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Lunch with the Clydesdale Monday Show! - The Cowboy is Back, How was His Time at Magic City? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  The Cowboys back, baby.
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  Time to get you up.
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  So when that lunch bell ring, yeah,
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  you know what to do.
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  Hit play, stay strong,
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  let the park carry you.
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  Clydesdale Cowboys, yeah,
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  we stay on track.
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  Midday Kings of the mic, yeah,
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  we always come back.
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  From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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  we cover it all.
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  Midday motivation every time you press
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  call.
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  Lunch with the Clydesdales.
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  Cowboy bring the heat.
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  Crossfit, boobies, music on repeat.
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  Half hour hustle, yeah,
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  we building that brand.
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  Grab a plate, tune in now,
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  you part of the fam.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdales.
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  Ryan State got one of those awesome
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  messages today on a team's message at
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  work.
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  I started CrossFit.
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  Couldn't be happier for a colleague to
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  reach out and tell me.
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  That's awesome.
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  Well, if you started CrossFit,
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  he's probably going to be telling you a
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  lot more.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, that's part of the deal.
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  As soon as you sign up, it's like,
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  hey, you got to tell everybody you know.
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  Yep.
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  So, yeah.
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  May fourth, nineteen seventy.
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  Anyone?
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  Anyone?
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  Anyone?
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  Bueller.
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  Bueller.
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  No.
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  The intro song is so awesome.
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  Thanks, Ken.
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  Scott wrote it himself.
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  Welcome back, Corey.
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  Thanks, Vic.
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  Train all over to cowboy.
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  Um, yeah, good stuff.
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  A lot of people in the chat.
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  Um,
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  I made a thumbnail thinking that Corey was
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  probably still traveling and,
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  and so switch it all up.
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  We were going to be traveling and, uh,
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  yesterday afternoon or yesterday morning,
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  whatever it was,
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  Jennifer decided she wanted to go home
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  straight after.
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  And, uh,
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  Did my last event,
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  watched my buddy Chris punch his ticket on
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  the last event.
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  Went back to Airbnb, did all of the,
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  you know, get out of the Airbnb stuff.
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  We grabbed a bite to eat,
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  got on the road,
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  got home a little bit before eleven
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  o'clock last night.
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  Wow.
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  That's like four hours past your bedtime.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  One percent.
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  One percent.
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  I slept like an absolute boss last night,
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  though, because I was in my bed.
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  It's fantastic.
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  What else helps you sleep like a boss?
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  Thirdsy.
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  I just love that, too.
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  You saw that.
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  using the promo code Jazzy.
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  personal site.
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  Get your fifteen percent off your Thirdsy.
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  As of last night,
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  they still had some salted caramel left.
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  It's not going to be around forever,
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  folks.
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  Go get it.
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  Get it while it's there.
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  So awesome.
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  So I want to get a rundown of
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  how Magic City was on the whole.
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  Then after we're done with that,
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  we're going to go into how it was
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  for you.
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  Perfect.
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  Let me start by saying this,
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  and I told Nick of this,
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  I think yesterday,
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  whenever I stopped him for a little bit.
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  I have been to, as far as,
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  you know, large comps are concerned,
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  I've been to Legends, I've been to MFC,
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  I've been to Fitness to the Coast,
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  Monster Games, all that stuff.
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  This was not even close as far as
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  just straight quality is concerned,
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  you know, on the high end side, right?
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  Yeah.
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  volunteers everywhere paid judges um the
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  only the the only and just i don't
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  really even want to call it negatives but
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  i guess semi-bad things i could say is
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  that there weren't a whole lot of vendors
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  Right.
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  So like there's people that were selling
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  shoes.
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  There were people that were, uh,
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  there was food trucks outside in the
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  parking lot across the street from the
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  parking lot from us.
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  Wasn't that far of a walk,
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  but that was the only food that we,
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  uh, that there was to be had.
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  Um, but there was an IV, you know,
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  people, people doing IV fluids, uh,
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  that also had some free Norma tech boots
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  that I took full advantage of.
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  There was some other stuff in there.
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  The guys selling coffee were absolutely
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  smashing it.
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  They did a fantastic job.
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  When I tell you we ran on time,
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  we ran on time.
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  I've never seen anything like it.
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  Everybody to the corral, hey,
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  we are leaving in ninety seconds.
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  And we left in ninety seconds.
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  Got everybody out to the floor, situated,
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  talked to your judge, hey,
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  you're going to have about two minutes to
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  get your stuff set up.
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  We had two minutes to get our stuff
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  set up.
