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Lunch with the Clydesdale & Cowboy - The 2027 CrossFit Games Season! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  life um we are going live yeah we
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  have a new season uh we surprised our
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  very own producer um because we caught her
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  off guard and that is all on me
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  so when that lunch bell ring yeah you
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  know what to do hit play stay strong
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  let the park carry you glidesdale cowboy
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  yeah we stay on track midday kings of
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  the mic yeah 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 Clydesdale.
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  Cowboy bring the heat.
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  Crossfit movies.
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  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.
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  Tune in now, you're part of the fam.
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  It's lunch time.
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  With a new twenty twenty seven season.
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  Bam.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Hey,
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  we are we are hopping on a little
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  bit late because.
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  I wanted to hear what was being said,
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  I wanted to read through everything that
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  was released and I wanted to talk about
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  the twenty twenty seven CrossFit Games
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  season, you know, in all of its glory,
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  all of it.
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  There are some tidbits that are still not
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  released.
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  Yep.
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  It sounds like there's going to be another
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  major announcement next week at an
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  affiliate town hall.
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  But we will bang through some of the
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  stuff as we go.
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  Andrew Stenz even tuning in from Scotland.
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  Aberdeen.
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  I don't think that's how they say it
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  over there.
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  I don't think it's Aberdeen.
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  It is while I'm there.
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  Were you going to Scotland?
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  I'm going to Aberdeen.
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  I'm heading out to Aberdeen.
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  And then everybody thinks you're going to
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  Texas.
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  Here's the thing, dude.
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  They say reckon a whole lot,
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  and I associate that with, like,
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  country folks,
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  and therefore it's going to be Aberdeen if
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  I ever get out there.
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  And I don't even talk like that,
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  which is the best part about that.
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  We got too much to actually discuss.
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  I cannot be led astray.
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  And it's so easy to do.
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  So let's move on.
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  I appreciate that you're becoming
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  self-aware.
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  I'm trying to.
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  That is awesome.
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  It's all about admitting your faults and
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  moving forward.
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  It's the first step.
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  And I think that's a perfect segue into
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  I think there have been some admissions to
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  things in the past.
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  While I think this season is an
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  improvement for sure,
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  I think there are some pieces that I
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  want to move a little bit further,
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  but we'll take the baby steps.
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  Okay.
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  So let's start with individuals.
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  And then,
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  because a lot of the season is the
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  same for individuals, teens, masters,
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  adaptive, and then we'll go off that.
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  So open starts February,
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  it's a week earlier than it has been
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  in the past, which I think is great.
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  It gives us a little more space between
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  the open quarters and the semis.
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  Yep.
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  It will have an extra day every week
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  to do the workouts.
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  They are announcing them on Wednesdays,
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  and you have until Monday to do the
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  workout.
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  I already see that Joseph has popped in
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  the chat and said, well,
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  gym owners like this.
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  I think you will see some like it
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  and some hate it.
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  Yeah, I think that's...
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  You're never going to please everybody by
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  any stretch of the imagination,
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  and I think you're all one hundred percent
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  correct.
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  Some people are going to like it.
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  Some people are going to hate it.
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  I think a lot of people are going
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  to be pretty indifferent to it.
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  Well, I think it gives some flexibility.
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  You as a gym can determine, hey,
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  we're only doing open workouts from Friday
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  to Sunday or whatever you want to do
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  as a gym owner.
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  Right.
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  Just because CrossFit opens a window
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  doesn't mean you as a gym have to
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  open that window.
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  No.
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  And all they're doing is eliminating a
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  little bit more of the dead time that
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  was in between those couple of days,
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  right?
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  You'd get everything had to be submitted
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  by Monday, and then you'd have Tuesday,
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  and you'd have Wednesday,
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  and then give people time to get nervous
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  about it or whatnot.
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  And so they're just kind of speeding up
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  or closing that window a little bit.
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  I think it makes sense from where I'm
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  sitting at,
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  just because
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  One day different from a gym owner's
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  perspective,
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  I don't think that's really going to make
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  that much difference,
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  except for those people that are going to
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  be in there instead of, oh,
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  I did it twice,
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  and now I did it three times because
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  I need to practice it,
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  and I need to do it at Friday
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  Night Lights, and I need to redo it.
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  Those people are going to do that anyway.
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  This is just giving them an extra day
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  to plan it out.
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  So I don't think that makes a huge
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  difference.
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  I like it overall,
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  but not earth-shattering by a stretch of
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  the imagination.
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  If you're a big gym like the gym
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  I used to go to that had like
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  two hundred people doing the open,
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  like it gives you more windows to to
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  work with.
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  Absolutely.
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  Get everybody in, too.
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  So I think it gives some flexibility
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  again.
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  Good there.
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  Then we move on to quarterfinals.
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  It's still twenty five percent.
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  Same as it ever has ever been.
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  They have put in the option that you
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  can file for an exemption to not have
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  to do your quarterfinal workout in an
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  affiliate.
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  Right.
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  But you have to meet criteria to get
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  that exemption.
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  And I think boss said it was like,
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  you have to prove that you're more than
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  two hundred miles away from a from an
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  affiliate, which seems like a lot.
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  But he also did say at the end
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  of the statement that they're still
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  looking at that and they'll they'll have
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  the exact rule come the first of the
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  year.
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  Which good.
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  I don't have a problem with the affiliate
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  requirement if the affiliates are
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  courteous to those who need to do the
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  open.
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  That's a case-by-case basis.
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  You can't force anybody to be courteous.
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  I know,
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  but if your only option is some jackass
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  just because he owns an affiliate,
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  the athlete shouldn't be penalized for
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  that.
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  And I've heard of several cases where that
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  has happened.
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  I'm aware.
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  So have I.
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  so um there's that then we have the
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  semi-finals for individuals they will be
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  both in person and online they will run
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  april through june in person six fourteen
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  to six twenty one online they are taking
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  the top three from all semi-finals this
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  year none of the twos and threes and
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  ones and
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  all of that stuff.
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  So for us podcasters,
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  much easier to follow that.
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  For us as semifinal athletes who are
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  actually making those things,
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  it makes a lot more sense to like,
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  why am I even like,
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  if I'm in third place,
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  I get jack shit.
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  Other than the fact that I got to
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  come.
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  I mean, that that's like,
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  it makes it just, it's cleaner.
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  I think that's way cleaner.
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  The other thing that does is it makes
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  the pool to the games,
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  the pool to the games,
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  So we were back to four heats at
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  the CrossFit Games.
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  I'm not sure how I feel about that.
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  Because one of the complaints I've always
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  had is we don't get the right people
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  to the games.
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  Right.
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  Last year, even though it had some issues,
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  we got the best thirty at the game,
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  and those three heats were awesome.
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  And when you're sitting in the arena,
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  it was a good watch.
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  The problem is with the forty,
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  and now you're doing three in South
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  America and three in Asia and three in
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  Africa.
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  Are you going to get a heat where
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  people aren't competing?
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  Probably.
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  That's what I don't want to go back
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  to.
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  Probably,
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  but you also have the potential for,
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  you know,
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  somebody to come in and just absolutely
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  smash a workout that they might not have
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  done and they're in the first heat, right?
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  The Josh Bridges effect, right?
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  He's in the first heat and towards the
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  later half of his career and, like,
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  Matt Fraser's chasing him now because he
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  just smashed this,
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  absolutely killed this workout.
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  Yeah, but...
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  let's be honest we had a handful of
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  athletes that never competed in anything
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  sure like and that's the i don't mind
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  like the people that have home runs and
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  can affect the leaderboard they should be
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  there if we got the right forty we
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  would have that the problem is we were
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  letting people in that didn't really
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  deserve to be the top forty in the
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  world
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, you're going to get,
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  like you were saying,
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  you're going to get people coming from the
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  South African, you know, community,
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  whatever that, God bless them.
