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The Clydesdale Media Roundtable - Have we past the point of CrossFit Being a sport · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:29
  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale
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  Meteor Roundtable.
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  It's a roundtable of two today.
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  What's going on, Amy?
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  Not much.
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  Not much, not much.
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  I know this is your busy time of the year.
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  It is.
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  Are you working out soon?
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  I am.
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  I was going to take a rest day today,
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  and then my son said
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  today's workout is a partner one.
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  Sorry.
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  So we are going to go and do the workout.
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  And then I'm going to finish
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  off with some more
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  parent-teacher conferences
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  and get ready for the weekend.
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  There you go.
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  Yeah.
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  How is the training going into the open?
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  It's going good.
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  You know,
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  we've changed a lot of our
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  programming to more in-house programming,
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  which I'm a huge fan of
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  because I feel like with
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  the program we were doing before,
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  we were getting –
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  we were over, um, volume and not as,
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  I don't know.
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  We,
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  we were more so hyper-focused on
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  certain movements and
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  missing a lot of variety.
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  So I feel like there's a lot
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  more variety and overall
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  fitness that's happening now.
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  Um, and feeling good about that.
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  So.
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  Yeah,
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  I've had a fundamental issue with
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  paid for programming for a while.
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  And not that like, like, I get it.
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  It's a huge,
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  like lift off of the gym owner
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  to do that.
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  But like,
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  ninety percent of us are not
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  competitive athletes.
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  Right.
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  And there should be like a
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  fun aspect to this.
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  Like fitness should be fun.
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  Yep.
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  And I think that we at times
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  have lost that along the way.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Yeah, I was dreading certain days.
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  I'm not a cherry picker in
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  general because I'd like to
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  have overall fitness,
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  but it was to the point
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  where I was feeling like I
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  don't need to do wall balls
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  every Wednesday.
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  Wall balls and burpees every
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  Wednesday doesn't make sense to me when I,
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  guess what,
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  I haven't touched the GHD for
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  six weeks or I haven't done
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  pistol squats or split jerks.
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  I feel like those things
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  need to be intermixed.
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  You can definitely have
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  some kind of goal and kind
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  of strength cycle and all that, you know,
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  integrated in there,
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  but also having a variety
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  of movements and it, you know,
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  keeps it exciting.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  one thing I always applauded
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  you as a coach is you found
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  fun ways to warm up where
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  it would be a game or a
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  sport or whatever we were doing.
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  Anything to bring fun to fitness, I think,
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  helps retention of athletes,
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  makes athletes want to be there.
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  And that is what the overall goal is,
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  right?
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  Yeah,
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  especially if you have athletes
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  waking up to come work out at five a.m.,
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  Like you gotta bring,
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  you gotta bring it as a coach or, I mean,
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  if I was just there like, oh guys,
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  I'm so tired.
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  I don't know how we're gonna, like,
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  that's not what you wanna sign up for.
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  You need somebody to bring the vibe.
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  like I remember back to the
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  early days when we shared
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  our gym with the volleyball
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  center and we would play
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  Hoover ball to warm up.
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  I love those days.
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  Like I loved playing Hoover ball.
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  Yeah.
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  And I miss that.
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  Like, I think that is just really,
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  really awesome.
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  One thing my gym did in January,
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  and I don't know if I
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  talked about it with you or with Kat,
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  but we had blackout January and,
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  You couldn't see what the workouts were?
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  Nope.
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  Oh, I like that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yep.
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  They did not put them into
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  Wattify until eight o'clock
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  at the end of the day of
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  the day you did it.
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  Yeah.
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  So it was interesting.
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  Yeah.
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  It creates some anxiety with some people,
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  but...
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  I mean, that was back how it used to be.
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  You would show up and the
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  coach would write it on the
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  whiteboard and you were like, okay,
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  that's what we're doing today.
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  Like, and then,
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  then it started to be like
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  your friends would text you
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  who were coming later.
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  Like what's the workout today?
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  Yep.
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  You're like, I don't know.
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  You have to wait till you
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  see it on the whiteboard.
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  The one thing that was funny is my,
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  my duffel bag or backpack got fuller.
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  Cause you,
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  when you don't know what's coming,
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  you're packing my jump rope,
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  better pack my wrist straps, better pack.
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  And I've really cut down on
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  like that extra equipment, but you do,
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  you have to have everything.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's that's so true.
