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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk | TFX shows us the future... The Dottirs shows us the Past · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:27
  good evening everybody and
• 0:28
  welcome where we're back
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  home on sunday sunday
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  sunday night crossfit talk
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  back where we're supposed
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  to be um today is february
• 0:41
  second in the states that
• 0:42
  is groundhog day I don't
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  know if you have anything
• 0:45
  like that in canada carolyn
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  we do I don't know which
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  day it is but we have it as well
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  and uh punxsutawney phil uh
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  which is really close to
• 0:56
  where I grew up
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  punxsutawney pennsylvania
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  um came up at gobbler's
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  knob and saw his shadow and
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  scurried back in the hole
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  meaning that we have six
• 1:07
  more weeks of winter boo
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  yeah to be expected I feel
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  like that's the way this
• 1:15
  winter has been going
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  yeah uh I when I saw that
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  new like I believe or like
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  I believe an animal yeah
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  right and it's not like
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  just pure transparency when
• 1:33
  I was in college and I was
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  bouncing at a bar one night
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  we closed up shop we hopped
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  in our car we headed to
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  punxsutawney and we watched
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  this thing live there's no way that that
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  groundhog is in his natural
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  habitat right like he's
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  under like eight hundred
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  lights right and being
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  poked and prodded and all
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  this kind of stuff there's
• 1:55
  no way he's giving a real
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  forecast it's like the dogs
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  are the mascots during
• 2:00
  playoffs that like hit a
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  ball into a bucket and it's
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  like this one's gonna win
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  this series in seven it's
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  like how many yeah it says
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  it's as accurate as that yeah
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  Wow, we've already got questions flowing.
• 2:17
  I know.
• 2:17
  Lex, how am I and how is my OSNI?
• 2:21
  I have been better.
• 2:22
  I woke up this morning with
• 2:23
  a major sore throat,
• 2:26
  just trying to get through
• 2:26
  the day and trying to...
• 2:31
  I'm leading a project at work,
• 2:33
  so I have to be better tomorrow somehow.
• 2:36
  Been in emergency meetings
• 2:37
  for like a week and a half straight.
• 2:39
  not loving life.
• 2:40
  But the good news is, Saturday, officially,
• 2:44
  I can walk out from my job,
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  and I'm guaranteed to check
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  the rest of my life.
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  Now, for the longer I stay,
• 2:53
  the bigger that check becomes.
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  Now we just got to build it up.
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  But at this point,
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  I can walk away and get
• 3:00
  paid the rest of my life.
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  But my wife's doing awesome.
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  I was telling Jamie and
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  Carolyn before the show,
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  she's moving better now
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  than she was before the surgery.
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  The pain she was in before is gone.
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  And now she's just dealing
• 3:19
  with the surgery pain,
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  which is better than what
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  it would have been beforehand.
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  Then we have Jamie.
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  How's the gym?
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  Oh, Lord.
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  Lord.
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  it's I mean there hasn't
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  been much more on the
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  remodeling front because
• 3:34
  I've got to put in the
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  second order um of things
• 3:37
  that we needed just from
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  the certain bars not
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  working so I'm gonna put
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  that order in tonight and
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  then hopefully when aaron's
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  shut down from gm at the end of february
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  which will coincide with like the open,
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  we can get it actually done.
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  But I'm also in the process
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  of switching over from push
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  press to Chalk It Pro.
• 3:57
  We've always had Chalk It Pro.
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  That's what we use for our workouts,
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  logging, logging our workouts.
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  Chalk It Pro?
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  Chalk It Pro.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  That's always been our logging.
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  Well, not always.
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  I mean,
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  years ago we had like be on the
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  whiteboard.
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  We've had a couple of different things.
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  But I'd say for the last like
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  For probably five years,
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  we've had Chalk It Pro.
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  It's tied to level method.
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  So it comes in the color coded levels.
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  And then we had Push Press
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  for billing and Chalk It got billing,
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  the billing side.
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  And I'm sick of having, the thing is,
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  I really, really like Push Press.
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  I just don't like their
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  logging as much and we're
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  so used to level method
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  that I just can't really
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  get rid of chalk it so I
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  just gonna have to bite the
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  bullet and deal with the
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  billing side on chalk it um
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  so I got I'm migrating over
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  and over from push press
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  and setting up the store
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  and the calendar and holy
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  cow it's way more in depth
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  than I I mean I kind of
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  expected to take a while
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  but this is like it's
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  getting ridiculous so if anyone has
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  Knowledge of chalk it, share it with me.
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  I mean, I, what do you have?
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  I like beyond the whiteboard.
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  I know beyond the whiteboard very well.
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  I do.
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  I always really,
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  really liked to be on the
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  whiteboard as a logging system.
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  Um, I was sad when we got rid of it,
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  but like I said,
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  the chalk is tied to level method,
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  but what's dumb is we don't
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  really do level method programming.
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  We follow training think
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  tank affiliate programming.
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  So I in every Sunday, Saturday or Sunday,
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  it's been like six hours
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  leveling out pocket into
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  leveling out training
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  programming into chalk.
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  So I don't know.
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  Yeah,
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  I've been on Beyond the Whiteboard
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  all day because my affiliate owner,
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  he just gave me access to
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  like the admin part of it
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  because I've been
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  programming for like the
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  affiliate for years.
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  Lex and I now program together.
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  But I'm going to use it with
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  my students this semester
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  because we just got a TV in
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  the fitness room and a Chromecast.
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  So I want to be able to like
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  Chromecast and then me
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  adding some students.
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  get them to start logging.
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  Cause I always buy them
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  little journals so that
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  they can write their workouts.
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  Um, which I still will.
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  Cause in case some people
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  don't want to use the app
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  or anything like that.
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  Um,
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  but just something new to try with them.
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  Yeah.
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  Beyond the whiteboard is, is great.
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  Nothing bad to say there.
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  all in one I think we used
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  beyond the whiteboard I
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  used beyond the whiteboard
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  before my gym had a logging
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  system and my first two
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  notebooks are still on that
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  bookshelf over there I am
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  when I first started
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  physical there's something
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  about writing in a little
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  notebook when you first
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  start working out that it's
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  almost like everyone started like that
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  I've been old school with my
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  students and making them do
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  it in a journal,
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  but this semester will be
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  the first time I try it with a software.
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  I think I'll only try it
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  with my grade eleven and
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  twelves that have done the
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  course many times with me.
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  So give them that.
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  Next thing is sad Colton
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  didn't get offered WFP,
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  the people's champ.
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  I think it's a mistake, personally.
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  Well, I do.
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  I mean,
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  I see in here someone said he would
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  have been a better choice than Hoffer.
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  I got to say there's
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  something to having those
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  people out there that you
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  know are going to come take a spot.
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  Because that's the thing.
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  If you have the top twenty in there,
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  who the frick's coming to take a spot?
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  Colton's already signed up
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  for the Challenger division.
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  See, that's perfect.
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  He's going to bring the
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  excitement for that
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  division because he
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  probably will earn a spot.
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  But if you look at golf or tennis,
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  that pro card changes every year.
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  Maybe not near the top,
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  but down in that fringe.
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  Fifteen through twenty-five
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  is pretty arbitrary, right?
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  So it could be anybody,
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  but the mistake is that
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  Colton draws fans.
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  He is probably at this point
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  one of the top two or three
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  draws on the men's side of CrossFit.
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  And if you're going to bring someone in,
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  that would be the person
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  you would bring in.
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  His following has really
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  increased on Instagram as well.
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  Right, exactly.
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  Like he's doing a good job
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  with his social media.
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  He's been probably one of the most, uh,
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  one of the accounts I've grown the most,
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  I would assume in the
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  crosses space in the last year,
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  if someone were to run the
• 8:50
  numbers of who got the most
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  followers in the year,
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  I think he's gotta be up there.
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  You can't say that him being a challenger,
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  isn't going to draw the crowds.
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  Oh, it will.
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  I mean,
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  this could be some kind of a
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  background set up.
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  the but the challenger is
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  online if he's top ten in
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  the challenger he's in the
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  same field with the twenty
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  right exactly but that's
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  the thing like he's pretty
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  much gonna do the same
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  thing anyway there's plenty
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  of other people that are
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  very good that would be
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  good in that if you worked
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  on promoting them and
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  that's the proposal I sent to will
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  Like I want to be the group
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  that takes that focus on the challengers.
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  You guys run with your,
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  your pro card people.
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  Let us,
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  let us focus on the challengers and
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  try to highlight them,
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  get people to know them,
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  feature them more.
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  And I'm still waiting to hear back.
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  So hopefully, I mean, I did hear back,
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  but I didn't hear back with
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  an answer yet.
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  Gotcha.
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  Just a received, got it.
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  It was more than that.
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  It was, it was much more than that.
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  I don't want to say like they ignored me.
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  They did not.
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  Uh, will was very appreciative of, uh,
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  the proposal and everything.
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  He was turning it over to his media team,
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  which I don't know who that is.
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  So,
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  so I don't even know who to follow up
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  with other than will.
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  And I don't want to just
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  like pound him with,
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  but I will go back soon.
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  Was a question if you could
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  see who signed up for the
• 10:27
  qualifier so far.
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  And yes, you can.
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  If you go on Competition Corner,
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  it's called World Fitness
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  Tour Challenger Qualifier.
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  I don't know if you can pull it up.
• 10:37
  Scott,
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  you can see the athletes that I've
• 10:39
  signed on and are signed up
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  for the qualifier right now.
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  And Colton's already on there,
• 10:44
  including Spin and a few others.
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  I'm just taking a look right now.
• 10:55
  I did not have any of that ready,
• 10:57
  but we will.
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  I have it open.
• 10:59
  I don't know how to share though,
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  but it's called world.
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  If you go on competition corner.
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  Yeah.
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  I just searched challenger
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  and it popped up with world
• 11:08
  fitness tour challenger qualifier.
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  Okay.
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  And there starts, I think,
• 11:24
  I think it's during one of
• 11:25
  the weeks of the open, I believe.
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  So there are the males.
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  Is it the last week of the open?
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  I can't read that.
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  There's Colton right there.
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  I feel like it's not.
• 11:42
  Well, actually,
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  maybe I think it's the week
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  right after because I think
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  the last week of the open
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  is done on March
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  seventeenth and this one
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  begins on the nineteenth.
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  So just a couple of days
• 11:53
  after the following week is this one.
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  So I guess it takes it takes
• 11:58
  the place of the
• 11:58
  quarterfinals basically
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  that you had right after the open.
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  So these are the participants.
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  Kaden Hogan.
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  Decent number of signups already.
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  Wow.
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  I almost expected this to be a,
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  probably not sign up until
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  that seventeenth, eighteenth, right after,
• 12:31
  at the end of the open,
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  when you kind of see where you're.
• 12:35
  Or you see what the workouts are.
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  Yeah.
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  There you go.
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  Pretty good number on the, so far,
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  and it's a month away.
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  Not bad.
• 12:44
  Then here are the females.
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  Dana Perrin.
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  Jennifer Murrell.
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  Jesse Smith.
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  Nice.
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  Makes sense with her.
• 12:56
  Catherine is a girl from CrossFit Sarnia.
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  Shout out to them.
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  Or Phoenix.
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  Matilda Garnas.
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  Yeah.
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  Some decent names there.
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  Yeah.
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  Are you going to sign up, Carolyn?
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  Yeah, I will.
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  I'll take a look at what the
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  workouts are first and then
• 13:22
  probably decide from there.
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  But yeah, most likely.
• 13:25
  Good job on your Northern
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  Classic qualifiers.
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  Some good scores.
• 13:34
  I won the one workout with
• 13:35
  deadlift and box jumps, which I like.
• 13:37
  Yeah,
• 13:40
  And then the death pile,
• 13:42
  I did well on that one.
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  I made a mistake in my last
• 13:47
  round of thrusters.
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  I should have been able to.
• 13:49
  I was two reps shy of finishing it.
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  But I dropped the bar and I
• 13:55
  was mentally weak in that round.
• 13:58
  And then I just didn't time
• 13:59
  it right and then ran out of time.
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  And I was like, I'm such an idiot.
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  I was like, why did I drop the bar?
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  Do we know what the fee is
• 14:05
  to sign up for the Challenger?
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  Twenty-five dollars American, I believe.
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  Okay.
• 14:12
  All right.
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  Well, since we talked World Fitness Tour,
• 14:15
  we'll jump to that first.
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  They made some signings
• 14:20
  after Waterpalooza.
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  I will show that I have a
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  bunch of share screens here.
• 14:30
  So the first big
• 14:31
  announcement was that Saxon
• 14:33
  Pancheck is no longer a signed athlete.
• 14:36
  He is taking another role
• 14:38
  with World Fitness Project.
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  And if you open that up,
• 14:41
  you actually see I'm
• 14:42
  excited to be changing
• 14:43
  directions and taking on a
• 14:45
  new role at the World Fitness Project.
• 14:49
  Curious what that is.
• 14:51
  Yeah, me too.
• 14:54
  Then since Waterpalooza,
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  we have Lucy Campbell.
• 14:58
  We have Danny Spiegel.
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  We have Olivia Kerstetter.
• 15:02
  On the men's side,
• 15:03
  we have Austin Hatfield and Jeff Adler.
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  That closes out the men for sure.
• 15:10
  The women, is there one spot open?
• 15:13
  Yeah, I've counted nineteen women.
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  So, I mean, you have Laura and Tia.
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  I don't I don't expect Tia
• 15:18
  to sign on this.
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  And I guess we'll see if
• 15:22
  Laura is the other one.
• 15:25
  So then the other thing I
• 15:26
  wanted to share and Carolyn
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  just sent this to me, um, gosh,
• 15:32
  minutes ago.
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  Um, that is this one.
• 15:38
  Uh, I'll try to blows.
