 1:08:35
  Now you pick,
• 1:08:36
  is it in person or is it at
• 1:08:37
  home?
• 1:08:38
  And that's it.
• 1:08:39
  Now, am I thankful for, like,
• 1:08:41
  in-house people?
• 1:08:42
  Yeah, I think that's great.
• 1:08:44
  But, like,
• 1:08:44
  I don't like when you can go and,
• 1:08:46
  like, oh, this weekend I got screwed.
• 1:08:48
  I used to love, like you said,
• 1:08:49
  Rich hacking up a long,
• 1:08:51
  show up and make shit happen.
• 1:08:52
  Cool.
• 1:08:53
  Because that's your weekend to do it.
• 1:08:55
  And we have other outlets like WFP and
• 1:08:58
  those things to go compete all year and
• 1:09:00
  run yourself into the ground.
• 1:09:01
  But I very vividly remember as a coach
• 1:09:03
  and athlete that sanctional year when
• 1:09:05
  there were no complete training blocks
• 1:09:07
  because every week you were doing a
• 1:09:08
  qualifier.
• 1:09:09
  And, like, this is not that.
• 1:09:10
  I know we have the opening quarterfinals.
• 1:09:12
  But, like, dude,
• 1:09:13
  you can't – if there are X amount
• 1:09:16
  of spots,
• 1:09:18
  let it be what it's going to be.
• 1:09:19
  Even the year they made you pick, right,
• 1:09:20
  like you had to put down, like,
• 1:09:21
  your top two you wanted to go to,
• 1:09:23
  and that's fine.
• 1:09:25
  But that doesn't mean you got to go
• 1:09:27
  to two.
• 1:09:28
  You either qualified or you sat your ass
• 1:09:29
  out that year and your training year
• 1:09:31
  started early.
• 1:09:32
  Or, you know,
• 1:09:32
  whatever they do after the NFL,
• 1:09:33
  you go to Cabo.
• 1:09:34
  But I think, yeah,
• 1:09:37
  I don't hate an LCQ also.
• 1:09:39
  Like if you got your regular season or
• 1:09:42
  the tournament.
• 1:09:45
  Yeah, I mean, I've never hated the LCQ.
• 1:09:47
  I think that's very cool,
• 1:09:48
  especially like when you do it online,
• 1:09:50
  they stream people doing it online.
• 1:09:52
  I know that's probably not doable,
• 1:09:53
  but you can't have people go and like
• 1:09:56
  back to back to back weekends.
• 1:09:58
  You can, I guess.
• 1:09:59
  In my brain of best practices,
• 1:10:01
  you get one semifinal shot LCQ.
• 1:10:04
  That's it.
• 1:10:05
  Simple.
• 1:10:06
  And the other two should be small.
• 1:10:08
  Yeah.
• 1:10:09
  It's like one or two.
• 1:10:10
  That's it.
• 1:10:12
  Yeah.
• 1:10:12
  Well, I mean, shit,
• 1:10:13
  make that whatever you want it to be
• 1:10:14
  and then let them float to the top,
• 1:10:15
  as we like to say,
• 1:10:17
  especially because you're going to do it
• 1:10:18
  at home, which is fine.
• 1:10:20
  But I think like when you – hey,
• 1:10:21
  I'm going to choose to do in-house or
• 1:10:23
  at-home semifinals.
• 1:10:24
  Beautiful.
• 1:10:24
  There's your shot.
• 1:10:25
  I'm going to choose to go to syndicate.
• 1:10:27
  Cool.
• 1:10:27
  That's your shot.
• 1:10:28
  There is no plan B. There's no fallback.
• 1:10:30
  There's no taking spots from other people
• 1:10:32
  because like –
• 1:10:34
  I love when there's a random name
• 1:10:36
  breakthrough.
• 1:10:36
  Like if Dylan would have qualified this
• 1:10:38
  weekend, not a random name necessarily.
• 1:10:39
  He's been in the games on the team
• 1:10:40
  before.
• 1:10:41
  Great athlete,
• 1:10:42
  home run hitter and strength of it's
• 1:10:43
  ungodly strong.
• 1:10:45
  But.
