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Lunch with the Clydesdale - If Given the Opportunity Should Athletes Share CrossFit? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:03
  Brooke Wells works out with a major
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  influencer.
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  What should or could that mean for
• 0:09
  CrossFit?
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  Let's talk about it next.
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  I love the chase and the hunt and
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  I set the pace when I'm running.
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  I always take what I want and I
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  always give it one hundred.
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  Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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  Play the game like it's nothing.
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  I'm always thankful for something.
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  Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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  Now wake up!
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  It's time to look at the enemy.
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  Look in the mirror if he is no
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  friend to me.
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  It's not working out,
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  maybe it's the chemistry.
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  It's time to break up.
• 0:59
  Roadcaster issues again.
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  Holy cow.
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  Or stream yard issues.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't know why it goes to a
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  mute mic at this point.
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  I should have sound now.
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  Do I have sound now, everyone?
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  Yeah, there we go.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  For some reason,
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  sometimes when I hit the open,
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  it mutes my mic.
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  Sometimes it doesn't.
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  It's just bizarre.
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  My Rodecaster is acting all goofy these
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  days.
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  But anyway, we'll get through it.
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  We'll get through it.
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  So what's going on, everybody?
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  We got the cowboy in the chat.
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  We've got Trent Olive.
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  We've got Vicky.
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  We've got Jenny.
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  We got Jody, Craig.
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  Holy cow, lots of people already.
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  What's going on, everybody?
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  So I wanted to start today's show with
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  something fun that my daughter sent me and
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  just something to make you smile.
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  At the Pittsburgh Zoo this year,
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  it snowed so bad in Pennsylvania that they
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  let the penguins out of the enclosure at
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  the Pittsburgh Zoo and let them go outside
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  and play in the snow.
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  So let's check this out.
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  Maybe there we go.
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  Look how much fun they're having in the
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  snow.
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  Anyway, it just made me smile.
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  Thought I would open the show with that
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  to maybe bring a little smile to you.
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  Here are these birds that are generally in
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  an enclosure inside,
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  and because of the weather,
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  they let them outside in the snow to
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  play,
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  and they look like little children just
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  going nuts.
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  So anyway,
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  just wanted to bring that little smile to
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  your face today.
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  Hope you enjoyed, because I did.
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  Vicky says, OMG, that is adorable.
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  I love penguins.
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  Yeah.
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  And they're Pittsburgh penguins,
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  if you know what I mean.
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  So that's cool, too.
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  So where do I want to start?
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  Where do I want to start?
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  I went, you know,
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  we did the show last night, Carolyn,
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  Jamie and I.
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  And the trolls are out already this
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  morning.
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  It's the nameless,
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  faceless trolls that love to leave
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  comments but never tell you who they are.
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  I think those people are just awesome and
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  they add so much to the comment section.
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  I just can't believe that people spend
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  their time just trolling people and they
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  think that that is enjoyment.
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  But okay, whatever.
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  I'll get over it.
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  What I did want to share and kind
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  of get your all's opinion on is I
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  don't know if you guys saw this,
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  but Brooke Wells worked out with,
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  I think it's Ilona Mare.
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  Ilona Mare, Ilona.
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  She's a rugby player,
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  won an Olympic gold medal.
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  And she has become a major influencer.
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  She appeared on Dancing with the Stars.
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  And what an opportunity.
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  She has a global reach because of what
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  she did in the Olympics.
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  She became an internet sensation almost
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  immediately.
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  Famously, she got the ball in rugby,
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  ran over a bunch of people to score,
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  make a score.
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  She crushed it.
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  She's still crushing the internet.
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  Tons of followers.
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  In fact,
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  let's see how many followers she has.
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  She has five point four million followers.
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  Five point four million.
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  Like massive, way bigger than anything.
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  Anything in our space.
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  Way bigger.
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  I follow her too, Craig.
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  Yeah.
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  Five point four million followers.
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  Like that is insane.
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  So anyway, Brooke and her working out.
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  And I don't know if you can see
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  it, but.
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  She says, okay,
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  do we do a high rocks together?
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  So my question to you is,
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  as a CrossFit athlete,
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  Brooke Wells started CrossFit at nineteen.
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  Most of her success, most of her fame,
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  most she has her own company now.
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  All of that came because she was given
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  an opportunity in the CrossFit space.
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  Does she still does she now owe it
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  back to CrossFit?