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  They're fit.
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  Don't get me wrong, but like,
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  you're going to get to the games and
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  you're going to be in the first seat
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  the entire time.
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  And if there's cuts,
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  you're probably going to leave one day
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  too.
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  When a roided out Jason Smith makes it
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  at forty years old.
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  Yeah, that's a problem.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  So then we go to the games.
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  Nothing really announced on locations,
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  even no time frames, none of that.
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  We just know .
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  So let's then go to teams.
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  Major difference here is all the
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  qualifications for the games are in
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  person.
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  Yep.
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  Which is good.
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  Good for them.
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  Good for them.
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  I think it's tough to judge teams online.
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  Yes.
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  It's extreme.
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  Just the filming stuff alone.
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  Now you're having to film four people at
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  a time and make sure they're all in
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  camera and make sure that everybody's
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  moving.
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  It's a nightmare.
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  I watched the email company team a couple
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  years ago that finished fifth.
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  I watched them do their semis and stuff.
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  It's a pain in the ass.
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  It really, really is.
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  Yeah.
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  God bless him.
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  More power to him.
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  Do it in person.
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  Terry grew on me.
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  All great heats.
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  They were like being there live.
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  It just seemed to move.
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  Sure.
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  Right.
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  It moved really well.
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  Cows and CrossFit says no regional locks.
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  So maybe better athletes go to them.
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  I hope so.
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  I hope you take those opportunities.
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  Exactly.
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  I was about to say the people had
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  to take those opportunities,
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  but plain and simple,
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  like you want to make it to the
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  games.
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  Cool.
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  And did you, did we talk about the,
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  the limits?
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  So you can only take,
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  you can only go to not yet.
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  Okay.
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  I don't know if you were waiting on
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  that or not.
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  No, we can talk about it now.
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  Yeah.
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  They also added in a two acceptance limit.
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  Yes.
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  You can only accept two invitations.
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  Whether you show up or not,
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  you only get two invitations.
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  Which I'm going to go ahead and credit
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  to Scott for that suggestion to bring it
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  back to more of a regional days feel.
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  Like you show up,
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  you can qualify or not.
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  Hey, at this point, you got three shots,
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  which is more than you used to be
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  able to get still.
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  I still hate it.
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  I hate it.
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  I understand.
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  I get it.
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  And I don't disagree with you necessarily,
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  but you're slimming it down from, well,
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  I'm going to go here.
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  Well, no, I don't want to go here.
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  Well, now I'm going to go here.
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  Well, no, I don't want to go here.
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  Well, this person went here,
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  so I don't want to go here.
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  So you got three opportunities and one of
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  them's online.
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  So you really got two shots and you
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  better pick your poison.
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  And if you don't get to go to
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  one of them, then that's on you.
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  You still got the other one to go
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  to.
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  Good.
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  Fergie chimes in,
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  what the hell is all this CrossFit talk?
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  I thought this was a movie podcast.
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  Surprise!
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  We're actually writing a movie about this
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  right now.
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  We're storyboarding.
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  If I'm not invited,
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  can I accept any two I choose?
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  You can accept them,
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  they just won't let you in.
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  Correct.
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  It's the whole Seinfeld routine again,
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  right?
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  The art of the reservation.
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  You can take the reservations.
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  Anybody can take the reservations.
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  It's about holding the reservation.
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  Yeah.
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  So, moving on.
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  So,
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  I still think if you want to be
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  a real sport,
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  you have to have drama along the way
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  and getting...
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  ooh, I didn't make it, I'll try again,
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  ooh, I didn't make it, I'll try again,
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  is too much for me.
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  I get it.
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  One in person, one online,
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  I can probably get over.
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  But the two-in-one is still way too much
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  for me.
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  You have to admit, though,
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  it's still better than last year.
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  It is.
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  Seeing the same athlete every single week
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  was a bit rough.
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  Right.
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  And now you're going to get a lot
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  less of that.
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  So good on them for kind of cleaning
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  it up a little bit.
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  But what it does do is once you've
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  accepted,
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  like you can't accept something else.
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  And that is great, as Vicky put it,
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  for the event organizers.
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  I know in talking to Wilson Park last
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  year, the constant change to the leader,
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  not even the leaderboard,
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  the attendees of his competition and
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  scrambling to get backfills was completely
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  insane.
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  Yeah.
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  When it didn't,
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  the more I think about it, like,
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  cause I'm looking at all my little
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  nameplates from my,
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  my various competitions,
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  like I got in my office now,
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  like all of a sudden some,
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  this dude's not going well now I need
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  to go,
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  I need to get them apparel and like
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  all of the things that go with it.
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  It's not just changing their name on a
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  leaderboard.
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  Like there's a lot of it that goes
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  in there and this is going to cut
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  down on a whole lot of like, oh,
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  you, you accepted your invite.
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  Cool.
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  You're coming.
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  Awesome.
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  Fantastic.
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  It's like giving a team six downs in
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  football.
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  Amen, Wayne.
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  I knew I liked you, Wayne.
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  Mr. Short.
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  All right.
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  So where we're at.
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  So let's go to age groups.
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  We're going to start with teens before we
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  get to the glorious announcement of this
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  whole day.
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  Yes.
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  The teens still run by Pitt,
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  which it should be.
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  They are awesome at it.
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  They are great at it.
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  And they should be commended for all they
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  do for the teen world.
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  They have tested in their own comps,
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  older divisions.
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  CrossFit saw it.
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  CrossFit liked it.
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  And now we have an eighteen,
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  nineteen year old division.
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  As there should be.
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  So if you're not Mal O'Brien or Emma
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  Lawson,
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  you can actually have a couple more years
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  to develop in a bigger competition setting
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  before you make the leap to the open
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  division.
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  Yeah.
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  A little bit more time for development.
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  I like it a lot, dude.
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  I really, really do.
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  a lot of them are still kids at
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  that point.
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  Like, I mean,
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  or they're going to college and they have
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  all of that on their plate.
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  Plus trying to compete.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  I like what Joey's saying right here.
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  If there's a thirty five to thirty nine
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  and that's going to be a master's
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  division,
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  then there should be an eighteen to
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  nineteen.
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  It's almost like an,
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  like an entry level in like a,
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  like you're thirty five,
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  thirty nine is like an entry level master,
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  right?
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  You still could probably could be
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  competing at the games,
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  but you're doing masters anyway.
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  And just like, just like college sports,
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  if you're good enough to forego your
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  senior season to go play with the pros,
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  you can do so.
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  Yes, absolutely.
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  Love it.
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  The men really needed it.
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  The women have a better history of
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  breaking through.
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  But even, Mark,
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  those women who broke through are such a
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  tip of the spear of all the women
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  who come up through the teen division.
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  Yeah.
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  There's got to be a kick in the
• 16:10
  teeth for eighty percent of the women
• 16:13
  coming up through the teen division and
• 16:15
  then getting not really getting dusted by
• 16:19
  Haley, Mal, Emma.
• 16:22
  Whoever.
• 16:22
  And trying to go to the open division
• 16:24
  and then not even competing.
• 16:26
  Right.
• 16:26
  Not having a chance.
• 16:27
  Like, man,
• 16:28
  I understand I was doing so good here.
• 16:31
  And now all of a sudden I'm just
• 16:32
  getting beaten badly.
• 16:37
  Now you got an extra time to kind
• 16:38
  of do some more development, do some more.
• 16:40
  I mean, and it helps.
• 16:41
  It helps a whole lot.
• 16:42
  Kind of the more time you can get
• 16:44
  on the floor competing against those kind
• 16:45
  of people, right,
• 16:46
  before you step up into going to the
• 16:48
  next level.
