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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Tuesday 4/21 Show! Mat is just being Mat! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  We are back and better than ever.
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  And I got something special for you.
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  From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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  we cover it all.
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  Midday motivation every time you press
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  ball.
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  Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  Cowboy bring the heat.
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  CrossFit, boobies, music on repeat.
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  Half hour hustle, yeah,
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  we building that brand.
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  Grab a plate.
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  Tune in now, you part of the fam.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  New theme song, new intro,
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  added Corey to everything,
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  and he takes a day off.
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  So here we are.
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  We are back.
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  We are better than ever.
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  Meredith, it's not snazzy.
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  It's jazzy.
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  Let's get it right.
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  Come on.
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  I've only been off one day,
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  but we got to remember the terminology of
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  what's going on.
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  Um, so yeah, uh,
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  just for Mira says sick, sick intro.
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  We got a cool intro from Craig.
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  Uh, Sean says, whoa, new music,
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  much better than the previous one.
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  Uh, I don't know.
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  I like the old one too,
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  but this one is way,
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  way more personal solid from John George.
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  Um,
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  Speaking of Jazzy,
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  That's used code Jazzy at checkout.
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  It'll get you fifteen percent off your
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  order.
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  So there we go.
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  Getting Jazzy with it.
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  We are trying to become more professional,
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  you know.
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  So before we get into all the stuff
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  I want to talk about,
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  yesterday I had my procedure, and...
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  went in early in the morning.
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  They hooked up two defibrillators to it,
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  to me, that is.
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  The first one,
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  they put one pad on the front left
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  and the other pad on the back right.
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  Then they put the second one front right,
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  back left.
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  They hit one defibrillator,
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  did not go back into rhythm.
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  Hit the second defibrillator,
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  did not go back into rhythm.
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  hit both defibrillators,
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  went back into rhythm and the shock of
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  it all woke me up out of anesthesia,
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  saw the nurses and the doctor celebrating
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  that they got me into rhythm.
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  I was super stoked.
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  I think I yelled,
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  let's go when I heard it.
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  And then they got me unhooked and we
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  wheeled back into the room and
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  And I'm back in rhythm.
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  And the ablation happened a couple weeks
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  ago.
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  So hopefully this means that we are back
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  in rhythm forever.
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  And it's over.
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  So, uh, today, uh,
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  just a little bit sore yesterday.
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  It was a little bit sore today,
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  a little bit more sore, just back,
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  just feel muscle soreness and where the
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  pads were is really itchy because it's
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  like a sunburn yesterday was a little bit
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  of Bernie.
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  Today's a little itchy, uh,
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  as it's healing up.
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  But other than that, man, we are,
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  we are ready to rock and roll in
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  a couple of days.
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  So super excited about that.
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  Finally,
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  after everything that I've been through,
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  we are back in rhythm.
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  We are back ready to go.
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  And so there we are.
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  CrossFat always checking my repetition of
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  my words.
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  That's what it is, dude.
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  I was sore.
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  I was sore.
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  I'll say it a few more times.
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  There it is.
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  Thank you, everybody,
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  for the thoughts and prayers.
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  So many of you reached out to me
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  over the last twenty four hours.
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  It was awesome to get your messages and
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  your thoughts and your prayers and
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  everything.
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  Sean says,
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  wishing you speedy recovery and comfort to
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  you and your wife.
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  Yeah, we're both ecstatic.
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  Glad you're back, homie.
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  Yeah, me too.
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  Glad to be back.
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  um tristan says glad you're home feeling
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  better dude so yeah everything's great
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  guys again thank you so much to everybody
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  you guys are the best so while i
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  was out yesterday i andrew hiller decided
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  to cut up sunday night show and make
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  a real
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  where I had made the comment that if
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  you go to CrossFit competitions in the
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  Masters Division,
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  the people that win those events are not
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  natural.
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  Of course,
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  there was a little bit of context taken
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  out of that
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  what we were talking about is the more
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  power output events these strength events
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  we were going through what legends has put
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  out and what they're doing is they're
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  putting
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  They're upping weights.
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  They are reducing a ton of gymnastics as
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  the ages go up,
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  which is a huge mistake in my opinion
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  because all they're doing is promoting
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  people to get stronger.
