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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Update on Mama Switzer! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the
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Clydesdale it has been a
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crazy weekend a crazy
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monday morning and I am so
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glad that I get to take a
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breath hang out with you
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all see what's going on um
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talk some crossfit talk
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some stuff uh so super
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super excited to be with
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you all today all right
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Had to clean up some
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graphics from last night
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and then go ahead and get
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these graphics back up.
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So first thing I want to say
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is last night we tried to
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stay live until the age
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group semifinal results
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were announced or listed or
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whatever was going on with that.
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That did not happen until
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almost an hour after we went off the air.
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However, they're live now.
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So Carolyn, Jamie,
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and I are trying to find a
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place to this week get together,
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go through the leaderboards,
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talk about some of the people who made it,
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some of the people who didn't,
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and kind of go through that.
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But right now we're just
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trying to get some times
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together to figure out when
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that might be.
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uh it will not be today
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today schedules are just
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crazy um so it'll probably
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be later in the week that
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we go ahead and do that um
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but just you all know and
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I'm sure it's no secret uh
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both carolyn and jamie
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qualified for the crossfit
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games uh so we're super
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stoked about that carolyn
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finished third in the
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thirty five to thirty nine
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year old division jamie
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finished eighth um
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I'll say this here,
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like super proud of Jamie.
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I've been following her with
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documentary stuff.
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The past couple of seasons
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online has always been a
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struggle for her.
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And then she gets in person
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and then blows people out of the water.
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The fact that she won the open this year,
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finished eighth in the
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semis this year online is,
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is awesome for her.
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And it's a great sign as to
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what is going to come for her.
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I think if her schedule
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permits her to go to the CrossFit games,
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because once she gets there in person,
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she's unstoppable.
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She is such a great racer.
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Um, so yeah.
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Um,
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Corey says that Jamie is an actual
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animal.
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She is so fit.
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It's silly.
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She is, um,
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But it's going to be fun
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with both the co-hosts
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making it to the games,
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the games being here in Columbus.
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And we are going to have a party.
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Trained to live.
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Shout out to one of my gym teen athletes,
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sixteen, seventeen, Kate Johnson,
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currently nineteenth in the world.
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That's awesome.
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Congratulations, Kate.
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Craig says I have a lot of
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video workouts to watch.
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It'll be fun.
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There you go.
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Yeah,
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it's crazy when you go out to the
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leaderboard, and I'll pull it up,
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that every single name has videos.
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They are straight across.
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We're so used to in the open
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that just a smattering of
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people have their videos posted.
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Every single person.
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Nowhere to hide.
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Nowhere to hide.
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You have to have a video
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submitted with all of your scores posted.
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um I aaron says have they
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announced how long the
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review process will be um
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it was announced that these
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will be up for one week and
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then the videos will be
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pulled and not be able to
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be reviewed anymore and I
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hope I really really hope I
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hope I hope that judges
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take this seriously
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And it's not just a
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vindictive type of thing
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because I've gone out and
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looked at some of the
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videos and there are people
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that have marked them needs
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review and I watch it and I
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have a lot of judging
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experience and I cannot
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find the aspect that they
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think needs reviewed.
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And so I hope, I hope,
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I hope that people aren't
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just being vindictive and
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trying to move up the leaderboard by
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going over and hitting needs
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review on people around
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them on the leaderboard.
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So
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So Train to Live says they
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were told leaderboards will
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be finalized April twenty first.
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So, yes.
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So this week they will be
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out for public view and
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public view to judge them.
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Then in addition to that,
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then if they have a lot of needs reviews,
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then CrossFit will come in
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and do a secondary review
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of the video and determine
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if it is good or needs some
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kind of judgment to it.
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Um, so there it's a two-step process.
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Um, so that's,
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that's kind of everything behind that.
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And here you can see, uh,
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this is actually Jamie.
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This is there.
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She has an eighth place right there.
