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Clydesdale Media Podcast - Fight for the Fittest/ New York Wolves · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it I was meant to win
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  what's going on everybody
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  welcome to the Clydesdale
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  media podcast I know this
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  is normally lunch with the
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  Clydesdale but today we
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  have a special guest could
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  not pass that up and we
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  have Sam from fight for the
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  fittest and he has a
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  special announcement about
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  a new thing coming to New
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  York but we'll get to that
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  in a little bit don't
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  forget to Like and
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  subscribe to the channel
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  I'm glad you can all be
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  here sorry if there was
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  some confusion when I first
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  set this up I set it up for
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  yesterday's date
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  because I'm not usually that
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  that far ahead uh but I
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  hopefully fixed that last
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  minute so you all got
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  notifiers uh within the
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  last few minutes that we
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  were live so sam welcome to
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  the show what's up bud how
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  you been I'm good I'm good
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  this is your second
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  appearance on the show
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  that's right we were on
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  last year to talk about the
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  event thank you for that
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  Yeah, I discovered your event.
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  One, it's getting bigger and bigger,
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  so it's getting a bigger
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  presence on social media.
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  And you have...
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  some special masters
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  athletes that are big parts
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  of your volunteer squad.
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  And as I was interviewing
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  them for the games last year,
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  they started talking about it.
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  It started creating like a buzz for me.
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  And then we had you on.
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  And what's cool is you're
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  getting big last year.
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  And that pales in comparison
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  to what's going on this year.
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  yeah I mean it's been kind
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  of a roller coaster you
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  know last year my my wife
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  and I kelly decided to take
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  the competition out of like the local
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  realm and take it out of the
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  gym and put it in an arena
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  and we hooked up with the
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  subject community college
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  and they have a huge indoor
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  arena the size of a
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  football field and uh you
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  know we we basically just
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  pushed our chips all in and
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  it was a an awesome
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  experience we learned a lot
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  uh about how to run an
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  event what the community
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  wants um and we kind of I
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  think we put ourselves on
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  the map you know I think it
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  was a prove it year for us
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  And we had lots of athletes involved.
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  We had around two hundred
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  and seventy five athletes
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  last year at our event in
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  teams and pairs.
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  And this year we said, all right,
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  now we have the community's attention.
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  We added individuals to it.
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  And we're already well over
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  four hundred athletes for
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  the weekend for Saturday
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  and Sunday between individuals,
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  pairs and teams of four.
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  So it was it was a good
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  reward after last year's
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  like countless hours that
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  we put into that to realize
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  that the community has accepted us as a,
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  you know,
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  more than just a local
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  competition at this point.
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  Well,
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  what's funny is that as I was
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  researching you,
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  I saw the individuals does
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  like in my head,
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  I had you like pegged as a
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  team competition.
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  But you've explained it,
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  that it's grown so much
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  that you've been able to
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  add that individual
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  division as one of the options.
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  Let's get the nitty gritty
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  stuff out of the way.
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  You are at the Suffolk
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  Federal Credit Union Arena.
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  And where is that located?
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  So that's at Suffolk Community College.
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  That's on our campus in
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  Brentwood on Long Island.
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  Um,
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  and then your competition is actually
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  October eighteenth and nineteenth.
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  Yeah.
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  So it's that whole weekend.
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  The format is, um,
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  individuals will compete on Saturday.
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  Uh,
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  we have a hundred and thirty
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  individuals that sold out right now, uh,
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  except for four RX female spots.
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  Um,
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  and pairs will compete on Sunday and
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  the teams of four will
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  compete Saturday and Sunday.
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  Okay, cool.
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  Because the teams of four
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  was what you kind of started with.
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  That was your base product.
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  And now you've added these
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  other things in as options
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  as you've grown.
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  How are you doing on the fourth?
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  Since that was your base product,
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  are the four person teams
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  pretty much full or do you have spots?
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  Yeah, so I mean, that's a great question.
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  So I still have a big love
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  for the team of four.
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  I have competed, you know,
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  locally and in regards to that,
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  I always enjoyed that the most.
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  I enjoyed that team aspect of it.