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  And with that,
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  we already have an epidemic in the Masters
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  division.
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  Now you're just promoting people
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  that more and more people do whatever it
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  takes to get stronger on the one event
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  with the the chest of our pull-ups and
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  the sandbag cleans they reduced the chest
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  of our pull-ups by five as you go
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  up and they did not reduce the weight
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  on the sandbag
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  leaving it heavy for the older age groups
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  as it goes, but reducing the gymnastics.
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  And they just seem to keep doing this
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  over and over and over again.
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  And all it's doing is promoting more TRT
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  use,
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  more PED use throughout the Masters
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  community.
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  Because if you want to compete,
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  you just have to get stronger.
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  And it's getting more and more ridiculous.
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  The more I thought about this,
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  if you look at the elite semifinals this
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  year,
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  Syndicate and Mayhem got three spots to
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  the games.
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  Legends and NorCal Classic got two each.
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  And why is that?
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  Trust.
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  Trust.
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  CrossFit HQ cannot trust NCC and Legends
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  to get the right people to the games.
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  Two things have to happen when you are
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  looking at this situation.
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  Either one,
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  CrossFit gives more oversight into the
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  programming and the way the event is run,
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  or two,
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  you take away their event from them.
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  I believe that Ben and Blair at NorCal
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  Classic want to do everything they can to
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  become an event that is trusted.
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  And they're working to do that.
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  So that NorCal Classic is looked at as
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  a respected,
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  good option as a semifinal going forward.
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  I do not think that Joe and Bob
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  give a shit about
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  what crossfit thinks of their programming
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  what crossfit input is given to them they
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  are changing the weights and the rep
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  schemes on events the week of the event
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  again which shows me lack of preparation
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  lack of testing and it is turning into
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  a complete cluster as to what's going on
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  at legends
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  And they just are not going to be
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  able to be trusted.
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  The problem is we need another Masters
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  event group to become that trusted entity
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  that not only can do the semifinal piece,
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  but can take over the games.
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  Because right now,
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  I think they are the only option unless
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  Magic City can jump in and do something
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  to take on that role and to earn
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  that trust with CrossFit HQ.
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  The other thing Legends did is they're
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  only having five events today.
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  Five events for semifinal.
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  You want athletes to pay for flights,
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  pay for hotels,
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  pay an enormous entry fee to go to
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  a semifinal,
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  and then they get five events.
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  And the older age groups,
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  this probably means that they only have
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  four events.
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  Four events to qualify for the CrossFit
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  Games.
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  If it's too much for you,
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  you need to hand it off to somebody
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  else.
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  Ortega predicts that Magic City will take
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  over from Legends next year.
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  Five events is whack.
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  Has to be a perfect weekend for an
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  athlete.
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  The theme as you age for legends is
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  reduce gymnastics before weight.
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  Seems odd to me, but I'm a weakling.
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  It's just dumb.
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  It's dumb.
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  They are eliminating because when Joe and
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  Bob were athletes,
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  they were strength athletes.
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  They program what they like,
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  what they like to do.
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  They don't do what's best for the
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  community.
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  I have tried to give them the benefit
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  of the doubt over and over and over.
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  And I just can't anymore.
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  It is utterly ridiculous what they are
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  putting out as a programmed workout.
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  And this is carrying over to elites.
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  Elites are only getting five events.
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  It is mind-boggling that they have been
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  given more power to determine who gets to
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  the games on more levels than they've had
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  before.
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  Train Olive says, that's crazy.
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  It should be a minimum of six.
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  John George, not surprised at all.
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  They have been clueless and they suck.
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  I'm right in that camp now, John.
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  Right in that camp.
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  What happens to Masters Fitness
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  Collective?
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  I don't know.
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  I mean,
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  I was hoping that they would be given
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  a shot.
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  I think they're trying to do a team's
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  Masters thing now.
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  But man,
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  somebody's got to take over because these
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  guys are showing that they cannot handle
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  it.
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  They can't do it.
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  Yes, Shanna, your age group has four.
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  Four workouts to get to the CrossFit
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  Games.