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  So this is the field of, for the men,
• 15:43
  the twenty, uh,
• 15:45
  Bruce Wayne Saxon is no
• 15:47
  longer an athlete with WFP.
• 15:49
  He is some other role yet to be announced.
• 15:56
  So what this is,
• 15:58
  is it's a list of the
• 15:59
  twenty athletes and then
• 16:02
  what region they're from
• 16:04
  their Apollo ranking, which is the new
• 16:10
  uh dale what's his first
• 16:13
  name barkley dale oh okay a
• 16:17
  ranking system um which
• 16:21
  that system basically takes
• 16:23
  like a strength of field
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  and puts you again like
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  it'll give you a ranking
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  every competition but if
• 16:28
  the strength of field is
• 16:29
  higher that competition
• 16:31
  becomes worth more
• 16:33
  so it has a whole ranking of
• 16:35
  on that part and then
• 16:37
  obviously the Rogue ranking
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  takes into consideration um
• 16:41
  not all the comps but you
• 16:43
  know Rogue I think it takes
• 16:45
  the open semifinals it did
• 16:48
  take quarterfinals uh and
• 16:50
  the games and I don't know
• 16:51
  if they take what a Palooza
• 16:53
  I don't think they take a
• 16:53
  lot of clues on that one um yeah
• 16:59
  so on the men's side, um,
• 17:02
  most of this makes sense.
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  Uh,
• 17:04
  most of the men are ranked in the top
• 17:05
  in one of the two polls.
• 17:08
  Um, but there are two that are not,
• 17:10
  and that is Luca Jukic and Victor Hoffer.
• 17:14
  Um,
• 17:15
  you can see the Victor Hoffer was in
• 17:17
  the Apollo ranking and in the rogue.
• 17:21
  Um,
• 17:21
  Luca was in the Apollo and in the rogue.
• 17:26
  Um,
• 17:27
  And so, but they did say way back when,
• 17:30
  when they,
• 17:31
  when they were doing the media
• 17:32
  tour that they had four wild card spots.
• 17:36
  And I'm assuming that that's what that is.
• 17:38
  Um, the rest of this is pretty,
• 17:41
  pretty clear cut.
• 17:45
  What I, what I find fascinating though,
• 17:47
  is who is the number one
• 17:49
  Apollo ranked male athlete?
• 17:51
  That's not on this list.
• 17:54
  Really?
• 17:55
  Yeah.
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  Wow.
• 18:00
  It makes sense.
• 18:02
  Yeah, I had asked the question,
• 18:04
  then right away I knew my own answer.
• 18:05
  I was like, of course.
• 18:06
  I was like, why did I ask that?
• 18:08
  Wow.
• 18:13
  He did have a great year last year,
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  though.
• 18:14
  He did well at Rogue.
• 18:16
  He did well at the Games.
• 18:18
  Well, at Summys,
• 18:19
  he was very consistent
• 18:20
  throughout the year.
• 18:25
  People are throwing out other names,
• 18:26
  but Noah was tenth in the Rogue ranking.
• 18:29
  just forty third in the Apollo ranking.
• 18:32
  So at least he was top
• 18:33
  twenty in one of one of the rankings.
• 18:36
  And they actually the Apollo
• 18:37
  ranking is brand new.
• 18:39
  This wasn't even out when
• 18:41
  WFP first came to light.
• 18:44
  They said they were going to
• 18:45
  follow something like the rogue,
• 18:48
  the rogue pole.
• 18:51
  So that would actually be
• 18:52
  more accurate for the most part.
• 18:57
  And again,
• 18:57
  they said they had the option of
• 18:59
  four wild cards that they could pick,
• 19:02
  just whatever, wherever they wanted.
• 19:05
  Fourteen out of the twenty
• 19:06
  athletes here are ranked in
• 19:08
  the top twenty in both categories,
• 19:09
  to give you an idea.
• 19:10
  Fourteen out of them.
• 19:12
  And then, like you said,
• 19:13
  two of them aren't in any of them.
• 19:15
  And then there are some
• 19:17
  athletes that are ranked
• 19:18
  inside the top twenty in
• 19:20
  one of the different categories.
• 19:25
  So.
• 19:26
  Most of the time being the Rogue ranking,
• 19:28
  which takes probably a
• 19:29
  little bit more historical
• 19:33
  stuff and when they were
• 19:34
  still competing
• 19:35
  individually for some of them.
• 19:37
  And just to make sure we give credit,
• 19:38
  this actually came from
• 19:39
  BeFriendly Instagram account.
• 19:43
  So we did not put this together.
• 19:44
  They did.
• 19:45
  So kudos to them for making
• 19:47
  this an easy chart to look at real quick.
• 19:51
  Yeah, I like that chart.
• 19:52
  It was like, oh,
• 19:53
  I had to send it to you guys right away.
• 19:54
  I was like, this is perfect.
• 19:55
  because we were wondering
• 19:56
  that especially I want to I
• 19:57
  definitely am curious to
• 19:58
  see when that woman's field
• 20:00
  gets completed if it's similar numbers,
• 20:03
  right?
• 20:03
  Because we think about
• 20:05
  something that like maybe
• 20:06
  some people don't
• 20:07
  necessarily want to quote belong there,
• 20:10
  but then all of a sudden, statistically,
• 20:12
  they do.
• 20:13
  So yeah.
• 20:16
  All right, keep me friendly.
• 20:18
  So I think that pretty much
• 20:21
  closes out most of uh what
• 20:23
  we're going to talk about
• 20:23
  on the world fitness
• 20:24
  project uh for now uh in
• 20:28
  addition um this week that
• 20:31
  we skipped over this in the
• 20:32
  catch-up because we had so
• 20:33
  many questions uh next week
• 20:35
  is super bowl um so more
• 20:38
  than likely we will do our
• 20:39
  show on monday if everybody
• 20:41
  is available um because I
• 20:44
  don't want to compete with
• 20:45
  the super bowl um everybody
• 20:47
  watches it it you know
• 20:51
  We want to make sure that we
• 20:52
  have as many viewers as possible.
• 20:54
  So we'll probably do next
• 20:55
  week's show on Monday night.
• 20:57
  Any picks for the games?
• 21:00
  No.
• 21:01
  Well,
• 21:01
  I'll be at Fittest of the Coast next
• 21:02
  weekend.
• 21:03
  So I won't even be.
• 21:06
  I don't know what time we
• 21:07
  get home on Monday.
• 21:09
  Okay.
• 21:10
  So they have a winter
• 21:11
  version of Fittest on the Coast?
• 21:14
  Fittest of the Coast is the
• 21:15
  Charleston one.
• 21:16
  Oh, the Charleston one.
• 21:17
  Yeah.
• 21:18
  Yeah.
• 21:20
  I know I keep saying fresh coast.
• 21:22
  It's been a nightmare in my head.
• 21:25
  Yeah.
• 21:26
  I have a bad taste in my
• 21:27
  mouth with those guys.
• 21:28
  So I just with fresh coast, no,
• 21:33
  with the fittest of the coast.
• 21:34
  Oh, I don't see,
• 21:35
  I don't know anything about the cap.
• 21:38
  So last year I'll air dirty laundry.
• 21:41
  What the heck trauma here we come.
• 21:43
  Um,
• 21:43
  Last year,
• 21:44
  Dave Hardy came up to me and said,
• 21:47
  I love your aftershows.
• 21:48
  I love what you guys do.
• 21:50
  I would love if you guys
• 21:50
  came to Fittest of the
• 21:52
  Coast and did aftershows
• 21:55
  talking about the event, having people on,
• 21:59
  doing all that kind of stuff,
• 22:00
  doing your thing where
• 22:01
  you're interviewing people and all that.
• 22:03
  And so I said, cool.
• 22:04
  So he gave me the name of
• 22:06
  the organizer because I
• 22:07
  think his home gym is what runs it.
• 22:11
  So I contacted them and they
• 22:13
  were very abrupt.
• 22:15
  Like I have my media team.
• 22:18
  We don't,
• 22:19
  we don't need you here and I
• 22:22
  don't have any spots.
• 22:23
  And I was like, okay, I won't ask again.
• 22:30
  Yeah.
• 22:30
  So, uh, yeah.
• 22:33
  Interesting.
• 22:34
  Crazy.
• 22:36
  Yeah, and I didn't ask for any money.
• 22:38
  I didn't ask for any,
• 22:39
  like it was just an introductory, hey,
• 22:42
  this is what we do.
• 22:43
  We'd love to come down.
• 22:44
  Nope, nothing.
• 22:46
  I wonder if Dave spoke to them at all.
• 22:49
  I, I told Dave about the,
• 22:51
  the confrontation.
• 22:53
  He was surprised.
• 22:54
  Yeah.
• 22:55
  Um,
• 22:56
  but he didn't get back to me like with
• 22:58
  anything of like an
• 22:59
  explanation or anything like that.
• 23:02
  And I love Dave Hardy.
• 23:03
  So shout out to him too.
• 23:04
  Cause he won his high rocks
• 23:05
  event again this week, uh,
• 23:07
  in the sixty plus division.
• 23:10
  Um, uh,
• 23:12
  I will say my pick for the
• 23:13
  Superbowl this week is, uh, the Eagles.
• 23:15
  Okay.
• 23:16
  I won't say Kwan to win.
• 23:19
  I can get behind that.
• 23:22
  Yeah, I'm going for them, but I just don't,
• 23:24
  I don't,
• 23:25
  it's hard to pick against Mahomes
• 23:27
  and the refs.
• 23:28
  So we'll, we'll see what happens,
• 23:32
  but nothing against the Swifties.
• 23:35
  Cause I do like Taylor Swift.
• 23:37
  I'm not like a crazy fan of Taylor's,
• 23:40
  but like I have nothing
• 23:41
  against the Swifties, but I just,
• 23:42
  I would like to see the
• 23:45
  Eagles win and save one for sure.
• 23:50
  all right um so next up is I
• 23:53
  was surprised to see this
• 23:54
  kind of I was uh yeah
• 23:58
  surprise it's free free for
• 24:00
  free um I was surprised to
• 24:03
  see this I I I always watch
• 24:05
  crossfit stuff when I go to
• 24:06
  bed like I just lay down
• 24:07
  throw the youtube on
• 24:09
  bouncer thing and I saw
• 24:11
  lauren fisher pop up which
• 24:12
  I haven't seen in a while
• 24:13
  so I was like I was
• 24:15
  surprised and he or she
• 24:17
  announced that she's hanging it up
• 24:19
  um to focus on her her I
• 24:22
  think it's called grow grow
• 24:23
  strong grown grown strong
• 24:26
  yeah grown strong grown
• 24:27
  strong her company yeah but
• 24:30
  I thought it was a really cool
• 24:33
  It was a cool retirement video.
• 24:35
  It talks about how her and Rasmus met,
• 24:39
  how they didn't like each
• 24:40
  other at first at Invictus,
• 24:43
  and how she got involved
• 24:46
  with Invictus and how
• 24:47
  intimidating it was at first.
• 24:50
  And I'll just share my first
• 24:51
  memory with Lauren is...
• 24:55
  She was,
• 24:56
  when the team series first started,
• 24:58
  she was on Rogue Team Red.
• 25:00
  And back in the day,
• 25:02
  Rogue would have a Team Red
• 25:04
  and a Team Black,
• 25:05
  and they would bring them into Rogue,
• 25:08
  and they would do the
• 25:09
  workouts here in Columbus.
• 25:11
  And if you watch the Instagram,
• 25:13
  you'd get about an hour notice.
• 25:15
  And if you drove really fast
• 25:18
  and faked sick from work,
• 25:21
  you could run over to Rogue
• 25:22
  and watch the teams go.
• 25:24
  And so I would do that every
• 25:26
  year they did that.
• 25:28
  And the first year was Lauren Fisher,
• 25:30
  Camille, LeBlanc-Besnay, Josh Bridges,
• 25:33
  and Dan Bailey.
• 25:36
  And so I ran over to watch
• 25:39
  it and I just was in awe that this little,
• 25:43
  and she was so young at the time,
• 25:46
  the amount she could lift.
• 25:49
  But it blew me away because
• 25:50
  you got to watch them warm up.
• 25:51
  I could not believe how much
• 25:52
  they warmed up.
• 25:53
  That was my first taste of that.
• 25:55
  The way before I ever got
• 25:56
  into media or even volunteering,
• 25:59
  we went over to do that.
• 26:01
  And,
• 26:02
  and I would always take my daughter
• 26:04
  and she loved it.
• 26:05
  And she got to meet these
• 26:06
  athletes who were so kind to her.
• 26:09
  um and always encouraging
• 26:10
  and lauren was one of those
• 26:11
  she was really quiet but
• 26:13
  she was really nice and
• 26:15
  encouraging to my daughter
• 26:16
  and I and I loved every bit
• 26:18
  of that and I still have
• 26:20
  probably two hundred
• 26:21
  pictures from that day that
• 26:25
  team series was fun back
• 26:27
  then it was that was a
• 26:29
  great great competition I
• 26:32
  like the four person better than the two
• 26:35
  It's harder to get four, though.
• 26:38
  It was.
• 26:39
  The workouts were more fun with four.
• 26:41
  But yeah, no.
• 26:46
  I still remember Lauren when
• 26:47
  she was really young
• 26:48
  because she was at the
• 26:50
  twenty fourteen games, I think,
• 26:51
  when I was first entering
• 26:52
  the CrossFit space.
• 26:54
  And I just remember her like
• 26:55
  brown hair always flicking
• 26:56
  in her face anytime she was
• 26:57
  doing like ring muscle ups and stuff.
• 26:59
  And I was like,
• 27:00
  how is this girl like
• 27:00
  working out with her ponytail?
• 27:01
  Just like
• 27:03
  Yeah.
