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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Tuesday Show! | Is Dave Castro the Right CEO? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Dearly beloved,
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we are gathered here today to talk about
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this thing called CrossFit.
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Let's go crazy.
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I love the chase and the hunt,
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and I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I'm wanting,
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I always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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what is going on everybody welcome to
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lunch with the Clydesdale you now may be
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seated if you guys could only hear us
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prior to going live oh my word y'all
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wouldn't i don't think they could handle
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it be quite honest with you i could
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barely handle it and i was part of
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it so there's that
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Oh, so much fun.
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So much fun.
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Absolutely.
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It's funny because just to let you guys
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in on the inside joke is Corey,
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when he moves his mixer,
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he sometimes bumps a button.
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And so he came on and he had
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reverb on and he sounded like Prince from
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the Purple Rain album.
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Just enough, though.
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Just enough to sound like Prince.
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Not enough to sound like Prince.
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you know like it was a problem so
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that took us down a rabbit hole and
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i would i would contend that the purple
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rain album is one of the top five
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albums of all time
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Oh, that's not even an argument.
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That's not even an argument.
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As a matter of fact,
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there's two groups of thinking as far as
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that's concerned.
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Those who understand that Purple Rain is a
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top five album of all time and people
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who are wrong.
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It is a cover-to-cover banger,
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one after another album.
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And I actually own it on vinyl.
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I own it on vinyl.
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There's not a whole lot of albums that
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you can put on and just,
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what are you listening to?
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I'm just going to listen to Purple Rain.
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And just let the whole thing play,
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and it'd be fine.
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Where you don't go, ah,
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that one's kind of, whatever.
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The whole thing, dude, it's perfectionist.
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movie the movie you take the movie the
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music out of the movie and it's complete
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trash the only thing that saves the movie
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are the concert scenes yeah by far right
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by far but the music is good as
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it gets as good as it gets so
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Glad you could all be here today.
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Sorry about our little... It's Cory and I.
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We're going off the rails at some point.
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We just decided to go start off the
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rails.
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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sometimes you got to lead from the front.
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And it's funny because last night I was
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watching a real where Kevin Smith was
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talking about his,
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his first encounter ever with Prince,
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trying to get him to give them permission
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to use most beautiful girl in the world
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for Jay and silent Bob strikes back.
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Yeah.
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And Prince flipped it and wanted him to
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do a documentary on him doing like a
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live listen party at Paisley park.
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And Kevin Smith could not follow the
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conversation.
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And it is hilarious.
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If you,
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if you ever see it out on YouTube,
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you've got to, you've got to.
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Kevin Smith is a fantastic storyteller
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when it comes to stuff like that.
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It is.
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It's he's like, he'll,
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he'll make you feel like you were there
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and part of it.
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It's fantastic.
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But yeah, I can see that.
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Well,
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and the punchline is he agrees to do
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the documentary for Prince.
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And he says, oh, by the way,
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I need most beautiful girl in the world
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for my movie, Jay and Silent Bob.
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And Prince goes, nope.
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And then hangs up the phone.
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No.
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Mark Phillips with Thriller, Nevermind,
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OK Computer.
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Tons of great albums out there.
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There are tons of great albums.
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We used to do like a top five
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show on here.
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That we did.
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And we did albums, I think.
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And I think Purple Rain made my top
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five in that one.
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It wouldn't surprise me.
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So what do we want to talk about
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first?
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Um, let's talk about Rob Orlando.
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Rest in peace, Rob.
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Dude.
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Like for a Clydesdale, Rob was the guy.
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A hundred percent.
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It was ginormous, man.
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And when I first got into CrossFit,
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like my gym was trying to find the
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molds to make the Atlas stones.
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Right.
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Now I'm sure like there are thousands of
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affiliates out there with stones just
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sitting outside, you know,
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just getting rained on and snowed on.
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And, but man, the dude was,
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he was so.
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He had so much energy and was so
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fun to listen to.
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Talk about great storytellers.
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And his strength was unreal.
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Willing to do anything for anybody.
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Just a great, great dude.
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We have Atlas Stones actually in the
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weightlifting area at our gym as well.
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I feel like you said a lot of
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people have them.
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They're just in a dusty corner somewhere
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or sitting outside or whatever.
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A lot of people have those,
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and that's the direct result of him.
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Rest in peace, man.
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We have a bunch of those stones.
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Jody, we had a lot of his stones.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He is.
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Sousa did a show earlier,
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showed some clips from the big sky event
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where he was eating cheesecake and just
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stepped up and joined a team to do
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max snatch, max clean and jerk.