• 1:10:46
  When you can go weekend to weekend,
• 1:10:47
  we weed out the chances of that next
• 1:10:49
  person breaking through,
• 1:10:50
  because we know how powerful that is when
• 1:10:51
  they do finally break through, right?
• 1:10:52
  Like, like Facilier breaking through,
• 1:10:55
  James breaking through finally, you know,
• 1:10:58
  and people like that.
• 1:10:58
  I mean, I think there's levels to it.
• 1:10:59
  When you break through the semifinals,
• 1:11:01
  all right, cool.
• 1:11:01
  I know I can now.
• 1:11:02
  Opens up your kind of realm of possibility
• 1:11:04
  mentally.
• 1:11:05
  Your training year goes different the next
• 1:11:06
  year.
• 1:11:07
  But when we're letting people shuffle
• 1:11:08
  around and go to a bunch of different
• 1:11:09
  semifinals, I feel like we're,
• 1:11:11
  We're cutting that out a little bit.
• 1:11:12
  Now, not all together.
• 1:11:14
  I'm just bitching for the sake of
• 1:11:15
  bitching.
• 1:11:16
  I like to see people put their best
• 1:11:17
  foot forward on the weekend and choose.
• 1:11:20
  But to have multiple shots,
• 1:11:22
  and some of these people are my friends.
• 1:11:23
  I want Kyra to go.
• 1:11:25
  I think she's earned it.
• 1:11:26
  She won quarterfinals regardless of what
• 1:11:27
  she can say about the programming.
• 1:11:29
  Kyra's in the best shape she's ever been
• 1:11:31
  in.
• 1:11:31
  She looks it.
• 1:11:32
  The confidence is there.
• 1:11:33
  And you know her and Kiefer do a
• 1:11:34
  great job.
• 1:11:35
  But I think you've got to have one
• 1:11:36
  shot.
• 1:11:36
  And I think
• 1:11:38
  Regardless of what happens,
• 1:11:39
  they have got to pick a road to
• 1:11:41
  stay on with this.
• 1:11:43
  And so if this is going to be
• 1:11:44
  it,
• 1:11:44
  I guess it's a lesser evil than
• 1:11:45
  sanctionals,
• 1:11:46
  but it feels very sanctionally to me.
• 1:11:51
  I love the old one shot.
• 1:11:52
  You got the flu, cool.
• 1:11:53
  Flu game this shit like Michael Jordan did
• 1:11:55
  and ball.
• 1:11:57
  I want to speak to that in a
• 1:11:58
  second, but Matthew Sprague says,
• 1:12:00
  this year's games feel we'll be the best
• 1:12:01
  top to bottom because of the rules this
• 1:12:03
  year.
• 1:12:04
  Let's talk about that in a few weeks
• 1:12:06
  after we see some more semis.
• 1:12:07
  Because right now you're getting the best
• 1:12:10
  of the best qualifying because everybody's
• 1:12:14
  at these things.
• 1:12:15
  But once people break down,
• 1:12:18
  what are we going to get at the
• 1:12:19
  next set of these?
• 1:12:21
  It's going to be like the invitational
• 1:12:23
  year where they brought all the national
• 1:12:24
  champions who couldn't snatch one eighty
• 1:12:27
  five or do a legless.
• 1:12:29
  Although I do say bring Hunter McIntyre
• 1:12:32
  back.
• 1:12:32
  That was one of my favorite things they've
• 1:12:33
  ever done and actually done the blowhard.
• 1:12:36
  So,
• 1:12:36
  Walter Payton broke the single-game
• 1:12:38
  rushing record with the flu.
• 1:12:42
  Yep.
• 1:12:42
  Right?
• 1:12:42
  This is his finest export.
• 1:12:47
  Michael Jordan famously had the brown flu,
• 1:12:51
  brown water flu,
• 1:12:52
  and had the game of his life in
• 1:12:54
  Utah, right?
• 1:12:54
  I have those shoes, yeah.
• 1:12:59
  it tells us,
• 1:13:00
  it tells a story and a different story
• 1:13:03
  and drama to something that maybe didn't
• 1:13:06
  have it.
• 1:13:07
  Plus one shot and you go home.
• 1:13:12
  You lay it on the line.
