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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Ben Smith Speaks!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on everybody?
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Welcome.
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We've got a lot of people talking on
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the internet and we're going to respond.
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It's lunchtime.
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Yay!
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What is going on, everybody?
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Lunch with the Clydesdale time.
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I am here solo because Corey Leonard has
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a customer,
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and he's got to make that coin so
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he can support the family,
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and he's doing all that.
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But hopefully his phone call ends.
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He can jump on with us later in
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the show.
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But so excited to have the rest of
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you here with us.
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Looks like we have a little bit of
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one-upsmanship in the chat.
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Lito, member for nine months.
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Then Kenneth the Lap comes in with member
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for twenty-two months.
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And then Jay Birch jumps in for member
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for thirty-one months.
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Jay Birch, man,
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you're almost at three years as a member
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of this channel.
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I'll tell you.
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I'll tell you what.
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You guys don't know how much that little
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three dollars and ninety nine cents is or
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six ninety nine, whatever level you're at.
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We try to keep the the intro level
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at the lowest that YouTube will allow us.
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Three ninety nine.
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That's all it is.
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If you hit that join button and join
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the channel,
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it allows us to get this show up
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and running every single day and pays for
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all the platforms that we have to pay
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for to get that to happen.
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And then Corey,
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but he's actually part of the family now,
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thirty seven months a member.
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Damn.
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And we get some OGs in the house.
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OGs in the house.
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Rep in Penn State, of course, always do.
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Hopefully we have a better season than
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last.
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At least wrestling gave us a little flash
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of genius.
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But yeah.
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Vicky made it so I can stop stressing
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out.
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Yeah.
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I always wonder, like, is she okay?
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Is she okay?
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Do I need to check on her?
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She's made it, so I'm good.
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I'm good.
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Anna Shoup, hi.
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Shanna Bunch, always a pleasure to have.
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Daniel Arnson.
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Yeah, Corey's doing the workouts.
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Yeah.
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Jody must not have a customer.
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She's here.
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Aku Black Dragon.
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Great having all you guys here.
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So anyway,
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what I want to do first is yesterday
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we talked about the amputee and Mark
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Phillips did send me a video so I
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can show you like how he is able
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to be a cornhole player.
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But while being a quadruple amputee.
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So this is his video on Instagram.
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And this is how he throws the cornhole
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bag.
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So there is that this is the guy
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who allegedly, uh,
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murdered a passenger in his car with a
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gun.
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And then if we go back here,
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you can see how he can shoot a
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gun.
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So you're here.
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He is loading a pistol and firing it
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at a range.
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Now,
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the only question I still have is how
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he's able to do this and still drive.
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Joseph Ramirez,
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he lived ten minutes from me in Southern
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Maryland.
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Wow.
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So he did all this while driving a
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vehicle, shot a man,
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and then drug him out of a car
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into a yard.
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So, yeah.
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Um, if there's a will, there's a way.
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And then Joseph and Kenneth both are like,
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it was a Tesla autopilot.
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Okay.
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There we go.
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There's your answer.
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Exactly.
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Vicki, such a wild story.
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I, uh,
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I still didn't believe it was true.
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um when i saw it and but now
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it's all coming together it's a true story
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um can't believe that all happened um jay
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birch says does he have any prosthetics i
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i don't know i didn't see anything on
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his instagram where it showed that or any
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of his activities um and daniel's like i
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don't know how
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Uh, he's dragging a body.
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I don't either.
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Uh, Corey Leonard,
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my wife has a Tesla model three autopilot
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doesn't work that well.
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Uh, and not to blame the dead guy,
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but how fast can this guy's draw be?
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Yeah.
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I would think there was some warning
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signs.
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I think Corey said yesterday,
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it's not that hard to get out of
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a car.
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Like you just pull the handle and fall
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out.
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And that would have been a better option
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than getting shot and killed in a car.
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But yeah,
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we don't want to blame the dead guy.
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Although he could have done something
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about that.
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But yeah, what a wild story, man.
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And with this week,
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the week I am having at work,
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like I needed that release or whatever it
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was to kind of dig into that story
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and talk to you guys about it.
