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The Clydesdale Media Round Table | Week 1 of Semifinals are Done, Week 2 on the Way · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
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Again, two weeks in a row,
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it's the Scott and Amy show,
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or the Amy and Scott show.
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And now Amy's frozen.
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Yeah, my screen,
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everything went black for a second.
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I was like, oh my gosh,
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what just happened?
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And Amy is sporting the thick boy shirt.
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I am.
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Here it is.
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Look at that.
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Yep.
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What do you think?
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I like it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Really good quality stuff.
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You can go to thickboy.fit
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and he has tons of shirts out there.
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I'm going to be checking in
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with him hopefully later
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today to find out where is our merch.
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Where's merch?
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You know,
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I was just watching our intro and
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looking at Charlie and why
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does he always look so angry?
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I know.
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He doesn't.
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He never smiles.
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I know.
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I mean, but even there, I'm like, dude,
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we got to fix that.
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Maybe he is.
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Maybe having 17 kids does that to you.
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I think probably that definitely does it.
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He's just tired.
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He always tired because all them kids.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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That's what it is.
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All them kids.
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Yeah.
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I can't even imagine having
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kids at my age now.
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No.
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you know my neighbors at the
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age of 50 just had a baby
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first no like fifth oh my
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god and their youngest
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other than this baby is uh
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like 13. wow wow so they
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just had a kid graduate and
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they just had a newborn
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That would be like me
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starting all over again.
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No way.
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No way.
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No.
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No way.
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No,
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like we see the dad in the driveway
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just going like.
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Yep.
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Like I just had to get out.
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Right.
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I just need to get out of the house.
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Oh, my gosh.
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So, yeah.
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When Julie and I heard that, we were like,
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no way.
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No way.
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Yeah.
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What's up, everyone?
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Glad you're in the house today.
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Yeah.
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Jodi, it's awesome.
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Most importantly, did you work out today?
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I never work out on Tuesday.
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Because of this is the time you work out?
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Correct.
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Okay.
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Did you work out yesterday?
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I did.
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And what did you do?
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So I was craving a sandbag.
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I did it in my garage yesterday.
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I threw down the one car.
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And so Corey has our other
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car in Pittsburgh because of some things,
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but we don't need to get into that.
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But I was craving a sandbag.
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So I did some low ring rows,
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some sandbag cleans, and then I, um,
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I shifted it and took the
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sandbag and tossed it over my shoulder.
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Yeah.
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Um,
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and then I did air squats just trying
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to move.
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I love it.
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Feel good.
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Um, and yeah, it was great.
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Yeah.
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Awful outside of our house though.
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oh my gosh yes awful it's I
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mean like it looks like
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there's snow on people's
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houses because of all the
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cottonwood yeah we have one
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we have a tree right in our
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backyard oh it is awful
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speaking of I need an
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update how's the deck I've
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been waiting for deck picks
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So the deck is gone.
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All the posts are out except
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for a couple my dad and I
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cemented in not that long
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before he passed away.
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And I've got to dig those out,
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but I've already got like planter set.
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And so we're going to,
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we're doing raised beds for tomatoes,
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peppers, cucumbers.
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And those are set.
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And now I,
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so much dirt has washed away
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from the house.
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I need to get a load of dirt
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to get that leveled out
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before I can do anything with a patio.
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Okay.
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So you're doing a patio, no deck.
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Correct.
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Okay.
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Got it.
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Well, there's going to be, we need stairs.
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Yeah.
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I was going to say there's
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gotta be some stairs.
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So there'll be like a little mini deck.
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Okay.
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To come out like a landing
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and then down the steps.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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But we found like an outdoor gas line.
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So we're going to put in a
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gas fireplace or fire pit.
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Yeah, fire pit.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's real cool.
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Yeah.
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But it's my piddle project for the summer.
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Yeah.
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So no rush, just like as we get time,
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work on it.
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So, you know,
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I'm on my – I'm on summer break already.
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We just started.
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Yeah.