• 1:13:13
  Con Porter, event six, Torian Pro.
• 1:13:17
  It's all or nothing or I go home.
• 1:13:20
  Cole Sager, like,
• 1:13:21
  eighteen years in a row had to do
• 1:13:23
  it on the last event at regionals.
• 1:13:26
  The heartbreak kid every year.
• 1:13:28
  Yeah.
• 1:13:28
  I agree.
• 1:13:29
  I agree.
• 1:13:29
  I think the stories and, you know,
• 1:13:32
  we talk about, like,
• 1:13:33
  the media and all that stuff, like,
• 1:13:35
  for twenty eighteen.
• 1:13:36
  you don't get those stories unless they're
• 1:13:39
  very organic in that way anymore because
• 1:13:40
  they're not sending out teams of people to
• 1:13:42
  hunt them down, right?
• 1:13:44
  Like we're not going to have the roads
• 1:13:45
  of the games for everybody.
• 1:13:46
  We're not going to have X, Y,
• 1:13:47
  Z for those things.
• 1:13:48
  But I think when they – if you
• 1:13:50
  facilitate it through the system,
• 1:13:52
  it's easier to find.
• 1:13:54
  Fikowski was basically Gonzaga missing the
• 1:13:56
  final four forever.
• 1:13:58
  Yeah,
• 1:13:58
  and that was used to be – hey,
• 1:14:00
  that Canada regional was one of my
• 1:14:02
  favorite things to watch every year.
• 1:14:04
  I loved it.
• 1:14:06
  David Wells was drunk or hungover and
• 1:14:07
  threw a perfect game.
• 1:14:09
  David Wells was probably drunk every game.
• 1:14:11
  And he had the biggest beer belly ever
• 1:14:13
  in baseball.
• 1:14:14
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:15
  I was a Clemens guy, but that's okay.
• 1:14:17
  David Wells was dumb.
• 1:14:21
  There was something else.
• 1:14:22
  Oh,
• 1:14:22
  I don't even remember what I was going
• 1:14:24
  to say.
• 1:14:24
  Oh,
• 1:14:24
  what was the most popular road to the
• 1:14:26
  games ever?
• 1:14:28
  When Brooks and Josh Bridges missed out on
• 1:14:31
  the games.
• 1:14:32
  And it was all documented, the meltdown.
• 1:14:34
  Yeah.
• 1:14:35
  And what happened the next year?
• 1:14:36
  Josh Bridges snatches two sixty five.
• 1:14:38
  That's one hundred and five percent twice
• 1:14:40
  at Del Mar.
• 1:14:40
  I'll never forget that.
• 1:14:43
  And it it meant something to them and
• 1:14:48
  it was all on the line, man.
• 1:14:51
  Yeah, dude.
• 1:14:53
  Well, hey,
• 1:14:54
  this is part of it being this part
• 1:14:55
  of it being professional, right?
• 1:14:57
  Like everybody wants to be a pro and
• 1:15:00
  do pro things, right?
• 1:15:01
  You only get one playoff in the NFL.
• 1:15:03
  There's one game you're out,
• 1:15:05
  then you're out.
• 1:15:06
  There's no going to the next one.
• 1:15:07
  And, again, like I said,
• 1:15:08
  some of these people are my friends.
• 1:15:10
  I want them to go.
• 1:15:11
  Like,
• 1:15:12
  I think it's criminal if Kyra doesn't go
• 1:15:13
  this year because she looks great.
• 1:15:16
  But, yeah,
• 1:15:18
  you can't be able to pick a lot,
• 1:15:19
  man.
• 1:15:19
  I think it takes away from the possibility
• 1:15:21
  of the stories.
• 1:15:22
  Like you said,
• 1:15:22
  Dex will not make a comeback.
• 1:15:24
  I'm doing weightlifting right now because
• 1:15:26
  breathing heavy hurts my soul.
• 1:15:27
  I did the open workouts.
• 1:15:28
  It's the first conditioning I've done in
• 1:15:30
  like months thinking like I can do wall
• 1:15:31
  balls all day and I can,
• 1:15:33
  but the taxes I pay on that are
• 1:15:35
  insane.
• 1:15:37
  So Dex is done.
