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Clydesdale Media Roundtable | Catching up with the Crew After Thanksgiving · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to the Clydesdale
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media round table we are
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here every Thursday
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afternoon twelve fifteen
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good to have you with us um
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Amy will be along the way
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in a second but until then
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what's been going on Kat oh
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you know all the things
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doing it we'll talk about
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the gym I guess um
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we were chatting briefly about it.
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Last day of the gym is the the December.
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So my, my members know they're very sad.
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Um, I have spoiled them rotten.
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I've a bunch of them have
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gone to other CrossFit gyms
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in the area and they're
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reporting back to me is we
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have been spoiled by you.
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Um, this place is so clean, you know,
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you're so accommodating all
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this other stuff.
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So, um,
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I feel bad that I can't like, you know,
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they're not going to maybe
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get the same experience,
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but I think they're all going to be fine.
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It's just,
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it's sad that some of them I
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think are not going to do
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CrossFit because there's
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not an equivalent.
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And it's a whole reason why
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I wanted to affiliate and
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open up my gym in the first place,
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you know,
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was to be a place for CrossFit
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folks that weren't your
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typical CrossFit folks.
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And I think that kind of has
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me a little bit sad.
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that they're probably just
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going to go to the local whatever and,
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you know,
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take bootcamp classes or body
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pump or whatever, which again,
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as long as they're active, you know,
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and I've had a role in that, that's fine.
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But I just, I want them to do something.
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Um, and if it's not CrossFit, that's okay.
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Cause you know, technically we're not,
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I'm not a CrossFit gym anymore.
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CrossFit clarity is departed
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according to CrossFit.
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Yeah.
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Um,
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but maybe you have sparked something in
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people to want to continue
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a fitness journey and at
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the very least that happens.
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Um, uh, that'd be awesome.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I'm excited and I'm not,
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I'm not super sad anymore.
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Like I can talk about it and
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not burst into tears, which is,
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which is a good thing
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because normally I'm pretty
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emotional when it comes to
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that kind of stuff.
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So, um, when I told my members,
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I did it over email so they could sort of
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simmer with a little bit
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before I actually had to
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see them in person.
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And so there weren't so many
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like surprised reactions
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from people and you know,
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they're picking up rowers
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and echo bikes and wanting
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to bring home dumbbells and
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kettlebells and all that.
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So I think it's going to be,
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it'll be a good transition.
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It's just going to be a
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crazy couple of weeks
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because between Christmas and New Year's,
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I got to get out of there
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and I got to sell all my stuff.
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So we'll be having a little
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bit of a fire sale after the holiday.
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Okay.
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So if you live in the
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Delaware area and you want
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Southern Pennsylvania, Northern Maryland,
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Northern Virginia, come on up.
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I got all the things.
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Are you going to look to
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coach again or are you
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going to take a step back for a minute?
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I'm going to relax for a little bit.
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I already had a couple,
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a couple of gyms reach out to me and say,
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Hey, we need help at the five,
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and I was like, okay,
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well that would be the last
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class I want to teach
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because I've been doing
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that for a million years.
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So yeah,
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I'm going to take a step back and,
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Probably join a local
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CrossFit gym close to where
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my apartment is and just
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kind of enjoy my fitness
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probably through the open
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and then we'll see what happens.
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But I did just renew my level three.
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So I've got three more years of that,
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but I have to get in my
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seven hundred fifty hours
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of coaching at a CrossFit gym.
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So if I want if if it
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matters to me to keep that in three years,
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then I'll have to pick up
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some hours somewhere.
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But I could probably do that
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in the last year.
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If I wanted to.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And who knows,
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you may only need six months.
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Right.
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I might only need three weeks, you know,
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I might get super antsy.
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Who knows?
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Yeah.
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You kind of don't know until
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you're in the middle of it, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's kind of like when you retire,
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you know, you think like, Oh,
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it's going to be great and I can relax.
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And,
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and then there are certain people that
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retire and they can't not do something.
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So we'll see.
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I think I'll enjoy not doing
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anything for a little bit of time.
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Hopefully.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Good stuff there.
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Um,
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Anything else fun this week?
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Thanksgiving was last week.
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We took the week off.
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Thanksgiving was good.
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Yep.
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Like I said, I haven't seen Braden yet.
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He and I have just been
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communicating over the phone.
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Spent some time with Eliana.
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Met her new love interest
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over the weekend.
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We had lunch at a restaurant
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or dinner at a restaurant where he works.
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Earlier this week,
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I went to a country music
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concert last night at a
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local music hall and
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George Burge and Corey Kent were there.
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And it was a very small venue,
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like less than three hundred people.
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So it's pretty cool.
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I don't know those names
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because I don't listen to country music.
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Spotify.
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They are up and coming.
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OK.
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Up and coming.
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Not, you know, not huge, but, you know,
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they have they have number
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one songs or have had
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number one songs in the
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country music world.
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So.
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OK.
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OK.
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Yeah, I just got my Spotify wrapped.
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And my Spotify is hooked to
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the family Amazon Echo
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device in the house.
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So I'm disappointed every
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year because I get my
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wife's picks because
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whenever I'm not home,
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that's how she plays her
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music is just through the Amazon Echo.