• 16:48
  Because there are levels to that stuff.
• 16:50
  It makes a difference.
• 16:52
  i mean i think i mean mal skipped
• 16:55
  her senior season of the teen division she
• 16:57
  didn't do like so that's cool that and
• 17:01
  i think joey's right it's a cool annual
• 17:03
  story who's going to make the leap who
• 17:06
  has the ability to not have to do
• 17:08
  that senior season yeah um and i think
• 17:11
  it's better for storytelling overall for
• 17:13
  the sport i was about to say for
• 17:14
  those of us who actually are paying
• 17:16
  attention to like what's the next thing
• 17:17
  coming who's the next person coming up or
• 17:19
  whatnot
• 17:21
  Now you have those people right there and
• 17:23
  that like literally on the precipice of
• 17:25
  being in the open division,
• 17:27
  adult division,
• 17:27
  whatever you want to call it.
• 17:28
  Let's not call it the adult division.
• 17:29
  That sounds terrible.
• 17:30
  But the open division who are,
• 17:34
  and you can go and look and go,
• 17:35
  man, you know, this kid's in the eighteen,
• 17:37
  nineteen and is smashing everybody.
• 17:40
  She could be a problem next year or
• 17:42
  he could be a problem next year.
• 17:43
  Yeah, I like that a lot.
• 17:44
  Yeah.
• 17:46
  So now.
• 17:49
  Adaptive seems to be pretty much the same
• 17:51
  as it was last year.
• 17:52
  Yeah.
• 17:52
  Wheel Watt is running the show.
• 17:54
  As they should be.
• 17:55
  They do a great job.
• 17:56
  They do all of that.
• 17:58
  Awesome.
• 18:00
  Let's get to the Masters.
• 18:02
  Because as you all know,
• 18:06
  I have not had the greatest relationship
• 18:09
  with Legends Championship.
• 18:11
  Really?
• 18:12
  You never mentioned it.
• 18:15
  I think that they have been short-sighted.
• 18:19
  I have heard from very,
• 18:21
  very reliable sources that they were not
• 18:23
  open to assistance or help.
• 18:28
  And the fact that they are now no
• 18:31
  longer running the Masters games makes me
• 18:34
  extremely, extremely happy.
• 18:38
  I can tell you,
• 18:40
  one of the Masters text groups that I'm
• 18:43
  in, there was a collective sigh of relief.
• 18:47
  I also think that Micah proved last year
• 18:51
  at the Magic City Games,
• 18:52
  Micah Shoemaker and team,
• 18:54
  proved that they are capable of running an
• 18:57
  event with games-like feel.
• 19:02
  They did that at a semifinal level.
• 19:05
  Yeah,
• 19:05
  it's the best event I've ever been to,
• 19:07
  I've ever participated in by fault.
• 19:11
  By far, from every single aspect of it,
• 19:14
  right?
• 19:16
  How we were corralled to the warm-up area
• 19:18
  to where our athlete area was to just
• 19:20
  everything running on time like it was
• 19:22
  supposed to,
• 19:23
  like the whole thing ran immaculate.
• 19:28
  The workouts were awesome all the way
• 19:30
  through.
• 19:31
  Do I have a couple of here and
• 19:33
  there?
• 19:34
  Sure.
• 19:34
  Absolutely.
• 19:34
  Nothing's going to be a hundred percent
• 19:36
  perfect.
• 19:36
  Right.
• 19:37
  But as somebody who competed there last
• 19:40
  year for the semifinals,
• 19:42
  it was a ten of ten experience.
• 19:44
  So awesome.
• 19:45
  Hey, Micah, if you're listening,
• 19:48
  congratulations, my brother,
• 19:49
  that you nailed it.
• 19:51
  I think John George is happy.
• 19:53
  Joey says it was his favorite since twenty
• 19:55
  eighteen Super Regionals.
• 19:56
  Probably better.
• 19:58
  Well,
• 19:58
  Joey enjoyed it because he and I hung
• 20:01
  out a whole lot and just said a
• 20:04
  bunch of ridiculous shit basically the
• 20:06
  entire time we were there.
• 20:08
  Pretty much every time I saw him.
• 20:11
  So I think because of the performance that
• 20:16
  Micah gave last year gives me confidence
• 20:21
  that he will be able to pull it
• 20:23
  off in a way.
• 20:24
  One,
• 20:25
  and Micah Schumacher has been around this
• 20:26
  sport
• 20:28
  forever and he has been devoted to Masters
• 20:31
  athletes for a long time yeah in addition
• 20:36
  to all that
• 20:38
  like if you if you watched it all
• 20:40
  magic city it paid homage to all of
• 20:43
  the past crossfit life like workouts were
• 20:47
  variations of past crossfit workouts it
• 20:51
  was a really cool event and you had
• 20:54
  odd objects you had interesting things we
• 20:57
  rode a bike an actual bike outside on
• 21:01
  wheels like not just pilling and just to
• 21:03
  be piddling
• 21:06
  Uh, Lito says,
• 21:08
  I hope they get some support from HQ.
• 21:09
  I'd imagine that running the games is a
• 21:11
  bit more complicated than running a semi,
• 21:13
  but maybe I'm wrong.
• 21:14
  I think it all depends on the location
• 21:19
  and whether it's tied to the individual or
• 21:22
  the open CrossFit games as well.
• 21:25
  If Micah gets to run it independently,
• 21:27
  like in Birmingham and he gets to use
• 21:29
  the venue, he knows, I think you are,
• 21:33
  you are set.
• 21:35
  Yeah.
• 21:37
  I'm going to tell you from being there,
• 21:39
  we could have the exact same place we
• 21:40
  had the semifinal last year,
• 21:42
  and it would be just fine.
• 21:43
  There's enough stuff.
• 21:44
  We could swim.
• 21:45
  There's a pool there.
• 21:47
  Masters could swim,
• 21:48
  whatever that ended up looking like.
• 21:50
  There's an indoor track you can run on.
• 21:53
  There's spots outside you could run.
• 21:55
  That place is built to do stuff like
• 21:57
  that.
• 21:58
  It would not be difficult to do at
• 22:00
  all.
• 22:01
  The indoor arena place where the rig and
• 22:04
  stuff was,
• 22:05
  I've never actually been to the tennis
• 22:06
  stadium,
• 22:07
  but it's built like the tennis stadium
• 22:08
  looks like the state.
• 22:10
  The seats are right there.
• 22:11
  They go straight up and the crowd is
• 22:13
  right there on top.
• 22:15
  Like I would.
• 22:19
  It would be a perfect place to have
• 22:20
  it again.
• 22:21
  I have no idea if that's what they're
• 22:22
  actually doing, but I think it would work.
• 22:25
  Stop it, Corey.
• 22:25
  I'm getting excited.
• 22:27
  Lito, happy birthday.
• 22:29
  Your excitement.
• 22:31
  Lito's birthday was earlier this week.
• 22:32
  I got a notification on Facebook.
• 22:34
  Happy birthday, Lito.
• 22:34
  Happy birthday.
• 22:37
  There was something up here.
• 22:38
  Hold on.
• 22:39
  Go ahead.
• 22:40
  How long do you think till they announce
• 22:41
  the game's location?
• 22:43
  I am guessing.
• 22:44
  So at the beginning of the podcast today,
• 22:47
  Adrian said that they are going to make
• 22:49
  it a big announcement at the affiliate
• 22:51
  town hall next week.
• 22:54
  Yep.
• 22:54
  My guess is we might get something there.
• 22:59
  I would assume.
• 23:00
  Yeah, I would assume.
• 23:02
  Yeah.
• 23:04
  And Lito, we have not gotten dates.
• 23:05
  They are to be coming soon.
• 23:07
  Maybe we get those next week as well.