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  when she has these opportunities like this
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  to talk about CrossFit in a way to
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  show them how she got to this point.
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  Because Ilona's response is, okay,
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  do we do a high rocks together?
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  Well,
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  does Brooke have the obligation to then
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  say, well, we can do a High Rocks?
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  Yes.
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  But did you know that High Rocks actually
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  came from what made me who I am
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  today?
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  And that is CrossFit.
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  That I...
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  built my brand I built who I was
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  on this methodology called CrossFit and
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  what they're doing here in the workout is
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  not high they're not high rocks moves
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  dumbbells don't exist in high rocks toes
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  to bar are not in high rocks and
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  yet the response is high rocks so
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  Mike,
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  it gets confusing a little bit because
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  it's probably easier for people like them
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  to sign up for a high rocks and
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  do an event rather than like, Hey,
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  there's this competition called fittest to
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  the coast or Metcon rush or, uh, whatever,
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  whatever competition it might be.
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  Right.
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  Um,
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  It's probably easier to say, hey,
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  let's go to this five K or high
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  rocks and do that.
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  And maybe Ilona doesn't know what CrossFit
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  is.
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  Craig says, yes, she owes it back.
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  Corey Morley, she showed without CrossFit,
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  she's just Brooke Wells from whatever
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  state she's from.
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  Jenny says,
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  I'm not surprised she didn't promote
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  CrossFit her entire final year.
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  PC says most CrossFit competitions have
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  qualifiers more commitment Vicky I'd say a
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  healthy combo if she never does anything
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  for CrossFit then I'd say that's effed up
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  but it's in combination and then we have
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  Ortega why does she owe anything to
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  anybody
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  Uh,
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  Howie Brooke can do whatever she wants,
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  but that's like not thanking or
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  acknowledging your parents at graduation.
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  So in this instance,
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  we don't know if she's talked to Ilona
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  about CrossFit.
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  Maybe they had those discussions.
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  Because like I said,
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  toes to bar don't show up in high
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  rocks.
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  Yet they're doing toes to bar.
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  Or I think Ilona is doing knees to
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  chest as a scaled movement in this
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  workout.
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  Dumbbells don't appear in high rocks.
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  And they're doing a Metcon,
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  so maybe she is saying something about
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  CrossFit and is doing that kind of work
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  about what it is that made her who
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  she is today, right?
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  That methodology.
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  But it wasn't,
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  my question wasn't specifically about
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  Brooke.
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  It's that we've been craving to have like
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  influencers,
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  the level of Ilona to come look at
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  CrossFit, to come see what it's about.
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  And it just sparked the thing of,
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  do we think that Brooke should or has
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  a responsibility to do so?
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  And maybe she did because I know none
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  of us were there for this.
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  And they have a second video too.
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  That's not the only one.
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  So if you go to here,
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  they also have this reel.
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  Wow, you ladies look strong.
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  And Ilona says that's exactly what we were
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  going for.
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  So they were definitely working out
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  together.
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  They were hanging out together and they
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  were doing some stuff together.
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  It'd be really cool if Brooke kind of
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  taught her about CrossFit and maybe she
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  did, maybe she didn't.
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  But I,
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  I guess I got a lot of your
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  opinions on,
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  does she have a responsibility as a thank
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  you to what CrossFit did for her to
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  spread the word of what that methodology
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  is?
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  And Vicky liked Howie's analogy of it's
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  like not thanking your parents at
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  graduation.
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  Jodi doesn't think she does.
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  She just found another avenue of fitness.
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  I don't know that Brooke did find another
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  avenue of fitness.
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  She just retired from the sport.
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  She may do CrossFit every single day.
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  We don't know.
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  She may be doing the exact same thing
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  that she has done for years.
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  And she may have told her about what
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  got her there with the training methods
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  she uses.
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  So, you know... PC says,
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  do we have commitments or obligations to
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  my college or high school once I
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  graduated?
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  I mean...
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  I think I do.
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  I mean,
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  I think I went to a good high
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  school that gave me good opportunities.
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  And I do think I went to a
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  good college that gave me a different,
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  taught me how to think differently than
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  maybe I did coming out of high school.
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  So I don't know.
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  I mean, I always,
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  if someone asks me what's a good school
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  to go to, I talk about my college.
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  I talk about them as a good option.
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  My nephew ended up going to the same
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  college I went to because I talked about
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  it.