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He just, just a fun guy, man.
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Anytime you caught him in one of the
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older documentaries or behind the scenes
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or whatnot, dude,
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like anytime they talked to him,
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he was just gregarious.
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Great on camera.
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Just genuine dude.
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Rob made grip strength.
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Cool.
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Yeah, he,
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he actually did some announcing at some of
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the events like mid teens.
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He was great on the mic.
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Oh, I bet.
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Great on the mic.
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Great storyteller.
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The only thing I wanted to put out
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there is Sam Briggs made a post that
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her affiliate is doing a fundraiser for
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the family.
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Good.
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And the fundraiser is, the workout is,
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max out your deadlift.
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And what a more appropriate...
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There is not a more appropriate workout
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for Rob Orlando than max out your
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deadlift.
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And what they're doing is,
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ten cents for every pound you max out
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with goes to the family.
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And so I'm going to...
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I think I'm going to try it.
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I may not get very high,
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but I'm going to do it for Rob.
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And...
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Give it a try.
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So if you guys want to try it
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and you take a video of it and
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you tag us in it,
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we'll post it on the story and they'll
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all be for Rob.
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Just max out your deadlift this week.
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Take a video of it.
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Tag Clydesdale underscore media on
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Instagram and we'll share it on our story
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and everyone will say this is for Rob.
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So.
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Hope you guys can participate.
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I think that would be a fun,
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fun endeavor.
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So there it is.
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Judy says, cool, Scott.
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That's cool.
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Yes.
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I it's Sam Briggs idea.
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I'm just kind of modifying it for the
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show.
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So.
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What's up, Jason Bourne?
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I always get a little chill when I
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see Jason Bourne in the chat.
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Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
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Like, every single time.
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Yeah.
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So,
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I'll try to do it here in a
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day or two.
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The other thing I need to get out
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is Tournament.
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Blair Leadingham won both the men's
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tournament and the women's tournament.
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So Blair, if you reach out to me,
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I'll get your address and I'll get you
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your trophy sent to you.
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Mostly we're just glad that Jamie didn't
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win.
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Right.
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Vicky was tied with him going into the
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last game.
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Oh, all right.
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Go ahead, Vic.
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It all came down to last night.
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He had Michigan winning.
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So that separated the tie.
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If Michigan would have lost,
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they would have finished in a tie and
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it would have came down to the tiebreaker.
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So.
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It's all right, Vicky.
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You're still number one in our hearts.
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Hey, Vicky killed me.
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So yeah,
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I did not do well at all this
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year.
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So now for the fun part of the
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show, I say sarcastically.
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Yeah, here we go.
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So yesterday we talked about magic city
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and legends and how the way they're
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inviting people to the in-person semifinal
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seemed a little chaotic.
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Corey reached out to magic city.
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heard that they were waiting on a list
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from CrossFit to get emails and names to
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invite people.
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But before they got that,
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they were searching for people online to
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try to contact them any way possible.
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What has transpired since then is this
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chaos where people that are far ahead on
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the leaderboard are seeing people far
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behind on the leaderboard get invited.
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And now it's causing pitchforks and
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torches marching at Legends and Magic
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City.
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And what I'm here to tell you is
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your anger is faced in the wrong
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direction.
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I think I know where you're going with
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this.
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Your anger should be pointed at CrossFit
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HQ.
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It is CrossFit's season.
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It is CrossFit's games.
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It is like the McDonald's franchise giving
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you a franchise without a manual.
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And you know what happens when that
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happens?
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The Golden Arches become the Golden Arcs.
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The Big Mac becomes the Big Mic.
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And the owners get to name it themselves,
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and they call it McDowell's.
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They got the golden arches.
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We got the golden arches.
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They got the Big Mac.
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We got the Big Mac.
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Two all-beef patties.
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We both have two all-beef patties,
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special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles.
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But they have a sesame seed bun.
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We don't have no sesame seeds.
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We got no sesame seeds.
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Holy smokes.
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That's what's happened.
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That's exactly what's happened.
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They've left these third-party entities
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out there to drown.
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Yes.
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They have not given them the tools to
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be successful as part of this season.
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They have a database where you must
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register to take part in the season.
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Part of that registration includes your
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name and your email address.
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I work with databases.
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That means all that information is stored
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in a table.
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It is a simple query to run and
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say,
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I want all the names and the email
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addresses of the athletes who have
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registered for quarterfinals.
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Once that comes into a spreadsheet,
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maybe throw in age as well.
