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Thursday Night CrossFit Talk | Faul States "Significant" Money to be Removed from Sport · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:27
  What is going on, everybody?
• 0:28
  Welcome to Thursday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 0:31
  My name is Scott Schweitzer.
• 0:32
  I'm the Clydesdale.
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  I have with me my normal co-host,
• 0:35
  Jamie Latimer, and our special co-host,
• 0:38
  who is going to fill in for
• 0:39
  most of the night for me.
• 0:41
  I'll be here,
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  but I don't have much of a voice,
• 0:44
  Carolyn Prevost,
• 0:45
  who is a great friend of the show,
• 0:47
  and we appreciate her so much.
• 0:49
  But we're going to go through today's news,
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  and I'm actually going to
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  turn it over to Jamie to
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  lead this edition.
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  And so we're gonna we're
• 0:58
  gonna kick it off.
• 1:00
  All right, big day.
• 1:01
  Um,
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  so one of the big breaking news we got
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  male O'Brien has said she
• 1:07
  is out and not going to
• 1:09
  even do the open this year.
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  thoughts, Carolyn.
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  I'm not surprised.
• 1:15
  Looked like she's, like she said,
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  she's at peace with her decision.
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  There's no timeline for when
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  she'll be ready to come back.
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  If she wants to come back,
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  she's someone that's going to be active,
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  I think her whole life and she'll,
• 1:28
  she'll find something to
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  stay fit and yeah, happy for her.
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  I mean,
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  if this is what she wants and this
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  is what she needs for her health,
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  I think that's, that's good.
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  Yeah.
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  Sounds like she's,
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  In Hawaii, enjoying her time.
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  I have heard a lot of people
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  speculating she may be
• 1:47
  going to do a high rocks race.
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  They've seen a lot of posts
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  in that direction.
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  A little less stress, I would say,
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  with something like that.
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  So I could see that route.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't even know if
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  competing in anything is on
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  her horizon right now.
• 2:00
  She just looks like she's
• 2:01
  honestly having a good time traveling,
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  spending time with her
• 2:04
  boyfriend and getting some
• 2:06
  training in whenever she can.
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  I think that's good for her.
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  Yeah, I agree.
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  This is actually one of my
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  biggest pet peeve topics.
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  And so I do want to,
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  I want to jump in here a little bit.
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  And that is we've got to stop pushing 13,
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  14,
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  15 year old kids into professional sports,
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  whether it be soccer,
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  whether it be gymnastics,
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  whether it be CrossFit, whatever it is.
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  Carolyn's a great example.
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  She played sports every
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  season and it was different.
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  She got to shut off one, pick up another.
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  I did the same when I was in high school.
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  It made high school sports
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  enjoyable for me to move
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  from sport to sport to sport.
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  And the fact that you think
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  a 13 year old is going to
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  be a professional athlete.
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  It's just too much, I think,
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  for kids these days.
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  And my biggest hope for Mal
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  is I don't care if she ever comes back.
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  If she's happy,
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  that's the most important thing.
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  But it says a lot that she
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  moved all the way to Hawaii,
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  kind of out of the spotlight.
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  to get away from some things.
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  And,
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  and I think we need to respect that
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  and let her find whatever
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  it is she wants to do in life.
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  Because she looks like she's
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  having a ball.
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  That's a cute video.
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  Absolutely.
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  I mean, yeah, like her whole identity,
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  I feel like for many years was CrossFit,
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  right?
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  And it's, it can be hard to, you know,
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  step away from that and try to refine,
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  you know, what makes you happy.
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  And, and it, you know,
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  especially when you're that
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  part of your life, you maybe you're just,
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  you still like,
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  but you just can't do the
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  competition part.
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  So yeah, I mean,
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  looking forward to seeing
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  the things that she's going
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  to post and what she's, you know,
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  her next next adventures.
• 4:03
  Can you are so right?
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  We missed our five minutes
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  of TV talk to start the hour.
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  Oh, man.
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  Turn it over to Jamie and
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  look what happens.
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  I don't even know what I've
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  been I don't know what I've
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  been watching this week.
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  Nothing really I haven't
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  gotten that like the movie
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  that you suggested.
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  I saw it but I skipped over
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  I've been pretty busy this
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  week so I don't have any
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  like any show talk here and
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  even watch anything.
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  I honestly have not watched
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  a single thing.
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  I am busy doing schoolwork.
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  I just started my next,
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  like my new semester last week.
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  So it's just been just prepping,
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  meeting my new students and
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  adjusting what,
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  where I want to go with the semester.
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  Cause now you get like, you know,
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  different levels that come in every year.
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  So it's just been busy,
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  busy first couple of weeks
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  and then things will start
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  to settle after that for me.
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  What's your TV?
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  It goes with the first
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  agenda item we kind of skipped over,
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  and that is my health, that I am back.
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  I'm watching a lot of Friends.
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  And just so you know,
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  the reason I watch Friends
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  is it's probably my
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  favorite show of all time.
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  And it's something that I
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  can sleep to and wake up
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  and sleep and wake up and sleep.
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  I know the show well enough
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  that I know where we're at.
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  But I've also had a lot of
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  anxiety with what happened
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  to me this last week.
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  And Friends has kept me even
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  keel during that with just
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  some lighthearted laughter
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  and nothing too serious.
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  Before I went in the hospital,
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  I was watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
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  I stopped that for now.
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  I need something normal,
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  something just kind of,
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  Easy on the brain familiar.
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  Yeah.
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  Agreed.
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  So Lex has a couple questions here.
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  Is she in Hawaii with her
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  boyfriend or did her family move there?
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  I don't believe her family moved.
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  So I think that she's just
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  there with the boyfriend
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  and she moved there.
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  I think so too.
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  And I noticed that back when
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  I went in like August that
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  she had put Hawaii in her bowl.
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  So she's been there a while.
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  Um,
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  And she doesn't have HWPO in
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  her bio anymore.
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  Did she leave that?
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  That's a good question
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  because they posted her a
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  couple of months ago when
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  they did their roster.
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  So that might be a new exit.
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  At the end of the video, she says,
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  when you want to know more
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  about my future, you'll hear it from me.
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  Wow.
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  That's a statement, huh?
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  She also has her YouTube channel.
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  So I'm sure she might start
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  doing a little bit more
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  with that and maybe showing
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  a different side of her.
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  I know I watched something
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  with her cooking and things like that.
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  So I'm sure she's going to
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  explore different avenues as well.
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  Yeah.
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  We got a Christopher Alford.
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  Carolyn, what do you teach?
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  My daughter is a music teacher.
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  So I have a grade nine math, grade 10 math,
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  and then a grade 11 and 12 fitness class,
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  which I crushed today.
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  It's great.
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  I'm sure you crush that every day.
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  They got to love having you as a fitness.
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  They have a lot of respect.
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  That's for sure.
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  And this group that I have this semester,
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  they all took the class in grade 10,
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  basically almost all of them.
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  And they have continued to
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  work out at lunchtime and
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  They've all signed up for
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  different gyms and they
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  come in now with their little notebooks,
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  write the workout,
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  write all their lifts and everything.
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  Like they're so independent.
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  It's really nice to see them take that,
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  you know, very passionate with their.
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  That's awesome.
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  And you have an affiliate in the school.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's, that's the gym.
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  It's just the affiliate.
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  So I get access to some of
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  the affiliate benefits and,
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  That's really cool.
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  Okay, another athlete.
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  Lazar leaves Mayhem.
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  This one's news to me.
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  So Scott found some recent
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  information that I hadn't seen.
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  So you have an Instagram post on this?
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  All right.
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  Nope.
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  Nope.
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  All these pins get me.
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  Oh, yeah, I know.
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  Hey, that was it.
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  I think I had seen something
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  about the fact that he was
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  going back to his previous
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  coach from when he did the
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  best at the games, right?
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  Is that what we had seen?
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  I don't remember where it was.
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  I think he pulled it.
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  Yeah, he may have pulled it.
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  But it did mention something
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  about going back to his
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  roots when he first
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  finished top 10 at the
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  games and then had a
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  picture with a coach or
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  something like that.
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  And then...
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  Assuming he's going back there.
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  It could just be,
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  that's his like coach where
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  he lives and then still
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  follows the mayhem program,
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  which you see a lot of times, um,
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  when people don't really
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  live in Tennessee.
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  Yeah.
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  It's gotta be hard.
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  I mean, you can follow the man programming,
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  but I feel like if you had
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  the thing going,
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  if you aren't going to be
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  in that camp with them,
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  you probably better off
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  with the personal coach that you had.
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  Yeah, it might be in a story.
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  Let me look real quick.
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  Yeah, it could be a story.
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  I just showed it where he
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  does advertise for ATB lab programming.
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  There's a comment he makes.
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  So I'm back for that video we just showed.
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  And here.
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  That's the one, I think.
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  Whoops.
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  I tried to pause and it went.
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  2021, my first CrossFit Games,
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  first top 10 finish, first event win,
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  and the best male rookie of the year.
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  All done with this, man.
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  Glad to be back to finish what we started.
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  Good for him.
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  Ken says here,
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  I remember Rich saying a
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  couple years ago that it
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  seems the trend for people
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  to only be at Mayhem for
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  about three to four years
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  at most and then move on.
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  I
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  I mean,
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  that could be due to the intensity
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  at which they train.
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  Rich has said so many times
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  the training age of his
• 10:52
  body is just too much wear and tear.
• 10:58
  They go hard there.
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  They do a lot of volume.
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  I kind of think that's the
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  case in most camps.
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  You can only hang around for
• 11:05
  so long and keep up for so long.
• 11:09
  Yeah.
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  And if you know the coach like very well,
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  you have that good relationship.
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  Sometimes it just has a
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  little bit less pressure.
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  You know,
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  you can be more honest with your
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  training with that person
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  and adjust things as you need.
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  Do you want me to do my
• 11:26
  health update before?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  At least we're trying to
• 11:31
  save you from talking.
• 11:32
  We know you're going to do
• 11:32
  you also with Cheryl tomorrow,
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  but please tell us everything that you,
• 11:36
  you know, you're going through.
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  So if you listen to the
• 11:39
  weight loss show last week,
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  I was kind of hitting a
• 11:42
  breaking point where I
• 11:45
  couldn't breathe much.
• 11:47
  I couldn't breathe very well.
• 11:49
  And with Cheryl and I talked
• 11:52
  about the stresses in my life,
• 11:53
  like my sister's having
• 11:54
  cancer removed tomorrow,
• 11:57
  some different things like that.
• 11:59
  So I went to the family
• 12:00
  doctor that Tuesday,
• 12:03
  which would be a week and a half ago.
• 12:06
  He diagnosed me with lung infection,
• 12:09
  gave me antibiotics and steroids.
• 12:13
  I get to Friday,
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  I start to feel a little bit better.
• 12:15
  Saturday, fell off a cliff,
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  like could barely breathe,
• 12:19
  could barely even walk like
• 12:21
  to the bathroom.
• 12:24
  And my wife is like,
• 12:27
  we're going to the ER.
• 12:28
  So we go outside and I'm in
• 12:30
  such a panic attack,
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  like I can't even get in my car.
• 12:35
  I can't even describe like
• 12:37
  like every time I got in the car,
• 12:38
  I couldn't breathe.
• 12:40
  Was it the anxiety of going
• 12:42
  to the ER or was it?
• 12:44
  I don't know.
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  So I had like so much gas.
• 12:47
  My stomach was protruding out.
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  And every time I like
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  crunched into the car,
• 12:53
  it felt like you're cutting
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  off my airway.
• 12:57
  And and so she takes me to the ER.
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  I finally get in there.
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  I opened this, we like,
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  it was cold Saturday.
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  Like we had the sunroof open.
• 13:07
  We had the windows open,
• 13:09
  but thank goodness the ER
• 13:10
  is only like 10 minutes up the street.
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  So we get there,
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  couldn't ask for better care.
• 13:17
  They get me in like 15 tests
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  done in five minutes, like bing, bang,
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  boom, chest x-ray, chest, a CAT scan.
• 13:28
  Stomach x-ray.
• 13:30
  Just one thing after another.
• 13:33
  And they found the AFib within 10 minutes.
• 13:37
  Hooked me up to an EKG.
• 13:39
  Found that immediately.
• 13:41
  And then it was put me on
• 13:44
  medicine to try to get that
• 13:46
  to correct itself.
• 13:48
  That wasn't happening very fast.
• 13:50
  So they decided they were
• 13:51
  going to transfer me to the hospital.
• 13:55
  Squad came and got me at
• 13:56
  like 4 o'clock in the morning.
• 13:58
  On Saturday night, Sunday morning,
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  I go to the hospital.
• 14:03
  They hook me up to everything,
• 14:05
  another bunch of tests.
• 14:08
  And what had happened was a
• 14:12
  lot of things around it.
• 14:13
  So the AFib is the most important thing,
• 14:15
  which is not life-threatening in itself,
• 14:18
  but it can cause strokes.
• 14:19
  It can cause some other things.
• 14:21
  So you want to get it under control.
• 14:25
  Um, but the,
• 14:27
  I had that sinus surgery in
• 14:28
  October and it was on prednisone a lot.
• 14:32
  That prednisone pushed my
• 14:34
  blood sugar up to three 80.
• 14:38
  And eventually we learned my
• 14:40
  A1C to 10 and it was like six,
• 14:44
  six months ago.
• 14:47
  So now I'm in like diabetic condition.
• 14:50
  need to have that.
• 14:52
  Blood pressure stayed okay.
• 14:55
  It was a little bit variant,
• 14:56
  but it was in the okay range.
• 15:03
  Trying to think what else
• 15:04
  I'm still doing the coughing thing.
• 15:06
  So they're having me spit in
• 15:08
  a cup so that can go off to lab.
• 15:10
  Um, they're giving me stuff for that.
• 15:13
  Um, and every time that like I'm coughing,
• 15:15
  I'm panicking because it's
• 15:17
  closing off my airway to like everything.
• 15:20
  Um, I have so many medications right now.
• 15:24
  It's insane.
• 15:27
  And so I stayed there for a couple days.
• 15:30
  Everything leveled out.
• 15:32
  My heartbeat was 150 beats a
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  minute to 165 beats a
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  minute when I went into the ER.
• 15:35
  When I got let go,
• 15:35
  it was between 65 and 75,
• 15:37
  but still not synced.
• 15:48
  So they sent me home with medications.
