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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Today we Find out what blue skies, Wheat and Mountains Mean! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:04
  Don't tell anyone,
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  but I think I figured out Dave's clue.
• 0:19
  It's lunch time.
• 0:20
  Yay!
• 0:47
  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  We've got Jody with us.
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  We've got Meredith.
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  We've got Amanda.
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  We've got Mark.
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  Looks like full crew.
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  There's Shay.
• 0:59
  Love when Shay jumps in.
• 1:02
  Yeah,
• 1:02
  I get to hang out with everybody today.
• 1:05
  Spent the morning a half hour north with
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  my family doctor talking about stuff.
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  And now I'm here and back and better
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  than ever and ready to get going on
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  this.
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  And today is twenty six point two
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  announcement day.
• 1:21
  Look who's in the chat.
• 1:22
  Miss Florida herself.
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  Miss Florida herself and my weightlifting
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  coach, Mr. Dan Church.
• 1:31
  Mr. Dan Church.
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  One of the original Clydesdales.
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  Got Helson.
• 1:39
  We got Leslie.
• 1:41
  Afrita.
• 1:42
  Man, the full crew on board.
• 1:46
  Before I came down to do this,
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  just came across Twitter.
• 1:50
  The Bears are trading DJ Moore.
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  The guy who caught the winning touchdown
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  against the Packers.
• 1:56
  The guy who played every single game this
• 2:00
  year.
• 2:02
  He's going to go play with Josh Allen.
• 2:04
  That seems harsh.
• 2:05
  Buffalo.
• 2:06
  And, well,
• 2:07
  the Bears have kind of like a wealth
• 2:09
  of riches at the wide receiver position.
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  And they need help other places.
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  And DJ was the most expensive receiver
• 2:17
  they had.
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  So now they freed up a ton of
• 2:19
  cap space.
• 2:21
  Got rid of them.
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  They can start working on some other
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  stuff.
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  It just sucks because, like,
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  he came through the lean years with the
• 2:27
  team.
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  And now they, like,
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  go almost to the NFC Championship game.
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  And now they're like, see you.
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  But that's sports these days.
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  It is.
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  It is.
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  Yeah.
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  It is.
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  Trying to do the best for the future
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  at that point.
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  So I won't bore everybody with Bears news
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  today because it is their offseason.
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  And it's going to ramp up next week
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  because the new league year starts next
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  week and free agency is going to blow
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  up and everybody's going to be signing
• 2:59
  everywhere.
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  And I'll probably talk a little bit about
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  that next week.
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  But this week,
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  we're talking about twenty six point two.
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  And I think I think I figured it
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  out, man.
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  Hear me out.
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  I'm listening.
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  Here it is.
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  All right.
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  So we have wheat in the front.
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  It's kind of dangling around all
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  willy-nilly.
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  Sure.
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  In the back, we have mountains.
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  strong, epic, firm.
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  This is going to be a ladder from
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  a lightweight to a heavyweight,
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  moving from the foreground to the
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  background, from easy to heavy,
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  light to heavy.
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  Is that it?
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  That's your whole... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  let's go let's make it it'll be a
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  clean ladder up I do like the like
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  swing in the winds like rings or so
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  I do think it's also going to be
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  progressive gymnastics from like chest to
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  bar to bar muscle ups to ring muscle
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  ups and then we'll throw some double
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  unders in there because it's whipping
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  around okay
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  I'm not mad at that.
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  Here's the thing that popped into mind
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  that has been rattling around in my brain
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  since last night at some point.
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  This is how my brain works.
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  What if that's not wheat?
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  What if that's hops?
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  We're doing the beer mile?
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  Hopper.
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  The old original.
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  The original.
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  Shipped it to...
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  And it's never going to happen because it
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  has to be programmed well in advance.
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  But hops, the hopper,
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  we're just going to crank it out and
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  just pull three different things out or
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  six different things out,
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  whatever the case may be for numbers,
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  you know, rep scheme, blah, blah,
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  whatever, and just call it good.
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  But because it needs to be somewhat
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  organized or whatever,
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  like there's only a pre-selected things in
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  the hopper,
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  It is the twentieth year of the CrossFit
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  Games.
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  The first ever workout at the CrossFit
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  Games was a hopper workout.
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  They could just pull back that one.
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  Yeah.
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  So just to build on your theory,
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  I still think it's from weak to strong.
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  Right.
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  This is my way.
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  It's a very flawed theory.
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  Just so you understand.
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  But I don't even know.
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  I think maybe I was fixing to get
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  into bed and it just kind of hit
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  me because everybody's been saying, oh,
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  it's wheat.
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  I'm like, wheat, hops, hops, hopper.
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  Holy shit.
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  Probably not right.
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  I'm sure it's probably not because I just
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  don't see that.
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  Just the logistics of that seemed like a
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  horrible idea,
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  especially being in Portugal.
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  And, like,
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  I'm just going to ship this thing across
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  the ocean and we'll bring it back next
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  week.
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  But that's where my head was at.
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  Mark Phillips says Dallin Pepper's guess
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  is good.
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  And I don't know if you guys can
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  see that.
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  So I'll blow it up.
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  Dallin Pepper said it's going to blow.
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  And he's probably right.