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  Hey,
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  go buy a five hundred dollar ticket to
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  fly out here.
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  Go pay a thousand dollars for a hotel
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  room.
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  Pay us four hundred and whatever dollars
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  to be able to compete.
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  And we're only giving you four events.
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  And you better be freaking strong because
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  we're taking away all the gymnastics too.
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  Daniel Arnson says, ma'am does the same.
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  They program what they like,
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  but you get a better product out of
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  what they give.
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  They program what they like,
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  but they make it well-rounded.
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  It has all the elements that you learn
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  about in your CrossFit level one.
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  All of the elements.
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  Ask anybody who watched Mayhem this
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  weekend who has done programming for
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  events,
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  and they will tell you that that was
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  a well-rounded competition.
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  Yeah.
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  Is it going to have GHDs?
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  Yes.
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  Is it going to have rope climbs?
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  Yes.
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  Is it going to have handstand walks?
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  Yes.
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  Because Mayhem loves them.
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  But everybody knows that goes to Mayhem to
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  compete that those events will be there.
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  It is not a secret.
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  And they know they're going to get a
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  well-rounded test.
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  Who runs MFC?
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  I think it's Jamie free,
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  but it was a collective.
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  It was a,
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  it was a group of masters athletes who
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  got together and would train together and
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  work out together to get themselves to the
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  games.
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  When COVID came in,
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  they took it upon themselves when the
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  masters games was canceled to come up with
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  an event that became their CrossFit games
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  that season.
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  why that didn't keep going.
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  I have some theories about that.
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  I was at all of those events,
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  but they have gotten better and better
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  over time.
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  Um, I don't know.
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  I, so I don't know where they are.
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  I know the leadership has changed, um,
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  since they initially started to now,
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  Jamie free is a great dude.
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  I enjoy him very much.
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  Um,
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  But yeah,
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  I don't know where they are because they
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  canceled their event for this season.
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  And we're gearing up for something next
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  game season.
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  Vicky says,
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  I know Jamie Frew was trying last year.
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  Not sure what happened out of it.
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  Four workouts is bonkers.
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  It is.
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  Jody says,
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  I don't know enough about Masters to
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  participate,
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  but I'm finding this discussion
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  interesting.
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  Good topic and perspective.
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  Thank you, Jody.
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  Does this mean online will have four?
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  Does that mean Magic City will have four?
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  I don't believe so, Shanna.
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  I don't believe so.
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  I think that Magic City is going to
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  have six.
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  I think online, gosh, what?
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  Online's always had five or six, correct?
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  Cows and CrossFit,
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  I was under the assumption they were
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  moving to June to try to be a
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  semifinal.
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  It was pretty vague, their press release,
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  and I don't know.
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  I hope it's another option.
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  I hope...
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  Jonathan Ortega can do four workouts in a
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  training session,
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  and he's not even that fit.
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  Yet another reason why one entity,
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  maybe it needs to be Mayhem or Syndicate
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  or JR,
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  needs to be in control of semifinal
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  programming instead of everybody just
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  doing whatever the heck they want.
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  I think that's the carrot that was handed
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  out to these events.
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  to get them to come on and do
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  and host these events,
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  giving them the ability to program
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  whatever they wanted.
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  But it's a mistake.
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  That needs to be reeled back in.
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  There's talk,
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  and you hear Dave talk about it.
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  I've talked to Boz about it personally,
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  that they are supposed to have oversight
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  over this programming.
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  But I don't think it's a hard oversight.
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  I think it is a quick glance at
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  best.
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  But I agree.
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  I think Boz is doing elite online.
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  Why not just have one person from the
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  CrossFit Games team like Boz or hire
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  somebody like JR or Rich or whoever?
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  and have them do it and do the
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  programming across the board or actually
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  dig in and give oversight on the
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  programming.
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  Sean says CrossFit HQ needs to get a
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  grip on all these semifinals.
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  They're so inconsistent and out of whack.
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  I do not disagree with that,
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  especially now that you're adding masters
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  elements to this.
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  And my fear is a population that I
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  love dearly in the masters community is
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  getting lost in the shuffle of the mess
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  because I think their mess is really big.