• 15:52
  I don't trust my family doctor anymore.
• 15:54
  And I talked to the doctor
• 15:55
  in the hospital.
• 15:56
  Like, what do I do?
• 15:57
  I don't trust him because
• 15:59
  every time I go there,
• 16:01
  all he does is throw pills
• 16:02
  at me and doesn't like do
• 16:04
  the tests I need done.
• 16:06
  So they set me up with a
• 16:07
  counselor to get a new doctor.
• 16:10
  So I see the new doctor next Friday.
• 16:11
  I see the cardiologist on
• 16:14
  Monday to kind of follow up.
• 16:17
  The cardiologist is going to
• 16:18
  make the decision on Monday.
• 16:20
  If the medicine hasn't done it enough,
• 16:22
  they're going to send an
• 16:23
  appointment to shock my
• 16:24
  heart back into rhythm.
• 16:28
  So it's still irregular right now?
• 16:31
  Yeah.
• 16:32
  And do you feel that?
• 16:38
  Now I'm acutely aware of it.
• 16:41
  I can feel a flutter in my
• 16:43
  chest every time it gets way off.
• 16:46
  So they hooked me up to a
• 16:47
  machine in the hospital and there's two,
• 16:50
  two beats going.
• 16:52
  There's a top of your heart
• 16:53
  and the bottom of your
• 16:53
  heart and the closer they're matched,
• 16:56
  the better I feel.
• 16:59
  So if one's beating it like
• 17:00
  65 beats a minute and one's
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  at 68 beats a minute,
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  I'm feeling really good
• 17:05
  even though it's still off.
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  But if they vary,
• 17:08
  I feel like a flutter in my chest and it,
• 17:12
  it just zaps me.
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  So, yeah,
• 17:19
  Monday's the decision whether
• 17:21
  they bring me in and shock
• 17:22
  the heart back to rhythm.
• 17:26
  Or if it's so bad,
• 17:27
  they need to do an ablation,
• 17:29
  which means they go in.
• 17:31
  There's a sensor at the top
• 17:32
  of the heart that basically
• 17:34
  you go in and you clean it off,
• 17:36
  and then it sets it back to rhythm.
• 17:39
  Okay.
• 17:41
  That's kind of like what's coming up.
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  But in the meantime,
• 17:43
  I'm taking all these diabetes medicines.
• 17:45
  I'm taking heart or they
• 17:48
  have me on blood pressure
• 17:49
  just because a stroke is
• 17:51
  the most dangerous thing.
• 17:52
  Anything that can cause a stroke,
• 17:54
  they're trying to get my
• 17:55
  stuff as low as possible.
• 17:57
  So I'm like,
• 17:58
  I have to inject insulin for
• 17:59
  the first time in my life.
• 18:01
  I am taking metformin.
• 18:04
  I am taking heart pressure
• 18:08
  or blood pressure medicine.
• 18:10
  it's just crazy are you
• 18:13
  taking the insulin like on
• 18:14
  your like the finger or
• 18:16
  like to go in your stomach
• 18:17
  or yeah I have to prick my
• 18:19
  finger to read my blood
• 18:21
  sugar then I have to inject
• 18:23
  it into my stomach or my
• 18:24
  thigh or whatever I thought
• 18:29
  that would be hard it was
• 18:29
  not yeah um but it's just
• 18:33
  how many times a day do you
• 18:34
  have to do that
• 18:35
  The insulin just once.
• 18:37
  And it's because it's for sleeping.
• 18:40
  It's like a longer lasting
• 18:42
  medicine where like the
• 18:44
  metformin I take only lasts
• 18:46
  for a few hours.
• 18:47
  So you take that like during
• 18:48
  the day when you're awake
• 18:50
  and can take it.
• 18:51
  And then at night you take
• 18:52
  the insulin to kind of get
• 18:54
  you through the night.
• 18:57
  Are you getting through the night?
• 18:58
  Are you sleeping through the night?
• 19:00
  Sleeping way better.
• 19:01
  Okay.
• 19:03
  Um, my cough is actually reduced, um,
• 19:07
  through all of this.
• 19:09
  It's still there.
• 19:10
  And I still like cough up
• 19:11
  phlegm occasionally, but not like I was.
• 19:14
  And, uh, I was telling Jamie,
• 19:17
  the analysis on the phlegm came back.
• 19:20
  I don't understand anything it says.
• 19:21
  So I'll have to wait for the
• 19:23
  doctor to tell me what that means.
• 19:26
  Um,
• 19:28
  I hate that.
• 19:29
  I just want, Dash,
• 19:31
  I hope this new doctor gets
• 19:33
  you some answers.
• 19:34
  Like,
• 19:34
  you need to get to the bottom of this.
• 19:36
  This has gone on for far too long.
• 19:38
  I want to answer.
• 19:41
  Kenneth says, did they say what caused it?
• 19:44
  They say you can't know what causes AFib.
• 19:48
  Like it,
• 19:48
  it is the most common irregular
• 19:50
  heartbeat in the world.
• 19:52
  Millions of people have it
• 19:53
  and you don't know why it happens.
• 19:55
  And I can tell you the
• 19:57
  amount of people that have
• 19:58
  reached out to me who have
• 19:59
  it has blown me away.
• 20:03
  Um, the amount of DMS I've gotten,
• 20:06
  the amount of well wishes I've gotten,
• 20:09
  I am, I'm, I mean,
• 20:12
  I like cried this afternoon.
• 20:13
  I think CrossFit sent me a card.
• 20:19
  Wishing me well.
• 20:23
  Unreal, unreal.
• 20:24
  And I appreciate each and
• 20:25
  every one of the messages.
• 20:26
  They mean the world to me.
• 20:29
  But these people that have
• 20:30
  gone through what I've gone
• 20:30
  through and know what it's
• 20:32
  like and are on the other side,
• 20:34
  those messages mean so much
• 20:37
  to me because they're
• 20:38
  giving me the confidence
• 20:39
  that in a few weeks I should be better.
• 20:44
  So what's your routine like during the day,
• 20:46
  the last couple of days?
• 20:47
  Are you at home?
• 20:49
  So I got home Tuesday night.
• 20:53
  Basically,
• 20:54
  it is... I have not been back to work.
• 20:57
  And the only thing normal
• 20:59
  I've done is today these two shows.
• 21:01
  With Jason Grubb this
• 21:02
  morning and this one tonight.
• 21:04
  Everything else is just get
• 21:06
  through the day.
• 21:07
  Yesterday, I...
• 21:10
  Here we go, cheesy me.
• 21:12
  Before all this happened,
• 21:13
  I bought my wife Lego flowers,
• 21:16
  and then I went to the
• 21:17
  hospital and couldn't get them made.
• 21:19
  So yesterday I was putting them together,
• 21:20
  and it helped me so much
• 21:22
  just to clear my mind,
• 21:23
  just to do something with my fingers.
• 21:26
  And I know it sounds juvenile,
• 21:27
  but it just helped.
• 21:31
  So I'm trying to do more
• 21:33
  puzzly stuff during the day
• 21:35
  when I'm awake,
• 21:36
  just to keep my mind off of things.
• 21:40
  but yeah.
• 21:41
  Are you able to like go for
• 21:43
  a walk and let's say with
• 21:45
  the dog or anything?
• 21:46
  I do not want the heart
• 21:47
  elevated at all until they
• 21:49
  figure this out.
• 21:53
  Yeah.
• 21:53
  I'm pretty much on like a bed rest.
• 21:55
  Yeah.
• 21:59
  Well, we're glad to see you back today.
• 22:02
  Yeah.
• 22:03
  It's good to be back.
• 22:04
  Uh,
• 22:04
  but the grub interview did take it out
• 22:06
  of me.
• 22:07
  Um,
• 22:10
  But thank goodness he talks a lot.
• 22:12
  I know that was said in the
• 22:14
  comments earlier because it
• 22:16
  did give me time to kind of
• 22:17
  recoup the voice while he
• 22:19
  was talking to be able to ask questions,
• 22:22
  but.
• 22:25
  yeah yeah you you have so
• 22:28
  many people praying for you
• 22:30
  right and I know you're
• 22:31
  getting those messages but
• 22:32
  yeah everyone's been behind
• 22:34
  you uh you've seen the
• 22:36
  posts you've seen the other
• 22:37
  channels speaking about you
• 22:40
  so yeah just know that
• 22:41
  people are here for you um
• 22:44
  Yeah.
• 22:44
  We,
• 22:44
  we are praying that this doctor figures
• 22:46
  some things out and we get
• 22:47
  to the bottom of all of this.
• 22:48
  It's really got me.
• 22:50
  So the other,
• 22:50
  the thing about the doctors and all that,
• 22:52
  like, I'm just pissed off.
• 22:53
  I just want to,
• 22:54
  now I'm in a mode where get me,
• 22:57
  get me back to like
• 22:58
  function and let me kick some ass.
• 23:01
  Right.
• 23:01
  That's just where I want to be now.
• 23:03
  I want, like,
• 23:04
  I have all these prescriptions.
• 23:06
  Let's start checking those
• 23:07
  off and throwing them in a trash.
• 23:09
  Like, I want to like,
• 23:09
  just get rid of them all.
• 23:11
  And it gives me a goal to
• 23:13
  like shoot for let's take
• 23:15
  nine down to seven.
• 23:16
  Let's take seven down to
• 23:17
  five and let's go.
• 23:18
  Yep.
• 23:23
  Yep.
• 23:24
  So, so that's it.
• 23:28
  Well, the channel, if you want more,
• 23:30
  more delving into this,
• 23:31
  Scott's going to go over it
• 23:32
  with Cheryl tomorrow.
• 23:33
  So there'll be even more in-depth talk.
• 23:36
  So join, get some more background and, um,
• 23:40
  Yeah, hop in on that.
• 23:42
  Okay,
• 23:43
  so I thought I'd jump in on this
• 23:47
  trend of...
• 23:49
  the versus series.
• 23:52
  Um, and so, and I, I have a unique,
• 23:55
  I think, uh, perspective in my gym of,
• 23:59
  I now have Haley Rolfe, a, uh,
• 24:02
  three time team games athlete.
• 24:04
  She's 18 training right beside me.
• 24:07
  And then I have Jim, uh,
• 24:10
  2022 third fittest man, 65 plus, um,
• 24:14
  that trains next to me every single day.
• 24:16
  So a pretty wide array of, um,
• 24:19
  ages, I'd say we're both,
• 24:21
  we're all highly competitive.
• 24:23
  Um, so I want to run, you know,
• 24:25
  I want to shoot like once a week,
• 24:26
  one of our tougher workouts, um, and,
• 24:29
  and show people like 18 year old,
• 24:32
  a 40 year old and a 67 year old man, um,
• 24:36
  what fitness at any age looks like.
• 24:38
  And maybe I'll occasionally
• 24:39
  get one of like my regular
• 24:41
  class members in there.
• 24:42
  So you can even see a
• 24:44
  general population person
• 24:46
  competing alongside us.
• 24:48
  Um,
• 24:49
  I don't know.
• 24:49
  I don't know if this will pick up or not.
• 24:52
  I've gotten quite a few
• 24:54
  comments today that say
• 24:54
  they love this idea.
• 24:55
  I know Taylor Self is doing
• 24:59
  it or Jason Hopper is
• 24:59
  throwing his weekly ones up.
• 25:02
  We'll see.
• 25:02
  Look at Jim's Toto bars.
• 25:04
  Somebody call him out on that.
• 25:07
  No rep.
• 25:11
  Would you do the open with
• 25:13
  them live or do you want to
• 25:15
  keep your scores still
• 25:16
  because it's competitive with the
• 25:21
  I don't know how we'll do
• 25:22
  the open Haley and I will
• 25:23
  probably so Haley and I are
• 25:24
  going to try to also go
• 25:25
  team with two other guys so
• 25:31
  we may keep that like not
• 25:33
  post it until like Monday
• 25:35
  but we will probably do the
• 25:36
  workout together so there
• 25:37
  will probably be video of
• 25:39
  Haley and I doing the
• 25:40
  workout together and Jim
• 25:42
  usually runs opposite of me
• 25:43
  because I need to really
• 25:46
  walk him through some things
• 25:48
  Scott knows that.
• 25:51
  Yeah, Jim is no ordinary 67-year-old.
• 25:54
  He is incredibly fit.
• 25:56
  His engine is amazing.
• 25:58
  He's
• 26:03
  He's similar to me in the
• 26:05
  top-end strength isn't quite there.
• 26:08
  The difference, I'd say,
• 26:09
  is he also doesn't have
• 26:11
  some top-end gymnastic skills.
• 26:15
  He doesn't have ring
• 26:17
  muscle-ups or a bar muscle-up.
• 26:20
  He can't hold a free...
• 26:22
  That's what held him out
• 26:23
  last year from making the
• 26:24
  games was the freestanding
• 26:25
  handstand hold.
• 26:25
  He only got a second.
• 26:28
  If he would have been able
• 26:28
  to do three seconds,
• 26:30
  he would have made it.
• 26:31
  He just...
• 26:33
  his shoulder mobility is, I mean,
• 26:36
  we try to work on it every day, but yeah.
• 26:38
  So if you guys like it, hop on the channel,
• 26:40
  hop on that video and
• 26:42
  thumbs up it and comment so
• 26:44
  that it helps the algorithm.
• 26:45
  And I'll try to put more of these out.
• 26:49
  Where do we find it?
• 26:50
  Is it on the Clydesdale media one?
• 26:52
  It is.
• 26:53
  Okay.
• 26:53
  So it's going to be there.
• 26:54
  And will it be, you said once a week?
• 26:57
  Yeah.
• 26:58
  And so and I don't know, like,
• 27:00
  I want to pick a workout
• 27:01
  that's like under 14 minutes.
• 27:02
  So it's not so long.
• 27:03
  This happened to be a 20 minute AMRAP.
• 27:05
  And I ended up shortening
• 27:06
  the middle like five to 18 minutes.
• 27:09
  I like sped it way up.
• 27:12
  You can see it's started.
• 27:15
  Well, no, it hasn't kicked up yet.
• 27:18
  But yeah,
• 27:18
  because I want to talk through
• 27:19
  the workout.
• 27:20
  And I don't want us to sit
• 27:21
  there and talk for 15 minutes.
• 27:22
  So I'm hoping to find a little bit.
• 27:25
  Yes.
• 27:26
  Some shorter ones might be a
• 27:27
  little bit more.