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  Like,
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  I don't think I haven't worn lifters
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  in seven or eight years.
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  I only use them on certain movements.
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  I used them recently on
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  pistols because I hadn't
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  done pistols for like two
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  years and we you know
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  started programming them in
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  and I you know needed a
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  little bit of extra support
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  and I've abled in order to
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  be able to do them yeah
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  pistols were never in my
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  forte so so that my file
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  cabinets I don't have to
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  worry about that and I have
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  enough ankle mobility for squatting that
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  like even heavy lifts like
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  and I try not to go super
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  heavy anymore but even
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  heavy lifts I I just wear
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  regular Metcons or whatever
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  so so yeah well cool uh one
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  thing I did want to clear
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  up today not clear up one
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  thing I wanted to expand on
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  is I've made some comments
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  about the Annie comments
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  from the Buttery Bros video
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  over the last few days that
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  has garnered a lot of
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  comments on YouTube and such.
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  And all I was saying is that
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  I just wanted to understand the why.
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  Well, yesterday or this morning,
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  Annie did share the why.
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  And I know it's not about me.
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  I'm just a puny guy in Ohio.
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  But I'm going to share that real quick.
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  um she did share why she is
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  not doing the open and this
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  will be the first time I
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  will not be and we don't
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  it's a it's a long long
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  video but she essentially
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  says that um she has had
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  experiences at the games
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  where she has felt in
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  danger and that they have
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  always been there to save her
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  She's always trusted it.
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  And then this last games
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  that didn't happen and
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  changes needed to be made.
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  And she goes through the
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  changes that have happened with CrossFit.
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  And she is taking a wait and
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  see approach rather than
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  believing that those are
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  the things that will change the sport.
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  They've had athlete councils
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  in the past that did nothing.
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  Now we have a new athlete council.
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  Is this one going to have any input?
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  An in-house one that she is not a fan of.
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  Well,
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  she doesn't say she's not a fan of it.
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  She just,
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  because she was part of the
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  original athlete council.
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  She says she's a third party.
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  Right.
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  She does not go into any of
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  the PFAA stuff in this.
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  Correct.
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  Correct.
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  But she does say that the
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  last one didn't have any power.
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  She wants to see how this one comes out.
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  The safety council,
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  she likes some of the people on it,
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  but are they going to have
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  say enough to make changes
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  that she then can trust
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  things to go forward?
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  So I applaud her for doing this.
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  She has one point three million followers.
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  I believe that they deserve
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  the right to know the why.
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  She gave the why.
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  I'm cool with everything now.
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  It's her choice to do or do
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  not do the open.
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  And she doesn't owe us anything.
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  This contingent that thinks
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  because she's made all of
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  her money doing CrossFit,
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  she has to do it forever.
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  No, she doesn't.
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  She just followed the rules of the game.
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  And she can do whatever she
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  wants this year.
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  And she does say that she
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  supports her community.
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  She supports CrossFit.
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  She is not supporting HQ.
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  Yeah.
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  So I think that is a
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  delicate balance to say,
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  but I hope that CrossFit
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  does prove to her that
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  these new things are going
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  to be taken seriously and
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  not just be a Band-Aid over a problem.
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  Yeah.
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  I think a lot of people in
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  myself included might worry
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  that there people will just
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  kind of move on and not keep,
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  you know what I mean?
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  Like kind of brushing it under like, okay,
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  well that was overlooked.
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  Hopefully nobody brings anything up.
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  Let's just keep moving forward.
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  I think people are,
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  do you have a fear of that?
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  Yeah.
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  I, I, the thing that at the end of the day,
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  this is a sport.
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  things happen in sports.
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  I mentioned last week that
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  in my swimming podcast that I watch, uh,
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  Brooke Wells was on it, uh,
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  which was wild.
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  Um, but they, they've lost swimmers in,
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  in events over the years
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  that were world-class and
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  just got into a situation
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  where they ended up
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  drowning and it's a sport.
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  You, you have to move on.
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  Things are going to happen in sport.
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  Um,
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  not to belittle what
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  happened at the games last year at all.
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  But if you look across the
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  board at all sports,
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  there is death everywhere.
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  And those sports have not
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  closed shop because of them.
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  They keep moving forward.
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  They usually honor the person and do that.