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Um,
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But a lot of these people ahead of her,
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she has beaten in-person competitions.
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So that'll be fun to see how
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it all kind of plays out.
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So anyway, yeah, there's that.
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Here is Carolyn's third place finish.
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she is surrounded by some
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some heavy hitters in the
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master space stevie
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dellinger who won crossfit
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crashes masters division uh
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and there's christine best
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long time crossfitter
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caroline klutz uh who won
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crash two years ago in the
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masters division um
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So yeah, lots of people there.
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And then just because she's
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a great friend of the show,
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we have Denise Moore.
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Denise Moore finished fourth
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in the sixty five to sixty
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nine year old division.
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So, yeah,
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we got a lot of people going to
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the games.
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denise's best friend and
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training partner cindy
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hinkle right there won the
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the to year old division so
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lots of cool stuff but
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we'll dive into a lot more
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of that uh once jamie and
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carolyn I can get our
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schedules together and uh
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figure out a time to kind
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of look at these
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leaderboards look at the
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workouts look at the
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judging process all of those things um so
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Jay Birch says,
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if you have taken the judge's course,
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you should have gotten an
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email about the review.
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And Corey said, yeah,
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that email from Boz was cool.
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Yeah.
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The head judge of head judges right there,
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man.
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Just pardon me for one second.
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I have an Instacart order
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going as I've been gone all weekend,
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and my cupboards are bare.
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So they didn't have one of my items,
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so I needed to approve that.
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There we go.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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I'm always afraid to
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announce that he's here because...
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I know he tries to slide in
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and slide out and sneak around,
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and who knows what mission he's on today.
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I did title this show Update
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on Mama Schweitzer.
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Last night,
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I let it be known that the
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reason we didn't have shows
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last week is I was on the
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phone with my mom on FaceTime.
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She ended up having a stroke
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while we were on the phone together.
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uh that freaked me out um
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thank goodness that I uh in
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my workplace at the in the
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break room they had the
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signs of a stroke on the
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bulletin board and I would
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stare at it as I microwaved
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my food frequently and as
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it was happening I knew
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exactly what was happening
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um I was able to get
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through to emergency services after
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several attempts to get
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someone out there by
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ambulance to get her she
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was taken to the hospital
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in my hometown of oil city
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she was then transferred to
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pittsburgh and then my wife
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and I packed up we headed
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there to spend the weekend with her
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Yesterday she was taken out
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of ICU and so we came back
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home and I talked to her this morning.
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Everything is back into the
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normal ranges and there's a
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really good chance she'll
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be discharged to go home tomorrow.
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So all good news.
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I thank everybody for their thoughts,
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prayers, everything in that vein.
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But if I could implore anything,
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anything out of this whole thing,
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is if you have a loved one
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that lives out of state from you,
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you need to find out what
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their local emergency
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services number is and have
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it in your phone.
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You can't just dial nine one
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one when your loved one is
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in another state.
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Um, it just doesn't work that way, right?
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Nine one one works to local, you know,
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they ping your phone,
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they know where you are,
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all of that stuff.
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But when I'm calling about a
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person in another state,
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it took a lot of transfers
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to get to the place I needed to be.
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So I would,
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after that experience would
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implore every single one of you,
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if you have a, a
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a good friend, a parent, a child, aunt,
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uncle,
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whatever that you talk to and that
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you love to get their
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emergency services number
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for their area and put it
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into your phone.
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Because if something happens
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and you need to call,
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it is not the easiest thing
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to do when it's all
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happening and you're in that moment.
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So I would just implore you
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guys to do that.
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It only takes a couple
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minutes to find out what it is.
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Plug it into your phone and
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it's there in case you need
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it in an emergency.
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It would have made things a
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little bit faster for me
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and would have taken a lot
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of the stress out of the
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situation as it was going down.
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So I encourage you all to do that.
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Yesterday,
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we had the Mayhem Classic finish up.