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Yeah.
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And so, yeah, I'm always disappointed.
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I'm like,
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I want to see what I'm listening to.
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And then it's, you know,
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I've got Janet Jackson and I'm like,
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I haven't listened to Janet
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Jackson in like years.
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Hey, nothing wrong with Janet Jackson.
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Mine's all messed up and
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diluted too because I use
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mine for when I wake up in
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the middle of the night and
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can't sleep and like listen
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to like a sleep story or, you know,
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like guided meditation or something.
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So mine's all...
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you still do you um does it
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track your podcast too are
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you still on like the true
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crimes oh yeah bandwagon
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yeah yeah but I was on
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apple speaking of have you
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started watching um based
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on a true story no what
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what's that on I'm trying
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to get that is on peacock
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it's with kelly cuoco and
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some other guy and they uh
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they convince a serial
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killer to like do a podcast with them and
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know what you're talking
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about now yes okay yeah
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it's fun it's cool I've
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been I started to watch it
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I like it yeah I have free
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peacock from the my new
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cable provider so like when
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I sign up for cable I have
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like a free year of peacock
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otherwise I would I
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wouldn't be able to watch
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it I uh I know amy is into
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the yellowstone finale I
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don't have the paramount
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network so I can't watch it
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but I'm I'm watching land
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man what's that I haven't heard
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so it's the new taylor
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sheridan show on a
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paramount plus with billy
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bob thornton and it's about
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the oil industry in midland
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texas and um it is billy
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bob thornton is freaking
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awesome I am I'm loving
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every bit of it cool you
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guys can you hear that can
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you hear the wind
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um I not at your house but
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it woke me up oh my gosh
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really bad here it's bad
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here yeah well sorry that
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was like it's really loud I
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live in a little bit of a
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wind tunnel so yeah I think
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you got what we had
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yesterday yeah yes I'm
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caught up on yellowstone
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but apparently I can't talk
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yes so good it's really
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good I can't there's only
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like two more episodes like
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what's gonna happen are they done done
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Like no more?
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Or are they going to keep going,
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do you think?
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I don't know.
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There's supposed to be a spinoff.
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Okay.
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With Michelle Pfeiffer?
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With the four sixes or whatever?
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No, this is different.
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It's about New Yorkers
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moving to Montana with
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Michelle Pfeiffer and some
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other big names.
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I can't remember it all.
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It's going to be like after
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they build the airport?
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I again I have not watched
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any of this last season so
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I don't know okay but there
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was already like spin-offs
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of it they were like
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prequels made two prequels
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made one with tim mcgraw
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and faith hill and eighteen
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twenty three and nineteen
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something seventy nine or
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whatever yeah they were
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good I thought they were
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good there's rumors but
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I've heard like it's this
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this storyline is done at the end I mean
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They're working their way towards that.
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Yeah.
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So because we can't watch it,
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we've watched Landman and
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we went back and watched
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Lioness season partway through season two,
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which is another one of his shows.
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And it's about a military
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ops group that uses women
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to infiltrate the family
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members of Al Qaeda members.
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And it's harsh.
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Is it the guy from Lost?
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It is the no guys.
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It is Zoe's and the girl
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that plays... The only guy
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in the main character is Morgan Freeman.
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And he's just like a politician.
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But it's Nicole Kidman and
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Zoe's and... I never can remember.
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Chanel?
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No, she's, she's in it's there.
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Yeah.
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She was the one in that blue,
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that blue person movie.
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Oh,
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she's in guardians of the galaxy as
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Gamora.
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Um,
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so it's it's really good but
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it is dark like you have to
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be prepped because
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essentially they they train
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a soldier to go in and hang
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out with like daughters
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mothers of the al-qaeda
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members get close to them
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and then if they can get
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the al-qaeda member alone
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kill them and then get the
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hell out of dodge as fast
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as they can and hopefully
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they can save them wow okay it's crazy
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Crazy exciting.
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I like Taylor Sheridan is
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freaking awesome at writing.
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But yeah, it got really I mean,
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he does a lot of cameos too.
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I wouldn't know him if he
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hit me in the face.
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I mean, he's in he's in Yellowstone.
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Who?
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How?
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He's one of the I mean,
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he's part of the I'll send
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you the four sixes.
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He owns four sixes.
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Oh, okay.
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he's also what I'm like is
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he the writer is he one of
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the writers or an executive
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or he's the writer okay
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yeah I think it's weird
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that in the credits for
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yellowstone they still have
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what's his face kevin
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costner as an executive
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producer yeah the episodes
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that he clearly has nothing
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to do with yeah
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contractually they probably
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have to yeah so amy do you
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anything fun this week thanksgiving week
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I mean, I worked at, uh,
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I coached and dead,
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twelve hundred feet of
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lunges and felt it for about a week.
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Not even late.
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What is it about lunges?
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They get you every time.
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Yeah.
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They're the, they're the first,
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most effective leg movement ever.
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So effective.
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Yeah.
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Underrated too, I feel like, but lately,
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gosh, yeah, they kill everybody.
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You can do it anywhere at a hotel.
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Yeah.
