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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Happy Christmas Eve! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  Well,
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  we're live and I forgot to do the open,
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  but let's do it now.
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  what's going on everybody
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  welcome to Clydesdale at
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  lunch it's Christmas Eve uh
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  I need to check my audio
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  here real quick yeah we go
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  we are working okay cool
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  cool wasn't working there
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  for a second we're working
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  now uh what's going on
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  happy Christmas Eve to
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  everyone out there um we
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  are one day away from the
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  Christmas holiday and uh
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  Yeah, super stoked about that.
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  I didn't come on yesterday.
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  As I mentioned on my Sunday show,
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  my daughter went through a
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  breakup Thursday night and
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  she is now home for the holidays.
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  And yesterday she wanted to
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  go to lunch together.
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  So I took that opportunity
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  to hang out with my daughter.
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  And then we went and picked
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  up a mattress for her.
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  And we also did something else.
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  Oh, fixed her car.
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  Yeah, we got two new tires on the car.
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  We got a new mattress for
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  her as she needs to find a
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  place of her own and did
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  all that and had a nice
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  lunch at a restaurant called Bibibop,
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  which is a local chain here.
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  I don't know how far it's gone nationwide,
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  but I want them to be a
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  sponsor of the show.
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  It is like a Chipotle of
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  Asian food and it is so freaking good.
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  Man.
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  Um,
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  so today my wife and daughter are going
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  out for lunch and I just
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  have to like scrounge around, uh,
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  for as for some stuff, uh,
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  in the fridge for me.
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  I'm thinking I have some
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  turkey sloppy Joes, um,
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  some stuff like that.
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  I'll probably do that for lunch.
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  Something small today.
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  Um, so, uh, yeah, there's that.
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  Um,
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  Um,
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  everybody says a video and audio are
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  good.
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  Uh,
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  Ben Johnson coaching highlights yet
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  cross fat.
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  I'm super stoked about that.
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  Uh, if I,
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  when I'm listening to all the
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  local Chicago sports channels, um,
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  they are.
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  They are enamored with Ben
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  Johnson now as he displayed
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  his coaching prowess
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  against the Chicago Bears on Sunday.
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  Now he is pretty much the
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  leading candidate.
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  Rumors coming out of Hallis
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  Hall are that he is the choice.
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  Now it's just convincing him
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  to take the job.
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  Um, and with the way things have going,
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  have been going,
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  I'm not super optimistic.
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  Um, but yeah, uh, that's who I,
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  I think I want now that was
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  between Mike Vrabel and Ben Johnson.
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  Now I'm leaning towards Ben Johnson.
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  I'm hoping for that.
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  uh so bibi mbop so we have a
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  restaurant here called
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  bibibop it's just
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  b-i-b-i-b-o-p um it has
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  like a lot of fresh
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  vegetables um some
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  probiotics some things like
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  that and uh it and then you
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  get it on you can get it on
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  a bed of purple rice or or
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  regular rice or potatoes or
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  sweet potato noodles
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  And then you can get Korean chicken,
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  regular chicken, beef.
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  It's really like Chipotle bowls,
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  but just more Asian flair to it.
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  And Amy from The Roundtable and I,
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  that is like our favorite place.
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  It's so good.
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  It's so fresh.
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  And they make the best
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  kimchi in the world.
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  So I love that as well.
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  So, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Jody has no sound, but Kenneth has sound.
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  Um, so hopefully we're okay.
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  Uh, um, there's some questions in here to,
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  to, to, to, uh, Merry Christmas to you,
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  Jenny.
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  Uh, great job on the updates lately.
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  Uh, I love that.
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  I wake up to those and
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  that's like the first thing
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  I listened to as I'm
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  getting ready in the morning.
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  Um, uh,
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  Judy Reed, we love Bibimbap,
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  Korean Chipotle.
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  Yeah, it is.
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  That's a great way to describe it.
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  Korean Chipotle, it is so, so good.
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  I am fascinated by kimchi
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  and gochujang making videos.
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  I like gochujang sauce and I love kimchi.
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  Those are two of my favorite things.
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  um so yeah so that's uh
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  that's kind of like a
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  wrap-up of what we've been
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  going on here um just like
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  I said daughter went
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  through the breakup on
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  thursday we're just like
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  hugging on her and loving
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  on her as much as we can
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  over the uh the christmas
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  holidays we were actually
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  anticipating being alone this week
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  Um,
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  and now we have our daughter back for
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  the week and it's like old times again.
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  And even though it was for a bad reason,
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  it's really awesome that we
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  get to spend the week
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  together as a family.
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  We haven't got to do that in a few years.
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  And so just really enjoying all of that.
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  So one thing I just wanted to touch on, um,
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  it seems like every day WFP
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  is announcing new signings.
