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Jamie Hagiya - The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't happen right away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how a winner's made.
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  Stick a fork in a hater.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
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  where we're featuring the
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  athletes of the 2024
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  CrossFit Games Semifinals.
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  And I'm so pumped to have
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  with me CrossFit OG, Jamie Heggia.
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  Hello.
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  Hi, how are you?
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  I'm super excited to have you on.
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  I've been a fan for a very long time.
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  And I have to start this off
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  with a little story.
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  You were covering,
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  you were on the broadcast
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  for the Granite Games a couple years ago.
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  Yes.
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  I was on the field getting
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  post interviews just like you,
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  but I never picked the same
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  people you do.
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  But I do that.
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  And there was a point where
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  you were demoing what the rope climb was.
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  You literally dropped your
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  mic and pulled the biggest
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  baller move I've ever seen
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  and did the legless right
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  there in street clothes.
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  Yeah, my broadcast team,
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  the producers and everybody was like,
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  Jamie,
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  why don't you get up there and show them?
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  You can do it.
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  And that's part of the cool
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  part of being a broadcast
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  and you're a former athlete.
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  You understand the movements.
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  You know how to do things.
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  And I was like, yeah, I can do that.
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  And so then I kind of just dropped it down,
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  went to the top, touched it.
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  And I was like, oh, that was fine.
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  That was so fun.
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  And yeah, the crowd was kind of like, whoa,
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  is she broadcast?
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  Is someone on there that
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  shouldn't be on the field?
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  But yeah, it was a super fun time.
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  And it went right up to the
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  start of the event.
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  And I think like people were afraid,
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  is she going to be able to
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  pull this off in the time
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  before the start?
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  And there was a lot of this tension,
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  but true OG killed it.
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  Oh, thank you.
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  So, again, super excited to have you on.
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  And another reason is I'm a
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  big-time sports fan, right?
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  So women's basketball has
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  made a huge surge in the
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  last couple years.
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  Yeah.
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  When I Google you,
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  you don't come up Jamie Hygieia CrossFit.
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  You come up Jamie Hygieia
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  USC basketball player.
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  yeah that was my background
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  before I started playing at
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  the age of four so I've
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  grown up my whole entire
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  life and that was my like
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  first love um it was my
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  dream to play in college
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  one day but everyone told
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  me I was too short I was I
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  wasn't good enough and I
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  never played division one
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  um and I you know love
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  being an underdog and I was
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  like okay great like I'm
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  gonna show you guys and so
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  I ended up getting a one
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  full ride to the University
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  of Southern California it
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  was one of the most
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  life-changing things that
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  has ever happened to me um
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  and to this day like yeah
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  it's like I I can't believe
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  I still talk to my
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  teammates and and you know
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  with the rise of women's
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  basketball it's just
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  absolutely incredible
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  especially at USC at this
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  time Juju Watkins I'm sure
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  you've seen her play um
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  yeah but just incredible
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  for the game in general and
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  um yeah and that was my
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  first love so always will be a fan
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  Does it surprise you that
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  that's still like the label
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  that Google has on you?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, it was a million years ago.
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  Like I'm like, this is like 20,
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  like I Oh three to Oh seven.
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  I was there.
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  So that was so long ago.
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  And, but yeah, I mean,
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  I I'm surprised I'm even on the internet.
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  I don't know why, but, but yeah,
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  for any reason, I guess that's great.
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  I like, I love basketball.
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  I'm always like an advocate
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  for women in sports and
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  just the game in general.
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  So happy to be on there.
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  So this year,
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  I admittedly watched way more
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  of the women's tournament
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  than I did the men's tournament.
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  Absolutely.
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  It was way more exciting.
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  Yeah.
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  When you finished basketball
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  to play professionally,
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  you had to go overseas, right?
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  I did.
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  My best friend and my teammate,
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  Shay Murphy, was an All-American.
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  She was drafted in the WNBA.
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  But before that, she played.
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  And then in the fall,
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  you go play overseas.
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  And so one of her agents got
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  her a deal in Greece.
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  And so then he set up three
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  of our teammates to go play in Greece.
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  And we had a fantastic time over there.
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  Yeah.
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  Was it just like continuing
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  college overseas,
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  like studying abroad almost?
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  Kind of, yeah.
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  It's so funny.
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  I think you'll understand.
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  Any sports person will understand.
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  Basketball,
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  the craziest thing is Spanish
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  is a little bit easier to pick up.
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  I'm from Southern California, LA,
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  so we hear it a little bit more Greek.
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  never, like it is so difficult to read,
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  to speak.
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  And so, you know,
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  we're out there on the floor and, and it,
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  basketball is a universal language,
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  you know,
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  I guess kind of like CrossFit is
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  a universal language,
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  a snatch is a snatch, you know,
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  like a crossover, a jump shot.
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  And, and so, yeah,
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  it was like a really great experience,
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  the food, the people,
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  just being able to go over
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  there to play the game I
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  love so much and extend my
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  life as an athlete and to
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  get paid for it.
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  I was like, this is a dream.
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  So yeah, it was definitely a good,
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  good time.
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  So with this resurgence or
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  the surgence of women's basketball,
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  the WNBA has so few teams
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  that it's still like we're
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  not to the point where the
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  great athletes are getting
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  rewarded and able to play
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  here in the States.
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  How long do you think it'll
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  take for expansion to grab
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  hold and move that needle
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  forward a little bit more?
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  I think the great thing is
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  it's happening right now.
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  There's teams that are
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  signing up for the 2025 season.
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  They're getting it together.
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  And deservedly so.
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  There are so many talented
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  women that are getting cut
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  and not being able to play
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  that have to go play
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  overseas or that should be on a roster.
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  But because there's only 12 spots,
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  And there's so many veterans
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  that are still playing.
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  Diana Taurasi, one of the best of all time,
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  is still, you know what I mean?
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  It's so cool to see her playing.
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  But you're literally,
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  these are all Olympians, world champions,
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  NCAA champions.
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  That's the only people that make a roster.
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  So these are all all-star
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  teams every single game you go to.
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  Jameen Alderson,
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  my favorite CrossFitter ever.
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  Oh, thank you.
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  And fellow D1 baller.
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  Yes, yes, yes.
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  We love it for the CrossFit ballers.
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  So my last basketball question is,
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  you know, Juju is huge right now.
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  NIL.
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  I think NIL is actually
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  saving women's basketball.
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  Oh, hands down.
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  I mean, you know, it's like, like, finally,
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  there is a time and okay, look,
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  I went to my the same year
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  I went in was the same year Reggie Bush,
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  we were freshmen at the same time.
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  And so you know,
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  the whole thing came in and you know,
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  like, and you know, whatever happened,
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  like a house or whatever he got,
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  but I was like,
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  everyone's doing this across the country,
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  they give us a stipend to live in LA,
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  which barely covers our rent.