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And one thing I wanted to
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point out from that,
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and if you've been with
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this show for any length of time at all,
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you'll know this is a pet peeve of mine.
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I hate when there is no finish line.
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And I loved that Mayhem had
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a finish line for every single event.
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Rich completely gets it that
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you are telling a story for
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the spectators.
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When the athletes were done,
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they had to get off of
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whatever apparatus it was,
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and they had to run to a
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finish line and hit a button.
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So not only did they have a finish line,
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but they had a concentrated
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area that you could look
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for to see who hit it first.
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You didn't have to worry
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about who threw an ankle.
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Was it the right ankle or the left ankle?
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Was it a wrist or whatever?
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It was a button on a chess
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piece that they had to hit.
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And it made it easier to
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tell who finished the race first.
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And they had so many great
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races that that came into
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play a lot over the weekend.
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These competitions that end
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on the final rep or on a
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rower or on a bike,
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and then you can't tell who's done,
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who's not done until you go
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look at a leaderboard and
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see who finished where.
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It is the most frustrating
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thing being a spectator in this sport.
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If you're trying to grow it as a sport,
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you need to make it
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watchable for the spectator.
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And in this case that happened,
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mayhem had those chess
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pieces with the buzzer on
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top and it gave you a
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pinpoint area where you
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could look at to see who hit it first,
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who hit it second, who hit it third.
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And it was easy for not just
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the spectators,
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but the commentators to be
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able to tell you who finished first,
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second and third.
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Um,
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So huge, huge kudos to Rich,
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the Mayhem crew,
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for putting that chess
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piece there with the buzzer.
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It made the storytelling so
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much better and so much easier.
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I heard someone say this
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morning on Savan that Rich
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saved CrossFit this weekend.
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And while I think that might
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be a bit of hyperbole, I do think that
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it was a great competition
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and it was fun to watch.
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Um, I, I just, I really,
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really enjoyed it and it
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brought back kind of that,
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what I love about the sport.
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Um,
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so while I think saving CrossFit may
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have gone a step too far,
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it did a lot to grow my love back, uh,
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for a sport that I love to watch.
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Aaron Frazier.
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I don't understand why James
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slid when racing Spencer.
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I don't either,
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unless he was afraid of
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hitting the barrier in some
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kind of weird way.
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He did hit the buzzer as he slid by,
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but getting into a sliding
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position would just slow you down.
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It would be much better to
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go right at the chess piece
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and tackle it.
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Like many people did.
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And like Corey says here, um,
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Or just kind of run into the
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crowd-ish barrier at the
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end and let them kind of
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hold you up from that barrier.
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So I don't...
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I don't know why he made that decision.
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I think that a lot of
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athletes are just used to
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their muscle memory is they
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have a time piece on their ankle.
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And by sliding in,
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you're getting that ankle over first, um,
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to try to win a race.
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So let's chalk it up to
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muscle memory that that is just,
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he did it because that's
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what you would do when the
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time chip is on your ankle.
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So, uh,
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Corey says the broadcast was
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incredible this weekend.
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Voice of CrossFit plus Rich
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and Angela was fantastic.
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It really was.
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It just was so refreshing.
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It was different than what
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we've heard over the past...
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few years and so I'm not
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taking a shot at anybody
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who has commentated before
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what I'm saying is it was
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refreshing and new and they
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were having fun with it I
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think that is the most
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important part of the broadcast
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We are getting to a point in
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our ecosystem in sports
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where the announcers aren't
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just there to tell the
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facts and the details,
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but they're there to have fun.
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There's a reason why Pat
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McAfee is the biggest thing
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in sports right now from a
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commentating standpoint,
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because it's not just about the facts.
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It's about having fun with your audience.
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your crew, like he has a big crew.
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They have fun.
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That's why people watch it.
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You could tell that rich and
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Angelo are part of a crew
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and the way they dog,
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some of their mayhem
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athletes like Luke with the
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nasal strip and, um,
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talking about George or
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Jorge is they like to call
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him George Roman.