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Because it's been just,
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it was a long week yesterday and it
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was only Tuesday.
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Today hasn't gotten much better.
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I'm just hoping Friday gets here soon.
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So adrenaline and desperation can be a
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hell of a motivator.
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I am sure.
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Yes.
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And there were other people in the car.
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There were other people in the car.
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Jody says, hey, hey, hey,
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maybe the victim was blind.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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Everything has an explanation.
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Just just ask.
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Ilsa or whatever her name was that got
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four-year ban yesterday.
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We got to see that live on the
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show yesterday.
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I wanted to talk about that a little
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bit.
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And that is,
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so she gets a four-year ban.
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Do you think that for doctoring videos,
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lying, putting up illegit scores,
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do you think a four-year ban is
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appropriate for that kind of cheating?
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And I do, I really do.
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I think if you've gone to that many
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lengths to cheat the system,
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then four years is appropriate.
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I would have been okay with two.
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I would have been okay with it,
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but I'm really okay with four.
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I think if you go to that,
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that many lengths to cheat the system,
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you are
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you are deserving of like the max penalty.
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So, um, so I'm glad that, um,
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echo black dragon and Daniel Arnston said
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this cheating is cheating.
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So I don't know if you saw this,
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but Toby Buckland made a post,
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and it was shared by the Barbell Spin,
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where he said if cheating is cheating,
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then he knows firsthand that athletes in
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camps have known what workouts were at the
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CrossFit Games and have been able to train
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for them for weeks before them.
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while other athletes don't know those
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workouts.
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And if you go down the road of
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cheating is cheating,
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should those camps and should those
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athletes who get leaked workouts ahead of
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time,
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should they be given a four-year ban as
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well?
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Now,
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that's a question posed by Toby Buckland,
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and it was shared by The Barbell Spin
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on Instagram today.
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joseph said we talked about it last night
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on the glintons uh trevor bockenmeyer got
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the same four-year ban for looping his
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dubs workout um hexi lover cheating is
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cheating as many cheats as he did as
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she did permanent band is a deterrent for
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any future cheaters i think a four-year
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band is a pretty big deterrent that takes
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a good chunk of your prime away
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Jodi wonders who imposed the band.
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Was there like a committee or was it
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Dave?
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I really don't know.
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yes kenneth i he did toby buckland did
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not name names but i am pretty dog
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on shore he was referencing the chad
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workout where people knew the box set up
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um beforehand and i know i've heard the
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crossover double unders the first year
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they were introduced in
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There were a handful of athletes who had
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the beaded rope that made those easier at
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the games and others that did not.
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Understand if they act on that knowledge,
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then they are technically cheating.
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If someone sends me info I shouldn't have,
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that isn't on me,
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that is on the sender.
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What about the OPEX weight diameter
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scandal?
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I don't remember what happened there.
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I don't either, Mark.
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Yeah.
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See,
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that's where you get to like shades of
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cheating, right?
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That is like, because the OPEX incident,
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they had the proper weight on the bar.
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They just had smaller plates so they could
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jump over it easier for bar facing
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burpees.
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And they didn't like doctor video.
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They didn't go to all these lengths.
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So I think anytime you say cheating is
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cheating,
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you pin yourself in a corner for things
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that may not quite be as bad.
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But then again,
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maybe people do think it's as bad.
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So should we pin ourselves in that corner?
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Should we say that all cheating is
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cheating?
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And if you are caught cheating,
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then you are up for a four-year ban,
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whether it's PEDs,
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whether it's doctoring video,
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whether it's, I don't know.
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I think it could be a slippery slope
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if we do that.
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Uh, Carolyn Prevo in the, in the chat,
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two thousand nineteen.
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Many people knew the first event.
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Twenty twenty two people knew the yoke
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carry clean and deadlift wad.
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And this is from someone that were was
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at those two games.
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So I get what Andrew was saying earlier
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about Andrew Sten,
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that if you are sent the information,
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that's not on you, that's on the sender.
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But the minute you take that information
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and you use it to get an advantage,
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then it's on you.
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I don't know.
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I think Mark Phillips,
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understand that begs the question,
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are you now obligated to share with the
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world?