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  Um, and today is, um,
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  Just like every other day,
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  there's three new signings to the WFP,
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  and I don't know if you can see these,
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  but we have Travis Mayer,
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  we have Alexis Raptus,
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  and we have Yella Hosta
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  have all signed with the WFP,
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  joining Pat Vellner, Brooke Wells,
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  Alex Kazan, and Chandler Smith.
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  The barbell spin actually
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  did a prediction of who the
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  signings would be using
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  different world rankings.
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  It's a really good article.
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  If you want to go that it, it,
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  they seem very obvious.
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  And in the article spin says
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  that he has heard that none
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  of the athletes who've been
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  approached to sign with the
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  WFP have turned them down.
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  And why would they?
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  If you're guaranteed money
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  for the upcoming season,
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  why would you not take advantage of that?
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  I was talking with Carolyn
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  and Jamie after the show on Sunday night.
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  And careers are short, man.
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  Careers are short when you're in athletics,
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  whether you want to call it
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  a pro sport or not.
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  When you're in athletics,
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  you have a very small
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  window of when you can earn
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  money during that time.
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  And there's no exclusivity
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  to this contract.
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  So you can do the full
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  CrossFit game season,
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  and you can do this.
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  Why not make as much money as you can
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  when you can because that
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  will not last forever.
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  What does signing actually mean?
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  Exclusivity?
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  Nope.
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  It just means involvement, no exclusivity.
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  These contracts are just
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  that you will gain a
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  contract for the year.
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  You'll get paid a minimum amount of money.
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  The way I've heard it works
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  is if you actually win
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  events or win prize money at events,
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  you don't get any new money
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  until you exceed the
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  minimum amount in your contract.
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  um so you can make more than
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  what your contract says but
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  you cannot make less uh
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  corey leonard uh over here
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  patiently waiting for my
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  signing letter yeah me too
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  I think we'll be waiting
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  about the same amount of
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  time buddy uh clock says
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  doing three events under
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  contract may be tough
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  depending on their timing
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  travel requirements etc
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  But at least they have money
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  to travel if they need to
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  because they know they have
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  a minimum amount of money to do that.
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  We hypothesized that there
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  are two tour events and a
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  world championship.
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  My guess is the two tour events,
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  one will be in Europe,
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  one will be in the U.S.,
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  Um, I don't know who's funding it.
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  I've heard they have about
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  fifteen million dollars in
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  the bank to cover what
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  they're doing right now.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't know who that is that is doing it,
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  but they have about fifteen
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  million to start with.
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  And then they're going to
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  have to make money to keep
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  that going and rolling.
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  So we'll see.
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  And I don't know how much
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  the individual contracts are.
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  Or if you're the first place person,
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  do you earn more in your
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  contract than the twentieth person?
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  You know,
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  I don't know if there's like a
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  staggered way to that.
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  Those are details that hopefully Thursday,
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  Will Morad is appearing on
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  Coffee Pods and Wads.
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  And hopefully we'll get more
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  details about all of that
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  when he appears on there.
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  CrossFit has announced that
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  he has decided to opt out
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  of any future WFP invites.
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  That's a bold statement, CrossFit.
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  Bold statement.
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  But it just seems every day
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  they're announcing new signees,
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  so I'm guessing in the next
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  couple weeks we should have
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  everybody who has signed with WFP known,
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  and then we can move on from there.
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  So there is that the next
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  thing I wanted to talk
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  about on my mind and we
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  didn't get to talk yesterday is, uh,
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  I was so excited this week
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  about the college football playoff.
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  Uh,
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  the first time that there's a team
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  playoff in college football, we went from,
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  you know,
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  back in the day where it was
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  just voted on who the
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  national champion was then
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  to a two team playoff, then to a, uh,
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  and then to a four team,
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  and now we're to a twelve team.
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  I was so excited,
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  set time aside to watch the games,
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  and then they all turned
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  out to be pretty big duds.
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  All were blowouts.
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  I think they need to look at
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  the way the teams are
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  seeded in the future.
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  because with the conference
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  championships getting automatic buys,
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  some of the lower-ranked teams got a buy,
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  and then some of the better
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  teams actually got to play
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  in the first round,
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  and they showed that by
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  pretty much crushing the
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  opponents they were up
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  against in their first-round matchups.
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  So while I enjoy football
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  and more football is better for me,
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  I did not enjoy the games
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  the way they played out.
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  I'm a Penn State fan.
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  That was even a tough game
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  to watch by the second half,
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  and I'm a fan of the team,
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  and I enjoy watching them
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  all season long.
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  Back on the WFP,
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  co-host Carolyn Prevost in the chat.