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  So I think so.
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  Ortega, you're missing it.
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  I didn't say she didn't promote it.
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  I said she just sparked the conversation
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  for me.
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  Yes, it's a CrossFit video, essentially.
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  It is.
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  And I'm not saying that Brooke didn't.
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  I'm just asking the question when given
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  these opportunities.
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  Brooke was on a swimming podcast that I
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  follow because of my history in swimming.
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  And
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  there wasn't much talk about the
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  methodology of CrossFit that got Brooke to
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  where she was.
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  They talked about training,
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  they talked about nutrition,
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  they talked a lot of stuff like that,
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  but they didn't really get into the
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  minutia of what CrossFit is and why that
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  was her preferred method of fitness at the
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  time.
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  And she was still an active athlete when
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  she was on that podcast.
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  Wayne says they don't get it.
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  Most CrossFitters equal more opportunities
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  for athletes,
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  which is why they bitch about more
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  CrossFitters equal more opportunities for
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  athletes, which is what they don't,
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  which would, okay.
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  Okay, I get what you're saying, Wayne.
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  If there are more CrossFitters in the
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  world,
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  that gives more opportunities to the
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  athletes,
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  which is what they bitch about the most.
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  Mark Phillips says people get upset when
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  NFL guys don't call out their college
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  ticket for what you will.
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  I don't get upset.
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  I think it's fun when they do something
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  other than their college.
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  And with today's transfer portal,
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  which college do they shout out?
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  Some of these athletes are at four or
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  five schools by the time they graduate.
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  Jody says she probably does.
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  Maybe I should have said it.
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  She's finding a new avenue for
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  competition.
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  Sure.
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  jody says yes in that case scott i
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  agree on that podcast she should have
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  repped crossfit's benefits pc says i'm
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  sure brooke is doing the same she works
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  out an affiliate every day i think that's
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  more important than anything else so
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  Jody's all over the place.
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  She's got to stop chatting.
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  No, we love your input.
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  We love your input.
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  George Wayne,
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  CrossFit should try to get these retired
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  athletes on staff to promote the sport in
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  CrossFit.
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  Yeah,
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  but it has to be a two-way street.
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  The athlete has to want to work for
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  CrossFit.
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  Maybe that's not the avenue they want to
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  do.
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  They're done with competing.
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  They want to move into a different avenue.
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  Brooke has a company that she runs.
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  Maybe that's what she's looking at.
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  Vicky says, in complete fairness,
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  without bias, I have to agree with Ortega,
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  PC, and Jody.
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  Nobody owes, no one owes anyone anything.
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  Maybe better said,
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  it would be nice if they did and
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  probably means more that way.
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  Not obliged.
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  So, yeah, I don't think like anybody is,
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  should be forced or obligated.
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  Maybe that's a bad word that I used
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  to say this.
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  But as long as like,
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  As long as you leave in good standing,
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  I guess it's just natural.
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  If you left the sport in good standing,
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  and maybe she didn't, we don't know.
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  But none of us know the inside details
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  of what any of these athletes think.
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  But if you leave in good standing,
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  why not?
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  Why not pay it forward if you can?
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  But you're probably right.
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  Obligated is probably too hard of a word
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  to put toward it because I'm sure there
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  are some that leave and they don't have
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  a good feeling about what happened with
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  CrossFit.
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  PC says, I see your points, Scott,
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  but I think it's more on CrossFit than
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  anything else.
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  Her and Dave are good friends and if
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  he feels CrossFit needs her,
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  I think it would happen.
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  yeah,
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  I don't know where their relationship is
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  today.
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  I know at one point they were super
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  close.
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  Um, but I,
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  but I do think if I'm Dave or
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  if I'm the CrossFit group and I see
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  her working out with Ilona,
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  why not invite them to the ranch or
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  why not invite them to an open
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  announcement and have Ilona go out there
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  and, and do something if she's willing.
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  Um,
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  It could be good for both.
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  It may expand Ilona's reach a little bit
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  further.
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  And maybe Ilona's reach reaches in a
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  little bit.
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  I think she's kind of a really good
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  candidate.
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  You know,
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  all of CrossFit's eggs seem to be with
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  Tyson Bajent.
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  it wouldn't hurt them to find other people
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  that would like to dabble and try things
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  out like this and maybe see if they
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  can build a relationship.
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  So I get your point, Patrick.
