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Lunch with the Clydesdale - What are the Coolest Places to Watch a CrossFit Event · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what's going on everybody
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  welcome to lunch with the
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  Clydesdale we were having a
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  heck of a day with
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  technology but I am now on a new
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  area whatever trying to
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  figure this thing out um
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  stream yard tried to launch
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  it didn't it did then it
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  shut off and now we're over
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  here on a different feed
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  hopefully everybody finds
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  me um I know it's already
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  going to be wild because um
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  Rich Froning's on another
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  channel right now.
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  So I'm sure that is going to
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  take a lot of eyes.
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  But we're going to have some
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  fun here for forty five
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  minutes and maybe people
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  can catch up later.
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  So.
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  With all the technical stuff,
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  let's go with a simple dart toss.
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  And better, but not good enough.
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  All right.
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  So what's going on, guys?
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  What's going on?
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  Yesterday,
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  I had a lot of trainings to do at.
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  Work,
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  got those knocked out yesterday
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  afternoon.
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  Much better day today.
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  Now just trying to cruise
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  through and having these
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  weird internet issues today.
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  Andrew Sten, hola, back to normal life.
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  It'll take a few days for my
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  legs to recover after
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  averaging twenty K steps a day last week.
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  You were killing it, man.
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  I saw you everywhere at the
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  age group games.
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  Ah, hey,
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  but it's lunchtime with Clydesdale
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  loyalty.
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  There you go, Jay Birch.
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  you picked me over the goat
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  I've been flattered very
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  flattered um so yeah a lot
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  of you found the new feed
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  thank you uh for jumping
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  over here what's up jess um
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  meredith amanda I know
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  trent olive was over on the
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  other one hopefully he finds us over here
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  Um,
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  that's the only person I saw before
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  that the feed died.
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  But, um, anyway, fun stuff,
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  cut down day in the NFL,
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  watching my phone anxiously
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  to see who's going to get cut.
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  Um, it's exciting day.
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  Some people are going to
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  make their first NFL squads.
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  Some people are not.
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  Um, and that's a crazy day.
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  So also been fighting with
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  insurance today.
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  Aren't we to a point where
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  we need to like stop
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  fighting for insurance?
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  Like it used to be your
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  doctor would prescribe a medicine.
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  It would go through insurance.
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  They said yes or no.
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  And it's done.
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  No, I get an,
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  I am having this asthma issue.
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  I have a second inhaler,
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  which I have not had in about a month.
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  And I finally get a prescription.
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  It goes to the pharmacy.
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  It gets blocked because
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  there has to be a prior
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  authorization from the doctor.
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  But the doctor is the one
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  who prescribed it.
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  Why can I not understand?
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  I don't get it.
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  Why do I have to do all this
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  legwork to get my prescription?
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  That never used to be the case.
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  Now it's...
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  I got to do the legwork and
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  do your job for you.
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  And finally,
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  I think today it finally got approved.
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  Now I just got to wait for
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  it to get filled.
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  But good gravy.
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  Then you suffer for a week
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  in high allergy time.
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  It's just, God, so over it.
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  Shanna, some parts of medicine is broken.
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  I know, man.
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  I know.
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  I can't with insurance companies.
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  It took us three years for
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  my wife to get double knee
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  replacement approved.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  It's just crazy.
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  Realizing I need to find a
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  way to have a career doing
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  CrossFit and not having a real job.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  We talked last year, right, Brett,
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  that no matter what you did
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  at the CrossFit Games,
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  you come home and your boss
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  still has emails he wants answered.
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  There you are.
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  Having to wait a week when
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  it comes to asthma
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  situation is dangerous.
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  It felt dangerous a couple times,
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  but I think I've pushed through.
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  Hopefully,
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  hopefully we get some answers soon.
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  And yes, they do suck so much.
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  All right, before we get into too much,
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  I wanted to give a huge
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  shout out to Holly Dugan.
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  If you were watching the
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  Instagram this week,
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  she put out leaderboards for every event,
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  for every division at the
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  age group CrossFit Games.
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  And the reason she does that
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  is we want to give you guys
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  who are athletes, if you finish top five,
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  a way to share that with
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  your family and your friends.
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  It's in a nice,
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  pretty fashion and not like
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  just trying to like screen
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  grab a leaderboard or something.