• 23:09
  No,
• 23:10
  the one thing I wanted to bring up
• 23:12
  as well,
• 23:12
  as far as our stuff is concerned,
• 23:14
  Masters stuff is concerned,
• 23:15
  is that the season is actually going to
• 23:17
  make a lot more sense for us as
• 23:18
  far as semifinals this year because we're
• 23:20
  going to have in-person semifinals.
• 23:22
  And then the Masters are also going to
• 23:23
  have basically a last chance qualifier
• 23:26
  instead of how they did it last year
• 23:29
  with the online stuff being dead in the
• 23:31
  middle of all of the in-person stuff.
• 23:34
  So...
• 23:36
  you have an opportunity to qualify in
• 23:39
  person.
• 23:39
  And if you don't make it like that,
• 23:42
  you still have an opportunity to qualify
• 23:44
  online towards the end of it.
• 23:45
  So it's running, I guess,
• 23:49
  concurrent or whatever you want to call
• 23:51
  it,
• 23:51
  the same way that the elites get the
• 23:54
  regular open division bit.
• 23:56
  Which is a huge improvement.
• 23:58
  I didn't get a chance to do online
• 24:02
  last year because when I got back from
• 24:04
  Magic City, online was the next weekend,
• 24:05
  and my daughter's softball tournament was
• 24:07
  that weekend, and I'm not missing that.
• 24:11
  I want to be a games athlete,
• 24:12
  but she's only going to have so many
• 24:15
  of those, so there's that.
• 24:20
  No blind leaderboards this year?
• 24:22
  Which is...
• 24:24
  I like it because it gives the opportunity
• 24:26
  for someone like Colton Mertens to post a
• 24:28
  score and go, there it is.
• 24:29
  Beat it, yeah.
• 24:30
  Come get me.
• 24:31
  Come get it.
• 24:33
  I like the storytelling of that.
• 24:35
  I'm so glad we don't have to.
• 24:38
  You still get the excitement of eight p.m.
• 24:40
  Monday night waiting for it to finalize,
• 24:44
  right?
• 24:47
  You know what I think Jeremy does?
• 24:49
  He hears what I say and then he
• 24:51
  says the exact opposite.
• 24:53
  On general principle.
• 24:55
  Just because.
• 24:56
  Yep.
• 24:57
  Yep.
• 24:58
  On general principle.
• 24:59
  I want to represent, believe that.
• 25:01
  Meg asked you,
• 25:02
  do you think they're waiting for after
• 25:04
  rogue?
• 25:04
  Uh, here's my answer to that.
• 25:08
  If you are, that's a bad move.
• 25:10
  Yeah.
• 25:10
  I don't,
• 25:11
  I don't think they are planning their shit
• 25:13
  around rogue.
• 25:13
  I don't think that's a thing.
• 25:15
  If you were the CrossFit games,
• 25:16
  you should be acting like I'm King Kong.
• 25:19
  Yeah.
• 25:20
  Right.
• 25:21
  King Kong ain't got shit on me.
• 25:24
  Right.
• 25:25
  Exactly.
• 25:28
  And if you are the biggest and the
• 25:29
  baddest,
• 25:30
  act like you're the biggest and the
• 25:31
  baddest.
• 25:31
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:32
  Don't kowtow to everybody else.
• 25:42
  Without videos,
• 25:42
  I'm not sure that I'm a fan.
• 25:44
  Wait until Monday to make up scores.
• 25:48
  Well, we don't know the video thing yet,
• 25:50
  do we?
• 25:51
  No, we didn't.
• 25:52
  They haven't said anything.
• 25:53
  But, I mean,
• 25:54
  it's been that way for some time now
• 25:56
  for the Open,
• 25:56
  unless you are looking to win money.
• 25:59
  Like, you don't have to submit a video.
• 26:01
  He's talking about the Masters Division in
• 26:03
  general.
• 26:03
  Like,
• 26:04
  it happens anytime there's a public
• 26:06
  leaderboard with Masters athletes.
• 26:08
  People just wait until the absolute last
• 26:10
  second and then post their bullshit score
• 26:12
  and then go on about their day.
• 26:14
  It's been happening as long as I've been
• 26:16
  doing the Open for damn sure, so.
• 26:19
  And we haven't even talked about this
• 26:21
  fact.
• 26:21
  Taylor doesn't have access to YouTube now.
• 26:23
  So will he even be able to find
• 26:25
  the people?
• 26:27
  Well, I mean, his channel guys.
• 26:29
  Yeah, he did.
• 26:30
  That would be wild, right?
• 26:32
  They just banned him completely from using
• 26:34
  YouTube.
• 26:35
  Like, sorry, you can't have YouTube.
• 26:39
  I know, Mark.
• 26:39
  I'm sorry.
• 26:45
  phillips says masters don't cheat that's
• 26:47
  preposterous uh-huh not at all never
• 26:51
  happened not even once uh andrew sten uh
• 26:55
  said i had to pause the video to
• 26:57
  check in not surprised about the legends
• 26:59
  hate bummer for me well look at it
• 27:02
  this way andrew you and i won't fight
• 27:03
  this season how about that
• 27:09
  And it's not hate.
• 27:10
  It's just facts.
• 27:12
  The fact is that I couldn't do what
• 27:14
  I wanted to do anymore.
• 27:16
  I kept getting my access more and more
• 27:19
  limited.
• 27:19
  I couldn't make the content I wanted to
• 27:21
  make about the group of individual,
• 27:23
  about the group of athletes that I care
• 27:26
  about so much.
• 27:29
  And hopefully this year I can get with
• 27:31
  Micah early.
• 27:32
  We can talk through what plans are and
• 27:35
  see if I can make some kick-ass content
• 27:38
  again.
• 27:40
  Maybe you'll have more than hallway
• 27:42
  access.
• 27:44
  Hell, last year, I barely had,
• 27:47
  I don't even know if you could call
• 27:48
  it hallway access.
• 27:49
  No,
• 27:49
  you had a ticket to get in the
• 27:51
  door.
• 27:51
  That's what you had.
• 27:52
  Yeah.
• 27:55
  I mean, plain and simple.
• 27:56
  Columbus, I had hallway access.
• 27:59
  And the year before that,
• 28:00
  I had full access.
• 28:03
  You had full access for two days,
• 28:04
  and then they kicked you out of the
• 28:06
  warm-up area.
• 28:10
  Hey, Scott,
• 28:10
  they might even repost your videos.
• 28:12
  That would be...
• 28:13
  I'm going to tell you right now,
• 28:14
  if Micah's team is involved,
• 28:16
  they'll repost your videos because I can
• 28:18
  go share the reel that they made for
• 28:23
  me at Magic City,
• 28:24
  and if I tag Magic City,
• 28:26
  they'll repost it.
• 28:27
  Guaranteed.
• 28:28
  Happens all the time.
• 28:31
  They also said the Masters are getting a
• 28:32
  couple more in-person events.
• 28:35
  Yep.
• 28:36
  More opportunities to...
• 28:41
  to qualify for the master's group.
• 28:46
  I'm anxious to see how that turns out
• 28:48
  because I think as much as I love
• 28:51
  this community,
• 28:53
  I think the athletes and maybe with the
• 28:56
  online qualifier at the end this year,
• 28:57
  we'll get a different result.
• 28:59
  But so many people passed on the in-person
• 29:01
  opportunity, which is wild to me.
• 29:04
  I've said that a hundred times.
• 29:06
  Why would you not want to prove yourself
• 29:07
  in person before you actually make it to
• 29:09
  the games to try to prove yourself in
• 29:10
  person?
• 29:13
  Better online.
• 29:14
  Well, that's fantastic.
• 29:14
  If you're better online,
• 29:15
  then you're going to qualify online,
• 29:17
  show up and get your ass handed to
• 29:18
  you the entire weekend.