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  Maybe it is more on CrossFit HQ to
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  reach out and extend that bridge as much
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  as it is for the athlete themselves.
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  George Wang,
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  if CrossFit gives her a part-time role,
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  both sides benefit.
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  Right.
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  She has to want it, too.
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  That's all.
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  Vicky, as a human, I completely get it.
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  I would personally,
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  but no responsibility to.
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  Corey says,
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  why not saying she owes anyone anything?
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  I want to agree with that,
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  but not giving credence to the thing that
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  is the reason you have these opportunities
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  seems short-sighted.
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  Yeah,
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  I think it's just natural to bring up
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  in conversation that this is the
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  methodology that you use to get you to
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  where you are today.
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  Corey says,
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  why not encourage Ilona to join an
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  affiliate and sign up for the open?
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  Well,
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  I don't know if we're at that point
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  yet.
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  And Ilona is a very busy person.
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  She models,
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  she is all over the place and maybe
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  she just doesn't have the time to commit
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  to the open, but,
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  and I'm not saying that these influencers
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  or celebrities have to do the open because
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  But just dabble into what they do and
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  how they got to where they are.
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  And maybe just share your experience.
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  Wayne says,
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  especially when you have an opportunity to
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  reach millions of non-crossfitters.
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  Patrick says,
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  I think if CrossFit needs a crossover
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  athlete,
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  Zlatan is who CrossFit should reach out
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  to.
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  Does CrossFit and works out in an
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  affiliate, I believe.
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  Has sixty four point one million
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  followers.
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  I know that's been suggested.
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  But I think with Brooke and if Brooke
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  and Dave still have a relationship,
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  Ilona is an easier reach in.
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  than Zlatan.
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  I just think the connections are right
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  there.
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  If CrossFit HQ wanted to reach in,
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  I think it's a much,
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  much easier reach in for sure.
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  So yeah.
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  So there's that.
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  The last thing I wanted to talk about
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  is we touched on it last night in
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  the show, but there was a, uh,
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  there was a,
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  an incident at fittest of the coast where
• 22:00
  Taylor self competed.
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  Filling in for an athlete who backed out,
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  it was a team competition.
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  He filled in on that spot,
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  was then called a cheater by Brian Clapp
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  and Steph Waugh.
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  We talked about it last night,
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  about how all that went down.
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  My bigger question is,
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  should an athlete be allowed to compete
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  that's on the banned substance list?
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  And here's where my feelings are very
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  strong.
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  A couple of years ago,
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  I went to legends and Steph wa while
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  being banned was competing on a team at
• 22:46
  legends.
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  She was allowed to be on a leaderboard.
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  She competed because legends was not
• 22:55
  affiliated with CrossFit and they did not
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  adhere to the band substance list.
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  However, Legends,
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  in conjunction with CrossFit,
• 23:10
  runs their Masters CrossFit Games.
• 23:16
  I have a real big problem with the
• 23:19
  entity that is running your age group
• 23:23
  Masters CrossFit Games,
• 23:25
  allowing people on the Bay End substance
• 23:28
  list to compete and to finish on the
• 23:33
  leaderboard.
• 23:38
  Now,
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  Fittest of the Coast does not have an
• 23:41
  affiliation with CrossFit,
• 23:43
  is not part of the game season,
• 23:52
  and they removed Taylor Swift's team from
• 23:58
  the leaderboard so it did not affect
• 24:01
  anybody else competing.
• 24:03
  That did not happen at Legends.
• 24:06
  That did not happen at Legends.
• 24:09
  And that is wrong.
• 24:12
  Flat out wrong.
• 24:16
  So when I'm asked about the hypocrisy of
• 24:20
  Steph Waugh calling Taylor Self a cheater,
• 24:24
  I really think it's a huge hypocrisy.
• 24:29
  That is she competed at an event that
• 24:35
  becomes a part of the CrossFit game season
• 24:39
  and is on the leaderboard.
• 24:42
  And yet she calls Taylor self a cheater
• 24:45
  who got with the event organizer,
• 24:48
  signed a waiver and was removed from the
• 24:50
  leaderboard.
• 24:52
  The hypocrisy is ridiculous.
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  Jenny says she did NorCal too before her
• 25:04
  band was up and won it.
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  And NorCal is part of the game season.
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  Andrew,
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  I know the Legends Championship is not
• 25:19
  part of the game season,
• 25:21
  but the Legends crew has affiliated with
• 25:24
  CrossFit and is running part of their
• 25:27
  season.