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  And that is the main
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  division that we want to
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  continue to push.
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  We do feel that there is a
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  void in the community for that,
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  especially with some
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  recent changes in the
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  competitive culture and
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  community and availability
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  for what's for these teams
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  so we have that's our only
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  division that we have this
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  elite and we're going to
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  continue to push that uh
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  it's not sold out uh yet
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  but it is continuing to
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  flourish but what we did
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  learn and we always ask for
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  feedback is that we needed
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  to create as many
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  opportunities for people to
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  compete and some people
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  don't like competing on
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  team some people didn't
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  want to do two days some
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  people didn't want to swim
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  and so by adding the individuals in
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  created that opportunity.
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  I'm going to continue making
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  this team of four our baby.
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  That's why they are featured
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  on Saturday and Sunday.
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  They get to use a lot of
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  different implements.
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  And we have that elite division,
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  which we're going to try to
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  feature and grow.
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  I have a question from the audience.
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  Dave Castro announced he was
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  in New York City last week.
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  Was he with you?
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  No, it's funny.
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  I do like Dave Castro a lot.
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  I have a lot of respect for him.
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  I've read his book a couple of times,
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  and I actually DMed him.
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  I was like, come to Long Island,
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  and I would love to meet you.
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  I'll buy you lunch.
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  And he said he was only in town for a week,
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  and that was not to meet me.
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  I'm still a small time.
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  Yeah, if the rumors are true,
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  he was there for a much
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  bigger thing that's going on.
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  Yeah,
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  I know he went to Hell's Kitchen
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  CrossFit.
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  He worked out with Nico,
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  who's competed with us several years ago,
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  which is really cool to see him progress.
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  If it's anything like Dave,
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  he'll probably just keep it
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  close to the chest and you
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  won't find out until he
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  wants you to find out.
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  Yeah.
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  There's some clues on the
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  internet today if you want
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  to go find them.
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  But yeah, sure.
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  I thought it was a funny comment,
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  so I wanted to bring it up.
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  What do you do in your
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  day-to-day life that gives
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  you the time to do a
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  competition like this?
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  Or is it just the sacrifice
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  you make because you love it so much?
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  um well I am a pa I'm a
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  physician assistant and I
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  do uh you know I work in a
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  practice uh on long island
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  where we do spine surgery
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  um it doesn't really
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  correlate with what I do um
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  with the events uh this is
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  something that we kind of
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  just fell into um I work
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  the time in like right now
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  on my lunch break or you
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  know I wake up early and
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  get work done or get work
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  done late at night it's
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  just something we've
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  developed me my wife as a
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  passion for the community
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  we have a lot of people
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  who help us and have cared
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  about this and see what
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  we're trying to do here.
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  So we've made friends and
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  we've had people along the
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  way that kind of have helped, you know,
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  gather the stuff that we
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  need to do and get to the next level.
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  Are you affiliated with any
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  gym in particular or an
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  affiliate to help you like
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  with volunteers with no affiliation?
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  No,
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  so what Kelly and I do is pretty unique
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  in the event organizing space.
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  I don't know many other
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  event organizers that don't
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  have an affiliate.
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  You know,
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  that put us behind the eight ball
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  in regards to,
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  we had to pay rent to use the gym spaces.
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  We've had to rent equipment
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  and we haven't had our own
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  community to kind of feed
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  off of in regards to people competing,
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  people volunteering.
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  We've worked really hard to build our,
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  I don't want to say our own community,
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  but to be a part of the community.
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  And now we have consistent volunteers.
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  We have people that reach out.
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  And that was a big hurdle at first,
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  financially and just
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  getting our name out there
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  because Long Island's a
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  very dense area and it's a
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  very competitive area.
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  So gyms are hesitant to
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  promote other gyms and stuff like that.
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  So I had to make it clear to
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  people that we're not gym owners.
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  We're just members of the
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  community that want to put
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  on an event that represents
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  the community.
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  How long have you been in existence?
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  Uh, two thousand twenty-one.
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  So we, we were originally going to do it,
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  uh,
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  in two thousand twenty and we all know
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  how that year went.