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  know wipe down the bar whatever whatever
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  else you need to do get moving and
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  get into the event uh the athlete the
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  warm-up area didn't seem like there was a
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  lot of stuff there but it was enough
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  stuff from how we were laid out to
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  where nobody was like you know fighting
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  over equipment or it didn't seem like it
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  was cramped or anything and it really
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  wasn't that big of an area but it
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  was
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  it's just well put together i don't know
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  a better way to put it um i
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  think every volunteer i possibly could um
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  on the on the way out of there
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  yesterday because of how well it actually
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  went fantastic no i take it they didn't
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  have asian flavor punch and i was shocked
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  honestly because i've seen them everywhere
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  i've gone and they weren't there this
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  weekend so they must have had another
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  another commitment somewhere else
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  um but on on as a whole event
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  from programming to flow to you know i
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  could nitpick stuff if i wanted to but
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  it really would be just that it would
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  be epic oh i'm not just ten out
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  of ten so from the stream it didn't
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  appear there were a lot of people in
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  the crowd now we got reports last night
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  that
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  cameras were kind of facing away from the
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  crowd they were they were how would you
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  assess the crowd um so friday was
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  definitely thin but it was friday right
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  you've got to work whatnot saturday a lot
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  more people showed up um my wife being
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  one of them uh and then sunday i
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  mean the place is huge
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  Like they need to understand that the
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  Birmingham crossplex is it's a giant is
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  absolutely massive as far as that's
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  concerned.
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  So there were people standing behind the
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  barricade for, uh, in the,
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  in bill Harrison arena,
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  but there are also people in the stands.
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  Now they were spread out because they
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  could be right.
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  And there's only one area to look like
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  there was no seating behind the stands.
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  There was no need for it.
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  Um, so standing behind the barricade,
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  people sitting up there, I mean,
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  from an athlete perspective, I mean,
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  the people I cared about were there and
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  yelling and the people that couldn't make
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  it were yelling from home.
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  So it really wasn't, uh,
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  it really wasn't that big a deal as
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  far as that's concerned.
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  I don't think I know that, um,
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  to get a decent spot,
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  like to sit down and watch, uh,
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  Gwen and whatnot.
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  There were a lot of people in the
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  stands, right?
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  So people standing on the railing,
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  people sitting down and whatnot.
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  It felt like there was a lot of
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  people there.
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  Uh, Corey,
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  did you catch up with my friend Jason
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  veins from Connecticut?
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  Jason vines and I are, uh, uh,
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  ridiculously tight that's my homie i love
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  that dude to death he and i are
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  finished uh yesterday and uh next to each
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  other on the floor which is where we
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  usually end up anyway um yeah one hundred
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  percent that's my boy love that dude and
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  becky his wife they are fantastic human
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  beings alita says there are a lot of
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  withdrawals no shows in men's thirty five
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  to thirty nine i think there just was
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  It was a disappointing showing,
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  and we talked about that going into the
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  event.
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  I was talking to some people last night,
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  and I'm going to try to do this
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  in a way that... Diplomatically?
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  Yes.
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  Got it.
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  There was at least one age group where
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  the twentieth-ranked person from the
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  quarters...
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  Maybe even lower than that.
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  And got their ticket to the games.
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  Got it.
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  Because they had to go down so far
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  in the invite list that that's just what
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  happened in that age group.
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  few people accepted that someone who
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  probably and that's in this is an older
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  age group where they're only taking
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  fifteen today right and so I think it's
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  it's tough when things like that happen
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  when you're trying to create and establish
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  something yeah
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  And especially, I mean, look,
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  Boz was there.
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  Chuck Carswell was there walking around
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  and shaking babies, kissing hands.
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  You know,
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  Bob's taking pictures with everybody,
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  chatting up everybody and whatnot.
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  They were very, very well.
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  I think I actually get a chance to
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  talk to Chuck.
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  He was very, very enthusiastic,
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  positive on the up and up about it.
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  You know,
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  as far as it being a thing,
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  you know,
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  it was given all the credit to Micah
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  for putting the whole thing together and
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  whatnot.
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  And I didn't see Micah stop moving every
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  time I saw him.
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  He was doing something.
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  Like,
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  for us to stop him and talk to
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  him for five minutes yesterday,
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  it looked like he was, like,
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  chomping at the bit to go do something,
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  you know,
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  to try to keep the ball rolling,
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  which that's concerning.
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  So, I mean, from an athlete's perspective,
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  I don't know anybody that was bitching
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  about anything that happened.
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  Does that make sense?
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  Like, as far as for us,
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  the athletes that were there competing was
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  concerned.
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  Alito says,
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  but also quarterfinals didn't test
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  strength.
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  So it is plausible that a different type
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  of athlete did well at quarterfinals
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  versus live competition in this particular
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  case.
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  And again, I'm not trying to,
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  they qualified based on the rules of this
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  season and those to them for doing it,
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  but their struggle was gymnastics in
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  quarterfinals.
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  And that is going to be a requirement
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  at the games.
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  So, again,
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  I think the way it was done this
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  year put too much pressure on the event
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  organizers to come up with workouts for
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  every age group within a matter of a
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  short amount of time.
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  everything was compressed legends magic
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  city in person in affiliate semis
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  compressed into three weeks,
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  which were ridiculous.
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  And with all of that,
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  I think they did a pretty darn good
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  job overall.
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  Some things we sure could,
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  but it was a lot.
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  And I,
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  and I argued last night pretty vehemently.
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  I, I don't think going for,
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  I think going forward,
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  we should do thirty five to forty nine
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  year olds in person till we figure it
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  out.
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  Cause it's easier to program for that
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  smaller batch of,
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  It's they're the ones that have more
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  attendance in the field.
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  And I might even leak that to fifty
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  four.
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  But even that I'm I'm wavering on with
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  even with myself a little bit.
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  We have to reduce the number of heats
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  that happen and we need to make it
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  a watchable experience.