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  Um,
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  and she absolutely kills it
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  every big competition she
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  put out leaderboards she
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  put out overall
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  leaderboards at the end of
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  the weekend she put out
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  overall leaderboards every
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  evening going into the next
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  day and the best thing she did was
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  consolidated the schedule
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  into a way that makes sense
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  so many people come up to
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  me and say they use her
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  schedule because it's
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  easier to read than what's
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  on competition corner or
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  what's been supplied by the
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  event she takes that and
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  puts it all into like a
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  neat little instagram post
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  and it has the men on one
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  screen the women on another
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  for event one then the men
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  and the women for event two
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  and so on and so forth
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  that was how I got around
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  all weekend to know who was up when.
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  And so I just want to give her all the,
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  all the do that she deserves.
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  And if you are running a competition,
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  you need to reach out to
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  this girl and hire her.
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  Like if you're running a
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  competition and you want
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  stuff to give to the athletes to share,
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  to make things easier,
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  she is the person to do that.
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  Like hire her, give her the logos to use,
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  have her make up those
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  shots and just send them
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  out all day long.
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  That girl needs hired by
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  competitions to do that.
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  Nobody does it better than her.
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  Period.
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  End of story.
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  And we are lucky, lucky to have her.
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  The next thing is I'm diving
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  back into the Hattie episode two,
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  starting to work on that
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  while playing around a
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  little bit with my stuff
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  from the age group games.
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  But I've got to get the Hattie one done.
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  first and then move into the
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  age group stuff but that
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  stuff will be coming out
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  over the next couple weeks
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  so look for that and I also
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  did release another members
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  only a raw and uncut
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  interview with caroline
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  klutz uh the winner of the
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  thirty five to thirty nine
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  and I think I'm gonna
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  release one more of those
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  and then save the rest for
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  the project that we're
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  working on to compile everything
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  So if you are a member,
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  go check out Caroline Klutz.
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  It was released late last night.
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  And I'm going to put one
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  more out probably today,
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  and then we'll end that for now.
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  And yeah, so there's that.
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  Big news, WFP is happening this week.
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  And I don't know if you guys
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  saw it's happening in the
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  Mesa Phoenix areas, Arizona area.
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  And did you see what rolled
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  in there yesterday?
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  The wall of dust.
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  Can you believe this?
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  Like it lasted, I guess,
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  like if you were in it, it was about.
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  Fifteen minutes long.
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  They talked to a woman who
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  was in a car and it kind of
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  like rolled over her.
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  She said it lasted about
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  fifteen minutes long,
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  shook the car the entire
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  time that like people in their homes,
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  the dust got in every crack and crevice.
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  But this happened on Monday,
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  and that's where the WFP is
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  going to happen this weekend.
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  So.
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  I guess it's like an unnaturally dry.
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  time in arizona right now
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  and this is like a front
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  coming in and somehow picks
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  up all the dust and moves
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  it forward and it's called
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  a haboob and uh yeah wow
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  crazy like that is like
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  biblical type stuff right
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  there I cannot believe
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  I think will morad was
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  driving in I think on his
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  instagram he actually
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  posted a picture of them
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  driving into it uh to get
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  to the venue uh yesterday
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  so uh crazy stuff man crazy
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  stuff uh that hubbub was
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  jazzed it was it had all
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  the jazz to it all the jazz
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  So anyway, other news from that,
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  Haley Adams announced her
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  withdrawal from the WFP.
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  So that now takes us down to
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  where Haley Adams has withdrawn,
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  Jeff Adler has withdrawn, Alex Kazan,
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  Emma McQuaid, and Bethany Flores.
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  So five of the athletes have
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  withdrawn at this point.
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  And they've all been backfilled already.
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  I think this is something
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  that we're probably going
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  to see more of in the busier times,
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  especially with this busy offseason.
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  You have Rogue, you have Wadapalooza SoCal,
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  and then you have
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  Copenhagen for the finals of the WFP.
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  And I think this could be a
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  trend more than just a one-off.
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  But who knows?
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  I could be all wrong.
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  I also heard a wild,
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  wild rumor this weekend at
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  the age group games.
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  I don't have confirmation on this.
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  So again, wild rumor.
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  I'm stating that over and over again.
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  Wild,
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  wild rumor that the WFP is going to
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  go exclusive next year.
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  And they are upping the
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  amount of money they are
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  offering the athletes to
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  pull as many of them away
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  from the CrossFit season as possible.
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  And that we could be left with two tracks.
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  People who stayed, people who left.
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  The people who left will be in the WFP.