• 27:05
  But yeah,
• 27:06
  she was the youngest athlete there,
• 27:08
  I think, at that time.
• 27:09
  And Rogue had signed her right away.
• 27:11
  And it just seemed like she
• 27:15
  made the games for a few
• 27:16
  years and went more team side of things.
• 27:20
  But she never quite...
• 27:22
  I think,
• 27:23
  went to as big as what she was
• 27:25
  when she first started in the space.
• 27:28
  Had plenty of potential,
• 27:29
  but then had a few injuries, I think,
• 27:31
  over the last few years, if I remember.
• 27:35
  And then obviously she was
• 27:36
  injured that year with
• 27:37
  Annie when she got called up on the team,
• 27:39
  which was unfortunate
• 27:40
  because they had a great team.
• 27:42
  Probably were the favorites to win there.
• 27:44
  I was trying to do a retirement video.
• 27:47
  I had the meltdown on the parallette box.
• 27:50
  Wow.
• 27:54
  She had a very difficult
• 27:55
  time when she lost her mom, I think.
• 27:58
  I don't know Lauren personally,
• 28:00
  but just from afar on social media,
• 28:04
  I don't think it's been the
• 28:05
  same maybe for her on the
• 28:07
  CrossFit side since her mom
• 28:09
  hasn't been there.
• 28:10
  I think it makes sense to
• 28:11
  see her step away from the
• 28:13
  sport and maybe still train
• 28:17
  CrossFit and stuff like that,
• 28:18
  but just have different...
• 28:21
  um different projects her
• 28:22
  and rass and uh yeah their
• 28:25
  future speaking of her mom
• 28:27
  she tells the story of
• 28:29
  first going to invictus and
• 28:31
  her mom did crossfit and
• 28:32
  they were parked outside
• 28:34
  and they look in and they
• 28:35
  see uh regan and they see
• 28:38
  camille and they see like
• 28:41
  all she names off like five or six
• 28:43
  games athletes.
• 28:44
  Right.
• 28:45
  And, uh, and she goes,
• 28:47
  I can't go in there.
• 28:48
  Like, I'm not good enough for that.
• 28:49
  And her mom's like, well,
• 28:50
  I'm going in you.
• 28:52
  And she popped out and her
• 28:53
  mom walked in to go do the workout.
• 28:56
  Um,
• 28:56
  and then Lauren had to walk in and she
• 28:59
  said it was the best thing she ever did.
• 29:01
  Um, doing that.
• 29:02
  But Lex here says they
• 29:03
  started the same gym
• 29:05
  CrossFit two Oh nine.
• 29:07
  Um, with Gabe Sudbury, uh,
• 29:10
  an OG games athlete.
• 29:11
  Huh?
• 29:11
  That's cool.
• 29:13
  And the brother was so good too.
• 29:14
  Garrett.
• 29:15
  Yeah.
• 29:15
  And then he got, he had nice hair too.
• 29:19
  He was always perfectly like,
• 29:20
  no matter what the workout was,
• 29:22
  his hair wouldn't move an inch.
• 29:23
  It's like the best hair.
• 29:28
  Yes.
• 29:30
  But he got that big offer
• 29:31
  from Rick Ross to get him
• 29:34
  into shape and all that money.
• 29:37
  Was it Ross Fit?
• 29:39
  Yeah, Ross Fit.
• 29:41
  Wow.
• 29:42
  I remember that.
• 29:43
  And I remember watching the videos on that,
• 29:45
  too.
• 29:45
  That was big.
• 29:47
  It was.
• 29:48
  It was.
• 29:49
  I wonder how long he did that for.
• 29:50
  He was in a joint before he
• 29:52
  does thrusters.
• 29:56
  Oh, gosh.
• 29:57
  The days.
• 29:59
  And again,
• 30:00
  another one of these retirement videos,
• 30:02
  I miss the Reebok uniform so much.
• 30:04
  Yep.
• 30:05
  And it's not just the wild colors.
• 30:07
  It's that they look like a uniform.
• 30:10
  The last couple of years
• 30:11
  look like t-shirts.
• 30:15
  I liked it when it looked like a uniform.
• 30:19
  So yeah.
• 30:20
  Anyway.
• 30:22
  happy happy trails to lauren
• 30:24
  fisher hope you find all
• 30:26
  the happiness in the world
• 30:27
  um so that's pretty cool
• 30:30
  yep now we're gonna get
• 30:33
  into a bunch of dave stuff
• 30:35
  so dave had a weekend
• 30:36
  review where he made a
• 30:37
  couple announcements and
• 30:38
  then today he did something
• 30:41
  that we'll talk about as
• 30:41
  well so first of all he
• 30:43
  announces that there will
• 30:45
  be a repeat workout in this
• 30:47
  year's open jamie has a theory
• 30:51
  Jamie, go.
• 30:52
  Well, I, you know,
• 30:54
  they come out and people
• 30:55
  are always guessing.
• 30:56
  Oh, I think it'll be this, this, you know,
• 30:58
  a lot.
• 30:58
  I heard a lot of nineteen point ones.
• 31:01
  Super basic, right?
• 31:02
  Wall ball row.
• 31:05
  And then I was on Reddit is
• 31:07
  where I got this and did
• 31:09
  some looking and it's so
• 31:11
  twenty point five is the
• 31:14
  row wall ball ring muscle up,
• 31:16
  broken up however you want.
• 31:19
  And Lazar won that worldwide.
• 31:23
  So I can see them pulling
• 31:25
  some type of a little tribute there.
• 31:28
  And it's an incredible
• 31:29
  workout when the open mat,
• 31:31
  like you're only going to
• 31:32
  the top one percent.
• 31:33
  Like that's the thing when
• 31:34
  people are saying workouts
• 31:35
  like even the deadlift bar
• 31:37
  facing burpee one,
• 31:39
  just like those basic workouts.
• 31:41
  Sure, there's some separation at the top,
• 31:42
  but like this workout is.
• 31:45
  When you throw in those ring muscle-ups,
• 31:47
  everyone can do it.
• 31:48
  I mean,
• 31:48
  you can do the row and the wall
• 31:49
  ball part and only do one
• 31:51
  ring muscle-up or none.
• 31:53
  But it's really going to
• 31:54
  separate the haves from the have-nots.
• 31:57
  And because you can do it in any order,
• 31:59
  even for the regular population,
• 32:01
  they would just race
• 32:02
  through those first two
• 32:03
  movements and then would
• 32:04
  get some time to possibly
• 32:06
  attempt ring muscle-ups for
• 32:07
  some of the members that
• 32:08
  would be close to it.
• 32:11
  I don't know if the scaled
• 32:11
  version was with pull-ups.
• 32:13
  I was wondering that too.
• 32:14
  I should have went and looked.
• 32:16
  But for those
• 32:17
  intermediate-ish RX athletes
• 32:19
  that might not be able to finish it,
• 32:21
  it was an opportunity to
• 32:22
  just kind of strategically...
• 32:24
  get through, you know, the two movements,
• 32:26
  get your tiebreaker time and then,
• 32:29
  you know, try to get as many ring myself.
• 32:30
  So I do, I do like that workout.
• 32:33
  I'm not a huge fan of
• 32:35
  personally of choose your
• 32:37
  own adventure for a qual,
• 32:38
  like for a qualify workout.
• 32:40
  I like it in training.
• 32:42
  Um,
• 32:43
  I don't like the idea that like the
• 32:47
  strategy matters, I guess.
• 32:49
  I know I get you there.
• 32:50
  Yeah.
• 32:51
  Um,
• 32:53
  Cause I want to do like the
• 32:54
  same type of workout that everyone did,
• 32:56
  you know,
• 32:56
  same rep schemes or whatever it is.
• 32:59
  Um, do you know, but it's a great workout.
• 33:02
  Do you know what, how Lazar broke it up?
• 33:04
  No, but this is a different workout,
• 33:08
  I think for the men than women though.
• 33:09
  A hundred percent.
• 33:11
  So it's hard to,
• 33:13
  it would be hard to compare, um,
• 33:15
  just because of the power
• 33:16
  as well in the row and their,
• 33:18
  their upper body endurance is,
• 33:21
  is different.
• 33:22
  Yeah.
• 33:26
  There's a twenty two point one.
• 33:30
  Twenty four point one.
• 33:33
  Please no KDL.
• 33:37
  Well, he probably doesn't.
• 33:38
  So he's saying she's saying
• 33:39
  no to the twenty four point one.
• 33:42
  Twenty two point one was the wall,
• 33:45
  the wall walk dumbbell
• 33:47
  snatch box jump over.
• 33:49
  Larry Young says CrossFit
• 33:50
  has been posting a lot of pistols.
• 33:52
  Thought I was going to do it slow.
• 33:54
  Not happening.
• 33:57
  What was that pistol one,
• 33:58
  the one with the... That's
• 34:00
  nineteen point... Three?
• 34:03
  Three, I think, and it has box jumps,
• 34:06
  increasing weight of clean and jerk.
• 34:07
  Jeff Adler crushed that one
• 34:09
  worldwide and won it.
• 34:10
  I don't know who went on the female side.
• 34:12
  I just remember Jeff had one
• 34:15
  of the biggest separations
• 34:16
  with the elite field on that.
• 34:19
  That's a good workout.
• 34:21
  um sarah I love the idea but
• 34:24
  this is dave saying there
• 34:25
  will be a repeat open
• 34:26
  workout yeah uh twenty two
• 34:31
  point one gave so many of
• 34:33
  my members false hope and
• 34:38
  they're young twenty point four is mine
• 34:41
  Um, so in addition to that,
• 34:43
  he also said that he will
• 34:46
  not be doing the open announcements, um,
• 34:50
  but that they will be doing
• 34:51
  some head to heads.
• 34:53
  And, um, apparently if you want to host,
• 34:58
  uh, or do the announcement,
• 34:59
  you can submit a video, um,
• 35:02
  in audition for that.
• 35:03
  I love that idea.
• 35:07
  I mean,
• 35:08
  I wish we were an affiliate and I could,
• 35:09
  cause like, I love,
• 35:10
  I love that we have like Jim and Haley,
• 35:12
  like we have a wide array to show.
• 35:15
  Um, but I,
• 35:16
  they would never pick an
• 35:17
  unaffiliated gym.
• 35:18
  So I want to see somebody
• 35:19
  with something exciting to bring,
• 35:21
  like how they present it.
• 35:23
  Right.
• 35:24
  Yeah.
• 35:24
  Show me.
• 35:25
  That's what I want to see an
• 35:26
  audition video.
• 35:27
  I don't care.
• 35:27
  Like how, how good.
• 35:30
  the people doing it are.
• 35:31
  I want to see the last time
• 35:34
  they went to the affiliates.
• 35:35
  It was like reading from a
• 35:37
  card in monotone.
• 35:40
  And the next is a kettlebell
• 35:42
  swing with like, it was bad.
• 35:45
  Like, give me some, see,
• 35:47
  I care about the matchup.
• 35:49
  I want, I don't,
• 35:50
  I don't want it to be still
• 35:52
  arranged by CrossFit,
• 35:53
  like moderately going at it.
• 35:55
  Like I want to see,
• 35:57
  like what are good scores
• 35:59
  what are the best doing
• 36:00
  dave says they've already
• 36:01
  reached out to people and
• 36:03
  asked them to be a part of
• 36:04
  the matchups so I think
• 36:05
  crossfit's still doing the
• 36:06
  matchups it's just what
• 36:08
  affiliates going to be
• 36:09
  hosting gotcha um that it's
• 36:11
  a yeah it's a cool idea
• 36:15
  Then the last thing from the
• 36:16
  Week in Review,
• 36:17
  and this was way at the end,
• 36:19
  he said that there's an
• 36:20
  idea that was brought up to
• 36:22
  him that he really likes
• 36:24
  about the top ten from the
• 36:27
  Community Cup in each level
• 36:30
  coming to the CrossFit
• 36:31
  Games and doing an exhibition.
• 36:37
  So you're bringing two hundred people.
• 36:41
  So remember the levels are
• 36:42
  one and two compete.
• 36:44
  So it's only five.
• 36:46
  Okay.
• 36:47
  So it'd be fifty and fifty.
• 36:50
  My guess is he's just spitballing here.
• 36:52
  So don't like take the number seriously.
• 36:54
  I think if you did like top five,
• 36:57
  I think it's a workable idea.
• 36:58
  Yeah.
• 37:02
  But there will be a lot of like,
• 37:06
  I think that's better than teams.
• 37:08
  The way they've been doing it lately.
• 37:11
  like to watch that instead
• 37:12
  of teams and you can change
• 37:15
  up the workout so you're
• 37:16
  not watching like the same
• 37:17
  thing over and over again
• 37:19
  right and what an incentive
• 37:25
  that would be for the
• 37:25
  general community yeah yeah
• 37:27
  that's a cool idea
• 37:35
  crossfit remember when they
• 37:37
  made lauren brooks do a
• 37:37
  muscle-up workout against
• 37:38
  julie foucher that was like
• 37:40
  why would you pick to like
• 37:42
  someone that's just like
• 37:44
  not their strength versus
• 37:45
  someone's wheelhouse um I
• 37:48
  always wondered if they
• 37:49
  picked athletes for the
• 37:50
  matchups um if they were
• 37:53
  picked based off the
• 37:54
  movements but they
• 37:55
  apparently weren't and I
• 37:56
  feel like that's a miss
• 37:56
  like you should pick based
• 37:58
  off the movements and get
• 37:59
  them to go head-to-head
• 38:00
  like that's what's exciting
• 38:01
  if it's a close race
• 38:04
  I don't disagree with you, Kenneth,
• 38:06
  but that's way more divisions.
• 38:09
  Yes.
• 38:10
  In addition to that,
• 38:11
  they all occur after the games.