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  How do you expect all these kids to like,
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  to live you know groceries
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  like to get around gas
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  everything and so I'm happy
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  that you know now they can
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  focus on and like have like
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  have support so that they
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  don't have to worry about
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  that they can just go out
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  and play the game they love
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  and make the money that
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  they deserve yeah so so
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  with usc having juju and
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  you being an alma on alumni
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  how do you get to go to games much
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  Oh yeah.
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  A lot of our teammates went
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  to them and Lindsay
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  Gottlieb is a head coach
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  now and she is amazing.
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  She's such an advocate for
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  all the alumni to come back.
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  We, um, honor the 84, 83,
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  84 champion national
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  championship team with Cheryl Miller.
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  And so all of them came back and, um,
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  and yeah,
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  we were all getting season
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  tickets and they invite us
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  to all these house of victory,
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  like NIL events just to support the team.
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  And they're really great
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  about bringing an alum.
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  Like USC is huge on networking and, and,
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  um,
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  an alumni so it's really
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  yeah been such a great
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  experience to be still
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  connected with them one of
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  all colleges like usc seems
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  to embrace legacy like so
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  much and all the former
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  players back you know even
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  for football you see like
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  all the players on the
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  sidelines supporting the
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  team all the time do you
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  feel that as a female
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  basketball player as well
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  they had a night where they
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  honored all of us.
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  They brought us out at halftime.
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  And they're really realizing, like,
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  this is a big deal to
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  recognize the people that came before us.
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  You know,
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  women's basketball is on fire right now,
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  like you mentioned.
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  But they're like, you know,
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  it's all of us who played in front of,
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  like,
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  400 people instead of 10,000 people.
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  You know what I mean?
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  It's amazing to see Galen
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  filled up with...
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  and sold out and lines out
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  the door three hours before.
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  But, um,
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  we had to play in the sports arena,
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  which was empty and they
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  had to cover half of the rafters.
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  So it didn't look so empty
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  and you know what I mean?
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  And it's just like,
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  and that doesn't matter.
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  That's, you know, I'm,
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  I'm happy to play even the
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  smallest little part to
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  help move the needle along.
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  Cause it really is the
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  future of all these women
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  that are taking it to the next level.
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  Well,
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  now I'm going to move on to your
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  CrossFit life,
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  but I had to hit that
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  because who better to
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  understand that than you?
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  Oh, love it.
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  So I'm going to share a post from your IG.
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  This was made a couple weeks ago,
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  I think now.
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  And it was you and your car
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  kind of just blown away in the moment.
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  And then we'll talk about this.
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  I unmute you.
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  Mind is like blown.
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  Um,
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  people are texting me and my coach
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  called me and was like, you're,
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  you're in the top.
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  You made the individual
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  North America West individual semifinals.
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  You're in the top 40.
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  I finished 39th and I'm like this,
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  that can't be right.
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  Like this can not, that's not right.
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  That's not right.
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  Like I'm not like,
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  it's not even a thought in
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  my mind that I would even do that.
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  Cause I'm trying to make the
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  age group 35 to 39, um,
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  top 200 to go to semifinals in.
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  Yeah.
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  Anyways.
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  Um,
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  I don't even know what to think.
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  Like if,
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  if I do make the individual semifinals,
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  like what it's here in Carson.
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  The last time I was there, um, was 2016.
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  The last year was at the
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  CrossFit games there.
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  And, uh, I don't know.
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  It's right down the street from my house.
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  Like it's in my backyard.
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  Do I go and try to compete
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  with these like 21 year olds?
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  It's crazy.
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  Wow.
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  So there's a lot in that.
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  Um,
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  Yes, there is.
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  So you going into this season,
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  you were really focused on Masters.
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  Okay,
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  I'm going to tell you the full story.
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  I had zero plans of competing.
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  Honestly,
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  I my last thing I ever did in
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  person was 2018 at the
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  CrossFit Games with my team.
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  And I retired and I was like, fantastic.
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  That was so great.
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  I went one time individual one time team.
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  I'm so good.
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  I got to do a little bit of
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  broadcast with them.
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  And I and I, you know, it was really good.
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  And my old coach, Matt Bryant,
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  one of my old coaches from grid league,
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  he, he's from
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  has his own golden line training team.
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  And so they came to my gym.
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  He was like, Hey Jamie, can we,
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  can we use your gym for an athlete camp?
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  And I was like, yeah, sure.
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  And he's like, jump in, you know,
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  you're welcome to join us.
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  And I was like, okay, great.
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  Jumped into their camp.
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  And then from there, he was like, you know,
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  if,
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  if you want to make a run for masters
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  this year, like I'll help you,
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  I'll coach you.
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  And I was like, really?
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  Like, so, and just from there,
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  like little conversations
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  just started going and we
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  started training in November.
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  And from that,
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  somehow all this stuff happened.
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  Well, whatever happens seems to work.
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  Oh, he's amazing.
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  Corey Leonard says,
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  more like those
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  20-year-olds plan on competing with her.
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  Very nice of you.
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  That's very sweet.
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  So you surprisingly make the top 40.
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  yeah and at this moment the
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  penalties haven't even come
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  down like you're just kind
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  of wait because you even
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  say at the end like video
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  review still has to happen
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  right right and I know the
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  deal you know what I mean
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  like I know we submit
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  everything you have to wait
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  you have to see what
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  penalties come out um and
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  unfortunately there was a
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  lot this year um but you
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  know I had no intentions of
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  like I was just trying to
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  make it one I'm taking a
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  one thing at a time in the open I got my
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  I don't know if I'm out of cast.
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  I got my butt kicked in the
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  open and it was a big wake
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  up call for me to like, okay, cool.
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  If we're going to do this, let's do it.
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  Let's add an extra cardio session.
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  Let's take this very seriously.
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  Quarterfinals.
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  I felt good.
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  And then, um, yeah.
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  And then from there they were like,
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  you made semis.
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  I was like, no, like what?
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  So yeah, I,
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  I really had no intentions and no, I mean,
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  that wasn't even on my radar at all.
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  So before we get to elite semis,
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  then as this is going on,
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  age group semis pop up and
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  you have to do those now, right?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  So literally last weekend,
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  I finished the age group
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  semifinals to qualify for, you know,
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  unofficially, they take the top 40.
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  I'm in 21st or second or
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  something like that.
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  So unofficially,
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  I've made the crossfit
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  games for the age group.
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  But yeah,
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  that kind of the timing of isn't great.
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  It was literally last weekend.
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  You know,
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  I kind of had a meltdown this week,
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  because I literally got off
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  of that took a couple days
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  off and a week like on Thursday,
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  I was like,
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  I'm competing in person in
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  one week and I haven't tried.
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  I haven't tested.
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  I haven't done any of these
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  workouts that I'm going to do.