• 29:19
  That's silly to me.
• 29:21
  Show up, do the thing,
• 29:23
  support your community,
• 29:25
  support the stuff that you want to do,
• 29:27
  and get out there and get it done.
• 29:32
  Show up, people.
• 29:33
  I'm talking to my Masters athletes.
• 29:35
  Show up.
• 29:37
  That's the thing.
• 29:39
  Again,
• 29:40
  they're my favorite community to cover.
• 29:43
  Favorite community to cover.
• 29:45
  But they don't share shit.
• 29:49
  If I do an interview with a Masters
• 29:51
  athlete, it is rare that they share it.
• 29:55
  If I do content that they're in,
• 29:58
  it's rare that they share it.
• 30:00
  Yep.
• 30:01
  So it's not just the organizers,
• 30:03
  it's the athletes.
• 30:04
  And they're the ones saying, well,
• 30:06
  nobody covers us.
• 30:07
  Nobody does this.
• 30:08
  Nobody does that.
• 30:10
  And then you do it and they don't
• 30:11
  even share it.
• 30:14
  You need to show up for yourself.
• 30:19
  And then other people will say,
• 30:21
  I am the world's biggest self-promoter.
• 30:22
  I will tell you about me.
• 30:23
  You ain't even got to ask half the
• 30:25
  time.
• 30:26
  If somebody puts a video up that I'm
• 30:28
  in the background of,
• 30:30
  I am resharing it on Instagram every
• 30:31
  single time.
• 30:33
  You are not the person I'm talking to.
• 30:35
  No, not even close.
• 30:37
  But there are a handful of people
• 30:42
  I would say a majority of the people
• 30:43
  do not.
• 30:44
  And I understand it for like maybe fifty
• 30:46
  five to seventy.
• 30:49
  Right.
• 30:49
  Like I get that.
• 30:51
  But there's a lot of people begging for
• 30:53
  content and then you make the content and
• 30:55
  they don't help you with it.
• 30:57
  They don't they don't bother.
• 30:59
  They're like, oh, we made a thing.
• 31:00
  And so that's how I felt last year
• 31:03
  when we won in-person semis.
• 31:06
  We won in person.
• 31:06
  So real people make it.
• 31:08
  Then nobody showed up.
• 31:12
  I mean,
• 31:12
  I think I got an invite to one
• 31:13
  of the in person competitions.
• 31:18
  Also last year,
• 31:20
  they need to clean that up,
• 31:22
  how they actually get the invites out.
• 31:24
  That needs to be cleaned up.
• 31:25
  However they end up doing it,
• 31:27
  however the people get invited,
• 31:28
  whether it's just by the open scores,
• 31:30
  whatever database that they need to have
• 31:33
  access to so they can get their invites
• 31:34
  out because a lot of people,
• 31:37
  myself included,
• 31:38
  like the first batch of invites went out
• 31:39
  and then the second batch of invites went
• 31:41
  out and then I'm talking to whoever's
• 31:43
  running the social media for Magic City
• 31:44
  and I'm like, hey man,
• 31:45
  I'm in a qualifying spot,
• 31:46
  like
• 31:47
  yeah, we're going to get to you.
• 31:48
  We're going to get to you.
• 31:49
  And they did eventually.
• 31:50
  But like,
• 31:51
  and you can ask any of those guys
• 31:53
  in there,
• 31:53
  like there's a bunch of people who got
• 31:56
  passed over, passed over, passed over.
• 31:58
  And then you're seeing people get,
• 32:00
  accept invitations who are like four
• 32:02
  hundred and thirty fifth on the
• 32:03
  leaderboard.
• 32:04
  You're like, what is happening right now?
• 32:08
  It appears that you have to be in
• 32:09
  the top four hundred to get an invite
• 32:10
  now.
• 32:12
  I hope so.
• 32:13
  I hope that's that's
• 32:15
  that is at least it's hard it's not
• 32:17
  written really well right but that is
• 32:20
  definitely the case for the online it's
• 32:21
  only top four hundred yeah i hope that's
• 32:26
  the case for the in-persons as well uh
• 32:32
  joseph was three thirty seven and didn't
• 32:34
  get one i wanted to ask joseph about
• 32:36
  that um when it happened because if he
• 32:39
  was three thirty seven
• 32:41
  judging by the people that got invites
• 32:43
  that were at like magic sitting,
• 32:45
  he should have gotten an invite.
• 32:47
  Well, again,
• 32:48
  and I think Joey makes this and it's
• 32:50
  not just legends.
• 32:51
  I don't think CrossFit shared the contact
• 32:53
  information with the,
• 32:55
  about the leaderboard and put the
• 32:57
  organizers in a pickle.
• 33:00
  Yeah.
• 33:02
  I know.
• 33:02
  It was the same thing.
• 33:03
  My pickle addiction is out of control
• 33:04
  right now.
• 33:06
  The same thing happened for, uh,
• 33:12
  The same thing happened for Magic City.
• 33:15
  Yeah,
• 33:15
  I don't want to put that on Legends.
• 33:17
  I put enough on them.
• 33:18
  This was a CrossFit thing.
• 33:21
  Not sharing the content and contact
• 33:24
  information with the event organizers.
• 33:27
  Yep.
• 33:32
  Yeah, Cass, you're right.
• 33:33
  If you're in the older divisions,
• 33:34
  it's top three hundred.
• 33:36
  But some of those older divisions don't
• 33:38
  even have three hundred or barely three
• 33:40
  hundred.
• 33:40
  no i like how they say top three
• 33:42
  hundred and there's like two hundred
• 33:43
  eighty seven people in there yeah joey
• 33:49
  that's we know brother yeah we i just
• 33:52
  i i rail on legends enough i don't
• 33:54
  want to just reg rail for the sake
• 33:56
  of railing no uh
• 34:04
  I see what you're saying, Lito,
• 34:06
  with all these extra steps.
• 34:09
  But all it really took is when you
• 34:11
  sign up for the open,
• 34:13
  CrossFit puts a little asterisk at the
• 34:16
  bottom and says,
• 34:17
  you are agreeing to share your contact
• 34:20
  information with in-person semifinal
• 34:24
  events to reach out to you.
• 34:25
  Yeah, whatever email address you have,
• 34:27
  because that's all they need.
• 34:30
  Then go to your database,
• 34:32
  print out a spreadsheet,
• 34:33
  and send it to said competition.
• 34:37
  Maybe not print it out.
• 34:38
  Probably you could just email it.
• 34:39
  I feel like printing it out is going
• 34:40
  to waste a lot of paper.
• 34:41
  I'm just going by what I think CrossFit
• 34:43
  actually does.
• 34:46
  I'm picturing like a giant manila envelope
• 34:48
  shows up at Micah's house,
• 34:51
  and everybody walks in and just drops it.
• 34:54
  Yeah,
• 34:54
  the FedEx show shows up with a palette
• 34:56
  of lists.
• 34:59
  Looks like the Santa Claus,
• 35:05
  whenever he got the list of the naughty
• 35:07
  and nice,
• 35:07
  just opens it and there's boxes
• 35:08
  everywhere.
• 35:09
  What the hell is this?
• 35:11
  This is all your people.
• 35:12
  Oh, a handcuff briefcase.
• 35:15
  So that's another thing that I've always
• 35:17
  wanted to have is a briefcase handcuffed
• 35:21
  to my wrist.
• 35:21
  That and a giant paper check.
• 35:23
  I'd be good.
• 35:24
  I could probably die happy if I had
• 35:25
  both of those things happen,
• 35:26
  maybe at the same time.
• 35:27
  If you won the games and got both,
• 35:29
  you would be in heaven.
• 35:30
  Oh, my.