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  People who stayed will be in CrossFit.
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  And you'll have two separate
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  tracks rolling down at the same time.
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  And the money from what I
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  understand is very substantial.
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  Um, possibly in the six figures.
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  And if you're offered that, that, I mean,
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  that is crazy.
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  I mean,
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  guaranteed six figures or take a
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  chance at maybe six figures.
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  Um,
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  it is insane now again wild
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  rumor no idea if this is
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  true no idea if this is
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  true but that is what I'm
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  hearing and you have it
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  exactly right john live
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  versus pga it is very much
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  that emeritus how much
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  money do these people have
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  that they can just throw it
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  around willy-nilly they
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  have that kind of money
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  So the people that you have met,
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  like Jackson and the board
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  with Will Morad and all of that,
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  it's not necessarily their money.
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  It's the parents' money.
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  And the parents have stupid money.
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  Stupid money.
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  So I don't know.
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  I don't know.
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  As a parent,
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  you want to do everything you
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  can for your kid, right?
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  Everything you can for your kid.
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  And I could see a parent
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  wanting their kid to be
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  successful and putting,
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  if they have that kind of money,
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  putting whatever they want
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  wanted at them to make them successful.
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  they must really want to
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  stick it to CrossFit.
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  If it's true, again,
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  I have no confirmation on this.
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  I just, it is something that I have heard,
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  but I cannot get
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  confirmation on it from anybody reliable.
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  So if that happens, it's going to be wild.
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  And I've talked to people
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  who say if the money's good enough, like,
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  and it can support them,
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  they're probably going to
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  go for the money.
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  To be able to do what they
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  love and get supported to do it,
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  they're probably going to
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  take... It's just like Liv and the PGA.
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  Some people took the money.
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  Some people decided to rest
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  on the morals of what they believed in.
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  And Liv had some other things to it,
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  right?
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  That money came from a culture that...
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  they call it blood money I
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  mean it is um they called
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  the the moving that into
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  sport whitewashing what
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  they had done it it's a
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  crazy if you have not
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  looked into the live thing
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  we don't have that with wfp
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  and they're not trying to
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  whitewash anything they're
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  trying to um just spend money
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  Meredith says,
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  it makes me think that
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  someone in the organization
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  really has a beef with
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  someone in CrossFit to want
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  to stick it to them so badly.
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  It's also a parent wanting
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  their kid to be successful
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  and giving them as much
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  money as they need to do that.
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  I think that has a lot of
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  power to it that if you're not a parent,
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  you don't understand.
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  If you are a parent,
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  you do have an understanding of that.
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  The WFP doesn't have any revenue streams.
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  That's the problem.
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  They're not paying for this
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  with revenue streams, though.
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  They're paying for this with
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  their other businesses that
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  they've made a billion
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  dollars in and that they
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  have this spare change
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  laying around that they can
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  help their kids be successful.
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  So...
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  And I don't know,
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  I've not seen their checking account.
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  I don't know how much stupid
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  money they have.
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  I've just heard from a lot
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  of people that it is stupid,
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  stupid money that they can
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  just kind of throw this
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  money to their kids to help
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  them be successful.
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  I think the idea is that
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  they keep it running long
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  enough where people leave
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  CrossFit and come to their organization.
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  Then the revenue streams
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  will follow after.
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  The people running the WFP
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  are the kids of very wealthy people.
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  jay birch so jackson terry
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  is a kid him and his wife
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  they are the children of
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  very very successful people
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  with a lot a lot of money
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  and I don't think they care
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  about revenue streams right
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  now but I also think that
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  they've made a lot of mistakes
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  And this is not the time to
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  try to throw your weight
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  around because I'm not
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  saying it's the right
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  choice to all you guys
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  arguing with this point.
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  I'm not supporting what they're doing.
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  I don't necessarily think
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  it's the best avenue to go.
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  I just know that I'm just
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  hearing it's happening.
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  I don't think it's the best way to go.
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  I don't think it's the best
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  way to build a business.
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  I've said that several times on here.
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  I'm just telling you what
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  I'm hearing from some of
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  the people are very close
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  to the situation.
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  Yeah, they are doubling down.
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  They're doubling down to try
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  to build interest.
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  If they can be the only
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  people with X number of
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  athletes and they're the top athletes,
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  they think that that will
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  then turn into an
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  exclusivity that makes
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  people want to watch them.
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  But I am a casual golf fan.
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  I have never watched a live
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  event in my life.