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That probably would help, but yeah.
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Then if you throw in age,
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you can actually sort it.
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and get a list.
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Look at the leaderboard.
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Now I have a directory.
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I can look and get the contact information
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and send you an invite.
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Export from one to the other.
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It is preposterous that they have let this
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happen.
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It's a really good word.
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Yeah.
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Dude, I...
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I got added to another master's text group
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this morning, quarterfinals test group,
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text group.
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And it's more of the same,
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more of the same stuff that I was
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dealing with,
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more of the same stuff that friends of
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mine that I know are dealing with.
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And it's all over the leaderboard.
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It's not just men.
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It's men and women.
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It's not just my age group.
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It's several different age groups.
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It's all this.
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I mean,
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Shannon just said she just got an invite
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yesterday evening.
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I got mine at nine thirty last night.
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Where did Shanna finish?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Second.
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Right.
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Second.
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Ridiculous.
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But you know what would happen if CrossFit
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actually did that?
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You could get yourself so close.
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That boy good.
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He's happy.
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That boy good.
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Damn.
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Oh, man.
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I don't understand.
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Wait, hold on.
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Wait.
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Agree on the lack of guidance,
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but those event organizers can read a
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leaderboard and generate a list of top
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qualifiers.
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One social media post asking for them to
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contact the event is all it would take.
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It is the Masters Divisions.
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I tried to interview Masters athletes.
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They ain't on Instagram.
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Yeah, that's one of the guys.
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Magic City is trying to find them through
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Instagram.
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They're doing that.
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It is nearly impossible.
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Plus,
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you may have seventeen Corey Leonard's pop
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up when you search on Instagram.
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Right.
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And which one is the one that did
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the workouts?
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They're missing information.
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To Magic City's credit and to Legends'
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credit, they both have made posts.
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Legends even put up a Google Doc that
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you could fill out if you were interested
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in going to their semifinal and were in
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a qualifying spot and said, hey,
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fill this out.
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But a lot of us do not have
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either social media or maybe they have
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Facebook and not Instagram or whatever the
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case may be.
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just don't have it or they didn't see
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it it's it's really not that difficult to
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miss only i got lucky and saw somebody
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i know got one which is started the
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whole thing for me where i started like
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poking and prodding at it that was
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saturday i messaged micah himself
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yesterday morning he responded back to me
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um during my daughter's softball game at
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like
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Seven thirty last night and then about two
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and a half, about two hours later,
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right before I went to bed,
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I got I got my invite.
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So in all fairness,
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you were the squeaky wheel.
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Correct.
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Right.
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How many people haven't like I've I've
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taught I've talked to so many Masters
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athletes.
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That aren't that are afraid to be the
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squeaky wheel.
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They're filling out the little form on
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Instagram, and they're just waiting.
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No guidance of what's happening.
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And you're also talking hundreds of
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athletes.
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The Games deals with a set of thirty
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men, thirty women, or like Mayhem,
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twenty and twenty.
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Masters, you're talking about hundreds.
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to come to these events.
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It's not a quick fix.
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Just because you contract people to do a
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job for you doesn't mean you just walk
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away and don't help and don't give tools
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and don't have any oversight.
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It's still your season.
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Yeah.
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And it's painting a shitty picture about
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your season.
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I'm going to address Doug's thing right
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here.
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So David Jackson, Mr. Reed,
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why are they afraid?
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It's not that we are afraid necessarily.
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Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the
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grease.
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Sometimes it gets taken off the wheel
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completely because ultimately,
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even though Micah said, yes,
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we are going down the list,
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they are still at their leisure to invite
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whoever the hell they want to invite,
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just like Legends did.
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just like Down Under did or whichever one
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it is in Australia that had a qualifier
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for it, just like French Throwdown did.
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So sometimes it feels like you're imposing
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on somebody, oh, please, sir,
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may I have my spot or whatnot?
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And you're worried that it's going to tell
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you to get bent and go on about
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your business.
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So it's a, it's,
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and I'm gonna tell you from my,
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from my spot, I didn't want to be,
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and they tell me, well,
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I'm just not going to invite you.
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I'm just gonna skip you and just move
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on.
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And the world is full of rule followers.
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Correct.
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They're not going to step outside of the
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normal course of action.
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They fill out the little form.
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They do all the stuff.
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And they're just waiting.
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And like Shanna says,
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this whole thing is so nerve-wracking.
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I'm afraid of missing an email when no
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email has been sent.
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Nothing from Legends yet.