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And like you said, even unweighted,
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like they're potent.
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So I did that.
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It was fun to have the family here.
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I hosted, but it was pretty quiet,
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like small.
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And then yeah, Natalie's back,
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but she'll back at school,
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but then she'll be back next week.
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So,
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and I'm done after next Friday for the
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rest of the year.
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So.
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Oh, good.
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Yeah.
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Must be nice.
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Just remember my page also
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don't extend to others.
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So yeah,
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I'm not taking any time off for
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the holidays because of
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Julie's surgery in January.
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So I can be take off and be with her.
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Is it scheduled?
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January sixth.
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And we got the approval
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letter from the insurance company.
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So we have it in writing
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that it is approved.
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So super stoked.
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We both may have cried that
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day when the letter came.
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Yeah.
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Speaking of getting your
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claims approved or denied,
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have we heard anything
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about the United healthcare
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guy and how it was very
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targeted and like,
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Sounds like somebody didn't
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get their claim approved
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and sort of went haywire.
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Is that what you've heard?
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I haven't heard that part.
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I didn't hear that part.
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There were etchings in the casings.
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Yeah, I knew that.
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I heard that part too,
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but I didn't hear what was on them.
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It was deny, depose, something else.
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Deny.
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but there was a,
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apparently there was like a
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movie that had a very
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similar title to it.
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And it was all about an insurance claim,
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like not being,
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being denied or something.
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I don't know.
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Maybe people are making
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something of it that it isn't,
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but like how crazy.
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I also heard another,
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that's my healthcare company too,
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which I mean, it doesn't really affect me,
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but.
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The conspiracy I heard was
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after I saw that he was
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potentially wanted by the
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department of justice for
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insider trading and
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was that he, the president was, yeah,
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that he may have hired a
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hit man for himself.
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Oh, interesting.
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So that his family could have his finances,
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but wow.
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I mean, anything's possible.
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Yeah.
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Corey Leonard,
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my wife works for Blue Cross,
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and they had a thing
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yesterday with the CEO.
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She said there was a hugely
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increased security presence.
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Yeah, that's scary.
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I mean,
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you never think you need security
15:14
for folks like that.
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Yeah, man.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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it's just a wild world we live in
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these days.
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Sure is.
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It really is.
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Um,
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so there is a little bit of CrossFit
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news this week.
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Um, Dubai is happening this week.
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It is being streamed on
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their YouTube channel.
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Um,
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typically they don't stream the first
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day.
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Um,
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but then they stream everything after
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that.
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Um, there are some names, um,
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there at Dubai this weekend.
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And so I have their Instagram up.
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I'll show it on the screen.
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Um,
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So you have like Andrea Solberg,
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Georges Kervis, Elena Karatala,
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Moritz Fiebig.
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Gabby Magala is not appearing.
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Just so you know.
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Pedro Martins, Benoit Boulanger,
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Bronislaw Alinkowitz, Annika Greer,
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our girl.
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Elisa Fuliano.
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A lot of European athletes.
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Mathilde Garnes.
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French braids.
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You know it.
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Kristen Holta.
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Wow.
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First competition back.
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Yeah.
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Mike Wazowski.
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Mike Wazowski.
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Wazowski.
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Linda Kiesman.
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Hannah Hardy.
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Tola Morakunyo.
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I haven't seen him in a bit.
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Jake Douglas.
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Yes.
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Callum Clements.
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So a lot of game athletes, Brittany Weiss,
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Ben Fowler, Hannah Black.
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What's happening in... Oh, go ahead,
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sorry.
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Emma Houck, Karen Freova, Spencer Pancheck,
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Julia Cato.
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So a pretty good lineup.
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Yeah.
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What's happening in London?
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London.
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Well, I guess it's still happening,
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but there was rumors that
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there was something going on with it.
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But FitFest is happening this weekend.
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It's what happened last year.
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They did not stream it.
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It's Europe or UK, Europe versus the world,
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Europe versus world.
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just like kind of tier did
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with what a Palooza SoCal.
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Um,
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but the lineups have been switching
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nonstop for different reasons.
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Um, but with this,
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they fly the people over there.
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So I think they were
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scrambling to get people last minute.
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Um, and so I don't know,
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I could look and see if
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they have the lineups up, um,
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I think Ariel's there, and isn't Emily?
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See, I don't know,
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because everything's been changing.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I think Emily's there.
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Yeah, I'm just following from there.
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Yeah, so Team Europe is BKG,
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Sarah Sigmund's daughter, Amy Kringle.
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nola kai um elena wilkinson
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emma mcquade harry
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lightfoot yellow hosta
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yonakoski and lucy
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mcgonigal um team rest of
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the world I cannot see it
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all for some reason
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Anyway, I'll try to do it by sight.
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Looks like a feast of coffee in there.
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Ariel Owen, Abby Domet, Nick Matthew,
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Dallin Pepper, Jason Hopper,
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Colton Martin, Sam Dancer, Shelby Neal,
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and Emily Rolfe.
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Yeah.
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Last year,
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Barbell Spin was able to stream
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one event.
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But they were not able to
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stream anything other than that.
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And Colton was on there last night.