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  If you're going to have in person.
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  I know by the end of the day
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  yesterday,
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  people sitting there watching Gwen,
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  it wasn't just the age group people who
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  cared about that age group watching the
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  people that were doing Gwen.
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  Everybody was in that arena watching
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  people doing Gwen,
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  if that's what they were doing.
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  And everybody was screaming like there was
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  a dude in thirty five, thirty nine.
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  Right.
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  That big dude at the very end who
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  was when I tell you the crowd was
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  trying to lift him up to finish it.
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  Like it was something that you'd have seen
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  at, at, uh, you know,
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  at regionals back in the day,
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  like people just screaming for him to just
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  not let go of the bar and you
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  can watch it falling out of his fingertips
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  as he was standing there with it in
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  the hang.
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  And it was like that,
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  there was a handful of moments like that
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  where people were just, you know,
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  the crowd was really into it,
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  whatever crowd it was there having to be
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  at a time that was,
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  that seemed pretty damn cool.
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  Um,
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  yeah but i think gwen lends itself to
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  be a cheering workout and you can't do
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  six gwen's right my wife said uh a
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  couple different times that's the probably
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  one of the best events she's ever seen
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  right but you you can't recreate that over
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  and over again so you need something
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  that's more yeah yeah i get i get
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  what you're saying for sure um
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  There were some decent races going on.
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  Fourteen point seven had some good races
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  going on that I got to see,
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  you know,
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  be a little bit of a part of
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  the commute, had some pretty decent races.
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  I mean,
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  there was there was some stuff going on.
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  You know,
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  Some of the age groups were a little
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  bit more lopsided than the other ones,
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  obviously.
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  I'm not taking anything away from Magic
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  City or the events or anything.
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  I thought it was well-programmed.
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  I thought if I were in person,
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  it would be awesome.
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  But you hit a fatigue level as a
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  spectator when you have fourteen divisions
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  with multiple heats.
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  I mean,
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  that's the nature of the beast at this
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  point.
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  That's why I'm saying maybe we reduce down
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  the number,
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  the age divisions that move into an
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  in-person semifinal until we can figure
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  out a better way.
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  Thinking about that and trying to come
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  over off the top of my head,
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  I don't know how much of a different
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  way you'd have to go about doing it
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  aside from having a completely separate
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  event or having to have another floor.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Because what they did over the weekend
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  was, if I'm in heat, eleven.
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  Heat eleven, half of us were forty-five,
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  forty-nine.
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  Half of us were fifty, fifty-five.
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  That is one critique I have.
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  I hated that.
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  Well,
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  I think that was a logistics thing to
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  keep everybody rolling on through.
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  But when it's mixed for three heats,
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  why is it mixed?
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  You could have full heats of each age
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  group.
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  I really don't know.
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  It was just confusing.
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  Yeah, it can be.
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  It made it really hard to watch at
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  home.
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  And I don't know.
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  I want to get to some other things.
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  And I talked about it a lot last
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  night.
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  And I see Vicki saying, I hear you,
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  but the live events was their choice,
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  wasn't it?
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  Live events was their choice,
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  but I don't think you need forty two
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  people in every age group.
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  And I don't think you especially when the
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  invites were going to number three hundred
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  ninety two.
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  Right.
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  Like we.
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  And I think what happened is the event
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  organizers, in order to make money,
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  got the money from the athletes.
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  And they needed a set number to make
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  their money back.
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  So there's got to be a solution to
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  this.
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  I'll say this as far as they get
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  their money from guys like me that wanted
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  to go compete in person is that,
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  like I said a couple weeks ago,
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  most of the guys that were signed up
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  were guys that compete against regular at
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  these big in-person events.
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  So, like,
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  they were going to compete one way or
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  another.
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  Now it just means something because if you
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  finish on the podium,
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  you get to go to the games.
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  So the guys that were going to be
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  going to, you know, not this year,
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  but MFC,
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  guys who were going to be going to
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  Legends,
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  the guys that were going to be going
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  to whatever and spending their weekend
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  competing out of state somewhere away from
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  home or whatnot.
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  Yes, they were.
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  Two hundred something down the list.
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  The dude, John Bleich,
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  that almost won my whole division,
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  finished quarterfinals like a hundred and
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  somewhat odd spot.
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  But when you get him in person,
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  he is an entirely different animal.
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  He is unbelievably fit.
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  I have been a big proponent of that.
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  But when you get to three ninety,
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  it becomes a little bit of a joke.
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  I don't disagree.
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  There's a happy here.
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  When you send out invites and that's who
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  responds to your invites,
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  what are you going to do?
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  You can't force the people who are the
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  top fifteen, the top thirty,
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  force them to come compete in person when
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  you're still giving them the option to do
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  it.
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  It's a point telling you something.
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  If people aren't coming,
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  then is this something we should even be
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  doing?
• 18:37
  If that many people are turning it down,
• 18:41
  Was it just a vocal minority who wanted
• 18:43
  these?
• 18:44
  Is it not organized in a way that
• 18:46
  makes sense?
• 18:47
  I've talked to a lot of people.
• 18:48
  They didn't do it because it was so
• 18:50
  close to the in-affiliate semi.