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Yep.
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I would say to go on Competition Corner
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and look on your profile just in case
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and look at your invites because they're
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also listed there.
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Will the rest of us scrubs get an
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invite for online semis?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Not until the leaderboard is finalized and
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probably not until, or I say that,
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you'll probably be able to sign up
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beforehand,
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but it'll probably be a lot closer to
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it, Joseph, before that actually happens.
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It would also help if we could see
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the leaderboard and see how many have
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registered.
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I DMed them at Shana Bunsen.
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My invite came last night.
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Yeah.
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Magic City equals them.
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I don't think Jamie's gotten an invite
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yet.
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I meant to text her this morning.
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I forgot.
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Last I heard, she had not.
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Vicky,
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it's reinforcing the perception and
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reality that age groups don't matter.
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Bad luck, a hundred percent.
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Well,
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and who's going to want to work with
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you, CrossFit, if you're not willing to?
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That is a simple task.
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I don't give a shit if you have
20:34
a two-person team to run one query of
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the database you've been keeping for years
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to get names and email addresses to the
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two people you have partnered with,
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allegedly partnered with.
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And that's the other thing.
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Jamie's been trying to make flight
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arrangements and hotel arrangements.
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And without an invite,
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how do you make that step?
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And the more they're filling up,
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the more expensive it's getting.
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Yeah.
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My wife was looking at stuff this morning
21:09
as far as trying to book something for
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us to stay at.
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I mean,
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I'm driving because it's like a six-hour
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drive.
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It's not terrible.
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But I got buddies of mine that want
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to come.
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know oh we're gonna we're gonna come watch
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and i'm like hold off like i don't
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i'm not i'm not doing anything i'm not
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cutting my chickens before they hatch i'm
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not committing to anything before i
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actually get an invite and i accept it
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and pay my registration fee until such
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time i'm not doing that and i'm certainly
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not advising any of my friends to do
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that like that might want to come to
21:40
watch so
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You can stay in my basement, Corey.
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Thanks, Mark.
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Denise, congratulations to Corey.
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Thanks, Denise.
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I've talked to so many Masters athletes in
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the last two days.
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It's just mind-bending to me,
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but I don't know.
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I think the problem with what most of
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us are seeing is that this was easily
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preventable.
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Easily preventable.
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Hey, Micah, hey, Joe and Bob,
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here are the names, email addresses,
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and age groups of all the people that
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qualified for quarterfinals.
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Here's the file.
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Here's the thirty five thirty nine women.
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Here's thirty five thirty nine women.
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And just on down the list.
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Once you start, cause you know,
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once your leaderboard gets moving around
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and whatnot,
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you want to start inviting people.
22:44
Here's their stuff before it's preemptive.
22:49
Here you go.
22:50
Do with this what you will.
22:53
Vicki,
22:54
I wonder if for some reason there's legal
22:55
concern with releasing email addresses.
22:57
Not that it makes sense to me,
22:59
but it only makes business reason,
23:00
the only business reason I can think of.
23:02
That is not personal identifying
23:04
information.
23:05
The handles on an email don't really tell
23:07
you who the person is.
23:09
No.
23:10
You know how many spam emails I get
23:11
a day?
23:12
Right.
23:13
Everybody gives away my email address.
23:15
A hundred percent.
23:15
As a matter of fact,
23:17
usually whenever you sign up to not give
23:19
your email address away is when somebody
23:21
is giving your email address away.
23:24
Lito says, sorry,
23:25
but the Torium Pro did it best.
23:26
If you're interested in doing the comp,
23:27
you sign up on Competition Corner and
23:29
submit your quarterfinal scores so it also
23:32
filters out irrelevant ones.
23:35
The problem is,
23:36
how do you tell the Masters community to
23:38
go sign up?
23:40
If they're not on social media,
23:44
there's just the basic premises.
23:48
CrossFit is running a season and they're
23:50
going hands-off for the Masters.
23:54
And probably the teens too.
23:56
I don't know because I'm not as close
23:57
to that community.
23:59
But they're just being like, not our bad.
24:04
We contracted with someone else to do
24:05
that.
24:05
Yeah.
24:07
But you collected the money and you
24:08
collected the information.
24:09
Again.
24:17
And I don't bring your logic, Corey.
24:18
We do things the hard way.
24:19
You know that.
24:19
I do know that, unfortunately.
24:23
It just would have been easily
24:23
preventable.
24:26
It really, really would have.
24:34
Lito says, Scott,
24:36
that info on Touring Pro has been out
24:37
since last year.