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and I couldn't even make it
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through the whole weekend
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before I had to start doing
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some projects like it was
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sun it was sunday night and
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I was like well I guess I'm
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gonna go uh power wash the
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house because I needed
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something to do but so
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here's my summer project so
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I am going to because I got
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this new power washer I'm
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going to power wash off my deck
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an area and then I bought a
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new spray painter so I can paint.
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I'm gonna have to do it on a
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day that my husband's not
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home working because I
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didn't tell him I bought it,
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first of all.
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And second of all,
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I know he probably wouldn't
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be excited about me using it.
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So I'm just gonna wait and
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show him what I did when it's done.
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I don't know if you remember the story.
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I went to work on a Saturday
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to get some overtime.
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Came home and Julie had
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repainted the entire kitchen.
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I think I did know that.
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And did not stay in the lines.
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So I came home and I was
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freaking out and
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immediately had to get out
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a brush and fix all the stuff.
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But see, this is how we work.
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So like, if I were to tell him,
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I want to do this project,
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let's get it started.
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He'll him hum around and not
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get it started.
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But if I start the project,
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he can't not finish something.
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And I know that's what Julie does to me.
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Cause she does.
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She'll be like, Hey,
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I'm going to paint the bedroom.
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And I'm like, no,
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you're not have time this
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weekend to paint the bedroom.
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We don't,
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it's not warm enough to open the
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windows or something.
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You're right.
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And then she'll go, well,
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I'll just do it myself.
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She gets a half a wall done and goes, F it,
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I'm done.
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Yep.
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I get tired.
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Well, now,
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now I have to do the whole thing.
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I get that.
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I know that game.
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Her and I play it well, obviously.
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Oh, gosh, she does it all the time.
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And my biggest problem is, like,
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in my head, a project is A, B, C, D,
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E. That makes sense.
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D before A, B,
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and C. And then you get to a
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point where you have to, like,
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make it work together.
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And it's much more difficult
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than if I had been able to
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do it in the correct order.
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Then maybe you should have
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started it when she said,
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this is my idea.
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Patio, for instance.
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Yeah.
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It started.
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It's being worked on, right?
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Yeah.
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But she's already thinking
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about the decorations that
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need to go and the new
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shrubbery and the new all this, right?
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Well,
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we don't even know where the frame's
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going to end up being yet
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to know where to put that stuff.
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I'm only smiling because I can relate.
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But because of
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her health issues right now.
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I'm safe for a minute.
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Cause she's not going to get
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up and do it right now.
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Right.
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She, you know,
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we're just trying to get to
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like walking without pain.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And there's no need for her
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to lug pots and dirt and
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stuff to do the stuff she wants done.
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So, so how do we make that happen?
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Well,
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we are switching back to my insurance.
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Okay.
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And that is effective July 1st.
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Okay.
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So we have to be in pain for
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another month?
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Well, she got shots.
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She got cortisone shots done.
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So that has alleviated some of the pain.
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And you probably can relate to this too.
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She gets the cortisone shots.
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She feels good.
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Well,
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I'm going to go do all of this stuff
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in one day.
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Yep.
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And then she's in pain the
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next day because she overdid it.
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That's hard.
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So I'm really trying to put
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my foot down and say, I will do that.
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You sit down.
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We don't need you re-injuring.
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Pick two things.
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Do those two things.
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See, she has a little GSD in her.
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She does.
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She has a lot of that.
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right and so it's like hey I
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feel good I got it I got
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gsd yeah you know but we're
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and you're you're kind of
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to this point we don't have
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any kids at home I need
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stuff to do two of us and
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like if that third bathroom
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doesn't get cleaned today
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it's probably okay there's
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nobody even going to use it
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yeah but see here's where I
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start to feel I feel like
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yeah but I can't enjoy
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relaxation time until
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knowing there's something
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else that needs to be done
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that's just it's just a
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it's something I'm
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struggling with and I'm
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working on it but I also
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create stuff to do that I
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don't need to do did I
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really need to power wash
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the concrete out there no well
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And okay.