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  I care less about the
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  signings right now and more
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  about what their events
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  look like and the season.
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  I think I understand a lot of the season,
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  but this trials thing has
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  me like way thrown off.
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  Whatever that segment is in
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  the season seems just does
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  not make sense to me very much.
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  But yeah.
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  other parts I get I get that
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  you know other sports have
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  used that format of um like
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  a pro card these get
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  automatic bids other people
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  can challenge for a spot in
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  that event and then if they
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  do well in those events
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  they can then go from being
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  a challenger to a pro card
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  holder um and then that shuffles out so
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  Um, and Carolyn says, yeah, dates,
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  locations, et cetera, are not out.
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  That's what I mean.
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  I get that as well.
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  Yeah.
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  But that trials piece, just,
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  I've never seen that in another sport.
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  So I don't know what that means at all.
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  And I'm anxious to hear, uh, what that is,
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  uh, for everybody there.
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  The other thing I had on my
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  quick rundown is Dave did a
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  week in review.
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  He was on Savon on Saturday night.
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  We talked about that on our
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  Sunday night show.
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  If you want to hear some of
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  the details he gave for the
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  upcoming twenty twenty five
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  CrossFit game season.
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  We talked about that on our Sunday show.
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  But he also did a week in
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  review and really it was
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  just an announcement saying
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  that he is coming back to
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  doing the week in reviews,
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  just starting that muscle
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  memory of every Monday, getting online,
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  doing a week in review and
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  getting started with that.
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  So hopefully we will start
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  to know more of the crowd.
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  Twenty twenty five CrossFit
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  game season as he does
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  these week over week and
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  maybe starts releasing more
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  and more information.
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  clock that's a great look
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  that's a great question did
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  the athletes that sign sign
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  blind not knowing the dates
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  and locations so I don't
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  know if they know what
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  those dates and locations
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  are and they shared that
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  with those athletes they
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  signed um or gave them like
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  windows of when these
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  events are going to happen
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  and estimated locations,
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  but nothing has been announced to us,
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  the general public.
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  That doesn't mean that they
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  didn't tell them behind closed doors.
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  Uh, but then again,
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  I've not heard any leaks
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  about this either, uh,
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  when we're talking about
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  locations and dates.
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  So, um,
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  If they are telling them it
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  is very tight lipped and
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  they are signing a contract.
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  So that actually helps them
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  a little bit more with like an NDA.
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  And because if they break the NDA,
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  they can break the contract
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  and then that athlete will
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  not earn what they signed for.
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  So that's one advantage to
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  having a contract.
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  is it strengthens, um,
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  a little bit of the behind the scenes, um,
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  privacy piece where you're
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  not sure where you don't
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  want to have leaks and
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  information leaked out there.
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  And I know that's something
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  that Carolyn hates in the
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  current format of the
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  CrossFit game season and
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  whatever we're doing are
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  all the leaks and how some
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  camps or athletes get an
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  advantage knowing what's coming.
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  Um,
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  CrossFit,
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  I wouldn't break an NDA if it's
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  from the part of the world live is from.
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  Good point.
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  Good point.
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  And CrossFit said live
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  athletes at first knew a structure.
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  Yeah.
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  My guess is they know more
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  than what they have released to us.
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  And I'm sure they're talking
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  with the athletes about
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  what that structure was.
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  Some of the dates are things like that.
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  So it'll be interesting to see.
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  again thursday will morad is
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  on coffee pots and wats
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  hopefully hopefully we'll
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  get to know more about what
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  the upcoming season looks
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  like at that point so uh
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  clock says phil mickelson
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  heard two hundred million
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  didn't care about the rest
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  wherever whenever man yeah
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  two hundred million might do that uh
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  And two hundred million
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  would help me keep my mouth
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  shut for sure.
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  But again, what's interesting is, you know,
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  live came in here with a
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  bang and all the money and
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  they pulled a lot of the
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  big name golfers out of the
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  PGA and over to the Middle East.
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  But it didn't even last a
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  full year before they
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  merged into one into one organization.
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  So it's going to be interesting to see
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  And I'm going to talk about
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  it some in my Christmas
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  wishes kind of is that
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  maybe that's what the WFP is.
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  It's an innovative,
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  different thinking
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  organization that helps
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  CrossFit get out of a box,
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  maybe into a new way of
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  thinking a little bit.
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  And maybe they merge ideas in the future.
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  Who knows?
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  crossfit with the jokes uh
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  phil had those parlay debts
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  to pay off yeah phil is
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  known as a little bit of a
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  gambler and uh he may have
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  had needed had a need for
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  the two hundred million uh
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  at the time to pay off some
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  debts good point crossfit
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  uh happened with the aba afl and hockey
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  Yes, ABA merged with the NBA,
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  AFL merged with the NFL,
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  and hockey had two leagues
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  that merged together as well.