• 38:14
  So you're screwed there
• 38:17
  unless they change that up.
• 38:21
  And we've said that for a
• 38:22
  year that really they should be first.
• 38:25
  And at the very least like
• 38:27
  highlight reels should be
• 38:28
  shown at the games of the
• 38:29
  other divisions.
• 38:32
  so I thought that was really
• 38:33
  interesting and a way to
• 38:34
  get a lot of buy-in to the
• 38:37
  community cup the next
• 38:41
  thing is um dave announced
• 38:43
  today that he's starting
• 38:45
  well he kind of has been
• 38:46
  mentioning it but he did
• 38:48
  start it today an affiliate
• 38:50
  series where he's
• 38:51
  interviewing affiliate
• 38:52
  owners um like he did the
• 38:55
  athletes last year
• 38:57
  And he started it today with Hari Singh,
• 39:00
  who owns CrossFit NYC.
• 39:03
  And he actually has two
• 39:04
  locations in New York City,
• 39:07
  one in downtown Manhattan
• 39:09
  and one on the Upper West Side, I believe,
• 39:14
  called Flatiron.
• 39:16
  It's the oldest CrossFit gym
• 39:17
  in the world is what they
• 39:18
  claim because they were on
• 39:19
  the original list of
• 39:20
  sixteen affiliates when
• 39:23
  affiliates were first named.
• 39:26
  And the coolest thing I took
• 39:27
  from it was their two
• 39:31
  biggest drop in days are
• 39:33
  Wednesdays and Saturday.
• 39:35
  So they program those days
• 39:37
  to make it approachable every week.
• 39:40
  so that like when a new
• 39:42
  person comes in you're not
• 39:43
  doing handstand walks and
• 39:46
  snatches yeah and trying to
• 39:48
  scale for them those two
• 39:49
  days are designed more
• 39:51
  approachable for people
• 39:53
  dropping in and they are
• 39:54
  massive gyms like hundreds
• 39:57
  and hundreds of people
• 39:59
  maybe even a thousand
• 40:00
  that's crazy at the height
• 40:02
  of their popularity but it
• 40:06
  was really really
• 40:06
  interesting did either of
• 40:07
  you get a chance to watch it
• 40:09
  I caught about fifteen
• 40:10
  minutes of it before this.
• 40:12
  Not enough.
• 40:13
  Yeah, I watched it.
• 40:17
  I didn't take too, too much from it.
• 40:20
  Versus like an athlete podcast.
• 40:23
  Yeah,
• 40:23
  that was one thing I found interesting.
• 40:26
  I still like the on-ramps
• 40:28
  before people get into classes,
• 40:30
  personally.
• 40:31
  Just having a few one-on-one
• 40:33
  sessions and getting them
• 40:35
  comfortable with the
• 40:36
  movements prior to just
• 40:38
  entering a class with no experience.
• 40:41
  Especially if you have huge
• 40:43
  classes like that where...
• 40:45
  the attention,
• 40:45
  you still want some
• 40:46
  attention on all the other
• 40:48
  members and it can draw a
• 40:49
  lot of attention to a certain person,
• 40:52
  but to each their own further, um,
• 40:56
  the way that they run their gym.
• 40:57
  And I think it's going to be
• 40:59
  interesting to see different, um,
• 41:01
  ideas that other affiliate
• 41:03
  owners will have.
• 41:04
  And as that podcast continues to grow, um,
• 41:07
  like just different people on it,
• 41:08
  I think we'll be able to
• 41:09
  share some ideas maybe of
• 41:11
  what works for them what
• 41:12
  hasn't worked and I hope
• 41:14
  that there's some good
• 41:15
  questions that can get
• 41:16
  asked to dave and that the
• 41:18
  affiliate owners aren't
• 41:19
  also afraid to have like
• 41:21
  hard conversations with
• 41:23
  dave and it's not just
• 41:24
  going on and um you know
• 41:29
  yeah bowing down or not really
• 41:32
  Pushing back on anything.
• 41:35
  I hope that there's some
• 41:36
  good dialogue and some ideas, again,
• 41:38
  shared on how to make the
• 41:39
  affiliates better,
• 41:40
  how CrossFit can help the
• 41:41
  affiliates even more so,
• 41:43
  and plans of the season and whatnot.
• 41:51
  Yeah, that's what I'd be curious of.
• 41:52
  And maybe I missed this.
• 41:54
  Does he...
• 41:56
  Does he talk about HQ in their presence?
• 41:58
  And like how I heard him
• 42:00
  talking about using two brain.
• 42:03
  And it boggles my mind that
• 42:04
  a gym that big would even
• 42:05
  need to use two brain.
• 42:06
  So like what's going on there?
• 42:09
  What is two brain providing that HQ isn't?
• 42:14
  I don't know.
• 42:16
  so he talks about that it
• 42:18
  made them more efficient, um,
• 42:20
  that they were doing things
• 42:21
  that was like a waste of time and money.
• 42:24
  Um,
• 42:24
  so it was really just cleaning up some
• 42:26
  of the stuff.
• 42:28
  Uh, and, and I, um, D Reed says,
• 42:33
  why does everyone attach
• 42:34
  fear to conversation with Dave?
• 42:36
  This guy was not afraid of Dave.
• 42:38
  Um, he,
• 42:39
  he said that the open puts a lot on
• 42:41
  affiliate owners and it really brings,
• 42:44
  um,
• 42:46
  is really hard on them and
• 42:48
  that the best thing they
• 42:49
  did was make it a three week open.
• 42:51
  I know everybody's like,
• 42:52
  we need to go back to a five.
• 42:53
  We need to go back to a five,
• 42:54
  but these affiliate owners are like it,
• 42:57
  that almost, he was like,
• 42:58
  it almost broke me.
• 43:01
  It is a lot.
• 43:05
  Um, so yeah, I thought it was good.
• 43:10
  I think it'll get better as they go.
• 43:12
  I think that happened in the athlete ones.
• 43:13
  Um,
• 43:14
  Like he was so worried about the time and,
• 43:17
  and this and that,
• 43:18
  and it'll get to something
• 43:19
  that flows a little bit
• 43:20
  better once he gets some
• 43:22
  topics he wants to talk about.
• 43:25
  Um,
• 43:26
  I thought the guy was very
• 43:27
  open and honest but he's
• 43:28
  also you can tell like he
• 43:30
  doesn't coach anymore uh
• 43:33
  he's one of the first
• 43:33
  affiliate owners the guy
• 43:35
  that does is his lead coach
• 43:37
  um what has been there
• 43:39
  since the beginning he
• 43:40
  started like tenth grade
• 43:43
  and he's now their like
• 43:44
  lead coach and he's never
• 43:45
  coached anywhere else that's awesome
• 43:49
  And he did.
• 43:51
  I get this a lesson.
• 43:51
  The tip he did say is like
• 43:54
  he treats his employees like an employee,
• 43:56
  not a ten ninety nine.
• 44:01
  Because retention is
• 44:02
  important in New York City.
• 44:05
  I'm having everybody and you
• 44:06
  need them to feel like
• 44:07
  they're a part of something.
• 44:08
  Yeah, I can see that.
• 44:12
  Yeah, I like the interview.
• 44:13
  Like you said,
• 44:14
  I think with the athlete interviews,
• 44:16
  they got better and better,
• 44:17
  and Dave got better with his questions,
• 44:19
  and the interactions got better.
• 44:21
  So I assume that the more
• 44:24
  that we'll see some affiliate owners,
• 44:25
  the more we'll dig into
• 44:28
  some problems or things
• 44:31
  that are good happening at
• 44:33
  different affiliates around
• 44:34
  the world and just sharing
• 44:36
  all the good and bad that's happened.
• 44:39
  Mm-hmm.
• 44:43
  All right, sorry about that.
• 44:48
  So then we have TFX that
• 44:49
  happened this weekend.
• 44:51
  One of the oldest CrossFit
• 44:52
  competitions in the world as well.
• 44:55
  Jeremy Thiel started this way back in like,
• 44:57
  oh, seven or eight.
• 45:01
  But it has become kind of a mid-major.
• 45:05
  But it's where you can kind
• 45:06
  of see the rising stars and
• 45:08
  who might make the games
• 45:09
  the following year or might
• 45:11
  become a challenger in the WFP.
• 45:14
  So let's take a look at the
• 45:15
  leaderboard from the weekend.
• 45:25
  This is the women's pro division.
• 45:30
  Kaitlyn Sanders also did
• 45:31
  very well on the NorCal Classic workouts.
• 45:37
  Hannah Black has been kind
• 45:38
  of a mainstay at this mid-comp level,
• 45:42
  but she went team last year.
• 45:44
  Well,
• 45:44
  you can see here just by the point
• 45:46
  gap that Sanders was in a
• 45:48
  different league compared to them.
• 45:51
  More consistent.
• 45:52
  Obviously has no holes.
• 45:56
  Tracy Johnson, interesting story.
• 45:59
  Last year when we followed
• 46:00
  athletes from the open to the games,
• 46:02
  if they made it,
• 46:04
  that you and Jamie were both a part of,
• 46:06
  Jamie and Carolyn were both a part of,
• 46:08
  we followed her that year in the open.
• 46:12
  And so it's cool to see her on the podium.
• 46:14
  She did the NorCal qualifiers too,
• 46:16
  but she was further down.
• 46:21
  And Amy Hosking is a friend of the show,
• 46:23
  as well as Faith Stewart.
• 46:25
  So top five, we have Faith Stewart,
• 46:29
  Amy Hosking, Tracy Johnson, Hannah Black,
• 46:31
  Caitlin Saunders.
• 46:34
  Pretty cool.
• 46:36
  And then on the men's side,
• 46:42
  Casey Strong took the win by five points.
• 46:46
  Wow.
• 46:48
  And a tight race.
• 46:49
  Holy cow.
• 46:50
  tie for second with Jacob
• 46:52
  Marlowe and Matt Brady.
• 46:53
  Wow.
• 46:55
  Both, both friends of the show.
• 46:57
  Um, and then Raphael Sanson took fourth.
• 47:02
  Greg gross took fifth.
• 47:04
  I didn't look at the workouts this year,
• 47:07
  but was there anything, uh, Oh,
• 47:09
  you didn't look at them either.
• 47:10
  I didn't see if there's anything unique,
• 47:12
  like in,
• 47:13
  I think it was last year or the
• 47:15
  year before they had some
• 47:16
  triple unders or maybe
• 47:17
  something that was
• 47:18
  different there that I was like, Oh,
• 47:24
  Larry Young, for not being a huge comp,
• 47:26
  it's one of my faves.
• 47:27
  Chubby John Young got beat down.
• 47:30
  Oh, where'd he finish?
• 47:32
  He's in the men's RX.
• 47:34
  He won the snatch, but struggles on.
• 47:37
  There was a run, I heard.
• 47:39
  That's the only thing I know.
• 47:40
  Run, lunge, run.
• 47:42
  Yeah.
• 47:43
  Keep going down.
• 47:46
  I'm going.
• 47:47
  I'm going.
• 47:49
  And really his snatch is
• 47:50
  what helps him go up a little bit.
• 47:52
  Thirty eighth place.
• 47:55
  If you click on him,
• 47:56
  you'll see all his results.
• 48:00
  I'm under on forty six.
• 48:04
  A to Z, fortieth, forty second,
• 48:07
  Olay first and then thirty
• 48:10
  second thirty seventh.
• 48:12
  All right.
• 48:15
  Well, we know you're strong, John.
• 48:19
  So if you've never been to TFX,
• 48:22
  it's really a unique competition.
• 48:25
  It's like,
• 48:26
  I would call it a three-ring circus.
• 48:28
  There are three fields of
• 48:30
  play in like a triangle.
• 48:33
  And one is like a running
• 48:37
  field where you run like
• 48:40
  off pavement into this grass.
• 48:43
  There's another one that's
• 48:44
  like a cement asphalt
• 48:47
  parking lot that is made with a big rig.
• 48:50
  where you do like a lot of
• 48:51
  the gymnastic stuff.
• 48:53
  And then usually there's a
• 48:55
  indoor floor that is
• 48:58
  lifting and things of that nature.
• 49:03
  so it's there's always
• 49:05
  action going on they have a
• 49:06
  ton of community um
• 49:08
  divisions um and it's
• 49:10
  really a big it's a big
• 49:12
  comp for not being a big
• 49:14
  comp yeah same premise as
• 49:16
  wadapalooza with all the
• 49:18
  masters divisions all like
• 49:20
  the rx the intermediate all
• 49:21
  of that kind of stuff um
• 49:24
  It's just,
• 49:25
  I think they're a victim of timing.
• 49:27
  But now that Waterpalooza is
• 49:29
  moving to March,
• 49:31
  it may actually open this
• 49:32
  up to be a bigger comp as
• 49:35
  like a precursor to the season.
• 49:42
  I can see that.
• 49:44
  So CrossFit says,
• 49:45
  I'm working on my grid bod sound effect.
• 49:50
  John, not last young.
• 49:53
  Do they pay out for that?
• 49:55
  You know what the prize purse is?
• 49:58
  I saw a pay.
• 49:59
  I just don't know.
• 50:00
  I saw a post,
• 50:01
  I think it was today from
• 50:02
  them that said the prizing,
• 50:04
  but I don't know if it was
• 50:05
  for this one or they're a semifinal,
• 50:08
  right?
• 50:09
  Not this one.
• 50:11
  The one in May or they're
• 50:17
  one of the later ones in
• 50:19
  the in-person and that one
• 50:20
  is a semifinal.
• 50:21
  Because they posted something.
• 50:23
  Eleven hours ago that said.
• 50:24
  Twenty twenty five prize purse.
• 50:26
  Twenty twenty five prize purse.
• 50:28
  And I don't know if.
• 50:30
  That was for.