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You, I don't know.
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I don't know you.
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I know you really well.
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I don't know if I know you this well.
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Okay.
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So Julie will be like, okay,
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that bathroom needs cleaned.
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But on her way to the bathroom,
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she'll see something else needs done.
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She veers off there.
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And then six hours later,
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she's done eight projects.
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And the bathroom is still not clean.
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Okay.
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I get the bathroom clean,
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but I do veer off.
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And I'm like,
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if I don't take this trash out.
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Then I'll forget and it
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won't get taken out.
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Oh, as I'm taking out the trash,
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I better drop this off at the recycling.
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So it's like that kind of stuff for sure.
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Yeah.
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So, hey,
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aren't we supposed to talk about
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some CrossFit stuff?
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Yeah.
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Did you work out today?
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I did.
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But yesterday was worse.
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Oh, gosh.
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I'm not even going there.
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Draw your dagger.
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Yup.
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ADD, cyclone cleaning.
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Yep.
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That women be crazy.
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I guess you're done now.
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So that's fine.
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Um, so yesterday's workout.
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So it's the last time of Murph prep.
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So it was, um, run 800 meters,
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rest two minutes, run 800 meters,
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rest two minutes, then come out,
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come in and do three rounds, 20 pull-ups,
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40 pushups, 60 air squats.
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Is this what rich did in Europe?
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Probably it's mayhem programming.
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So yeah, I'm sure.
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So my problem with that is, I mean,
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I do the work cause I'm
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going to do the prep and I
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love Murph and those are
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all great movements.
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I think to do,
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I would never in Murph do 40
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pushups in a row.
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Like I would never do that.
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It would, I know my capacity.
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It would take me in the weighted vest.
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It would take me way too long.
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And it did take me way too long yesterday,
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which is why.
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i choose to break it up in
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different ways so it just
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took forever and I just was
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like so sore my lats are
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sore my arms are sore my
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chest is sore everything's
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be sore but did you die it
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was close but I made it
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through today's workout I i
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did the independence track
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which is something I loved
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about their programming is
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they have like three
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different actually four
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They have like the compete track.
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They have the freedom track,
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which is what I would just
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consider an RX track.
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And then independence.
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So like an intermediate
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track and then liberty of beginner.
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And I love it that it can be like, yeah,
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today I'm not feeling a hundred percent.
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So I'm going to do
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independence track today.
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And like, I'll hit the stimulus.
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It'll be perfect.
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And I'm not feeling like I did too much.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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We have, we have RX scaled and L1.
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okay yeah and l1 is like hey
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if you're not feeling today
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you just need to move that
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this is an option for you
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yeah and I think people
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need to see that I think
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it's it's nice to have that
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the visual of the different
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tracks other than I know I
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can modify but I feel like
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I'm modifying you know
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everything or something so
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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Christy and Patrick preach like
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it's more important you're back tomorrow.
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Right.
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Than that you kill this today.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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And so when they added that out one,
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they really preach that a lot.
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Like if you're not,
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if you're sore and hurting, change it up.
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Make sure that whatever you
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do today gets you back here tomorrow.
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Yeah.
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I'm in.
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I feel it.
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So there was some CrossFit
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going on this weekend.
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Yeah, there was.
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A little bit in Asia,
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which I will admit I did not dive into.
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But Europe happened at like
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five o'clock in the morning, our time.
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Yeah.
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I would get up and like fast
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forward through as much as I could.
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Yeah.
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Get it all in.
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Did you watch much of it this weekend?
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I didn't.
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I was wrapping up end of the year stuff.
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So even over the weekend,
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I was busy with that.
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So the quick takeaways are
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the programming I thought was awesome.
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Okay.
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I thought it was a good mix
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and a good blend of everything.
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Um, and it really was a true test.
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And other than Yona Koski, like,
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I don't think anybody missed it.
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Like I'm crushed over.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Like,
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I think the right groups of people
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got in watching the test play out.