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  Now, how that helps you,
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  knowing what exactly you're going to do,
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  probably not much,
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  but he's probably correct in that it's
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  going to blow.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, he's not wrong.
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  Sten thinks barbell snatches double under
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  rowing.
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  Increasing snatch weight and progressive
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  gymnastics ending with ring muscle-ups.
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  I went clean, she went snatch,
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  but similar there.
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  I'd be down with that, Amanda.
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  Mountain is a pyramid,
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  so repeat of the one to ten to
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  one deads burpees.
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  Barf.
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  Well, here's the problem with that, Dan,
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  is that we just did a pyramid chipper.
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  Literally did one last week,
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  so I don't see us doing not the
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  same workout,
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  but the same workout skiing two weeks in
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  a row.
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  Like, that's not going to happen.
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  Shea says, definitely double unders.
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  Can't tell you, too,
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  how nice it is to Clydesdale and chill.
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  One hundred percent, Corey.
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  We're glad we're here for you.
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  Ortega says it's barley burpees over the
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  barley.
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  OK, that's.
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  Ortega with the dad jokes.
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  I like it.
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  Yeah.
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  And he might be right.
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  He could be.
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  That's entirely possible.
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  I could be a young plant,
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  but hops look very different.
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  Wayne.
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  I've never seen a hop before in my
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  life.
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  That's just my very flawed theory.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  We're never going to do searchers.
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  No, it throws that in there every day.
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  I think he just, he,
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  his Z key just needed to be worked.
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  A hundred percent.
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  It just hasn't been used in every day
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  to work it,
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  to make sure it'll always work.
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  Um,
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  Weed has nothing to do with it.
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  I say it's about blowing windmill-type
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  exercises since last week was legs.
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  My fifteen-year-old brain cannot handle.
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  I'd say it's about blowing.
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  It just can't.
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  I like Tristan's right here.
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  Ascending difficulty gymnastics,
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  eighteen to twenty minutes,
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  maybe a row in there too.
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  Vicky says, sorry I'm late.
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  Well, doggone it.
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  Yeah, don't let it happen again.
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  Amanda says,
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  I like the interval work because the plant
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  leaves the screen and comes back.
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  It's only been like one time that we've
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  done like interval work, I think.
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  Oh, I don't even.
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  And like late teens,
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  we did some interval work maybe.
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  So I think what would qualify.
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  I think that leads things for affiliates.
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  little bit and like your everyday gym
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  goers to understand like when when to jump
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  in when to rest with the last time
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  they did i remember like as a judge
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  just like people like not understanding
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  you have to stop and rest now like
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  they just don't
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  I had my, I just got my,
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  my first bar muscle up right before that,
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  the, uh,
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  it was something three minutes of rest and
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  then it's like snatches and bar face and
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  burpees and then bar face and burpees and
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  bar muscle ups.
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  And there was a three minute rest in
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  between.
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  Uh, Dan Church says, oh no.
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  What about the burpee ascending snatch
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  weight open workout of.
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  Uh, gosh,
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  that was my first ever open workout.
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  The video still lives on the internet.
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  Did you know that?
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  Internet's forever, baby.
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  Let me see if I can find it.
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  That was a hilarious time of neon,
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  big tall socks.
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  It's the best.
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  And two friends talking me into doing this
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  thing that they call the open.
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  Yeah.
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  There it is.
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  If his burpees and snatches, dog, I'm in.
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  Sign me up.
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  Let's go.
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  So if we fast forward.
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  Oh, I remember this video.
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  Of course,
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  it's going to go slower than hell.
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  Look at those tall socks.
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  So much neon.
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  Burpees to target, baby.
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  Yep.
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  Working out on my nice and free.
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  Love it.
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  Look, we got neon green, neon green,
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  neon green,
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  and some neon orange on the shoes.
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  Yep.
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  Scott is a man of,
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  obviously a man of taste and culture.
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  Tell those women to cheer some people on.
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  Let's go!
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  Let's go!
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  That was an awful workout.
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  The thing that's crazy about this workout
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  is I never snatched one-thirty-five
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  before, which was the second barbell.
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  And the night before,
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  my buddies and I kept trying and trying
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  and trying.
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  And none of us got it the night
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  before.
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  Night before don't matter, brother, man.
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  Only matters after three-two-one-go.
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  The Richard Simmons headband, nice touch.
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  Actually, Ken,
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  that is a Rich Froning Rogue headband that
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  has slid up my forehead because of my
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  inability to do that.
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  Do burpees fast.
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  Anyway, there it is.
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  A little trip down memory lane.
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  Bring back the neon.
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  Bring back the neon.
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  Now I can't get the maniac song out
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  of my head.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah,
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  they sprayed me down with water bottles
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  after.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  Water just hit you on the face.
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  Yeah, it was a beautiful sight.
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  Beautiful sight.
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  Absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  So that's Dave's clue.
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  There's some predictions in there.
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  I think Vicky just threw another one in
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  there.
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  Ascending gymnastics, clean and jerk,
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  and probably dubs.
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  That sounds vaguely familiar,
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  but if you were on time, Vicky,
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  you would have heard me say that off
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  the top.
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  I said it all without the jerk.
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  That's what happens whenever you're late,
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  Vicky.
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  This is what comes of you being late.
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  I'm just saying.