• 50:34
  This weekend.
• 50:34
  I just sent it to you.
• 50:36
  It had first place was four thousand.
• 50:38
  Third second place was fifteen hundred.
• 50:40
  And third place was seven fifty.
• 50:44
  But I don't know if it's from.
• 50:46
  I'm assuming it's from this weekend.
• 50:48
  And then it paid out.
• 50:49
  The pro team's.
• 50:51
  It even paid out masters.
• 50:56
  Four hundred one fifty seventy five.
• 50:58
  Yeah, this would be this one this weekend.
• 51:00
  Yeah.
• 51:00
  Yeah.
• 51:00
  Yeah.
• 51:01
  And when I was so I went
• 51:05
  down a couple of years ago
• 51:06
  and it I know they had
• 51:07
  checks like the big paper checks.
• 51:10
  People were walking around
• 51:11
  with them at the end.
• 51:12
  So, yeah.
• 51:15
  Well, hopefully Jacob gets his money.
• 51:17
  I know they're waiting on
• 51:19
  money from that MBS turkey truck.
• 51:23
  Well, that's a great segue.
• 51:25
  So that's happened.
• 51:27
  I don't know a lot of details about it.
• 51:29
  I know that the reps ahead
• 51:32
  people did get paid,
• 51:33
  but it's like out of pocket
• 51:34
  from the guy that's been
• 51:36
  running it and not really
• 51:38
  from the account of the company.
• 51:40
  And then the MBS Turkey Trot,
• 51:42
  they said they were going
• 51:43
  to have it within thirty days.
• 51:44
  It's been like two months
• 51:46
  since he said that and
• 51:48
  nothing has been paid and
• 51:49
  nothing really aggravates
• 51:50
  me more than promising to pay
• 51:52
  the athletes and then not.
• 51:54
  Yep.
• 51:55
  Like if you're running an event,
• 51:58
  you have a budget.
• 51:59
  Yeah.
• 52:01
  And part of that budget is
• 52:03
  the prize money.
• 52:03
  Well, yeah,
• 52:04
  that's how you got people to sign up.
• 52:07
  Right.
• 52:11
  And if I'm an athlete, I'm,
• 52:14
  I'm building that account.
• 52:19
  And where did my money go to
• 52:20
  pay these athletes what
• 52:21
  they're supposed to?
• 52:25
  it's so it's so bad it is
• 52:28
  bad I hope they pay out I
• 52:32
  hope it's just a so reps
• 52:36
  back see I hadn't heard
• 52:37
  that so reps ahead are
• 52:38
  having trouble paying out
• 52:40
  So Reps Ahead paid their
• 52:42
  athletes out of the
• 52:43
  organizer's own pocket
• 52:46
  because they were going to
• 52:48
  pay them all together from
• 52:51
  one account to make the
• 52:52
  accounting easier because
• 52:54
  it was all at one event.
• 52:56
  But because the MBS Turkey
• 52:58
  Challenge did not pay their people out,
• 53:01
  the Reps Ahead guy paid out
• 53:03
  of his own pocket.
• 53:05
  To make sure the reps that had people.
• 53:07
  What is this turkey thingy?
• 53:09
  It was the competition that hosted.
• 53:12
  And there is a loose
• 53:13
  connection at some sponsorship level or.
• 53:18
  I thought it was with the
• 53:18
  Renovo was the issue.
• 53:22
  It could be.
• 53:24
  It might be the sponsorship piece.
• 53:28
  I got to look more into this.
• 53:30
  Yeah, it's not good.
• 53:31
  It's a long article from Spin.
• 53:32
  They dug in really deep.
• 53:35
  And there is some loose tie
• 53:38
  between the MBS Turkey
• 53:40
  Challenge and the Reps Ahead.
• 53:42
  But it's really loose,
• 53:43
  and I believe it's just a sponsor.
• 53:48
  So I don't know.
• 53:50
  And so they were going to
• 53:51
  pay all the prize money out
• 53:52
  of the same account.
• 53:53
  And when it didn't happen,
• 53:54
  the Reps Ahead guy went
• 53:55
  ahead and paid his athletes.
• 53:57
  Well, that's good at least.
• 54:05
  uh jeremy someone needs to
• 54:07
  pay me yeah that's the one
• 54:09
  that I feel like overpaid
• 54:12
  the reps ahead athletes I
• 54:14
  did not like that I mean
• 54:16
  great if you have it but to
• 54:18
  hear this because that's
• 54:19
  the one that like they got
• 54:20
  like two thousand in the
• 54:21
  semi-final then they got
• 54:22
  like five thousand in the
• 54:23
  fight like they didn't need
• 54:24
  to do all that and they
• 54:26
  needed to probably
• 54:27
  But if reps had budgeted in
• 54:29
  and they had the money, then that's fine.
• 54:32
  Let them pay whatever they want.
• 54:34
  And their athletes got paid.
• 54:35
  They shouldn't have jumped into this mess.
• 54:38
  Yeah, if they're not in this mess,
• 54:40
  but they're like indirectly,
• 54:41
  like it's not their fault.
• 54:43
  I don't know.
• 54:43
  And like if they're paying the athletes,
• 54:45
  like I thought that was
• 54:46
  cool that those athletes
• 54:47
  got like those semifinals
• 54:49
  and then finals.
• 54:52
  Yeah.
• 54:52
  I'd be down for that.
• 54:53
  Just saying.
• 54:54
  Well, of course,
• 54:55
  but I would also be down for winning my,
• 54:58
  my first place prize money
• 54:59
  as the entry at the, I did, I did this,
• 55:02
  uh,
• 55:02
  online competition last year called
• 55:04
  fitness comps.
• 55:05
  And I would do every one of
• 55:06
  their quarterly, um,
• 55:10
  workouts and it was like
• 55:11
  registration was twenty
• 55:12
  bucks and then first place
• 55:13
  was like three fifty two
• 55:14
  fifty and then one fifty
• 55:16
  online and then they just
• 55:17
  after the third one last
• 55:18
  year they just like ghosted
• 55:20
  and didn't pay like didn't
• 55:22
  reply back to anything and
• 55:24
  like mayhem was the one
• 55:25
  that was programming for
• 55:25
  that one and people were
• 55:27
  supposed to win like a
• 55:28
  skier for like the top gyms
• 55:30
  um I still haven't gotten
• 55:32
  paid from it but other
• 55:33
  athletes complained and
• 55:34
  have even gone to like
• 55:36
  mayhem to be like hey if
• 55:37
  you're putting your name on
• 55:38
  this online qualifier
• 55:39
  like what's going on.
• 55:41
  So some of the athletes I
• 55:42
  think ended up getting paid.
• 55:44
  I'm still waiting on mine,
• 55:45
  but this was like last August,
• 55:49
  but they like,
• 55:49
  I sent so many emails and like nothing.
• 55:54
  So like I messaged one of
• 55:55
  the guys that used to be in
• 55:58
  charge of it until he sold
• 55:59
  it like a year or two ago.
• 56:02
  And then he was able to get
• 56:03
  back to me and says that
• 56:05
  he'll sort it out.
• 56:07
  But yeah,
• 56:08
  I feel like this kind of
• 56:09
  stuff probably happens a
• 56:10
  lot more than what we even know about.
• 56:12
  Yeah, I agree.
• 56:15
  It's like the old Seinfeld bit.
• 56:18
  It's only a reservation if
• 56:19
  you hold the table or the car, right?
• 56:24
  If you give that away...
• 56:26
  to somebody else,
• 56:27
  then my reservation didn't mean anything.
• 56:30
  Like, you promised to pay this money.
• 56:33
  It should have been set
• 56:34
  aside so that the winner,
• 56:36
  the second place, whatever,
• 56:38
  all of their money was
• 56:39
  sitting there waiting to be paid out.
• 56:43
  That's what irked me with,
• 56:44
  I hate doing this,
• 56:49
  with Legends two years ago.
• 56:51
  Mm-hmm.
• 56:51
  that they they did it kind
• 56:53
  of covertly they spent a
• 56:56
  ton of money on signage and
• 56:59
  all this stuff to make it
• 57:00
  look like this awesome
• 57:01
  venue and then it didn't
• 57:02
  stream anyway so nobody got
• 57:04
  to see it so right you're
• 57:05
  wasting money on signage
• 57:07
  when that could have been
• 57:09
  money paid out to the
• 57:10
  athletes that you have
• 57:12
  always paid out for years
• 57:15
  that was that was a travesty yeah
• 57:24
  Um, yeah, Ken West was a shit show.
• 57:27
  We don't need to go back over that.
• 57:33
  Um, so then we have the daughter's video.
• 57:37
  Uh, the buttery bros did a documentary, um,
• 57:40
  following the daughters
• 57:41
  around water Palooza.
• 57:44
  I watched it this morning
• 57:45
  cause I had not done that yet.
• 57:48
  Um, I,
• 57:49
  I have some strong feelings about it,
• 57:52
  but I'll let you guys go first.
• 57:56
  I enjoyed the documentary.
• 57:59
  I think there's some good
• 58:02
  older pieces with the
• 58:03
  history of them and old
• 58:04
  footage from their training.
• 58:08
  It was funny to see some of
• 58:10
  their expectations of the
• 58:12
  weekend and then maybe how
• 58:13
  things played out.
• 58:14
  And where they're at in
• 58:15
  their career is not as competitive,
• 58:18
  maybe together as, you know,
• 58:19
  twenty twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen.
• 58:22
  If that was the team, you know,
• 58:23
  that would be a way different result.
• 58:26
  But I thought that they had
• 58:27
  some honest conversations,
• 58:28
  honest answers of how they
• 58:29
  feel about last season and
• 58:33
  where their head is at.
• 58:34
  And I respect them being
• 58:38
  honest on their thoughts.
• 58:42
  And I enjoyed it.
• 58:44
  So I didn't watch the
• 58:46
  Buttery Bros documentary.
• 58:47
  I've just seen the clips and
• 58:49
  like most of Hillers.
• 58:52
  So I'm obviously probably
• 58:55
  taken out of context a bit.
• 58:57
  It's skewed that way.
• 59:00
  But I mean, yeah,
• 59:01
  I got the general idea of
• 59:02
  what Annie said and talking about
• 59:06
  I mean, she phrases it right.
• 59:08
  Like you need to do what
• 59:10
  makes sense for you.
• 59:11
  And she's not going to fault
• 59:13
  anyone for making their own decision.
• 59:14
  And that's great.
• 59:16
  Um,
• 59:17
  but I think anything other than like
• 59:21
  supporting the brand that
• 59:23
  got you to where you are is
• 59:24
  a little bit of a slap in the face.
• 59:26
  Even if you don't think
• 59:27
  things are going to handle correctly.
• 59:28
  Like I don't see,
• 59:30
  I don't see her stepping
• 59:31
  away from CrossFit a hundred percent.
• 59:35
  Um,
• 59:37
  And she's got a,
• 59:38
  doesn't she have a role in
• 59:40
  the affiliate at Reykjavik?
• 59:41
  She owns it.
• 59:43
  She owns it.
• 59:45
  So you don't, I mean,
• 59:46
  you don't think as the affiliate owner,
• 59:48
  she's going to try to get
• 59:50
  her members to participate in this.
• 59:52
  She's not excited all about
• 59:53
  the community cup.
• 59:59
  I mean, you can't,
• 1:00:00
  you can't want this sport to die.
• 1:00:09
  okay so I'm gonna overall
• 1:00:11
  the documentary to me was
• 1:00:12
  very it was straight down
• 1:00:14
  the fairway buttery bros
• 1:00:16
  everything that they've
• 1:00:17
  done in the crossfit space
• 1:00:20
  uh their their action shots
• 1:00:21
  are awesome as always the
• 1:00:23
  editing is great the music
• 1:00:25
  is awesome uh the history
• 1:00:27
  part I found fascinating I
• 1:00:29
  really enjoyed all that um
• 1:00:33
  and so for the most part I
• 1:00:34
  enjoyed that I enjoyed the video
• 1:00:36
  There was nothing in there
• 1:00:37
  that I learned new because
• 1:00:40
  I'm a geek and I consume so
• 1:00:42
  much of this stuff.
• 1:00:43
  But they did it in their way
• 1:00:45
  and I thought it was pretty good.
• 1:00:49
  What I will say about what Annie said,
• 1:00:53
  this is my confusion.
• 1:00:55
  You own an affiliate and
• 1:00:56
  you're not de-affiliating.
• 1:00:59
  Yet you're not signing up for the Open.
• 1:01:01
  And I don't care.
• 1:01:02
  If you don't want to sign up for the Open,
• 1:01:04
  that's fine.
• 1:01:05
  But to be vague about the reason,
• 1:01:08
  because morally I can't,
• 1:01:10
  I don't think is a specific
• 1:01:13
  enough reason why you're
• 1:01:14
  not doing it when you hold
• 1:01:16
  so much influence over the sport.
• 1:01:18
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:01:20
  But I don't think the – like
• 1:01:23
  there's a lot of people at
• 1:01:24
  an affiliate that are doing
• 1:01:25
  CrossFit and they don't do the sport.
• 1:01:27
  And they don't sign up for the Open.
• 1:01:29
  And it doesn't make them any
• 1:01:30
  less of a CrossFitter by
• 1:01:32
  doing the Open or not.
• 1:01:34
  Like it doesn't – like
• 1:01:35
  there's so many people at
• 1:01:36
  affiliates that do not do the Open.
• 1:01:38
  And they still say that they CrossFit.
• 1:01:41
  And they do CrossFit.
• 1:01:42
  You don't have to do the Open to –
• 1:01:46
  to say that the sport is
• 1:01:48
  different than the
• 1:01:50
  methodology and maybe
• 1:01:52
  that's where her head is at
• 1:01:53
  is the sport side of it.