• 27:28
  You know,
• 27:29
  who wants... I don't know who
• 27:30
  wants to watch.
• 27:31
  Andrew,
• 27:31
  you got to comment on the video and
• 27:33
  call Jim out.
• 27:37
  Yeah.
• 27:37
  I don't... You know,
• 27:38
  we'll see how long... They
• 27:39
  won't all be this long.
• 27:41
  We'll try to find some shorter workouts.
• 27:43
  We'll try to find... If you
• 27:44
  go and watch this,
• 27:45
  Haley and I talk about
• 27:47
  competing with each other.
• 27:48
  So...
• 27:51
  I will try to find a barbell
• 27:54
  centric workout that Haley
• 27:55
  has a much better shot at
• 27:56
  beating me at that.
• 27:58
  We've done a lot of
• 27:59
  gymnastics workouts lately
• 28:00
  that give me the upper edge.
• 28:03
  So I'm sure she's itching to
• 28:05
  beat me in a workout.
• 28:10
  She's 18.
• 28:10
  So she's aged up now this year.
• 28:13
  Yes.
• 28:14
  Yeah, she's aged up.
• 28:14
  Yep.
• 28:15
  Which so she's not going to
• 28:17
  be quite competitive enough to make
• 28:19
  A semi, I don't think.
• 28:20
  So I think that's why we've
• 28:23
  decided to try to put together a team.
• 28:24
  I mean, it would,
• 28:25
  it'd be a miracle if we made semis,
• 28:27
  but it'd be fun to go as a group.
• 28:31
  So, and Azariah Price is our,
• 28:33
  one of our other guys,
• 28:35
  also a team member.
• 28:36
  But it's also cool that the
• 28:39
  masters are able to do the
• 28:41
  whole... Because there are
• 28:43
  different times of the year,
• 28:44
  you have your own path,
• 28:45
  and then you can also do team.
• 28:47
  Yeah, I know.
• 28:48
  I love that.
• 28:49
  I thought that was cool.
• 28:52
  Ken,
• 28:53
  the best part of the video was the
• 28:56
  DBAB discussion.
• 28:57
  I don't even know what we discussed.
• 28:59
  What is DBAB?
• 29:00
  Does anyone else know what DBAB is?
• 29:01
  Discussion.
• 29:04
  Discussion.
• 29:06
  I think it says auto-correct.
• 29:09
  He put that in the comments too.
• 29:12
  Oh,
• 29:12
  like just our discussion in general was
• 29:16
  your favorite part of the video?
• 29:20
  I'm guessing it.
• 29:23
  Oh, yeah, we did say don't be a bitch.
• 29:26
  We both were like,
• 29:28
  I was telling myself don't be a bitch.
• 29:32
  Got it, got it.
• 29:35
  The one thing I also want to
• 29:35
  put out here is Jamie did this on her own,
• 29:39
  and it is awesome.
• 29:40
  I love every bit of it.
• 29:42
  But one thing we want to
• 29:43
  focus on is all the other
• 29:45
  people that are doing these
• 29:45
  types of workouts are men.
• 29:47
  50% of the sport is women,
• 29:50
  and it's just as popular.
• 29:52
  And maybe Jamie and Carolyn
• 29:55
  do a head-to-head on one of these weeks.
• 29:59
  Who knows?
• 30:01
  It's limitless what we can do with this.
• 30:04
  Right.
• 30:05
  For sure.
• 30:06
  Yeah.
• 30:06
  And I wouldn't,
• 30:06
  I was considering that too.
• 30:08
  Like if, if this starts to pick up,
• 30:09
  like I was thinking that
• 30:10
  like I could send Carol in
• 30:11
  a workout I'm going to do,
• 30:13
  we can both do it even if
• 30:14
  it's a day or two apart,
• 30:15
  but I could take the videos
• 30:16
  and put them next to each
• 30:18
  other on the screen and we can show that.
• 30:21
  Yeah.
• 30:21
  Um, I'm, I'm totally up for any other,
• 30:25
  like,
• 30:25
  and not to like try to do a fit
• 30:27
  where it would just be like,
• 30:28
  here's a workout and we can
• 30:29
  analyze it and just, you know, over it.
• 30:34
  Like we can come on the show,
• 30:35
  you guys can talk over it,
• 30:37
  how it felt for each of you
• 30:38
  differently with your skill set.
• 30:43
  There's a lot of men's versions of this.
• 30:46
  We need to get the women their shine too.
• 30:50
  And teens and masters.
• 30:51
  Yeah.
• 30:54
  And so...
• 30:56
  I think we could do a lot.
• 30:57
  You know, we,
• 30:58
  we did the whole legend series.
• 31:00
  We have a ton of masters
• 31:02
  contacts that we could do
• 31:03
  the same thing with them.
• 31:04
  I think it'd be cool.
• 31:08
  And I, and you know,
• 31:09
  thank you so much for you
• 31:10
  did all this while I was in the hospital.
• 31:13
  Yeah, I didn't.
• 31:13
  And guys, I threw this up last night.
• 31:16
  I was trying to not bother Scott.
• 31:18
  He's like,
• 31:19
  just put it on your own channel.
• 31:20
  I was like, that won't be the same.
• 31:22
  And I'm trying to do it all alone.
• 31:24
  And I'm not super proficient
• 31:25
  with all of this software yet.
• 31:28
  So I did my best here to put a draft out.
• 31:31
  And we'll see if it gets some likes,
• 31:32
  shares.
• 31:33
  Um, yeah, if you guys like share it,
• 31:35
  I might reshare my story in
• 31:36
  my Instagram and you guys
• 31:38
  can reshare that and get more,
• 31:40
  more views here.
• 31:41
  It would totally help.
• 31:42
  Like you guys heard this
• 31:43
  morning with Jason,
• 31:44
  it's all about the
• 31:46
  algorithm and getting
• 31:47
  YouTube to pick up on things.
• 31:48
  So you guys can help.
• 31:50
  We'll keep pushing out this kind of stuff.
• 31:52
  Yeah.
• 31:53
  Cause it's the comments or
• 31:54
  something that you have to put, right?
• 31:55
  Like we're always doing in
• 31:56
  the chat for the, like the live chat,
• 31:58
  but then once the video goes up,
• 32:00
  if there's not any in the comments,
• 32:02
  then it's
• 32:04
  Right?
• 32:04
  It doesn't bring it up as much.
• 32:05
  Is that what happens?
• 32:07
  Yeah, I know.
• 32:08
  That's part of it.
• 32:10
  It's hard figuring out
• 32:11
  YouTube's algorithm.
• 32:12
  I'll say that.
• 32:15
  So yeah,
• 32:16
  look for another one of those next week.
• 32:20
  But moving on.
• 32:23
  Don fall has said that a
• 32:25
  significant amount of money
• 32:26
  will be pulled from the
• 32:27
  games team and used to
• 32:29
  support the affiliates.
• 32:31
  What does this mean for the support?
• 32:34
  What are the affiliates asking for?
• 32:41
  I mean,
• 32:41
  I guess we don't know yet because
• 32:43
  they haven't announced any
• 32:44
  prize money or broadcast deals.
• 32:48
  I'm fine if they want to
• 32:49
  take money out as long as
• 32:50
  there's sponsorships that
• 32:52
  are coming in to fill the
• 32:53
  money that would be needed.
• 32:55
  you know, given by CrossFit.
• 32:57
  Because if CrossFit can save money and,
• 33:00
  you know,
• 33:00
  allow other players to enter the space,
• 33:03
  that's, I mean, that's great.
• 33:07
  But if there's no other
• 33:08
  players plus CrossFit removing,
• 33:10
  then that sucks for the sport side of it.
• 33:12
  Because that's, you know,
• 33:14
  a huge entertainment part of CrossFit.
• 33:18
  And it'd be sad.
• 33:21
  Well, I feel like they've already...
• 33:24
  taken money out of the sport
• 33:25
  by dropping the semi-finals
• 33:28
  right and giving and and
• 33:29
  that's a good choice we've
• 33:31
  all we all think that
• 33:32
  that's a good idea to give
• 33:33
  it back to the local comps
• 33:35
  um syndicate running their
• 33:38
  theirs um so there's
• 33:41
  already money that they've
• 33:43
  saved on the table
• 33:45
  and where so where are they
• 33:46
  pulling there's pulling
• 33:47
  more money from all the
• 33:49
  influx of open and quarters
• 33:52
  and they're keeping that
• 33:53
  and push putting it towards
• 33:54
  affiliates like I don't
• 33:55
  quite understand like if
• 33:56
  the money is coming in for
• 33:57
  the sports side that needs
• 33:59
  to be supporting the sports
• 34:01
  side because that's clearly
• 34:01
  where people are showing
• 34:02
  you they want their money
• 34:03
  they're putting their money
• 34:05
  where their mouth is and if
• 34:06
  that's where they want it
• 34:07
  then you need to keep
• 34:08
  investing in the sports side um
• 34:11
  don't know what the
• 34:11
  affiliates are even asking
• 34:13
  for more more content that
• 34:15
  isn't game centric I don't
• 34:16
  know I mean yes they they
• 34:19
  should be you know pumping
• 34:21
  out content you know daily
• 34:24
  essentially of affiliates
• 34:25
  and uh you know like
• 34:28
  basically what you're doing
• 34:28
  like you know older members
• 34:31
  uh younger masters teenagers
• 34:35
  just more content in general,
• 34:37
  people from all over the world,
• 34:38
  not just in the States.
• 34:40
  You know,
• 34:40
  people have different backgrounds,
• 34:43
  you know,
• 34:43
  just pumping out just content constantly.
• 34:45
  So I don't know if they just
• 34:46
  need more people to be
• 34:47
  traveling around the world.
• 34:48
  I know that like the money
• 34:49
  from the CrossFit open and
• 34:51
  stuff like it is good.
• 34:54
  good amount of money with
• 34:55
  the quarterfinals,
• 34:55
  but there's still like all
• 34:56
  those expenses for the semifinals,
• 34:58
  for the, for the buildings,
• 34:59
  for the broadcast, the games,
• 35:01
  like it's still not enough.
• 35:01
  They're still taking a lot of money from,
• 35:03
  I'm assuming from the L
• 35:05
  ones and everything else
• 35:07
  outside of the sport.
• 35:08
  So I'm sure they're using up
• 35:10
  all of the sport money already.
• 35:11
  Plus some of the other level
• 35:14
  one stuff that they have
• 35:15
  money from there.
• 35:15
  And I'm sure they just want
• 35:16
  to be like a little bit less,
• 35:18
  but I don't know what that
• 35:19
  significant amount is going to be.
• 35:21
  And yeah,
• 35:22
  how that's going to affect
• 35:23
  which is weird because you
• 35:25
  have the teenage games and
• 35:28
  the masters the same
• 35:29
  weekend to me that just
• 35:30
  made it more expensive
• 35:31
  because now two broadcast
• 35:33
  deals two it you know
• 35:37
  wouldn't that be more
• 35:38
  expensive this is the one
• 35:40
  thing that about all of
• 35:41
  this and this is further
• 35:43
  down in the notes but we
• 35:44
  can jump to it because it
• 35:45
  kind of does coincide like
• 35:47
  I don't understand when you
• 35:48
  say you're trying to save
• 35:49
  money in the games because
• 35:52
  it's so expensive.
• 35:54
  And then you split into
• 35:56
  three different venues.
• 35:58
  Now you got to pay for three venues.
• 35:59
  You got to pay for three broadcasts.
• 36:01
  You got to pay for three
• 36:03
  shipments of equipment to
• 36:05
  be sent to three different places.
• 36:10
  And then you're requiring
• 36:12
  triple the sponsors, right?
• 36:15
  to show to attend or chip in
• 36:18
  when it could just be the
• 36:19
  one location it would make
• 36:20
  more sense to get like few
• 36:22
  bigger sponsors in a bigger
• 36:24
  monetary sense um I i this
• 36:27
  is just mind-boggling to me
• 36:29
  there's no way this is
• 36:30
  saving money and to me it
• 36:34
  like the biggest thing
• 36:36
  comes down to again this is
• 36:38
  further down in the notes
• 36:39
  but like the athlete kit we
• 36:41
  talked about this with uh
• 36:44
  this morning,
• 36:46
  is such a giant draw for athletes.
• 36:51
  You're talking about the
• 36:51
  swag bag stuff from the games?
• 36:53
  Yeah.
• 36:55
  That's the only reason I
• 36:55
  wanted to go to the games in 2019.
• 36:57
  That is the only reason.
• 36:58
  I was like, oh my god,
• 36:59
  I get all these pairs of shoes,
• 37:01
  all this clothes.
• 37:02
  I wanted to make the cut
• 37:03
  because I had more clothes.
• 37:05
  That was my goal to make the cut was like,
• 37:07
  oh,
• 37:08
  I can enter into the prize money and I
• 37:10
  just got a new set of
• 37:11
  outfits with my name on it.
• 37:14
  That's how it was.
• 37:17
  I was going there for the kit.
• 37:20
  That is what I've been trying to say.
• 37:21
  There are numerous.
• 37:23
  I mean,
• 37:24
  you're talking in the hundreds of
• 37:25
  athletes that are just
• 37:26
  vying to get to that break
• 37:29
  into that spot just to show up.
• 37:32
  I know people say this all the time.
• 37:36
  If you aren't telling
• 37:37
  yourself you're going there to win,
• 37:38
  there are lots of athletes
• 37:40
  that that's not in their mind.
• 37:41
  They are just going there to make it,
• 37:44
  to win it, to get the kit.
• 37:47
  They have put up with years
• 37:48
  and years of striving for this, attending,
• 37:52
  spending money on other
• 37:53
  local comps or traveling to
• 37:56
  mid-level comps just to get
• 37:58
  the experience.
• 37:59
  to walk away with little to
• 38:00
  no prizes or swags at these
• 38:03
  to tiptoe their way into
• 38:05
  the games just to get the
• 38:06
  swag back that is the first
• 38:10
  time at least the first
• 38:11
  time that's that's it like
• 38:13
  that's that's what's
• 38:14
  drawing these people to to
• 38:15
  keep buying for that spot
• 38:17
  ariel lowen told everyone
• 38:19
  that just about to say
• 38:21
  that's why right that's why
• 38:24
  she went to grant games
• 38:25
  just to get the freaking placard
• 38:29
  Yeah.