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  Um, so we, we ran our first one at RX fit,
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  which is, uh, Haley colors.
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  You've had her on the show.
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  She's a master's athlete.
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  Um, we ran it at her gym in Rocky point.
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  We ran a few there and then
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  we ran a few at move fast, lift heavy,
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  which is a Christian
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  Harris's gym on long Island
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  and Ron Kankaba.
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  And, uh, yeah.
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  Who does the programming for you guys?
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  So it's a combined effort.
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  Christian helps with the team.
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  Myself and Haley worked
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  together for the individual
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  and the pairs.
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  Ultimately,
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  I am the one responsible for
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  the seal of approval
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  because programming is more
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  than just thinking up of cool workouts.
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  So you need to work with the
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  equipment you have in a
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  certain time domain,
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  matching certain stimuluses.
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  And make sure that it fits
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  your demographic that
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  you're trying to reach as well.
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  So it's more than just
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  making a cool workout.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  What I find really cool for
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  you guys is I pulled up
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  your Instagram and you have
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  all these posts up here.
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  You don't have your
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  competition till October.
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  We're already seeing
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  versions of workouts that
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  have been posted.
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  they've been out for a while
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  I mean uh the the you know
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  I've seen two different
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  sides of it one is um the
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  let's keep it you know
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  exclusive and exciting and
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  suspenseful and release the
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  workouts and and I get that
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  uh and if you sell out your
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  competition in the first
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  day of of opening
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  registration you can do
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  whatever you want um but my
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  style our style is more of
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  Let's give everyone the most
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  information as possible as
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  early as possible.
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  Like, you know,
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  these workouts have been
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  out for as long as time as possible.
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  And, you know,
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  people want to make plans
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  and there's other things.
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  So, you know,
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  we kind of just do the
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  opposite of what CrossFit does,
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  which is give everyone the
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  most information as
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  possible as early as
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  possible and be as
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  transparent as possible.
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  And that's not to take a shot.
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  It's just the fact.
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  So this is your Instagram handle.
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  If people want to follow you,
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  they should go to the
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  Instagram follow fight for the fittest.
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  All the information is there.
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  Um,
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  there's some really great people
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  involved with this that
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  I've met over my years
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  bouncing around the CrossFit community.
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  Uh,
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  you just announced the media director
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  is be relentless.
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  That is one of the best in the business.
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  Um,
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  You mentioned Haley.
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  Haley is an awesome person to work with.
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  She was great at the Masters
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  Games last year.
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  And I know that they are
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  part of that team that
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  you've put together.
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  How hard is it with this
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  growth to keep up with the
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  volunteer side of things?
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  It's pretty extremely hard.
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  It helps that we have
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  another person that works with us,
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  Deb Graff,
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  and she helps us with our companies,
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  our sponsors, our vendors.
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  And again,
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  she was able to secure us Reebok
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  as the shoe sponsor of our staff.
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  So everyone's always about
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  the athletes getting stuff.
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  We're really,
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  really about our staff getting stuff,
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  besides the shirts and the usuals.
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  Anyone who's working for our
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  event is going to get the
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  pair of Reeboks for the day.
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  That helps a lot.
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  Those things...
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  showing our appreciation, feeding them,
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  getting them dessert on Saturday night,
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  another thing that we got going on,
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  some cookies that they're going to get.
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  I think that's important.
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  We've tried to pay staff,
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  and I don't really think
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  that's what the motivating
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  factor was for people.
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  I think they want to be part of something.
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  They want to feel appreciated.
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  And that's really our main focus,
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  is the staff to leave with
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  as much swag as the athletes get.
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  Yeah,
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  isn't that funny that it's all about
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  the swag bag?
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  That's it.
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  And it's funny,
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  we have these two professional judges,
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  Yamaris and Manny,
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  and they judge everywhere
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  and they love to get the shoes.
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  But I'm like, you judge like,
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  fifteen competitions a year,
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  you must have a hundred shoes.
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  She's like, yeah, I have a hundred shoes.
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  All right, I'll get you another pair.