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  So, yeah, it's happened a lot in sports.
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  So that'll be interesting to see.
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  Now there's all this talk of
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  filling is two hundred million.
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  I have not heard anywhere
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  near two hundred million
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  for this fitness project.
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  I've heard fifteen and that
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  is an overall budget,
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  not a single person budget.
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  So I don't think any of
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  these athletes are going to
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  make two hundred million.
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  What else has been going on this week?
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  Yeah.
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  One thing I wanted to remind
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  you of is on our Sunday night show,
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  we talked about, um, a traveling.
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  A traveling community event for CrossFit.
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  This was an idea that Carolyn had.
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  We talked about it on our Sunday show.
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  And it is, you know,
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  High Rocks has these
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  community events that are
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  big in one day where people come.
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  They run through the High Rocks event.
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  Everybody is at the same
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  location doing the same thing.
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  Could CrossFit put together
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  something similar to that?
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  We talked about like a
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  waterfall type workout
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  where you do part A, part B, part C,
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  part C, D through the day.
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  You finish it in an hour to
• 19:39
  ninety minutes and then you
• 19:42
  move on with your day.
• 19:43
  But it's more of a community
• 19:44
  event gathering all of the
• 19:49
  participants in one
• 19:50
  location to kind of hang
• 19:51
  out for the day and do this
• 19:53
  major event as a community.
• 19:57
  We asked that if you had ideas for that,
• 20:02
  to put them in the comment
• 20:03
  of a workout that would
• 20:04
  last about an hour, waterfall style,
• 20:08
  to get you through that hour.
• 20:12
  And if you put comments in the...
• 20:14
  in on the youtube video and
• 20:16
  I'll take any comments this
• 20:18
  week on any of the videos
• 20:19
  we put out or the sunday
• 20:21
  night show comments uh if
• 20:23
  you do that we'll we'll
• 20:24
  read those on the air and
• 20:26
  we're going to give away
• 20:27
  something to the person
• 20:28
  that we think came up with
• 20:29
  the best model for a
• 20:32
  traveling crossfit show now
• 20:35
  hopefully jamie latimer is
• 20:37
  not on here she is the only
• 20:38
  person not to open the box
• 20:40
  that I sent out of the
• 20:41
  thing that we're going to give away
• 20:43
  So we have two items that we can give away,
• 20:46
  and I'll give the person
• 20:47
  that wins a choice.
• 20:49
  And one of them is this.
• 20:55
  It is a new Clydesdale Media coffee mug.
• 21:00
  It is a twenty ounce tumbler.
• 21:03
  It is in our yellow.
• 21:06
  And it has the logo engraved
• 21:09
  into the side of it.
• 21:12
  It is made by Kodiak,
• 21:14
  but it is very similar to the Yeti.
• 21:17
  So we have this.
• 21:19
  And we have the same thing
• 21:22
  in a drink bottle.
• 21:26
  I don't know it's a drink
• 21:27
  bottle with a straw that
• 21:29
  you can flip the straw up
• 21:30
  drink out of it is also made of steel,
• 21:34
  it has the logo engraved it
• 21:37
  is done in yellow as well,
• 21:38
  and the same logo so I'll
• 21:39
  hold that up one more time.
• 21:43
  So that is what we will be giving away.
• 21:50
  So.
• 21:52
  And then if people like them,
• 21:55
  we may sell a few of them.
• 21:58
  So it's not a Stanley.
• 21:59
  I don't like Stanley's Kenneth.
• 22:01
  The Stanley's are very top
• 22:03
  heavy with a smaller bottom.
• 22:06
  This is very...
• 22:10
  It doesn't have like the
• 22:11
  dent in at the bottom,
• 22:13
  but it's small enough to
• 22:14
  fit in most drink holders.
• 22:16
  Um, uh, but it's tall,
• 22:18
  it's taller than the coffee cup.
• 22:20
  Um, I think it is.
• 22:22
  Twenty eight or thirty two ounces,
• 22:25
  something like that.
• 22:27
  Uh, so yeah,
• 22:31
  but if you come up with a
• 22:32
  sixty minute workout that we can take, uh,
• 22:36
  on the road for CrossFit, um,
• 22:41
  And we like that idea.
• 22:44
  We will give away either a
• 22:46
  coffee mug or the water
• 22:50
  bottle with the straw.
• 22:51
  And I'll have one on the
• 22:53
  show Sunday night for
• 22:55
  whoever we pick so you can
• 22:57
  see what it looks like as
• 22:58
  well and make your choice.
• 23:01
  So yeah,
• 23:02
  we're super excited how they came out.