• 38:29
  I was like, yeah, like, dude, that's,
• 38:32
  that's the fun.
• 38:32
  Like once after a while, you know,
• 38:35
  the first year you're
• 38:36
  willing to spend that money
• 38:37
  and you're like, I don't care if I'm,
• 38:39
  you know, out 2000, 3000.
• 38:41
  Cause I got all this clothes.
• 38:43
  I got these signs,
• 38:44
  everything after a while.
• 38:45
  You're like, okay,
• 38:46
  I don't need the clothes.
• 38:46
  I actually just,
• 38:47
  I need the support for the competition.
• 38:49
  But for those initial times
• 38:51
  that you like qualify,
• 38:52
  those kids are super important.
• 38:54
  Those are memories.
• 38:56
  like I went through my
• 38:57
  clothes the other maybe a
• 38:58
  month ago I couldn't throw
• 38:59
  away any of the things that
• 39:00
  I had from like the first
• 39:02
  games I'm like no there's
• 39:04
  you're attached that
• 39:05
  clothes like that that pair
• 39:06
  of pants I've worn this
• 39:07
  event this it's like it's
• 39:10
  memories yeah it I've
• 39:16
  spent like days like stressing over this.
• 39:19
  And when I heard Bob say on
• 39:21
  the podcast the other day
• 39:24
  with Jason that they
• 39:26
  announced the gear sponsor
• 39:30
  and for the athlete kit for masters.
• 39:33
  And it's someone we've never heard of.
• 39:36
  They don't have bags.
• 39:38
  It's not Northern tool, but close.
• 39:41
  They don't have bags.
• 39:42
  They don't have shoes.
• 39:43
  So we, so we're,
• 39:47
  Huh?
• 39:47
  Will Gold Rock do it for the Masters?
• 39:49
  No, no, no.
• 39:51
  We're getting so we are
• 39:52
  going to be exactly as I expected.
• 39:55
  The redheaded stepchild of
• 39:56
  this entire thing.
• 39:57
  We're going to go get a
• 39:58
  couple of shirts and a couple of shorts,
• 39:59
  which is exactly what we
• 40:00
  got at MFC and Legends.
• 40:02
  So what is it?
• 40:04
  What is other than maybe the
• 40:06
  top two or three that have
• 40:07
  a chance of winning the podium money?
• 40:10
  What is it that's going to
• 40:11
  draw an athlete to go to
• 40:13
  the Masters games as
• 40:14
  opposed to Legends in December?
• 40:16
  If I if I personally lived
• 40:18
  like at this point,
• 40:19
  I might as well not go and
• 40:20
  I might as well just go to
• 40:21
  MFC because I can drive there.
• 40:23
  It's cheaper.
• 40:27
  I'm going to get the exact
• 40:27
  same thing out of it.
• 40:29
  I'm going to get an outfit and.
• 40:33
  You know,
• 40:33
  you're not going to get as many
• 40:34
  people from South America
• 40:36
  or Europe or Australia like
• 40:38
  traveling like that.
• 40:40
  for the Masters as well.
• 40:43
  It's already been separated, right?
• 40:46
  Those athletes were coming, you know,
• 40:49
  because they were competing at the games.
• 40:51
  Then they got to watch and, you know,
• 40:53
  watch the individuals, watch the teams or,
• 40:55
  you know, go around the vendor village,
• 40:57
  et cetera.
• 40:58
  but now it's just the masters.
• 41:01
  So it's like,
• 41:01
  what's going to draw all of
• 41:03
  these athletes in or the
• 41:05
  teenagers or the adaptive division too.
• 41:06
  I mean,
• 41:07
  even the adaptive divisions at the
• 41:09
  same time as the SoCal, uh,
• 41:11
  water Palooza.
• 41:12
  So all three, uh,
• 41:14
  Of the split off games.
• 41:17
  Are clashing.
• 41:19
  With like something.
• 41:20
  With each other.
• 41:20
  Or with another major event.
• 41:24
  Which is just unfortunate for the vendors.
• 41:26
  Unfortunate for the athletes.
• 41:28
  Everything.
• 41:29
  I wish.
• 41:30
  I wish somehow.
• 41:32
  Somebody was willing to.
• 41:36
  Get that.
• 41:37
  Through to HQ.
• 41:40
  That like.
• 41:41
  The athlete kit is.
• 41:43
  one of the most important
• 41:45
  things like and
• 41:46
  unfortunately like speaking
• 41:47
  with Jason like he doesn't seem to
• 41:49
  It doesn't matter to him.
• 41:50
  Well,
• 41:50
  it doesn't matter because you've been
• 41:52
  there four or five times
• 41:53
  and you have years of gear.
• 41:54
  And so like,
• 41:55
  it doesn't matter to you anymore,
• 41:57
  but it does matter to a lot of people.
• 42:00
  And a lot of people who are like 32, 33,
• 42:03
  who didn't make it and are
• 42:04
  going to like excited to
• 42:05
  turn 35 to go that way.
• 42:07
  I mean, that was always my whole thing.
• 42:09
  Like I have spent years just
• 42:11
  trying to make it just to
• 42:12
  get the kit and to have the
• 42:15
  exact same thing that everyone else had.
• 42:17
  And yeah,
• 42:18
  it's four three four grand
• 42:20
  easily worth of stuff I
• 42:22
  mean they got everyone got
• 42:23
  an ice bath last year we're
• 42:24
  not going to get anything
• 42:25
  like that like mine's my
• 42:28
  new kitchen table because
• 42:29
  it won't fit on my balcony
• 42:31
  that's my that's my kitchen
• 42:35
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 42:36
  It's just, it's heartbreaking for me.
• 42:41
  So the one thing I don't
• 42:42
  want to get lost in this is
• 42:47
  I've been a big supporter of Don Fall.
• 42:50
  I like him a lot.
• 42:52
  He lost me on this one.
• 42:54
  Okay.
• 42:56
  And in the notes I put, like,
• 42:58
  what do the affiliates want
• 43:00
  with this money?
• 43:01
  What do they feel they're missing?
• 43:03
  And then you have people
• 43:04
  like Dale King coming on
• 43:05
  kettlebells and cocktails saying,
• 43:08
  it's not CrossFit's
• 43:09
  responsibility to bring
• 43:10
  people into my doors.
• 43:12
  That's my job.
• 43:14
  That's what I'm supposed to do.
• 43:16
  He,
• 43:17
  what he wants is the stuff he can't do.
• 43:19
  Like the legal representation of the name,
• 43:23
  the make sure you protect
• 43:25
  the brand so that it's there for me.
• 43:31
  It just feels like CrossFit
• 43:34
  HQ in this move and in this
• 43:37
  announcement is going very Orange Theory,
• 43:41
  very that corporate gym mentality.
• 43:48
  And I don't think that's
• 43:49
  what the affiliates want.
• 43:51
  And you can't count dollar for dollar,
• 43:54
  50-50 split.
• 43:56
  They're two different entities.
• 43:58
  And I think earlier in the comments,
• 44:00
  Kenneth said,
• 44:01
  I bet you if you took a poll
• 44:03
  of people who got into CrossFit,
• 44:05
  75% of them did it because
• 44:07
  they watched the games on
• 44:08
  ESPN and went to a gym.
• 44:11
  Which again goes back to
• 44:12
  bringing people within the gym.
• 44:13
  I don't know how well Dale
• 44:15
  King's gym is doing,
• 44:16
  but at the end of the day,
• 44:18
  affiliates still want...
• 44:21
  CrossFit to still help in some way,
• 44:23
  you know,
• 44:25
  bring a better reputation to the
• 44:27
  word CrossFit in terms of
• 44:28
  safety and coaching and stuff like that.
• 44:31
  So I think that's where the
• 44:32
  money needs to go.
• 44:32
  They posted something today
• 44:34
  with safety and injuries.
• 44:39
  You know,
• 44:39
  it's protecting the name of
• 44:41
  CrossFit to bring more
• 44:42
  people to the affiliates.
• 44:44
  It's still the games and the
• 44:47
  Netflix documentaries or if
• 44:49
  they want to do other types
• 44:50
  of documentaries to continue to expose,
• 44:55
  you know,
• 44:55
  people outside of our population
• 44:57
  to CrossFit to then bring
• 44:59
  them to their local
• 45:00
  affiliates and stuff like that.
• 45:01
  So, I mean...
• 45:03
  It's both.
• 45:04
  It's what CrossFit can do in
• 45:05
  terms of the name.
• 45:07
  And indirectly,
• 45:08
  it's bringing people to their affiliates.
• 45:10
  They still want more members.
• 45:13
  So my big overarching question on this is,
• 45:15
  do you think this means at
• 45:16
  some point they try to
• 45:19
  split it off again?
• 45:21
  I don't think so.
• 45:24
  Like between the health,
• 45:25
  like CrossFit for health
• 45:27
  and then CrossFit sport, you mean?
• 45:29
  Yeah.
• 45:35
  I hope not.
• 45:36
  I don't know.
• 45:37
  I think, I think they're, they're related.
• 45:39
  I think they're, they're different,
• 45:42
  but they're, they're, they're together.
• 45:47
  But for me, it's just like, it's,
• 45:49
  it's the name.
• 45:49
  I still, you know, if I, if I'm teaching,
• 45:53
  let's say kids and I say
• 45:54
  the word CrossFit,
• 45:55
  they're still kids that
• 45:56
  even in this generation now,
• 45:57
  because they watch a lot of
• 45:58
  bodybuilding and, um, you know,
• 46:02
  and they're like, Oh,
• 46:02
  CrossFit and kipping pull-ups and,
• 46:04
  Like there's still a
• 46:05
  negative like view of the
• 46:08
  word CrossFit and intensity and injuries.
• 46:12
  So that's where I think we
• 46:14
  need to continue like the CrossFit to,
• 46:19
  you know,
• 46:19
  push to protect our name and to
• 46:23
  take away all of these
• 46:24
  ideas that's on the
• 46:25
  internet or just word of
• 46:27
  mouth from people that are
• 46:29
  not fans of CrossFit.
• 46:31
  But to separate them, I don't know,
• 46:33
  because I think the
• 46:36
  intensity part is still
• 46:38
  getting everyone fitter with age.
• 46:43
  The Masters population is huge in CrossFit,
• 46:46
  and they still can look up
• 46:47
  to someone within their age group,
• 46:48
  which is really cool to see
• 46:50
  what's possible at that age.
• 46:53
  I don't know.
• 46:53
  I don't think you can separate fully.
• 46:58
  I don't know.
• 46:59
  In one hand, I want to say yes,
• 47:02
  it should be separated
• 47:03
  because they clearly can't,
• 47:07
  they seem to not be able to
• 47:10
  see the difference.
• 47:11
  And I would almost prefer
• 47:13
  them to not have any aspect
• 47:16
  of the open money or anything,
• 47:19
  and that all just be a separate entity.
• 47:21
  And if the sport
• 47:24
  wants to support the sport
• 47:25
  then it will and the money
• 47:27
  will go where it should go
• 47:28
  and in that aspect like
• 47:31
  they need to be separate so
• 47:32
  they can't intertwine the
• 47:34
  funds and we don't get this
• 47:35
  muddling of well it's just
• 47:36
  costing us too much money
• 47:38
  is it because I mean I feel
• 47:40
  like if the games is truly
• 47:41
  sustainable if that's if
• 47:42
  people are going to pay for
• 47:43
  it then there's money to be
• 47:45
  made there in some fashion
• 47:47
  and somebody would pick it
• 47:48
  up maybe it'd be rogue I have no idea
• 47:51
  Um, but in one way, in one aspect,
• 47:55
  I almost feel like it does
• 47:56
  need to be separated
• 47:57
  because we just keep getting this.
• 47:58
  It costs too much.
• 47:59
  Well,
• 47:59
  then you shouldn't be in charge of it.
• 48:00
  It's like government doing anything.
• 48:06
  Yeah.
• 48:06
  I mean, yeah.
• 48:07
  If they, if they have the support, I mean,
• 48:08
  it seemed like we were
• 48:10
  heading that direction, like in 2018,
• 48:12
  like we were going to get
• 48:13
  these big deals or something, um,
• 48:16
  to cover the sport.
• 48:17
  And then we just kind of
• 48:18
  lost all the media.
• 48:19
  Right.
• 48:20
  I mean, if it can work, sure.
• 48:24
  Where has the buildup been to the open?
• 48:28
  And Instagram here or there,
• 48:29
  it seems like HQ just neglects YouTube.
• 48:33
  I've, yeah, I've seen a few, I don't know.
• 48:37
  I'd say every few days I see
• 48:38
  a post on like Facebook or Instagram, um,
• 48:43
  showing,
• 48:43
  showing just a general member
• 48:46
  doing the open in their gym, um, with,
• 48:48
  you know,
• 48:49
  an inspirational message of like,
• 48:50
  this is why we do the openness.
• 48:52
  I've, I've had a lot of those.
• 48:53
  I've shared them to my own
• 48:55
  private team page.
• 48:56
  Um, so they're,
• 48:57
  they're popping up on my end.
• 48:58
  Or they're reposting
• 49:00
  previous head-to-head
• 49:01
  matchups I've seen a lot.
• 49:03
  Those are the ones that seem
• 49:03
  to be better on the views.
• 49:05
  I was looking at some of the
• 49:06
  views that they've had.
• 49:08
  Those ones are doing well.
• 49:09
  Like the throwbacks of, let's say,
• 49:11
  Pat Delner versus someone.
• 49:14
  Yeah.
• 49:15
  Yeah.
• 49:16
  That would be my complaint
• 49:17
  with their YouTube is their
• 49:19
  YouTube has become just a
• 49:20
  retread of something
• 49:22
  they've done in the past.
• 49:23
  They're still getting views though.
• 49:25
  Like, don't get me wrong.
• 49:26
  Show in the past open announcements,
• 49:29
  they're doing well.
• 49:31
  And here's my other beef is
• 49:33
  if you've signed up for the open before,
• 49:35
  and I know Kenneth hasn't.
• 49:36
  So like, because of everything going on,
• 49:39
  I've not signed up for the open.
• 49:41
  I get a daily reminder that
• 49:43
  I need to sign up because I
• 49:45
  signed up before like every single day.
• 49:48
  But I'm not who you should
• 49:50
  be marketing to.
• 49:51
  Right?
• 49:54
  Like how much are you
• 49:55
  investing in retention of
• 49:57
  the people you have as
• 49:59
  opposed to getting more?