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  maniac maniac on the floor she's dancing
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  like she's never danced before yeah
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  welcome to karaoke thursday i have a whole
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  i have an entire eighties playlist that
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  like i'll just put on sometimes and just
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  vibe out to all the music i grew
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  up with it's fantastic lol dang i'll spank
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  myself for being like you better yeah if
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  you haven't already
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  um all right so we have a matchup
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  today of miriam von rohr first place after
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  point one yep we have um lucy campbell
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  in second place after twenty six point one
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  and we have amy kringle top ten of
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  the games last year uh if you're about
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  to ask me who's gonna win
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  I ain't got no idea.
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  I think we, the viewer, win.
• 15:01
  Yeah, I would agree to that.
• 15:04
  I would agree to that.
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  I think these women are so close in
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  abilities,
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  especially at this stage of the season,
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  that it is program dependent.
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  And without knowing what it is...
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  I would like to go...
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  just queen slayer just like right off
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  right off the the jump but again it's
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  really going to depend on what comes out
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  like it's not it's not like last week
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  when i can just go i don't care
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  what it is the muscle hamster is winning
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  like iron hog whatever you want to call
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  him like you can pick colton on on
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  week one and pretty much guarantee he's
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  going to win whoever he's going up against
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  right yeah this one's too close to call
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  in my opinion
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  So if I'm right and it's cleans and
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  it gets progressively heavier,
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  I think that all goes into mere Von
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  roar.
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  Right.
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  One Lucy and the,
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  the Franken monster catch is gonna,
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  is gonna limit her at some point.
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  Um, let me use my strong hand,
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  but we also have seen Miriam's legs.
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  Like that woman can squat clean a ton.
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  And I'm going to go with Miriam.
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  I like the way she approached week one,
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  that she called herself out on a no
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  rep and that she did it publicly and
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  said, yep, I messed up.
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  Do what you're going to do.
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  I made that choice mid-workout and I'm
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  sticking with it.
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  We were talking about it yesterday at the
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  gym about her video in particular and the
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  fact that she was running from the wall
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  to jump on the box.
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  Like she didn't take three steps.
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  She took three like sprint steps,
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  hopped on the box and just boom, boom,
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  boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  And when you can go that fast and
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  with a mandated step down,
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  cause like you can't, you can't rebound.
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  It did the same thing Colton did like
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  from the forty all the way to the
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  other set of forty.
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  We just didn't let the ball go.
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  Ball didn't touch the ground.
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  That is wildly impressive.
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  Wildly impressive.
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  So you pick Queen Slayer, I pick Miriam,
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  and it'll probably be Amy Kringle.
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  And it'll probably be Amy Cremo.
• 17:35
  Yeah, I have no, I got,
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  but here's the thing.
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  I got, like you said earlier,
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  I have no problem with whoever wins
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  because I don't have a dog in this
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  fight.
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  Like I got one person I'm rooting to
• 17:45
  make the games.
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  She is not high profile enough to,
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  weren't making a,
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  doing an open announcement yet.
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  So we'll see if she actually makes the
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  games and see what happens next year.
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  But that's my female I'm rooting for this
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  year.
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  But as far as this is concerned,
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  Like out of the three,
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  let's go with second place from last year.
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  Miss Campbell there.
• 18:07
  Eddie, I asked,
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  will the winner of this be podium
• 18:09
  contender for the games?
• 18:10
  I think everybody here is a podium
• 18:12
  contender.
• 18:13
  Absolutely.
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  And I don't think one open workout tells
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  you is enough of a data point to
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  tell you how they're going to perform at
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  the games.
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  No.
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  And the women's field, again,
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  is wide open.
• 18:30
  Yeah.
• 18:31
  No, Laura.
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  Yeah.
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  So pick a name out of a hat.
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  If you were in the top ten shit,
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  maybe the top fifteen from last year,
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  you got a pretty decent shot.
• 18:44
  If you've been training and you've been
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  healthy and you've been standing up and
• 18:47
  doing all the things you're supposed to
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  do, you have a pretty good shot.
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  But we're adding to the mix Alex Kazan,
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  Emma Lawson,
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  who were not in the top fifteen,
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  Gabby Magawa.
• 19:01
  Like it's going to be a wild,
• 19:04
  it is going to be as wild on
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  the female side as it is on the
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  men's side.
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  I think the games will be better for
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  it.
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  That's it.
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  Yes.
• 19:17
  It's great to have the dominance,
• 19:18
  but we've had that.
• 19:20
  Yeah.
• 19:20
  We just need a change of pace.
• 19:22
  Yeah.
• 19:23
  look at how exciting the men's uh side
• 19:25
  has been since matt retired right justin
• 19:29
  wins two years in a row then he
• 19:30
  gets knocked down then that guy gets
• 19:32
  knocked down then that guy gets knocked
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  down last year who knew like oh okay
• 19:38
  could be anybody uh dan's just looking to
• 19:41
  beat corey this time well if it's heavy
• 19:43
  snatches dan you got me smoked so i
• 19:47
  got to worry about that or or heavy
• 19:49
  cleaning jerks for that for that matter
• 19:51
  I can move a barbell pretty damn well,
• 19:52
  but I ain't beating Dan Church in a
• 19:54
  barbell workout.