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  I watched the masters and I
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  watched the British open
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  and I watched the U S open.
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  If I watch golf at all in a season,
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  but they're just doubling down,
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  trying this thing.
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  And I'm not,
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  I'm not judging their success.
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  I'm telling you what they're
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  thinking of trying to do.
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  I, at the end of the day,
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  I think that we as a
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  CrossFit community and
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  culture will watch the
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  CrossFit game season
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  regardless of the athletes
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  that are in it.
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  It's been around too long
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  for us that do this every day.
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  If athletes have to choose,
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  I think the WFP will lose.
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  They will get has-beens and
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  the ones on their way out
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  of CrossFit already,
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  along with a select few who
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  exited because of Lazar.
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  I think you're wrong.
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  I think if you go back and
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  watch what happened with Liv and the PGA,
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  that's what people thought there.
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  And then they got,
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  was it Bryson DeChambeau and...
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  couple of the big hitters
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  and then it made it okay
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  for others to go if it's
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  six figures there is
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  nothing in the crossfit
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  game season other than
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  rogue and the games and the
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  games only the only six
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  figure the the game's only
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  six figure uh payout is the
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  winner everything below
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  that now is like sixty grand and less
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  And if you're guaranteed six figures, man,
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  that's, and I'm supporting a family.
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  I don't know.
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  It would, it'd be hard.
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  Trent Olive,
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  I think the athletes that are
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  looking to make money from
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  sport will continue into WFP.
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  I think if it's stupid money
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  and you don't have that
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  opportunity anywhere else, why not?
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  I don't know.
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  If you watch Full Swing on Netflix,
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  Rory McIlroy fought off Liv.
• 22:13
  stood up against Liv.
• 22:15
  Then, a year after he did all that,
• 22:18
  he got hosed by the PGA
• 22:21
  when they said they're
• 22:21
  going to merge with Liv.
• 22:23
  Now, that merger still hasn't happened,
• 22:25
  but gosh,
• 22:26
  he put his reputation on the
• 22:28
  line for all of this stuff,
• 22:29
  and then right after the fact,
• 22:31
  they go ahead and merge?
• 22:36
  It's crazy.
• 22:37
  It's just... There are parallels there,
• 22:41
  and...
• 22:43
  I don't know.
• 22:44
  We'll see.
• 22:44
  We'll see what happens.
• 22:52
  I won't ever pay to attend the WFP event,
• 22:54
  yet I've paid to go to the
• 22:55
  games ten times.
• 22:57
  I don't disagree with you.
• 22:59
  Again,
• 22:59
  I'm only reporting what I think is
• 23:01
  happening.
• 23:04
  I think that it proved this
• 23:05
  year that a good chunk of
• 23:07
  people will continue to watch CrossFit,
• 23:10
  to go to CrossFit,
• 23:12
  as long as they put together
• 23:14
  a season that makes sense
• 23:16
  and gets us from point A to
• 23:17
  point B to find the fittest on earth,
• 23:20
  regardless of who those athletes are.
• 23:23
  But we have ownership in limbo.
• 23:26
  We have no guarantee what
• 23:30
  the season's going to look
• 23:30
  like next year.
• 23:33
  If you're going to try to double down,
• 23:35
  it's probably the year to do it.
• 23:40
  but you better have deep
• 23:42
  pockets to even take a shot at it.
• 23:54
  Take CrossFit out of it.
• 23:55
  You're being offered
• 23:56
  essentially the exact same job,
• 23:58
  but you're guaranteed more money.
• 24:01
  Americans every day leave
• 24:03
  their jobs for more money,
• 24:06
  go to the other company for more money.
• 24:10
  To not expect the athletes
• 24:11
  to do the same is, I think, naive.
• 24:25
  I think john again I think
• 24:28
  he says I think they need
• 24:29
  to figure out how to get
• 24:29
  people to their event I
• 24:31
  think that is not their
• 24:32
  primary concern I think
• 24:34
  their primary concern are
• 24:35
  to get eyeballs on their
• 24:37
  sport and they're trying
• 24:38
  everything they can do to
• 24:39
  do that even the highest
• 24:48
  elite athletes in the sport
• 24:49
  doesn't guarantee people
• 24:50
  are going to attend that's
• 24:52
  what we learned from their last event
• 24:54
  Right,
• 24:54
  but if it becomes exclusive and it's
• 24:57
  the only place you can see them,
• 25:01
  we haven't seen that tested yet.