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  um daniel says i know i beat the
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  regional stuff like a dead horse but all
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  around it it was well it was a
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  well-rounded era where everybody did the
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  same workouts and everybody had the same
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  amount of workouts it was an equal test
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  daniel i i don't care for the let's
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  just go back to regional approach
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  I do like what regionals brought to the
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  table in many aspects,
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  but they were not affordable.
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  We have to find solutions to the problems
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  that regionals had and make a amalgamation
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  of what they were and what they could
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  be.
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  And I would even say the semifinals of
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  twenty one,
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  twenty two were pretty good with way more
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  oversight than we have today.
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  But CrossFit was running those semis, too.
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  So we there has to be a way
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  to figure it all out.
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  think this is a one and done for
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  masters in person semis I regretfully I do
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  just because of how far down the list
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  they had to go to get participants
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  better to regroup and rethink Masters in
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  person.
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  This is not working this year.
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  It is not.
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  And to be fair to event organizers,
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  Masters are, what,
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  fourteen divisions that all have to do the
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  same workouts over the same weekend?
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  I proposed this a while back.
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  I think if you're going to go live
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  semifinal with masters,
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  you have to cut it to a group
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  of age group,
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  like thirty five to forty nine.
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  That is the biggest group that sign up
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  for the open and do a master semifinal
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  for them till you figure it out.
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  Then once you figure it out,
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  maybe you can pull in some of the
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  others.
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  Daniel says, which year was it,
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  HQ mandated,
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  that every semifinal had to do a few
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  workouts that they gave each event?
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  That was twenty twenty two.
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  I believe.
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  Twenty twenty three, twenty twenty three,
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  because that's when we had the weights on
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  the on the slip of paper that was
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  drug across the floor.
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  Yeah, it was that year.
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  Or to guess why regroup, Shanna?
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  I do think it needs to be looked
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  at again, Jonathan,
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  before we just blanketly say,
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  let's just do them again next year.
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  It has to be reworked.
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  You can't be resorting to inviting number
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  three eighty from the list to your event
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  because of lack of participation.
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  You just can't.
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  So.
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  The other thing,
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  and I can't find it again,
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  so if anybody saw this,
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  I saw a post that Del Mar and
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  Magic City were both going to be on
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  Flow Elite.
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  Man, take me back to Waterpalooza,
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  where you had to pay for everything.
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  I'm trying to find it again.
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  I don't know.
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  I'll try to find out more before tomorrow,
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  but
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  That is craziness.
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  If we're going back to flow elite for
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  coverage, you had to pay for it.
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  And it was terrible, terrible coverage.
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  So we'll see what happens.
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  Train Olive,
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  and so not a free stream for Masters.
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  I can't find it again, Winter,
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  to be able to know.
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  And I don't know if it's exclusively for
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  Masters because Legends is doing Elites as
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  well.
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  It's a mix of Elites and Masters this
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  weekend.
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  And I saw a post that said on
• 25:31
  Flow Elite, but I can't find it again.
• 25:47
  Daniel says,
• 25:47
  if we can't get the same test across
• 25:49
  the board for whatever reason,
• 25:51
  that's not a terrible idea to stick to
• 25:54
  each semifinal has to do three specific
• 25:56
  workouts.
• 25:58
  And from there,
• 25:59
  HQ has still has some oversight.
• 26:01
  Yeah, I'm okay with that.
• 26:03
  I think the oversight is key.
• 26:11
  Amanda says,
• 26:12
  I think Savant's crew is doing elites.
• 26:14
  Yeah,
• 26:14
  but we don't know where it's being
• 26:16
  broadcast.
• 26:18
  If Savant's crew is doing it,
• 26:20
  it could be put on a Flow Elite
• 26:22
  platform.
• 26:24
  PC says up here that Flow Elite has
• 26:27
  been reaching out to a bunch of
• 26:28
  competitions, including WFP.
• 26:33
  Again,
• 26:33
  I'll keep digging and see where we're at
• 26:36
  with this and see if it is going
• 26:38
  to be a pay stream.
• 26:41
  I don't know.
• 26:42
  Again, I just saw it this morning.
• 26:45
  I heard Jenny talking about it.