• 19:55
  That's just not going to happen.
• 19:56
  You know what's the most impressive about
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  Dan Church is the man can move some
• 20:00
  weight, and then he can go upside down,
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  and he's really, really good.
• 20:04
  Yeah, I synced it.
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  Really good.
• 20:08
  I synced it.
• 20:10
  Yeah, it's a hell of a combination.
• 20:14
  So we have that.
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  We talked about our predictions.
• 20:19
  I wanted to briefly, and again,
• 20:20
  I apologize today.
• 20:21
  I have to be,
• 20:22
  I have to have a short show.
• 20:23
  I've got to get back to work by
• 20:25
  one o'clock today.
• 20:29
  There's been,
• 20:30
  there's been some drama in the space and
• 20:31
  I just wanted to get your take on
• 20:33
  it.
• 20:34
  And the drama is that there's all these
• 20:36
  no rep videos.
• 20:38
  If you watch the Froning podcast,
• 20:42
  Scott Vandersloot loses his mind saying
• 20:45
  that he understands the no rep piece if
• 20:48
  you're an elite athlete or in the public
• 20:51
  space or whatever,
• 20:53
  and that you deserve some criticism of
• 20:57
  your standards and whatnot.
• 21:01
  But when you're going down to a fifty
• 21:04
  five year old grandmother, it's too much.
• 21:08
  And so I just I wanted I wanted
• 21:11
  to hear your take on this because you
• 21:13
  definitely have two camps in this one that
• 21:16
  it is completely appropriate and it should
• 21:18
  be done.
• 21:19
  And another camp that is let's leave some
• 21:22
  people alone.
• 21:23
  They're out there doing their best and
• 21:26
  trying hard to get up and move and
• 21:28
  get off the couch.
• 21:31
  Did you sign up for the open?
• 21:34
  Because if you signed up for the open,
• 21:35
  you asked to be judged.
• 21:38
  You just asked to be judged.
• 21:40
  If you put a video out,
• 21:41
  let me tell you something.
• 21:43
  Unless you're in the top,
• 21:44
  whatever the number is,
• 21:48
  you don't have to upload a video right
• 21:49
  now unless you're not an affiliate.
• 21:51
  In that case, you do.
• 21:53
  But if you do,
• 21:54
  you are asking to be judged.
• 21:56
  Guess what?
• 21:56
  I am a certified judge.
• 21:58
  I can go and look at the leaderboard.
• 21:59
  And if somebody's got a video up,
• 22:01
  I can go review it.
• 22:02
  I can press good video, needs review,
• 22:05
  or unviewable.
• 22:06
  If I put needs review,
• 22:08
  there's a comment section I have to fill
• 22:10
  out that says,
• 22:10
  what's wrong with this video?
• 22:11
  You can't just randomly go on there and
• 22:13
  just no good, no good, no good,
• 22:15
  no good, and go on about your business.
• 22:18
  If you put a video out,
• 22:19
  if you signed up for the open,
• 22:21
  you are asking to be judged.
• 22:23
  And do I think it's right that people
• 22:24
  are getting called out?
• 22:25
  Absolutely.
• 22:27
  Hey, at CrossFit Virtus,
• 22:28
  the place that I coach at and work
• 22:30
  at, we got standards.
• 22:33
  You will see,
• 22:34
  you come to Friday Night Lights,
• 22:35
  you will see all kinds of no reps,
• 22:36
  left, right, forward, center.
• 22:37
  I got four or five of them myself
• 22:39
  last Friday night.
• 22:41
  Well-deserved, too,
• 22:41
  because I was getting tired and my wall
• 22:43
  ball was not hitting the target.
• 22:46
  Period.
• 22:47
  Yes, it's deserved.
• 22:49
  I don't care if it's a fifty five
• 22:50
  year old grandma,
• 22:51
  fifty five year old grandma signed up for
• 22:53
  the open and asked to be judged.
• 22:56
  If you're going to get judged,
• 22:57
  if you're going to get if you're going
• 22:58
  to get signed,
• 22:59
  if you're going to go to a competition.
• 23:01
  Right.
• 23:02
  You're going to get judged there.
• 23:03
  This is the worldwide competition and it
• 23:06
  matters.
• 23:07
  It matters to folks.
• 23:09
  It would matter to me if I wasn't
• 23:11
  as fit as I am,
• 23:15
  if I saw somebody that I knew had
• 23:16
  a BS score in front of me,
• 23:19
  because I could see what they did.
• 23:20
  They need to be called out.
• 23:23
  Absolutely.
• 23:24
  Um, I am well,
• 23:26
  well off into that camp.
• 23:27
  It matters.
• 23:28
  It, one hundred matters.
• 23:32
  So.
• 23:34
  I'm going to take a slight variation on
• 23:36
  what you said.
• 23:37
  Because for the most part,
• 23:38
  I pretty much agree with what you're
• 23:40
  saying.
• 23:41
  I do.
• 23:42
  But fundamentally,
• 23:43
  this is where CrossFit has always had a
• 23:45
  problem.
• 23:46
  Yep.
• 23:47
  And that problem is that you want this
• 23:49
  fully participating event that shows that
• 23:53
  you are growing because it's really the
• 23:56
  only public numbers that we know is open
• 23:59
  registrations,
• 24:00
  open signups and open participation,
• 24:02
  right?