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Mm-hmm.
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um surprising yona doesn't
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make it in has a bad first
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two days but then really
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comes back on the last day
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but it's just not quite
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enough to get him into that
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top 10. so a games without
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yona who you know was at
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our hotel two years ago we
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got him celebrating after
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we won't get to do that this year
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Um,
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another surprise was Elisa Fuliano
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winning the snatch ladder
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at five foot one, 30 pounds.
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It's amazing.
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That is amazing.
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And so I met her in person.
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She's been on the show a bunch.
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Yeah.
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Person at the games last year.
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She is so stinking tiny.
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Yeah.
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Not realize how much until
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you stand beside her and
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you just dwarf her.
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Right.
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Well, I, because I'm a Clydesdale,
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but yeah.
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The fact she was so smooth in that event.
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So smooth.
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And the, you know,
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the saying smooth is fast.
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Yep.
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And she proved it, every bit of it.
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So what about the,
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and Jason at CF Media was
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talking about this, about the injury.
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So I talked about it with Carolyn,
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who has been on the floor,
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and I wanted to get her take on all this,
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right?
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Yeah.
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And so Rebecca Vitteson comes down,
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slides down the rope, and she,
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her knee buckles.
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She immediately goes to the floor,
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grabbing the knee.
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Yeah.
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From watching sports my whole life,
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ACL popped.
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You can tell it.
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It's what happened, right?
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Yeah.
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It took forever for someone
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to get on the floor to her.
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Where was her judge?
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So the judge is doing
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everything he's supposed to do.
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Okay.
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He's doing the medical wave.
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Okay.
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We need help now.
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Yeah.
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In France,
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the law is that the venue is
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responsible for medical, not the event.
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Right.
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Okay.
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So in every place where I've
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ever volunteered,
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CrossFit has supplied the medical.
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Correct.
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That was not the case here.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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And so finally,
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an older gentleman hits the floor.
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It looks like a doctor, I'm assuming,
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and starts helping her.
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She gets up.
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She wants to keep going.
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Okay.
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She jumps on the bike.
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She finishes the bike again.
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She does a legless rope climb.
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Mm-hmm.
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Slides down much slower.
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Yep.
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Goes and attempts a box jump.
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Oh, gosh.
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Okay.
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Does the second one goes to come off.
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Yeah.
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And the knee buckled as she
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came off the box.
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Okay.
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Went down again.
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Okay.
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You said that that second
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time was much more painful
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than the first time.
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Okay.
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So Carolyn made an awesome
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point on Sunday night.
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Mm-hmm.
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That if medical has to come
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out and assist you in any way,
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you should be done with that event.
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Agreed.
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Agreed.
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Now,
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if you come off and they can tape you
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up and do whatever and you
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can come back for the next one,
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that's fine.
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Yeah,
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you need to be assessed more than
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just oversee.
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Yeah.
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We penalize people in the
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online competition if you
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move their barbell for them.
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If a medical professional
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comes out and assists you, at that point,
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I think the event is done.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And I thought that was an
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excellent point that she made.
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Yeah, I agree with that.
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I agree with the event.
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And then I commented,
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I don't know if you saw on
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Jason's post was,
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because he was talking about, you know,
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they let Roman come out and compete.
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And, and I was like,
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I would love to do did we
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forget about Julie fish a
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because remember,
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she came out with a boot
20:01
and was able to continue on
20:02
with the competition.
20:03
So I think
20:05
In both of those cases, though,
20:06
medical did not assist them.
20:09
No, I'm agreeing.
20:10
Yeah,
20:11
I'm agreeing and saying I think it's
20:13
also there is some
20:14
responsibility of the
20:17
athlete that they are
20:18
assuming some of that responsibility to.
20:20
Like if it's AMA, you know,
20:22
against medical advice or whatnot.
20:24
So.
20:26
So this is where, like,
20:27
I'm very conflicted.
20:28
And I watched Jason CF
20:30
Media's whole show yesterday.
20:31
Okay.