• 18:54
  Yeah,
• 18:54
  I'm not even in an in-affiliate semi
• 18:55
  because it's my daughter's softball
• 18:57
  tournament is this weekend and it's
• 19:00
  Mother's Day.
• 19:02
  So people made choices for different
• 19:06
  reasons.
• 19:08
  Again,
• 19:09
  I think it's the nature of what happens
• 19:11
  in CrossFit is there's a demand,
• 19:14
  and then there's throw spaghetti at it,
• 19:16
  and we didn't – it wasn't well thought
• 19:19
  out.
• 19:20
  And I'm not talking from the event
• 19:22
  organizers.
• 19:23
  Again,
• 19:24
  they were dealt cards that they had to
• 19:26
  deal with.
• 19:29
  Yeah.
• 19:30
  Why is in-person – or I'm sorry,
• 19:33
  in affiliate semifinal in the middle of
• 19:35
  the damn season –
• 19:37
  Yeah, no, we had,
• 19:39
  several of us had discussions.
• 19:40
  How could that be held off until the
• 19:42
  end of semis?
• 19:44
  It should have been.
• 19:47
  Right.
• 19:48
  Why is my season different than the Elite
• 19:50
  season?
• 19:51
  The last chance qualifier for the Elite is
• 19:53
  the last chance qualifier.
• 19:54
  Why is in-person, oh, excuse me,
• 19:56
  in-affiliate, blah, blah, blah,
• 19:57
  which is essentially the last,
• 19:59
  or should be,
• 20:00
  the last chance qualifier for my age group
• 20:04
  the week after
• 20:06
  the second in-person semifinal that makes
• 20:10
  no sense uh shelly says i disagree it
• 20:15
  doesn't have to be a watchable experience
• 20:17
  it is a participation experience just like
• 20:20
  a marathon or high rocks the older age
• 20:22
  groups paid their registration fee too in
• 20:24
  the current rules i get what you're saying
• 20:26
  shelly and i'm cool with that but if
• 20:29
  you want it to sustain itself and you
• 20:32
  it takes money to keep it going
• 20:36
  So either you need to find a rich
• 20:37
  benefactor who just wants to throw events
• 20:41
  for participation,
• 20:43
  or you need to make it a watchable
• 20:45
  experience where it will attract vendors,
• 20:48
  ticket sales, and streaming eyes.
• 20:55
  I think you have a solid point.
• 20:58
  It's not on...
• 21:00
  It's not on Bob and Joe.
• 21:01
  It's not on Micah.
• 21:02
  It's not on the guys that are running
• 21:03
  the LATAM, whatever.
• 21:05
  It's the fact that CrossFit decided that
• 21:06
  this is what our season was going to
• 21:08
  look like.
• 21:09
  Here's your in-person.
• 21:10
  Here's your in-affiliate semifinal.
• 21:12
  Well, we already planned out the LSO.
• 21:14
  Okay, well, it's still this weekend.
• 21:17
  That's a bad move.
• 21:23
  Larry says, what are you thinking?
• 21:25
  What you're thinking is as a spectator,
• 21:27
  but when you invite a ton of,
• 21:29
  you make the money off of participation
• 21:31
  like High Rocks.
• 21:34
  If that's what you want Masters to be
• 21:36
  is a participation only that's not
• 21:39
  streamed and just like High Rocks,
• 21:43
  then I'll step out of the way.
• 21:45
  You guys can have your thing and you
• 21:48
  can become Masters High Rocks.
• 21:54
  By the way,
• 21:54
  Larry and Shelley Young are awesome
• 21:56
  people.
• 22:00
  I met basically the entire Young family
• 22:01
  this weekend.
• 22:04
  John, Larry, and Shelley.
• 22:08
  Outstanding human beings.
• 22:10
  They're great.
• 22:11
  They're great.
• 22:12
  Just because we disagree on something
• 22:13
  doesn't mean they're not great.
• 22:15
  Oh, by the way,
• 22:16
  while I'm thinking about it,
• 22:17
  John Young said to tell you specifically
• 22:20
  that apparently Marissa Flowers can't make
• 22:22
  it through an entire weekend.
• 22:25
  In the Masters division?
• 22:27
  I'm just telling you what the man said.
• 22:30
  He stopped me yesterday and said,
• 22:32
  I was talking to him yesterday,
• 22:34
  right before we headed out, he said, hey,
• 22:37
  tell Scott, I said, and I said, oh,
• 22:40
  okay, here we go.
• 22:44
  Well,
• 22:44
  we'll see at the games when the best
• 22:46
  of the best are there.
• 22:47
  She is.
• 22:48
  And I love that woman.
• 22:50
  Like, she is awesome.
• 22:52
  She is even smaller than I expected her
• 22:54
  to be when I actually saw her in
• 22:56
  person.
• 22:57
  It is insane.
• 22:58
  When you see how small she is and
• 22:59
  you see how much weight she can like
• 23:01
  lunge with over her head.
• 23:03
  Jennifer was talking about her yesterday.
• 23:05
  She was like, bro,
• 23:07
  I need to know how much she weighs.
• 23:08
  She's listed at one ten.
• 23:10
  She said there's no way she weighs one
• 23:11
  hundred and ten pounds.
• 23:12
  And she was lunging with one hundred forty
• 23:13
  five overhead like it was nothing.