• 50:00
  Trying to find new people.
• 50:02
  Yeah.
• 50:03
  I don't know.
• 50:04
  The few things that I've
• 50:05
  seen on Facebook seem to be
• 50:07
  the direction I think they
• 50:07
  should be going.
• 50:09
  maybe it's not getting enough traction.
• 50:11
  Maybe again, algorithms,
• 50:13
  I don't know what's not
• 50:14
  getting that out to new people.
• 50:19
  Maybe CrossFit should be
• 50:20
  sending stuff to affiliate owners on,
• 50:27
  you know,
• 50:27
  send these to all of your members.
• 50:29
  Right.
• 50:30
  Not just the ones that I've signed up,
• 50:31
  but these are like, yeah,
• 50:35
  don't know why you should be
• 50:36
  doing the open what what it
• 50:37
  can be good for for the
• 50:38
  following year like just
• 50:39
  like certain templates for
• 50:41
  the affiliates so that they
• 50:42
  can then grab that
• 50:43
  information and then boom
• 50:45
  they send it to them just
• 50:46
  to facilitate some of the
• 50:49
  that side for the members
• 50:50
  like that could be
• 50:51
  something that hq could be
• 50:52
  doing you know um I know
• 50:55
  for um like crossfit canada
• 50:57
  um our affiliate manager
• 50:59
  sent a few uh like
• 51:02
  is it through canvas stuff
• 51:04
  of why you're doing the open?
• 51:06
  And like,
• 51:07
  she sent us a few things to the
• 51:09
  affiliate owners just to
• 51:10
  share on our pages or stuff
• 51:13
  or to members.
• 51:14
  Like, I think that idea is good.
• 51:17
  Yeah.
• 51:21
  I just, I love Kenneth to lap.
• 51:25
  He always puts that little
• 51:26
  sneaky backhand compliment in for us.
• 51:31
  We are talking about Colton next, Ken.
• 51:34
  Here we go.
• 51:34
  His first ever podcast?
• 51:37
  Yes.
• 51:39
  His first ever podcast was
• 51:41
  on this channel.
• 51:43
  That's when he made it.
• 51:44
  That's when you knew he made it,
• 51:46
  right there.
• 51:47
  Yep.
• 51:49
  Good job, Scott, with that one.
• 51:51
  You know how to pick them.
• 51:54
  um okay so we've just got
• 51:56
  announced that week two
• 51:58
  announcement is going to be
• 52:00
  justin madero's first
• 52:01
  colton mertens um we
• 52:04
  already know that colton is
• 52:06
  doing the taylor self first
• 52:08
  the world uh week three
• 52:11
  with um taylor so is that
• 52:15
  is that a lot of
• 52:16
  head-to-head competition is
• 52:17
  that like an unnecessary
• 52:18
  amount of anxiety you think carolyn
• 52:22
  No, because I think the Open doesn't, like,
• 52:26
  doesn't matter.
• 52:28
  You know, it's 25%.
• 52:29
  And then the thing that's
• 52:31
  different this year is the
• 52:32
  quarterfinals are pushed
• 52:33
  back for the individuals
• 52:34
  about a month after the Open.
• 52:37
  So it's actually fine if you
• 52:39
  want to grab a little bit
• 52:40
  more intensity and, you know,
• 52:44
  do the Open announcement,
• 52:45
  go with your buddies and go
• 52:47
  head-to-head there.
• 52:48
  Because I think that's good
• 52:49
  practice for then a month later-ish.
• 52:52
  for the quarterfinals.
• 52:53
  I don't think it like, you know,
• 52:54
  before it was like a week
• 52:56
  off and then boom, you know,
• 52:57
  you're already almost like getting,
• 53:01
  you know, ready for that.
• 53:02
  But no, I think,
• 53:03
  I think it's fine for him.
• 53:05
  Yeah.
• 53:05
  I Colton seems to be,
• 53:07
  he'd like thrives in these
• 53:08
  situations and he seems to
• 53:10
  be grabbing at all of these
• 53:11
  opportunities.
• 53:13
  He's eating up this, this,
• 53:16
  Which is strange for him
• 53:17
  because he doesn't seem
• 53:19
  like a sociable guy,
• 53:20
  but he's taking all of
• 53:23
  these handouts that are coming his way.
• 53:25
  If there's an opportunity,
• 53:26
  he's grabbing it.
• 53:27
  He's kind of like showing,
• 53:29
  I don't know if it's like a
• 53:30
  new personality or his
• 53:32
  personality from before,
• 53:33
  or he's just more buying
• 53:35
  into this character that
• 53:37
  he's kind of been given in
• 53:39
  the CrossFit space of that
• 53:41
  put your head down and
• 53:43
  you're working hard and
• 53:44
  that farm boy type.
• 53:46
  attitude and you guys are all, you know,
• 53:50
  crying on the floor and I'm fine.
• 53:52
  Yeah.
• 53:53
  He's buying into that.
• 53:54
  And I think that's a
• 53:55
  separation for him in terms
• 53:57
  of sponsorship.
• 53:58
  You know,
• 53:58
  you have to find if that's working,
• 54:01
  find it and run with it.
• 54:03
  And I feel like that's what
• 54:04
  he's doing lately is he's
• 54:05
  just running away like with that type of
• 54:08
  And I think this is good for him.
• 54:09
  I was just surprised that it
• 54:10
  was two athletes because I
• 54:12
  remember Dave said it's
• 54:13
  going to be more than two
• 54:15
  and less than seven.
• 54:18
  Yeah.
• 54:18
  Then you saw two and I was like,
• 54:20
  is there more coming?
• 54:23
  I got to think,
• 54:24
  I got to think there's two
• 54:25
  females coming still.
• 54:26
  I want to say there's got to
• 54:27
  be two females,
• 54:28
  especially with that gold barbell.
• 54:30
  Yeah.
• 54:31
  A few events.
• 54:31
  I don't think that they
• 54:32
  would do all of those
• 54:34
  events just head to head.
• 54:36
  Justin versus Colton that
• 54:39
  whole day doing a few events.
• 54:40
  Cause I don't think that would be good.
• 54:43
  Maybe mentally for either of the athletes,
• 54:46
  you know?
• 54:47
  I want to ask you this, Carolyn,
• 54:49
  are you a chip on your shoulder athlete?
• 54:52
  Because Colton has always
• 54:53
  been a chip on his shoulder,
• 54:55
  but he internalized a lot of that.
• 54:57
  Like people said,
• 54:58
  he's too short to do wall balls.
• 55:00
  I'm doing a hundred wall
• 55:01
  balls a day with a 30 pound
• 55:03
  ball until I'm great at wall balls.
• 55:06
  Right.
• 55:07
  And it seems like all that
• 55:08
  internal chip is oozing out
• 55:12
  now into an external, like,
• 55:15
  stop with the talk that I can't do it.
• 55:20
  I've heard it for three
• 55:21
  years in a row that I can't get past this,
• 55:23
  this, or this.
• 55:25
  I'm going to get past this.
• 55:26
  Stop it.
• 55:28
  Do you ever go in with a
• 55:29
  chip on your shoulder?
• 55:30
  Yeah, I think so.
• 55:31
  I think I well,
• 55:34
  I'll just tell myself I'm
• 55:35
  just trying to prove
• 55:36
  certain people wrong if
• 55:37
  they like say certain things about me.
• 55:40
  I'm like, OK, well, I know what I can do.
• 55:42
  And it's just but I don't
• 55:43
  necessarily externally voice it.
• 55:45
  It's more just internally
• 55:47
  just using it as fuel to be like, OK,
• 55:49
  this, you know,
• 55:50
  I'm going to prove myself wrong.
• 55:53
  Like when I used to play hockey,
• 55:54
  I used to have a little,
• 55:56
  I used to write on my hockey stick on my,
• 55:59
  like the knob on my stick, PTW.
• 56:00
  It was like, prove them wrong.
• 56:02
  It's like, okay,
• 56:02
  like if I got sat on the
• 56:04
  bench and I was mad, I was like, okay,
• 56:05
  well, next shift.
• 56:06
  Like I just looked down my
• 56:07
  stick and I was like, prove them wrong.
• 56:09
  Like show them why you should be there.
• 56:11
  And it was just like,
• 56:12
  that was like my model,
• 56:13
  like in hockey all the time.
• 56:16
  or in sports was just like
• 56:17
  prove them wrong but then
• 56:18
  it kind of more recently
• 56:20
  was like okay more like
• 56:22
  proving me also not just
• 56:24
  like them so it's kind of
• 56:25
  like a balance a little bit
• 56:27
  um but yeah I'd say I have
• 56:29
  a chip on my shoulder
• 56:30
  sometimes I think it's good
• 56:32
  it's good I don't know what
• 56:34
  drives me scott I i have no
• 56:36
  idea I haven't figured it out either so
• 56:42
  Just curious.
• 56:43
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 56:43
  I'll have to do some more.
• 56:47
  I mean, I guess a little bit.
• 56:48
  I want to beat... I don't know.
• 56:51
  I have no idea.
• 56:52
  I just have an extreme competitive side.
• 56:55
  When you train,
• 56:56
  do you visualize a certain competitor?
• 57:00
  Like what...
• 57:02
  like I know like when I'm training,
• 57:04
  like I'm not visualizing a
• 57:05
  specific competitor, but I'm visualizing,
• 57:08
  you know,
• 57:09
  other people putting themselves
• 57:10
  in certain situations.
• 57:12
  It's like,
• 57:12
  I need to put myself here and it's like,
• 57:13
  I want to make it here like
• 57:16
  to the games or whatever.
• 57:17
  Like, what do you visualize, I guess,
• 57:18
  when you're training to keep you, I guess,
• 57:23
  focused or keep, you know,
• 57:25
  going through those dark
• 57:26
  places and workouts.
• 57:27
  Like, what do you think about just,
• 57:29
  just pushing yourself or what you can do?
• 57:31
  Or do you,
• 57:32
  visualize usually it's it is
• 57:34
  usually just myself I mean
• 57:35
  I will say like I'll be on
• 57:37
  the bike and I'll be like
• 57:39
  I don't picture one athlete.
• 57:41
  I just in my head, I'm like,
• 57:44
  anyone else would be suffering,
• 57:46
  would be willing to suffer
• 57:47
  worse than you are right now.
• 57:48
  Like shut up and don't be a
• 57:50
  little bitch and push.
• 57:53
  And I'll like,
• 57:55
  I try really hard to do that.
• 57:56
  If it's like a heavy barbell,
• 57:57
  like step up and grab this barbell.
• 58:00
  Like other people are
• 58:01
  stronger than you and
• 58:02
  they're already approaching the barbell.
• 58:03
  But I don't have like a specific,
• 58:06
  I don't know that anyone
• 58:07
  has ever like been like,
• 58:09
  you suck and, and I'm going to, and then,
• 58:13
  and then I'm like,
• 58:13
  want to prove them wrong.
• 58:14
  I don't, I don't know.
• 58:16
  So it's just a general population.
• 58:18
  Like I just,
• 58:20
  in any situation I envision
• 58:21
  like people and they're
• 58:23
  just doing better than me and I want,
• 58:25
  and I need to push harder
• 58:26
  and try to catch up or whatever.
• 58:28
  So I think what I envision is just like,
• 58:32
  what is the cut line?
• 58:33
  And I envision like when I'm
• 58:34
  in a pace where,
• 58:36
  this is the pace I feel like
• 58:38
  a games athlete would be doing it at,
• 58:40
  or this is, you know, an elite score.
• 58:42
  And I'm just kind of chasing
• 58:43
  what I kind of visualize as
• 58:46
  that elite score.
• 58:47
  And it's like, I want to be elite.
• 58:49
  This is what I have to do.
• 58:50
  And I'm just trying to like chase that.
• 58:52
  Cause I'm often just training by myself.
• 58:54
  So that's,
• 58:55
  I'm just trying to picture some
• 58:57
  sort of line in front of me.
• 59:00
  It's like, this is where I should be.
• 59:02
  Yeah, exactly.
• 59:03
  I'd say that's very similar.
• 59:04
  Speaking of, I put you in my top 25.
• 59:07
  Scott, did you finish your poll?
• 59:11
  I did not.
• 59:12
  I wondered.
• 59:13
  Try to open it tonight
• 59:14
  because I actually just
• 59:15
  submitted mine earlier today.
• 59:17
  And I know it said yesterday.
• 59:18
  Let's see if you can submit it tonight.
• 59:20
  Oh, they're redoing that.
• 59:22
  Yeah, they did a February poll.
• 59:23
  And yes, you were in my top 25.
• 59:24
  Nice.
• 59:26
  Yeah, check that.
• 59:31
  Okay, so...
• 59:34
  athletes coming back after a drug ban,
• 59:37
  the Heinrich Oscarsson,
• 59:41
  they just said he's coming back.
• 59:42
  Should these athletes be
• 59:43
  tested prior to coming back
• 59:45
  or throughout their ban or I don't,
• 59:48
  however you look at it.
• 59:50
  They should be tested during their ban.
• 59:54
  For sure.
• 59:55
  Like you can't go four years
• 59:57
  without getting tested.
• 59:59
  It's literally like, Oh,
• 1:00:00
  continue doing for a little
• 1:00:01
  bit longer what you can do and then
• 1:00:04
  next time you're at an
• 1:00:04
  in-person competition, you'll get tested.
• 1:00:07
  So, you know,
• 1:00:08
  then they know they're
• 1:00:10
  basically figuring out in
• 1:00:11
  the next four years,
• 1:00:12
  how long things take to get
• 1:00:14
  out of their system.
• 1:00:15
  They got four years to figure that out.
• 1:00:17
  Yeah.
• 1:00:18
  They got to get tested somehow.
• 1:00:22
  I did hear that,
• 1:00:23
  that Ricky Gerard was
• 1:00:25
  tested throughout the band,
• 1:00:27
  but I don't know.
• 1:00:29
  It could have been one time.
• 1:00:30
  One time.
• 1:00:30
  Is that what it was?
• 1:00:31
  One time.
• 1:00:35
  So I agree with you, Carolyn, that to me,
• 1:00:40
  if I'm in CrossFit and I get banned,
• 1:00:42
  let's juice it up to 11 and
• 1:00:47
  get as strong as I can possibly get.
• 1:00:50
  And then when I know the
• 1:00:51
  half-life is going to be
• 1:00:52
  gone for my return back,
• 1:00:55
  then let it all out, right?