• 23:08
  They came out awesome.
• 23:10
  Carolyn says,
• 23:11
  I want the workout to stay the same.
• 23:13
  And it's a community test we
• 23:15
  do every year.
• 23:16
  But just to clarify,
• 23:19
  it can change year after year.
• 23:21
  The workout stays the same for this year.
• 23:24
  So everybody around the
• 23:25
  world would do the same
• 23:27
  waterfall workout for the year.
• 23:30
  And then in like,
• 23:31
  and then in twenty twenty six,
• 23:33
  we change what that workout
• 23:35
  is and it stays the same
• 23:36
  for twenty twenty six.
• 23:39
  think I have that right
• 23:40
  correct carolyn um and
• 23:45
  crossfit is comparing his
• 23:47
  ex-girlfriend to the
• 23:48
  stanley uh top heavy tiny
• 23:50
  bottom never ever had vi
• 23:56
  been described as that ever ever ever so
• 24:06
  But yeah,
• 24:06
  if you want to hear more about that,
• 24:07
  we talked about that for
• 24:08
  about fifteen minutes right
• 24:10
  at the end of the Sunday
• 24:12
  night CrossFit talk show.
• 24:14
  So go check that out.
• 24:15
  Last fifteen minutes and you
• 24:18
  can hear all the ideas we had about that.
• 24:23
  So I'm going to do my Christmas wish list.
• 24:26
  My first one is just in
• 24:27
  general and it's for me.
• 24:31
  And my second wish list and
• 24:33
  they're both top fives is
• 24:34
  CrossFit specific.
• 24:37
  So my first wish list is number five.
• 24:51
  Carolyn says,
• 24:52
  I think it could stay the same though.
• 24:54
  It allows people to retest
• 24:55
  something that stays the same.
• 24:56
  The open changes all the
• 24:58
  time and we can't tell if
• 24:59
  we get better or if it's
• 25:00
  just the workouts.
• 25:02
  I think if we keep it the same too long,
• 25:03
  then it just becomes boring.
• 25:06
  in my opinion.
• 25:07
  So that's where I guess I
• 25:08
  disagree a little bit.
• 25:12
  Craig says it was a cool discussion.
• 25:17
  So, wish list number one.
• 25:19
  Number five.
• 25:21
  My wish is that by next Christmas,
• 25:24
  I can start stringing
• 25:25
  together pull-ups again.
• 25:27
  I've lost a lot of weight this year.
• 25:30
  I am now close to getting
• 25:33
  those pull-ups back,
• 25:35
  and I want to be able to
• 25:36
  string together pull-ups by
• 25:38
  next Christmas.
• 25:41
  Number four,
• 25:42
  my wish is that Sidney Crosby
• 25:44
  gets one more Stanley Cup
• 25:46
  before he retires.
• 25:49
  Number three is that I get
• 25:51
  one of those Vindicate backpacks.
• 25:54
  If you didn't see those
• 25:56
  right around Black Friday
• 25:58
  that Vindicate put out,
• 26:00
  my backpack that I carry to
• 26:02
  events is in such bad shape.
• 26:04
  The zippers are busted on it.
• 26:06
  I am hoping that my wife
• 26:08
  heard my cry and that I get
• 26:13
  one of those Vindicate
• 26:14
  backpacks for either
• 26:15
  Christmas or my birthday,
• 26:17
  which is a week from tomorrow.
• 26:19
  So...
• 26:22
  Back to our other discussion,
• 26:23
  cool benchmark,
• 26:24
  then all of a sudden we're
• 26:25
  comparing the best times
• 26:26
  and places to set our
• 26:28
  records like real racing sports.
• 26:33
  And then Sidney Crosby won't be as a pen.
• 26:36
  Well, we'll see about that.
• 26:38
  Carolyn Prevost, it won't get boring.
• 26:39
  It's a race that stays the same,
• 26:41
  that is more CrossFit style
• 26:42
  than High Rocks.
• 26:43
  Workout will have many
• 26:45
  different elements to train for.
• 26:51
  Uh, December, is the giveaway, uh, Kenneth,
• 26:56
  are you saying they're
• 26:56
  giving away a backpack?
• 27:04
  Uh,
• 27:05
  Carolyn said there's plenty of
• 27:05
  benchmarks in our sport,
• 27:07
  but not everyone does them
• 27:08
  all every year.
• 27:09
  This is one big benchmark
• 27:11
  for the community that stays.
• 27:19
  CrossFat says that Carolyn's
• 27:20
  benchmark is two twenty
• 27:22
  five deadlift and wrap.
• 27:23
  Sixty minutes, probably.
• 27:26
  If she wants to win for sure.
• 27:33
  My number two overall wish list is.