• 25:03
  That's what they're going to
• 25:04
  test next year.
• 25:06
  If Jason Hopper signs with
• 25:07
  them or Dallin Pepper signs with them,
• 25:10
  Alex Kazan signs with them,
• 25:14
  and that's the only place
• 25:16
  you can see them,
• 25:17
  then we'll see a true test.
• 25:25
  And they're doubling it down
• 25:26
  to see what will happen
• 25:28
  when that happens.
• 25:32
  And again, this is a rumor.
• 25:34
  We're talking a lot about a rumor.
• 25:38
  I don't know that this is to be true.
• 25:47
  So, I did watch your latest video,
• 25:50
  The Unbreakable,
• 25:51
  with Emma Lawson and Jack Farlow.
• 25:56
  Uh, and I think that it was okay.
• 26:03
  It was okay.
• 26:04
  Um,
• 26:05
  I thought it was better than some of
• 26:06
  their others.
• 26:08
  It seems the ones that buttery bros do.
• 26:09
  And then when they get into
• 26:11
  more conversational pieces, it gets,
• 26:13
  it takes a little bit of an uptick.
• 26:15
  Um,
• 26:17
  Cause I just don't want to
• 26:18
  see people work out anymore.
• 26:19
  I've seen that enough.
• 26:21
  Um, I thought,
• 26:22
  I think Jack Farlow is going
• 26:23
  to be a star.
• 26:24
  Uh, he is really dry, funny, really,
• 26:27
  really enjoyed him a lot.
• 26:31
  Um,
• 26:32
  Emma,
• 26:33
  I thought her talking about the back
• 26:35
  injury and how, uh,
• 26:37
  taking some time off this
• 26:38
  season and just doing WFP
• 26:40
  actually helped her.
• 26:42
  That also is another thing
• 26:43
  that helps them in their
• 26:45
  recruitment of athletes.
• 26:46
  Um,
• 26:47
  it gave her time to kind of get
• 26:49
  everything back in place, uh,
• 26:52
  and heal the right way.
• 26:55
  So that was interesting.
• 26:57
  Uh, all in all, I probably give it a B,
• 27:00
  um,
• 27:04
  but nothing earth-shattering,
• 27:06
  nothing I haven't seen before,
• 27:11
  but better than some of
• 27:13
  their other... I did want
• 27:22
  to address something yesterday.
• 27:24
  We talked about how the
• 27:27
  Dreamers are forced to pay...
• 27:29
  for their dream in the
• 27:31
  crossfit game season
• 27:33
  especially the age group
• 27:34
  athletes are charged every
• 27:36
  step of the way and then
• 27:38
  their families are forced
• 27:39
  to pay these large ticket
• 27:41
  prices to get in the door
• 27:43
  and I got a comment saying
• 27:44
  that if you're doing local
• 27:47
  comps you still have to pay
• 27:49
  and I get that and I and I guess
• 27:52
  My thing was that wasn't my point.
• 27:55
  My point was that CrossFit
• 27:57
  only looks at a linear revenue path.
• 28:00
  And I wish they would look
• 28:02
  outside that linear revenue
• 28:03
  path because people like
• 28:06
  John and Hurt Athletics,
• 28:08
  if you get people in the
• 28:10
  door to where they want to
• 28:12
  come buy some stuff,
• 28:14
  That helps the vendors get
• 28:17
  excited about being there.
• 28:19
  The more vendors that are there,
• 28:21
  the more people will want to come shop.
• 28:24
  The more people want to come shop,
• 28:26
  the more vendors we add on to that.
• 28:28
  And then we actually have something,
• 28:30
  an ecosystem at these
• 28:31
  events that actually starts
• 28:33
  paying for things outside
• 28:36
  of just a flat revenue source.
• 28:39
  That's what I was saying.
• 28:41
  We need to look at more
• 28:42
  creative ways to get people in the door.
• 28:45
  Like,
• 28:46
  Wadapalooza has their free day Thursdays,
• 28:49
  and they have the biggest
• 28:51
  vendor village of any
• 28:52
  competition I've ever been to.
• 28:56
  That works.
• 28:57
  You get butts in the seats.
• 29:00
  And Wadapalooza's biggest
• 29:02
  problem is not having enough seating,
• 29:05
  right?
• 29:07
  And that is a great problem to have.
• 29:10
  Most competitions don't have that problem.
• 29:14
  But they do.