• 1:01:55
  She's not necessarily maybe
• 1:01:56
  supporting that from last
• 1:01:58
  year until she saw more, um, more changes,
• 1:02:01
  more concrete changes of
• 1:02:02
  what she was like, what she's looking for,
• 1:02:05
  but can still maybe get
• 1:02:06
  behind the methodology and
• 1:02:08
  everything it's done for,
• 1:02:11
  people's lives in terms of, you know,
• 1:02:14
  obesity and health and every, like,
• 1:02:17
  community part.
• 1:02:19
  I mean, she even did it pregnant.
• 1:02:22
  Put the burpees down in a
• 1:02:24
  square so she could get her
• 1:02:24
  belly down into the center.
• 1:02:27
  Like, she's made...
• 1:02:31
  It's just, it's weird to me.
• 1:02:33
  Like I feel like either you
• 1:02:34
  should have been clear
• 1:02:35
  about specifically why you
• 1:02:38
  don't want to do it this
• 1:02:38
  year or cause she's made a point.
• 1:02:42
  She did say, she just said,
• 1:02:44
  she did say in it that she
• 1:02:46
  did not like the response from the team.
• 1:02:49
  And because of that morally,
• 1:02:50
  she couldn't get herself to
• 1:02:51
  do the season this year.
• 1:02:53
  Like that that's, that's her answer.
• 1:02:59
  And her name was signed on
• 1:03:02
  the PFAA demand.
• 1:03:03
  So we know what that answer is for her.
• 1:03:06
  So there's no lying on her part there.
• 1:03:09
  She stood behind what she
• 1:03:12
  signed her name on.
• 1:03:14
  She's still doing CrossFit.
• 1:03:17
  That's the way that she's
• 1:03:17
  going to stay in shape for
• 1:03:18
  the rest of her life.
• 1:03:19
  We'll support her community
• 1:03:20
  that wants to take part in it.
• 1:03:25
  her decision and then she
• 1:03:27
  said that she doesn't put
• 1:03:28
  any like pressure on other
• 1:03:30
  people or you know will
• 1:03:32
  understand people that are
• 1:03:34
  doing it and not but that's
• 1:03:35
  her decision her personal
• 1:03:36
  decision I I completely
• 1:03:42
  hear you carolyn and I
• 1:03:44
  understand what you're
• 1:03:45
  saying and I don't completely disagree
• 1:03:49
  But what I think is if she
• 1:03:50
  would have said it was
• 1:03:52
  going to need a change in
• 1:03:53
  the leadership for me to
• 1:03:54
  sign up for the open,
• 1:03:56
  I think I would have been
• 1:03:56
  okay with whatever happened after that.
• 1:04:00
  I think where the PFA made their demands,
• 1:04:05
  CrossFit responded with something.
• 1:04:08
  It may not have been their
• 1:04:09
  demands and they may not
• 1:04:11
  have responded directly to,
• 1:04:13
  but it was something that,
• 1:04:16
  to then say like,
• 1:04:18
  it's to be vague at that point,
• 1:04:22
  even if she was said they
• 1:04:23
  came back with this
• 1:04:25
  committee and that
• 1:04:26
  committee and this committee,
• 1:04:27
  and that's not good enough for me.
• 1:04:29
  I'm not doing the open.
• 1:04:30
  I would have understood better.
• 1:04:32
  I just didn't like the
• 1:04:33
  vagueness because I think
• 1:04:35
  she holds an influence.
• 1:04:36
  I think the people that are
• 1:04:37
  doing the open and
• 1:04:39
  especially the young athletes,
• 1:04:41
  we're not going to get
• 1:04:42
  anywhere near three hundred
• 1:04:43
  thousand open people.
• 1:04:45
  The payouts for this year
• 1:04:47
  are going to be bitterly
• 1:04:50
  small compared to years past.
• 1:04:53
  And I think that that
• 1:04:56
  influence is affecting that.
• 1:05:02
  Yeah.
• 1:05:03
  And I'm completely fine with
• 1:05:04
  her not doing it because
• 1:05:08
  she wanted Dave fired and
• 1:05:10
  they didn't fire Dave.
• 1:05:12
  I just wish she'd say it so
• 1:05:14
  that others understood this
• 1:05:16
  is the specific reason why
• 1:05:18
  I'm not doing it.
• 1:05:21
  But she could have her own
• 1:05:22
  personal... She knew Lazar
• 1:05:26
  on a personal level
• 1:05:27
  competing in the European region.
• 1:05:29
  I don't think she needs to
• 1:05:30
  disclose every single thing
• 1:05:31
  that she's feeling on the
• 1:05:32
  situation necessarily.
• 1:05:35
  Again, that's her personal decision.
• 1:05:37
  And then other people will
• 1:05:39
  take their own routes and...
• 1:05:43
  the same thing happened at the games.
• 1:05:45
  People did what they felt was their best,
• 1:05:49
  like the decision that they
• 1:05:51
  could live with.
• 1:05:52
  And some of them regretted it.
• 1:05:54
  Some of them didn't regret it.
• 1:05:55
  It was what it was, you know,
• 1:05:57
  it was what it was, but in
• 1:06:05
  the when she was running
• 1:06:06
  back in on Murph and side
• 1:06:09
  sway and everywhere and the
• 1:06:10
  medical team took care of
• 1:06:12
  her and all of those things
• 1:06:14
  like there was a community
• 1:06:15
  that I don't know but
• 1:06:18
  there's people that were
• 1:06:19
  there for her no one was
• 1:06:21
  there for Lazar that's I
• 1:06:23
  don't think that's
• 1:06:24
  comparable it's not the
• 1:06:28
  same thing like the medical
• 1:06:29
  team was there when she was
• 1:06:31
  you know delusional and
• 1:06:32
  having heat problems
• 1:06:35
  I don't think that that's a
• 1:06:36
  comparable thing necessarily.
• 1:06:44
  People decide to do the open
• 1:06:45
  or not every year,
• 1:06:46
  whether they retire and
• 1:06:47
  it's the pressure of the
• 1:06:48
  leaderboard and people say nothing.
• 1:06:51
  Like, oh yeah, don't do the open.
• 1:06:53
  Be with your community.
• 1:06:54
  But she said just enough
• 1:06:57
  about it to lead to this...
• 1:07:00
  whatever it is.
• 1:07:01
  I, I just make the one more step to say,
• 1:07:05
  well, right.
• 1:07:06
  It's the easy way out to
• 1:07:07
  take the somewhat popular
• 1:07:09
  stance seems to be the popular stance.
• 1:07:12
  You're not going to ruffle
• 1:07:13
  any feathers really besides
• 1:07:14
  like these few diehards
• 1:07:16
  that think you should be
• 1:07:18
  supporting the open.
• 1:07:19
  Cause it's your career.
• 1:07:21
  It's gotten you to where like,
• 1:07:23
  there's going to be people
• 1:07:24
  that speak out like that,
• 1:07:25
  but I think she's taking
• 1:07:27
  the easy way out.
• 1:07:28
  And yeah,
• 1:07:31
  I don't know.
• 1:07:31
  It's just, I get, I mean, I, I get it.
• 1:07:37
  I get, she made a,
• 1:07:38
  she made a demand and
• 1:07:41
  doesn't feel like it was
• 1:07:41
  met and isn't happy with things.
• 1:07:45
  And this is the choice she's making.
• 1:07:47
  I just find it.
• 1:07:47
  I find it hard when you own
• 1:07:49
  an affiliate and you're going to put,
• 1:07:51
  you're going to run the open.
• 1:07:55
  But I mean, just go all, yes,
• 1:07:58
  the pack says it,
• 1:07:59
  just go all in and de-affiliate and,
• 1:08:02
  That's it.
• 1:08:04
  There's not,
• 1:08:04
  there's a difference between
• 1:08:05
  the sport and CrossFit.
• 1:08:07
  You can still affiliate and,
• 1:08:09
  and still represent in
• 1:08:11
  terms of the methodology
• 1:08:13
  and everything it's done.
• 1:08:15
  The sport, the sport is different though.
• 1:08:18
  The open does not make it
• 1:08:20
  open and just be open.
• 1:08:21
  She should just be doing the
• 1:08:22
  open and support it.
• 1:08:24
  And from there, not anything beyond that.
• 1:08:28
  She should do the open.
• 1:08:30
  She should do the open along
• 1:08:31
  with your shoes, not to do the open.
• 1:08:33
  I'm okay with that.
• 1:08:34
  I'm saying someone that anyone at the gym,
• 1:08:36
  regardless of whether it's
• 1:08:37
  any Thor's daughter,
• 1:08:38
  your regular member that just walked in,
• 1:08:41
  it does not make them less
• 1:08:42
  of a CrossFitter if they do
• 1:08:43
  or don't do the open.
• 1:08:46
  The open is not what
• 1:08:47
  determines whether you're across,
• 1:08:48
  you're a part of,
• 1:08:49
  it's a fun community event.
• 1:08:51
  You get to see where you're at every year,
• 1:08:53
  all of that.
• 1:08:54
  It's a competition.
• 1:08:55
  Not everyone even likes a competition.
• 1:08:58
  A lot of people that do
• 1:08:59
  CrossFit don't even want to
• 1:09:00
  do anything to do with the sport.
• 1:09:04
  You're bought into the community.
• 1:09:06
  You're bought into your gym.
• 1:09:07
  A lot of people are doing
• 1:09:08
  the workouts just to do it
• 1:09:09
  within their community
• 1:09:10
  without even signing up.
• 1:09:11
  You see that every year.
• 1:09:12
  It doesn't make it...
• 1:09:13
  Doing the open,
• 1:09:14
  signing up for the open
• 1:09:15
  doesn't necessarily make
• 1:09:18
  them any less of a CrossFitter.
• 1:09:19
  Now,
• 1:09:20
  some people will sign up to support
• 1:09:22
  their affiliate.
• 1:09:23
  Absolutely.
• 1:09:23
  Right.
• 1:09:23
  Like you're all in with your affiliate.
• 1:09:26
  Everyone has their own path, I guess.
• 1:09:29
  That's that's my.
• 1:09:32
  Ken says she wasn't telling
• 1:09:35
  other people to not do the open at least.
• 1:09:38
  And I somewhat disagree with that.
• 1:09:41
  I feel like her I feel like
• 1:09:43
  the stance she took was
• 1:09:46
  basically saying don't sign
• 1:09:47
  up for the open.
• 1:09:49
  she literally said herself.
• 1:09:51
  And then even at the end said like you,
• 1:09:54
  you guys,
• 1:09:54
  like she's at the end of her career too.
• 1:09:56
  Like it's easier for her to
• 1:09:57
  probably step away from the
• 1:09:58
  sport and just do the
• 1:09:58
  methodology in terms of that's hot.
• 1:10:00
  Like I'm always going to do CrossFit,
• 1:10:02
  like whether I'm, you know,
• 1:10:04
  competing or not,
• 1:10:04
  like it's the best way to train.
• 1:10:06
  It's the best way to be fit in the world.
• 1:10:08
  Um,
• 1:10:09
  and it's probably an easier decision as
• 1:10:11
  she's also like not
• 1:10:12
  necessarily in her prime to decide, but,
• 1:10:16
  um,
• 1:10:19
  she didn't say anything
• 1:10:20
  about getting other people
• 1:10:22
  to join her and not
• 1:10:24
  affiliating or not competing.
• 1:10:26
  She said, you know,
• 1:10:28
  there's other options out there.
• 1:10:31
  Uh, if this is the right thing for you,
• 1:10:32
  like, go ahead.
• 1:10:33
  Like it's.
• 1:10:34
  So I, I,
• 1:10:42
  So I believe that she is
• 1:10:44
  telling people not to do it
• 1:10:46
  because who she is and her
• 1:10:48
  influence on others.
• 1:10:49
  She doesn't have to say, don't do it.
• 1:10:51
  Right.
• 1:10:51
  You can just say, I'm not doing it.
• 1:10:53
  And people are going to
• 1:10:53
  follow her lead into that.
• 1:10:56
  I that's because people are
• 1:10:58
  going to follow her lead.
• 1:11:00
  I think that at that point
• 1:11:02
  it's on her to say why.
• 1:11:05
  So people are making an
• 1:11:07
  educated decision as to why
• 1:11:09
  they're not doing the open.
• 1:11:13
  That's my point.
• 1:11:13
  Yeah.
• 1:11:21
  And then Katrin said she's
• 1:11:23
  not doing the open,
• 1:11:24
  but she's retired and it
• 1:11:25
  wouldn't have mattered anyway.
• 1:11:30
  Then you go to Sarah.
• 1:11:32
  Sarah's doing the open.
• 1:11:33
  Yeah.
• 1:11:36
  So the daughters can't agree.
• 1:11:39
  And that's okay.
• 1:11:40
  Like,
• 1:11:41
  Everyone's going to do
• 1:11:42
  what's best for them.
• 1:11:44
  I think that's what's going to happen.
• 1:11:47
  It's great for Sarah.
• 1:11:49
  Sarah wants to compete.
• 1:11:50
  She still has that drive
• 1:11:52
  that she's always had.
• 1:11:53
  She's going to do Wadland or Wadfest.
• 1:11:56
  What is it called?
• 1:11:58
  The European one.
• 1:11:59
  I'm going to try to probably
• 1:12:01
  do the one that is in UAE, I would assume,
• 1:12:05
  since she lives there.
• 1:12:07
  That'd be a good opportunity
• 1:12:08
  for her to qualify there, but
• 1:12:14
  We need to probably move on
• 1:12:15
  to get through the next couple things,
• 1:12:17
  but did we know that she
• 1:12:20
  didn't have an ACL before
• 1:12:21
  this documentary?
• 1:12:22
  Sarah?
• 1:12:24
  I don't think I knew that.