24:38
That's literally their qualifier.
24:40
That's what everyone should have done,
24:42
plus video review.
24:44
Yeah.
24:46
Okay.
24:47
I'm sure word of mouth would get to...
24:51
some of the older athletes who don't have
24:53
social media maybe honestly i mean she has
25:02
a point she absolutely has a point i
25:04
i want to believe that and i like
25:06
that compared to what's going on now oh
25:09
absolutely that would have been that have
25:10
been the move to go to but
25:14
That's not what happened.
25:15
And we knew that wasn't going to be
25:17
what happened.
25:17
I didn't think it was going to be
25:18
this messy, to be quite honest with you.
25:21
But here we are.
25:23
What are we still finalizing on the
25:25
leaderboard?
25:27
That's what I'm trying to figure out at
25:29
this point.
25:31
I know I talked about it yesterday,
25:33
but I still don't understand.
25:35
I went from fifty seven to fifty four
25:37
to fifty six.
25:38
I moved three different times,
25:41
three spots and then back down to fifty
25:45
And I have no idea what happened because
25:46
it ain't nothing that I did.
25:48
It's people ahead of me.
25:49
I assume when I moved up,
25:51
it's because other people scores didn't
25:53
get validated, whatever,
25:55
by their affiliate manager.
25:56
But why did I go back down two
25:57
spots?
26:02
The validation window is closed.
26:05
So why did I go down two spots?
26:07
I don't get it.
26:09
Unless there's some video review.
26:10
I know there was a video option for
26:14
people not at a thing that you had
26:15
to get judges and all that kind of
26:18
stuff.
26:18
So maybe that.
26:21
But there's no kind of clarity on it
26:22
whatsoever.
26:23
I'm
26:31
I'm over it because I got mine,
26:33
but it's still a huge problem for
26:36
everybody else that has not yet.
26:40
Uh, Craig Selizer, uh,
26:43
didn't realize your procedure was last
26:45
week.
26:45
Glad to know you're on the mend.
26:46
Uh, yeah, it didn't go perfect.
26:49
Um, I just actually,
26:51
right before we went on the air scheduled
26:53
the next attempt to get my heart back
26:55
into rhythm for April.
26:58
So Monday, April.
27:00
Um,
27:01
I'm going to a special lab to have
27:04
a special version of the cardio version
27:06
done.
27:09
And hopefully that does the trick.
27:11
Super special.
27:12
But the ablation is done.
27:13
If they can get me back into rhythm,
27:15
the ablation will work.
27:17
It's just getting me back into rhythm.
27:20
That part will work as advertising.
27:22
We just got to get back into rhythm.
27:24
Yeah.
27:26
So I can dance again.
27:30
Let's go crazy.
27:33
You know what freaked me out though?
27:34
Craig Zelizer.
27:35
Yeah.
27:37
On my Bears podcast,
27:39
there's a guy that is the Craigulator.
27:42
And every time he comes in,
27:44
the hosts are like,
27:47
it's time for the Craigulator.
27:48
It's time for the Craigulator.
27:51
And I was like, wait,
27:52
did he follow me over here?
27:54
Probably.
27:57
Once invite started,
27:58
it was the beginning of the end.
28:00
You placed top fifty.
28:01
Here's your invite done.
28:02
Once event organizer said,
28:05
but I want Roman to be at my
28:06
comp downhill.
28:09
Preaching to the choir, buddy.
28:11
Preaching to the choir.
28:16
We've been saying that for years.
28:18
Invites...
28:20
for something that is a direct qualifier
28:23
to the CrossFit Games,
28:24
if you just get an invite just because
28:26
they want you to be there,
28:28
is bananas crazy to me.
28:31
It's just flat-out bullshit,
28:33
in my opinion.
28:34
It's not sports.
28:37
Ed AI says they just need to update
28:39
your heart with a factory reset and reset
28:42
it.
28:42
Yeah, that's it.
28:57
Actually, Scott, it's me, Catalina.
28:59
I use my husband's account.
29:00
My husband is into pickleball.
29:02
I'm the CrossFit.
29:03
Gotcha.
29:09
You could always try David Johnson's.
29:11
Whoops.
29:12
Where did that go?
29:13
Nope.
29:13
Nope.
29:21
My mouse died.
29:23
Yeah.
29:24
I always tried David Johnson's echo bike
29:25
sprint that he used to fix his AFib.
29:28
Dude, I'm about to,
29:30
if this one doesn't work,
29:31
that's what we're going to do.