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  And you know,
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  my body's beat up and you know,
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  so it's just, it's been a lot,
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  but you know what?
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  I think it's just take it
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  one thing at a time and
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  just try to focus on the task at hand.
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  And that's kind of what we're going with.
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  That's all.
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  That's my only option.
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  It's funny because last year
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  I talked to Chelsea Nicholas,
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  who was in the same situation, right?
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  Like she qualified for both, did both.
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  And it felt like she never had a week off.
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  Yeah.
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  And I, and I mean, and we are older,
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  right?
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  Like I'm 39.
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  Like I remember literally
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  watching China last year and I was like,
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  Oh man,
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  Olivia cursor was like 18 and
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  China was like 38 or so.
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  There was almost like a 20 year age gap,
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  you know, between the two of them.
• 13:47
  Um,
• 13:48
  and to think like to beat your body up
• 13:50
  and do an extra set of
• 13:51
  qualifiers in the middle
• 13:53
  that has nothing to do with
• 13:54
  what you're going to see in person,
• 13:55
  like that.
• 13:56
  that's a lot on our bodies.
• 13:58
  You know what I mean?
• 13:58
  But, but yeah, I mean,
• 14:00
  you kind of just adapt and go with it.
• 14:01
  And, you know, the plan right now is just,
• 14:03
  you know, when I freaked out,
• 14:04
  I talked to my coach and he's like, Jamie,
• 14:06
  your experience, your athleticism,
• 14:08
  like you're going to have
• 14:09
  to just go in and trust
• 14:10
  that because we're a week out.
• 14:12
  Like, you know,
• 14:13
  everybody's banged up at this point.
• 14:14
  I have a little like nagging
• 14:15
  injuries here and there.
• 14:16
  And I was like,
• 14:16
  I can't risk like beating
• 14:18
  myself up more and getting
• 14:19
  injured and going into next week.
• 14:20
  He's like,
• 14:21
  I'd rather send you healthy and
• 14:22
  just go for it.
• 14:23
  So that's what we're doing.
• 14:24
  Yeah.
• 14:26
  so this is going to be a
• 14:26
  weird question because you're,
• 14:28
  you're a competitor.
• 14:28
  You've been an athlete your whole life,
• 14:30
  right?
• 14:30
  Right.
• 14:30
  Right.
• 14:31
  You go into age group semis.
• 14:32
  Is there any part of you that's like,
• 14:34
  can I back off a little and
• 14:36
  still make it and save my
• 14:37
  body for the next phase?
• 14:39
  Or do you have to say like,
• 14:41
  this is the part I'm on and
• 14:42
  this is where my attention has to be.
• 14:45
  Yeah.
• 14:45
  I mean, we really had to like,
• 14:47
  there was four workouts and
• 14:49
  like I had to repeat two out of the four.
• 14:51
  Um, and you can,
• 14:53
  you know, you just,
• 14:53
  these women are so good.
• 14:55
  Even in your age group,
• 14:55
  these are the women that
• 14:56
  have been competing for so
• 14:57
  long and they're so talented and so fit.
• 15:00
  Um, you really don't,
• 15:02
  you can't mail it in at all.
• 15:04
  So, you know, I definitely like pushed and,
• 15:07
  um, yeah,
• 15:08
  try to do the best that I could there.
• 15:10
  And then we'll,
• 15:11
  we'll see what happens next weekend.
• 15:15
  So,
• 15:17
  so it's gotta be weird for you because
• 15:18
  you,
• 15:20
  I looked at your Instagram
• 15:21
  for your affiliate.
• 15:24
  You're nine miles from the tennis stadium.
• 15:28
  Oh yes.
• 15:29
  And that was really the only
• 15:30
  reason why I really was like,
• 15:32
  gave it like real thought.
• 15:33
  Cause I was like, it's in my backyard.
• 15:36
  Like, and that's cool.
• 15:37
  The last time I was there
• 15:38
  was 2016 at the CrossFit games.
• 15:39
  Like the very last year it
• 15:41
  was here in Carson was my
• 15:42
  first year making it.
• 15:43
  And so I was like, it is down the street.
• 15:46
  I get to sleep in my own bed.
• 15:47
  I get to eat all my own food.
• 15:49
  I have, you know what I mean?
• 15:50
  Have my people in my corner
• 15:51
  on my gym is down the street.
• 15:53
  So that played a huge factor
• 15:54
  into all of it.
• 15:55
  How large of a contingent
• 15:56
  will you have there?
• 15:59
  Honestly, like as far as fans, like, Oh,
• 16:04
  everyone is so supportive.
• 16:06
  Like one of the guys at my
• 16:07
  gym was literally, he was like, Jamie,
• 16:09
  I just have to thank you for going.
• 16:11
  I joined your gym in 20, the end of 2018.
• 16:13
  So I missed all of like
• 16:15
  Carson and all your years of competing.
• 16:17
  And like,
• 16:17
  we were planning on going anyways,
• 16:18
  but now, you know,
• 16:19
  that you'll be out there.
• 16:20
  Like, like we're so excited.
• 16:22
  And, and so I, like, I know like that,
• 16:25
  that means so much to me to
• 16:26
  have like my community and my people.
• 16:28
  And like, again, like,
• 16:30
  we could talk all day about
• 16:31
  like the pressure of all
• 16:32
  these things and going back
• 16:33
  and you know what you know
• 16:34
  what my goal is and what
• 16:35
  all my thoughts are but you
• 16:37
  know at the end of the day
• 16:37
  like first or last or you
• 16:39
  know what I mean in any
• 16:40
  event like my my people my
• 16:42
  team like they they love me
• 16:43
  and support me and just
• 16:44
  will be happy that I'm out
• 16:45
  there so I can I can relate
• 16:48
  in a way I go to christy
• 16:49
  aramo o'connell's gym
• 16:51
  Oh, love her too.
• 16:52
  Okay.
• 16:52
  Oh, that's amazing.
• 16:53
  I live here in Columbus.
• 16:55
  The first year of Rogue was
• 16:56
  here in Columbus.
• 16:58
  She went just for the fact
• 17:01
  so people could see her compete, right?
• 17:03
  Totally.
• 17:04
  She's a huge fan favorite.
• 17:05
  The contingent there that
• 17:07
  the gym brought was so
• 17:08
  massive and so special.
• 17:11
  I can't even imagine what
• 17:12
  it's going to be like for
• 17:13
  you at semifinals.
• 17:14
  Yeah,
• 17:16
  I love you're presented by Thick Boy.
• 17:17
  I have a shirt called Thick and Tired.
• 17:19
  That's my really semi-final
• 17:20
  shirt this year.
• 17:21
  No notes.
• 17:23
  Yeah.
• 17:23
  And so, you know,
• 17:24
  I think it's just like Del
• 17:26
  Mar back in the day,
• 17:27
  everybody like had so much fun and like,
• 17:29
  you know, just rallying together and like,
• 17:31
  oh, cool.