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Um, that stuff was really,
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really fun to watch.
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So, um, I, I agree.
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I thought,
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and I thought it loosened Sean up, uh,
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to have more fun with it.
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Um,
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instead of just being like straight
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down the fairway with the
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facts and the details of
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what's going on on the floor.
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Um, I thought it was,
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I thought it was great and
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it was refreshing and fun
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and that's the most important part.
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It was fun.
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And Corey says, exactly.
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You could tell they enjoyed themselves,
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made it so much better to watch.
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Apparently Royce Dunn weighs
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four hundred and fifty pounds.
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Yeah.
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He is a big man.
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He is a very when I first
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stood beside him at the games,
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he is a very large man.
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Jason Bourne,
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how was the judging this past weekend?
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I think the and they said it
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on the broadcast a couple of times.
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The best part about the
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judging was they weren't
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talked about other than
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given kudos that they weren't noticed.
18:23
And that is the best
18:25
compliment you can give a
18:26
judge is that they were not
18:28
noticed while they were out on the floor.
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So that was awesome.
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I saw our guy, Andrew Sten, out there.
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I know he was in Haley's
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Lane for some of the weekend.
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He was doing his thing.
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I know a handful of the
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other judges I saw out there,
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they had one of the top
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crews out there doing this.
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And I know the AFJ was
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behind kind of setting this up.
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It was cool that Rich had
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conversations with the AFJ
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as they tweaked and moved
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things and got their input
19:02
on it as they were going to
19:03
have to judge it.
19:04
And he really listened to
19:06
their suggestions,
19:07
which I thought was a cool move, too.
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Um, there weren't ridiculous standards.
19:13
If you listen to the broadcast,
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rich talked about,
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they thought about going
19:17
with this standard, but realized, Hey,
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let's just make it fun.
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Let's figure out, just get,
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get through it in the best way possible.
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And, uh,
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and I think that worked out for the best.
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Uh,
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Shay says great dynamic with all three
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of them completely agree.
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And Craig says they had
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Royce up to five hundred
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pounds before the comp was over.
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I know.
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The tale grows and grows.
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So congratulations to Colton and Austin,
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as well as Fi and Abby.
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I thought those were great
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performances all weekend.
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Colton and Austin pretty
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much ran away with the weekend-ish.
20:05
Roman made it semi-close at
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the end with that win.
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But for the most part,
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Austin and Colton finished
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first and second in the
20:13
first event and never looked back,
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which was really cool to see.
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to see that happen.
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So they did great.
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We always forget about Abby Domet.
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There she was killing it again.
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Fee has had a killer spring
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and just continued to do that.
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And now they get to sit back
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and relax and get ready for the games.
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Um, they, uh, both, uh,
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so fee qualified in the pro
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division for WFP Abby
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finished in the challenger
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division of WFP.
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It'll be interesting to see
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if Abby goes ahead and, uh,
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competes there or not.
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I'm sure fee will with an
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opportunity to get a pro card.
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Um,
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And then on the men's side,
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Austin has the WFP and
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Colton won the WFP qualifier.
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So I'm sure both of them
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will go to either defend or
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go after a pro card.
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But I said this last night, isn't it?
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It's something that just makes you go, hmm,
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that of the four qualifiers
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for the CrossFit Games,
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only one of them was
21:30
assigned WFP athlete.
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The other three had to go
21:35
through the qualifier to try to get in.
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So our first four tickets punched,
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only one was selected to be
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one of the twenty best
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athletes to sign to a pro card.
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Not really making any commentary there,
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just something that makes you go, hmm.
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That's all.
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Um, Claudia also did well.
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She did, uh, look great.
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Uh,
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Hannah placed higher than most analysts,
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analysts predicted.
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I'm a big Hannah black fan.