• 26:50
  So I'm just trying to figure it out.
• 26:56
  I can't imagine the Savant crew doing it
• 26:58
  and not holding it on their platform.
• 27:02
  The one benefit they get is to grow
• 27:04
  their channel.
• 27:08
  So...
• 27:11
  Maybe it was an April Fool's joke that
• 27:13
  came way late.
• 27:16
  I don't know.
• 27:24
  Yeah.
• 27:25
  So last night,
• 27:27
  Matt Frazier was on with The Boys
• 27:29
  Interrupted.
• 27:32
  I'll be honest with you.
• 27:33
  I tried to watch it as I went
• 27:35
  to bed.
• 27:36
  But after everything I went through
• 27:37
  yesterday, staying awake was not...
• 27:40
  priority for me or very easy to do
• 27:43
  so I floated in and out of consciousness
• 27:46
  throughout it I thought what was enjoyable
• 27:50
  was Matt's a great storyteller and I
• 27:56
  thought they told stories very very well I
• 28:02
  hear a lot of people today talking about
• 28:06
  um matt and hq trying to make sure
• 28:12
  that he did not succeed all these things
• 28:16
  and everybody upset about matt again i
• 28:18
  said this what a week ago two weeks
• 28:20
  ago matt has never changed
• 28:24
  Matt is the same dude that showed up
• 28:26
  in twenty fourteen and he has never ever
• 28:30
  changed.
• 28:31
  He has been consistent to who he is.
• 28:34
  You can love him.
• 28:35
  You can hate him.
• 28:37
  He don't care.
• 28:39
  He's just going to be him.
• 28:42
  So for people to expect him to come
• 28:44
  on to a podcast and all of a
• 28:46
  sudden become Rich Froning,
• 28:48
  it's never going to happen.
• 28:50
  The guy is who he is.
• 28:54
  And he built a huge amount of fans
• 28:57
  being him.
• 29:02
  So, and like Teresa says here,
• 29:07
  didn't like him then don't like him now.
• 29:10
  And that's,
• 29:11
  and that's probably fine with him.
• 29:15
  Um,
• 29:17
  So that's wild to me that people think
• 29:23
  all of a sudden he's going to become
• 29:24
  this ambassador for CrossFit.
• 29:27
  He was never that.
• 29:30
  Matt was always about making himself the
• 29:33
  greatest athlete to ever set foot on a
• 29:37
  CrossFit floor.
• 29:41
  He never did it for CrossFit.
• 29:43
  He never did it for anybody else.
• 29:45
  He did it for him.
• 29:47
  That's who he is.
• 29:48
  Love him or hate him.
• 29:50
  He just is what he is.
• 29:59
  Train to love, loved Matt.
• 30:01
  Then love them.
• 30:02
  Now a clock says we know who he
• 30:06
  is and we're going to keep pointing it
• 30:08
  out.
• 30:13
  Matt was always about Matt,
• 30:15
  never a community guy.
• 30:16
  That's who he was.
• 30:18
  And what we loved about him in twenty
• 30:20
  fourteen is he was the anti rich.
• 30:23
  Rich was the wholesome Midwesterner that
• 30:27
  had won three in a row,
• 30:29
  was going for four.
• 30:31
  Matt was this.
• 30:33
  Cocky.
• 30:37
  trash talking dude from Vermont who came
• 30:41
  in and tried to take the crown from
• 30:43
  the King.
• 30:45
  And he didn't do it.
• 30:46
  And the next year, everybody was like,
• 30:48
  well,
• 30:49
  now is the cocky kid going to take
• 30:50
  it from Ben Smith?
• 30:52
  No, we didn't.
• 30:53
  And then he did in,
• 30:56
  and he wrote it for five straight
• 30:57
  championships.
• 30:59
  And it was who he was never,
• 31:03
  ever been anybody else.
• 31:13
  So there it is.
• 31:16
  I'll try to go back and watch it
• 31:17
  again.
• 31:19
  It's just a long podcast.
• 31:21
  I can't do these like Rogan-esque podcasts
• 31:24
  anymore.
• 31:30
  So Tristan says,
• 31:34
  Rich was like the famous German shepherd
• 31:37
  everybody loved,
• 31:38
  and Matt was the scrappy pit bull.