• 23:17
  At French Throwdown,
• 23:18
  it's only a field of ten for all
• 23:19
  masters groups,
• 23:20
  and it was very hard to get in.
• 23:22
  Guarantees a better competition, though,
• 23:23
  and potentially a more spectacular one.
• 23:27
  I would agree with that.
• 23:47
  Um, blah, blah, blah.
• 23:48
  Lots of the same stuff.
• 23:54
  Yeah.
• 23:55
  In older age groups doesn't work.
• 23:58
  In person is also expensive for some.
• 24:03
  If the in-person semifinals are not
• 24:06
  getting the best in the age group,
• 24:07
  there is a problem.
• 24:10
  Right.
• 24:10
  If you're not getting the best in the
• 24:11
  age groups at these,
• 24:13
  then just become MFC or become legends
• 24:18
  offseason.
• 24:24
  So here's the thing about that.
• 24:26
  And Mark Phillips put it up there earlier.
• 24:30
  John, who almost won the whole thing,
• 24:32
  finished at the quarterfinals.
• 24:37
  Chris, my very close, dear,
• 24:40
  homeless-looking friend, who won,
• 24:43
  finished at the quarterfinals in the
• 24:45
  hundred and twenty-eighths.
• 24:46
  He's also already been to the games.
• 24:49
  He's one hundred percent sure of his win.
• 24:50
  He was one hundred percent the best guy
• 24:52
  there all weekend.
• 24:54
  And in a, I would say,
• 24:57
  pretty well-balanced test as far as all
• 24:59
  the events were concerned.
• 25:00
  So just because he just finished the
• 25:02
  hundred and twenties in quarterfinals does
• 25:04
  not mean that he's not the best dude
• 25:05
  there.
• 25:06
  And it's not going to go to the
• 25:06
  games and wreck shop.
• 25:08
  Like he is going to be a problem
• 25:09
  when he gets to the games, you know,
• 25:11
  in our age group.
• 25:13
  I am, I'm not debating that, that far.
• 25:17
  I think there's a problem with the online
• 25:19
  format.
• 25:19
  I do.
• 25:21
  I do think there's that there's issues
• 25:23
  with all this.
• 25:25
  Larry comes in with Scott,
• 25:27
  the games was empty to guess.
• 25:29
  We should cancel them.
• 25:30
  If people don't start showing up to them,
• 25:33
  it will be canceled.
• 25:36
  It's just a fact.
• 25:38
  Yeah.
• 25:39
  If nobody watches,
• 25:41
  it just becomes another master's event and
• 25:44
  it won't be the games anymore.
• 25:50
  There's no prestige to it anymore either.
• 25:52
  A smaller,
• 25:53
  more exclusive field makes it more
• 25:54
  desirable.
• 25:55
  If anyone can get in, not so much.
• 26:04
  Maybe put in person after on the line
• 26:06
  to attract more higher level participants
• 26:09
  and more participants.
• 26:11
  I would say it needs to be on
• 26:12
  one side or the other.
• 26:14
  Smack dab in the middle was a terrible
• 26:16
  idea.
• 26:22
  Um, Mark agrees with Shanna.
• 26:25
  Uh, Hexie lover,
• 26:28
  just throwing this question out there.
• 26:29
  If CrossFit spent two million of all the
• 26:32
  franchisee dues, well,
• 26:35
  their affiliate dues a year,
• 26:37
  could it be feasible to create their own
• 26:40
  filming of all games events?
• 26:43
  I want to get back into that at
• 26:44
  this point.
• 26:46
  We'll see what the new CEO wants to
• 26:47
  do.
• 26:48
  Um,
• 26:52
  I think taking affiliate money and putting
• 26:54
  it towards the sport is not going to
• 26:57
  go over well with the affiliates.
• 27:00
  No, it's a bad idea.
• 27:10
  And Shelly doesn't know why this is a
• 27:12
  topic of conversation.
• 27:13
  It's a topic of conversation because if
• 27:16
  something doesn't change,
• 27:18
  I lose something that I love to watch.
• 27:23
  It means that much to me.
• 27:26
  And I know I'm probably in the minority
• 27:29
  at this point.
• 27:31
  And even me,
• 27:32
  who loves this sport and loves a lot
• 27:34
  of the Masters athlete,
• 27:36
  it was a tough watch this weekend.
• 27:40
  It went from eight in the morning until
• 27:43
  nine at night.
• 27:46
  Like, my wife has me doing chores.
• 27:56
  It was eight in the morning till nine
• 27:58
  Eastern time.
• 28:01
  Pretty much every day.
• 28:03
  The broadcast?
• 28:04
  Yeah.
• 28:07
  We were out of there by five every
• 28:09
  day.
• 28:11
  Six o'clock your time.
• 28:17
  That's just weird.
• 28:17
  We were out of there by six,
• 28:19
  by five.
• 28:21
  We stayed and watched my friend Anna's
• 28:24
  last heat show.
• 28:26
  friday before we went uh yeah before we
• 28:30
  went grab the burger friday night and i
• 28:35
  mean it was we were we were still
• 28:37
  we were back at our airbnb and like
• 28:39
  it was by eight o'clock um all i'm
• 28:44
  saying is every person i competed against
• 28:46
  earned their right to be there there's no
• 28:48
  kale layman's out there at least in my
• 28:49
  division shelly i am not saying anything
• 28:52
  about the athletes
• 28:54
  you're fighting apples versus oranges.