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Um,
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I got to meet her at the
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West coast semifinal a
22:18
couple of years ago,
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interviewed her after, uh,
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Linda or the sled pool.
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One of the two, um,
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that she had done really, really well in.
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And I think it was Linda.
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Um,
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and she's been on the show a couple of
22:32
times since.
22:34
Um, so really, really a big fan of Hannah.
22:38
Um,
22:40
I hope that she can really
22:42
build up her engine and do
22:43
some of those things to
22:50
make her a better overall athlete.
22:56
How many WFP athletes were at Mayhem?
22:59
They're a good chunk.
23:01
James, Jason, Roman,
23:12
I'd have to look through the
23:13
lineup again to see,
23:17
trying to think off the top of my head.
23:21
On the women's side,
23:25
you had Alexis and Haley.
23:37
Yeah,
23:38
I'd have to look through the lineups.
23:40
Off the top of my head,
23:40
it's really hard to picture
23:42
both lists in my head,
23:43
but I think there were more
23:46
on the men's side that were
23:47
signed athletes than there
23:48
were from... than on the women's side,
23:56
because the two that
23:58
withdrew last minute were WFP athletes.
24:04
Oh, yeah, Guy...
24:07
I don't know if Sam is, but Guy surely is.
24:16
Emily, Emily, yeah.
24:18
Thank you, everybody.
24:21
Again,
24:22
I was in a hospital all weekend and
24:23
then drove home last night, did the show.
24:26
I am not at a hundred percent.
24:28
I will tell you that.
24:32
Oh, wow.
24:33
A lot that, yeah, there, I mean,
24:34
there was a good chunk for
24:35
the only one of the signed
24:37
athletes to actually make
24:39
it to the games.
24:40
I thought that was just, again,
24:42
it's just an observation.
24:43
I'm not trying to like dig on anybody.
24:46
Um,
24:48
But I have been pounding the
24:51
table for years that we pay
24:53
attention to the top ten,
24:55
and there's a lot of great
24:56
athletes in eleven to forty
25:00
when given the opportunity
25:01
to show what they can do.
25:06
Aaron says, I knew Hannah was strong,
25:07
but I didn't realize how big she was.
25:10
I wouldn't say big.
25:11
She's just tall.
25:14
And so she's going to have those.
25:17
She's like the same height as Emily Rolfe,
25:19
maybe.
25:22
They're about the same height.
25:24
But I wouldn't say she's
25:26
much bigger than the other athletes,
25:29
just really,
25:30
really tall compared to most
25:32
of the athletes.
25:34
But I would say the same
25:35
about Emily Rolfe.
25:37
um any thor's daughter size
25:40
yeah they're they're all in
25:41
that like upper uh tallness
25:44
size um five eight I would
25:50
say five eight she might
25:51
even push five nine uh five
25:54
ten uh but I doubt she's five one eighty
25:59
I would doubt that.
26:00
But I did not work at a
26:03
carnival at any time
26:04
guessing people's weights.
26:05
That is not my forte.
26:10
But I did think it was funny.
26:13
Her and I,
26:13
in the first time she was on the show,
26:14
we talked about her.
26:16
thesis on Isabel and it was
26:20
funny how that got brought
26:21
up in the broadcast and
26:22
they talked about that she
26:23
did you know and they made
26:25
fun of her being a doctor
26:26
and that now Angelo is the
26:27
professor and blah blah blah
26:31
Really, what the thesis was about,
26:33
just to let you guys know,
26:34
is if you've ever seen when
26:36
they make video games and
26:37
they put the white balls on people,
26:40
that's what she did for Isabelle.
26:43
They videoed several
26:44
different people doing Isabelle,
26:46
and she was tracking the D...
26:53
I don't know,
26:54
the deterioration of movement
26:57
from the first rep to the
26:58
thirtieth rep of Isabel.
27:02
Because the idea is to stay
27:04
in good movement from rep
27:06
one to rep thirty.