• 29:19
  It helps that they're in Miami in January.
• 29:21
  Now that they're moving to
• 29:24
  March or whatever it is,
• 29:25
  I hope that they still have that draw.
• 29:29
  But that...
• 29:33
  Just to address that one
• 29:34
  comment that we got back,
• 29:36
  that was my point,
• 29:37
  not about that I don't
• 29:38
  think people should pay their way.
• 29:41
  It's that we need to look at
• 29:42
  other revenue sources.
• 29:55
  Well, that's just creative marketing.
• 29:57
  They throw a fitness festival.
• 29:58
  That's my point.
• 30:00
  That's my point.
• 30:03
  make it bigger than just
• 30:05
  coming to watch people work
• 30:06
  out and then vendors come
• 30:09
  and then people will come
• 30:10
  and then ticket prices can
• 30:11
  be lowered and and then it
• 30:13
  becomes like a big festival
• 30:15
  and everybody hanging out
• 30:16
  that's what you want
• 30:25
  And we keep eliminating the
• 30:28
  festival aspects of all of
• 30:30
  these events that CrossFit holds.
• 30:32
  And because of that,
• 30:34
  we're diminishing the crowds we are...
• 30:37
  Like when we were in Madison
• 30:39
  and there was a campground
• 30:41
  and there was outdoor
• 30:42
  events with a cheap
• 30:44
  festival ticket that you
• 30:45
  could come hang out with
• 30:47
  your buddies watching on a
• 30:48
  big screen in a beer garden
• 30:50
  or out at the outdoor
• 30:51
  events or go camping at the RV,
• 30:55
  all of those things,
• 30:56
  those were butts in the vendor village.
• 31:03
  All of that goes to like
• 31:04
  help with the funding of
• 31:06
  everything that goes on.
• 31:12
  Yes, Amy.
• 31:13
  CrossFit events are so much
• 31:14
  more fun when there's a
• 31:16
  festival atmosphere.
• 31:19
  Right.
• 31:20
  We've got to find a way to
• 31:21
  bring that back.
• 31:25
  Not just the games,
• 31:27
  but also with the age group
• 31:31
  CrossFit games and other events around.
• 31:36
  Even...
• 31:39
  Even Rogue doesn't have that
• 31:41
  for a vendor village.
• 31:50
  So we're running late.
• 31:51
  I wanted to do a top five
• 31:53
  events that I like to
• 31:55
  appear in person and go to,
• 31:58
  and I'm going to count them down.
• 32:00
  My honorable mention for this is Rogue.
• 32:03
  When Rogue was in Columbus,
• 32:04
  it was one of my favorite
• 32:05
  events to ever attend.
• 32:07
  Then Rogue went to Round Rock in Texas,
• 32:10
  and it was boxed into a
• 32:14
  baseball stadium with no festival feel.
• 32:18
  So it just became an
• 32:21
  honorable mention for me on this.
• 32:24
  And now I've not been to Scotland for it.
• 32:26
  I don't know what they're
• 32:27
  doing over there.
• 32:29
  It seems to be cool.
• 32:30
  I've heard good things,
• 32:32
  but I haven't seen it for
• 32:33
  myself to be able to move
• 32:34
  it back into the top five.
• 32:38
  Number five for me on the list is Legends.
• 32:41
  Legends in Arizona is a
• 32:43
  great place to watch a CrossFit event.
• 32:45
  Two moving floors,
• 32:47
  lots of cool places to
• 32:48
  watch the events from.
• 32:51
  outdoor olympic swimming
• 32:52
  pool where you have a
• 32:53
  swimming event right
• 32:55
  outside the door and
• 32:56
  everything is contained
• 32:58
  closely so you can kind of
• 33:00
  get to everything and there
• 33:01
  are tents and booths
• 33:03
  everywhere around all the
• 33:05
  floors great place to go
• 33:07
  hang out it's on arizona
• 33:08
  state campus lots of fun
• 33:16
  Number four, Guadalupalooza, Miami.
• 33:19
  Guadalupalooza,
• 33:19
  Miami is a great place to go.
• 33:21
  I used to call it the
• 33:24
  CrossFit family reunion.
• 33:26
  When you go there,
• 33:27
  you seem to see everybody
• 33:28
  you've met in the space over the years.
• 33:31
  Lots of vendors,
• 33:33
  lots of shopping you can do.