20:31
With Grundler, Young, Mango,
20:35
and Mike Halpin.
20:38
Mm-hmm.
20:39
Any other sport,
20:40
they don't let the athlete
20:42
make the choice.
20:42
Mm-hmm.
20:43
Right?
20:44
In football,
20:44
if they think you've had a head injury,
20:47
they call down, stop the play,
20:48
pull them off.
20:49
Yeah.
20:50
Because an athlete is always
20:52
going to try to push through whatever.
20:55
Mm-hmm.
20:58
Um,
21:00
but I don't think you can make that
21:01
decision on the floor, right?
21:05
Like if you're out there and
21:07
medical has come out at that point,
21:09
the decision isn't yours.
21:11
You're in your adrenaline's pumping.
21:13
You're,
21:13
you're going to try to do something
21:15
like she did.
21:16
Yeah.
21:16
It shouldn't do.
21:17
Yeah.
21:19
Take her off, assess it.
21:22
let the adrenaline cool down a little bit.
21:24
Then if she wants to go back
21:25
out for the next event,
21:26
that's all on her.
21:30
Yeah,
21:30
I totally agree here with what Nick
21:32
is saying.
21:33
CTE is way different than a knee injury.
21:37
But they do that in other ways as well,
21:38
other injuries.
21:39
It's not just CTE.
21:40
But the other thing is
21:43
they're very valuable
21:44
assets that teams don't
21:45
want them completely gone
21:49
if they can fix it early.
21:52
Yeah, sure.
21:59
So anyway, that's my thoughts on it.
22:07
I, they,
22:07
that when the medical came out the
22:09
second time,
22:09
they looked like the Keystone cops.
22:12
It was, they had like weird, um,
22:15
stretchers and stuff that
22:17
we don't normally see on a
22:19
CrossFit floor.
22:21
Because they're not the
22:22
CrossFit medical team.
22:24
Right.
22:25
So it just looked, it had a bad look.
22:28
The other thing that Carolyn
22:29
made a point of is the
22:31
camera should have looked away.
22:33
Like it's just a bad look for CrossFit.
22:36
So regardless of what
22:38
happens or whatever
22:38
decisions have been made,
22:40
let that happen kind of in
22:42
privacy so that you're not
22:43
broadcasting it.
22:44
Yeah.
22:47
Yeah.
22:47
What happened to Ante?
22:49
Um, I understand he got injured as well.
22:52
Yeah.
22:53
Um, and I mean, let's be honest,
22:57
he he's late thirties,
22:59
I think like him making it
23:01
to the games last year was
23:02
kind of an anomaly.
23:05
Um, but he hurt his arm in some way.
23:08
Someone said he was one arm
23:11
pushing on the bike.
23:12
Yeah.
23:13
Like his Instagram,
23:14
it showed like some weird
23:15
bruising on it too.
23:16
And he said, you know,
23:17
his season was over now to
23:18
figure out what,
23:20
what's going on yeah so I
23:23
don't know I don't know
23:24
specifically again judy I i
23:27
did not dive into the asian
23:31
europe took about all my
23:32
weekend I don't know how
23:33
I'm going to do this
23:34
weekend with with north
23:39
america west and australia
23:42
going at the same time
23:45
because there are
23:46
contenders in both that we
23:48
need to watch for sure
23:53
Yeah, he might be old for a games athlete,
23:55
but I don't mind looking at him.
23:58
Yeah, he's one of Amy's favorites.
24:00
Turns out,
24:01
if you have an accent and a man bun,
24:03
you're on my list.
24:08
It's just the way it is.
24:12
What about Victor Hoffer?
24:15
I don't know.
24:20
Yeah, see,
24:21
I would not put him on your list.
24:22
But he fits those two criteria.
24:24
Yeah, okay.
24:25
That's interesting.
24:25
That's, let's start with that criteria.
24:28
And then then we'll weed out the rest.
24:33
Yeah.
24:37
Well, I'm kind of a manly girl.
24:40
So he is a little bit of a girly man.