• 27:38
  Penn state makes a run this
• 27:39
  year in the national championship.
• 27:41
  I really want to see them
• 27:43
  get to the final four.
• 27:44
  I would love to see them to
• 27:45
  get to the national championship,
• 27:47
  but realistically I want to
• 27:49
  see them go up against
• 27:50
  Georgia or Notre Dame in the final four.
• 27:53
  Um,
• 27:55
  and then give it their all.
• 27:58
  And then my last wish for the wish list,
• 28:01
  it kind of goes back to the
• 28:02
  beginning of the show,
• 28:03
  where the Chicago Bears
• 28:04
  hire their next head coach,
• 28:06
  and it is a dude, not a dud.
• 28:09
  We have signed too many duds
• 28:11
  over the last...
• 28:12
  several years and it is we
• 28:14
  have not hired a good coach
• 28:15
  since mike didka maybe
• 28:17
  lovey smith but we didn't
• 28:18
  even give him an
• 28:19
  opportunity before we
• 28:21
  kicked his ass to the
• 28:21
  ground and so I want the
• 28:24
  chicago bears to hire a
• 28:25
  dude a dude we need a dude
• 28:31
  um clock says I'm with
• 28:34
  scott I'll it'll get boring
• 28:36
  but crossfit does need to
• 28:37
  go back to constantly
• 28:38
  repeated and named workouts
• 28:40
  make make benchmarks great again
• 28:43
  Carolyn Preva says
• 28:44
  repeatable and measurable.
• 28:49
  And then as for the Bears coach,
• 28:51
  a man's man.
• 28:52
  Yeah, we'll go with that.
• 28:56
  Now for my CrossFit wish list.
• 29:00
  Number five, CrossFit wishlist.
• 29:02
  This is just me.
• 29:04
  I hope we can find a way to
• 29:06
  highlight Masters athletes
• 29:08
  and for it to matter.
• 29:11
  I love that group of athletes.
• 29:13
  I love hanging out with them.
• 29:14
  I love the way they approach
• 29:16
  things because they are not
• 29:19
  professional athletes,
• 29:20
  that they all pretty much
• 29:21
  work full-time jobs.
• 29:25
  I just hope there's a way to
• 29:26
  highlight them in a way that makes sense.
• 29:32
  clock's just rubbing salt in
• 29:33
  the wound now uh a leader
• 29:35
  of men you might say yeah
• 29:37
  yeah that is the tagline
• 29:39
  that's coming from kevin
• 29:39
  warren and the chicago
• 29:41
  leadership a leader of men
• 29:43
  if you're a coach you
• 29:44
  better be a leader of men
• 29:45
  that shouldn't be uh
• 29:47
  whatever okay uh so number
• 29:51
  five is that we find a way
• 29:52
  to highlight masters athletes
• 29:54
  Number four is that our show
• 29:57
  finds a way to travel to
• 30:00
  all the cool events that
• 30:01
  are happening this year.
• 30:02
  We have CrossFit season.
• 30:04
  We have WFP.
• 30:06
  I want a way for someone
• 30:08
  representing this show or
• 30:10
  this channel to be able to
• 30:13
  get to those events and us
• 30:15
  to do live updates from all
• 30:17
  the cool shows.
• 30:19
  That is one of my big wishes for the year.
• 30:25
  And that we find a way to
• 30:28
  pay for that and allow them
• 30:29
  to go report and have a
• 30:31
  good time and do all that stuff.
• 30:37
  Kenneth, you're right.
• 30:38
  The beard did not help him
• 30:39
  make him be a better coach.
• 30:42
  Everybody got wowed by his
• 30:44
  new beard and his new haircut,
• 30:46
  and it fell flat pretty
• 30:48
  quick after a Hail Mary in Washington.
• 30:52
  Number three CrossFit wish
• 30:53
  list is that James Sprague
• 30:55
  and Emily Rolfe get the
• 30:58
  opportunity to prove that
• 30:59
  last season wasn't a fluke.
• 31:02
  Um,
• 31:03
  it really sucks the way that things
• 31:04
  went down for the two of
• 31:06
  them for Emily to get her
• 31:07
  first podium ever.
• 31:09
  And for James to win the
• 31:10
  CrossFit games and for everybody to say,
• 31:13
  well, it's because, um,
• 31:16
  I just want them to be able
• 31:18
  to stack together some
• 31:20
  really cool events and, um,
• 31:24
  and to prove to everybody
• 31:26
  that it wasn't a fluke.
• 31:28
  The improvement that James
• 31:30
  has made has been
• 31:32
  monumental since the time I
• 31:35
  first met him four or five years ago.
• 31:39
  The dude has improved so much.
• 31:42
  Emily has improved every
• 31:44
  year at the games that she has competed.