• 1:15:39
  I took my, my individual trip.
• 1:15:40
  I don't care if it was masters,
• 1:15:42
  still individual trip.
• 1:15:43
  I'm good.
• 1:15:44
  My kids got to see me,
• 1:15:45
  got to see Scott.
• 1:15:46
  Now I get to carry a camera around
• 1:15:47
  and be around the homies anyway,
• 1:15:48
  and I can wear cooler shoes.
• 1:15:50
  So yeah,
• 1:15:55
  Ronnie Teasdale and his motorcycle denim.
• 1:15:58
  Not the weirdest thing Ronnie Teasdale
• 1:15:59
  ever did.
• 1:16:00
  Sunning his butthole in the middle of the
• 1:16:01
  street outside of his gym was probably
• 1:16:03
  elite Ronnie Teasdale.
• 1:16:07
  When they say pro,
• 1:16:08
  that means they only want the attention
• 1:16:10
  and the money part,
• 1:16:11
  not what comes with it.
• 1:16:13
  I think if you don't have the sauce,
• 1:16:14
  you don't get the money or the attention.
• 1:16:15
  I think when they have spent a lot
• 1:16:18
  of time building their brand in the space
• 1:16:20
  and their body of work, it's like, hey,
• 1:16:21
  I've committed my life to this thing.
• 1:16:22
  I will never fault these people for trying
• 1:16:24
  to make money.
• 1:16:25
  Now, appropriately, cool.
• 1:16:27
  Like,
• 1:16:27
  go get your sponsors and do all that
• 1:16:28
  stuff.
• 1:16:29
  I think the male versus female side of
• 1:16:31
  that money scale is a lot different than,
• 1:16:33
  like, the athletic kind of thing.
• 1:16:35
  But, dude,
• 1:16:36
  I don't – I'll never be mad at
• 1:16:38
  these people for trying to make money,
• 1:16:39
  like, ever.
• 1:16:40
  And the CrossFit game season is not where
• 1:16:43
  they've traditionally done it.
• 1:16:45
  So – You talk about that,
• 1:16:49
  but Dallin said –
• 1:16:52
  Dallin said that it is better for the
• 1:16:54
  fans and for the sport to have that
• 1:16:58
  winner go home.
• 1:17:00
  Oh, I agree.
• 1:17:01
  Most athletes don't like it because they
• 1:17:03
  want another shot, right?
• 1:17:05
  Yeah.
• 1:17:06
  If I'm Patrick Mahomes and I lose to
• 1:17:08
  the Broncos in the playoffs, well,
• 1:17:10
  next week I get to play the Steelers.
• 1:17:13
  He would like that other shot,
• 1:17:15
  but it doesn't make for good television.
• 1:17:17
  It doesn't make for good ratings.
• 1:17:19
  Well,
• 1:17:20
  that's why I don't get why everybody
• 1:17:21
  throws such a fit about WFP stuff, dude.
• 1:17:23
  Like I've said on other things,
• 1:17:24
  I'll never be upset at a branch that
• 1:17:26
  grows off CrossFit's tree.
• 1:17:27
  And call it what it is, high rocks,
• 1:17:29
  all these things, they are.
• 1:17:32
  I don't hate that.
• 1:17:33
  I think there's a sect of people that
• 1:17:34
  love High Rocks, what it is.
• 1:17:35
  Great.
• 1:17:36
  I think the WFP,
• 1:17:38
  if like the CrossFit game season is not
• 1:17:39
  enough for you to fill the cup or
• 1:17:41
  the bank account,
• 1:17:42
  they've done a pretty good job.
• 1:17:43
  Now I'm assuming that bank account doesn't
• 1:17:45
  run dry soon.
• 1:17:46
  They do a great job facilitating that for
• 1:17:48
  people.
• 1:17:48
  And like,
• 1:17:48
  it's going to end up being its own
• 1:17:49
  thing.
• 1:17:50
  I think we'll have a real PGA live
• 1:17:51
  scenario, like I said before, but I don't,
• 1:17:55
  I'll never hate these cats for trying to
• 1:17:56
  make money.