• 28:59
  But if you want a sport to survive,
• 29:01
  you need to have eyeballs on it.
• 29:04
  If you don't have eyeballs on it,
• 29:06
  it's not going to survive.
• 29:09
  It will become a local comp.
• 29:15
  It just, I have,
• 29:19
  everybody that was there with the rules
• 29:21
  that were in place deserve to be there.
• 29:24
  You got invites based on your finish.
• 29:26
  You accepted those invites.
• 29:28
  I love that you had that opportunity.
• 29:32
  But on a grander scale, if nobody watches,
• 29:36
  it's going away.
• 29:39
  Unless the event coordinators keep upping
• 29:42
  the registration fee and you,
• 29:46
  the athletes, fund it yourself.
• 29:48
  And I don't think that's fair either.
• 29:53
  Everybody complains that Xenon at five
• 29:56
  hundred dollars is way too expensive.
• 30:00
  Legends was four twenty to enter.
• 30:05
  And it's only going to go up.
• 30:16
  Ken Walter, Shelley,
• 30:17
  it costs money to put on.
• 30:18
  There has to be a return on investment.
• 30:22
  There does.
• 30:26
  Mark says we're having a fruit fight now.
• 30:28
  Apples versus oranges.
• 30:34
  Mark needs to cheer me up.
• 30:35
  So he bought five Clydesdale media
• 30:37
  memberships today.
• 30:39
  You are the man.
• 30:41
  You are the man.
• 30:48
  But devil's advocate here, Scott,
• 30:49
  how can something so boring like disc golf
• 30:51
  show up on ESPN three?
• 30:54
  Because people watch it.
• 30:58
  There's a niche for everything.
• 31:00
  We put it on and everybody in the
• 31:02
  community bitches about paying thirty
• 31:04
  bucks membership to watch it.
• 31:09
  I'm not dialed into the golf Frisbee golf
• 31:13
  world.
• 31:14
  I don't know about the stuff or whatever.
• 31:19
  So I don't know.
• 31:25
  Um
• 31:27
  I can't say enough about Carolyn Prevost.
• 31:30
  Scott,
• 31:31
  you do have some quality friends looking
• 31:32
  at you, Corey.
• 31:35
  Well, speaking of Corey,
• 31:38
  how do you feel your weekend went?
• 31:42
  Oh, I mean, it started off fantastic.
• 31:43
  It did.
• 31:48
  So to anybody who...
• 31:50
  Let me put this out there.
• 31:51
  If anybody reached out, messaged me,
• 31:54
  Instagram, text, blah, blah,
• 31:56
  and I did not respond,
• 31:57
  I'm going to take this opportunity to just
• 31:58
  let you know my phone was on Do
• 32:00
  Not Disturb all weekend long.
• 32:01
  I did not get on Instagram.
• 32:02
  I did not get on Facebook.
• 32:04
  I did not get on anything at all
• 32:05
  because I was trying to be as locked
• 32:08
  in, focused, present, in the moment,
• 32:10
  whatever you want to call it,
• 32:11
  the entire weekend.
• 32:12
  I would check my phone every once in
• 32:15
  a while on base.
• 32:15
  You just...
• 32:17
  swipe through stuff like there's only a
• 32:18
  couple of people i was even allowing to
• 32:20
  get through the do not disturb well um
• 32:24
  but after looking back at it like the
• 32:26
  amount of you know support messages i had
• 32:29
  was absolutely it was overwhelming um so
• 32:33
  thank everyone for that uh first and
• 32:37
  foremost
• 32:41
  If you could have seen my first event,
• 32:46
  everybody takes out on the run.
• 32:50
  Three, two, one, go.
• 32:52
  I tell you,
• 32:52
  everybody took out on the run.
• 32:54
  We had to run around the track.
• 32:57
  They were getting it.
• 33:00
  I was plodding along,
• 33:01
  just minding my own business.
• 33:05
  Not a big deal.
• 33:07
  Then
• 33:08
  after the second round i just started
• 33:11
  passing people like left and right because
• 33:15
  it's very very easy and everybody i said
• 33:17
  everybody did it yeah uh mr kyle's in
• 33:19
  crossfit i met him this weekend too
• 33:21
  fantastic human being uh and everybody
• 33:26
  everybody took off and i just i was
• 33:29
  dead last on the run on the first
• 33:30
  run
• 33:31
  And then I wasn't dead last.
• 33:33
  And then I wasn't close to being last.
• 33:35
  And in the very last, the last set,
• 33:38
  the last heat, the last round, excuse me,
• 33:42
  it was just me and Alvin.
• 33:44
  And I was right on his heels.
• 33:47
  And he had broke every other round.
• 33:50
  He was right next to me.
• 33:52
  He had broke every other round.
• 33:54
  And I didn't.
• 33:55
  I went unbroken on the first three rounds.
• 33:57
  And I figured he would break.