29:32
Well, I got some echo bike sprints.
29:34
That's what we, that's what we live on.
29:35
That kind of stuff on, on,
29:37
on email company.
29:37
Not a problem.
29:38
I'll send you one.
29:40
Something's going to happen.
29:41
Either you get back into rhythm,
29:44
something will happen.
29:45
I promise you that much.
29:46
Either it goes back into rhythm or I'm
29:48
laying in a puddle.
29:50
A hundred percent.
29:51
Underneath.
29:52
Get up and try again.
29:54
Did you try turning it off and turning
29:56
it back on?
29:58
Was that the first thing they did?
29:59
I hope that's the first thing they did.
30:01
Unplug it and plug it back in.
30:03
Or with Corey, did you plug it in?
30:05
Yeah,
30:06
or did you plug it in at all?
30:08
Yes.
30:08
I did now.
30:13
Yeah, Lito.
30:14
Control-Alt-Delete.
30:18
Yeah,
30:18
not to mention getting an invite after a
30:19
four-year drug ban.
30:21
What the hell, man?
30:24
That still pisses me off.
30:26
That's not cool.
30:29
Make sure you have a defibrillator
30:31
standing by.
30:32
Actually, Denise, that is the next step.
30:35
They are going to put two defibrillators
30:37
on me and give me the max voltage
30:40
to see if that will zap it back
30:42
in.
30:43
Okay.
30:45
So instead of the two-person paddle,
30:46
it's going to be a four.
30:51
So I should feel real sore the next
30:53
day.
30:55
Or you'll feel like a million bucks,
30:56
one of the two.
30:58
It is for sure an older model.
31:01
So maybe I do need to update the
31:03
firmware.
31:04
Update the firmware.
31:06
Hit him again.
31:18
Thanks, Shanna.
31:18
I appreciate that heads up, Shanna.
31:22
Thanks for reinforcing that for me.
31:25
Oh, no, no, no, no.
31:25
You're going to be super sore.
31:29
Oh, good.
31:30
So here's the bonus of it all.
31:33
So I work from home.
31:34
Yep.
31:35
I hate going into the office.
31:37
Yep.
31:38
We are having an in-person mandatory
31:40
meeting the day after this procedure.
31:46
I got a doctor's excuse now not to
31:48
come.
31:48
Let's go.
31:53
That may have made me happier than
31:57
anything in the world.
31:58
Yeah.
32:00
Oh, I'm so sorry.
32:00
I'm not gonna be able to make that
32:01
meeting.
32:01
Yeah, no,
32:03
I got a procedure the day before and
32:04
doctor says I shouldn't leave the house.
32:05
Yeah.
32:08
Scott turns into the Hulk after
32:10
defibrillation.
32:13
Beaten on your chest.
32:14
Cool to be that Red Hulk like Harrison
32:16
Ford.
32:22
Damn it.
32:24
I mean, it will be four twenty.
32:25
You can have a special THC gummy bear
32:28
afterwards to relax.
32:31
I'll I'll reach out to Alex Kazan if
32:33
I can get a couple.
32:36
Oh,
32:42
quite the extra effort avoiding a meeting.
32:44
You don't know the half of it, Denise.
32:48
If it's an in-person meeting, one,
32:51
I hate meetings, period.
32:53
I hate meetings that should be an email.
32:57
I hate meetings, period.
32:59
But in person,
33:00
I will move hell and earth to find
33:04
a way out.
33:06
So what are you going to do instead
33:07
of going to this meeting?
33:09
Well, it's funny you should ask.
33:11
I'm going to get double defibrillated.
33:12
I'm going to hook a couple electrodes to
33:15
my chest, hook those to a car battery,
33:17
and we're going to find out what happens.
33:20
I plan all my doctor and dentist visits
33:21
for all staff meeting days.
33:23
I only have to attend like once a
33:25
month if I do it that way.
33:27
Seema, you're my spirit animal.
33:29
Seema's a genius.
33:34
I am the same way.
33:35
Like I will schedule all of my doctor's
33:38
appointments on days that I have to go
33:40
into the office.
33:41
One, I have to go downtown.
33:42
That means I have to fight traffic.
33:45
Then I have to pay to park.
33:47
All those kind of things.
33:50
I'm saving money.
33:51
Gross.
33:56
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33:57
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34:10
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34:11
I finally got to take Thirdsy again last
34:14
night.
34:15
Finally got some sleep.
34:18
It's the best stuff in the world if
34:20
you need to get your sleep.
34:22
Get your recovery up.