• 24:03
  So you're pushing everybody in the
• 24:06
  community to do this thing.
• 24:09
  And I would say a good chunk of
• 24:10
  them are not competitive, right?
• 24:12
  You're just trying to get those numbers in
• 24:14
  there so they take a yearly test and
• 24:17
  they do this thing.
• 24:19
  You also have this side that's a sport
• 24:21
  where this is the first round of the
• 24:23
  sport where people are signing up,
• 24:25
  trying to move forward,
• 24:27
  trying to qualify for events and they want
• 24:29
  to see and they need to get certain
• 24:32
  numbers to get those things.
• 24:35
  And they have goals and they have
• 24:36
  ambitions.
• 24:37
  Maybe it's not the games this year,
• 24:39
  but maybe it's quarterfinals.
• 24:40
  And you're in the seventy-fourth
• 24:43
  percentile and people ahead of you are not
• 24:46
  doing full reps.
• 24:48
  That sucks.
• 24:50
  Sucks hard.
• 24:53
  So my point is, though,
• 24:55
  because you can't differentiate the two,
• 25:01
  we get this blob of stuff in the
• 25:03
  middle
• 25:04
  that people are getting hammered for depth
• 25:08
  that may not have the mobility to do
• 25:10
  it.
• 25:11
  And that should be done by a coach.
• 25:13
  It should be done by their affiliate.
• 25:15
  And I would hope we could trust CrossFit
• 25:19
  L-One trainers to do that in their gym.
• 25:22
  But the problem is we don't have that
• 25:23
  differentiation.
• 25:25
  So it's all stuck together and it all
• 25:27
  gets combined together and it creates this
• 25:30
  mess every single year.
• 25:32
  I understand what you're saying,
• 25:34
  but the L one that's judging them,
• 25:37
  the coach that's judging them is not the
• 25:39
  person that's putting their video out on
• 25:40
  the internet for everybody to see.
• 25:42
  You have to do that yourself.
• 25:48
  Okay.
• 25:48
  As soon as what Dan says right there,
• 25:51
  integrity, got to have it.
• 25:52
  So as soon as you put your video
• 25:54
  out,
• 25:55
  And you put it out there for everybody
• 25:57
  to see.
• 25:57
  The internet is forever.
• 25:58
  We already had that discussion.
• 25:59
  Boom.
• 26:00
  Now everybody can see it.
• 26:01
  Everybody gets to judge it.
• 26:02
  And if you want to get called out,
• 26:03
  you're going to get called out,
• 26:04
  especially if you have a score that
• 26:07
  already looks like it's nonsense.
• 26:10
  And then people can go ahead and look
• 26:11
  at your video and go, okay, well, yeah,
• 26:13
  that is nonsense because they're not going
• 26:16
  below parallel.
• 26:17
  They're not hitting the target.
• 26:19
  They're not nine feet tall.
• 26:20
  Why is this target so low?
• 26:22
  Like there's a lot of that going on.
• 26:25
  a whole lot of it.
• 26:26
  And that's just the videos we can see.
• 26:27
  That's not the videos that the scores that
• 26:29
  people just input.
• 26:31
  Right.
• 26:34
  I think Jenny actually hits it on the
• 26:35
  head.
• 26:36
  Foundations and scale have such a stigma
• 26:38
  and they shouldn't.
• 26:40
  They shouldn't.
• 26:41
  That is where some people just are at
• 26:43
  this point.
• 26:44
  If you're not hitting the RX button, then,
• 26:47
  okay, now you're saying,
• 26:49
  I can't do the RX version of this.
• 26:52
  And then you're pulled out of competition
• 26:55
  with those people trying to compete for
• 26:57
  goals.
• 26:58
  But when you hit that RX button,
• 27:01
  you're right.
• 27:02
  You are subject to criticism.
• 27:06
  Yeah.
• 27:12
  Then maybe that's the differentiator that
• 27:17
  people aren't using that they should.
• 27:20
  And coaches should be saying, listen,
• 27:23
  you're not reaching full depth.
• 27:25
  You need to hit scale.
• 27:28
  Or you need to hit foundations.
• 27:31
  Come to my gym.
• 27:32
  I guarantee you,
• 27:34
  you will be held to the standard because
• 27:36
  that's what we do.
• 27:38
  I will brag on my gym every day
• 27:40
  for that.
• 27:42
  Because that's what we do.
• 27:44
  I tell people in coaching classes, hey,
• 27:47
  if we're doing dumbbell snatches,
• 27:48
  both heads are touching the ground before
• 27:50
  it goes back up.
• 27:51
  Why?
• 27:51
  Because we have standards here at CrossFit
• 27:53
  Virtus.
• 27:54
  And we're not going to get caught out.
• 27:55
  We're going to do stuff like it's supposed
• 27:57
  to be done.
• 28:00
  John George said something I wanted to
• 28:03
  show.
• 28:04
  His rant was stupid and hypocritical.
• 28:06
  His rant was personal.
• 28:07
  He said, Hiller only cares about views.
• 28:09
  This coming from a guy who gets paid
• 28:11
  to generate views.
• 28:14
  And that is kind of right.
• 28:16
  It is right.