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And their schedule seems
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pretty full all weekend with events.
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But they also do a lot of
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meet and greets with fans.
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So it's kind of like a
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festival more than a competition.
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More like an exhibition.
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Maybe.
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Yeah.
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I did get a text from Corey
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Leonard because he is doing
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Legends next weekend,
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and they announced that crossovers,
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jump rope, are in Legends,
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and he was so excited
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because that is what killed
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him at Masters Fitness
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Championship not that long ago.
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Woo-hoo!
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He, uh,
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he did do a workout with them in it
20:09
this weekend or this morning.
20:11
Uh, and he said he smashed it,
20:13
but I do not have video proof of that.
20:16
Yeah.
20:16
Video or it didn't happen.
20:21
And he is thriled.
20:23
I think that's Cajun.
20:26
And that's in, is that in Arizona again?
20:29
Yes.
20:30
At Arizona state university.
20:32
Very cool.
20:36
Did you guys see the Pat
20:37
Vellner video with coffee pods and wants?
20:40
No.
20:44
So they got they got into
20:46
whether Pat was going to be
20:47
doing the CrossFit Games season.
20:51
And he said that for him,
20:56
he understands if some
20:56
people are willing to do it
20:59
or for twenty dollars,
21:01
dip their toe in the water
21:02
to see what's coming with
21:03
the CrossFit Games season.
21:05
But as it is now,
21:07
he doesn't see any benefit
21:08
to doing the CrossFit game season,
21:11
especially if it's all online.
21:14
Like he said, for an elite athlete,
21:16
all online competition is stupid.
21:20
And he doesn't see any benefit in that.
21:23
So I think we're going to start hearing.
21:26
Yeah.
21:27
Last week,
21:27
Caroline Lane Bray was on
21:29
Talking Elite Fitness,
21:30
talking about that her and
21:32
Jeff were waiting to see
21:33
what the prize purse was going to be.
21:36
because they don't have a
21:38
title sponsor for the games
21:39
this year to cover that at this point.
21:42
I think they're doing it out
21:43
of the open entry fees,
21:46
so people are waiting to see.
21:48
That's not going to be good.
21:49
A lot of this is just
21:50
speculation and rumor that
21:52
I'm just piecing together, but she said,
21:55
I know everybody thinks money is evil,
21:56
but we're trying to make a
21:59
living out of this,
21:59
and we need to know what
22:01
the potential is.
22:03
And is the expectation that
22:05
they will know all of that
22:06
before the open starts?
22:07
Because I feel like that's
22:08
not always the case, is it?
22:10
I don't think they will.
22:11
And that's why he could
22:13
understand why some would
22:14
pay the twenty dollars to
22:17
do the workouts to be in
22:18
the top one percent and
22:20
then wait and see what comes of it all.
22:24
And then he's prepared not to do that.
22:27
He is prepared not to do that.
22:30
emma mcquade has already
22:31
announced she is not
22:32
participating in this
22:33
season um I think that's
22:35
the only like truly
22:36
official announcement
22:38
that's been made um
22:39
chandler smith is retiring
22:40
or not it was very vague in
22:45
his thing and that's why
22:46
I'm not counting it and
22:47
plus he didn't compete last
22:49
year he was on a team so
22:51
right so I don't know um
22:58
know well I guess we'll wait
22:59
and see when signups come
23:01
who's there and who's not
23:02
and what it means I mean I
23:05
have to say myself like I'm
23:07
not even excited for the
23:11
open you know like I used
23:15
to yeah the the cut off for
23:18
quarters or whatever semis
23:20
and all that it like leaves
23:21
a lot to be desired for
23:23
some of our you know your
23:24
everyday fire breathers in your day yeah
23:27
you know, would have made quarterfinals.
23:32
Sorry.
23:32
I have a lot of thoughts.
23:33
It's really hard to organize
23:34
them into my head, but one,
23:39
I think it's really easy
23:40
for someone like Emma McQuaid and Pat,
23:42
Pat Vellner to say no to the season.
23:45
They've done it countless times.
23:48
They are established as athletes.
23:50
They have sponsors.
23:52
They have had their successes.
23:55
Both are,
23:57
On the back nine of their career, right?
24:01
Yeah.
24:02
It's a lot harder for the
24:04
people like Hattie Cano,
24:06
who nobody even knew about
24:07
until she made the games last year.
24:09
Where does she go to do her
24:11
thing if there is no game season, right?
24:14
Right, right.
24:15
She's not going to get
24:16
invited to Rogue or any of those other.
24:19
How do these up-and-coming
24:20
athletes establish
24:22
themselves to get invited
24:23
to things or to go to things?
24:26
The places where the money
24:27
are is based on your past performance.
24:31
And if you're new and up-and-coming,
24:32
you don't have a past
24:33
performance to help you get
24:36
to those things.
24:37
Yeah.
24:38
Now,
24:38
there's a big rumor with Will Morad's
24:41
new leg, the World Fitness Project.
24:45
Yeah.
24:46
There's it's going to be two
24:47
events with the
24:48
championship and that he
24:51
has announced this.
24:52
I heard a rumor that they
24:53
are actually giving
24:55
contracts to people before
24:57
the season starts.