• 31:41
  right matt was that dog on the chain
• 31:43
  that everybody kept outside and once a
• 31:46
  year let loose to see if he could
• 31:48
  do something amazing uh train says he
• 31:57
  looked at it as his job which is
• 31:59
  what made him so successful
• 32:06
  Carolyn Prevost says, Matt,
• 32:07
  I don't remember Matt being cocky.
• 32:10
  Well, I do.
• 32:11
  I remember him being very confident in his
• 32:12
  own abilities.
• 32:14
  And I don't mind cocky.
• 32:16
  It's sport.
• 32:17
  Cocky's good.
• 32:20
  Believing in yourself and believing in
• 32:22
  your ability is a good thing in sport.
• 32:27
  Just because I say cocky doesn't mean it's
• 32:29
  bad.
• 32:31
  I argued two weeks ago that when you
• 32:33
  had Matt versus Rich and Matt versus Ben,
• 32:37
  it was when the sport was the best.
• 32:45
  So I don't look at cocky as a
• 32:47
  negative term.
• 32:51
  Caleb Williams is the quarterback of the
• 32:52
  Chicago Bears, and he is cocky,
• 32:55
  and I want that.
• 32:56
  I want my quarterback to be cocky.
• 32:59
  I want him to think he's the best
• 33:01
  out there.
• 33:11
  John George says Matt is the noble of
• 33:13
  athletes.
• 33:14
  Use CrossFit to create his brand,
• 33:15
  and now on to bigger things.
• 33:23
  Exactly, Jay Birch.
• 33:24
  If he can back it up,
• 33:26
  it's not a brag.
• 33:27
  It's just fact.
• 33:43
  Train all of people like Colton being
• 33:45
  cocky now, but not Matt being cocky.
• 33:47
  Then it brings spice to the sport.
• 33:58
  And that AI just keeps rubbing salt in
• 34:00
  the wound.
• 34:01
  The Jets are never getting Tyson.
• 34:17
  I must really be tolerant.
• 34:18
  I don't pick up any of these things
• 34:20
  from Matt.
• 34:23
  And I do agree.
• 34:24
  I do agree.
• 34:24
  No rep puppy.
• 34:25
  I think he is happier now.
• 34:27
  I think he's happier now being away from
• 34:29
  the sport.
• 34:30
  It consumed him.
• 34:32
  Now he gets to be a dad.
• 34:34
  He gets to be a husband.
• 34:35
  He gets to do all that stuff.
• 34:38
  And he doesn't have to be in the
• 34:39
  limelight anymore.
• 34:40
  I don't think he ever wanted to be
• 34:43
  in the spotlight.
• 34:45
  I think he used the spotlight to get
• 34:48
  him to where he was and now he
• 34:50
  just wants to go to his farm in
• 34:52
  Vermont and be a dad.
• 35:03
  So the last thing I really wanted to
• 35:05
  talk about is I caught up on American
• 35:08
  Gladiators yesterday.
• 35:13
  What's been cool is
• 35:16
  was watching it to see how danny spiegel
• 35:18
  did which in episode three she crushes she
• 35:22
  crushes it um but what i found fascinating
• 35:26
  is there's a contestant in episode three
• 35:31
  when they showed her highlight reel it was
• 35:34
  footage from the syndicate crown i think
• 35:39
  she's a team athlete i know i've seen
• 35:43
  her
• 35:45
  And I just couldn't place her in my
• 35:47
  mind as to where she was from.
• 35:51
  But it is so cool that Gladiators uses
• 35:55
  the term CrossFit.
• 35:57
  They talk about CrossFitters.
• 36:00
  There's been two contestants that have
• 36:02
  claimed to be CrossFitters.
• 36:06
  They talk about Danny Spiegel being a
• 36:08
  CrossFitter.
• 36:12
  And I think it's really good as a
• 36:16
  promotion for the sport and for the
• 36:18
  methodology, quite frankly.
• 36:28
  It's been a fun watch.
• 36:30
  If you watched back in the day,
• 36:32
  the games are pretty much the same.