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  But what upset me most about
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  the whole thing is the
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  amount of people that
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  wanted me to stop saying
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  anything about it.
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  I think on this podcast we
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  have promoted that no
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  matter what your viewpoint is,
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  you have a place to say it.
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  We pull up comments,
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  whether we agree with them or not.
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  And I like having open discussion.
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  I think as adults,
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  that's what makes the world go round,
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  is that not everybody is
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  going to believe everything
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  at the same time, in the same way,
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  and that we can have adult
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  conversations about that.
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  And I know some of my
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  friends do not agree with
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  the way I'm looking at this situation,
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  and it's okay.
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  They're still my friends,
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  and I would love to talk to
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  them about it and
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  understand their viewpoint better.
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  That's all.
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  Yeah.
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  And to say in a comment that
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  I need to stop bringing it up,
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  it's a podcast.
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  That's what we do.
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  It's kind of the format.
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  Yeah.
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  you know,
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  so the goal is to talk about
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  stuff that's happening.
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  Uh,
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  Corey Leonard says maybe adult
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  beverages as well.
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  Yeah.
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  I have really cut out those
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  in my life for the most part.
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  Um, but sure.
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  I'm,
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  I encourage it if that's something you
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  like to do.
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  See, we can disagree and still get along.
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  Um,
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  thought it was interesting
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  she said she has respect
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  for some of the people on
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  the council I hope she
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  meant that because there
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  are some that she doesn't
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  know that just stuck out to
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  me I will take I will go
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  with that benefit of the
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  doubt as well um the other
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  thing I wanted to talk about is
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  is kind of in that same vein
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  with everything that's
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  happened and the low
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  turnout for the open thus far.
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  Do you think we have hit a point where, uh,
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  CrossFit is in jeopardy of, um,
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  going away or becoming even
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  more niche than it was before?
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  Do I think CrossFit is in
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  danger of going away?
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  Yeah.
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  The games like the sport or you mean,
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  The sport.
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  I don't think the
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  methodology is going anywhere.
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  No, I don't think so either.
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  I think, I don't know.
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  I kind of do.
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  I kind of do think it's going away.
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  In some sense, you know,
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  I know we've talked about this before,
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  like with all the high rock stuff,
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  you know, high rocks is an event.
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  I think it's an event that
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  CrossFit athletes can
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  attend as well as other, you know,
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  endurance athletes and that
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  kind of thing.
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  But I don't know.
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  I mean, I love the sport of CrossFit,
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  but I don't know.
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  Yeah, it's a sport I love and I hate,
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  but I think the division
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  right now is not helping.
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  And the more divided in any
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  sport you become,
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  the more likely the sport could be.
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  And I don't think it'll ever go away,
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  but I think it will.
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  The idea of making three
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  hundred grand at the games
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  will not be in the future.
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  I think it's going to be like ESPN,
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  the Ocho on with cornhole and darts and,
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  you know, prize purse.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe in the thirty thousand
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  range instead of three
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  hundred thousand dollar range.
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  So that's my biggest fear.
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  I did laugh at the Instagram
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  reel that James Sprague made.
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  Did you see it about hello
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  from the other side?
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  I did not see that.
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  No.
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  Okay.
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  So it was the adult song
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  like hello from the other side.
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  And he's just turning his
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  bracelet and it says high rocks on it.
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  Sorry.
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  But then he made it to the world.
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  He did.
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  Yeah.
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  So the kid is getting really, really fit.
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  He is.
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  He's not even a kid anymore.
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  I know we want to call him that, but
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  CrossFit says, coming up after bowling,
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  the fittest man competes in Springfield,
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  Illinois.
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  I don't, I think that is possible,
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  for sure.
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  The other CrossFit thing of note, I think,
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  to bring up is that Laura
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  and Adler signed for the
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  World Fitness Project.
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  They did.
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  Let me get this one comment,
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  and then we'll talk about that.
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  For me, crossfit was never a sport.
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  The fact that media has
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  moved away from the
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  affiliates over the years was a shame,
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  but it's made the
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  affiliates independent from the games.
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  Now only the game suffers.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  To me, anything's a sport.
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  When I was playing lawn charts as a kid,
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  I made it a sport.
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  A competition.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I think it's just
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  semantics of whether we
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  call it a sport or not.
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  But, yeah,
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  I think that the media has
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  played a major role.