• 17:32
  Like, you know,
• 17:32
  let's all go and support
• 17:33
  Jamie and like get behind her.
• 17:35
  And and yeah, I didn't realize how big,
• 17:38
  you know,
• 17:38
  that or how much that means to
• 17:40
  other people, I guess.
• 17:42
  And so, yeah, it really blows me away.
• 17:44
  All the support from
• 17:45
  everybody like around the world, really.
• 17:48
  So with every like really cool thing,
• 17:50
  there's a flip side, right?
• 17:52
  You're an affiliate owner,
• 17:53
  nine miles from the semifinal.
• 17:55
  Probably could be the
• 17:57
  busiest weekend you have as
• 17:59
  an affiliate owner.
• 18:01
  Yes, totally.
• 18:02
  And again, it's so funny.
• 18:04
  I talked to Adam Klink,
• 18:05
  he's from Rad Global, and he was like,
• 18:06
  before any of this stuff came out,
• 18:08
  he's like, Jamie,
• 18:09
  we're wondering if we can host a,
• 18:11
  you know,
• 18:11
  just like a workout at your gym
• 18:12
  on Saturday.
• 18:12
  I'm like, yeah, sure.
• 18:14
  Like, I'll be there.
• 18:15
  I can help run it.
• 18:16
  And then he's like, oh, you'll,
• 18:18
  you'll be out there.
• 18:19
  That's like, yeah, I will now.
• 18:21
  Like, so my, you know,
• 18:22
  my sister will have to help.
• 18:24
  She's a counter with me.
• 18:24
  And so,
• 18:25
  And some of our other coaches will be here,
• 18:27
  but yeah,
• 18:27
  definitely like drop-ins and
• 18:29
  running classes and,
• 18:30
  and you know what I mean?
• 18:31
  Just, and then, so it's,
• 18:33
  it's a lot going on this way.
• 18:34
  This week will be very busy.
• 18:36
  And it's great that you have
• 18:38
  all that support and you
• 18:39
  have a partner in your
• 18:40
  sister that runs the gym with you.
• 18:42
  yeah totally uh yeah
• 18:44
  everybody like we're so
• 18:46
  like a good balance for
• 18:47
  each other because she does
• 18:48
  all like the business side
• 18:49
  and finance she comes from
• 18:50
  finance background and I'm
• 18:50
  like oh yay and I love the
• 18:52
  people and coaching and you
• 18:53
  know uh so we're a good
• 18:54
  balance for each other and
• 18:55
  it's been um 11 years this
• 18:57
  year so yeah this is our
• 18:59
  gym we got the basketball
• 19:00
  hoop over there that was
• 19:02
  very important for me have
• 19:03
  a really nice one
• 19:04
  Yeah.
• 19:04
  So you mentioned your shirt.
• 19:08
  I'm going to pull it up.
• 19:10
  One, it speaks to me.
• 19:12
  I'm so bummed I didn't see this earlier.
• 19:16
  I would have ordered one
• 19:21
  because I love the saying on the back.
• 19:22
  I just love it.
• 19:24
  Yeah.
• 19:25
  I mean,
• 19:25
  I think it's like so on par with me.
• 19:28
  Like I, you know, I, I, like,
• 19:29
  I obviously love to work out.
• 19:31
  I love to like, you know,
• 19:32
  be in the grind of things,
• 19:33
  but I also like,
• 19:34
  there's such a balance and like,
• 19:36
  having fun and enjoying it
• 19:38
  is like so important to me
• 19:39
  and like laughter and like, you know,
• 19:40
  I'm making fun of myself.
• 19:41
  Like I don't, I'm a thick girl.
• 19:43
  I am 39 years old.
• 19:44
  I'm a tire girl.
• 19:45
  And it all, you know,
• 19:47
  and it's just like a fun.
• 19:48
  Everyone was like, Oh,
• 19:49
  that's so you Jamie.
• 19:50
  And I was like, okay, cool.
• 19:51
  Yeah, totally.
• 19:51
  Let's go with that.
• 19:53
  So love it.
• 19:54
  Love it so much.
• 19:56
  Um,
• 19:57
  so Corey Leonard says Jamie has a whole
• 19:59
  vibe digging her outlook.
• 20:02
  Oh, thanks.
• 20:03
  Yeah.
• 20:03
  Uh,
• 20:04
  If we can real quick,
• 20:05
  just speak on perspective, you know,
• 20:07
  I it's, it's weird.
• 20:09
  I've always gone into semis
• 20:11
  or these regionals, you know,
• 20:11
  with the mindset of making
• 20:13
  it like that has always
• 20:14
  been the only focus of mine
• 20:16
  is to make the CrossFit games.
• 20:17
  You know what I mean?
• 20:17
  And so.
• 20:18
  to be one surprise to be going at all.
• 20:20
  And, and then just in this situation,
• 20:22
  I'm like, you know what?
• 20:23
  And like,
• 20:24
  I can't put that pressure on myself.
• 20:25
  Like when I don't like,
• 20:27
  I'm not really at that
• 20:27
  level yet right now, you know?
• 20:28
  Um,
• 20:29
  and so I have to go with like where I'm
• 20:31
  at and what I have and,
• 20:32
  and just make the most of it.
• 20:33
  I think the most important
• 20:34
  thing for me is like to
• 20:36
  walk away knowing I gave it
• 20:37
  my best on every single
• 20:38
  event and enjoy it,
• 20:39
  like really be present for
• 20:41
  like it being in Carson at
• 20:42
  the tennis stadium.
• 20:45
  Yeah.
• 20:45
  And that,
• 20:45
  that was actually my next question.
• 20:46
  It's fun.
• 20:47
  You're in media now.
• 20:47
  So like you,
• 20:48
  I don't even have to lead you.
• 20:50
  You just go there.
• 20:54
  And so it is just going to
• 20:55
  be a soak in moment, right?
• 20:56
  Like,
• 20:57
  are you going to have to tell
• 20:59
  yourself like, as you're out on the floor,
• 21:00
  like just be present and just enjoy this.
• 21:04
  and that's where it's so
• 21:05
  hard this like balance of
• 21:06
  like being so hard on
• 21:07
  myself and expectations and
• 21:09
  not wanting to let people
• 21:10
  down and like and being a
• 21:11
  competitor like no that's
• 21:13
  not good enough to lose to
• 21:14
  get no that's not great you
• 21:16
  know what I mean but then
• 21:16
  it's like was I ready for like
• 21:19
  You know, that's why I had this,
• 21:21
  I literally had a breakdown.
• 21:22
  I was like, I feel so unprepared,
• 21:23
  you know?
• 21:24
  And it's just like, take a step back.
• 21:26
  Like it's CrossFit, it should be fun,
• 21:28
  you know?