• 34:00
  and what i would if i could my
• 34:02
  cycle speed was a little bit faster than
• 34:04
  his and the bastard did not he went
• 34:07
  unbroken on the last round and i did
• 34:09
  i had to i dropped it at sixteen
• 34:11
  picked up did my last nine took second
• 34:12
  in that one so i was pretty pretty
• 34:14
  happy about that uh and then got to
• 34:21
  and like you know cool second second my
• 34:24
  heat whatever like trying to not let it
• 34:28
  made me feel some type of way, right?
• 34:32
  Get to Nate that I was super excited
• 34:34
  about.
• 34:34
  One of the ones I had circled on
• 34:35
  my calendar, right?
• 34:36
  Because Nate is the workout that we do
• 34:38
  when we don't know which workout we want
• 34:41
  to do.
• 34:43
  In the first two rounds,
• 34:45
  the first two rounds went fantastic,
• 34:47
  like right on schedule,
• 34:49
  moving right along and whatnot.
• 34:50
  And the third round,
• 34:53
  first two ring muscle-ups were fine.
• 34:54
  And on the third one, my hand just...
• 34:58
  i found the chalk that was on the
• 34:59
  ring um first of all they were brand
• 35:02
  spanking new rings all of them the whole
• 35:06
  the whole set brand new rings so like
• 35:08
  when we got there thursday to check in
• 35:10
  went look at the floor would not jumped
• 35:12
  up on it and grabbed it all turns
• 35:13
  like oh they were slick slick plus chalk
• 35:18
  plus frog grips is not usually a very
• 35:21
  winning combination
• 35:23
  And I had brought a wet rag with
• 35:24
  me to try to,
• 35:25
  cause we had two minutes and I was
• 35:27
  going to, if I needed to,
• 35:28
  I was going to wipe them down,
• 35:29
  like get the chalk off of them before
• 35:30
  we started.
• 35:31
  Well,
• 35:31
  I jumped up there and grabbed the whole
• 35:32
  tone and I said, Oh no,
• 35:34
  they feel fine.
• 35:35
  It's a bad idea.
• 35:36
  Bad, bad idea.
• 35:39
  So as soon as that happened, came down,
• 35:42
  took a breath, went back up,
• 35:44
  finished that one, finished that round,
• 35:46
  came back in and in round four,
• 35:48
  just went.
• 35:50
  right to hell it was it was absolutely
• 35:52
  terrible at one point and i'm doing three
• 35:55
  singles for my fourth round at one point
• 35:57
  i looked at my judge and i said
• 35:58
  i promise you i am way better at
• 36:00
  this than i'm showing you right now like
• 36:02
  i was laughing because it was silly um
• 36:05
  brand new rings brand new straps and a
• 36:07
  couple of anybody else in there will tell
• 36:10
  you um my the lane i was in
• 36:14
  for that one was lane three there's a
• 36:17
  couple other ones where
• 36:20
  At one point I looked up,
• 36:21
  this ring was like this,
• 36:22
  like it was supposed to be.
• 36:23
  And this one was turned sideways and it
• 36:26
  wouldn't unravel.
• 36:28
  So now instead of just jumping out and
• 36:30
  going like this,
• 36:32
  now you're trying to jump up and like
• 36:33
  turn that hand and catch this one to
• 36:35
  kind of get it back.
• 36:38
  that on top of more straps that i'm
• 36:40
  used to and like it just completely i
• 36:42
  let it throw me off my game um
• 36:45
  and just completely pointed that one into
• 36:47
  a stand and that one that's i should
• 36:49
  have had a top five top seven at
• 36:50
  least on that on that one got off
• 36:54
  i was
• 36:56
  simultaneously mad and you know kind of
• 37:02
  laughing at myself a little bit mostly mad
• 37:05
  um but set a timer on my watch
• 37:07
  uh went and sat down and didn't talk
• 37:13
  to anybody for ten minutes and just kind
• 37:15
  of you know let it wash over me
• 37:19
  i gave myself ten minutes to process it
• 37:22
  whatever and then ain't nothing to do
• 37:24
  about it it's over with move on get
• 37:25
  on to the next one
• 37:28
  That was the next morning was the commute.
• 37:33
  It was in the afternoon, actually.
• 37:36
  So the first one was the, oh, yeah,
• 37:38
  the rope climb, double under, blah, blah,
• 37:42
  blah, whatever.
• 37:43
  Sandbags lunge.
• 37:46
  That one,
• 37:47
  I was kind of feeling the road about
• 37:49
  before we ever started because I'm not a
• 37:51
  super fast rope climber.
• 37:52
  Five foot six.
• 37:53
  It's a whole lot of pools when you
• 37:55
  get all the way to the top.
• 37:56
  And I'll probably overpace the rope from
• 38:00
  the get-go.
• 38:01
  Like double owners are fine.
• 38:02
  Not a big deal.
• 38:03
  Definitely overpace the rope climbs from
• 38:06
  the beginning.
• 38:07
  I should have trusted my abilities more.
• 38:10
  It is what it is.
• 38:11
  I saw my TV screen for a brief
• 38:15
  moment during that event.
• 38:19
  When you start, grab the sip of water.
• 38:22
  Grab the sip of water.
• 38:24
  Grab the chalk.
• 38:26
  Yep.
• 38:27
  Yep.
• 38:28
  It's like we said with Jamie last week,
• 38:30
  stop doing your shit.