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  So I started as a volunteer
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  and then a judge,
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  and I know Yamaris and Manny,
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  they're quality people,
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  quality individuals,
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  and some of the best judges on the planet,
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  honestly, on the planet,
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  some of the best judges.
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  And they care.
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  And they care.
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  And they're awesome leaders
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  on top of that.
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  If I see them as a head judge,
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  I would be more willing to sign up to,
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  to volunteer with that
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  group knowing they are the
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  ones running the show.
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  Well, what's true size are you?
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  I'm out of the,
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  I'm out of the judging business.
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  I can't be in media.
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  I finally try.
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  I got to try.
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  Uh, Andrew Sten echoes, uh,
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  manny and your mares are
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  awesome sounds like a fun
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  comp born in law in long
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  island maybe try to come
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  out for it andrew is one of
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  the best judges in the business
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  Yeah, we get the bacon, egg,
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  and cheeses out there.
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  So you come on Long Island,
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  we get you breakfast and everything,
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  and it's a full weekend.
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  And then we get spots for everyone,
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  whether it's we have people
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  that are going to come out
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  that aren't judging,
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  that will help me move
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  stuff around throughout the
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  day so I don't kill myself.
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  We have people on the door,
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  people doing tickets.
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  There's a spot for anyone
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  that wants to be involved.
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  Yeah,
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  my memories of Long Island are from
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  my college days,
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  and so it's not anything to
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  do with fitness.
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  I went to school in Western
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  Pennsylvania and my
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  roommate was from Long
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  Island and we would drive
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  out there a couple of times a semester.
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  We would have so much fun, so much fun.
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  Andrew says and get some real pizza.
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  That's right.
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  That's right.
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  Yeah.
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  So are you looking for more
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  volunteers or how can
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  people get in touch with you?
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  Go through the Instagram.
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  Yeah, so I mean, listen,
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  I run the Instagram.
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  It's something that's
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  evolved over years from
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  being somewhat interesting.
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  If you really do a deep dive
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  and scroll back five years.
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  But I run the Instagram.
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  If you DM, I'll answer you directly.
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  Or Kelly, my wife, DMs.
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  It's the same link as you
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  would go to sign up to conquest events,
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  which you can go through our website,
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  which is
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  fftfcompetitions.com or the links
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  in our bio.
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  There's plenty of ways to
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  find it or just DM me and
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  I'll send you the link.
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  Definitely still looking for people.
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  If we can get two
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  competition floors fully
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  staffed and run them all day long,
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  I have more spots I'm going to open up.
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  And I know people want more
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  spots in the pairs
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  divisions and in the individual divisions,
• 15:37
  but I need to make sure
• 15:39
  that the event can be run
• 15:39
  properly to do that.
• 15:42
  Yeah.
• 15:42
  Yeah.
• 15:43
  That's the key.
• 15:43
  Keeping your volunteers happy,
• 15:44
  which I love hearing that
• 15:46
  is a priority of yours.
• 15:48
  So many times I've been to
• 15:49
  events where they kind of
• 15:50
  forget about breaks.
• 15:51
  They forget about, you know,
• 15:52
  and you can't wear down your people.
• 15:56
  Every volunteer that I've
• 15:57
  talked to that has done
• 15:58
  your event has raved about
• 16:00
  how awesome it is.
• 16:01
  Thank you.
• 16:03
  so if you are looking to
• 16:04
  volunteer and get involved
• 16:05
  in any of this give sam a
• 16:08
  give sam a dm because it is
• 16:10
  it's I've heard I've heard
• 16:11
  it is tip top uh corey
• 16:15
  leonard love event
• 16:16
  organizers that give a damn
• 16:17
  about the volunteers yeah
• 16:21
  it's a shame we have some
• 16:23
  that don't and I we won't
• 16:24
  get into that but just glad
• 16:26
  that you guys are are the
• 16:27
  exact opposite of that
• 16:29
  Yeah, I mean, it's a big deal.
• 16:30
  And then we have our medical staff,
• 16:31
  which is going to be done
• 16:32
  through Northwell Health,
• 16:33
  which is one of our sponsors.