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It's a gray area.
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I don't know if you're obligated to share
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it with the world.
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I think you're obligated to report it.
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But maybe not your responsibility to share
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it with the world.
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John George asks,
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do you believe her coach had no idea?
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I don't.
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I also think whoever signed her sheet and
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verified her score should be held
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accountable.
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Not sure if you discussed this or not.
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Just hit here.
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We didn't discuss it today,
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but we have discussed it on the Sunday
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night show as well as earlier in the
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week that anybody who signed off on that
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workout and said it was good should be
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held accountable as well.
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If you receive info on the workout,
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you absolutely should share it.
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Level the playing field.
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I think it's your obligation to share it
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to CrossFit HQ or whatever competition
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organizers are running the event to say,
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I got this leaked information.
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I did not use it.
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I'm just letting you know that someone is
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out there sending it.
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Ken Walters wants to know if Cowboy and
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I broke up after yesterday's TIFF.
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We did not.
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We did not.
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We just needed a break.
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So we're on a break.
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No.
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He actually has some work responsibilities
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that he's taking care of.
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He was hoping to be done in time.
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And he said he would jump on if
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he gets done within our time period.
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But, you know,
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you got to make the money for the
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family.
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Yep, once you receive info,
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no one should have.
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It's on you to share it with HQ.
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Scott,
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she cheated multiple times in the same
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workout to prove she didn't cheat.
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I agree.
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I have no problem with the suspension for
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her,
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but I think it should also go to
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anybody who signed off on her workout.
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Anybody who said it was legit, judge,
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affiliate, whoever signed off on that,
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whoever validated it,
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and whoever signed it as a judge should
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be responsible as well.
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An NDA is just a piece of paper.
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Joseph, I will say this.
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An NDA is only a piece of paper
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if you don't act on it.
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If you are an actor in the Marvel
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universe and you leak movie information,
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that movie studio will come after you hard
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over that NDA and they will win.
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It is the threat of action on the
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NDA that is the important part.
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If you have someone sign an NDA and
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then you don't hold them accountable for
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the NDA,
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then it's just a piece of paper.
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Daniel says, yep,
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because you can't guarantee all your
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competitors will get the info.
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Send to HQ, let them handle it.
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Teresa, if you missed it,
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it wasn't a tiff.
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We just disagreed on an aspect of
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quarterfinals and the workouts yesterday.
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Okay.
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It was just a good, healthy discussion.
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No tiff.
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Open scores are automatically verified,
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though, to be fair.
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Right, but that's what I'm saying.
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If it was done at an affiliate, though,
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and you are responsible for that,
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If you invalidated it,
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then I think you're in the clear.
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You can still invalidate.
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And it's your responsibility as the
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affiliate manager to invalidate any scores
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that you don't feel are correct.
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Yes,
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there were more people complicit in the
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lie.
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Daniel says, I welcome any Marvel leaks.
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Paige Smith, you don't have to validate.
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Right, but you can invalidate.
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The validation is automatic,
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but you as the affiliate manager can
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invalidate.
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Uh...
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So there, there we go.
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Corey and I's fight was nothing compared
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to Jamie and Scott fight.
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I will agree on that.
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I will agree.
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I agree.
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So along with this cheating stuff,
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I don't know if you guys all saw
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this, but Ben Smith had something to say.
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And this, whoop, wrong one.
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This is,
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I'll read what Ben Smith says over here.
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I'm hearing lots of conflicting opinions
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on quarterfinals.
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I don't know why I have to say
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this, but please read the highlighted.
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One,
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you need a video if you're going to
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be in a spot to move to the
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next level.
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Top two thousand for men and women.
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Top four hundred age groups or older.
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and top three hundred age groups younger.
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And anyone kind of close could backfill,
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could be lots of people.
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You also have to prove you did it
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starting Thursday at three p.m.
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Eastern.
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Don't leave it in CrossFit's hands and
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play the victim.
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They could ask anyone in a spot for
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a video.
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Yes, people will probably cheat.
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It's unfortunate.
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Don't be that person.
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Hiller fit to point Oh,
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we'll be out there doing his job.
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Now, you know,
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thanks and have fun out there.