• 1:17:57
  Like,
• 1:17:58
  If you've given your life to it,
• 1:17:59
  and you and I both know there are
• 1:18:00
  far fewer and in between people to make
• 1:18:02
  a full time pay a mortgage living doing
• 1:18:04
  this.
• 1:18:05
  And you and I know most of them
• 1:18:06
  pretty well from just the sport of it
• 1:18:09
  and like sponsorship stuff.
• 1:18:11
  It's just not as common as people think.
• 1:18:12
  But like when they're trying to do it,
• 1:18:13
  actually,
• 1:18:14
  the window to do it is so small
• 1:18:16
  that I'm not going to be upset with
• 1:18:17
  you for doing that because these aren't
• 1:18:18
  what it used to be.
• 1:18:19
  Twenty thirteen through, I'd say,
• 1:18:21
  seventeen ish.
• 1:18:23
  A lot of these people own gyms.
• 1:18:25
  They were gym owners that that's why you
• 1:18:27
  had the time.
• 1:18:28
  And this is not that era.
• 1:18:30
  These people have their personal brand
• 1:18:32
  like that.
• 1:18:33
  James and Dallin do it and the boys
• 1:18:36
  do it probably better than anybody,
• 1:18:37
  but they also have a media guy that
• 1:18:38
  follows them around and people who edit
• 1:18:39
  their stuff and all this.
• 1:18:40
  Like it's a whole, it's a job, dude.
• 1:18:42
  So like if they are making money doing
• 1:18:44
  it, awesome.
• 1:18:44
  They don't want to go be an accountant
• 1:18:45
  or an engineer yet.
• 1:18:47
  Great.
• 1:18:47
  Do it.
• 1:18:48
  The window is small.
• 1:18:48
  Get your money.
• 1:18:50
  So Barry wants to know the big question.
• 1:18:52
  Well, I was,
• 1:18:53
  I'm taller than Jared and ours is about
• 1:18:57
  the same length.
• 1:18:58
  I stand next to him.
• 1:18:58
  So probably mine.
• 1:19:00
  I did see him this past weekend,
• 1:19:01
  and we both have his hair shorter,
• 1:19:03
  and we don't have beards anymore.
• 1:19:04
  Dude,
• 1:19:05
  we used to hate each other because my
• 1:19:06
  friends would give me shit for looking
• 1:19:08
  like him,
• 1:19:09
  and his friends were doing the same thing.
• 1:19:10
  And Jess Griffith told me that years
• 1:19:12
  later.
• 1:19:12
  I was like,
• 1:19:13
  me and this dude have been just growling
• 1:19:14
  at each other for six years.
• 1:19:17
  Like, y'all been doing this to us?
• 1:19:19
  We're actually very cool.
• 1:19:20
  So he's a good dude.
• 1:19:22
  He was there this weekend.
• 1:19:23
  He's still freakishly strong and jacked.
• 1:19:25
  He's a tactical games now, punch out,
• 1:19:27
  go to work.
• 1:19:30
  Yeah.
• 1:19:31
  And you were both in the Central East,
• 1:19:33
  which was wild.
• 1:19:35
  Like two guys with these long hair,
• 1:19:37
  long beards.
• 1:19:39
  You know,
• 1:19:39
  that's when I was working security.
• 1:19:40
  That's when we met.
• 1:19:42
  All that kind of stuff.
• 1:19:43
  It was just wild.
• 1:19:44
  Yeah, we do.
• 1:19:45
  We had a – our region was –
• 1:19:47
  it was us, OC three, Joey's team,
• 1:19:49
  Grandview, four and seven, Rich,
• 1:19:52
  possibly two Rich teams.
• 1:19:55
  And there were four or five other, like,
• 1:19:57
  teams that were right –
• 1:19:59
  I mean, there was no,
• 1:20:01
  I love that time, dude, up until.
• 1:20:03
  I think, I mean, like, as everybody says,
• 1:20:05
  but that was when it was like,
• 1:20:07
  bring your home team to regionals and
• 1:20:09
  rage.
• 1:20:10
  And like,
• 1:20:10
  I still got pictures of my mom and
• 1:20:11
  the crowd, like raging,
• 1:20:13
  like she was at a WWE event,
• 1:20:15
  but it's a, yeah, dude, those were the,
• 1:20:17
  the uncle Rico times.