• 33:36
  three moving floors again
• 33:38
  moving around to different
• 33:39
  locales right on the water
• 33:41
  january in in florida is
• 33:44
  way better than january in
• 33:46
  ohio um it's a fun place to
• 33:48
  get to my only drawback to
• 33:51
  to water palooza miami is
• 33:53
  it is a lot of stimulation
• 33:55
  in a short amount of time
• 33:57
  and sometimes it's just
• 33:59
  good to go back to the
• 33:59
  airbnb or the hotel and
• 34:02
  just decompress for a little bit
• 34:03
  Cause it's a lot of music, a lot of, um,
• 34:09
  a lot of interaction with
• 34:10
  people and a lot in a short
• 34:13
  amount of time.
• 34:14
  Yes, I know now it's in March,
• 34:17
  but I'm basing this on where I've been.
• 34:20
  So maybe it'll move off the
• 34:21
  list in the future.
• 34:24
  Number three is the CrossFit games.
• 34:27
  Um,
• 34:29
  It's always been down at
• 34:31
  about the number three spot for me.
• 34:33
  I know it's the pinnacle of the sport,
• 34:35
  but it's the least kind of
• 34:38
  like fun place to be to watch the sport.
• 34:44
  Now, Madison was better than Albany,
• 34:47
  which was better than Fort Worth.
• 34:51
  But I...
• 34:55
  You have no access to athletes.
• 34:57
  You have no access to coaches, really.
• 35:01
  It's very tightly secured.
• 35:03
  Things are just a little bit different.
• 35:05
  It's a little more edgy.
• 35:07
  Everybody's on edge, I should say.
• 35:09
  And even though I had a
• 35:10
  great time there this year,
• 35:12
  it only comes up to number
• 35:14
  three on my list.
• 35:16
  Number two for me.
• 35:18
  would be the syndicate crown
• 35:20
  or us semifinals.
• 35:22
  Cause I've not been to the European ones.
• 35:24
  I can see they're great on, on the stream,
• 35:27
  but the semifinals are more
• 35:29
  fun to me than the games.
• 35:32
  People were fighting for a
• 35:33
  position at the CrossFit games, uh,
• 35:35
  Everybody is, is accessible.
• 35:37
  You can talk to people.
• 35:39
  Um,
• 35:39
  and syndicate crown does it really well.
• 35:42
  Like this year they added the, um,
• 35:45
  John young and the heavy
• 35:48
  Isabel to the race.
• 35:49
  They did a kill Taylor lat
• 35:52
  the year before they had an
• 35:53
  outdoor competition on the, um,
• 35:59
  like the walk up to the venue.
• 36:01
  There was an outdoor
• 36:02
  competition going on out
• 36:03
  there with a pretty big
• 36:04
  vendor village and a lot of
• 36:06
  people just hanging out,
• 36:08
  having a good time.
• 36:10
  Syndicate Crown is a blast.
• 36:12
  If you've ever...
• 36:14
  not gone to a competition
• 36:15
  live and you want to do it
• 36:17
  in a more affordable
• 36:18
  fashion I tell you go to
• 36:20
  semifinals I had people
• 36:22
  come up to me there say
• 36:24
  that they heard me say that
• 36:25
  before and they were so
• 36:26
  glad that I told them they
• 36:28
  had way more fun at semis
• 36:30
  than they did at the games
• 36:33
  and my number one place to
• 36:35
  go see a crossfit
• 36:36
  competition is the age
• 36:39
  group crossfit games
• 36:41
  It is the best community.
• 36:42
  It is the most pleasant community.
• 36:44
  You can hang out with everybody.
• 36:46
  And when it was here in Columbus,
• 36:48
  I got to sleep in my own
• 36:49
  bed and you walk out the
• 36:51
  door of the venue.
• 36:52
  There are five hundred plus
• 36:53
  restaurants to just walk to.
• 36:56
  It was the best placed event
• 36:58
  that I have seen in my time in CrossFit.
• 37:01
  And I'm not just saying that
• 37:02
  because I live in Columbus.
• 37:04
  But it literally was right
• 37:06
  in the hub of all the cool
• 37:08
  stuff we have here in town.
• 37:10
  You walk out the door and in
• 37:12
  walking distance,
• 37:13
  five hundred restaurants.
• 37:15
  I kid you not.
• 37:18
  It was so much fun and the
• 37:22
  athletes are just hanging out.
• 37:25
  And you can walk up to them,
• 37:26
  and they're willing to take pictures.