• 31:46
  It just sucks that their big
• 31:49
  day on the stage happened
• 31:51
  in the year that everything
• 31:52
  was overshadowed by a tragic event.
• 31:56
  And it changed the way the
• 31:59
  workouts laid out,
• 32:00
  meaning that everybody
• 32:01
  questions what they did.
• 32:05
  I want them to have the
• 32:06
  opportunity to prove that
• 32:09
  it wasn't a fluke.
• 32:11
  They may not.
• 32:12
  It may not happen.
• 32:14
  but I want them to have the
• 32:15
  opportunity to do that uh
• 32:22
  lex is already chirping
• 32:24
  that they will never finish
• 32:25
  that high again respectfully
• 32:29
  And that may be the case.
• 32:31
  And I think that for Emily,
• 32:32
  that's probably more realistic.
• 32:37
  She's thirty-five years old.
• 32:39
  She doesn't have a lot of
• 32:40
  time to put together many
• 32:44
  more seasons for this.
• 32:47
  Where James is very young,
• 32:48
  he has improved a great deal.
• 32:50
  I think that...
• 32:53
  Um, it sucks that he, he had the finish.
• 32:55
  He did.
• 32:55
  It doesn't suck.
• 32:56
  He had to finish.
• 32:57
  He did,
• 32:57
  but then he goes to rogue with
• 32:59
  pneumonia and can't back it up.
• 33:02
  Um,
• 33:02
  I do think that he has the opportunity
• 33:04
  to show that he can compete
• 33:06
  with some of the bigger
• 33:07
  guys in the field.
• 33:09
  Um, he has gotten much stronger and, uh,
• 33:12
  hopefully he gets that opportunity.
• 33:17
  Um,
• 33:21
  Number two, that we, yes, Jody,
• 33:27
  Emily is thirty five.
• 33:28
  I don't know if she's thirty five yet.
• 33:30
  She was thirty four last
• 33:31
  year at the games.
• 33:33
  So she will be thirty five
• 33:36
  at next year's CrossFit Games.
• 33:43
  Number two,
• 33:45
  that we change the focus on how
• 33:47
  we market the sport and
• 33:50
  to try to attract spectators.
• 33:54
  I think that events try to
• 33:57
  make money off the backs of
• 33:58
  the athletes instead of, um,
• 34:04
  instead of marketing as
• 34:06
  something fun to watch
• 34:08
  something fun to
• 34:09
  participate in uh from a
• 34:11
  spectator point of view and
• 34:13
  I think that that is where
• 34:16
  you can actually start
• 34:17
  making more money if you
• 34:18
  can attract people to the
• 34:19
  events and with that comes
• 34:22
  more consistency venues
• 34:24
  that are more appropriate
• 34:26
  for what we're doing maybe
• 34:28
  change the size of the
• 34:29
  heats uh to make it more watchable
• 34:33
  Think about that when you're
• 34:35
  programming an event,
• 34:36
  that it is easy to watch
• 34:37
  and see and know who wins.
• 34:40
  Back to my big rant about
• 34:43
  everything should have a finish line.
• 34:45
  If there's no finish line,
• 34:46
  we don't know who won
• 34:48
  because people are just milling about.
• 34:51
  That happened a lot at the
• 34:52
  Masters CrossFit Games.
• 34:54
  Get to a finish line where I
• 34:55
  know who crossed, who won,
• 34:57
  what place they were in,
• 35:00
  and things like that.
• 35:03
  And my number one Christmas list wish is,
• 35:08
  why can't we all just get along?
• 35:15
  Everybody's going to have
• 35:16
  different opinions.
• 35:19
  I wish that we could all
• 35:20
  just respect what those opinions are,
• 35:22
  come to the table, have conversations,
• 35:25
  and do what's best for the sport,
• 35:27
  not compete against each
• 35:28
  other to find out whose idea is better.
• 35:34
  We talked about this off the
• 35:35
  top with Live Golf and the
• 35:36
  PGA and how they came at
• 35:39
  each other and they
• 35:39
  competed and realized that
• 35:41
  the best result for
• 35:42
  everybody was to merge and
• 35:44
  make one super strong league.
• 35:48
  My wish is that at some point,
• 35:52
  at some point,
• 35:53
  we take these two ideas and
• 35:56
  We see different elements
• 35:58
  that work better and we
• 36:00
  come together and make one
• 36:03
  great sport of CrossFit or
• 36:06
  one great event of CrossFit.
• 36:09
  I don't care about the
• 36:10
  semantics of whatever we call it.
• 36:12
  Just one thing that we all
• 36:14
  can get behind and make it
• 36:17
  great because we are not
• 36:19
  big enough to divide and
• 36:21
  try to take on the world
• 36:23
  independent of each other.