25:01
Like guaranteed money.
25:03
which is a move that live
25:04
golf took to get people to
25:07
leave the PGA and go to
25:09
live golf because they had
25:11
guaranteed money.
25:12
Now that all ended up where
25:14
they combined back together.
25:16
And it's one thing.
25:17
And again, anyway,
25:18
but I don't know how much
25:23
they're giving ahead of time,
25:25
but there is rumor again,
25:28
rumor that they are giving
25:30
contracts to the high,
25:32
and athletes to appear in this season,
25:36
but there's no exclusivity either.
25:38
You can do both.
25:41
Oh,
25:43
so you can do the games and do world
25:44
fitness comp.
25:45
Okay.
25:45
Interesting.
25:56
So
25:59
Did you see the documentary?
26:01
Anybody pay fifteen dollars
26:03
to watch it for me?
26:08
No, I watched it.
26:12
They focused on four male
26:14
athletes and four female
26:16
athletes the entire time.
26:20
With a little bit of.
26:24
Emma Lawson,
26:24
just because she happened to
26:25
be in first place.
26:27
And actually,
26:28
she may have been one of the people.
26:29
It was like Danielle Brandon.
26:31
God,
26:32
I can't even remember who they focused
26:34
on.
26:34
But I will tell you, surprisingly,
26:37
Tia Claire Toomey Orr,
26:39
who wasn't even competing in the games,
26:42
probably had more airtime
26:43
than anyone in this documentary,
26:47
which I thought was a little bit odd.
26:50
And I'm certainly exaggerating,
26:51
but she was ever-present.
26:56
And at first I thought I had
26:57
downloaded like the wrong year.
26:59
Cause I was like, wait a minute,
27:00
they're talking to Tia.
27:01
Like she wasn't even,
27:02
she was there because they had athletes,
27:04
but, um, yeah, she was on camera a lot.
27:10
That's crazy.
27:11
Was it,
27:12
was it any different than past
27:15
documentaries?
27:15
Because it was a different
27:16
group that did it.
27:20
Yeah.
27:20
I mean, it was.
27:23
I don't know.
27:23
I had it sort of like on in
27:24
the background when I was
27:25
doing some other things.
27:26
So it wasn't like a hundred
27:27
percent focused on it.
27:31
So maybe I have to watch it
27:32
again to sort of see, but I don't know.
27:37
Do they always just focus on
27:38
like a couple of people and
27:39
then like the hell with everyone else?
27:40
Yeah.
27:41
Yeah.
27:41
Yeah.
27:42
I mean,
27:42
maybe they just picked the wrong people.
27:44
I don't know.
27:44
I was just disappointed that like,
27:45
you know,
27:46
Ariel's there on the podium and like,
27:47
I don't think she got like
27:48
any camera time whatsoever.
27:51
And I know it's hard to,
27:52
It's hard to predict,
27:55
but you think that you
27:56
could cast a wider net, you know,
27:59
and then just leave a lot
28:00
on the cutting room floor.
28:01
Cause like footage is footage, right?
28:02
Like, I don't know.
28:05
Yeah.
28:06
Like I was disappointed.
28:09
I can see having a plan going in, but if,
28:12
but if a story pops up, can't you shift?
28:16
I mean,
28:17
you have the cameraman there and
28:19
maybe it's, I mean,
28:20
it took you two years to, to get it out.
28:22
Like you had plenty of time
28:24
to do post interviews.
28:27
Yeah.
28:29
Like, it just, like, I can't,
28:32
as someone who has done, like,
28:33
little mini documentaries,
28:34
and I know it's, like,
28:35
way smaller than what they're doing.
28:37
If Ariel, like,
28:38
nobody predicted her podiuming,
28:40
that becomes a huge story.
28:42
Right.
28:42
Right.
28:44
And you knew that by, like,
28:45
day two that she was having
28:47
the games of her life.
28:48
Mm-hmm.
28:50
Why not pivot?
28:51
Right.
28:54
I don't know who because I
28:55
haven't seen it I don't
28:56
know who else they filmed
28:59
but like if it's danielle
29:00
brandon like she was tenth
29:02
like she always is yeah
29:03
yeah who did it daniel
29:05
brandon was was one of
29:06
their was one of their
29:07
primary folks justin justin
29:09
maderos was one of their
29:10
primary folks obviously
29:12
because he was coming in as
29:13
this two-time champion but
29:14
you know complete
29:15
lackluster we did um performance yeah
29:20
I don't know what the
29:21
group's name is but they
29:22
actually like paid crossfit
29:25
to be allowed to do it oh
29:27
okay I've okay I'm starting
29:29
to remember something so
29:31
where I'll I'll watch it
29:33
where did you was it on
29:34
apple tv or I think you can
29:37
get it I think it was on
29:38
prime okay I think prime
29:42
any of the video stream
29:44
like apple prime you can
29:46
probably download it
29:49
If you wait maybe a week for,
29:51
they'll have a Christmas sale.
30:01
Yeah.
30:02
Right.
30:02
It'll be.
30:02
Yeah.
30:02
Corey said prime for, for sure.
30:05
I mean, I usually buy them.