27:07
And she had these movement
27:09
tracking balls on people.
27:11
They videoed it and then
27:12
analyzed how the movement
27:15
deteriorated from the first
27:16
rep to the thirtieth rep.
27:19
So that is that was what her
27:21
thesis was on.
27:23
Um, which I found very, very fascinating.
27:28
Um, so, and there were,
27:32
there are other semifinal
27:33
athletes that work in that, um,
27:37
body mechanics, um,
27:42
motion type stuff one of one
27:44
of the semi-final athletes
27:45
from the last couple years
27:47
uh works for the boston red
27:49
sox and it's her job to
27:50
analyze um pitching and
27:52
batting and how it how it
27:55
affects success or failures
27:58
uh throughout um throughout a game so um
28:08
that is stacy larum she was
28:10
a semi-final athlete for
28:11
the last couple years so I
28:14
just love that science
28:16
behind all that and cory
28:18
says that's pretty cool and
28:19
it is uh hannah's listed at
28:22
five foot nine hundred and
28:24
eighty pounds yeah and
28:27
aaron says five nine one eighty five
28:31
Again, I am not a weight guesser,
28:33
so I am not sure.
28:35
But I would actually think I
28:37
think she's thinned out
28:38
since or leaned out since I
28:41
first met her.
28:42
But I am not a weight guesser.
28:44
But five nine seems just about right.
28:48
um talking about height kale
28:50
is only two inches above
28:51
dwarfism yeah I don't that
28:55
poor guy is getting when we
28:57
I gave him a little bit
28:58
last night so I'm I'm I'll
29:00
let other people handle
29:01
that uh going forward uh
29:06
she's with precision crossfit
29:09
Is that Hannah?
29:10
Uh, when I was with,
29:12
when I talked to Hannah,
29:13
she was in Austin, Texas,
29:15
and then she moved to San
29:17
Diego to be with Invictus
29:19
to be on their team.
29:21
And so I don't really even
29:21
know where she's at anymore.
29:24
Um,
29:24
I haven't talked to her in a little bit.
29:25
I,
29:26
I actually thought about reaching out to
29:27
her, uh,
29:28
to have her back on the show
29:29
after her experience with mayhem.
29:32
Um, and,
29:34
and to see if she's going to go
29:35
team this year or if she's
29:36
trying to do go individual, uh,
29:38
because she was with a
29:40
games team last year.
29:42
Uh,
29:42
one of the Invictus teams that made it
29:44
to the CrossFit games.
29:51
Uh,
29:53
Jay Birch says, Hey,
29:54
easy on the height jokes.
29:55
Yeah.
29:58
Yeah.
29:58
Rich said the same thing this morning.
30:00
Didn't want to pile on kale.
30:01
Yeah.
30:01
That's, that's kind of where I'm at.
30:03
I had a little bit of fun
30:03
with it last night.
30:05
And then today I'm just like,
30:07
I feel bad for the guy.
30:09
Um, Hiller called him out.
30:10
We'll see what happens from that.
30:12
I do, you know?
30:13
Yeah, it is what it is.
30:15
We'll see.
30:19
So, um,
30:24
Yeah, fun stuff there.
30:27
The other thing I had on my mind,
30:30
I had a couple things,
30:31
and these are just quick hitters,
30:32
and one is that Alex
30:35
Ovechkin became the
30:38
greatest goal scorer in the
30:39
NHL this weekend,
30:41
and I have ESPN updates on my phone,
30:43
and I am the least bit of a
30:47
fan of Alex Ovechkin.
30:49
I have been raised as a Penguins fan,
30:51
and the Penguins hate the Capitals.