• 28:22
  Halston says, unfortunately,
• 28:23
  it all starts with affiliate owners and
• 28:25
  judges.
• 28:25
  They don't hold their member accountable.
• 28:27
  Mine doesn't.
• 28:28
  So when Hiller exposes them,
• 28:29
  I don't mind at all.
• 28:33
  Some don't.
• 28:33
  We do.
• 28:35
  And I'm glad we do.
• 28:36
  I'm glad I'm somewhere where the standard
• 28:39
  is the standard.
• 28:41
  Like our owner Cecil will tell you flat
• 28:42
  out the standard is the standard.
• 28:45
  If you're not hitting a standard,
• 28:46
  then you're not hitting a standard period.
• 28:48
  He was nowhere up in my son that
• 28:49
  he was judging right there in front of
• 28:52
  me and everyone Brody deserved and he
• 28:54
  knows he deserved and everybody was good
• 28:58
  with it.
• 28:58
  Like just moving right along, you know,
• 29:00
  Hey man, be better.
• 29:03
  Yeah.
• 29:05
  Gotcha.
• 29:07
  Um, I, um,
• 29:11
  I'm going to share this real quick.
• 29:12
  So Vicki, um,
• 29:15
  Vicky was talking about how she yelled no
• 29:17
  rep at her husband so much that this
• 29:21
  is what happened.
• 29:29
  I love it.
• 29:34
  Anyway,
• 29:36
  I just wanted to get your thoughts on
• 29:38
  that because I do think it's a big,
• 29:40
  it happens every single year.
• 29:41
  We complain about the exact same thing.
• 29:44
  I've been doing the open since twenty
• 29:45
  thirteen.
• 29:46
  We complained about it back then and we're
• 29:48
  still complaining about the exact same
• 29:50
  thing today.
• 29:52
  And I think that is.
• 29:56
  I think it's wild.
• 29:57
  But anyway, and it's probably accurate.
• 30:00
  That's why I think this Xenon thing is
• 30:02
  interesting because it isn't about who you
• 30:05
  beat.
• 30:05
  It's about your score based on a standard.
• 30:08
  Right.
• 30:09
  Right.
• 30:09
  It's not that you finished one rep ahead
• 30:12
  of me.
• 30:13
  It's that you on this chart finished here.
• 30:18
  I think when it comes down to it,
• 30:19
  there's two very distinct camps.
• 30:20
  There's a people like us who are saying,
• 30:23
  hey, man, the standard is the standard.
• 30:25
  Hold me to it because I'm going to
• 30:27
  hold you to it.
• 30:27
  If you are in my presence,
• 30:30
  you're going to have to move like it
• 30:31
  is because my score to me means something
• 30:33
  when it gets on the board.
• 30:35
  And then there's a group that's like, oh,
• 30:36
  I'm just here having fun and I'm just
• 30:38
  going to whatever.
• 30:41
  And those two people do not cohabitate,
• 30:43
  generally speaking.
• 30:47
  And what ends up happening is that those
• 30:49
  people input their scores,
• 30:52
  what they either think they actually got
• 30:54
  or they put a video out and they're
• 30:55
  like, oh, no, I'm doing fine.
• 30:56
  Like, no, dude, that's not what that is.
• 31:01
  And then we end up where we are
• 31:02
  now.
• 31:03
  And it happens every single year.
• 31:05
  And when I think it is,
• 31:06
  it's a peek in at a bigger problem
• 31:08
  for CrossFit as a whole.
• 31:11
  You have this sports side and you have
• 31:14
  this affiliate side.
• 31:17
  And there are often times where they do
• 31:20
  not mesh.
• 31:22
  We talked about a long time ago,
• 31:24
  if you were to ever split it off,
• 31:25
  like Dave said briefly in his week in
• 31:27
  review, like three weeks ago,
• 31:30
  it's like a Siamese twin where the open
• 31:34
  is the heart and it shares it.
• 31:37
  And it makes it impossible to split them.
• 31:43
  Very difficult at the very least.
• 31:45
  Right.
• 31:47
  here's the thing though especially so like
• 31:49
  last week's workout is a perfect example
• 31:51
  is that yes there are people in there
• 31:54
  they're just they're doing the best that
• 31:55
  they can that's fine they should be doing
• 31:58
  the scaled version but even the scaled
• 31:59
  version as far as i know or the
• 32:02
  the the foundations version you still got
• 32:05
  to squat below parallel because that's
• 32:06
  what we do if i'm wrong i am
• 32:10
  willing to be
• 32:13
  I will happily because I did not look.
• 32:15
  I didn't get to judge anybody last week.
• 32:18
  But you still need to squad below
• 32:21
  parallel.
• 32:21
  That's just part of a wall ball.
• 32:23
  That's part of a wall ball standard.
• 32:24
  I will coach everybody to that standard.
• 32:26
  And if we can't do it yet,
• 32:27
  then we don't need to be doing whatever
• 32:29
  it is that that is because we need
• 32:31
  to be working on that.
• 32:32
  And we're certainly not inputting our
• 32:35
  score as RX if we cannot hold it
• 32:37
  to the standard,
• 32:38
  which the minimum standard is below
• 32:40
  parallel and then hit the targets.
• 32:43
  So my first gym is Shred CrossFit.