• 1:00:59
  But we don't even test the
• 1:01:02
  current athletes enough.
• 1:01:04
  I have competed in CrossFit since 2014.
• 1:01:09
  I have been tested three times, I think.
• 1:01:18
  And I'm on the list of I
• 1:01:21
  send my whereabouts every
• 1:01:22
  three to four months.
• 1:01:25
  been tested three times for
• 1:01:27
  the crossfit games I want
• 1:01:28
  to say and I've been on
• 1:01:29
  podiums like a few times in
• 1:01:32
  like different competitions
• 1:01:34
  they're not testing enough
• 1:01:37
  because like I don't take
• 1:01:39
  anything I just take
• 1:01:40
  creaking that's the only
• 1:01:40
  thing I take and I'm like
• 1:01:41
  I'm thinking to myself damn
• 1:01:42
  if I'm getting tested three
• 1:01:44
  times in 10 years and I've
• 1:01:46
  been to 10 10 regionals and
• 1:01:48
  semi-finals like
• 1:01:50
  I mean, I know some of the top,
• 1:01:51
  top athletes are getting
• 1:01:52
  tested a lot more,
• 1:01:54
  but still the other games
• 1:01:57
  athletes or bubble people,
• 1:02:00
  like there's just not enough testing.
• 1:02:03
  It's crazy.
• 1:02:04
  It is crazy.
• 1:02:07
  I don't know what the solution is.
• 1:02:08
  That does seem like a big
• 1:02:09
  strain on the budget.
• 1:02:12
  So I don't know.
• 1:02:14
  But then in my head, I'm like,
• 1:02:15
  but don't waste your test on me.
• 1:02:16
  Go test other people.
• 1:02:17
  I'm clean.
• 1:02:19
  Sure, test me, but go test people.
• 1:02:25
  Just not enough.
• 1:02:27
  And in the teams,
• 1:02:29
  they only test two people.
• 1:02:31
  So I don't know.
• 1:02:33
  I'd rather pay more for
• 1:02:36
  competitions knowing that
• 1:02:37
  everyone gets tested.
• 1:02:40
  I'd rather pay a little bit
• 1:02:42
  more in the competition fee
• 1:02:43
  if it means it's covering
• 1:02:44
  the testing of more people.
• 1:02:47
  But even then,
• 1:02:48
  people at competitions are
• 1:02:51
  normally off whatever they're taking.
• 1:02:53
  So it's during the open, show up to a gym.
• 1:02:57
  Show up to a random
• 1:02:58
  affiliate that has a bunch
• 1:03:00
  of people or just that you know.
• 1:03:01
  Show up to an affiliate, test.
• 1:03:03
  Because everyone that's on
• 1:03:04
  the open or under that could be tested.
• 1:03:09
  So during the open,
• 1:03:10
  just show up to places.
• 1:03:13
  The only people that take
• 1:03:15
  during a competition are those that say,
• 1:03:17
  Hey, my buddy gave me a bag of pills.
• 1:03:20
  I just took them.
• 1:03:27
  But I know it's expensive, but yeah,
• 1:03:28
  I guess I don't know, but I guess.
• 1:03:30
  Yeah.
• 1:03:32
  I don't know what to do there either.
• 1:03:36
  All right.
• 1:03:37
  Well,
• 1:03:37
  hopefully when they come back from
• 1:03:38
  their ban, though,
• 1:03:40
  is that they've learned their lesson.
• 1:03:42
  Like, that's what you hope for, right?
• 1:03:43
  Like,
• 1:03:43
  that's what my heart wants to believe,
• 1:03:46
  I guess.
• 1:03:49
  That they're coming back.
• 1:03:49
  Have you ever predicted that
• 1:03:51
  Ricky would be this popular
• 1:03:55
  after coming back?
• 1:03:57
  No,
• 1:03:58
  I thought that there would be a little
• 1:03:59
  bit more.
• 1:04:00
  But, like, this first year,
• 1:04:01
  I think he was well –
• 1:04:05
  like, uh, well received.
• 1:04:08
  Yeah, he was,
• 1:04:09
  he was actually well received.
• 1:04:10
  I was surprised,
• 1:04:10
  but I was really surprised
• 1:04:12
  about his first year back
• 1:04:14
  being well received.
• 1:04:16
  And now he's like,
• 1:04:17
  like he's one of the most
• 1:04:18
  popular athletes in the sport.
• 1:04:21
  Yeah.
• 1:04:22
  And I think people want to
• 1:04:23
  see someone learn from
• 1:04:24
  their lesson and learn, um, yeah,
• 1:04:28
  like learn from their lesson.
• 1:04:29
  And then,
• 1:04:30
  like a comeback story.
• 1:04:31
  Like we all love a comeback story.
• 1:04:33
  I think that's what's drawing people in.
• 1:04:35
  The only thing I didn't like
• 1:04:37
  from that situation is that
• 1:04:38
  his brother popped for the
• 1:04:39
  same thing two years later.
• 1:04:40
  And you're like, did he learn?
• 1:04:42
  That's where I'm like, what,
• 1:04:44
  what about Ricky makes you
• 1:04:45
  think he learned from his lesson?
• 1:04:47
  And especially knowing his brother,
• 1:04:49
  like maybe he just learned how to cycle.
• 1:04:55
  No comment.
• 1:04:56
  I don't know.
• 1:05:00
  For me,
• 1:05:01
  the tough part is that his brother
• 1:05:03
  tested positive two years.
• 1:05:04
  Like that, that was a tough part.
• 1:05:05
  Cause I was like, well,
• 1:05:08
  one of them hasn't learned
• 1:05:09
  their lesson at least, but you, you hope,
• 1:05:12
  I don't know.
• 1:05:13
  I hope that cause he's,
• 1:05:14
  he's really a phenomenal athlete.
• 1:05:16
  Like he's not just a crosser.
• 1:05:17
  Like he's a really good athlete.
• 1:05:18
  I think he played rugby.
• 1:05:20
  He's a great mountain biker or like,
• 1:05:22
  it's like, I,
• 1:05:23
  I like the athletes in this sport.
• 1:05:24
  So he's, he's an athlete.
• 1:05:26
  So like, I, I hope that he can, that he's,
• 1:05:31
  learned ldy2742 if you're
• 1:05:34
  caught they should be
• 1:05:35
  tested every three months
• 1:05:36
  make the athlete pay for it
• 1:05:38
  I do like that you want to
• 1:05:39
  compete that's an
• 1:05:41
  interesting take yeah
• 1:05:47
  something like that I guess
• 1:05:49
  I i don't I don't even know
• 1:05:50
  how much the testing is but
• 1:05:51
  something like that yeah I have no clue
• 1:05:54
  but I guess they would know
• 1:05:55
  when they're buying their
• 1:05:56
  own test to get tested.
• 1:05:59
  And I don't know how that would work, but.
• 1:06:04
  Yeah.
• 1:06:07
  It's you got to pay the penance, right?
• 1:06:10
  You're the one that tested positive.
• 1:06:13
  You want to stay in the sport.
• 1:06:14
  You got to pay for this over
• 1:06:16
  the next four years.
• 1:06:17
  Well,
• 1:06:17
  Brian friend on what's it called
• 1:06:22
  around the whiteboard is
• 1:06:23
  what it's called.
• 1:06:24
  I'd like propose that if you
• 1:06:29
  test positive and then you
• 1:06:31
  rat someone else out,
• 1:06:32
  that is also juicing that
• 1:06:36
  it would reduce yours.
• 1:06:37
  Cause it would basically try
• 1:06:39
  to get more people to get tested.
• 1:06:41
  I still don't like the fact
• 1:06:42
  that you would reduce yours.
• 1:06:43
  Like going to rat someone else out.
• 1:06:45
  Shouldn't reduce what you did.
• 1:06:48
  Like you still tested positive.
• 1:06:51
  It should get, you know,
• 1:06:52
  your four years just by,
• 1:06:54
  pointing fingers and say, well,
• 1:06:56
  go and test these ones that
• 1:06:57
  I got the supply from or whatever,
• 1:06:59
  shouldn't be reducing your bad.
• 1:07:02
  But if it's going to grab more people,
• 1:07:04
  I don't know.
• 1:07:05
  Both are, I don't know.
• 1:07:06
  What do you think about that?
• 1:07:07
  Yeah,
• 1:07:08
  I thought it was an interesting take.
• 1:07:11
  I would almost be willing to
• 1:07:13
  dock a year just to get
• 1:07:16
  more people caught.
• 1:07:20
  It may be worth it.
• 1:07:23
  So then it would go like that.
• 1:07:24
  No, no more than one year though.
• 1:07:26
  No more than one year.
• 1:07:27
  Agreed.
• 1:07:28
  Like just cause you do two,
• 1:07:29
  you don't get two years.
• 1:07:30
  If you start going into two
• 1:07:32
  years and stuff and all of
• 1:07:33
  a sudden that would be.
• 1:07:34
  Yeah.
• 1:07:36
  Yeah.
• 1:07:36
  Yep.
• 1:07:36
  Exactly.
• 1:07:37
  We attribute that to the right Brian.
• 1:07:39
  It was Brian spin.
• 1:07:41
  What did I say?
• 1:07:42
  Friend.
• 1:07:43
  Oh, sorry.
• 1:07:44
  Uh, yeah.
• 1:07:44
  Brian spin.
• 1:07:45
  Wow.
• 1:07:47
  Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:07:49
  When you said that Brian
• 1:07:50
  Friend was on Around the World,
• 1:07:51
  I knew that that topic was on.
• 1:07:53
  I was like, well,
• 1:07:54
  that's news that he was brought on.
• 1:07:55
  I don't even know why I said Brian Friend.
• 1:07:58
  Different people.
• 1:08:00
  Yeah.
• 1:08:02
  Brian.
• 1:08:03
  All right.
• 1:08:05
  All right.
• 1:08:05
  Open predictions.
• 1:08:06
  So, Scott,
• 1:08:07
  you want us to guess what we
• 1:08:08
  think the first workout might be?
• 1:08:10
  Is that what you want to predict?
• 1:08:12
  This isn't my note.
• 1:08:14
  Oh, all right, Carolyn.
• 1:08:15
  All right, let's go.
• 1:08:17
  I don't know.
• 1:08:18
  I was just asking if you had
• 1:08:20
  any predictions for the Open coming up.
• 1:08:24
  Prediction workout-wise or
• 1:08:26
  prediction... Yeah, workout-wise.
• 1:08:27
  Okay.
• 1:08:28
  Movement-wise, week one.
• 1:08:30
  Because you said it's unique.
• 1:08:32
  I know.
• 1:08:35
  I'm intrigued by the wording
• 1:08:38
  around week one.
• 1:08:43
  CrossFit...
• 1:08:45
  I think it's going to be
• 1:08:46
  simple classic CrossFit.
• 1:08:49
  What's going to be unique in there?
• 1:08:51
  I don't know.
• 1:08:52
  That to me is not unique.
• 1:08:58
  I would like to think that
• 1:09:00
  they are done with the
• 1:09:02
  introductions of new
• 1:09:03
  movements in the open.
• 1:09:04
  It's
• 1:09:06
  I just, I don't think that's a good idea.
• 1:09:08
  I don't think that's the
• 1:09:09
  place to introduce them.
• 1:09:10
  It's too many people
• 1:09:14
  interpreting something new.
• 1:09:18
  Online.
• 1:09:19
  Yeah.
• 1:09:20
  I think that also,
• 1:09:21
  I think I would also go
• 1:09:22
  with quarterfinals for that too.
• 1:09:23
  I think if there's a new
• 1:09:24
  movement introduced,
• 1:09:25
  I would like to see it in
• 1:09:26
  person with top judges and
• 1:09:30
  then have it trickle down from there.
• 1:09:32
  But when you have non judges,
• 1:09:35
  top judges and affiliates
• 1:09:38
  grabbing new movements.
• 1:09:39
  I don't think that's a good idea.
• 1:09:40
  Cindy.
• 1:09:44
  I don't think you're going
• 1:09:44
  to see burpee or pushups in, in the open.
• 1:09:48
  That's, that's a recipe for disaster,
• 1:09:52
  but there could be a version of that,
• 1:09:54
  whether it be like burpee
• 1:09:56
  Cindy or Dave pipes every year.
• 1:10:01
  And it's never crazy different.
• 1:10:04
  Yeah.
• 1:10:04
  Yeah.
• 1:10:06
  He does have a way to just draw you in.
• 1:10:09
  Like,
• 1:10:09
  it's just like the way he would speak
• 1:10:11
  at the games, the way that he just,
• 1:10:13
  you know, those words about the open,
• 1:10:16
  like you're just,
• 1:10:17
  those are the things I
• 1:10:18
  think that people miss the
• 1:10:19
  most is just the way he
• 1:10:21
  talks about workouts and
• 1:10:23
  just gets you anxious.
• 1:10:25
  Literally, you're like listening to him.
• 1:10:26
  You're like, oh my gosh,
• 1:10:28
  there's a lot of pain coming up.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, that makes sense.
• 1:10:34
  It makes me think that it
• 1:10:36
  won't be a retest because
• 1:10:37
  that's not really unique.
• 1:10:42
  Like what if it's like the
• 1:10:44
  seven minutes of burpees,
• 1:10:45
  but it's like seven minutes of,
• 1:10:47
  they had a 10 minutes of
• 1:10:49
  burpee box jump overs on cap or.com.
• 1:10:52
  I,
• 1:10:53
  I get them mixed up now because a lot of
• 1:10:54
  cap has been showing up on.com.
• 1:10:58
  Something like that is just gross.
• 1:11:00
  Yeah.
• 1:11:02
  So I would and so and I we
• 1:11:04
  actually were just talking
• 1:11:05
  about this recently.
• 1:11:06
  I would like to see burpee
• 1:11:08
  pull either burpee or
• 1:11:10
  bar muscle up or burpee ring
• 1:11:11
  muscle up um because I
• 1:11:13
  personally think not
• 1:11:15
  connecting those reps like
• 1:11:18
  I've said this before like
• 1:11:19
  a ring muscle up with the
• 1:11:21
  dip I think is the way to
• 1:11:22
  do it or or burpee ring
• 1:11:24
  muscle ups so that it you
• 1:11:26
  can't really get away with
• 1:11:27
  that push away as much um
• 1:11:30
  and making those be singles
• 1:11:32
  and um I just think this
• 1:11:34
  one is the first one right
• 1:11:36
  um so yeah like a burpee
• 1:11:38
  bar muscle up I think would be
• 1:11:41
  Let me propose this.