30:53
and they hate alex ovechkin
30:55
we are sydney crosby fans
30:57
and so every time the
30:58
update would come I would
30:59
just get annoyed by it like
31:01
oh gosh do I have to be
31:02
reminded that he's doing
31:04
this and accomplishing this
31:05
goal but it is pretty
31:07
impressive to break a wayne
31:09
gretzky uh goal record and
31:11
it was cool that wayne
31:12
gretzky was there to shake
31:14
his hand after he did it I
31:16
thought that was pretty
31:17
awesome and gretzky said he
31:19
did that because gordy howe
31:20
did that with him when he
31:21
broke gordy howe's record
31:23
So I like that we have that lineage,
31:26
that we pass that down from
31:28
generation to generation.
31:30
Even though I'm not an Ovechkin fan,
31:32
it's a pretty cool accomplishment.
31:35
And then the women's
31:36
tournament ended this week
31:37
with another win by the Yukon Huskies,
31:39
their twelfth national
31:42
championship under Gino Ariema.
31:45
Pretty impressive event.
31:47
The one thing I wanted to
31:49
point out is we did do that
31:51
tournament challenge, and I got beat.
31:54
The first and second place
31:56
finishers were Jamie and Carolyn.
31:59
So that sucks that I have to
32:01
lose to them all the time.
32:03
They're fitter than me.
32:05
They pick better than me.
32:07
Ugh, so bad.
32:15
Corey Leonard, to be fair,
32:16
it looked like when people
32:17
want to have a regular dude
32:18
at the Olympics versus the
32:19
Olympic athletes,
32:21
like you could tell the dude was fit,
32:22
but he just looked out of place.
32:27
Sure.
32:28
He had the guts to go.
32:29
Like he could have said no,
32:32
but he showed up.
32:34
Got to give him credit for that.
32:38
The last thing I wanted to talk about,
32:39
and this is just a pet peeve.
32:42
Maybe it'll turn into a riff.
32:43
I don't know.
32:44
But I had to go to
32:45
Pittsburgh to be with my
32:46
mom this weekend and like
32:48
Columbus is a big city,
32:50
but it's not like a big, big city.
32:53
Um, and so it, it,
32:58
it is more of a concrete
32:59
jungle than Columbus's,
33:01
even though population wise, uh,
33:05
Columbus is supposed to be
33:06
bigger than Pittsburgh.
33:07
It does not feel that way in any sense.
33:09
When you're in Pittsburgh, it feels much,
33:12
much bigger than Columbus, um, there.
33:16
So, and Columbus is very square.
33:20
You miss a street, you just go up a block,
33:22
go around the block and catch it again.
33:25
Pittsburgh is very big.
33:27
You lose your sense of
33:28
direction because of all the buildings,
33:30
and it's not square.
33:32
There are three rivers
33:34
splitting this city into
33:35
different... So you have triangles,
33:37
you have circles, you have trapezoids,
33:41
and so there are no square streets.
33:44
But they do this thing with
33:45
their traffic that is just
33:47
mind-blowing to me.
33:49
So you'll go down a street,
33:51
and there's no...
33:53
solid like permanent line to
33:55
tell you like what is the
33:56
right and what is the left.
33:59
it's just like dashes like
34:01
two dashes constantly
34:04
running down in a straight
34:06
ish line down the street
34:09
and then above the street
34:11
they have little boxes that
34:13
are either a green arrow or
34:15
a red x and depending on
34:17
how much traffic they have
34:19
they change how many lanes
34:22
can move in each direction
34:26
So like morning rush,
34:27
it may be that the
34:29
eastbound lanes are now
34:30
three and they're green and
34:32
the westbound lane is one.
34:34
And then in evening rush,
34:36
all that switches to where
34:38
the three westbound lanes
34:41
are now green and the one
34:43
eastbound lane is now a red X.
34:46
And so if you are not paying
34:48
attention and you are not
34:49
from there and you don't
34:50
see those little things
34:51
above the street periodically,
34:54
because you can't see them all the time.
34:56
They just show up
34:57
periodically down the street.
35:00
It is insane.
35:02
And then going in and out of the city,
35:04
they have HOV lanes that
35:06
are separate and they're in
35:07
the middle between the two
35:10
different directions.