• 36:36
  I do think that the Gladiators are more
• 36:38
  athletic than they were back in the day.
• 36:41
  They weren't just all – they're more than
• 36:45
  just muscle.
• 36:45
  They are athletes who can move.
• 36:58
  Danny was a savage on the climbing chase,
• 37:02
  whatever it's named.
• 37:03
  I know.
• 37:04
  That's episode three.
• 37:07
  She was incredible at that.
• 37:13
  And if you have not seen gladiators,
• 37:15
  it's on prime Amazon prime,
• 37:18
  go check it out.
• 37:22
  It's really good.
• 37:23
  There's three episodes released now.
• 37:27
  I know that Jordan chefs,
• 37:28
  the semifinal athlete is going to be a
• 37:30
  contestant probably in the next episode or
• 37:33
  two.
• 37:34
  Cause I think there's only four prelims
• 37:38
  maybe.
• 37:40
  Maybe there's six.
• 37:41
  Maybe there'll be three more.
• 37:46
  So anyway, yeah, go check it out.
• 37:49
  It's awesome.
• 37:50
  You get to see Danny Spiegel,
• 37:52
  pure athleticism.
• 37:55
  And if you like Gladiator back in the
• 37:57
  day, it's pretty fun to watch now.
• 38:06
  Kenneth DeLapp,
• 38:06
  I liked when Jen Witterstrom was a
• 38:09
  gladiator.
• 38:11
  Jen from Biggest Loser was also a
• 38:14
  gladiator.
• 38:15
  Yeah,
• 38:16
  I watched Gladiator every time it was on.
• 38:21
  It's been something that I really wanted
• 38:23
  to, I thought was fun to watch.
• 38:30
  I guess Copa Sur workouts are out.
• 38:32
  I've not seen them yet.
• 38:34
  We'll probably pull them up tomorrow.
• 38:37
  But we got legends this weekend.
• 38:40
  I think they're the only semifinal going
• 38:42
  on this weekend.
• 38:45
  So we'll check that out for sure later
• 38:48
  in the week and see what's going on
• 38:51
  there.
• 38:53
  Last thing is all of the episodes of
• 38:56
  Hattie behind the scenes at the CrossFit
• 38:58
  Games are out.
• 39:00
  Episode four was released yesterday or
• 39:03
  Sunday.
• 39:06
  All my days are mixing together.
• 39:09
  The last episode, I think,
• 39:10
  is the best one.
• 39:12
  kind of wraps up the weekend again tristan
• 39:15
  and her were both awesome to sit down
• 39:18
  with me after it was all over for
• 39:21
  a lengthy period of time to talk about
• 39:24
  the weekend as a whole the last episode
• 39:27
  captures all of that so make sure to
• 39:30
  go check that out it's right here on
• 39:33
  this youtube channel
• 39:35
  And with that,
• 39:36
  I'm going to go for the day.
• 39:38
  Thank you again to everybody for the
• 39:40
  thoughts and prayers over the last twenty
• 39:42
  four hours.
• 39:43
  But I'm back, baby.
• 39:45
  I'm back and I'm back in rhythm and
• 39:47
  ready to do this thing called CrossFit and
• 39:50
  ready to get after some stuff.
• 39:53
  So.
• 39:55
  We'll be back tomorrow.
• 39:56
  Hopefully we'll be back with the cowboy
• 39:58
  and we'll see everybody tomorrow on lunch
• 40:01
  with the Clydesdale.
• 40:02
  And with that,
• 40:03
  I'm leaving you with the new open as
• 40:06
  the ending for today.
• 40:07
  Cause it's so damn cool.
• 40:11
  So when that lunch bell ring, yeah,
• 40:12
  you know what to do.
• 40:13
  Hit play, stay strong.
• 40:15
  Let the park carry you.
• 40:16
  Clydesdale cowboy.
• 40:17
  Yeah.
• 40:17
  We stay on track.
• 40:18
  Midday Kings of the mic.
• 40:20
  Yeah.
• 40:20
  We always come back.
• 40:21
  Yeah.
• 40:31
  from the gym to the screen yeah we
• 40:32
  cover it all midday motivation every time
• 40:35
  you press call lunch with the