• 16:35
  So they're going to be
• 16:35
  bringing down orthopedics
• 16:37
  and ATCs and trainers.
• 16:40
  It's important.
• 16:41
  It's just an important part of the event.
• 16:44
  And when we pitch the event
• 16:46
  to our sponsors,
• 16:47
  we don't only talk about
• 16:48
  the athletes and the spectators.
• 16:49
  We talk about the...
• 16:51
  the volunteers.
• 16:51
  Cause it's a big chunk of people, you know,
• 16:53
  you know,
• 16:54
  probably for this event is a lot
• 16:55
  of people.
• 16:56
  And, um, you know, we,
• 16:57
  we ask for product for
• 16:59
  these people as well,
• 17:00
  cause they deserve it.
• 17:00
  Yeah.
• 17:03
  Any accommodations, uh,
• 17:05
  deals with what you guys got going on.
• 17:07
  If you're coming from out of town, please.
• 17:09
  Yeah.
• 17:09
  So Kelly is, uh,
• 17:11
  she does a lot of the
• 17:12
  behind the scenes stuff.
• 17:12
  Like I do,
• 17:13
  I do like the big ideas and then
• 17:14
  she executes them.
• 17:16
  Um, which is typical.
• 17:17
  Uh,
• 17:19
  my marriage um so we have a
• 17:22
  hotel hotel deal uh that's
• 17:24
  on our website uh I'll post
• 17:25
  about that soon I'm just a
• 17:27
  little bit behind and
• 17:27
  trying to get as much
• 17:28
  information as possible as
• 17:29
  you see I put out a lot so
• 17:31
  yeah we do have some hotel
• 17:32
  accommodations for a
• 17:34
  blocked rate that's secured
• 17:35
  for us nice nice
• 17:38
  And it's a big city.
• 17:41
  It's easy to get a flight to New York.
• 17:44
  So if you're from out of
• 17:45
  town like Andrew or Jay Birch,
• 17:49
  you can fly right to New York.
• 17:51
  Yeah.
• 17:51
  And now there's also Islet
• 17:53
  MacArthur Airport,
• 17:54
  which is like super convenient.
• 17:56
  It's a local airport.
• 17:57
  You can fly into that one.
• 17:58
  That's a breeze.
• 18:01
  Joe P.,
• 18:02
  it's the best event run by the best
• 18:03
  people.
• 18:04
  The team can't wait for
• 18:05
  October NYPD CrossFit.
• 18:08
  huge uh huge nypd supporters
• 18:11
  huge fdmy supporters uh you
• 18:13
  know and and all of our
• 18:14
  military with I feel like
• 18:16
  that's very important to
• 18:16
  have them involved in our
• 18:17
  events thank you joe and I
• 18:19
  appreciate you yeah so any
• 18:21
  anything I'm missing on uh
• 18:24
  the the event itself
• 18:26
  No, man, I think we covered it.
• 18:28
  I mean,
• 18:29
  it's amazing to see how much this
• 18:31
  has grown from year one to
• 18:32
  two and kind of gives me a
• 18:33
  little bit of a picture of
• 18:34
  what we can do in the future.
• 18:36
  I hope we continue to just
• 18:39
  be of service to the
• 18:40
  community and we do something special.
• 18:42
  I think that we're going to
• 18:44
  continue to grow.
• 18:45
  I'm excited about it.
• 18:47
  Do you ever fear that...
• 18:50
  I kind of said this on my
• 18:51
  show a couple of days ago with,
• 18:54
  so we have like Metcon rush.
• 18:55
  It just happened.
• 18:58
  Um,
• 18:58
  you had all these semifinal events that
• 19:02
  teamed up with CrossFit to
• 19:03
  kind of qualify people.
• 19:05
  And then I,
• 19:06
  I saw that Met or Metcon rush
• 19:08
  didn't have the upper elite
• 19:10
  semifinal athletes that
• 19:11
  they've had in the past.