35:12
And depending on what time of day,
35:15
there are gates that open
35:17
and shut that middle lane
35:19
so that like going north and south,
35:23
going north out of the city in morning,
35:26
the gates will be shut and
35:28
you cannot access the HOV lane.
35:31
Then in the evening when
35:34
you're going north and it's
35:36
more traffic leaving the city,
35:38
that gate opens up and you
35:39
can access that HOV lane going north.
35:43
So that HOV lane changes
35:44
direction depending on the
35:46
traffic needs as well.
35:49
It is wild because all this
35:52
stuff is happening and
35:54
people that are from there
35:55
are just like cutting you off,
35:56
swerving over three lanes,
35:58
swerving here and there.
36:00
And you're trying to pay
36:00
attention to all this new
36:01
stuff that you've never seen before.
36:04
And they're just flying
36:05
around you like you're standing still.
36:08
It was freaking wild.
36:11
And all weekend it did nothing but rain.
36:13
So you're doing all this in
36:15
like rainstorms trying to see everything.
36:19
It was just crazy.
36:22
And I feel like I live in a
36:23
pretty big city.
36:24
Columbus has over a million population.
36:27
It's a big city.
36:29
But man,
36:30
I go to Pittsburgh and I grew up
36:32
just north of Pittsburgh.
36:33
We used to go there for
36:34
baseball games all the time
36:35
and to the amusement parks
36:37
there and all that stuff.
36:39
I have family that live there.
36:42
My daughter lives there now,
36:44
but it has become this
36:48
And none of that stuff
36:49
existed back in the day.
36:50
None of these changing lane things.
36:54
I'm sure that studies were
36:55
done that say this is more
36:56
effective and allows
36:58
traffic flow better throughout the city.
37:01
And I commend them for
37:02
trying these things.
37:03
But man, if you're not from there,
37:05
it is freaking wild.
37:10
But yeah,
37:10
so just wanted to share that because I...
37:15
I've never seen it in any
37:17
other city I have visited.
37:20
Um,
37:20
and I visited a lot through either my
37:22
job or through CrossFit and
37:24
I've never seen this done
37:27
anywhere else other than there.
37:30
I would love to hear if any
37:31
of you have experienced
37:32
that in another city because, um,
37:35
changing the flow of
37:37
traffic on a lane
37:39
periodically during the day
37:41
to make it better, um,
37:44
on one hand seems very
37:46
logical and on the other
37:47
hand seems like how do we
37:49
keep up with this and
37:50
understand it and make it
37:52
so that the drivers are
37:53
still safe um so yeah just
37:59
a little food for thought
38:00
and um of course if you
38:05
have experienced any of
38:06
that or have any ideas
38:07
about anything we've talked
38:08
about just leave them in
38:08
the comments don't forget
38:10
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38:11
the channel but guess what guys
38:13
It's time for you hooligans
38:15
to get back to work.
38:17
Lunch is over.
38:19
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
38:21
Oh,
38:22
and Kat's new show kicked off with a
38:25
bang last week.
38:26
Lots of viewers really loving it.
38:29
She is going to go live this week,
38:31
Wednesday at five.
38:33
Five p.m.
38:33
Eastern time instead of eight.
38:37
And then I believe following this week,
38:40
she's going to park the
38:42
show on Tuesday nights.
38:46
Just to kind of get it away
38:47
from the barbell spin.
38:50
Um,
38:51
so that all of you barbell spin lovers
38:53
can also watch her show.
38:55
Um, I think that is the plan.
38:58
She has some plans this week on Tuesday.
39:00
So five o'clock PM Eastern time this week.
39:03
And then after that,
39:05
it'll be parked on Tuesday nights.
39:08
But with that, yep.
39:09
Time to get back to work guys.
39:10
We'll see everybody tomorrow
39:12
on lunch with the Clydesdale.
39:13
Bye guys.