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  When the media team was let go,
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  there was no plan B,
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  and affiliates didn't get any love,
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  athletes didn't get any love, and, yeah,
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  crazy.
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  Corey Leonard turns out to
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  spray guys pretty fit.
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  Who knew?
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  Yeah.
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  So WFP signed their final
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  athletes and closed their rosters.
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  Laura was the final female.
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  Jeff Adler was the final male,
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  but for Adler to fit Saxon
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  Pancheck took a different
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  role with the company.
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  So he is now working for the
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  company and not being an athlete.
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  Yeah.
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  um so that it's going to be
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  interesting to know what
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  that means um and used to
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  tell my stuff polo lawn
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  darts yeah you know it but
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  I mean uh pancheck and will
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  that doesn't surprise me
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  pancheck and will were
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  training together they were
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  training buddies they've
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  spent a lot of time together so that
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  I'm not totally shocked by that.
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  Isn't Saxon also on the
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  athlete council for CrossFit?
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  That is a, a misnomer.
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  I know that was reported on dense updates.
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  Spencer Pancheck is on the
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  athlete athlete council.
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  Saxon is not.
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  So Spencer's on the athlete council.
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  Saxon is on the WFP leadership,
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  whatever he's doing there.
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  so yes a lot of pan checks
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  and two of them look the
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  same yep identical in fact
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  yeah I mean it does make it
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  confusing so um now that my
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  project's over I'm gonna I
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  would actually intend to
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  reach out to saxon uh and
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  have him on and talk about that um
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  Might even have Spencer on, too,
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  to talk about the Athlete Council.
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  They've had their first meeting,
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  so it'll be interesting to see that.
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  And hopefully not everybody's confused.
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  They did.
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  They fell off a cliff.
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  they fell off a mountain in
• 19:07
  john young's mountain um
• 19:09
  they did fall off a cliff
• 19:10
  in a mountain when they
• 19:11
  were young and john young
• 19:13
  hates saxon pancheck uh him
• 19:15
  and I have been going back
• 19:16
  and forth on this forever
• 19:20
  Well,
• 19:21
  I said that Saxon Pancheck would do
• 19:22
  well at one of the semifinals.
• 19:25
  And he went off on me about saying that,
• 19:29
  that there's no chance.
• 19:31
  So there's been this like
• 19:32
  back and forth about Saxon Pancheck.
• 19:33
  Okay.
• 19:36
  Me being in Saxon's corner and him not.
• 19:42
  Got it.
• 19:45
  So, so yeah.
• 19:45
  So I think the biggest news
• 19:47
  out of the WFP is no Tia.
• 19:52
  Yeah, and you've got to wonder,
• 19:58
  her and Will also trained together,
• 20:00
  right?
• 20:02
  Yeah,
• 20:02
  but Will left them a year prior to this.
• 20:05
  Right.
• 20:07
  I wonder if there's some bad taste there.
• 20:12
  I almost wonder,
• 20:13
  is it going to be like
• 20:14
  Broken Skull Ranch?
• 20:15
  Like, if you're the champ,
• 20:18
  you just wait until the end of the year,
• 20:20
  and then whoever wins...
• 20:23
  the finals gets to take Tia on one-on-one.
• 20:27
  I mean,
• 20:27
  that would be something male or female,
• 20:29
  just whoever it is takes,
• 20:31
  just sits on a throne during the finals.
• 20:36
  And when it's all done, you win,
• 20:38
  you get to go take on Tia.
• 20:39
  Wow.
• 20:39
  Okay.
• 20:48
  uh I don't know isn't tia
• 20:50
  focused on high rocks uh I
• 20:53
  have no idea um I know she
• 20:56
  did a t uh high rocks dual
• 20:58
  event with james newberry
• 21:00
  in australia but I have no
• 21:02
  idea and we saw that um
• 21:06
  sammy which I didn't know
• 21:08
  was having another baby she
• 21:11
  she also just did um high rocks
• 21:16
  I think a lot of people are doing them.
• 21:18
  I don't think that means
• 21:19
  they're switching over to it.
• 21:20
  Yeah, agreed.
• 21:20
  Agreed for sure.
• 21:28
  Will left when Brooke busted
• 21:30
  her feet and Saxon busted
• 21:32
  his feet or whatever and
• 21:34
  wonder if they harbor any resentment.
• 21:37
  I don't know because Will
• 21:40
  and Brooke and Saxon are tight.