• 21:29
  And I get it,
• 21:29
  like the pressure and like of all these,
• 21:31
  you know,
• 21:32
  young guys and girls that have
• 21:33
  it of making the CrossFit games.
• 21:35
  And so, yeah, I think for me,
• 21:37
  it's going to be like,
• 21:39
  enjoy this, like, whatever happens, like,
• 21:41
  if I walk off, you know,
• 21:42
  this out of that stadium,
• 21:44
  knowing I gave it the best
• 21:45
  effort I had for that day.
• 21:47
  Great.
• 21:47
  That's all I can ask of myself, you know,
• 21:49
  so that's kind of my
• 21:50
  mindset going into things.
• 21:51
  And I told my coach, I was like,
• 21:52
  maybe we don't even look at
• 21:53
  the leaderboard.
• 21:54
  Maybe I just go out there
• 21:55
  and do the best I can take
• 21:56
  it event by event.
• 21:57
  And like, that's what it is, you know?
• 22:00
  So my next question is for, for Jamie,
• 22:02
  the media member.
• 22:04
  Yeah.
• 22:04
  Right.
• 22:05
  Over the, over the last few years,
• 22:06
  there have been people who
• 22:08
  have de-emphasized what the
• 22:11
  CrossFit season is to them.
• 22:13
  Like IE Ariel Lowen,
• 22:16
  just want to get a sign for my garage.
• 22:18
  Right.
• 22:19
  And then now she's the third
• 22:21
  fittest woman in the world.
• 22:23
  Is there something to like
• 22:25
  taking all that pressure
• 22:26
  off of your shoulders that
• 22:28
  leads to better performance?
• 22:31
  I will let you know after next weekend.
• 22:35
  Um, no, I do.
• 22:37
  I do agree.
• 22:38
  I think, um,
• 22:39
  when you feel the stress and the pressure,
• 22:41
  like some people thrive in
• 22:42
  it and some people crumble from it,
• 22:44
  you know?
• 22:45
  And, um, and I mean the best of the best,
• 22:47
  like they love it and they
• 22:48
  thrive off of it, you know?
• 22:49
  And, and for me,
• 22:49
  it's just been such a long time.
• 22:50
  I've been out of the game.
• 22:51
  I took a six year retirement and I'm like,
• 22:54
  that's why part of this
• 22:54
  journey was just like,
• 22:56
  I want to see what I'm still made of,
• 22:57
  like what I still have left in me.
• 22:59
  And, um,
• 23:00
  and like some of the proudest
• 23:01
  moments of just in training is just like,
• 23:03
  it's hard.
• 23:04
  It sucks.
• 23:05
  It's hard.
• 23:05
  And, and just the mental of like,
• 23:07
  you can do this, you can do this.
• 23:09
  And I will be saying that
• 23:10
  over and over and over again,
• 23:11
  all next weekend, um, when I'm in, in,
• 23:14
  in it and that red line, um,
• 23:16
  right at that capacity.
• 23:18
  But yeah, I do feel like, um,
• 23:20
  taking the pressure off
• 23:21
  that's what's so weird I
• 23:22
  have no pressure on me like
• 23:23
  if I do better than last
• 23:24
  place like whoo like
• 23:25
  everyone will be so excited
• 23:26
  you know but I do have this
• 23:27
  because I've been there
• 23:28
  before like this like
• 23:30
  pressure on myself which I
• 23:31
  need to like let go of and
• 23:33
  and that's my main goal
• 23:34
  like comp like I want to
• 23:36
  compete with complete
• 23:37
  freedom would be amazing
• 23:40
  Yeah.
• 23:40
  I think what was interesting
• 23:41
  last year is China makes it right.
• 23:44
  We had what Jen Ryan, Chelsea, China,
• 23:48
  like a lot of athletes from
• 23:50
  the master's division made
• 23:51
  it to semis and like China was top 20.
• 23:55
  She's incredible.
• 23:57
  It really,
• 24:00
  some of that came like there was
• 24:01
  no pressure on her this year.
• 24:03
  Totally.
• 24:04
  Yeah.
• 24:04
  Yeah.
• 24:04
  When you take it,
• 24:05
  I think that does like when
• 24:06
  you take it all off of yourself,
• 24:07
  like you get to go out
• 24:08
  there and you earned it.
• 24:10
  Like you've earned all these
• 24:11
  years that you've like,
• 24:12
  that's why everyone's like
• 24:13
  trust the process, trust,
• 24:14
  like your body trusts,
• 24:15
  like the competitor in you, you know?
• 24:17
  And that's,
• 24:18
  what'll be interesting this time around.
• 24:20
  I've always tested out the workouts,
• 24:22
  you know,
• 24:22
  before going and to be a week out,
• 24:24
  not there's still some that
• 24:26
  I haven't even done because
• 24:27
  my body can't handle it.
• 24:28
  You know,
• 24:28
  Alethea Boone's another great example of,
• 24:30
  Um,
• 24:30
  she was saying this kind of the same
• 24:32
  thing about my body can't
• 24:33
  handle this and I only do
• 24:34
  it in competition and I'm like, same girl,
• 24:36
  same.
• 24:37
  So like it definitely, um,
• 24:39
  taking the pressure off and
• 24:40
  like knowing yourself and
• 24:41
  your body as we age up and
• 24:43
  get a little older, like, um, yeah,
• 24:45
  maybe there's some like benefits to,
• 24:47
  to doing that and having a
• 24:48
  little bit more of a
• 24:49
  relaxed attitude going in.
• 24:52
  Uh, Jeffrey Birchfield, thick and tired.
• 24:54
  I feel that today.
• 24:55
  He's a school teacher that is retiring.
• 24:58
  And he said in another week and a half,
• 25:00
  I'll be thick and retired.
• 25:01
  Yay.
• 25:02
  Oh, congratulations.
• 25:03
  That's a huge, huge,
• 25:05
  huge accomplishment all those years.
• 25:06
  Thank you for doing that.
• 25:07
  Rod Zombie, if you don't know who he is,
• 25:09
  the meme guy on.
• 25:10
  Yes.
• 25:11
  We're rooting for you.
• 25:12
  Oh, thank you.
• 25:14
  Jamie is a local hero.
• 25:16
  Oh, my gosh.
• 25:17
  You guys are too, too kind.
• 25:20
  I don't think that of myself at all,
• 25:22
  but I appreciate it.
• 25:24
  Jamie's first games
• 25:25
  appearance was 2016 in Carson.
• 25:29
  It was.
• 25:30
  So the workouts are out.
• 25:35
  You mentioned 2016.
• 25:38
  One of these events actually was an event.
• 25:42
  You went back in time.
• 25:44
  Crazy, crazy.