34:25
Get your HRV elevated.
34:27
It is semifinal season, boys and girls.
34:30
All the way up to the thick of
34:31
it.
34:31
Get your training in.
34:32
Get your good sleep.
34:34
Sleep is a superpower.
34:36
Thirdsy will help you get there.
34:38
And the best part of it,
34:39
you'll be so recovered,
34:40
you'll be able to fight harder for your
34:42
invite from Magic City and Legends.
34:48
I need to go check the last time
34:49
I read.
34:49
You will be a better squeaky wheel.
34:51
Yes.
34:52
Take thirdsy.
34:52
You can be that.
34:54
Sleep all night.
34:55
And then you'll be refreshed and ready to
34:58
kick ass in being the squeaky wheel.
35:05
And I want to know if he can
35:07
tell his kids to let him sleep.
35:10
Unfortunately,
35:10
that is the two point O version they're
35:13
still working on.
35:22
So last thing I want to talk about
35:25
is I don't know if you got a
35:26
chance to see this,
35:28
but Hiller and Brian Friend did.
35:31
It looks like another long one,
35:32
but they cut a piece.
35:34
It's like I saw the eighteen minute
35:36
version this morning.
35:37
Yeah.
35:37
So I watched that and they talk about
35:40
should Dave be the CEO, the CEO?
35:46
None of that was of interest to me.
35:48
I know how Brian Friend feels about Dave
35:50
being CEO.
35:52
And if you didn't,
35:53
you can watch that eighteen minute video
35:55
and he just reinforces it again.
35:58
They bring up Matt Souza and whether he
36:00
should be CEO.
36:02
And Brian was actually more open to that.
36:06
I think Matt Souza is a great choice
36:09
because he is an affiliate owner.
36:11
He does know the sport.
36:13
He knows all the aspects of it.
36:15
He's big into the education.
36:18
I think he is a decent selection.
36:21
I personally don't think it matters
36:23
because as long as that board is in
36:25
that place,
36:27
you are limited in your power anyway.
36:30
Absolutely.
36:32
But then something happened at the very
36:35
last second of the video.
36:39
where they talked about what Dave said at
36:42
the end of the clip and in his
36:45
week in review when asked if he's not
36:48
given the CEO what's next.
36:50
And Dave said,
36:53
I've been thinking about that a lot,
36:56
but I'm not ready to talk about that
36:57
now.
36:59
And Hiller says,
37:01
do you think Dave is connected with Xenon?
37:04
And Brian says, yes, I do.
37:06
And the video cuts off.
37:14
Xenom is partnering with CrossFit.
37:27
It makes sense to me.
37:28
I feel like most of that shit is
37:32
edited just enough to make you want to
37:34
pay attention to the next thing that comes
37:36
up without really saying anything of
37:38
substance.
37:43
I don't think they know, but damn,
37:45
it makes sense.
37:46
Right.
37:48
And of the whole eighteen minutes,
37:51
you could have skipped the first seventeen
37:53
thirty.
37:55
And that last little bit made my ear
37:57
just go.
37:57
Yeah.
38:03
Shanna says,
38:05
I'm surprised Dave would want to be CEO
38:07
with that board.
38:11
I would think the only reason he would
38:12
want to be is that he thinks that
38:14
he would actually have influence as CEO,
38:18
even with the board.
38:20
He's not a stupid man by any stretch
38:22
of the imagination.
38:23
He's very, very clever.
38:24
He thinks things out.
38:26
He's a strategist, right?
38:29
So for him to actually think he would
38:32
do a good job, I think he would.
38:37
He's calculated.
38:38
I don't think he does anything by
38:39
accident.
38:41
I still contend,
38:42
and I've talked about this a lot,
38:45
that whole group made Dave to be the
38:46
scapegoat of the twenty four games.
38:49
One percent.
38:50
They let him be the sacrificial lamb for
38:54
everybody to beat the shit out of after
38:57
Lazar died at the games.
39:00
And he did it and he survived it.
39:06
And maybe they make him CEO because of
39:09
that,
39:10
because they think they can get away with
39:12
more because Dave's able to survive the
39:15
slings and arrows of everybody as stuff's
39:18
coming down.
39:19
But Dave would have to be in agreement
39:22
with the board to carry out what they
39:24
want to carry out.
39:26
And I just don't think that's a good
39:27
mesh or match.
39:33
And it's more on the board's part than
39:35
on Dave's part.
39:35
Yeah.
39:36
It's not going to happen more.