24:46
Yeah.
24:49
and judy judy is right there
24:52
with you he is for so easy
24:53
on the eye yeah this
24:55
weekend's gonna be stacked
24:58
and then as draw your
24:59
dagger says and then the
25:00
next weekend we'll be
25:00
living off of liquid diet
25:02
of ghost energy drinks yeah
25:06
it's gonna be rough and I'm
25:10
not even going anywhere
25:10
although I did make a hotel
25:13
reservation in knoxville okay but
25:18
julie's okay I am probably
25:20
gonna go okay I found a
25:23
really good deal yeah
25:24
hopefully it doesn't have
25:25
bullet holes in the walls
25:26
like their games hotel um
25:30
but yeah I found a really
25:31
good deal just outside of
25:33
the city how far drive is
25:34
it six hours okay yeah so
25:39
it's drivable I can get
25:40
there I've already put in
25:42
some requests for with my
25:44
media credentials so we'll
25:45
see what happens there
25:48
And yeah.
25:49
Yeah.
25:50
I just,
25:51
I love semifinals more than the games.
25:55
As for a media person,
25:57
you have more access to the athletes.
25:59
You can talk to them more.
26:01
You can get better content
26:03
and the tension of making the games.
26:06
Yeah.
26:07
I agree.
26:08
Then people who get to the games.
26:10
I totally agree.
26:10
I agree that the excitement
26:12
is bigger at that sense of, of that.
26:18
kind of what ifs you know
26:21
yeah so I so dry dagger I
26:24
do have a media credential
26:25
for there I'm just I'm
26:27
asking for some extra stuff
26:31
I put in some requests
26:35
because in the media
26:36
agreement it says you can
26:37
be in certain places you
26:40
can't be in certain places
26:41
unless you get prior
26:42
approval from crossfit so
26:44
that's what I'm trying to do
26:50
wide zombie will be our eyes
26:51
and ears and carson if he
26:52
is sober and not
26:53
participating in
26:54
shenanigans oh denise is
26:57
going to be doing um
26:59
athlete control I did that
27:00
once before it's hard
27:03
because a lot of those
27:04
athletes they try to go
27:05
rogue they just like nope
27:06
I'm going to go over here
27:07
and you're like nope we're
27:08
in charge of you get over
27:10
Wasn't your job one year to
27:12
bring on the backdrop for
27:14
the Sideline Reporter?
27:15
Yeah.
27:17
All day.
27:17
Yep.
27:18
It was move it out, bring it back.
27:20
Move it out, bring it back.
27:22
Yep.
27:22
But I got a front row show of everything.
27:25
Right at the finish line.
27:26
Yeah.
27:27
Yeah.
27:30
I didn't get to see anything
27:31
at that because I was doing
27:32
security at Athlete Village.
27:35
And so I got to talk to everybody,
27:36
but I didn't get to see any
27:37
of the games going on.
27:42
You got that right, Wadzombie.
27:48
I'd even let him boss me around.
27:51
And that doesn't happen very often.
27:53
That's what I'm saying.
27:59
Yeah, I would love to be in Carson.
28:01
I have so much FOMO this week.
28:04
Yeah, Carson sounds amazing.
28:07
but man,
28:07
the hotels and the plane tickets
28:09
to get out there were
28:11
nowhere near affordable
28:12
with the late notice we got
28:14
for media credentials.
28:16
For sure.
28:18
But we do have a photographer.
28:20
I did get a local LA guy.
28:22
Okay.
28:22
He's going to be in the building.
28:23
I talked to Dylan and Sasha.
28:26
I got,
28:26
he's using my media credential to
28:29
take shots and, uh,
28:33
And he'll get us some stuff
28:34
back through the day for our headlines,
28:37
for our wrap-up shows, stuff like that.
28:39
So at least we have that.
28:42
Yeah.
28:43
So what time does everything kick off?
28:46
So it's 9 a.m.
28:47
Pacific, which would be here.
28:51
All right.
28:54
Yeah.