• 25:45
  snatch ladder you get to do
• 25:46
  it again I do excited for
• 25:49
  another opportunity yeah I
• 25:52
  i vividly remember this one
• 25:53
  um alessandra patchelli and
• 25:55
  I were at the very final
• 25:56
  barbell at the same time I
• 25:58
  missed the lift I think she
• 25:59
  missed one but she ended up
• 26:00
  like squeaking ahead of me
• 26:01
  because I went I went too
• 26:02
  soon so it's like you know
• 26:04
  um I did miss one at the
• 26:05
  end um obviously like this year
• 26:09
  That was eight years ago.
• 26:11
  And you know, I, my time and whoa, gosh,
• 26:14
  like,
• 26:14
  I don't know if I can get anywhere
• 26:15
  close to that,
• 26:16
  but I'm like finishing
• 26:17
  would be great staying.
• 26:18
  Like you really have to
• 26:19
  focus for every single rep
• 26:21
  because it gets very breathy,
• 26:22
  even though I love a heavy barbell.
• 26:24
  Um, so yeah,
• 26:24
  I'm excited to give it another
• 26:26
  shot at it.
• 26:28
  Did you watch Europe at all?
• 26:30
  I did.
• 26:30
  Yeah.
• 26:32
  Elisa Fuliano.
• 26:33
  She crushed it.
• 26:35
  Amazing.
• 26:36
  Amazing.
• 26:37
  Amazing.
• 26:37
  Smaller athlete.
• 26:38
  And it was just,
• 26:39
  it was about being smooth.
• 26:41
  Totally.
• 26:42
  Like so composed and really
• 26:44
  making every single rep count.
• 26:46
  And like, you know, in weightlifting,
• 26:48
  positioning is everything
• 26:50
  and timing and everything,
• 26:51
  having it all dialed in and perfectly,
• 26:53
  like perfectly while your
• 26:55
  heart rate is up and while
• 26:56
  you're very tired.
• 26:57
  So it's super,
• 26:58
  super impressive for her to do that.
• 27:00
  You know, because I do the Heat One app.
• 27:03
  I don't know if you've heard of that.
• 27:04
  But, like,
• 27:05
  she was not – every time I talk to her,
• 27:08
  she talks how much she
• 27:09
  loves Olympic lifting.
• 27:10
  And I didn't want to pick with my heart,
• 27:12
  so I went with, like,
• 27:13
  the traditional strong girls, right?
• 27:15
  And I was wrong.
• 27:17
  Yeah, super cool.
• 27:18
  I mean,
• 27:18
  I think that's what everyone was
• 27:19
  thinking.
• 27:19
  Like, oh, cool, this is, like,
• 27:20
  a big strong girl, you know, thing.
• 27:22
  But, yeah, great technique and great, like,
• 27:25
  speed and fitness.
• 27:25
  Like,
• 27:26
  then put it all together and end up
• 27:28
  winning.
• 27:29
  Yeah.
• 27:30
  So you haven't been able to test,
• 27:32
  but you have got to watch
• 27:34
  what Europe did with all of these events.
• 27:36
  You've watched the sport as
• 27:38
  a media person.
• 27:40
  And so can you take what they did,
• 27:43
  analyze it, and fit it to your game?
• 27:45
  That's so funny.
• 27:46
  I was totally doing that.
• 27:47
  I was like, even,
• 27:49
  even little things you're
• 27:50
  picking up from the media
• 27:51
  and the broadcast and like
• 27:52
  the analysts that they have, you know, um,
• 27:54
  like little tips of here,
• 27:56
  like from one heat to the next and, and,
• 27:58
  you know,
• 27:58
  what are some of these like
• 27:59
  advantages or things that
• 28:01
  are going to help the
• 28:01
  athletes and things you
• 28:02
  have to think about.
• 28:03
  So totally, but yeah.
• 28:05
  But again, at the end of the day,
• 28:06
  it's like three, two, one go.
• 28:07
  Like you kind of have to like,
• 28:09
  just shut it off and go with, you know,
• 28:12
  your gut instinct of how it feels.
• 28:15
  Everyone has a plan.
• 28:16
  Yeah, everyone has a plan.
• 28:17
  Until you get punched in the face.
• 28:19
  Way too many times in my
• 28:20
  life have I had a plan and
• 28:22
  been punched in the face
• 28:23
  about two reps in.
• 28:24
  Yep, yep, yep.
• 28:25
  I think we've all been there.
• 28:27
  I think that's why we all
• 28:28
  feel the same feeling around the world.
• 28:31
  Wadzomi wants to know,
• 28:33
  did you receive any
• 28:34
  requests to do commentary
• 28:36
  prior to qualifying?
• 28:37
  Um, not this year.
• 28:38
  Like this year it was like such a, there's,
• 28:40
  there's so few of them.
• 28:41
  And so, um,
• 28:43
  so actually it ended up working
• 28:44
  out this year that, um, yeah,
• 28:47
  this year that I didn't get
• 28:47
  asked to do semifinals this year.
• 28:49
  Otherwise it would have been
• 28:49
  a tough decision.
• 28:51
  Um, but, but of course, like my team and,
• 28:53
  um, all the guys that, um,
• 28:55
  like producers and everyone
• 28:56
  who runs it was like, Jamie,
• 28:57
  we are so excited.
• 28:59
  They're like,
• 29:00
  we get to see you on the field anyways,
• 29:01
  you know?
• 29:01
  So maybe it was all like in
• 29:03
  the works or I don't, I don't know,
• 29:04
  but excited to be out there either way.
• 29:08
  So the media thing,
• 29:09
  did it just come naturally?
• 29:10
  Is it something you've
• 29:11
  always wanted to do?
• 29:12
  How did that come to be?
• 29:15
  I was a comm major at USC.
• 29:17
  Never used it until CrossFit.
• 29:20
  I tore my Achilles in 2014.
• 29:21
  And do you know Rothy?
• 29:25
  roth uh he he runs like a
• 29:28
  lot of the okay yeah he's
• 29:30
  like the head guy and he
• 29:32
  runs it and he was like hey
• 29:33
  if you're ever interested
• 29:33
  in doing this like you know
• 29:34
  I think you'd be really
• 29:35
  great or give it a shot and
• 29:37
  so kind of like over the
• 29:38
  years like little things
• 29:39
  turned into like you know
• 29:40
  the sideline reporter or
• 29:41
  like a a field reporter it
• 29:43
  turned into this and that
• 29:44
  and and um I was an analyst
• 29:45
  last year for the crossing
• 29:46
  games teams division and so
• 29:48
  yeah just different
• 29:49
  opportunities of different
• 29:50
  trying different things in
• 29:51
  the media field and
• 29:52
  Yeah, I loved it.
• 29:53
  It's really a fun gig.
• 29:55
  That's why you're in it, huh?
• 29:56
  Yeah, yeah.
• 29:57
  I mean, my story,
• 29:59
  like I wanted to be a
• 30:00
  sports broadcaster since the age of 12,
• 30:02
  right?