30:07
I've just been,
30:08
I've been so busy with
30:09
family and stuff here that,
30:11
and trying to follow all
30:12
this other stuff.
30:14
Um,
30:15
I just haven't had time to download it.
30:18
What did you think of the,
30:20
did you see the Katrin
30:21
retirement video that the
30:23
buttery bros did?
30:24
I mean, she was, she's a legend, right?
30:31
Her story resonated with a
30:33
lot of people falling from the rope,
30:35
not qualifying from the games.
30:36
And then, you know,
30:38
coming back and winning,
30:40
winning two times in a row
30:43
and really like
30:46
We were talking about it the other night,
30:47
XV, XVI, XVII.
30:49
The finishes in those three
30:50
years were the best
30:52
finishes ever in Crockett
30:55
Games' female history.
30:56
Yeah, it wasn't so dominant.
30:58
Like, you were excited.
31:01
In XV and XVI, it could have been Tia,
31:03
Sarah, or Catherine.
31:04
I had no idea.
31:05
Either of those years.
31:07
And coming into the last event...
31:09
I mean, it's the infamous,
31:11
Katrin didn't try on the pegboard,
31:13
saved herself for the last event,
31:15
and then was able to pass
31:16
Tia and Sarah because they
31:18
kept trying to go up the pegboard, right?
31:22
And then the most epic finish was the Kara,
31:24
Tia,
31:25
and Seventeen that was one second apart.
31:27
Oh my gosh, yeah.
31:32
Did I miss it or was there...
31:35
zero comp train ben bergeron
31:37
footage in that he he's
31:38
posted something or no no
31:41
yeah I'm not talking about
31:42
him posting something I'm
31:43
talking about her
31:45
retirement video was there
31:47
any ben bergeron references
31:49
where were there there was
31:50
definitely stuff from that
31:51
era I did not see ben in
31:54
any of the footage interesting okay
31:59
I mean,
31:59
there's her training at New England.
32:01
There is all that kind of stuff,
32:04
but I did not.
32:06
And I'll be honest, I wasn't watching.
32:08
It got long to me.
32:11
Like, okay,
32:12
you said you retired in the
32:13
first thirty seconds,
32:15
and now it was like a big highlight reel,
32:18
and it was long.
32:20
Yeah.
32:21
It was also the thing that I
32:24
put on in the background.
32:25
That's why I wasn't sure if
32:26
there were any tender moments,
32:28
tender hugs.
32:30
embrace warm embraces in the
32:32
warm-up area or at the
32:33
finish line yeah I didn't I
32:39
again I didn't watch it
32:39
close enough to give you a
32:41
definitive answer either I
32:44
think like two minutes and
32:45
I was like is this and I
32:47
looked at the little line
32:48
on the bottom of the screen
32:48
I'm like oh my god like
32:51
you're still going you got another
32:59
I think Rich's was like a
33:01
ninety second reel you know
33:04
I did think it was cool
33:05
that they went she went to
33:07
Utah I guess and worked out
33:08
with those guys or wherever
33:09
they're based out of and
33:11
she did double DT or heavy
33:13
DT or something and she was
33:15
like only thirty seconds
33:16
off of her time from when
33:17
she was at the games and
33:19
the guys used the girls
33:20
weight and they were still
33:21
like you know minutes
33:22
behind her I just thought
33:23
like her fitness was still pretty amazing
33:28
And she says she hasn't done
33:30
DT or anything close to that in years,
33:33
probably, or eight months or something.
33:35
So that was kind of neat.
33:36
Wow.
33:36
Yeah.
33:39
Every time I watch those videos, though,
33:42
I love the Reebok uniforms.
33:44
Yeah, they were so good.
33:47
It was so easy to tell who
33:48
was who on the floor.
33:50
Big name, yeah.
33:52
Big name, big number, you know.
33:56
the noble came and you got
33:57
like eight font number and
33:59
name on the jersey that's
34:05
what I that's what I lament
34:06
every time when I watch
34:10
those tribute things so
34:12
whoa that's that's big
34:14
there we go oh you can see
34:19
my my pencil tree my
34:19
christmas tree um it was
34:20
funny we were talking we
34:22
did hall of fame for men
34:24
and women on the sunday night show
34:27
And I, you know,
34:28
going back and kind of
34:29
reliving those moments,
34:31
it's a shame what's
34:32
happened to Sarah Sigmundsdottir.
34:35
Because for four years, she was,
34:39
for never winning,
34:40
she was as big in the
34:41
women's sport as anybody ever has been.
34:47
And she has two podium
34:49
finishes to show for it.
34:50
Could have won either of those years.
34:56
And in seven,
34:56
she wore the leader's Jersey
34:58
for part of that weekend.
35:00
And wasn't she,
35:00
I feel like she was one of
35:01
the first female athletes
35:02
to like get in on like some
35:04
indigenous brands.
35:05
Like, didn't she have like a, you know,
35:08
big, like widespread global brands,
35:10
not just like the,
35:11
the niche CrossFit brands.
35:14
Yeah.
35:14
She was.
35:15
And like,
35:16
if you went to any of those games,
35:18
half the crowd was there for her.
35:20
Yeah.