28:58
Last year,
28:59
Denise got sweated on by all the
29:00
athletes when she removed
29:02
the timing chips.
29:04
Bottled that up.
29:04
I think it will help your
29:06
score on the Open.
29:09
So do you know who Denise is?
29:11
No.
29:12
So she won Legends in the 65+.
29:14
Oh, fantastic.
29:17
And she,
29:18
I think... She'll correct me if
29:22
I'm wrong.
29:22
I think she finished second in semifinals.
29:25
Yes.
29:26
Yeah.
29:27
Okay.
29:28
Nice.
29:29
So she's going back to the games.
29:31
Woo.
29:33
Yeah.
29:34
She's awesome.
29:35
Yeah.
29:36
Great story too.
29:37
We had her on cause I
29:39
interviewed all the
29:39
champions of legends and, uh,
29:41
she has an awesome story of
29:44
stuff she's overcome in her life.
29:46
So, yeah.
29:47
Uh,
29:48
one of my favorite people that I've met
29:49
on this journey, um,
29:56
have no idea I think corey's
29:58
been drinking because I do
29:59
not understand what that is
30:00
I don't understand what
30:01
that is either I'm
30:02
uncomfortable with what he
30:03
might be referring to so
30:04
I'm gonna oh oh okay sixth
30:12
in the semis got it okay
30:13
sorry but she'll she'll
30:15
smoke everybody in the in
30:16
the live competition I'm sure
30:20
So I don't have a lot of
30:21
time because I have a one
30:22
o'clock meeting.
30:24
Yep.
30:24
Yep.
30:25
But what are you looking
30:26
forward to most this
30:28
weekend at either semi?
30:30
Cause I know you are very
30:32
much an Australian.
30:34
I don't know.
30:36
I'm just not, like you said,
30:37
I think I'm just excited
30:38
for the excitement and the,
30:41
I don't want to say like the,
30:43
just the surprises.
30:44
I think that's what it is.
30:46
Like just the unknown, like,
30:48
like Yona not making it like, shoot,
30:50
you know,
30:50
like I wouldn't have predicted that.
30:53
So I think just kind of watching to just,
30:57
just go along for the ride
30:59
and see where it takes us, you know?
31:02
Yeah.
31:03
What, what's sad for me is like, if,
31:06
if I have friends that are
31:07
athletes because of like
31:09
relationships we built,
31:10
they're all in the West.
31:12
Right.
31:12
Not all, but like a good chunk are Ariel,
31:16
Emily, Rebecca, like Hattie,
31:20
all those people that I've,
31:21
I've become friends with.
31:23
Um,
31:25
Sam all like, gosh,
31:27
so many people and I don't
31:29
get to see them live.
31:31
So that's where I'm going to
31:33
have a lot of FOMO.
31:35
Um, but I,
31:37
it's going to be a fun weekend
31:38
cause I get to see them all
31:39
compete and all punch their
31:41
tickets to the games.
31:42
Yeah.
31:44
Well,
31:44
that's the one benefit of not being
31:46
there is to be able to watch everything.
31:49
Yeah.
31:50
You know, when, when you're there working,
31:52
you don't get,
31:52
there's a lot that you miss.
31:56
I would say semis,
31:58
I've seen every heat of
32:00
individual for the last couple years.
32:03
I totally have to miss team
32:05
because I'm downloading stuff,
32:07
uploading stuff.
32:08
That's where I choose to take my breaks.
32:13
But yeah,
32:14
Yeah.
32:15
But I don't even know what
32:16
the setup is in Carson.
32:17
Like,
32:17
I don't even know if there's a media
32:19
pit around the tennis stadium.
32:22
I don't even know how it's set up.
32:23
Cause it looked tight when
32:25
you look back at like when
32:27
the games were there.
32:28
Yeah.
32:29
So I don't,
32:30
I have no idea how that's going
32:31
to be set up.
32:32
Everything always looks
32:33
bigger on TV because I mean,
32:35
the first time I ever went to Madison,
32:37
I was like, Oh, this is,
32:38
this is the field.