• 36:25
  So my wish is that at some
• 36:27
  point we come to the table, we sit down,
• 36:31
  we talk,
• 36:32
  we understand each other's feelings,
• 36:34
  and then we move on.
• 36:36
  Hopefully together in one strong lig,
• 36:41
  event, whatever we want to call it.
• 36:45
  That is my number one Christmas wish.
• 36:53
  Carolyn says, pneumonia or not,
• 36:55
  James was not going to
• 36:56
  finish top five at Rogue.
• 36:57
  It's not made for him or Rolf.
• 37:03
  Were the games made for James?
• 37:07
  I think that there were more
• 37:08
  elements geared for James than not.
• 37:13
  But I think that he did
• 37:15
  represent himself well in
• 37:16
  some elements that people
• 37:18
  going in would have thought
• 37:19
  he wouldn't have done as well.
• 37:28
  So I think he did show some moxie,
• 37:32
  show improvement,
• 37:34
  but it's all going to be
• 37:36
  discounted because things like that.
• 37:47
  Hallmark moment wish.
• 37:49
  Yeah.
• 37:51
  Yeah.
• 37:56
  so but with that um today's
• 38:00
  christmas eve um I'll
• 38:02
  finish up this show I'll
• 38:03
  finish up I'm actually
• 38:04
  working for the rest of the
• 38:05
  day and then my family and
• 38:07
  I are going to christmas
• 38:09
  eve service at this really
• 38:11
  cool place in columbus uh
• 38:13
  liberty church and it's
• 38:15
  actually in an amish barn um
• 38:18
  And it is the best music in the city.
• 38:22
  Many members of the Columbus
• 38:23
  Symphony are part of the
• 38:25
  band at this church.
• 38:27
  And we've gone for years.
• 38:31
  And it was something my
• 38:31
  daughter really wanted to
• 38:32
  do is to go to this tonight.
• 38:34
  So we're going to go listen to the music.
• 38:38
  Praise Jesus.
• 38:39
  Thank him for what he did.
• 38:41
  Tomorrow is Christmas.
• 38:42
  We're going to enjoy all that.
• 38:44
  And then we'll come home
• 38:44
  tonight and we'll watch Love Actually.
• 38:46
  We do it every year as a family.
• 38:48
  And then we go to bed and
• 38:50
  tomorrow we will open up
• 38:51
  our gifts to each other.
• 38:53
  And I'm going to pose this
• 38:54
  out there as just a question.
• 38:56
  It's hard for me to do these
• 38:57
  wish lists because I never
• 38:58
  think of what I want when
• 39:01
  it comes to the holidays.
• 39:02
  I just love giving gifts.
• 39:03
  I love giving gifts to
• 39:05
  people and seeing their
• 39:06
  face when they open it up.
• 39:07
  I think that's the best part of it for me.
• 39:12
  And I've been able to keep a
• 39:13
  lot of it a secret this year,
• 39:14
  so I can't wait till tomorrow.
• 39:16
  So, yeah.
• 39:20
  Yeah.
• 39:22
  Well, that is sacrilege Jody.
• 39:24
  You should see love.
• 39:25
  Actually.
• 39:25
  It's a great movie.
• 39:27
  Um, Carolyn says,
• 39:28
  Merry Christmas to everyone.
• 39:29
  If you celebrate it.
• 39:30
  And if you don't happy Hanukkah,
• 39:32
  happy Kwanzaa, happy holidays,
• 39:34
  whatever it is that you celebrate.
• 39:35
  Uh, we're here for all that kind of stuff.
• 39:39
  Uh, CrossFit says a girl breaks up,
• 39:42
  comes home,
• 39:42
  meets handsome local former
• 39:43
  flame Hallmark.
• 39:45
  Yeah.
• 39:45
  Maybe my daughter's going to
• 39:46
  have a little Hallmark moment tonight.
• 39:47
  Who knows?
• 39:50
  Uh,
• 39:54
  you go and kenneth is going
• 39:57
  to see sonic and knuckles
• 39:58
  tomorrow uh enjoy that man
• 40:02
  My kid is twenty three now.
• 40:04
  She is much older and we
• 40:06
  don't do like the animated thing.
• 40:08
  But and enjoy, man.
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  Enjoy your kids.
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  Give them a hug with that, guys.
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  Happy holidays to everybody.
• 40:15
  Merry Christmas.
• 40:16
  I can't wait for tomorrow
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  and we'll be back on
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  Thursday with some form of the show,
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  either lunch with the
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  Clydesdale or the roundtable.
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  If some of the people are
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  available with that.
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  Bye, guys.
• 40:30
  Have a great holiday season,
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  and we will see you soon.