• 37:28
  They're willing to sign autographs.
• 37:30
  They're willing to just sit and talk.
• 37:32
  You can approach Boz.
• 37:34
  You can approach Dave.
• 37:35
  You can approach people that
• 37:36
  you would never have that
• 37:37
  opportunity to at other events.
• 37:40
  It is really,
• 37:41
  really a fun and good time at
• 37:43
  the H Group CrossFit Games.
• 37:45
  And this year, every floor was packed.
• 37:50
  Every floor was packed.
• 37:54
  I think their biggest issue,
• 37:55
  if they hold it here next year,
• 37:57
  is to get more stands
• 37:58
  around every floor because
• 38:00
  it was jam-packed on every
• 38:03
  floor for every event.
• 38:06
  And that was fun to see.
• 38:08
  I looked at some pictures
• 38:09
  today from Rudy Berger when
• 38:13
  they was at Madison and how
• 38:15
  little the crowds were in
• 38:17
  the stands at the Coliseum
• 38:20
  when the Masters were on the floor.
• 38:23
  There were way more people
• 38:25
  in Columbus for this than
• 38:27
  there were at that CrossFit
• 38:29
  Games in Madison.
• 38:32
  So cool to see.
• 38:38
  First time being at the Cross...
• 38:40
  CrossFit Games, age group,
• 38:42
  it was an awesome experience.
• 38:44
  What I loved is all the support family,
• 38:46
  friends showed to them over the weekend.
• 38:48
  Brett Owsley, competitor at the Games,
• 38:51
  really enjoyed Columbus.
• 38:52
  Great location, great food.
• 38:53
  Zoo, museum,
• 38:54
  kept the family entertained
• 38:55
  while I rested.
• 38:57
  See, we have it all.
• 38:59
  We have it all.
• 39:02
  And as long as you don't stay in the hood,
• 39:06
  you're good to go.
• 39:06
  And Rogue is five minutes down the street.
• 39:10
  five minutes down the street.
• 39:11
  Um,
• 39:12
  so if you have the wrong clips for your
• 39:14
  axle bars,
• 39:15
  if you really wanted to keep them,
• 39:17
  you could go buy some new clips.
• 39:20
  Just saying.
• 39:25
  So with that, that's been the fun thing.
• 39:31
  I have a very,
• 39:32
  very funny story from this last weekend.
• 39:36
  Um,
• 39:37
  I told you guys that I am
• 39:38
  the most awkwardly social
• 39:41
  podcaster in the space in
• 39:44
  this um and this story is
• 39:50
  going to prove that to you
• 39:52
  in a big way but I want to
• 39:53
  wait until corey is on with
• 39:54
  me tomorrow uh so I can
• 39:57
  tell the story to him you
• 39:59
  guys can listen in and uh
• 40:02
  yeah it's gonna be a good
• 40:04
  one really really good one
• 40:07
  Andrew Sten,
• 40:08
  I'm really surprised Rogue
• 40:09
  didn't have a presence at the event.
• 40:11
  Me too.
• 40:14
  Even if it was just a small signage to say,
• 40:19
  hey, go down Fifth Street or Fifth Avenue,
• 40:23
  and we're down the street five minutes,
• 40:25
  and come check out our showroom.
• 40:29
  Just something as simple as that.
• 40:31
  All the equipment was Rogue.
• 40:34
  Just a sign to say, hey,
• 40:36
  come visit us at our
• 40:37
  location on Fifth Avenue.
• 40:48
  So,
• 40:51
  but I have other thoughts on Rogue as
• 40:52
  well that I'll have to keep to myself.
• 40:54
  Okay.
• 40:55
  Yeah.
• 40:59
  Yeah, I was shocked.
• 41:02
  Yeah, me too.
• 41:03
  I thought they would have a
• 41:03
  booth there for sure.
• 41:06
  But why make a booth when
• 41:09
  you're just down the street, though?
• 41:13
  You know?
• 41:15
  I mean, their showroom is massive.
• 41:18
  Just go down there and check it out.
• 41:22
  Well, with that, guys,
• 41:23
  I have to get back to work.
• 41:25
  Time for you knuckleheads to
• 41:26
  get back to work as well.
• 41:28
  We will see everybody
• 41:30
  tomorrow for my funny story
• 41:32
  about how I'm socially awkward.
• 41:35
  We'll see everybody tomorrow, guys.
• 41:37
  Back to work.
• 41:39
  I'm out of here.