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And the post is here.
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There's the highlighted video.
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Upon request,
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any athlete with a qualifying score on any
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quarterfinal workout may be required to
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provide video of their performance.
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If they cannot provide a video with proof
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of that,
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the workout was conducted within the given
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score submission window,
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they may receive a zero score.
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So that is in the rulebook.
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That is in the rulebook.
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And so at any point,
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CrossFit can demand that you submit your
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video.
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So there it is.
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Ben Smith talks.
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He said, don't play the victim.
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There it is in the rule book.
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Don't not video your stuff.
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And when CrossFit asks for it and you
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don't have it,
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you don't have any opportunity to play the
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victim because it's right there in
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writing.
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I understand, Lito.
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It does say that,
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but you get Adrian Bosman saying in the
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CrossFit Games podcast that you literally
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don't need a video.
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I know.
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I know.
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Adrian is a person who wants to believe
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in humanity will do the right thing.
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And that's noble.
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And I love that about Adrian.
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I love hanging out with that dude.
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He is that.
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He lives that.
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And it's all about honor and
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accountability in yourself.
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But the reality of the world is not
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that.
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So, there it is.
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Ben Smith, the man, the myth, the
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Also,
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there's been a lot of talk about a
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lot of the quarterfinals not taking people
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from the quarterfinals.
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Semifinals live in person,
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not taking quarterfinalists.
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Only four of the ten are doing that.
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And Magic City put this out yesterday,
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which I found was pretty interesting.
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A statement on quarterfinals.
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With no required video submission for
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score submission,
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a lot of athletes are questioning how much
24:05
the leaderboard really means.
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We've also seen the conversation around
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semifinals treating quarterfinals like a
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box to check instead of something that
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should actually matter.
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At the Magic City Semifinal,
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quarterfinals matter.
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We are inviting athletes based on their
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placement on the quarterfinals leaderboard
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We believe quarterfinals matter.
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We believe testing yourself matters.
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We believe earning it matters.
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So they are one of the four that
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are using the quarterfinal leaderboard to
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invite people to their live semifinal.
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And I believe that's what that is saying.
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Yeah,
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we can complain about there'll be
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cheaters.
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There's no video submission.
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There's none of this.
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But if you want to be invited by
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Magic City or by the other three
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quarterfinals,
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the other three semifinals that are
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inviting based on the leaderboard of
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quarterfinals,
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you're going to have to do the workouts
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and you're going to have to finish high.
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I think all they're saying, Mark,
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is the substance here is it's not just
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a box to check to be in the
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top two thousand to move on.
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They are using these results to pick you
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to come to their event.
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So if you're just going to loaf through
25:41
them and get in the top two thousand,
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you may not get picked to go to
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their event or one of the other three.
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They're saying you need to give it your
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all if you want to be selected because
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they're going to start from the top and
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move down the list to select who gets
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invited to their semifinal event.
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SEMA, that's what it seems like.
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The games are half invitational now.
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And I hate that.
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I hate that more than anything else this
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season is that semifinals can invite
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people based on past performance instead
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of how they are performing during this
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season.
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That is the big,
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that's the big miss in the season for
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me.
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I can handle a lot of the other
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stuff because I think it'll sort out in
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the wash.
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But what I cannot handle is that you
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are getting an invite to an event and
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you haven't done anything this season to
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earn it.
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That's what I hate.
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That's what I hate.
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And I get what JR said and I
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get what Mayhem says about you need to
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promote the event with athletes.
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I get that.
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But there's got to be a better way.
27:04
You should not be basing it on previous
27:06
performance.
27:08
A season in every sport that I follow
27:10
and watch is all based on how you
27:13
perform during that season.
27:15
To have a season start with what you
27:19
did last year to get an invite is
27:22
ridiculous.
27:25
And I think Dave even said that in
27:27
his weekend review.
27:29
And hopefully because of that,
27:32
we can change some things up.
27:44
Um,
27:48
What happens if someone who is previously
27:50
invited to a semi but then doesn't have
27:52
a score which would qualify for semis?
27:55
So what you're asking is if they were
27:57
invited to hypothetically mayhem and then
28:01
they don't get a top two thousand score
28:03
in quarterfinals, what would happen?