35:23
And she was always the nicest,
35:25
nicest person backstage.
35:26
Always.
35:27
So happy.
35:27
Yeah.
35:29
I remember at Rogue when I
35:30
was judging at Rogue in nineteen,
35:32
you know,
35:32
first first experience judging a
35:34
big competition like that and, you know,
35:37
being in such close
35:38
proximity to those folks
35:39
like our judging room was
35:40
right off of the hallway
35:42
where they were warming up
35:43
and like we shared bathrooms with them.
35:45
And I remember like
35:47
Camille and Sarah just like being in the,
35:50
in the women's bathroom,
35:51
like washing your hands
35:51
right next to them and them
35:52
being just all bubbly and sweet.
35:54
It's really cool.
35:55
It was a neat experience, but you'd like,
35:57
you'd never,
35:57
that would never happen again.
36:00
Yeah.
36:01
Well, speaking of all those memories,
36:03
let's go back to the boy thing.
36:05
Cause I,
36:05
I want to ask you this question and then,
36:07
and then we'll end the show.
36:08
Okay.
36:09
Okay.
36:10
So everybody, you know,
36:12
is making their decision.
36:13
Do we boycott the open or do
36:15
we not boycott the open?
36:18
What are your general thoughts on that?
36:21
I don't like, so I think there's,
36:24
I think you cannot do the
36:25
open or you could boycott the open.
36:29
I think it's two separate
36:33
statements that you're making.
36:34
Or you could do the open.
36:36
Yeah.
36:36
Yes.
36:36
Or you could do the open,
36:37
but I'm saying if you're
36:38
not going to do it,
36:38
I think you could just
36:39
choose not to do it or you
36:41
could boycott it.
36:42
And I think, I think a lot of people,
36:48
I fear are just not going to
36:49
do it for a variety of reasons.
36:53
Like I'm probably not going
36:54
to do it because I don't
36:54
have an affiliate anymore.
36:56
Right.
36:56
I don't, I don't know where I would do it.
37:01
And it's just not like,
37:02
I'm just in a different phase of my life.
37:04
And, and because it seems like that second,
37:08
that second phase, you know, the,
37:10
the old quarterfinals is
37:11
like non-existent now.
37:12
It gives me less of a reason
37:14
to want to do it.
37:15
Because I know I'm just
37:16
going to do the Open and
37:17
then I'm going to be finished.
37:18
Whereas in years prior, you know,
37:20
I've done the Open and, you know,
37:21
qualified for quarters and, you know,
37:23
did them once, I think.
37:25
But just knowing that you
37:26
could kind of get to that
37:27
next level is kind of cool.
37:27
But I will tell you, too,
37:28
that the last couple of
37:29
years when they raised the
37:30
or lowered the bar for
37:32
entry into quarterfinals,
37:33
it seemed less important
37:35
for me to qualify for it.
37:37
Well,
37:37
you got to remember there is a second
37:39
stage.
37:40
It's just different.
37:41
It's that community event
37:43
where you can sign up in
37:45
June and you can compete in
37:48
your level against other
37:51
people in your level and go on.
37:53
Just clarifying.
37:56
Yeah.
37:57
I think for me,
37:58
it lost a little bit of its
38:00
desirability when they open it up.
38:03
Well, it used to be like top ten percent.
38:04
They open it up to like
38:05
twenty five percent or
38:06
something like that.
38:07
when it made that jump is
38:08
when I sort of became
38:09
disinterested in it.
38:11
Um, so I don't know,
38:13
but there are other people
38:14
that are going to be very
38:15
vocal about it and very, you know,
38:17
fly their flag and say like,
38:19
I'm not doing it in protest
38:21
as opposed to just kind of
38:23
not doing it out of disinterest.
38:28
And I think that's going to be me.
38:29
I'm going to be,
38:29
I'm going to be probably in
38:30
that disinterested cohort.
38:34
I have so many thoughts and I, so,
38:38
I think I am going to do the open,
38:41
even though I don't feel
38:43
like I'm the most prepared
38:45
for it because I just,
38:47
I don't want the numbers to go away.
38:50
Yeah.
38:51
Right.
38:51
I mean, yeah,
38:51
this would be the first time
38:52
in I haven't done it.
38:54
So it might be a good reason
38:55
to just register for it so
38:57
that I don't lose that streak.
39:00
Yeah.
39:00
So I, I mean, I'll probably do it.
39:02
And then, and then my other thoughts are,
39:09
In all years where CrossFit
39:11
needed to give out the
39:11
information as quickly as possible,
39:13
this was the year it had to be.
39:15
Yeah.
39:18
And that upset me.
39:21
Because they didn't.
39:23
They did not button down and
39:25
get that done.
39:29
And I've been on an internet
39:30
battle with someone right now about...
39:33
that I get really upset
39:34
because I think people are
39:35
leveraging Lazar's death to
39:37
make their point when their
39:38
point has nothing to do with his death.
39:41
For sure.
39:43
Right.
39:44
Their points are that
39:46
they're not being treated well,
39:48
or they're being treated
39:49
like monkeys or CrossFit
39:52
doesn't care about the athletes.