• 1:12:26
  I can't remember if I did.
• 1:12:27
  Her body ate it.
• 1:12:30
  I feel like that was
• 1:12:31
  something that she talked about.
• 1:12:39
  Was that on Siobhan's podcast?
• 1:12:41
  I can't remember.
• 1:12:43
  Like she talked about almost
• 1:12:45
  like an autoimmune and like her body.
• 1:12:47
  I,
• 1:12:48
  I don't know if she was clear on like
• 1:12:50
  what, but I do feel like we got.
• 1:12:53
  Yeah.
• 1:12:53
  So Sarah says, yes, we did.
• 1:12:55
  I think she did say that.
• 1:12:56
  Okay.
• 1:12:58
  I've like,
• 1:12:59
  I've watched a lot of Sarah
• 1:13:00
  stuff and I know a lot has
• 1:13:02
  gone wrong over the last few years.
• 1:13:04
  I,
• 1:13:04
  but now she's doing stem cells to try to
• 1:13:06
  regrow it.
• 1:13:08
  Um,
• 1:13:09
  but it's going to take eight to ten
• 1:13:11
  months for her to see the
• 1:13:13
  results of that.
• 1:13:16
  Crazy.
• 1:13:18
  so um and again I just want
• 1:13:21
  to say I do the opener
• 1:13:23
  don't do the open I'm okay
• 1:13:24
  with all of that I if you
• 1:13:26
  have a lot of influence
• 1:13:28
  though I think there's a
• 1:13:29
  responsibility to take a
• 1:13:30
  step further um finally we
• 1:13:36
  have a couple more things
• 1:13:38
  uh mayhem mayhem has
• 1:13:44
  is now dominating the
• 1:13:45
  in-person semifinal system
• 1:13:49
  in crossfit they are
• 1:13:51
  programming their own
• 1:13:53
  mayhem classic they are
• 1:13:55
  programming wadland in
• 1:13:57
  europe and they're
• 1:13:58
  programming the french throwdown
• 1:14:03
  There's ten events in person
• 1:14:06
  and three of them,
• 1:14:07
  so thirty percent of the
• 1:14:09
  in-person semifinals are
• 1:14:10
  being programmed by Mayhem.
• 1:14:12
  Is that a conflict of interest?
• 1:14:19
  I believe so.
• 1:14:21
  I was when I brought it up,
• 1:14:23
  like when we were chatting, I was like,
• 1:14:25
  They already have their own
• 1:14:26
  thingy there for them to be
• 1:14:29
  programming three of the events.
• 1:14:31
  And maybe they can correct
• 1:14:33
  this if I read wrong,
• 1:14:34
  but I did see that their
• 1:14:35
  name was programming at
• 1:14:37
  least the qualifier for the WOD Fest.
• 1:14:40
  And I did believe I read
• 1:14:42
  that they were programming
• 1:14:43
  the French throwdown.
• 1:14:43
  I don't know.
• 1:14:46
  I think that there could be
• 1:14:48
  some definitely advantage
• 1:14:49
  to being a mayhem athlete
• 1:14:52
  with the style of programming.
• 1:14:56
  That and like clearly leaks
• 1:14:58
  can't be stopped.
• 1:15:01
  So it's like, yeah,
• 1:15:04
  somebody has an advantage.
• 1:15:07
  James W. That's the
• 1:15:08
  definition of conflict of interest.
• 1:15:15
  Sarah's asking if they're
• 1:15:16
  sponsoring those events though too.
• 1:15:19
  I have no idea.
• 1:15:20
  They're a sponsor at the NorCal one,
• 1:15:22
  but they're not programming the NorCal.
• 1:15:25
  Not sure about the other two
• 1:15:26
  if they're sponsoring or not.
• 1:15:33
  Are any other camps programming?
• 1:15:36
  Not that I have seen.
• 1:15:37
  Yeah, I'm not sure.
• 1:15:39
  I don't know if it's just
• 1:15:40
  event organizers or if it
• 1:15:44
  just hasn't been released yet.
• 1:15:49
  really should just be the
• 1:15:50
  event organizer so jeremy
• 1:15:54
  says does it have to be
• 1:15:55
  approved by hq I don't
• 1:15:57
  think this year it does
• 1:15:59
  I've not seen any of that
• 1:16:00
  in this in person you can
• 1:16:03
  program whatever you want
• 1:16:04
  and that's what I mean
• 1:16:06
  right that was laid out
• 1:16:08
  right open water swimming yeah okay
• 1:16:19
  If they are programming two
• 1:16:20
  and sponsoring a third,
• 1:16:22
  are they just keeping this afloat?
• 1:16:24
  It should just be the mayhem games.
• 1:16:29
  I mean,
• 1:16:29
  they are doing well for themselves.
• 1:16:33
  Well,
• 1:16:33
  the one thing for sure is if you're a
• 1:16:36
  competitive athlete and you
• 1:16:37
  want to do well,
• 1:16:40
  I bet you they're selling
• 1:16:40
  the shit out of their programming.
• 1:16:42
  I bet you they are.
• 1:16:46
  You want to at least take a
• 1:16:47
  peek as to what they're
• 1:16:48
  programming day to day.
• 1:16:56
  Well, that's Craig's.
• 1:16:57
  You see Craig's comment here?
• 1:16:59
  Did Seth switch from Mayhem to Underdog?
• 1:17:01
  Not a clue.
• 1:17:03
  I can't keep up with the switching.
• 1:17:05
  That would surprise me.
• 1:17:08
  Does he live there?
• 1:17:10
  In a van.
• 1:17:11
  That's true.
• 1:17:13
  No.
• 1:17:13
  I don't know if he bought.
• 1:17:14
  Did he buy a house in Cookville?
• 1:17:17
  He actually was living in a residence.
• 1:17:21
  But he was really tight with
• 1:17:22
  the guys at Mayhem when I
• 1:17:24
  interviewed him last year at Syndicate.
• 1:17:30
  Dre was back there with him and Tyler.
• 1:17:34
  So I don't... I feel like
• 1:17:36
  Rich really believes in him.
• 1:17:42
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:17:43
  He's good.
• 1:17:45
  The dude's got potential.
• 1:17:47
  He was so close to making it last year.
• 1:17:49
  Was he one spot or two?
• 1:17:51
  I think it was a Dre that
• 1:17:53
  they had to mayhem people
• 1:17:54
  that were so close.
• 1:17:56
  I thought, right.
• 1:17:56
  Dre and him.
• 1:17:57
  He didn't do real well on the last event.
• 1:18:00
  If he would have done just a
• 1:18:01
  little bit better,
• 1:18:02
  he would have made it in.
• 1:18:03
  Hmm.
• 1:18:07
  Hmm.
• 1:18:11
  Um,
• 1:18:13
  James W. Imagine if the chiefs
• 1:18:14
  management got to decide
• 1:18:15
  the rules for a game,
• 1:18:16
  the chiefs were playing in
• 1:18:18
  and ran a game.
• 1:18:19
  The chiefs were playing in.
• 1:18:20
  Do we think the players
• 1:18:21
  wouldn't have an advantage?
• 1:18:22
  Oh, just like the whole playoffs.
• 1:18:24
  Just like normal football.
• 1:18:25
  Got it.
• 1:18:25
  Um, uh, Jeremy says,
• 1:18:35
  rich believes in the Lord.
• 1:18:37
  That's who he believes in.
• 1:18:39
  Uh,
• 1:18:41
  um so anyway that's going on
• 1:18:44
  keep an eye on that um
• 1:18:45
  because that is crazy that
• 1:18:47
  they are involved with at
• 1:18:49
  least three other or three
• 1:18:51
  semis this year thirty
• 1:18:53
  percent of your opportunity
• 1:18:55
  to make the games um lucy
• 1:19:01
  campbell's on spin is just
• 1:19:03
  here for a quick I had an
• 1:19:04
  editorial comment
• 1:19:07
  What I loved about Lucy,
• 1:19:09
  and this is what I loved
• 1:19:10
  about her when I interviewed her,
• 1:19:11
  is she's not afraid to say
• 1:19:13
  what she thinks.
• 1:19:16
  And when...
• 1:19:20
  John and Tyler and Brian
• 1:19:22
  were being critical of the
• 1:19:23
  WFP that she has become a part of.
• 1:19:27
  She said,
• 1:19:27
  why are you being critical of
• 1:19:29
  them when CrossFit has not
• 1:19:31
  changed and made the
• 1:19:32
  changes they've need to
• 1:19:34
  make to ensure us a better opportunity?
• 1:19:38
  Why that's why athletes are
• 1:19:40
  doing both because we've,
• 1:19:42
  we've wanted change here.
• 1:19:44
  It's never happened before.
• 1:19:46
  there's an opportunity here
• 1:19:47
  for that change let's see
• 1:19:49
  what they can do with it
• 1:19:52
  and she said it way better
• 1:19:53
  than I did but um she is
• 1:19:56
  just so smart and it's not
• 1:19:59
  afraid to to fight back on
• 1:20:01
  things and if usually when
• 1:20:05
  an athlete comes on the
• 1:20:05
  spin they're there for
• 1:20:06
  fifteen minutes she was
• 1:20:07
  there for sixty yes it was
• 1:20:10
  it was a great interview
• 1:20:12
  And she even goes into her reasoning,
• 1:20:15
  her reasoning to do the open,
• 1:20:16
  which I love.
• 1:20:17
  Um, and she, she said that like,
• 1:20:20
  while she does not agree with, you know,
• 1:20:22
  the response and what
• 1:20:24
  happened and there's a lot
• 1:20:24
  of changes that needs to happen.
• 1:20:26
  She talks about, you know,
• 1:20:28
  how CrossFit has changed
• 1:20:29
  her life and the lives of
• 1:20:31
  so many people around her.
• 1:20:33
  And for that reason,
• 1:20:35
  like it's so important for her to, um,
• 1:20:38
  to do the open and, um,
• 1:20:42
  And, you know,
• 1:20:42
  that's a different
• 1:20:43
  perspective of other athletes that,
• 1:20:46
  you know, also don't agree,
• 1:20:48
  but some of them won't do it.
• 1:20:49
  And she doesn't agree,
• 1:20:50
  but also understands the
• 1:20:52
  influence that it's had on
• 1:20:54
  her life and the people around her.
• 1:20:57
  And, you know,
• 1:20:58
  she's going to partake in the open, which,
• 1:21:02
  again, I think.
• 1:21:03
  Um,
• 1:21:03
  it was a great response for her and
• 1:21:05
  she's going to do both and,
• 1:21:06
  and really maximize her
• 1:21:08
  opportunities this year, I think,
• 1:21:10
  and roll with her momentum from, um,
• 1:21:14
  Waterpalooza.
• 1:21:15
  Now,
• 1:21:15
  if you haven't listened to her interview,
• 1:21:16
  it's, it's a really, really good one.
• 1:21:18
  I think it was my favorite
• 1:21:19
  that of an athlete that's
• 1:21:21
  been on that show.
• 1:21:22
  Um, yeah, she's great.
• 1:21:25
  Love her.
• 1:21:25
  Yeah.
• 1:21:26
  Yeah.
• 1:21:26
  So I just wanted to put that
• 1:21:27
  out there and promote that
• 1:21:29
  because it was really well
• 1:21:31
  worth the watch.
• 1:21:33
  I usually watch them every
• 1:21:34
  Wednesday night when I go to bed.
• 1:21:35
  Last Wednesday,
• 1:21:36
  I did not because of
• 1:21:37
  everything going on with my job.
• 1:21:39
  And I almost skipped it.
• 1:21:40
  And I'm so glad I went back
• 1:21:41
  and grabbed it because it was awesome.
• 1:21:47
  Um,
• 1:21:48
  and then the last thing I wanted to
• 1:21:49
  talk about,
• 1:21:49
  and I talked about this
• 1:21:50
  briefly on the round table
• 1:21:51
  on Thursday is I follow a
• 1:21:54
  swimming podcast called
• 1:21:55
  unfiltered water with Katie
• 1:21:57
  Hoff and Missy Franklin.
• 1:21:59
  Um, I've done that, uh,
• 1:22:01
  since before the Olympics this year.
• 1:22:03
  Um, it's a relatively new podcast,
• 1:22:06
  only been around a year.
• 1:22:07
  They had Brooke Wells on.
• 1:22:08
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:22:11
  Yeah, it popped into my home,
• 1:22:14
  like suggested videos.
• 1:22:16
  And then I saw that you
• 1:22:17
  talked about it and I was like, okay,
• 1:22:18
  I'll go click on it.
• 1:22:20
  And now they've cut it up.
• 1:22:21
  They're cutting it.
• 1:22:22
  Yeah, they've done little.
• 1:22:23
  There's a lot of like little
• 1:22:24
  eight-minute pieces from it.
• 1:22:26
  But what I found most fascinating,
• 1:22:29
  and I talked about some
• 1:22:30
  things on Thursday,
• 1:22:31
  and I'll go in a different
• 1:22:32
  direction tonight,
• 1:22:34
  is that when swimmers who do swimming,
• 1:22:40
  and that's all they do is swimming,
• 1:22:42
  and they train for it for four years,
• 1:22:44
  Their training is very –
• 1:22:47
  even though it's just as
• 1:22:48
  long as a CrossFitter
• 1:22:49
  that's training to make the
• 1:22:51
  CrossFit Games,
• 1:22:52
  it is so monostructurally set, right?
• 1:22:58
  And you even break it down
• 1:22:59
  more like this one's a breaststroker,
• 1:23:01
  and that's all she does is breaststroke.
• 1:23:04
  So when Brooke is saying, like,
• 1:23:05
  we don't even know what
• 1:23:06
  we're going to be
• 1:23:06
  challenged with when we go to the Games –
• 1:23:09
  And their thing is like,
• 1:23:10
  you mean I could be a
• 1:23:11
  breaststroker and I show up at the games?