• 35:30
  bored would i here's your check and here
• 35:34
  we put it in cash and we're gonna
• 35:36
  handcuff it to your wrist we somebody has
• 35:39
  to cut your wrist off to be able
• 35:40
  to get it i'm like man i could
• 35:41
  fight people with this it's got to be
• 35:42
  one of those metal briefcases like those
• 35:44
  things are pretty pretty soft yeah like
• 35:46
  the money in the bank briefcase at the
• 35:48
  with the wwe absolutely absolutely only
• 35:51
  not i don't have to get a twenty-seven
• 35:53
  foot step ladder to be able to get
• 35:54
  to it that seems like a lot
• 35:58
  The cohort I'm in is insanely fit at
• 36:00
  seventy.
• 36:00
  I still won't have a chance.
• 36:04
  I've given up on my competition life.
• 36:08
  I'm just trying to be the first fat
• 36:09
  drummer.
• 36:13
  Y'all missed that yesterday.
• 36:14
  The problem is it's so damn hard and
• 36:20
  so much cardio.
• 36:21
  I'm not going to be fat anymore.
• 36:23
  No, dude.
• 36:23
  Like I'm saying,
• 36:25
  so basically you go do your workout,
• 36:27
  right?
• 36:28
  You're doing the Heeler Fit stuff now,
• 36:29
  right?
• 36:30
  So you go do your Heeler Fit workout.
• 36:32
  Then you go drum.
• 36:32
  That's a second session, dude.
• 36:35
  Like you're doing a straight cardio,
• 36:36
  like just a monostructural piece basically
• 36:38
  after that.
• 36:39
  How long do you normally go drum for?
• 36:42
  Half hour to an hour.
• 36:44
  Oh, man.
• 36:46
  My long zone, too,
• 36:47
  when I go ride my bike,
• 36:48
  usually lasts about an hour.
• 36:50
  And I feel like you're doing way more
• 36:52
  work beating on them drums for an hour
• 36:54
  than I am just riding my bike around
• 36:56
  the neighborhood.
• 36:57
  It's truly just the feet.
• 36:59
  The arms, yeah,
• 36:59
  they get a little bit tired.
• 37:01
  But, man,
• 37:01
  my legs from kicking that bass drum over
• 37:05
  and over and over and over and over
• 37:06
  and over again.
• 37:06
  Yeah.
• 37:09
  It's a lot.
• 37:10
  I was practicing one song this morning for
• 37:12
  fifteen minutes and I was out of breath.
• 37:15
  It's a double kick drum beat and I
• 37:18
  just was dying.
• 37:20
  You said you turn your watch on before
• 37:22
  you do it because otherwise it doesn't
• 37:24
  count as a workout.
• 37:26
  I do not,
• 37:26
  but it does track my steps.
• 37:29
  I love it.
• 37:30
  I love it.
• 37:30
  I love it.
• 37:31
  Every once in a while,
• 37:32
  I got to be,
• 37:34
  because my watch will adjust my step count
• 37:36
  for the day,
• 37:37
  like how many I'm supposed to get,
• 37:38
  depending on how many I've already done.
• 37:40
  And so like some days I'll get out
• 37:41
  of my Jeep and all of a sudden
• 37:42
  it'll say, you just hit your step goal.
• 37:44
  And like,
• 37:44
  I've been driving for fifteen minutes.
• 37:46
  Like, thanks, Gorman.
• 37:48
  Yeah.
• 37:50
  Fitness, baby.
• 37:51
  So I have like a Suunto.
• 37:54
  Um,
• 37:55
  and it does not track anything while I'm
• 37:57
  driving.
• 37:58
  Like I get the thing, Hey,
• 37:59
  you need to stand up.
• 38:01
  Well, if I'm doing that.
• 38:02
  Yeah.
• 38:02
  But like, if I'm like,
• 38:03
  if I'm beating on my steering wheel and
• 38:06
  shifting gears and all that stuff, like I,
• 38:09
  it'll,
• 38:09
  it'll credit me with like twenty five,
• 38:11
  fifty steps just driving from here to the
• 38:14
  gym or driving from here to the house
• 38:15
  or whatever, whatever it is.
• 38:18
  Um,
• 38:21
  have you seen the little crash symbol that
• 38:23
  you can add to your event?
• 38:25
  It has like a vent clip for your
• 38:27
  car.
• 38:27
  Yeah.
• 38:28
  And so it's a little mini crash cymbal.
• 38:30
  So if you're playing drums on your
• 38:31
  steering wheel.
• 38:31
  Oh, yeah.
• 38:31
  I have my steering wheel, Winter.
• 38:37
  Get your mind out of the police gutter.
• 38:42
  Can we now talk about the absolutely
• 38:43
  ridiculous idea of giving teams a global
• 38:45
  leaderboard?
• 38:47
  For like, you know, like, I don't,
• 38:52
  I'd have to look into that more, Lito,
• 38:53
  before I
• 38:55
  Had a feeling about it?
• 38:59
  I don't really care,
• 39:00
  to be honest with you.
• 39:02
  I think the best teams will rise to
• 39:03
  the top.
• 39:04
  No matter what.
• 39:11
  I don't really have a strong feeling about
• 39:12
  that, Lito.
• 39:13
  I'm sorry you do.
• 39:16
  Yeah.
• 39:17
  Is it as a team?
• 39:19
  How do they quantify that?
• 39:22
  If you got Tia Claire Toomey and Dallin
• 39:27
  Pepper and whoever else on your team,
• 39:29
  and they're all...
• 39:31
  Does that make your team number one at
• 39:32
  the top of the leaderboard?
• 39:33
  Like, I don't understand.
• 39:35
  No, it's still affiliate-based.
• 39:36
  Okay.
• 39:37
  And I think all those rules are the
• 39:39
  same.
• 39:39
  They did not say anything new about that.
• 39:42
  Right.
• 39:43
  The only thing new I saw with the
• 39:44
  teams is you have to qualify in person.
• 39:48
  Yeah, which I'm glad for them for that.
• 39:51
  That makes so much more sense.
• 39:52
  So the only time the global leaderboard
• 39:53
  would – or are you –
• 39:57
  Again,
• 39:58
  we jumped on before the podcast was over.
• 40:00
  Correct.
• 40:02
  So hear me out.
• 40:06
  Yeah,
• 40:06
  I am not going to be able to
• 40:07
  read that.
• 40:17
  A series of in-person events hosted by
• 40:19
  select partners.
• 40:20
  Each event may have its own qualification
• 40:21
  process.
• 40:22
  After the open,
• 40:23
  teams will be ranked on a global
• 40:24
  leaderboard.
• 40:25
  Hosted on all workouts will be
• 40:27
  standardized across all teams.
• 40:29
  Ah,
• 40:30
  so it's not about winning the competition.
• 40:32
  It's about performing at the location,
• 40:35
  and then you go on a global leaderboard.
• 40:40
  I sure as hell hope they can standardize
• 40:42
  that because now I get what you're saying.
• 40:47
  That is crazy.
• 40:53
  Yes.
• 40:54
  Way to make the live competition not
• 40:56
  matter.
• 41:00
  Any licensed CrossFit affiliate in good
• 41:02
  standing on CrossFit may register as many
• 41:04
  teams as they wish for the CrossFit Games
• 41:06
  team competition.
• 41:09
  But I think you can register,
• 41:12
  but I think in the past,
• 41:14
  it's been you could register as many,
• 41:15
  but only one can go.
• 41:18
  how it was last year one team per
• 41:22
  affiliate can actually make it yeah my uh
• 41:26
  my confidence in standardizing them fully
• 41:29
  is not high you're only basing that on
• 41:32
  truth and history i mean come on when
• 41:36
  they did all the same events at all
• 41:38
  the different semi-finals one time the
• 41:42
  paper sled slid really well the next
• 41:45
  weekend the paper sled barely slid
• 41:51
  Carpet rolling up underneath it.