• 1:11:44
  Everywhere we're hearing Boz
• 1:11:45
  and Dave talk about how we
• 1:11:48
  have to change the way
• 1:11:50
  workouts look so that everybody can start,
• 1:11:53
  not everybody can finish.
• 1:11:55
  And maybe workout one is a
• 1:11:57
  demonstration of that.
• 1:11:59
  So my first ever open workout was 13-1.
• 1:12:03
  It was 50 burpees, then snatches,
• 1:12:10
  lightweight.
• 1:12:11
  Then you went more burpees or less burpees,
• 1:12:14
  but then a heavier snatch.
• 1:12:17
  What if you did like both?
• 1:12:20
  You start with regular
• 1:12:21
  burpees and you do a light snatch.
• 1:12:24
  Then you do burpee pull-ups
• 1:12:26
  and a heavier snatch.
• 1:12:28
  Then burpee bar muscle-ups
• 1:12:30
  and a heavier snatch.
• 1:12:31
  something like that that
• 1:12:33
  demonstrates what the new
• 1:12:37
  way of the workout is going
• 1:12:39
  to be so that everybody can play,
• 1:12:42
  but we can still test for
• 1:12:44
  the fittest on earth.
• 1:12:50
  Yeah.
• 1:12:50
  I think we're going to see a
• 1:12:51
  lot of that type of thing
• 1:12:53
  or the gated type workouts
• 1:12:57
  in quarterfinals.
• 1:12:58
  I think they've already alluded to that.
• 1:13:00
  They're like,
• 1:13:02
  they basically said the 25
• 1:13:05
  will be able to start the
• 1:13:06
  workout they probably won't
• 1:13:08
  be able to finish um so I
• 1:13:10
  would be hesitant to think
• 1:13:11
  that they're gonna do that
• 1:13:12
  also in the open um just
• 1:13:16
  because I think that's
• 1:13:16
  gonna be you're gonna see
• 1:13:18
  five of those workout types
• 1:13:19
  of workouts in
• 1:13:20
  quarterfinals so I don't
• 1:13:24
  know I don't know I don't
• 1:13:27
  think we'll see shuttles personally
• 1:13:30
  i think I don't think
• 1:13:31
  shuttles will be in I don't
• 1:13:33
  necessarily think have they
• 1:13:34
  shown a like a equipment
• 1:13:39
  list no I don't think
• 1:13:40
  they're doing that this
• 1:13:40
  year well I said I think it
• 1:13:42
  was paused no I think it
• 1:13:43
  was said that the equipment
• 1:13:46
  list basically came out of
• 1:13:47
  the pandemic and uh they're
• 1:13:51
  going away from that but
• 1:13:53
  now you should just have everything
• 1:13:55
  basically have everything available and,
• 1:13:59
  but I don't think you'll
• 1:14:00
  see anything with 25, um, feet for the,
• 1:14:03
  for the open.
• 1:14:04
  I think something on the
• 1:14:06
  spot or in a smaller area,
• 1:14:09
  that's just easier for the affiliates, uh,
• 1:14:12
  might be the way to go just
• 1:14:14
  to facilitate classes,
• 1:14:15
  to run the workouts.
• 1:14:18
  We've had 25 feet for a long time.
• 1:14:20
  We have with lunges.
• 1:14:21
  2016 was the introduction.
• 1:14:24
  I think with the overhead walking lunges,
• 1:14:27
  burpees, chest of our one,
• 1:14:29
  I think was the first time.
• 1:14:31
  So I don't,
• 1:14:31
  I don't think that's the big
• 1:14:32
  problem for affiliates.
• 1:14:34
  It's that it's designated floors length.
• 1:14:40
  So quick move.
• 1:14:41
  Yeah.
• 1:14:42
  I w I would say that one,
• 1:14:43
  it would be a problem
• 1:14:44
  because on overhead,
• 1:14:48
  bar a lot of like our gym
• 1:14:49
  would have to go under the
• 1:14:51
  rig and like that just
• 1:14:53
  takes up a lot of room like
• 1:14:54
  a bar versus like dumbbells
• 1:14:57
  in 17.2 I think it was uh
• 1:15:02
  lunge lunge love toast of
• 1:15:04
  our power like that takes a
• 1:15:07
  little bit less room that
• 1:15:07
  you can kind of go a little
• 1:15:08
  closer in lanes if you're
• 1:15:11
  if you're by people but the
• 1:15:13
  overhead bar I think would be less
• 1:15:17
  And you could,
• 1:15:18
  you could make lunges 15
• 1:15:19
  feet or like short.
• 1:15:22
  And it'd still be effective.
• 1:15:24
  Hell you can lunge in place
• 1:15:25
  and it's effective.
• 1:15:26
  Yeah.
• 1:15:27
  Especially cause you're
• 1:15:28
  having to push off.
• 1:15:30
  If you're doing like,
• 1:15:30
  let's say a forward lunge
• 1:15:31
  or a reverse lunge.
• 1:15:35
  That could be.
• 1:15:38
  Do we see a max lift?
• 1:15:40
  I think we will see a max lift.
• 1:15:42
  What's your prediction of the max lift?
• 1:15:48
  I think a heavy deadlift is coming.
• 1:15:52
  Woo.
• 1:15:55
  14.3.
• 1:15:58
  Box jumps and deadlifts ascending ladder.
• 1:16:00
  It's coming.
• 1:16:01
  It's coming back.
• 1:16:04
  Oh, so you just think just like 14.3,
• 1:16:07
  like the workout lift,
• 1:16:08
  not like a one rep max deadlift.
• 1:16:11
  No, no,
• 1:16:11
  I don't think I'd do a one rep max
• 1:16:13
  deadlift.
• 1:16:14
  I think there's going to be
• 1:16:14
  a two part workout with a lift.
• 1:16:19
  Complex or a lift?
• 1:16:21
  So I would prefer to see a
• 1:16:23
  complex for sure.
• 1:16:25
  I just think doing a single lift after,
• 1:16:29
  I mean,
• 1:16:30
  I think it should be after a
• 1:16:31
  workout and I think it should be,
• 1:16:33
  you should have to do the
• 1:16:34
  workout in some fashion to earn the lift.
• 1:16:37
  The one year, 2021,
• 1:16:38
  when they did the complex,
• 1:16:43
  I did not like the format
• 1:16:45
  of once you got done,
• 1:16:47
  you had one minute or something.
• 1:16:48
  I don't know what the time
• 1:16:49
  was because you were
• 1:16:50
  getting penalized by being fitter.
• 1:16:53
  Yep.
• 1:16:53
  Because if you finish the,
• 1:16:55
  and then if you didn't finish the workout,
• 1:16:57
  let's say you began lifting.
• 1:16:58
  I don't remember the time.
• 1:16:59
  It was the thruster chest to bar one.
• 1:17:01
  And then let's say 12
• 1:17:03
  minutes at the 12 minute mark,
• 1:17:04
  you had a time cap and then
• 1:17:07
  however long you had for your lifts.
• 1:17:09
  But if you finish that in,
• 1:17:11
  let's say eight minutes,
• 1:17:12
  you were lifting at nine minutes.
• 1:17:14
  You were lifting under a certain fatigue.
• 1:17:16
  And if you didn't have the
• 1:17:17
  fitness to finish very fast
• 1:17:19
  and you had to wait around
• 1:17:20
  because you didn't have, let's say,
• 1:17:21
  a chest to bar or the bar muscle up,
• 1:17:24
  you got to rest.
• 1:17:26
  Basically, you could almost load your bar,
• 1:17:28
  get ready,
• 1:17:28
  and then you got to do your
• 1:17:29
  lift fresh while the fitter
• 1:17:33
  athletes were under fatigue.
• 1:17:35
  So I don't like that idea.
• 1:17:36
  I like that if you are going
• 1:17:38
  into another lift, if you finish earlier,
• 1:17:40
  you earn that rest.
• 1:17:44
  A hundred percent.
• 1:17:45
  And not one minute later you finish.
• 1:17:49
  Boom.
• 1:17:49
  Go.
• 1:17:50
  Yeah.
• 1:17:51
  I didn't.
• 1:17:51
  Absolutely.
• 1:17:52
  It was 2021.
• 1:17:52
  Yeah.
• 1:17:55
  I didn't like that either.
• 1:17:56
  I remember specifically that
• 1:17:57
  there were people in the gym out,
• 1:18:00
  outlifting me, which is not rare,
• 1:18:02
  but who did half the amount of work.
• 1:18:04
  And I'm like,
• 1:18:05
  if you would have continued
• 1:18:07
  to work with what I did, you would have,
• 1:18:09
  you wouldn't have hit what you hit.
• 1:18:10
  I mean, I, I know that for a fact.
• 1:18:13
  Um, yeah, I don't like workouts like that.
• 1:18:15
  Yeah.
• 1:18:16
  So if there is a second part,
• 1:18:17
  it can't be like 2015 with
• 1:18:21
  part a was nine minutes.
• 1:18:23
  And then part B was the
• 1:18:24
  clean and jerk and people
• 1:18:25
  sat around and then a max lift,
• 1:18:27
  which was very similar to me.
• 1:18:29
  People didn't sit around for 2021, uh,
• 1:18:30
  21 point,
• 1:18:34
  three slash four.
• 1:18:35
  Yep.
• 1:18:35
  But it was the same idea as
• 1:18:37
  2015 where someone could
• 1:18:39
  still float around for the
• 1:18:41
  first part and then get
• 1:18:42
  ready for their lift.
• 1:18:44
  Yeah.
• 1:18:48
  Scott,
• 1:18:48
  do you think there'll be a lift in
• 1:18:49
  the open?
• 1:18:54
  I'll be honest.
• 1:18:54
  I have not thought about the
• 1:18:56
  open because of the last week too much.
• 1:19:00
  Um, I always love a lift and,
• 1:19:04
  I'll tell you the year they
• 1:19:05
  had the burpees you had to
• 1:19:07
  finish to be able to lift.
• 1:19:11
  Yes.
• 1:19:14
  It, it pushed me to,
• 1:19:16
  and that's the only workout
• 1:19:18
  I've ever repeated because
• 1:19:20
  I missed it by like two
• 1:19:21
  reps the first time and
• 1:19:25
  then went in with a
• 1:19:25
  different strategy and
• 1:19:27
  finished it and was able to
• 1:19:29
  do the lift on the second one.
• 1:19:30
  That was a game changer.
• 1:19:32
  Yeah.
• 1:19:35
  Yeah.
• 1:19:35
  I, that was one of my, I,
• 1:19:37
  that workout was tough, but like,
• 1:19:39
  I think that's the way you
• 1:19:41
  program a lift for sure.
• 1:19:43
  You,
• 1:19:44
  you have to show the fitness to earn it.
• 1:19:47
  I was thinking bench too.
• 1:19:48
  Sorry.
• 1:19:48
  What if we're all thinking
• 1:19:52
  there's like a max lift,
• 1:19:53
  but it's a max gymnastics
• 1:19:55
  movement and it's like max reps of,
• 1:19:59
  I don't know.
• 1:20:01
  They did pull-ups in team
• 1:20:02
  series the one year or
• 1:20:03
  something like that.
• 1:20:04
  I mean,
• 1:20:05
  a certain amount of time or
• 1:20:08
  something on a machine, like a one,
• 1:20:10
  two K row.
• 1:20:12
  So did you see their,
• 1:20:14
  did you see their posts the other day of,
• 1:20:19
  it was like basically some,
• 1:20:21
  some people say a two K row
• 1:20:22
  is one of like the worst things.
• 1:20:23
  How about three of them?
• 1:20:25
  And it was like two K row rest,
• 1:20:27
  three minutes, repeat two K row rest,
• 1:20:30
  three minutes repeat.
• 1:20:31
  And I was like, gross, gross.
• 1:20:33
  Something that people avoid doing like,
• 1:20:36
  like repeated workouts.
• 1:20:38
  And it's like, your score is your slowest,
• 1:20:39
  you know, or something like that.
• 1:20:41
  And it's like, that sucks.
• 1:20:44
  Yes.
• 1:20:45
  You know, and we're all thinking max slip,
• 1:20:46
  but it could be something
• 1:20:47
  different and unique.
• 1:20:49
  And it's something that tests fitness.
• 1:20:53
  I don't know.
• 1:20:54
  Just throwing that out there.
• 1:20:54
  That would just, that would take so long.
• 1:20:56
  I mean, they wouldn't be a 2k,
• 1:20:59
  but I don't know.
• 1:21:02
  Something.
• 1:21:04
  Yeah, I saw that one and I was like,
• 1:21:05
  oh my god.
• 1:21:06
  I suppose you could do a 2K row.
• 1:21:10
  I mean,
• 1:21:10
  they've had 20 like 25 minute workouts.
• 1:21:16
  25?
• 1:21:17
  Yeah.
• 1:21:18
  Well, shoot.
• 1:21:19
  They had the thruster double
• 1:21:21
  under which had no time cap.
• 1:21:25
  Thruster double under. 17.5.
• 1:21:30
  there were people that like
• 1:21:31
  there literally was no clock for that.
• 1:21:33
  So like you could have gone for it.
• 1:21:35
  Yeah.
• 1:21:35
  Okay.
• 1:21:36
  Yeah.
• 1:21:36
  I was trying to think of, yeah.
• 1:21:40
  17.5.
• 1:21:43
  Um, but for the most part, I think,
• 1:21:46
  I think they're done in about 20 minutes,
• 1:21:47
  but I don't know.
• 1:21:52
  I was going to say there's no cap for 14,
• 1:21:54
  five, 16, five.
• 1:21:56
  Yeah.
• 1:21:56
  The burpees.
• 1:21:59
  So yeah.
• 1:22:03
  Are we ready to wrap this thing up?
• 1:22:05
  Yes.
• 1:22:07
  I put the next one here and
• 1:22:08
  I listed this just before
• 1:22:10
  the show on death by one of
• 1:22:13
  the questions was,
• 1:22:14
  can you be balanced in life
• 1:22:16
  and win the CrossFit Games?
• 1:22:19
  Because it's almost been
• 1:22:21
  like an armor for people to say,
• 1:22:26
  and I'll just say Matt Frazier,
• 1:22:28
  like he did not live in
• 1:22:30
  balance to win the CrossFit Games.