• 21:41
  Yeah.
• 21:44
  All three of them.
• 21:49
  Where's Brooke now that I forget?
• 21:52
  She's HWPO,
• 21:52
  but she's also working out with J.R.
• 21:55
  Howe at CrossFit Crash.
• 21:56
  Okay.
• 21:57
  But he says he's not her coach,
• 21:59
  but he says that about Jason Hopper,
• 22:02
  which he has been his coach.
• 22:04
  So who knows?
• 22:05
  Got it.
• 22:05
  Okay.
• 22:07
  What was interesting on that podcast,
• 22:09
  that swimming podcast,
• 22:10
  is Brooke is like pretty much saying,
• 22:13
  I'm at the end of my career
• 22:14
  and I just want to have fun now.
• 22:16
  Like I don't want to put all
• 22:17
  the pressure on myself.
• 22:19
  JRPF.
• 22:20
  At a higher level.
• 22:30
  D. Reed says there are two issues.
• 22:32
  HQ and ability to be
• 22:33
  consistent and unlikable
• 22:34
  nature of number of athletes.
• 22:37
  I'll go with you big time on
• 22:39
  the first one.
• 22:40
  I think HQ's inability to be
• 22:42
  consistent with a season
• 22:43
  that is understandable and
• 22:46
  able to follow and tell
• 22:47
  your friends about has been
• 22:49
  a major component to
• 22:51
  CrossFit not growing more.
• 22:55
  don't know about the athlete
• 22:56
  thing um and maybe that's
• 22:58
  because I've met a lot of
• 22:59
  them in person and I think
• 23:02
  a lot of them are super
• 23:03
  nice and very cordial there
• 23:05
  are a few that I do not
• 23:07
  think that about but I'll
• 23:09
  reserve that to my own mind
• 23:10
  but most of them the
• 23:12
  majority of the athletes
• 23:13
  are very friendly um
• 23:28
  Athletes really struggle to
• 23:29
  seem approachable lately or relatable.
• 23:33
  I really don't... I don't
• 23:36
  see... Maybe that's their
• 23:38
  Instagram look or their documentary look.
• 23:41
  I don't know.
• 23:43
  They've all been very
• 23:44
  approachable to me the
• 23:46
  whole time we've been doing
• 23:47
  this media thing.
• 23:49
  We've been...
• 23:51
  I mean,
• 23:51
  we've interacted with athletes at
• 23:52
  the games, at semifinals,
• 23:55
  pretty much wherever they are.
• 23:57
  And most of them do not come
• 24:02
  across entitled.
• 24:03
  I am not saying that is a hundred percent.
• 24:05
  There are some that
• 24:06
  definitely do come across entitled.
• 24:12
  But most of them are very
• 24:13
  just appreciative of everything and the,
• 24:16
  and the fans and everyone.
• 24:20
  I may be media, but I am not big media.
• 24:23
  Nobody really cares about me.
• 24:25
  And I do get to see them
• 24:28
  backstage where they,
• 24:31
  and I was a volunteer for
• 24:32
  many years before that,
• 24:34
  where you get to see them
• 24:35
  and how they act in their
• 24:38
  natural environment.
• 24:42
  I wouldn't say it's their
• 24:42
  natural environment.
• 24:44
  That's a competitive environment.
• 24:45
  Okay.
• 24:45
  But I know what you're saying.
• 24:53
  You know what I mean?
• 24:53
  Like if we ran into them at
• 24:55
  a hotel after the games or something,
• 24:59
  I think those are the moments.
• 25:00
  Like I know Kat has talked about, you know,
• 25:02
  going to the airport and
• 25:05
  talking with a lot of athletes there,
• 25:06
  like after the games and
• 25:07
  how personable and
• 25:09
  talkative and things like
• 25:10
  that they were without her
• 25:12
  talking about being
• 25:14
  anything as far as media,
• 25:15
  but just as a fellow CrossFit athlete.
• 25:19
  When we know there ain't no
• 25:21
  Yonikoski like a drunk Yonikoski.
• 25:23
  I mean, that is true.
• 25:24
  I mean, he is a good time.
• 25:26
  After the games when it's on, Yonikoski.
• 25:30
  Yeah.
• 25:31
  Drunk Yonikoski is the best Yonikoski.
• 25:34
  Yeah.