39:55
None of the,
39:56
the gripes and complaints are
39:57
about safety.
39:59
yet they're using this
40:00
tragic event to try to have
40:02
a platform to be able to
40:05
speak their mind and to have a boycott,
40:08
right?
40:09
And then you're using
40:12
statements made by Luca,
40:14
who his is about his brother dying,
40:16
right?
40:17
To kind of keep the fires alive.
40:22
And I'm sure there are
40:23
athletes who were so close
40:24
to Lazar that they are
40:26
boycotting for that reason.
40:28
Right.
40:29
A handful.
40:30
Right.
40:31
For sure.
40:32
I think the vast majority
40:34
are trying to use this time
40:36
and this moment to go after their agenda,
40:40
to be treated better,
40:41
to have more say in what
40:43
happens at the CrossFit Games.
40:45
because I have worked
40:47
backstage of the crossfit
40:49
games as a volunteer before
40:52
even judging like and when
40:54
you see the time and energy
40:56
put into each event by dave
40:58
castro by boz by the whole
41:01
team to make sure that it's
41:03
right and that it's fair
41:05
and that everybody has it's equitable
41:08
like they give a the problem
41:12
is it doesn't show because
41:14
they can't get information
41:15
out or they they hide it to
41:17
themselves until the last
41:19
minute or they just
41:21
They have no business to get
41:24
that stuff out in a way to
41:26
communicate with the
41:27
community to give them assurances.
41:30
And so what's happening is
41:32
now you have a mix of, hey,
41:34
I'm pissed that Lazar dies.
41:35
I'm not doing the open.
41:36
Hey, I'm treated like a monkey.
41:38
I'm not doing the open.
41:40
Or, hey,
41:41
I'm just tired of CrossFit not
41:43
telling me what's going on
41:44
and changing the season.
41:45
I'm just not doing the open.
41:46
Mm-hmm.
41:49
And so there's all this
41:51
spaghetti thrown against
41:52
the wall shit for am I
41:53
doing the open or not?
41:55
And we don't really know why
41:56
people are boycotting or, like you said,
41:58
are just tired of the
42:01
season changing every year.
42:02
And I'm disinterested now.
42:03
Right.
42:04
Lack of interest.
42:08
Yeah.
42:08
So I've had a really hard
42:09
time wrapping my head
42:10
around this whole thing.
42:13
Because I really haven't
42:14
publicly spoke about how I
42:15
feel about the season or
42:17
anything like that.
42:21
I honestly I've been to many
42:22
competitions the crossfit
42:24
games are the safest
42:25
competition I've ever been
42:26
to right yes they had a
42:29
tragic event but I've been
42:31
to a shit ton of
42:32
competitions where the rig
42:33
shook more than then yeah
42:37
how many how many near hits
42:38
have we seen right right right um
42:44
So it's not about safety.
42:48
It's about all this other stuff.
42:49
And people are just using
42:51
this moment in time to try
42:53
to take their stand.
42:55
Yeah.
42:56
Here's my opportunity.
42:58
And I think the people
42:58
trying to take their stand
43:00
didn't have their ducks in
43:01
a row for this moment.
43:02
Right.
43:04
You could say the same thing
43:05
for some media outlets too.
43:08
Oh, for sure.
43:10
For sure.
43:11
Yeah.
43:13
for sure.
43:14
But, um, you still haven't, um,
43:16
we still haven't had like a
43:17
games athlete interview since the games,
43:20
have we?
43:20
We have not.
43:23
So tomorrow's my first
43:24
interview of a coach.
43:26
I'm doing a coach first.
43:27
Okay.
43:28
But with Dubai and fit fest
43:30
going on this weekend,
43:31
I'm going to wait until that's over.
43:32
And then I'm going to start
43:33
doing elite athletes again.
43:37
Okay.
43:38
Um, that's a pretty long moratorium.
43:40
Yeah.
43:40
I, that was definitely planned by me.
43:46
Well,
43:46
more like I had to get my head
43:47
wrapped around it before I
43:48
could ask them to get their
43:50
head wrapped around it.
43:57
And we could have had many
43:58
elite athletes prior to
44:00
this for views and clicks
44:01
and all that kind of stuff.
44:02
But I have a lot of respect
44:04
for what you've done and
44:06
how you've handled it.
44:09
Yeah.
44:10
I just don't think it's fair
44:10
to put them on the spot when we,
44:12
when I can't even tell you my can't, I,
44:16
I know how I feel inside.
44:17
I just can't articulate it very well.
44:19
Yeah.
44:19
Yeah.
44:23
So, okay.
44:24
We're not robots.
44:25
Imagine that.
44:27
Well,
44:27
I think that's a good start to this
44:28
conversation.
44:29
I'm sure we'll have it as
44:30
more information comes out
44:31
about the seasons and all
44:34
the alternatives over the next few weeks.
44:36
Um,
44:38
But,
44:39
and I love talking about like the
44:41
personal life stuff,
44:42
but sometimes I just like
44:44
my friend Kat to,
44:45
to give me her impressions
44:46
of different things,
44:48
kind of just talk it out.
44:48
Yep.
44:49
Good stuff, my friend.
44:52
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44:52
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44:54
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