• 30:02
  Yeah.
• 30:04
  I gave up on that dream for
• 30:05
  no reason other than I
• 30:06
  didn't think it was safe.
• 30:08
  And then, and then at the age of 49,
• 30:11
  I said, why am I doing this?
• 30:13
  Like anybody can start a podcast.
• 30:15
  Let's just see where this goes.
• 30:17
  That's amazing.
• 30:18
  And now I'm doing the thing I love at the,
• 30:20
  from I'm 54 now.
• 30:22
  And I love this.
• 30:23
  Like, you don't look like it at all.
• 30:24
  And that's amazing.
• 30:26
  I think that's such a cool story.
• 30:28
  Exactly.
• 30:29
  Like you love it.
• 30:30
  You know, you're,
• 30:30
  you're passionate about it.
• 30:31
  And like, you know,
• 30:33
  and so your advice you
• 30:34
  would have gave your younger self,
• 30:35
  what would you have?
• 30:36
  ignore everybody around you
• 30:38
  and do what you love.
• 30:39
  Yeah.
• 30:40
  And I tell every, so my daughter is a,
• 30:42
  she was a photography major
• 30:44
  and people tried to talk her out of it.
• 30:45
  And I'm like, if that's what you love,
• 30:47
  do it.
• 30:49
  She got a month after
• 30:50
  graduating with the United
• 30:51
  steel workers doing their social media.
• 30:53
  That's amazing.
• 30:55
  There's so much.
• 30:56
  Yeah.
• 30:56
  There's, there's a place for everybody.
• 30:58
  And that's why I really believe, you know,
• 30:59
  I'm like,
• 31:00
  whatever your goals and dreams are,
• 31:02
  put it out there in the world.
• 31:03
  Like people want to help you out, you know,
• 31:05
  but like keep on going.
• 31:06
  Like you literally can
• 31:07
  achieve anything you set your mind to.
• 31:09
  Like,
• 31:09
  and you're a perfect example of that.
• 31:11
  And if it's what you love,
• 31:13
  you're going to put way
• 31:13
  more into it than if it's
• 31:15
  just something to pay the, pay the bills.
• 31:18
  Right.
• 31:18
  Right.
• 31:19
  Right.
• 31:19
  The reward is going to be so much more.
• 31:21
  Right.
• 31:22
  So that's so cool.
• 31:23
  So you've done the sideline
• 31:24
  reporter thing.
• 31:26
  Do you have aspirations to
• 31:27
  maybe do some color commentary,
• 31:29
  play by play,
• 31:30
  like get into it a little more?
• 31:32
  Or is the gym ownership,
• 31:34
  does it take up a lot of your time?
• 31:38
  I would love,
• 31:39
  like I'm very open to things.
• 31:41
  You know,
• 31:41
  I always said like when I tried
• 31:43
  out for the WNBA and when I
• 31:45
  didn't make the team,
• 31:46
  that's when one door shut,
• 31:48
  I knew another one would
• 31:48
  open and that door was CrossFit.
• 31:51
  And so I'm always just open
• 31:53
  to any and all
• 31:54
  opportunities that come my
• 31:55
  way because you never know.
• 31:56
  Right.
• 31:57
  And so I would definitely be
• 31:59
  open to more media.
• 32:01
  Like I did love like being
• 32:03
  an analyst and kind of like, you know,
• 32:05
  explain that side of things.
• 32:06
  I know what it's like to be
• 32:07
  out there and just like
• 32:08
  some of their feelings and just, you know,
• 32:10
  what they're going through.
• 32:10
  And that was really fun.
• 32:12
  Sideline is when you get to
• 32:13
  talk to all the athletes.
• 32:15
  But yeah,
• 32:15
  I feel like any capacity of media
• 32:17
  is always a great way to still,
• 32:19
  I think that filled my cup of,
• 32:21
  being away from competition,
• 32:22
  but still in it with everybody there.
• 32:26
  The first time I ever saw
• 32:27
  you was Wadapalooza.
• 32:29
  Oh, yeah.
• 32:30
  And you're just so easy to listen to.
• 32:33
  You have such a great voice.
• 32:35
  And you're truly my favorite
• 32:37
  sideline person.
• 32:38
  Oh, thank you.
• 32:40
  Yeah.
• 32:41
  And you know, it's funny.
• 32:42
  It's like, you know,
• 32:43
  they say like getting
• 32:44
  thrown into the fire.
• 32:45
  Cause I was like, I had no idea.
• 32:47
  Like, I think someone,
• 32:48
  someone got sick or had
• 32:49
  COVID or something.
• 32:50
  And they're like, Jamie, can you fill in?
• 32:51
  I was like, yeah, sure.
• 32:52
  You know?
• 32:52
  And then they just, and it,
• 32:54
  great teams and great
• 32:55
  production and great
• 32:56
  everybody producers edit
• 32:57
  everybody and so they make
• 32:58
  you look really good you
• 32:59
  know um but yeah it's
• 33:00
  definitely like just being
• 33:02
  like adaptable I think
• 33:03
  coming from sports like in
• 33:04
  a team it's like you do
• 33:06
  whatever like whatever we
• 33:07
  need you to do you do that
• 33:08
  you know and and so yeah it
• 33:09
  was really really such a
• 33:11
  fun experience like being
• 33:13
  out there and you learn
• 33:14
  tricks of the trade while
• 33:15
  you're out there like oh
• 33:16
  cool like listening to the
• 33:17
  broadcast cool that's what
• 33:18
  you're you know what I mean
• 33:19
  and like little things like
• 33:20
  that so so back to what you said before
• 33:23
  When you were sideline reporting,
• 33:24
  it was listening to the broadcast,
• 33:25
  giving you the tips.
• 33:26
  What do you ask for?
• 33:27
  The other thing,
• 33:28
  like when I'm there and I'm
• 33:29
  looking at athletes,
• 33:31
  like what is the story on the floor?
• 33:33
  Like focusing on what is the story?
• 33:37
  Totally.
• 33:37
  When you watch it now as an athlete,
• 33:40
  the same things run through your head?
• 33:42
  Oh, yeah.
• 33:43
  Yeah.
• 33:43
  I mean,
• 33:43
  I think that's what gets people
• 33:46
  invested is the these people,
• 33:48
  their stories, like what they came from,
• 33:50
  or you know what I mean?
• 33:51
  Like different things like
• 33:51
  that trials and
• 33:53
  tribulations they've been
• 33:53
  through to get there, you know, or like,
• 33:56
  you know, like,
• 33:56
  it's a lot the pressure of like,
• 33:58
  can these women or men like
• 33:59
  keep on making it year after year,
• 34:01
  you know, and you have fan favorites and
• 34:03
  So, yeah,
• 34:03
  I think it definitely is like
• 34:05
  following and you probably know this,
• 34:07
  like whatever story you had in mind,
• 34:09
  things might pop up over the weekend.