• 32:44
  If you didn't meet standards in a class,
• 32:49
  the coach would say, no rep.
• 32:51
  Like literally in the middle of a class.
• 32:54
  All the time.
• 32:54
  Like to the point where we would go
• 32:57
  to local comps and we would reach...
• 33:00
  full extension,
• 33:01
  full depth and everybody else is cutting
• 33:03
  it.
• 33:03
  And you feel like, well,
• 33:05
  how the hell am I supposed to compete
• 33:06
  with these guys?
• 33:07
  I totally get it.
• 33:08
  I totally get it at a competition.
• 33:10
  It makes more sense to me though,
• 33:12
  because you signed up,
• 33:13
  you paid and you went to this thing.
• 33:15
  It wasn't like an affiliate or gym thing.
• 33:19
  kind of family event.
• 33:22
  Right.
• 33:23
  No.
• 33:23
  And that's where it gets confused in the
• 33:26
  open.
• 33:26
  There are people there just doing it to
• 33:28
  hang out with friends and not to compete.
• 33:31
  And because of that,
• 33:34
  we will have this argument until the end
• 33:35
  of time.
• 33:37
  But the biggest thing is that they're
• 33:38
  hitting RX instead of hitting what they
• 33:40
  should hit.
• 33:40
  Correct.
• 33:41
  Foundations.
• 33:42
  That is the biggest thing.
• 33:44
  Check your ego at the door, people.
• 33:47
  That's all you have to do.
• 33:50
  Well, I had the twenty pound ball.
• 33:52
  That's great.
• 33:52
  Your knees,
• 33:53
  your hips never got below your knees.
• 33:56
  You can throw a twenty pound ball all
• 33:57
  you want.
• 34:00
  Vicki says,
• 34:00
  how many people video themselves in
• 34:02
  workouts and actually look at what they're
• 34:03
  doing?
• 34:04
  I'd argue more people should be doing that
• 34:06
  on the regular.
• 34:06
  I used to do it all the time.
• 34:08
  I have not done that in five years,
• 34:10
  six years, whatever.
• 34:12
  I do it pretty much every week.
• 34:15
  I want to get back to that place.
• 34:16
  I just.
• 34:24
  Yeah.
• 34:25
  Yes.
• 34:29
  Forget the open.
• 34:30
  I want to squat below parallel because
• 34:32
  humans should be able to barring injury or
• 34:33
  disability.
• 34:35
  Amen.
• 34:36
  Amen.
• 34:36
  Mark.
• 34:37
  Amen.
• 34:37
  Mark Phillips.
• 34:38
  Good job, brother.
• 34:43
  We can't lie to ourselves if it's on
• 34:45
  video.
• 34:50
  You can find the right angle to lie
• 34:51
  to yourself if you want to.
• 34:53
  So we had a girl in class,
• 34:56
  this happened about three,
• 34:57
  four months ago,
• 34:58
  who got mad at one of the coaches
• 35:00
  for telling her in a wall ball workout
• 35:03
  that she was not hitting depth, right?
• 35:06
  And got mad at her.
• 35:07
  The next week,
• 35:11
  somebody videoed her and showed it to her
• 35:14
  and she went and apologized to the coach.
• 35:17
  Because, oh, I actually wasn't.
• 35:20
  No, you weren't.
• 35:21
  And we're just trying to make you move
• 35:24
  better.
• 35:25
  That's it.
• 35:27
  Nobody's attacking you personally.
• 35:30
  We're just trying to make you better.
• 35:31
  That's all there is to it.
• 35:34
  All right, we'll finish up with this.
• 35:36
  And then plus,
• 35:37
  if you're paying two hundred dollars a
• 35:38
  membership for a CrossFit gym,
• 35:40
  the coaches should be coaching you the
• 35:41
  proper way, coaching you how to move,
• 35:43
  not only being cheerleaders.
• 35:45
  And Ed says,
• 35:46
  I do the open so I can live
• 35:47
  a strong,
• 35:48
  healthy life and hopefully live to over a
• 35:51
  hundred years old.
• 35:54
  And Ken Walters, of course, only videos,
• 35:56
  PRs.
• 36:01
  Love Ken.
• 36:02
  Love it.
• 36:03
  Love it.
• 36:03
  Last thing I wanted to talk about is
• 36:05
  I did something last night.
• 36:06
  Oh.
• 36:08
  I sponsored an athlete.
• 36:10
  Get out of here.
• 36:11
  I did.
• 36:13
  I sponsored an athlete in the grid league.
• 36:16
  A grid league athlete, no less.
• 36:19
  I did.
• 36:21
  I know this athlete.
• 36:22
  Her name is Lauren Olsen.
• 36:24
  Oh, I do know that athlete.
• 36:25
  Lauren's awesome.
• 36:26
  She's awesome.
• 36:27
  She's a maniac, dude.
• 36:29
  She is fantastic.
• 36:31
  She is on the Houston Bandits.
• 36:33
  She is one of their lifting specialists.
• 36:35
  She's strong as an ox, dude.
• 36:36
  It's ridiculous.
• 36:38
  But I met her like early on when
• 36:40
  I started this podcast.
• 36:41
  She's one of the first listeners we ever
• 36:43
  had.