• 25:42
  uh, Andrew Stan, I agree with Scott.
• 25:44
  Most are very approachable,
• 25:46
  but some aren't,
• 25:47
  but you also have to look
• 25:48
  at the setting and what is
• 25:49
  happening at that moment.
• 25:50
  Yep.
• 25:53
  And,
• 25:54
  and it's very different if you go to
• 25:56
  crash or Metcon rush and
• 25:59
  see them there as opposed to, um,
• 26:04
  fighting for a game spot at
• 26:06
  the syndicate crown or at the games, um,
• 26:12
  You know,
• 26:13
  it's different at the semifinal
• 26:15
  on Friday than it is on Sunday.
• 26:18
  You know, it just is.
• 26:27
  I ran into Emma Lawson at
• 26:29
  the Austin airport.
• 26:31
  Often rogue.
• 26:33
  I'm just wearing rogue.
• 26:36
  And she approached me
• 26:36
  because I was wearing a rogue hoodie.
• 26:38
  Yeah.
• 26:38
  After rogue.
• 26:39
  After rogue, I bet.
• 26:46
  um so yeah yeah and and my
• 26:52
  favorite group of athletes
• 26:54
  the masters they're all
• 26:56
  approachable except for
• 26:57
  like one or two of them um
• 27:01
  they're willing to hang out
• 27:02
  right after an event all
• 27:03
  steady and whatever like
• 27:06
  they're just looking for
• 27:07
  the love for sure
• 27:10
  Well, and also, I mean, they,
• 27:12
  most of the masters
• 27:13
  athletes are not doing this
• 27:15
  as their career.
• 27:17
  They have a career and are, so they're,
• 27:19
  I think that makes them
• 27:20
  more relatable to us too.
• 27:23
  You know, so.
• 27:29
  Uh,
• 27:29
  CrossFit all approach a master's muscle
• 27:31
  mommy any day.
• 27:33
  Yeah.
• 27:35
  Joke.
• 27:36
  Not, not really a joke.
• 27:41
  what these Masters athletes
• 27:42
  do with everything going on
• 27:45
  and man their physiques are
• 27:50
  freaking phenomenal it is
• 27:53
  amazing what they do later
• 27:58
  in life I look up to them
• 28:01
  so much for sure but yeah
• 28:08
  So we have that.
• 28:10
  We have World Fitness Project.
• 28:13
  It's going to be interesting
• 28:14
  to see if there's like any fans,
• 28:19
  how the fans come out to
• 28:20
  the in-person semis,
• 28:21
  how the fans come out to
• 28:23
  the World Fitness Project,
• 28:25
  what that looks like at both places.
• 28:28
  I did talk to Wilson Park yesterday.
• 28:31
  after posting that their
• 28:32
  spectator seats coming out
• 28:34
  for Syndicate Crown are coming out soon.
• 28:38
  Okay.
• 28:40
  In Knoxville,
• 28:41
  they are doing a big
• 28:42
  community event outside
• 28:44
  like they did last year
• 28:45
  where you can get a team together,
• 28:48
  compete that weekend.
• 28:50
  Competing in that event gets
• 28:52
  you a free ticket for the weekend.
• 28:53
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  That's cool.
• 28:56
  So it's a cool way and you
• 28:57
  do it out on like the plaza.
• 29:00
  If you've never been to Knoxville,
• 29:02
  you enter at the top of the
• 29:03
  arena and then you walk
• 29:05
  down to your seat at the
• 29:07
  top where you come in out
• 29:09
  before you come in.
• 29:10
  It's a big plaza and they do,
• 29:13
  they have a rig outside and
• 29:15
  there's a big community
• 29:16
  event out there inside of vendor village.
• 29:19
  That's really cool.
• 29:21
  And they do an awesome job with that.
• 29:24
  So if you are interested in
• 29:25
  going to Knoxville,
• 29:27
  sign up for a team or get a
• 29:29
  spectator seat.
• 29:31
  And it's really cool because
• 29:32
  you are elevated above the floor,
• 29:34
  making it very easy to
• 29:36
  watch all the events.
• 29:39
  And it's probably going to
• 29:40
  be a lot cheaper than the Mayhem Classic.
• 29:43
  Yeah.
• 29:43
  Oh, yeah.
• 29:46
  That is going to be a
• 29:46
  boutique event where
• 29:48
  there's probably going to
• 29:49
  be a few hundred people
• 29:51
  allowed to buy tickets.