• 41:53
  That was a whole thing.
• 41:53
  Jesus Christ.
• 41:57
  Yeah.
• 42:03
  That's speculation, Joey,
• 42:05
  but you're probably right.
• 42:07
  Yeah, I was speculating the same thing.
• 42:08
  As soon as they said that they were
• 42:09
  moving it from in the fall where it
• 42:12
  normally is to whenever that is,
• 42:16
  I said the same thing.
• 42:17
  It looks like that's going to be what
• 42:18
  that is.
• 42:19
  I mean,
• 42:19
  we've been speculating that since they
• 42:21
  canceled the twenty twenty six.
• 42:23
  So twenty twenty six.
• 42:24
  Absolutely.
• 42:28
  Kind of like the old regionals,
• 42:30
  because doing the same workouts for teams
• 42:31
  and then having a global leaderboard,
• 42:33
  which is different, very different.
• 42:35
  Yeah.
• 42:38
  And the more people have time to observe
• 42:41
  others do the workout,
• 42:43
  the bigger the advantages for the teams
• 42:45
  who go later.
• 42:47
  You got time to, you could,
• 42:50
  if you don't go first,
• 42:51
  you got time to see it, strategize,
• 42:54
  practice,
• 42:55
  revamp your strategy before you ever show
• 42:58
  up in person.
• 43:03
  Yep.
• 43:03
  Also,
• 43:03
  it's been said you could come in second
• 43:05
  at a comp,
• 43:05
  beat the team in first because of the
• 43:07
  global leaderboard.
• 43:08
  Yeah.
• 43:11
  which is bananas crazy.
• 43:13
  Yeah.
• 43:14
  Because of the way,
• 43:14
  like how many people fall between you and
• 43:16
  the other person.
• 43:18
  Yeah.
• 43:18
  Yeah.
• 43:19
  That's crazy.
• 43:21
  Um,
• 43:23
  but we just wanted to give you a
• 43:24
  quick recap on everything that was
• 43:26
  announced today.
• 43:28
  We knew this was,
• 43:29
  this wasn't going to be an in-depth
• 43:30
  in-depth thing.
• 43:32
  Um,
• 43:33
  we'll probably talk about it some more
• 43:34
  tomorrow as more things kind of filter
• 43:37
  out.
• 43:38
  Yep.
• 43:39
  Um,
• 43:43
  that's okay because the teams can do as
• 43:45
  many comps as they want while Indy are
• 43:46
  limited to two.
• 43:48
  It's all about consistency.
• 43:50
  Think about that, dude.
• 43:51
  You could roll up,
• 43:53
  not qualify as a team in the first
• 43:57
  whatever team event that they have,
• 43:59
  come back at the last team that they
• 44:01
  have and smoke everybody there and then
• 44:03
  still make it to the games.
• 44:06
  So your team could pay to travel to
• 44:08
  an event, win, and not qualify.
• 44:10
  Yes.
• 44:10
  It would appear so.
• 44:13
  Here's the thing.
• 44:15
  I'm going to take the win of the
• 44:16
  day that my master's group got much needed
• 44:21
  change.
• 44:23
  Now, again, it's in Micah's court.
• 44:27
  Yeah.
• 44:28
  He's proven he can do some stuff.
• 44:30
  Let's see him follow through.
• 44:33
  If he does, we will rejoice.
• 44:35
  If he doesn't,
• 44:36
  we'll be the first to criticize.
• 44:37
  Yep.
• 44:37
  We ain't scared of that.
• 44:41
  Not by any stretch of the imagination.
• 44:43
  Yeah,
• 44:44
  Masters definitely got the best news.
• 44:46
  Absolutely.
• 44:47
  And I do think at least limiting the
• 44:50
  acceptances to two for the individuals is
• 44:53
  a win for the event organizers.
• 44:56
  I wonder if it's...
• 44:58
  So if you accept two,
• 45:01
  you show up to one, you qualify...
• 45:04
  Now,
• 45:04
  you don't necessarily have to go to the
• 45:05
  other one that you showed up to,
• 45:08
  but is there going to be a backfill
• 45:09
  procedure for that?
• 45:10
  I think that's going to be up to
• 45:12
  the event organizer,
• 45:13
  but that will be less shuffling than
• 45:19
  accepting eight of them and choosing later
• 45:22
  to only go to two.
• 45:23
  I'm going to go to refresh through now.
• 45:25
  Jason Hopper.
• 45:26
  Yeah, but he did.
• 45:28
  I'm okay with that.
• 45:29
  If you accept and then go,
• 45:31
  but then you ditched Mayhem,
• 45:32
  you ditched Del Mar.
• 45:34
  He ditched all the other stuff and then
• 45:37
  finally was like,
• 45:38
  I guess I'm going to go to a
• 45:38
  French show.
• 45:40
  Once he saw the program had come out.
• 45:44
  Whatever.
• 45:46
  You only get two,
• 45:47
  so you better pick wisely.
• 45:49
  Choose wisely.
• 45:53
  He choose wisely.
• 45:54
  I'm really excited if MFC is a qualifier
• 45:58
  because that is such a short drive for
• 45:59
  me.
• 46:00
  It's a short drive for Jamie.
• 46:03
  I know my people can get there.
• 46:06
  I know my friends, the burgers,
• 46:08
  are right down the street.
• 46:09
  We can get there in a heartbeat.
• 46:11
  They are.
• 46:12
  The panchecks are right there.
• 46:14
  That could be really fun.
• 46:16
  It's a crappy plane ride to the smallest
• 46:19
  airport I've ever been to in my entire
• 46:21
  life for me.
• 46:21
  Yeah.
• 46:23
  I just fly in my car, dude.
• 46:25
  Fly in my car.
• 46:27
  I just never forget.
• 46:28
  Banging on my stuff.
• 46:30
  Banging on a steering wheel.
• 46:32
  I just never forget, dude.
• 46:33
  Not so much when we landed because I
• 46:36
  really wasn't paying that much attention.
• 46:37
  I was talking with all my boys and
• 46:38
  whatnot.
• 46:38
  But when we went to leave on Monday
• 46:41
  after MFC and I actually got to see
• 46:44
  where the... And there's one gate.
• 46:50
  It's just the one gate.
• 46:51
  And I remember going...
• 46:53
  Is this it?
• 46:54
  And they were like, yeah.
• 46:55
  Like, where are you, boy, to play?
• 46:56
  And he's like, right through there.
• 46:59
  All righty.
• 47:01
  She didn't ask if Legends are still doing
• 47:02
  a semifinal.
• 47:03
  They have not announced the location.
• 47:04
  They haven't announced that.
• 47:05
  Everybody's speculating, MFC,
• 47:08
  because it moved its fall date to a
• 47:11
  spring date within the time frame of when
• 47:15
  the in-person Masters semifinals is.
• 47:17
  It's like the last week.
• 47:18
  Just stringing the red yarn.
• 47:20
  Yeah.
• 47:20
  Yeah.
• 47:29
  Oh, that's the only thing about that one,
• 47:31
  Joey, is that it's the week before online.
• 47:35
  But, I mean, it was bound to happen.
• 47:37
  Something's going to end up being, like,
• 47:38
  if you go to one of the later
• 47:39
  ones and you don't make it and you
• 47:41
  want to do online,
• 47:42
  then you better be prepared to compete two
• 47:43
  weeks in a row.
• 47:48
  Oh.
• 47:50
  It's actually on their Instagram,
• 47:52
  at Del Mar.
• 47:53
  Yep.
• 47:54
  Do they show it as a semifinal, Lito?
• 47:56
  No.
• 47:58
  I think they had already announced that.
• 48:00
  I think that's what she's talking about,
• 48:01
  that they were going to do.