39:46
I wonder if they would consider selling
39:48
the company to the employees,
39:49
set up an ESOP, reasonable stock,
39:52
repurchase from Berkshire, blah, blah,
39:54
blah.
39:58
I'm not sure all the employees at CrossFit
40:00
are on the same page.
40:01
No.
40:06
I think if Dave CEO,
40:07
he gets rid of a handful of people
40:10
quickly.
40:12
So I don't know.
40:21
Yeah, I think that's my point.
40:22
Exactly.
40:23
Ed is that it's a super tight leash
40:27
with that board, whoever,
40:28
no matter who gets put in that position.
40:36
I do not mention this man's name on
40:37
my show.
40:40
Not if we can help it.
40:43
The board is the problem.
40:44
Well, Berkshire is the problem,
40:46
but the board supported Berkshire.
40:48
That's where the problem was.
40:49
Yeah.
40:51
It never,
40:52
like we are in a position that we
40:54
never envisioned being in,
40:57
that we never should have gotten ourselves
40:59
in.
40:59
It was,
41:02
duped, wool pulled over your eyes,
41:04
like pick a euphemism.
41:06
That's what ended up happening when
41:09
basically when they forced Greg out.
41:12
And now we're here.
41:18
I get what you're saying.
41:19
I believe that... Gosh,
41:22
this is going to get me murdered.
41:25
When Greg got rid of the media department,
41:27
that was the first part of the problem.
41:29
Oh, yeah.
41:29
Oh, no, no, no.
41:30
I'll...
41:31
That's where it started.
41:32
Yeah.
41:35
CrossFit lost its North star.
41:38
It was a media company.
41:39
They called themselves a media company.
41:43
And when you get rid of the thing
41:44
that you say you are,
41:46
then everything starts to slide.
41:52
And then,
41:53
so then you start to slide and then
41:55
the one rudder you had sells off and
41:59
walks away.
42:02
Now you're a rudderless ship and you'd
42:04
have no identity.
42:08
And that is a problem.
42:11
That is a legit,
42:13
one hundred percent actual real problem.
42:18
Uh, based on execution,
42:20
many could be let go.
42:21
I agree.
42:24
Private equity just wants the bottom line
42:27
to be in the positive.
42:28
They don't care about how it happens.
42:31
Yes and no.
42:33
Yes,
42:33
they want the bottom line to be positive.
42:35
The problem is that they think that they
42:39
have something that they don't actually
42:40
have.
42:42
They still don't have any idea what they
42:43
have.
42:44
Because if they did,
42:45
we wouldn't have just a figurehead for a
42:49
CEO that just goes, yeah,
42:51
thirty million CrossFitters, sure,
42:53
that's a good thing, let's do that.
42:56
Because if they did,
42:58
then we wouldn't be in the mess that
42:59
we are right now.
43:02
Period.
43:03
If they would back off and just let
43:05
us do.
43:07
I mean,
43:08
there's a reason they gave Greg two
43:10
hundred twenty million dollars.
43:13
Ed says, fine,
43:13
we'll crank down the defibrillators down
43:15
one notch for the smart comment.
43:20
Awesome.
43:23
Well,
43:23
one more thing and then I got to
43:24
get out of here.
43:25
Yes.
43:25
And that is we are nine subscribers away
43:29
from three grand.
43:32
Nine.
43:35
I can hold it up with my fingers.
43:37
Yeah.
43:37
Don't need any toes.
43:41
Be really cool if we hit that three
43:42
thousand sometime soon.
43:44
So hit that subscribe button, please.
43:49
Hit the like button.
43:54
I have on my wife's account.
43:58
Come on, people subscribe.
44:01
Just nine, nine, nine little people,
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nine little people hitting that button.
44:05
Hey, there are no little people.
44:09
Well,
44:09
I guess there are some little people,
44:11
but just subscribe.
44:14
You're not little in our eyes.
44:17
Nine little clicks.
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Nine little clicks.
44:19
That's all we need.
44:20
Nine little clicks is what we need.
44:23
A hundred percent.
44:28
Like the steam to the steam to people.
44:34
So eight away.
44:36
Thank you, Mark.
44:38
There we go.
44:39
I think that's all I got.
44:44
Make sure you go listen to Purple Rain
44:46
this afternoon and remember how great it
44:48
was.
44:50
Like the stream.
44:51
That's what Mark is trying to say.
44:56
And with that,
44:57
hope you guys have a great rest of
44:58
your day.
44:59
And we'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch
45:03
with the Clydesdale.
45:05
Bye, y'all.