• 1:22:33
  When he was training,
• 1:22:34
  it was all about training
• 1:22:36
  and all about winning the games.
• 1:22:39
  Do you think you can be
• 1:22:40
  balanced in life and win?
• 1:22:46
  Yes.
• 1:22:48
  Well, in life,
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  there's still some sacrifices, I guess.
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  But I don't know.
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  I think Pat Vellner has gone pretty close.
• 1:23:00
  Is that right?
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  Alex Gazan is an example of
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  someone who is just such a freak athlete.
• 1:23:07
  He thinks she can do it.
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  And she's very adamant about
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  having balance in her life.
• 1:23:15
  What's balance for her?
• 1:23:17
  Yeah.
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  She's doing this full time.
• 1:23:20
  Exactly.
• 1:23:21
  She doesn't have a job.
• 1:23:22
  I mean, defined.
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  Job is CrossFit.
• 1:23:25
  Yeah.
• 1:23:26
  Sponsorship obligations and stuff.
• 1:23:27
  I don't know what I would
• 1:23:28
  consider balance in that point.
• 1:23:30
  I guess everyone's balance is different,
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  though.
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  That's the thing as well is
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  my balance will look
• 1:23:35
  different than someone
• 1:23:36
  else's balance because what
• 1:23:37
  I can handle will be
• 1:23:39
  different than someone else's.
• 1:23:44
  I mean, Ariel still doesn't work, though,
• 1:23:46
  like in terms – she has her daughter.
• 1:23:48
  Are you saying being a
• 1:23:50
  mother is not working?
• 1:23:51
  No, no, no.
• 1:23:51
  I'm saying – no, no, no.
• 1:23:53
  But I'm saying she's like –
• 1:23:55
  she's training at home.
• 1:23:57
  She has her daughter,
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  and then she has – like
• 1:24:02
  she's not doing like another job on top,
• 1:24:05
  right?
• 1:24:05
  Like she has her daughter
• 1:24:07
  that she's doing a lot of
• 1:24:09
  activities with and then
• 1:24:10
  doing her training around –
• 1:24:13
  that part um which I think
• 1:24:15
  helps on her garage gym oh
• 1:24:17
  my gosh looks have you guys
• 1:24:19
  seen how nice it looks her
• 1:24:21
  new one that's getting
• 1:24:23
  built the new one beautiful
• 1:24:27
  damn that's that's amazing
• 1:24:32
  that's what happens when
• 1:24:32
  you yeah I would say she's
• 1:24:35
  pretty close in terms of
• 1:24:37
  balance because of
• 1:24:40
  like it's not only CrossFit, but I mean,
• 1:24:41
  there's other like fathers
• 1:24:43
  and mothers too in this space.
• 1:24:45
  So I don't, I guess, yeah,
• 1:24:46
  I guess how do we define balance?
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  Are we talking about, can you have a job,
• 1:24:50
  like another career?
• 1:24:54
  Is that what we're talking about?
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  Or because there's other athletes that,
• 1:25:00
  I mean,
• 1:25:00
  male athletes aren't coming back
• 1:25:02
  from like a pregnancy,
• 1:25:03
  like Ariel or Annie or Cara Tia have.
• 1:25:07
  So I guess like that's
• 1:25:08
  completely different, I think.
• 1:25:10
  I don't know.
• 1:25:12
  Yeah.
• 1:25:13
  I'd be curious what they're, when they,
• 1:25:16
  yeah.
• 1:25:16
  What were they trying to say
• 1:25:17
  when they said that?
• 1:25:18
  I mean, it's notable with Matt, right?
• 1:25:21
  Like he was a singular focus
• 1:25:23
  and to the effect of not
• 1:25:25
  using a knife during season,
• 1:25:27
  not going to someone's birthday party,
• 1:25:30
  not see,
• 1:25:31
  like if you become no longer social and,
• 1:25:36
  to the point where you like
• 1:25:37
  will not go out and go
• 1:25:40
  somewhere with your friends
• 1:25:40
  on a Friday night.
• 1:25:41
  Cause you don't want to go
• 1:25:41
  to a restaurant or you
• 1:25:43
  don't have a different food.
• 1:25:46
  Um, I would say, no, you're not balanced.
• 1:25:49
  I would say I'm not balanced
• 1:25:50
  and I'm not nowhere near.
• 1:25:52
  Um, so like,
• 1:25:54
  there's lots of things I
• 1:25:55
  declined to do with my
• 1:25:57
  family that I would have
• 1:25:58
  not declined to do years ago.
• 1:26:00
  Um,
• 1:26:02
  And I and I can only imagine
• 1:26:04
  that the people that do
• 1:26:05
  this like fully full time
• 1:26:07
  are even worse than me.
• 1:26:09
  But maybe I'm wrong.
• 1:26:14
  Yeah, yeah, I guess.
• 1:26:15
  Yes.
• 1:26:16
  It's the balance question
• 1:26:17
  that I have trouble.
• 1:26:19
  Because that's like,
• 1:26:21
  is it's gonna be different for everyone.
• 1:26:23
  Everyone's balance is different.
• 1:26:25
  Exactly.
• 1:26:26
  Like, I think
• 1:26:27
  if just looking on social
• 1:26:29
  and what you see on social
• 1:26:30
  media isn't even an
• 1:26:31
  accurate representation of
• 1:26:32
  what people probably do outside,
• 1:26:34
  but it's nice to see though, you know,
• 1:26:38
  someone like Pat, for instance,
• 1:26:40
  still put in some hours,
• 1:26:44
  his chiropractic
• 1:26:47
  chiropractor job that he's doing.
• 1:26:51
  Then he has a family as well.
• 1:26:53
  Plus he's,
• 1:26:54
  you know, podium at the games.
• 1:26:55
  Ariel has a daughter.
• 1:26:57
  You can see her doing
• 1:26:58
  activities with her
• 1:27:00
  daughter and doing things
• 1:27:02
  like it's different.
• 1:27:03
  Like she doesn't have the
• 1:27:04
  job as well as Pat,
• 1:27:06
  but then she also came back
• 1:27:07
  from pregnancy.
• 1:27:08
  It's just different.
• 1:27:09
  I don't know.
• 1:27:12
  Yeah.
• 1:27:13
  I think, I think it can happen though.
• 1:27:14
  I think it happened.
• 1:27:15
  Yeah.
• 1:27:16
  I think Emma Lawson does a pretty good job,
• 1:27:18
  but again, she's,
• 1:27:20
  not working.
• 1:27:21
  Uh, I'm pretty sure she's living at home,
• 1:27:23
  has a great setup at home,
• 1:27:25
  has a lot of sponsorships and,
• 1:27:30
  but in terms of her life balance,
• 1:27:34
  it's easier maybe to have a
• 1:27:35
  balanced life when your
• 1:27:36
  partner is a games athlete as well.
• 1:27:39
  And they have similar interests.
• 1:27:40
  Like I think that balance,
• 1:27:43
  they see each other at the gym as well,
• 1:27:45
  and then they can spend some time off.
• 1:27:46
  I don't know.
• 1:27:49
  It's still connected,
• 1:27:50
  but she is still doing kid or young stuff,
• 1:27:54
  right?
• 1:27:56
  Rich Rawlings is a good example.
• 1:27:59
  That guy has no balance.
• 1:28:01
  When he was individual, no way.
• 1:28:03
  He has no balance.
• 1:28:04
  You have to go team to get balance.
• 1:28:08
  His kids come to the gym.
• 1:28:10
  He doesn't have balance.
• 1:28:12
  I love him too, but like
• 1:28:15
  There's not.
• 1:28:15
  I don't know.
• 1:28:18
  They did say on the show
• 1:28:18
  that those who are
• 1:28:22
  partnered with their life
• 1:28:24
  partner as a coach and life
• 1:28:26
  partner seem to be more balanced,
• 1:28:29
  like a Jeff Adler or a Tia Toomey,
• 1:28:33
  but it's just probably more disguised.
• 1:28:35
  Yeah, I agree with that.
• 1:28:44
  That is their lifestyle as a family.
• 1:28:48
  So the balance there is in
• 1:28:53
  unison in a sense.
• 1:28:59
  Yeah.
• 1:29:00
  Well,
• 1:29:00
  the last thing we have on our agenda
• 1:29:03
  is from the TDC podcast,
• 1:29:06
  Vendor Village not attached
• 1:29:07
  directly to the venue at
• 1:29:09
  this year's games.
• 1:29:10
  It's a few hundred meters away.
• 1:29:12
  It's a walk.
• 1:29:13
  It's not right next to it.
• 1:29:15
  It's going to have a different feeling.
• 1:29:17
  They're going to plan for
• 1:29:18
  big breaks between events
• 1:29:20
  to hopefully drive people over there.
• 1:29:22
  Thoughts for vendors?
• 1:29:24
  On the surface, without seeing it,
• 1:29:26
  I think that sucks.
• 1:29:29
  Even if they put big breaks,
• 1:29:31
  people are going to go to a restaurant.
• 1:29:35
  But having a wall through
• 1:29:37
  the vendor village,
• 1:29:38
  having it so easily accessible there,
• 1:29:40
  I think really helps the vendors.
• 1:29:43
  If they go and do workouts
• 1:29:46
  in the vendor village,
• 1:29:46
  because it's a bigger vendor village,
• 1:29:48
  and it's like, hey,
• 1:29:49
  meet at 1 o'clock here for
• 1:29:51
  a community workout,
• 1:29:54
  having these athletes sign,
• 1:29:55
  it could draw people.
• 1:29:56
  I think that's what they're
• 1:29:57
  going to try to do.
• 1:29:59
  But I think it's,
• 1:30:01
  I guess we'll see year one,
• 1:30:03
  but it's definitely
• 1:30:04
  interesting that it's not attached.
• 1:30:05
  Because when that building came up,
• 1:30:08
  the Dickies, we all thought, you know, oh,
• 1:30:11
  the vendor village is going
• 1:30:12
  to look great here and there.
• 1:30:13
  But it's not attached.
• 1:30:15
  So one,
• 1:30:16
  what are they using that area that
• 1:30:18
  typically is a vendor village for?
• 1:30:22
  And basic freaking business 101 is,
• 1:30:26
  Wherever it is,
• 1:30:28
  make it the entrance to the arena.
• 1:30:34
  To come and go,
• 1:30:35
  you have to walk through
• 1:30:36
  Vendor Village to go to the arena.
• 1:30:39
  And I'm okay with it.
• 1:30:42
  If you guys have indicated
• 1:30:43
  in Paper Street who were
• 1:30:46
  right inside of Wadapalooza last year,
• 1:30:48
  not this year, but last year,
• 1:30:50
  and everybody had to walk
• 1:30:51
  by their booth to get to
• 1:30:53
  any of the venues, they killed it.
• 1:30:57
  Yep.
• 1:31:02
  So I don't know.
• 1:31:05
  Yeah, the open.
• 1:31:07
  And it's going to be open to the public.
• 1:31:09
  And that works then.
• 1:31:12
  If it's the entrance,
• 1:31:13
  you have to walk through
• 1:31:14
  there to get to the arena.
• 1:31:17
  You just have the gate on
• 1:31:18
  the back end to go into the arena.
• 1:31:21
  Or you can exit over here if
• 1:31:23
  you're just there for the public.
• 1:31:27
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:31:28
  I feel like if it's going to be separate,
• 1:31:30
  it needs to lead into the venue.
• 1:31:35
  Yeah,
• 1:31:35
  you have funnel traffic through there.
• 1:31:37
  If you want people to keep
• 1:31:38
  sponsoring these things for
• 1:31:42
  exorbitant amounts of money,
• 1:31:43
  they have to have the foot traffic.
• 1:31:44
  They have to make their money back.
• 1:31:47
  I mean,
• 1:31:47
  Wadapalooza didn't go great for a
• 1:31:49
  lot of vendors,
• 1:31:50
  and a lot of vendors don't
• 1:31:52
  want to go back.
• 1:31:53
  Because of the rain, also?
• 1:31:54
  Probably.
• 1:31:56
  And I don't...
• 1:31:57
  And that may be a big part
• 1:31:58
  of it is the rain was
• 1:32:00
  keeping spectators away just in general.
• 1:32:04
  I just think there was less
• 1:32:06
  foot traffic in general at
• 1:32:07
  Guadalupe this year overall.
• 1:32:09
  I think it was paid seats.
• 1:32:13
  Yeah,
• 1:32:14
  the paid seats made less people go to
• 1:32:16
  Guadalupe because they were
• 1:32:18
  too expensive.
• 1:32:19
  So less people bought tickets.
• 1:32:24
  Yeah, I guess I didn't think about that.
• 1:32:27
  I didn't hear anything about
• 1:32:28
  Craig Ritchie.
• 1:32:30
  He wasn't a vendor.
• 1:32:31
  He just had the app.
• 1:32:32
  Like he said,
• 1:32:33
  he lost money going like paying to go.
• 1:32:35
  Normally he would make that
• 1:32:36
  back in his YouTube views.
• 1:32:39
  So hustle is at a booth at
• 1:32:40
  what a Palooza every year.
• 1:32:45
  And it's a massive open air
• 1:32:48
  booth with like,
• 1:32:52
  Tons of meet and greets and
• 1:32:53
  stuff like that.
• 1:32:55
  So he may have had one this year.
• 1:32:57
  This was my first miss in a couple years.
• 1:33:01
  Yeah.
• 1:33:02
  I wouldn't be surprised if
• 1:33:03
  he didn't make out so well.
• 1:33:04
  Again, I heard quite a few who didn't.
• 1:33:06
  So, yeah, that's going to be a problem.
• 1:33:13
  Well, we're over our 90 minutes.
• 1:33:16
  Shocker.
• 1:33:18
  But good show tonight.
• 1:33:20
  Thank you, everybody,
• 1:33:21
  in the comments for being here.
• 1:33:23
  Thank everybody for the well
• 1:33:24
  wishes and the love in the comments.
• 1:33:27
  I love you all.
• 1:33:29
  This has been fun.
• 1:33:30
  We'll have to do it again.
• 1:33:32
  Get Carolyn or Lex back on
• 1:33:33
  and really get some stuff going.
• 1:33:37
  With that,
• 1:33:38
  we will catch everybody next
• 1:33:39
  time on Thursday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 1:33:43
  Bye, guys.
• 1:33:46
  We out here takin' aim, let our voices