• 38:32
  Yep.
• 38:34
  Uh, and then, so the,
• 38:36
  I grabbed the sandbag and like,
• 38:38
  this is where I'm gonna make my money,
• 38:39
  right?
• 38:39
  Sandbag lunges, anything on a sandbag.
• 38:41
  I am usually pretty damn good at.
• 38:43
  Oh,
• 38:43
  a hundred fifty feet with a hundred pound.
• 38:45
  No big deal.
• 38:47
  The giant barbell voodoo sticker that's on
• 38:49
  the floor.
• 38:52
  It just as soon have been made out
• 38:53
  of grease and ice.
• 38:55
  Because as soon as my foot hit it,
• 38:58
  I hit and it slid.
• 39:02
  Not a whole lot,
• 39:02
  but just enough to get your attention.
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  Dude,
• 39:05
  it was super slippery and scared the
• 39:07
  ever-living shit out of me.
• 39:09
  I have no better way to put it.
• 39:12
  It shook me because all I could think
• 39:14
  of was that I have a hundred pound
• 39:16
  sandbag on my shoulder.
• 39:19
  If my foot slips all the way out
• 39:20
  from underneath me,
• 39:21
  I'm going to blow my hamstring and my
• 39:23
  weekend's over with.
• 39:25
  So went, turned around, came back.
• 39:28
  I looked at my judge as I'm coming
• 39:32
  back and like going back across the
• 39:33
  sticker.
• 39:34
  And I looked and I said, that's slippery.
• 39:37
  Like, holy smokes.
• 39:39
  And it's not just me.
• 39:39
  Like there were stickers all like that all
• 39:41
  over the floor.
• 39:44
  That was that that everybody that I talked
• 39:46
  to about it was like, oh, yeah, no,
• 39:47
  they were absolutely slippery.
• 39:49
  Well,
• 39:50
  let's call it there because I do have
• 39:52
  some afternoon meetings.
• 39:54
  That's halfway through the weekend.
• 39:56
  Yeah.
• 39:56
  We'll finish up that later this weekend or
• 39:59
  later this week, not end.
• 40:02
  Yep.
• 40:03
  But I just want you to know I'm
• 40:05
  proud of you.
• 40:05
  You went out there.
• 40:06
  You fought like hell.
• 40:07
  Did everything I could.
• 40:09
  You got to be on the big stage
• 40:12
  and.
• 40:14
  Even though I'm trying to think of
• 40:15
  solutions to make these things better,
• 40:18
  it doesn't mean I hate what happened for
• 40:20
  the Masters athletes.
• 40:21
  Oh, yeah, dude.
• 40:25
  Both things can be true.
• 40:27
  I can like what happened,
• 40:28
  and I still want it to be better
• 40:30
  for everyone.
• 40:31
  Right.
• 40:34
  But I was super proud of you,
• 40:35
  even though I was yelling at you.
• 40:37
  Oh, you were the only one.
• 40:38
  My wife was there.
• 40:39
  She did a lot of yelling.
• 40:41
  I was... My last set of dubs...
• 40:44
  My last set of dubs, dude.
• 40:45
  Hold on.
• 40:46
  I'm like...
• 40:46
  I told Vicky real quick that Corey looks
• 40:49
  like he's having afternoon tea with the
• 40:52
  queen.
• 40:56
  My very last set of dubs,
• 40:57
  because I got back to the rope on
• 40:59
  the third round of that,
• 41:00
  and I was like, okay,
• 41:01
  I need to get these fifty,
• 41:02
  because this is free reps, right?
• 41:03
  And I'm like,
• 41:05
  I'm just going to do them unbroken.
• 41:06
  And I got to thirty,
• 41:07
  and my body was like, no,
• 41:08
  you're going to need oxygen before you can
• 41:09
  actually finish these.
• 41:10
  And my wife said she was yelling at
• 41:12
  me, going, you don't need to breathe,
• 41:15
  you need to move.
• 41:16
  I was like, fantastic.
• 41:20
  That's exciting.
• 41:22
  But yeah, brother, get back to work,
• 41:24
  and we'll finish this off tomorrow.
• 41:26
  Yeah, we'll do that.
• 41:27
  We'll also,
• 41:28
  I know I talked a lot of stuff
• 41:30
  about WFP last night,
• 41:31
  but there were a lot of things that
• 41:33
  WFP I enjoyed and I liked.
• 41:35
  We'll touch on that tomorrow and talk
• 41:38
  about some other stuff.
• 41:41
  Is this too much for a CrossFit weekend?
• 41:44
  Having three semifinals and the WFP all in
• 41:49
  one weekend, was it just too much?
• 41:53
  Oversaturation.
• 41:56
  So with that,
• 41:57
  we'll talk about his bike ride tomorrow,
• 41:59
  Mark, and we'll get through all that.
• 42:02
  But guys, it's awesome as always.
• 42:04
  Make sure you like and subscribe to the
• 42:06
  channel.
• 42:07
  Mark has helped you out by giving five
• 42:09
  of you randomly.
• 42:11
  A membership.
• 42:12
  Can't wait to see who that is.
• 42:14
  And we will see everybody tomorrow on
• 42:17
  Lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 42:20
  Bye, guys.