• 1:23:13
  And they say, well,
• 1:23:14
  this year you're doing butterfly.
• 1:23:17
  And Brooke's like, yeah, that's how it is.
• 1:23:19
  And like, that would wreck our world.
• 1:23:24
  And it was really
• 1:23:25
  fascinating to hear this
• 1:23:27
  high-end athlete in awe of
• 1:23:30
  what CrossFit does.
• 1:23:33
  And...
• 1:23:35
  I thought that was really cool.
• 1:23:36
  The other piece I got out of it,
• 1:23:37
  and I'm not, I said this Thursday,
• 1:23:39
  I've never been a big Brooke Wells fan,
• 1:23:41
  so it was hard for me to watch it,
• 1:23:43
  but because it was my swimming podcast,
• 1:23:46
  I went ahead.
• 1:23:48
  She is really trying to find
• 1:23:50
  balance in her life at this point,
• 1:23:52
  and she thinks she's been
• 1:23:54
  training too hard.
• 1:23:56
  And it's breaking her body down.
• 1:23:58
  And so she's trying to find,
• 1:24:00
  she doesn't want to miss
• 1:24:01
  every occasion with her
• 1:24:03
  family and every occasion
• 1:24:05
  with her friends.
• 1:24:06
  And she's not going to do that this year.
• 1:24:08
  She's going to try to be
• 1:24:11
  more balanced in her
• 1:24:12
  training moving forward
• 1:24:14
  through the season.
• 1:24:17
  But the interesting thing is the podcast,
• 1:24:18
  the swimming podcast takes
• 1:24:20
  place in Nashville.
• 1:24:21
  That's where Brooke lives.
• 1:24:23
  Katie's husband does CrossFit.
• 1:24:26
  That's how the connection came up.
• 1:24:28
  And yeah, it was really, really cool.
• 1:24:33
  Yeah.
• 1:24:33
  Anytime there's like sports specifics,
• 1:24:35
  like athletes that only do that,
• 1:24:38
  they're always mind blown
• 1:24:39
  by the fact that we do
• 1:24:40
  things differently all the time,
• 1:24:42
  but it's like,
• 1:24:43
  that's the beauty of CrossFit.
• 1:24:44
  That's what,
• 1:24:45
  that's why the methodology works so well.
• 1:24:47
  Like it's just doing
• 1:24:49
  different things differently.
• 1:24:51
  you know, not, not randomly, but you know,
• 1:24:54
  it's, it's varied.
• 1:24:56
  Um, but you know, constantly changing and,
• 1:24:59
  and your body's having to adapt and, um,
• 1:25:03
  yeah, like I, I love,
• 1:25:05
  I love that aspect of CrossFit,
• 1:25:06
  the fact that it's
• 1:25:07
  different all the time and
• 1:25:08
  you're not doing the same
• 1:25:09
  type of training year in and year out and,
• 1:25:12
  and getting those over usage injuries, um,
• 1:25:15
  from just doing the same thing.
• 1:25:17
  And, you know,
• 1:25:17
  we listened to so many podcasts.
• 1:25:19
  It was interesting getting this curiosity,
• 1:25:22
  these curiosity questions
• 1:25:24
  from people that don't know
• 1:25:26
  the CrossFit sport that in
• 1:25:27
  depth asking one of the
• 1:25:30
  best to ever do it.
• 1:25:32
  Yeah.
• 1:25:32
  And there's a lot of
• 1:25:33
  misconceptions about CrossFit out there,
• 1:25:35
  right?
• 1:25:35
  Like I'm, I'm, I went to do an MRI last,
• 1:25:39
  I think it was last week.
• 1:25:44
  It was like an MRI that I'd
• 1:25:44
  booked like from like months ago.
• 1:25:47
  Um, and, uh, nothing's wrong.
• 1:25:50
  Like I,
• 1:25:51
  just my shoulder had like a small
• 1:25:53
  thing from, um, NorCal.
• 1:25:54
  And I was like, Oh, they're like,
• 1:25:56
  what sport do you do?
• 1:25:56
  And I was like, Oh, CrossFit.
• 1:25:58
  And then right away, the person was like,
• 1:25:59
  Oh, that's a dangerous guy.
• 1:26:01
  Of course, shoulder.
• 1:26:01
  And I was like, actually, no,
• 1:26:03
  like I've competed at the
• 1:26:04
  highest level and I haven't
• 1:26:05
  had any major injuries.
• 1:26:07
  And I had to like really talk about,
• 1:26:09
  you know,
• 1:26:10
  defend the sport and I was
• 1:26:11
  there defending it on the
• 1:26:12
  table like how you know
• 1:26:14
  it's being smart with your
• 1:26:16
  body and I really haven't
• 1:26:17
  had any um you know small
• 1:26:20
  small little tweaks and I'm
• 1:26:21
  just like like as soon as
• 1:26:22
  something is a little bit
• 1:26:23
  off I'm proactive and I'll
• 1:26:25
  get something looked at um
• 1:26:27
  but yeah it's like nope
• 1:26:29
  this is this is the sport
• 1:26:31
  this is what it is that's
• 1:26:32
  what we do the people that
• 1:26:33
  are getting injured is you
• 1:26:34
  know ego problems or not
• 1:26:36
  listening to their body and
• 1:26:39
  like there's more injuries
• 1:26:40
  in these type of sports
• 1:26:41
  than this and it can be for
• 1:26:43
  anyone so I was there on
• 1:26:44
  the table defending it and
• 1:26:46
  being like you could do it
• 1:26:47
  too you know just selling it
• 1:26:50
  Every medical professional I
• 1:26:51
  tell that I do CrossFit, it's immediate.
• 1:26:54
  I get so angry.
• 1:26:55
  I'm like, no.
• 1:26:56
  You guys have no idea.
• 1:26:58
  You guys are the ones that
• 1:27:00
  build my edition.
• 1:27:01
  Oh, I hate when they say that.
• 1:27:02
  And I'm like, no.
• 1:27:03
  We keep so many people out
• 1:27:06
  of hospitals because we're
• 1:27:08
  making them fitter.
• 1:27:09
  Yeah.
• 1:27:11
  So Jeremy says, you sacrifice things,
• 1:27:12
  comes with the territory.
• 1:27:14
  She kind of explains it this way.
• 1:27:16
  At nineteen,
• 1:27:17
  she made the games by accident.
• 1:27:20
  She went to regionals in two thousand.
• 1:27:22
  That would have been sixteen
• 1:27:25
  at the age of nineteen.
• 1:27:26
  Made it by accident as made
• 1:27:28
  it every year other than
• 1:27:29
  twenty three since then.
• 1:27:33
  That was the foot injury.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah.
• 1:27:36
  And she had a full rupture
• 1:27:38
  of the plantar fasciitis
• 1:27:41
  and finished regional or semifinals.
• 1:27:46
  And she even, she says in the podcast,
• 1:27:48
  like,
• 1:27:48
  even if she would have made the game,
• 1:27:50
  she could not have competed.
• 1:27:52
  Did she get surgery for that?
• 1:27:53
  Is that a surgery?
• 1:27:54
  She did not say.
• 1:27:56
  Yeah.
• 1:27:57
  I think she said stem cell.
• 1:27:59
  So she may have went a different route.
• 1:28:03
  But, um, but yeah, I think it's just,
• 1:28:07
  it's been a long time of,
• 1:28:09
  of steady training six hours a day.
• 1:28:12
  And, um,
• 1:28:13
  Yeah.
• 1:28:14
  Which I find crazy.
• 1:28:15
  Like I do not train that much.
• 1:28:19
  Like,
• 1:28:20
  and I never have like six hours to me.
• 1:28:22
  It's just like,
• 1:28:23
  what do you do at the gym for that long?
• 1:28:24
  Like,
• 1:28:24
  are they just doing mobility for like
• 1:28:26
  an hour?
• 1:28:26
  Are they talking like, like when they,
• 1:28:29
  when athletes say six hours a day,
• 1:28:31
  I'm like,
• 1:28:31
  how much is that actually training?
• 1:28:33
  Like two and a half.
• 1:28:35
  And that's what I do.
• 1:28:36
  I do like two hours,
• 1:28:38
  two and a half maybe at most.
• 1:28:39
  And if I'm there just
• 1:28:40
  chit-chatting away with
• 1:28:41
  people because that's what I like to do,
• 1:28:42
  then I'm there a little bit longer.
• 1:28:46
  But like six hours, I'm like,
• 1:28:47
  what do you even do for that long?
• 1:28:51
  Stem cells aren't considered PEDs?
• 1:28:53
  Apparently not.
• 1:28:56
  Yeah.
• 1:28:57
  I was just wondering that.
• 1:28:58
  When I listened to the buttery thing,
• 1:29:01
  I was wondering that when
• 1:29:03
  Sarah said the stem cell too,
• 1:29:05
  because I don't know enough about that.
• 1:29:06
  I was like, is that legal?
• 1:29:08
  I forgot to Google it.
• 1:29:12
  I don't even know if you can get it.
• 1:29:14
  For a while,
• 1:29:14
  it was illegal in the States
• 1:29:15
  just to get it.
• 1:29:17
  Right.
• 1:29:18
  Yeah, you got to go to Mexico to get it.
• 1:29:21
  But I think it's now legal here.
• 1:29:24
  And it's,
• 1:29:24
  it's a naturally occurring thing
• 1:29:26
  in the body.
• 1:29:27
  It's not like a, an enhanced cell.
• 1:29:30
  So is testosterone and
• 1:29:32
  people can still insert.
• 1:29:34
  Yeah.
• 1:29:35
  I don't know.
• 1:29:35
  I don't even know how you
• 1:29:41
  would detect it though.
• 1:29:42
  Cause they're blank when they go in.
• 1:29:44
  Yeah.
• 1:29:45
  I don't know.
• 1:29:46
  But anyway, um,
• 1:29:49
  It was a great podcast.
• 1:29:50
  It was really, really well done.
• 1:29:52
  I really enjoyed it.
• 1:29:53
  And if you get a chance, check it out.
• 1:29:58
  But I was also going to say to Carolyn,
• 1:30:00
  aren't you the definition of the sickness,
• 1:30:03
  wellness, fitness continuum?
• 1:30:06
  Like for so many years,
• 1:30:08
  you have built your fitness
• 1:30:09
  level to a point where you
• 1:30:11
  can take back and you don't
• 1:30:15
  fall back the continuum very far.
• 1:30:19
  I feel, I mean,
• 1:30:20
  I feel like I was at my
• 1:30:21
  fittest probably when I was
• 1:30:23
  twenty eight to thirty.
• 1:30:24
  I'm thirty five now,
• 1:30:26
  but I've still been able to
• 1:30:26
  compete at the highest level.
• 1:30:27
  It just depends on the workouts.
• 1:30:28
  But yeah,
• 1:30:30
  I think I've done a good job of
• 1:30:31
  listening to my body,
• 1:30:32
  of playing other sports.
• 1:30:36
  And like,
• 1:30:37
  I don't really take an off season.
• 1:30:39
  Like I've kind of that
• 1:30:39
  definition of just kind of always,
• 1:30:41
  you know,
• 1:30:42
  training and ready to compete at
• 1:30:44
  any point in the year.
• 1:30:45
  Like I'm not peaking for anything.
• 1:30:46
  Like I'm just ready to go.
• 1:30:50
  Yeah.
• 1:30:52
  CrossFit says my Mavs Lakers
• 1:30:53
  joke didn't land.
• 1:30:54
  I'll be honest with you guys.
• 1:30:55
  You guys were bringing in
• 1:30:56
  the comments so fast,
• 1:30:58
  could not even keep up.
• 1:31:02
  I know the Mavericks and the
• 1:31:03
  Lakers had a big trade last night.
• 1:31:06
  Yeah.
• 1:31:06
  And I don't know about
• 1:31:06
  Lakers defense right now,
• 1:31:08
  but Anthony Davis left, went to the Mavs,
• 1:31:12
  uh, port, uh, Luca junk, junk, junk,
• 1:31:16
  junk.
• 1:31:17
  It's close enough.
• 1:31:18
  I don't know.
• 1:31:19
  I was going to say juke it,
• 1:31:20
  but that's a donkage.
• 1:31:21
  Yeah.
• 1:31:22
  Yeah.
• 1:31:22
  Donkage.
• 1:31:23
  I went to the Lakers and
• 1:31:25
  some other stuff happened,
• 1:31:26
  but those are the two big names.
• 1:31:28
  Um, uh,
• 1:31:29
  Yeah.
• 1:31:30
  Difference in age.
• 1:31:31
  I'm a big NBA guy.
• 1:31:33
  Yeah.
• 1:31:33
  Like Luca is like a top
• 1:31:35
  three to five player.
• 1:31:39
  AD is, you know, very,
• 1:31:40
  very good defensively.
• 1:31:42
  He can be one of the best players,
• 1:31:43
  but he's often injured and
• 1:31:45
  is inconsistent in this play.
• 1:31:47
  It'll be, it'll be an interesting trade.
• 1:31:51
  I mean, it's,
• 1:31:52
  it's a better trade for the Lakers.
• 1:31:53
  Absolutely.
• 1:31:54
  Because you just grabbed a
• 1:31:55
  twenty five year old in his prime and,
• 1:31:59
  unless you got fat I don't
• 1:32:02
  feel like he's ever been in
• 1:32:03
  great shape but yeah all
• 1:32:09
  right well I'm sure we'll
• 1:32:12
  talk about that sometime
• 1:32:13
  this week on lunch with the
• 1:32:14
  collides deal if I get my
• 1:32:15
  project finished tomorrow
• 1:32:17
  um with that guys
• 1:32:20
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• 1:32:23
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• 1:32:24
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• 1:32:25
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