• 1:20:18
  I still look on Leon.
• 1:20:19
  Well,
• 1:20:19
  you look at legends this weekend and the,
• 1:20:21
  and the crowds from what I could see
• 1:20:24
  on this stream did not look awesome.
• 1:20:28
  Right.
• 1:20:29
  Like you said, it's not.
• 1:20:32
  They were packed for the teams.
• 1:20:35
  Even on Friday, baby.
• 1:20:36
  Well, dude, Maximus where I was.
• 1:20:38
  And I saw some of those people this
• 1:20:39
  weekend, like Carrie Sue and Dave.
• 1:20:41
  God was good to see him, man.
• 1:20:43
  But we had a full bleacher section, dude.
• 1:20:48
  And it was in St.
• 1:20:50
  We did it in Minneapolis one year.
• 1:20:51
  We did Nashville, Columbus,
• 1:20:53
  like did not matter.
• 1:20:56
  this whole gym would travel and like pack
• 1:20:59
  the stands and you'll never have that
• 1:21:02
  again because we'll never go back to that
• 1:21:04
  format.
• 1:21:04
  Now,
• 1:21:05
  will there be spurts of it or whatever?
• 1:21:06
  Yeah, but like
• 1:21:08
  Yeah,
• 1:21:08
  I don't think it'll be that version of
• 1:21:10
  the sport again.
• 1:21:11
  And I hate to say that because it
• 1:21:12
  was near and dear to my heart and
• 1:21:14
  yours.
• 1:21:16
  And I loved on everybody at these things
• 1:21:19
  because you never knew when you were going
• 1:21:20
  to see them again.
• 1:21:21
  And I was so appreciative of what we
• 1:21:23
  had.
• 1:21:23
  And I think I did a really good
• 1:21:24
  job of walking slow through those years
• 1:21:27
  and kind of realizing it was the good
• 1:21:28
  old days while we were in it.
• 1:21:30
  It's still an office quote.
• 1:21:33
  And I still love the game.
• 1:21:34
  Don't get me wrong.
• 1:21:35
  It is a much different game now.
• 1:21:37
  Um, you can't be,
• 1:21:39
  rarely can you be a part-timer and be
• 1:21:41
  a high level athlete anymore.
• 1:21:42
  And that's just what it is now.
• 1:21:44
  Um, but yeah, dude, those,
• 1:21:46
  the rage at regionals days are,
• 1:21:48
  that'll always be peak for me.
• 1:21:52
  Um,
• 1:21:53
  Clooney's made a comment way back and I
• 1:21:55
  won't be able to find it,
• 1:21:55
  but said that semifinals are not playoffs.
• 1:22:01
  The structure that is set up, um,
• 1:22:04
  It should be.
• 1:22:05
  It should be the playoff.
• 1:22:07
  Get from point A to the championship.
• 1:22:10
  And I see Graces say other sports aren't
• 1:22:16
  like that.
• 1:22:17
  Tennis, golf, whatever.
• 1:22:18
  But they have the same bracket format in
• 1:22:20
  every championship that they put on.
• 1:22:24
  If you want to win Wimbledon,
• 1:22:25
  it's win or go home.
• 1:22:27
  If you want to win the U.S.
• 1:22:29
  Open in golf, it's win or go home.
• 1:22:34
  Look, I love the format.
• 1:22:36
  I love quarterfinals.
• 1:22:37
  I think it's great,
• 1:22:37
  especially from an affiliate standpoint.
• 1:22:39
  Cool to the next stage for most people
• 1:22:41
  in the gym, in-house, semifinals.
• 1:22:45
  You get one.
• 1:22:47
  That's all.
• 1:22:48
  I love the format.
• 1:22:48
  And we hope they stick to this because
• 1:22:50
  then we can know what to expect,
• 1:22:52
  especially from a coaching and programming
• 1:22:53
  standpoint.
• 1:22:54
  But, like, I mean, like, dude,
• 1:22:56
  Kiefer having to take Kyra from Mayhem to
• 1:22:58
  Del Mar this weekend.
• 1:23:01
  What did you do?
• 1:23:01
  Rub her back and recover with her?