• 25:28
  This year,
• 25:29
  they're running a semifinal and they're
• 25:31
  running the age group portion of the
• 25:32
  games.
• 25:33
  That is an affiliation,
• 25:35
  whether it's formal or not.
• 25:38
  That means that you are, in essence,
• 25:43
  a contracted partner of the CrossFit
• 25:46
  Games.
• 25:47
  And for you to allow someone to then
• 25:51
  compete at your regular competition while
• 25:54
  on the banned list is wrong,
• 25:56
  in my opinion.
• 26:09
  Shanna says,
• 26:09
  I think by association with the games,
• 26:11
  Legends is wrong for allowing this,
• 26:13
  even though that comp was not part of
• 26:15
  the season.
• 26:21
  Andrew said she competed in Legends
• 26:23
  Championship before that affiliation,
• 26:25
  unless I'm mistaking.
• 26:26
  It was at that competition that I learned
• 26:29
  that there was an affiliation.
• 26:33
  That they were doing the CrossFit Games
• 26:36
  Masters Division the next season.
• 26:39
  It was probably a couple weeks before that
• 26:41
  that I learned of that.
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  What is Steph's last name?
• 26:47
  Her last name is Wah.
• 26:58
  Patrick says, in my opinion,
• 26:59
  if you're banned,
• 26:59
  you can't compete at any
• 27:00
  CrossFit-affiliated event or qualifier.
• 27:02
  Pretty simple to me.
• 27:03
  Other comps should be at their discretion.
• 27:06
  Right.
• 27:06
  I think it's the definition of affiliated,
• 27:12
  whether it's in writing or affiliated
• 27:14
  through a relationship.
• 27:21
  Andrew, it wasn't before the affiliation.
• 27:25
  I knew that they were going to host
• 27:28
  the CrossFit Games weeks before I got to
• 27:31
  Arizona that year.
• 27:38
  Teresa, it is pronounced wah.
• 27:47
  Shanna says it sucks even at a community
• 27:50
  event when juiced athlete wins.
• 27:51
  Everyone works hard,
• 27:52
  even harder when prize money is up for
• 27:55
  grabs.
• 27:58
  Corey says it is the worst.
• 28:06
  Wayne says more negatives than positives
• 28:08
  come from allowing it.
• 28:09
  Imagine if all the energy reporting on
• 28:12
  this was spent highlighting the other
• 28:15
  athletes.
• 28:17
  Great point.
• 28:18
  Great point.
• 28:22
  Yeah, her name is Wah,
• 28:23
  but it is spelled Roy.
• 28:24
  There was a goalie for the Colorado
• 28:27
  Avalanche that had the exact same
• 28:28
  spelling, pronounced Wah as well.
• 28:32
  Um, before she was banned,
• 28:33
  she was on this show a couple of
• 28:34
  times.
• 28:36
  And so, um, so yeah,
• 28:39
  I I've talked to her personally.
• 28:41
  I know it's wall anyway.
• 29:04
  I see people in my age group I
• 29:06
  know aren't legal.
• 29:07
  Frustrating.
• 29:09
  And Mark Phillips says, oh boy,
• 29:11
  don't get me started.
• 29:24
  It's also a promotional event, i.e.
• 29:26
  Ricky competing at Dubai for his first
• 29:28
  event back.
• 29:34
  Yeah, I don't.
• 29:37
  Once your band is up,
• 29:38
  your band is up,
• 29:39
  you play by the rules, it's fine.
• 29:41
  And I'm not even as like upset at
• 29:43
  the athletes.
• 29:44
  I'm upset at the event organizers for
• 29:46
  allowing it at times.
• 29:48
  I just,
• 29:54
  I don't see the need in allowing it.
• 29:57
  It does just cause a distraction that
• 30:02
  doesn't need to be there.
• 30:18
  Ricky had served his time,
• 30:19
  not the same thing.
• 30:24
  So, yeah, I just
• 30:27
  think wayne said it best for me and
• 30:29
  that is what happens when a band athlete
• 30:33
  competes at an event it puts the spotlight
• 30:36
  on them and then the athletes that are
• 30:38
  there working hard and trying to do well
• 30:41
  um and try to do well don't get
• 30:48
  highlighted like they should so
• 31:08
  So anyway, there's that.