28:06
That is at the discretion of the event.
28:10
I know that Syndicate Crown is only
28:12
inviting people that are still eligible to
28:15
get a spot for the games.
28:19
So if you are not in that top
28:21
two thousand, you lose your invite.
28:23
If you've already qualified through
28:25
another means, you lose your invite.
28:28
They are only allowing people to come and
28:30
play who can so that their podium,
28:34
their top three will move on to the
28:36
games.
28:38
There's no if then else statements.
28:42
If you finish top three at syndicate,
28:45
you're going on to the games.
28:47
Super simple.
28:50
And whether you like that rule or not,
28:54
I love it for the simplicity,
28:56
and I love that they're embracing,
28:58
let's make this easier to explain.
29:01
It's very easy to go to the syndicate
29:03
ground and say,
29:04
if you finish on the podium,
29:06
you're going to the games.
29:08
Everybody else, sorry about your luck.
29:12
When you invite people who aren't
29:14
eligible, then it muddies the water.
29:17
And then if then else statements filter
29:19
in, and then it's not just a direct,
29:22
you can qualify this way or that way.
29:34
The workout times are annoying.
29:35
March, March, March, March, March, March,
29:39
March, March, March, March, March,
29:50
I think that is like on the priority
29:52
of things that need to be fixed down
29:54
on the list.
29:55
So I was going to pose this question
29:57
to Corey and I'll pose it to you
29:59
in the audience.
29:59
And that is,
30:00
if you were king for a day and
30:03
you could change one thing about
30:05
quarterfinals, but only one thing,
30:10
you could only change one aspect of
30:15
quarterfinals.
30:17
What would that change be?
30:26
And mine would be everybody needs to post
30:30
their video publicly online.
30:45
And it looks like a lot of people
30:47
are saying video.
30:49
But Daniel has an interesting one.
30:51
Go from twenty five percent to ten
30:53
percent.
30:59
Paige Smith says, when it's announced,
31:01
you can go.
31:06
Mark says,
31:06
delete quarterfinals altogether.
31:12
I don't like that idea, Mark.
31:13
I'm telling you.
31:22
Hiller Fitz says, let me write them.
31:29
Yeah.
31:31
If I could make one change to semifinals,
31:33
it would be that nobody gets an invite.
31:34
You have to earn your spot.
31:41
Shana's on board for Hiller writing them.
31:49
Delete them,
31:49
go back to the Open Regionals games.
31:52
I'm okay with them being there as part
31:55
of the yearly test,
31:56
but let's call it the fifth week of
31:59
the Open.
32:01
There's a cut after week three,
32:03
there's a bye week, week four,
32:05
and then week five is the fifth week
32:07
of the Open where you are now not
32:12
only being tested on the workouts,
32:14
but that you can handle the volume of
32:17
four workouts in a weekend.
32:21
And then from that,
32:21
you go to semi-finals or regionals or
32:23
whatever we're going to,
32:24
we want to call it after that.
32:29
And then that way,
32:29
all the scores are together and you can
32:32
have a seven test open.
32:37
A seven test open, which is more complete,
32:40
more robust and more balanced for
32:43
everything.
32:52
And I'm actually okay with the ten
32:54
percent.
32:56
I think that's fine.
32:59
Unless HQ's telling me they need the
33:02
twenty percent,
33:03
twenty-five percent for money.
33:05
And if they would just admit that to
33:07
me,
33:08
I'd be okay with the twenty-five percent.
33:16
But I don't think it should be called
33:18
quarterfinals.
33:19
I think it should be a five-week open
33:22
with week four as your bye week,
33:24
week three as a cut.
33:36
Hexy Lover,
33:37
do you think the new CrossFit board is
33:38
open to suggestions like this?
33:41
I think Dave is already thinking in that
33:43
direction because he's talked about
33:45
carrying over the scores from the open to
33:47
the quarters.
33:49
He's talked about liking the regional
33:51
format better.
33:53
And actually,
33:54
if you go back to a regional format
33:56
and you are forced to compete in your
33:58
region to make the games,
34:01
then the promotion thing is out.