• 1:23:03
  And then, like,
• 1:23:04
  let's lift one day this week?
• 1:23:06
  Like,
• 1:23:06
  you didn't keep striking it hot all week.
• 1:23:09
  Surely not.
• 1:23:09
  The wheels fall off.
• 1:23:11
  NASCARs don't race every weekend, baby.
• 1:23:12
  You know?
• 1:23:14
  But they...
• 1:23:16
  You should have to pick one.
• 1:23:17
  I'll die on this hill.
• 1:23:20
  And that might be the old Scrooge in
• 1:23:22
  me that misses CrossFit of old.
• 1:23:24
  But like you said,
• 1:23:27
  the itch to have to put it on
• 1:23:28
  the line and go a place you don't
• 1:23:30
  want to go to go somewhere you do
• 1:23:31
  want to go is not there when you
• 1:23:33
  got a plan B.
• 1:23:37
  And it gives a drama that's been missing
• 1:23:39
  from the sport for years.
• 1:23:42
  We love the drama.
• 1:23:44
  Not the drama of weird standards floating
• 1:23:47
  around.
• 1:23:47
  Don't like that.
• 1:23:49
  The drama of this person's dating this
• 1:23:51
  person.
• 1:23:52
  I love that drama too.
• 1:23:54
  There's nothing more crossfit.
• 1:23:56
  Affiliates are the best dating app.
• 1:23:58
  But it doesn't bring people to the stands
• 1:24:00
  to watch it.
• 1:24:01
  I agree.
• 1:24:01
  I agree.
• 1:24:06
  Dude,
• 1:24:06
  I've heard everything on Diana Rossini and
• 1:24:08
  Mike Vrabel in the last two weeks.
• 1:24:10
  Trust me, I like drama.
• 1:24:12
  Dude, I had no idea he was married.
• 1:24:13
  I clapped for him.
• 1:24:14
  I was like, go ahead, old fella.
• 1:24:15
  But yeah, didn't know he was married.
• 1:24:18
  My B. Dex is all over Diana Rossini.
• 1:24:26
  No, my lady's younger.
• 1:24:28
  Diana Rossini is older.
• 1:24:29
  I don't like older women.
• 1:24:34
  That's right.
• 1:24:36
  Younger lady, you.
• 1:24:37
  Okay.
• 1:24:45
  Anyway, so there it is.
• 1:24:53
  One bar is in Birmingham.
• 1:24:55
  No, no, brother.
• 1:24:56
  You've never been here.
• 1:24:57
  Birmingham is a weird bright spot for food
• 1:25:00
  and drink places.
• 1:25:01
  I promise you.
• 1:25:03
  Now, not around Bill Harris.
• 1:25:05
  You got to go downtown.
• 1:25:06
  But it's the bygones right by my lady's
• 1:25:10
  work.
• 1:25:10
  Great little spot.
• 1:25:12
  There's a man.
• 1:25:13
  Birmingham's a good little bright spot on
• 1:25:15
  the butt cheek of the south.
• 1:25:16
  I'll say that.
• 1:25:17
  Is that a good way to put it?
• 1:25:22
  It's not in the cracks.
• 1:25:23
  It's on the good cheek.
• 1:25:27
  Well, dude, it's been fun having you back.
• 1:25:29
  People don't –
• 1:25:31
  One, when we were a tiny little podcast,
• 1:25:33
  Dex used to come on and we used
• 1:25:34
  to do Clydesdale After Dark.
• 1:25:37
  Love it.
• 1:25:39
  And we used to have a blast.
• 1:25:42
  Hell,
• 1:25:42
  some of those shows would go two hours.
• 1:25:44
  We still could, clearly.
• 1:25:45
  I think we're going an hour and a
• 1:25:47
  half now.
• 1:25:48
  But, dude, I never stopped watching.
• 1:25:49
  And, like, you've only gotten better.
• 1:25:51
  And, like, the things you put out,
• 1:25:52
  the speed of which you put it out,
• 1:25:53
  and the team you've built,
• 1:25:55
  and they're all lovely people in person.
• 1:25:57
  And they all give a shit about the
• 1:25:58
  sport the same way you do from a
• 1:26:00
  bunch of different perspectives.