• 31:12
  So Patrick brings up that Steph got an
• 31:14
  invite to Legends coming off her ban.
• 31:16
  I hate that.
• 31:17
  I hate that more than I hate the
• 31:18
  other stuff.
• 31:20
  The fact that she was banned for four
• 31:21
  years and she gets an automatic invite
• 31:24
  where games athletes from last season
• 31:27
  can't even get an automatic invite to me
• 31:30
  is utterly ridiculous.
• 31:35
  It
• 31:36
  Just pisses me off.
• 31:37
  That really pisses me off.
• 31:46
  I just got word that three other people
• 31:48
  have signed on with WFP.
• 31:51
  And that is Mano Anganese, Hannah Black,
• 31:54
  and Ariel Loewen have all signed on for
• 31:57
  the WFP.
• 31:59
  So the women's list is now getting more
• 32:01
  and more complete.
• 32:06
  All three of those are original top-twenty
• 32:08
  athletes.
• 32:09
  So, the roster is filling out for WFP.
• 32:19
  And I can share that Instagram post.
• 32:30
  So, there we go.
• 32:32
  Mano Ankeny's
• 32:35
  Ariel Lowen, Hannah Black.
• 32:38
  All signed.
• 32:46
  CrossFit says the whole invite thing is
• 32:48
  dumb.
• 32:49
  I completely agree with you.
• 32:51
  Getting an invite to the twenty twenty six
• 32:54
  season based on something you did in
• 32:56
  twenty twenty five just does not compute
• 32:59
  logically in my head.
• 33:04
  in sports to invite back last year's good
• 33:07
  players immediately to a semifinal level
• 33:13
  competition makes no sense to me.
• 33:18
  I understand that CrossFit puts event
• 33:20
  organizers in a bind because there is no
• 33:24
  time to just pick from what you start
• 33:27
  your season with,
• 33:28
  which is the opening quarterfinals.
• 33:31
  That's where everybody should be picked
• 33:33
  from.
• 33:34
  That is what the season starts with.
• 33:37
  The stuff that's allowed to be invited
• 33:39
  before that even happens and based on last
• 33:42
  season's success makes no sense to me.
• 34:01
  Makes zero sense.
• 34:02
  It's like someone getting an automatic bid
• 34:03
  to the playoffs based on them losing the
• 34:05
  Super Bowl.
• 34:07
  Kind of.
• 34:13
  Teresa with the dig.
• 34:14
  So no games podium contenders.
• 34:17
  Just kidding.
• 34:18
  Kind of.
• 34:19
  Ariel Lowen is a podium contender for
• 34:21
  sure.
• 34:22
  I think she finished fifth last year.
• 34:25
  It'll say if I click on her here.
• 34:29
  I think.
• 34:31
  One of the slides says it's yeah,
• 34:35
  she took fifth last year,
• 34:37
  so she is not far off the podium.
• 34:49
  Or take a backs me up or Ariel
• 34:51
  is definitely a contender for sure.
• 34:58
  So.
• 35:00
  nice little news there i think i'm trying
• 35:04
  to think that that's that is pretty full
• 35:07
  now uh let me go to their leaderboard
• 35:13
  and just see because we have kringle and
• 35:18
  lowen from the top five and then everybody
• 35:22
  but brooke
• 35:26
  And Ella Wilkinson.
• 35:33
  So that's the fifteen of the twenty have
• 35:35
  signed.
• 35:38
  Quick math in my head.
• 35:44
  So that's pretty good.
• 35:52
  Yeah,
• 35:52
  I think what Teresa was mentioning is the
• 35:54
  three that signed today, Kenneth.
• 35:58
  But Ariel is definitely a podium
• 36:00
  contender.
• 36:08
  So yeah, fifteen to twenty.
• 36:09
  Pretty good.
• 36:13
  Seventy five percent have signed.
• 36:22
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  much for being here thank you everybody in
• 37:16
  the chat for being so active today it
• 37:19
  was a fun hangout show
• 37:21
  Jody,
• 37:21
  maybe I'll talk about the trolls some more
• 37:23
  later this week.
• 37:25
  To talk about the trolls,
• 37:26
  I need someone to bounce it off.
• 37:27
  So maybe when Corey comes on,
• 37:28
  we'll talk about that.
• 37:30
  With that,
• 37:32
  hope everybody has a great rest of your
• 37:33
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• 37:34
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• 37:37
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• 37:39
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