• 34:10
  They'll always present themselves,
• 34:12
  you know, and like always like, oh,
• 34:14
  this just happened or that.
• 34:15
  And so it's always just like
• 34:16
  being like adaptable to that.
• 34:19
  To me, that's when it becomes cool.
• 34:21
  Oh, yeah.
• 34:22
  Into the heat going, okay,
• 34:24
  I'm looking at this for this story.
• 34:26
  And then it flips on its
• 34:27
  head and you're like,
• 34:28
  that is so freaking cool.
• 34:30
  Cool, yeah.
• 34:32
  But you have that nugget
• 34:33
  that then you can talk to the person,
• 34:35
  like, why did this happen?
• 34:37
  right yeah yeah and I think
• 34:39
  it's very interesting like
• 34:40
  getting their perspective
• 34:41
  like fresh when they're off
• 34:42
  the field you know what I
• 34:43
  mean like and their
• 34:44
  emotions are raw and
• 34:45
  they're you know it's just
• 34:47
  such a cool I think that's
• 34:48
  what touches everybody is
• 34:48
  like the emotions and the
• 34:50
  vulnerability and the realness
• 34:52
  Yeah,
• 34:53
  like you take the final event in
• 34:54
  Europe today and the
• 34:57
  dumbbells on the men's side
• 34:59
  were so heavy.
• 35:00
  So many drops.
• 35:02
  So many drops right at the line.
• 35:04
  The stories kept flipping on
• 35:05
  its head like every five seconds.
• 35:08
  Right, right, right.
• 35:09
  And you have to be in tune
• 35:11
  and like know everybody that's like,
• 35:13
  and be watching everything
• 35:14
  that's going on.
• 35:15
  Like,
• 35:15
  especially if you're on the sideline.
• 35:17
  Who jumped back in, who then fell.
• 35:19
  Yeah.
• 35:19
  Yes.
• 35:20
  And you're the eyes on the
• 35:21
  field when like from production,
• 35:23
  like they see one thing on the camera,
• 35:24
  you see live things going on,
• 35:26
  like cut to this lane, you know?
• 35:28
  So yeah, things like that.
• 35:31
  Well,
• 35:31
  I want to finish up with a little bit
• 35:33
  of age group because we,
• 35:34
  we love our masters on this channel and,
• 35:37
  uh, and we're going to be in Birmingham.
• 35:38
  So is it,
• 35:41
  is it your goal if once this
• 35:43
  weekend's over and either way,
• 35:47
  if you make the games or
• 35:48
  you don't make the games, are you,
• 35:50
  is your plan to be in Birmingham?
• 35:53
  Um, I, again, like all this stuff,
• 35:56
  I'm like literally taking
• 35:57
  it one thing at a time.
• 35:58
  You know, I think, um, doing the qualifier,
• 36:01
  like set me up to a
• 36:02
  position to be able to say like, oh,
• 36:03
  cool.
• 36:04
  I do have the option to go or not.
• 36:06
  Um,
• 36:06
  I think I will definitely try to get
• 36:08
  through next weekend and
• 36:09
  then just see where we're at.
• 36:11
  And if I,
• 36:11
  if I feel good and want to do it and like,
• 36:14
  you know, push like, yeah,
• 36:16
  I will definitely be there.
• 36:18
  but I do, I'm an advocate.
• 36:19
  I think it's so amazing.
• 36:20
  All the masters athletes are
• 36:21
  like my favorite.
• 36:22
  I like to like,
• 36:23
  of course the best of the
• 36:24
  best are so impressive, but you know,
• 36:26
  we have a guy here who's 74 years old.
• 36:28
  He, you know,
• 36:29
  has battled cancer and he's
• 36:30
  here doing like
• 36:31
  quarterfinals and like amazing,
• 36:33
  amazing things.
• 36:34
  Like, and that's so cool.
• 36:36
  You know, like talk about stories.
• 36:38
  So the masters divisions are littered,
• 36:41
  littered with amazing stories.
• 36:44
  Yeah, totally.
• 36:45
  Totally.
• 36:45
  Sorry.
• 36:46
  I just, I just saw her too.
• 36:48
  She's amazing.
• 36:49
  Yeah.
• 36:51
  So I, and not that I'm putting this on you,
• 36:56
  but the more bigger named
• 36:58
  athletes that go to these things,
• 36:59
  the more eyes they get.
• 37:01
  And then the more we can
• 37:02
  grow that element of the sport.
• 37:05
  And so it's always my hope
• 37:07
  that some of the bigger
• 37:08
  named athletes go.
• 37:10
  yeah my coach said the same
• 37:11
  thing matt was like you
• 37:12
  would be such a like you
• 37:14
  know the very beginning of
• 37:15
  the season he was like you
• 37:16
  are just such a encouraging
• 37:18
  like positive person that
• 37:19
  would be so great to be out
• 37:20
  there advocating for like
• 37:21
  the masters athletes you
• 37:23
  know and and so um yeah
• 37:25
  definitely my body feels
• 37:26
  good and I like you know
• 37:28
  like the mental part of it too like
• 37:30
  You know, and, and I, yeah, I,
• 37:31
  I most more than likely will.
• 37:34
  Yeah.
• 37:35
  Yeah.
• 37:36
  But I understand like if you
• 37:37
  make the games like that
• 37:39
  has to be priority number
• 37:40
  one and I'm not putting
• 37:41
  that on you either.
• 37:41
  These are all just hypotheticals that can,
• 37:46
  that I have no right to throw on you,
• 37:48
  but.
• 37:48
  No, you're good.
• 37:49
  I love it.
• 37:50
  I love it.
• 37:51
  But you have to think about,
• 37:52
  there's a lot of what ifs
• 37:53
  in your life right now.
• 37:55
  Totally.
• 37:56
  Yeah.
• 37:56
  Yeah.
• 37:58
  Well, this has been awesome.
• 38:00
  We have definitely got to stay in touch.
• 38:02
  Yes.
• 38:03
  I will let you go for today.
• 38:05
  Good luck this weekend.
• 38:06
  We'll be rooting for you.
• 38:07
  Thank you guys so much.
• 38:09
  And can't wait to see you
• 38:10
  out there on the tennis
• 38:10
  stadium floor one more time.
• 38:12
  Oh, man.
• 38:13
  Okay.
• 38:13
  Thick and tired.
• 38:14
  Let's go, baby.
• 38:15
  Thank you so much.
• 38:16
  Thank you to everybody in
• 38:17
  the chat for being here.
• 38:18
  You guys were awesome.
• 38:19
  Thank you to Jamie for
• 38:20
  taking some time out with us.
• 38:22
  And we'll see everybody next
• 38:23
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 38:26
  Bye, guys.