34:03
The promotion excuse for the events goes
34:07
out the window.
34:12
And you get a very simple start to
34:17
finish season.
34:30
That's what I think.
34:31
I think that people are already heading
34:32
down that road.
34:34
Is it the people that matter?
34:35
I don't know how much power Dave has.
34:38
If Dave has some power,
34:40
I think we're looking at maybe a new
34:42
season next year that goes back to more
34:44
that type of thing.
34:47
But I don't know how much the board
34:49
is letting him have.
34:50
Without a CEO,
34:52
the board is more in control,
34:55
or they've announced somebody kind of
34:57
interim without publicly saying it.
34:59
There's so many questions about that whole
35:01
structure.
35:01
I just don't know.
35:13
I do like that, Mark.
35:14
I do like the split leaderboard from start
35:16
of the open and you either say you're
35:19
competing or you're just there for fun.
35:26
And I do, and I, yeah.
35:37
So.
35:41
That's interesting.
35:43
That's interesting.
35:51
So the last thing
35:59
Velomania,
36:00
you're implying that some athletes at the
36:02
Invitational Semi won't qualify.
36:04
Who at Mayhem isn't going to qualify?
36:07
What you really want is the selection
36:09
should be based on ranking from
36:11
quarterfinals.
36:15
I do.
36:17
I'm not saying they're not going to
36:18
qualify.
36:19
I'm not saying that.
36:23
It's just a bad precedent to set.
36:26
You have a CrossFit game season and your
36:31
ability to get to the championship level
36:34
should be based on everything that happens
36:37
in that season.
36:39
And by inviting people in and giving them
36:41
a spot at prime semifinals based on what
36:46
they did last year is just against the
36:49
rule of sport period.
37:03
I'm not saying that Dallin getting an
37:05
invite to Legends means he's not going to
37:08
qualify for the games, and it's a mistake.
37:12
That's not what I'm saying.
37:13
But what I am saying is he got
37:16
that spot early and knows where he's going
37:20
and got a prime semifinal that a lot
37:25
of people want to go to based on
37:27
what he did last year instead of this
37:29
year.
37:45
Daniel says, if the NFL did that,
37:46
the Kansas City Chiefs fans would even be
37:48
more insufferable.
37:49
Can you imagine the NFL saying to the
37:54
Seattle Seahawks,
37:56
you won the Super Bowl last year.
37:58
You don't have to play the regular season.
38:01
Well, you do,
38:02
but you just have to go .
38:04
But we're going to invite you to the
38:07
playoffs now.
38:10
It doesn't even make sense if you apply
38:12
the logic to any other sport.
38:19
It just doesn't.
38:25
So on that note,
38:26
I'm going to head out of here.
38:28
I want to leave you with one funny
38:30
video I saw on Instagram.
38:32
And we've been talking about,
38:35
especially Sunday night and with Carolyn a
38:37
lot over the last couple of years,
38:40
testing athleticism in CrossFit.
38:44
And the reason that comes up is CrossFit
38:46
is very straightforward, linear movement.
38:51
There is no lateral movement really in
38:53
CrossFit workouts.
38:55
So how do we test for that, right?
38:59
And Rebecca Fusile made a video that is
39:04
hilarious about her as an athlete.
40:17
Anyway, she's awesome.
40:19
Always is awesome.
40:21
My favorite part is when Bolt ate the
40:24
chalk.
40:28
So, yeah.
40:33
And of course,
40:33
Carolyn has to come at me with an
40:36
actual sport that does base their field on
40:41
past performance.
40:42
And that is at the Masters,
40:44
you win the green jacket and you get
40:46
an invite for the rest of your life.
40:48
That is true.
40:50
But they can actually expand their field
40:52
beyond the regular field to invite the
40:56
same number of athletes regardless of
40:58
that.
40:59
CrossFit doesn't do that at this point.
41:01
They keep their athletes at thirty for the
41:04
games.
41:05
So there's always an exception to every
41:08
rule.
41:10
There it is.
41:14
Um, if you are doing quarterfinals,
41:17
you get to start tomorrow.
41:19
Hopefully testing is going well and yeah.
41:25
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