• 29:53
  When I went down for the
• 29:54
  first Mayhem Classic,
• 29:56
  I think seats were reserved
• 29:58
  for five hundred people and
• 30:01
  it was about five hundred dollar tickets.
• 30:06
  Um, it was one,
• 30:07
  it was the best comp I've ever been to,
• 30:09
  um, because of the way it was laid out.
• 30:12
  Very easy to follow,
• 30:14
  but it is going to be a
• 30:15
  boutique event and very hard to get in.
• 30:21
  Yeah.
• 30:21
  Where Knoxville will be very
• 30:23
  easy to get in.
• 30:24
  Um, and they have a lot of stuff going on.
• 30:30
  So scout this ticket.
• 30:35
  Yeah.
• 30:36
  problem is when you scalp
• 30:37
  you may have to pay more.
• 30:42
  Just saying.
• 30:48
  Neither have a phenomenal airport.
• 30:50
  That is true.
• 30:51
  If you go to mayhem,
• 30:52
  you pretty much have to fly
• 30:53
  into Nashville.
• 30:54
  Yes.
• 30:56
  That's true.
• 30:57
  But and then it's like two
• 30:57
  hours from there.
• 31:00
  right I think an hour an
• 31:03
  hour and it's another hour
• 31:04
  and a half to knoxville so
• 31:07
  mayhem's kind of in the
• 31:08
  middle of knack nashville
• 31:09
  and knoxville but
• 31:13
  knoxville's airport is not
• 31:14
  great not good prices yeah
• 31:19
  but it's a great location
• 31:21
  great arena cool community
• 31:24
  event cool vendor village um
• 31:28
  It'll be interesting to see.
• 31:30
  And Mayhem's, like, stacked.
• 31:33
  And only two people are
• 31:34
  getting their tickets to the games,
• 31:36
  which is going to be crazy.
• 31:39
  Yeah,
• 31:43
  that's... The people they've already
• 31:45
  announced is insane.
• 31:49
  When is it?
• 31:50
  What month is it?
• 31:52
  Mayhem is the first in-person semi,
• 31:54
  so it is in the beginning of April.
• 31:56
  Okay, okay.
• 31:58
  The first weekend in April, I think.
• 32:00
  And then Knoxville is late.
• 32:05
  Is May, maybe?
• 32:06
  Later May?
• 32:08
  I'd have to look.
• 32:10
  I'm with Andrew.
• 32:12
  Glad I can drive to both.
• 32:16
  The bad thing about driving
• 32:17
  to Mayhem is Cookville is
• 32:19
  not a straight line from Cincinnati.
• 32:23
  To go straight line,
• 32:24
  you have to go on two-lane
• 32:25
  roads for most of the trip.
• 32:28
  Where Knoxville,
• 32:29
  you can go seventy five the whole way.
• 32:34
  Which isn't bad.
• 32:39
  So but I'm most looking
• 32:40
  forward to the Masters
• 32:42
  games here in Columbus
• 32:43
  where I'm holding a
• 32:44
  barbecue for we're going to have a party.
• 32:50
  Yeah, party.
• 32:55
  All right.
• 32:56
  Bucky's on the way.
• 32:58
  Have you ever been to a Bucky's?
• 32:59
  I haven't, but I know about that.
• 33:02
  There was this kid at school
• 33:03
  the other day that had a
• 33:04
  little Bucky's key chain.
• 33:05
  And I was like,
• 33:06
  have you been to Bucky's before?
• 33:07
  And she's like, yes, I love it.
• 33:11
  It is.
• 33:12
  It is a miracle.
• 33:13
  Like, I don't even know how they exist.
• 33:17
  It is insanity.
• 33:19
  Julie and I went to one in Alabama and I,
• 33:21
  every time I see one now I'll go.
• 33:25
  It's like an amusement park
• 33:27
  in the middle of the freeway.
• 33:28
  Yeah.
• 33:31
  And the food is awesome.
• 33:34
  So with that, yes, it is century overload.
• 33:39
  With that, it is lunch hours over.
• 33:43
  We need to get back to work.
• 33:45
  So all you hooligans, get back to work.
• 33:47
  We'll see you next time on
• 33:50
  the Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
• 33:52
  Bye, guys.
• 33:52
  Peace out.