• 48:04
  I do remember seeing that now.
• 48:06
  Not that she mentions that,
• 48:06
  that they had already mentioned that they
• 48:08
  were going to be doing another one again.
• 48:10
  So, look.
• 48:15
  JR had previously mentioned they'd like to
• 48:17
  add Masters to Syndicate.
• 48:21
  i can tell you that that conversation has
• 48:23
  happened i cannot tell you what the
• 48:26
  decision ultimately was right it's david
• 48:34
  johnson's yep april twenty third to the
• 48:36
  twenty fifth twenty twenty seven
• 48:40
  Everybody's signing up, I'm sure.
• 48:43
  I think on the West Coast,
• 48:44
  people love legends.
• 48:45
  I was about to say,
• 48:47
  the people on that side of the country
• 48:49
  are there for it.
• 48:50
  And look, good on them.
• 48:51
  Especially Shanna.
• 48:52
  Yeah.
• 48:52
  Yeah.
• 48:58
  I don't want to fly literally halfway
• 49:01
  across the country if I can drive six
• 49:03
  hours to Birmingham and do it there
• 49:06
  instead.
• 49:07
  It's a really nice drive.
• 49:10
  It's not bad at all.
• 49:12
  Let's be honest.
• 49:13
  If you're a power output athlete,
• 49:16
  you're going to want to go to Legends.
• 49:18
  That's fair.
• 49:19
  Guess what?
• 49:19
  Corey is not.
• 49:20
  That's right.
• 49:25
  Guess what?
• 49:26
  Corey is not.
• 49:28
  I'm more of a cross-fitty type athlete,
• 49:30
  not so much a power output guy.
• 49:33
  Right.
• 49:33
  And so I think like...
• 49:35
  Even someone like Carolyn,
• 49:37
  she thrived in their programming because
• 49:41
  she can adapt to anything.
• 49:42
  Yeah.
• 49:44
  Mr.
• 49:44
  David Johnson right there in the comments
• 49:47
  probably would have killed over there
• 49:49
  because that dude is big and strong and
• 49:51
  loves that.
• 49:52
  That's his bread and butter.
• 49:55
  Not to say he didn't do well at
• 49:57
  Magic City because he took second,
• 49:59
  but yeah.
• 50:04
  Yeah, there you go.
• 50:05
  I'm a power output guy.
• 50:07
  We're fighting.
• 50:07
  I'm a power output guy,
• 50:08
  but just don't want to spend the money
• 50:10
  to go out there.
• 50:10
  Yeah, it makes sense.
• 50:11
  That's the same thing.
• 50:12
  Well,
• 50:12
  he also lives literally on the other side
• 50:14
  of the country.
• 50:14
  He lives further away from California than
• 50:16
  I do.
• 50:18
  Yeah.
• 50:20
  Yeah,
• 50:20
  I think it's just going to be like
• 50:21
  individual.
• 50:22
  You know what you're going to get if
• 50:23
  you sign up for Mayhem.
• 50:25
  You know what you're going to get if
• 50:26
  you sign up for NorCal.
• 50:28
  You just pick what you think works best
• 50:30
  for what you can do if you truly
• 50:32
  want to make the games.
• 50:34
  Yes, sir.
• 50:34
  You make the choice that works best for
• 50:36
  you.
• 50:39
  Just like Shannon didn't want to spend the
• 50:41
  money to go all the way to Alabama.
• 50:43
  Yeah, it makes sense.
• 50:44
  Yeah, I mean, it makes sense, dude.
• 50:45
  Like,
• 50:50
  I know I have a bias against legends.
• 50:55
  I'm admitting that.
• 50:56
  But if you are good at their workouts,
• 50:59
  you want to go do their workouts.
• 51:01
  Yeah.
• 51:03
  And there are people that love Joe and
• 51:05
  Bob.
• 51:06
  Love them.
• 51:07
  And actually,
• 51:08
  I got along so well with Joe for
• 51:10
  many years.
• 51:14
  I don't know what the hell happened.
• 51:17
  I don't,
• 51:19
  I would love to have like some sort
• 51:20
  of insight as far as I concerned,
• 51:21
  like what made the difference type deal.
• 51:23
  That's kind of crazy for me because every
• 51:27
  time I've met Joe in person,
• 51:29
  super nice guy, you know, Hey,
• 51:32
  let me know if you need anything type
• 51:33
  stuff.
• 51:33
  The second time I met him,
• 51:35
  he knew me by first name.
• 51:37
  Well,
• 51:37
  I don't think that's because of meeting
• 51:39
  you in person.
• 51:40
  No.
• 51:40
  Okay.
• 51:41
  It was not.
• 51:43
  But was still very accommodating, very,
• 51:46
  you know, like,
• 51:48
  happy to see me type stuff,
• 51:49
  shook my hand, all that good shit.
• 51:52
  So I just, I don't understand,
• 51:54
  and I know I've said this a million
• 51:56
  times, but I just don't understand, like,
• 51:59
  the thought process of all you, Scott,
• 52:02
  in particular,
• 52:03
  were doing was helping people.
• 52:07
  That's it.
• 52:09
  There's no way that the content that you
• 52:11
  were putting out, the .dev,
• 52:12
  the forty-seven-part documentary,
• 52:15
  however many parts it was,
• 52:17
  the athlete interviews, all of this stuff,
• 52:19
  that was centered around their CrossFit
• 52:22
  games was only going to help.
• 52:27
  It wasn't like it was bad content by
• 52:29
  any stretch of the imagination.
• 52:30
  It wasn't painting them in a bad light.
• 52:31
  It wasn't doing any of that kind of
• 52:32
  stuff.
• 52:33
  It was just, hey, this is really cool.
• 52:36
  These are all these people doing these
• 52:37
  amazing things.
• 52:39
  Here we go.
• 52:39
  And your access gets limited.
• 52:42
  And in the next year, it gets worse.
• 52:44
  The hard part is I tried to paint
• 52:46
  them in a good light.
• 52:47
  I know.
• 52:48
  The effort was there to show all the
• 52:51
  things that they were doing well at that
• 52:53
  Alabama CrossFit Games.
• 52:56
  It is what it is.
• 52:57
  It is.
• 52:58
  I have some theories.
• 52:59
  It is what it is.
• 53:01
  We're going to call it a day.
• 53:02
  Tomorrow we'll be back.
• 53:04
  Don't forget to get your Thirdsy.
• 53:06
  You can get it for fifteen percent off
• 53:07
  with code name Jazzy at checkout.
• 53:10
  Go to Thirdsy.com backslash Jazzy.
• 53:13
  I would be lost without it this week.
• 53:14
  I love that.
• 53:17
  It has been an essential recovery tool for
• 53:20
  me.
• 53:22
  And so there it is.
• 53:23
  With that, we'll be back tomorrow.
• 53:25
  Probably talk more about this stuff.
• 53:27
  We'll probably look into it a little more,
• 53:28
  so we have more detail.
• 53:30
  And we will take your questions, comments,
• 53:32
  whatever.
• 53:33
  See you all then.
• 53:35
  You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
• 53:37
  room to jazz me up.
• 53:39
  I'm already jazzy.
• 53:50
  Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
• 53:51
  saddle.
• 53:52
  Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
• 53:54
  saddle.
• 53:54
  Talking reps,
• 53:55
  real life strength in the battle.
• 53:58
  From the gym to the screen, yeah,
• 54:00
  we cover it all.
• 54:03
  Midday motivation every time we press
• 54:05
  call.
• 54:08
  Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
• 54:09
  heat.
• 54:10
  CrossFit, movies, music on repeat.
• 54:12
  Half hour hustle, yeah,
• 54:13
  we building that brand.
• 54:14
  Grab a plate, shoot it, now you caught.