• 1:26:01
  Like,
• 1:26:01
  it's been a beautiful thing to go from
• 1:26:03
  seed to very good fruit bearing tree.
• 1:26:06
  And you've stayed the same person you are,
• 1:26:08
  loving on people.
• 1:26:09
  And then when you don't love stuff, God,
• 1:26:11
  you mean it.
• 1:26:11
  And I love that, too.
• 1:26:12
  So I love watching, brother.
• 1:26:14
  Are you going to syndicate?
• 1:26:15
  That's been asked a lot.
• 1:26:17
  I'm not going to syndicate unless somebody
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  needs a videographer.
• 1:26:20
  But I am going to be at Magic
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  City because it is at my home.
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  But, yeah, I would love to go.
• 1:26:25
  Knoxville is not a crazy drive,
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  and I was in a good show last
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  time I went.
• 1:26:29
  So we'll see.
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  Still out?
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  I think I'm going to syndicate.
• 1:26:34
  I think that's going to be my comeback.
• 1:26:38
  Okay.
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  Stone Cold comeback.
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  I'll bring you a Stone Cold shirt if
• 1:26:41
  I come.
• 1:26:41
  We'll wear Stone Cold Steve Austin shirts.
• 1:26:43
  Yeah.
• 1:26:45
  dude that's that's where you did it man
• 1:26:47
  that's where you you went uh what was
• 1:26:51
  it steve austin austin oh yeah yeah that
• 1:26:56
  this is actually a picture of me doing
• 1:26:58
  c-fours uh before i drop my kids off
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  at school that's how i start my day
• 1:27:02
  now two c-fours instead of two steve
• 1:27:04
  weisers jump start the heart a little bit
• 1:27:06
  so but like steve do you only get
• 1:27:11
  about fifty percent of the c-four in
• 1:27:13
  No, no, no.
• 1:27:14
  I'm definitely not missing a drop of C-IV.
• 1:27:16
  Not before nine a.m.
• 1:27:16
  I need it.
• 1:27:17
  Yeah.
• 1:27:18
  And she makes a really good latte every
• 1:27:20
  morning.
• 1:27:21
  I also can't touch the coffee machine,
• 1:27:23
  so I don't make her do that.
• 1:27:23
  She does it out of the goodness of
• 1:27:24
  her heart.
• 1:27:25
  But yeah, dude,
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  I take in an ungodly amount of caffeine
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  for a thirty seven year old man.
• 1:27:32
  We could do.
• 1:27:34
  I would do that.
• 1:27:35
  Don't threaten me with a good time.
• 1:27:36
  And if you think I don't have Austin
• 1:27:37
  three sixteen vest,
• 1:27:38
  you're wrong because I do.
• 1:27:41
  I got the trunks, too.
• 1:27:44
  Oh, dude.
• 1:27:46
  So much fun.
• 1:27:47
  Want to do this again sometime.
• 1:27:50
  Congratulations to Carolyn.
• 1:27:51
  She punched her ticket.
• 1:27:52
  But just so you guys know,
• 1:27:54
  she's doing NorCal to try to get her
• 1:27:56
  elite ticket as well.
• 1:27:58
  Sicko.
• 1:27:59
  Sicko.
• 1:28:00
  Because that's just who she is.
• 1:28:03
  I'd also like to redact.
• 1:28:04
  If you qualify on Masters and you go
• 1:28:06
  try to do elite, I think that's okay.
• 1:28:08
  That's fine.
• 1:28:10
  You can double dip that way.
• 1:28:11
  I think that's okay.
• 1:28:12
  And if you do it,
• 1:28:14
  what if she does both, Scott?
• 1:28:16
  She did last year.
• 1:28:18
  Oh, you're right.
• 1:28:19
  Good God.
• 1:28:21
  And then Jamie, congrats,
• 1:28:22
  about to have a hell of an angry
• 1:28:23
  training year and just be a freak next
• 1:28:25
  year, more so than you already are.
• 1:28:26
  So the heartbreak will heal,
• 1:28:28
  but the bad taste in your mouth will
• 1:28:30
  not, and you need that.
• 1:28:33
  All right, guys.
• 1:28:34
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• 1:28:34
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• 1:28:37
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