• 36:44
  And she was on Team Believe a couple
• 36:46
  years ago that went to the games.
• 36:48
  One of their members smashed his face
• 36:52
  working out right before the games and
• 36:53
  they couldn't compete.
• 36:55
  And if you ever watch a grid league
• 36:58
  match, Lauren dances the entire time.
• 37:01
  She's the female version of Corey.
• 37:03
  It's fantastic.
• 37:04
  Yeah.
• 37:06
  And so Clydesdale media sponsored Lauren
• 37:10
  Olson for the twenty twenty six grid
• 37:13
  league season.
• 37:16
  She's the best.
• 37:18
  So I'm super stoked.
• 37:20
  Oh,
• 37:21
  it's only the second time I've sponsored
• 37:23
  an athlete in an event or whatever.
• 37:27
  But the Clydesdale media logo will be on
• 37:29
  her jersey.
• 37:31
  She's number two.
• 37:39
  Oh.
• 37:39
  So if you want to go follow her,
• 37:40
  it's CFOlson on Instagram.
• 37:42
  Yeah.
• 37:42
  She's hilarious.
• 37:45
  She's doing the open.
• 37:46
  She does CrossFit.
• 37:47
  She just.
• 37:49
  She's at Legends this year.
• 37:52
  Yeah.
• 37:52
  I think she's a master's athlete now.
• 37:56
  And she is one of the lifting specialists
• 37:58
  for the Houston Bandits.
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  And she actually got on the floor a
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  lot last year.
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  A lot.
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  She's great.
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  And so super stoked to be sponsoring her
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  this year.
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  And you can go sponsor a grid athlete
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  too.
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  It's not even that expensive.
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  And last year I watched a lot because,
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  honestly,
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  because John Young signed up and I wanted
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  to see
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  the train wreck if it was going to
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  be a train wreck or if it was
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  going to be a success and it turned
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  out that i actually enjoyed some of it
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  i enjoyed a lot of it actually the
• 38:34
  announcers are great the announcers are
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  great they and it they did a good
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  job presenting it all within like an hour
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  So the whole competition beginning to end
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  is an hour long.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  And even though some of the movements are
• 38:48
  way wild for me,
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  a little bit over the top,
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  it is watchable because it's a bite size
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  of a competition.
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  The biggest train wreck for John Young was
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  his shirt size.
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  That was the biggest...
• 39:06
  John Young, Houston bandit, train wreck,
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  was that they gave him a shirt that
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  was just about big enough for my
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  eight-year-old daughter.
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  And they were like, here you go.
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  Go ahead and put that on.
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  One,
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  NAI wants to know how much to sponsor
• 39:21
  J.Y.,
• 39:21
  but make it say something funny on his
• 39:24
  shirt all season.
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  So it's like four-fifty to get a jersey
• 39:29
  spot.
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  Yeah.
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  But there are other sponsorships lower
• 39:32
  than that.
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  And then Mark Phillips argues with you,
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  it wasn't the shirt.
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  Did you see his shorts?
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  Dude, I saw his shorts, but, like,
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  that's one thing.
• 39:44
  I'm not paying that much attention to John
• 39:45
  Young's ass,
• 39:47
  but his shirt was six sizes too small.
• 39:53
  Ramirez says it's at least a four-T size
• 39:55
  shirt.
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  Roughly.
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  For a toddler.
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  Yeah.
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  He was shopping at the Baby Gap.
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  A hundred percent.
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  It was fantastic.
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  Yeah.
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  Anyway, fun stuff.
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  I know we've had the owners of the
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  Fight for the Fittest that goes on on
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  Long Island every year.
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  They started a new team called the New
• 40:16
  York Wolves.
• 40:17
  They're going to be in the league this
• 40:18
  year.
• 40:20
  It's growing.
• 40:22
  It has a little niche, and they grow,
• 40:25
  and they don't try to be more than
• 40:26
  they are.
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  and uh love about it i forget which
• 40:30
  team one of the florida teams just
• 40:32
  actually reached out to one of my training
• 40:33
  partners uh blair at the gym uh smoky
• 40:37
  the blair go ahead and follow her on
• 40:39
  instagram they asking her to join their
• 40:41
  team but she's like i
• 40:44
  tactical games dude like tactical games
• 40:46
  pays her to show up and win they
• 40:48
  ain't doing that or her sponsors i should
• 40:50
  say pay her to show up at the
• 40:51
  tactical games and win so she ain't doing
• 40:52
  that but it was nice to be asked
• 40:54
  she was like that's pretty cool she'd have
• 40:55
  been a strength specialist too blair's
• 40:58
  absurdly strong it's ridiculous yeah
• 41:02
  awesome um yeah there's a lot going on
• 41:08
  in the chat right now i missed some
• 41:10
  of that but um again i got to
• 41:12
  get back to work today
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  We're about two hours away from the open
• 41:17
  announcement.
• 41:18
  Tomorrow,
• 41:19
  we will be back on the air to
• 41:20
  talk about what the workout is,
• 41:22
  what it means,
• 41:23
  what we think is going to happen,
• 41:25
  all that kind of stuff.
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  And I hope you guys have a great
• 41:28
  rest of your Thursday.
• 41:30
  We'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch with
• 41:33
  the Clydesdale.
• 41:34
  Bye, guys.