32:39
Like it just seems so much bigger there,
32:42
you know, or on TV.
32:44
then when you're there.
32:46
Yeah.
32:47
So the first time I was ever in Madison,
32:49
Mike and I were doing
32:50
equipment on the field and
32:52
it was so tiny compared to
32:53
what it ended up being in the last year.
32:56
Okay.
32:56
Um,
32:57
so in my mind it kept growing out a
33:00
little bit bigger and
33:01
bigger and the stands
33:02
definitely probably tripled
33:03
in size from year one to
33:05
the year we were last year.
33:07
So
33:09
That was crazy.
33:12
But yeah,
33:13
I guess I'm looking forward to that.
33:15
Is Justin on his way back?
33:17
That's going to be a huge
33:18
story after a disappointing year.
33:20
We haven't heard much from
33:21
him this offseason.
33:23
No, we sure haven't.
33:24
So what are we going to see?
33:28
And yeah, that women's side,
33:34
it's so dang top heavy with the top five.
33:41
You can't get your message to type?
33:44
I typed it,
33:45
and then it just said it won't go.
33:47
I don't know.
33:48
Okay.
33:49
What I was trying to say, Wad Zombie,
33:51
is I had already said that in my head.
33:58
Well,
33:59
we're going to be trying to do some
34:00
wrap-up shows this weekend.
34:02
I know it goes to about 8.30 our time.
34:06
Mm-hmm.
34:09
And that is provided weather is good.
34:11
Uh,
34:13
do we have a weather forecast one
34:14
zombie for the LA area for the weekend?
34:20
Um, but I,
34:21
I do believe the scheduled time
34:24
for ending is about eight 30 our time.
34:27
So we'll probably do some wrap up shows.
34:31
I have everybody I've
34:32
interviewed in the semifinal series.
34:33
I've said, Hey,
34:34
we might be reaching out to
34:36
you to have you on the wrap up shows.
34:38
And I'm almost a hundred
34:40
percent of them said that
34:42
they would love to come on.
34:43
So we'll see.
34:48
I did not see that Bethany
34:49
has an Adidas sponsorship.
34:51
Wow.
34:54
Well,
34:54
that's what Laura was wearing in Europe.
34:58
She was wearing soccer shoes for, like,
35:01
the snatch.
35:05
A little overcast in the morning,
35:06
perfect sunshine in the afternoon.
35:09
Sweet.
35:10
Mm-hmm.
35:12
It's going to be,
35:13
and it's the only outdoor venue too,
35:15
so it's going to be
35:16
interesting to see that.
35:17
And Bethany, every year I count her out,
35:21
every year she proves me wrong.
35:22
Yep.
35:24
And so this year I picked
35:25
her to make it to the games
35:26
because I wasn't going to
35:27
get fooled again.
35:28
Well, I hope that doesn't screw things up.
35:34
And do the opposite.
35:36
And just to finish up on our
35:39
age group people that we love to death,
35:43
Dex Hopkins is in a qualifying spot now.
35:47
He's no longer 41th.
35:48
No, he's 40th.
35:49
Yep, not 41th anymore.
35:50
No more 41th.
35:57
So super stoked for him.
35:59
And once we get through all
36:01
that finalization,
36:02
we'll have a crew back on
36:04
from the age groups to talk
36:05
about next steps and how
36:07
they're going to prepare for the games.
36:09
We did a little roundtable
36:10
with Dex and Corey and Ryan Radke,
36:13
and it was freaking awesome.
36:15
They were awesome to have on,
36:17
even though Corey and Dex
36:18
could not stay on task
36:20
after the entire show.
36:25
and we needed subtitles for
36:26
both of them with their
36:27
southern accents wow yeah
36:31
with that uh so stoked that
36:34
you could all be here uh
36:35
the chat always makes us so
36:37
much better with that we'll
36:40
see everybody next time on
36:41
the glidesdale media roundtable bye guys