• 19:13
  Do you think that, uh,
• 19:15
  until crossfit comes up with
• 19:17
  a better structure you're
• 19:18
  gonna have a hard time
• 19:19
  finding those type athletes
• 19:21
  for what I call the mid
• 19:22
  majors like you and metcon
• 19:24
  rush and crash so crash
• 19:28
  will always get top
• 19:30
  athletes um when you have
• 19:32
  that quality programming I
• 19:34
  mean crash is in my opinion
• 19:36
  jr is the best programmer
• 19:38
  in the business and I think
• 19:40
  if athletes really want to
• 19:42
  be tested they're going to
• 19:43
  always do his events um and
• 19:45
  he's in an area that's very
• 19:47
  uh central to to gather a
• 19:49
  lot of people um you know
• 19:50
  from from tennessee to
• 19:51
  north carolina south
• 19:52
  carolina now in regards to
• 19:56
  getting other individual
• 19:57
  lead athletes at your
• 19:58
  competition it's going to
• 19:59
  be very difficult right now
• 20:00
  because there are so many
• 20:02
  things going on right now
• 20:03
  between wfp qualifiers
• 20:06
  Semi-final events, different,
• 20:08
  different event.
• 20:09
  It's just, it's a,
• 20:12
  it's a little bit of a mess.
• 20:14
  And I,
• 20:15
  that's why we decided to not touch
• 20:16
  that this year.
• 20:17
  We, we did not do any individual elite.
• 20:21
  We felt that on the opposite end of it,
• 20:23
  the teams were being neglected.
• 20:25
  Not being able to compete in
• 20:26
  the semi-final anymore is a
• 20:27
  big deal for teams because
• 20:29
  for many people that were
• 20:29
  going to a semi-final,
• 20:30
  that was the pinnacle of their year.
• 20:33
  Going down, I mean,
• 20:34
  and I understand that some
• 20:36
  of the competitions still
• 20:37
  had team divisions, but it was different.
• 20:41
  And so we feel like there's
• 20:42
  still a void out there for teams of four.
• 20:45
  I feel it's still a
• 20:46
  neglected community because
• 20:50
  they're hard events to run.
• 20:51
  I mean, the equipment demands,
• 20:52
  the time demands, all this stuff.
• 20:54
  It's very difficult to do that.
• 20:56
  So I wouldn't touch,
• 20:58
  I wouldn't touch the elite individuals,
• 21:00
  you know, with a forty foot pole.
• 21:02
  I think that's a, it's a tough thing.
• 21:04
  They're a tough group of people.
• 21:07
  And, uh,
• 21:08
  CrossFit does have to kind of
• 21:09
  figure out something,
• 21:10
  but I'm not terribly optimistic.
• 21:14
  Okay.
• 21:14
  Fair enough.
• 21:16
  So on the other realm of
• 21:17
  things that you have going
• 21:18
  on in your life is you are
• 21:20
  now part of a new,
• 21:21
  an organization who is
• 21:22
  trying to bring United Grid
• 21:24
  League to New York.
• 21:27
  And that is New York wolves.
• 21:30
  And you guys have an Instagram as well.
• 21:32
  I'll pull that up real quick.
• 21:33
  Uh, this is your Instagram for that.
• 21:40
  So what,
• 21:41
  what made you want to get involved
• 21:42
  with grid leg?
• 21:43
  So this is kind of wild.
• 21:45
  So, I mean,
• 21:46
  I always knew about grid league.
• 21:48
  I knew about the Florida grid league,
• 21:49
  which was what it was before.
• 21:50
  And then I knew about, uh,
• 21:52
  the professional grid league and, and,
• 21:53
  uh,
• 21:55
  You know,
• 21:55
  it kind of goes back to some
• 21:56
  people I know that used to
• 21:57
  do it as an OG.
• 21:59
  I had no intentions of
• 22:01
  getting involved with this at all.
• 22:03
  Excuse me.
• 22:05
  But the owner of the team, Jen Powers,
• 22:07
  who works with us for Fight
• 22:08
  for the Fitness,
• 22:08
  she has a company called
• 22:11
  Wolf Back on Track that is
• 22:13
  a media company and a
• 22:17
  growing company in the space.
• 22:21
  And she purchased a team.
• 22:23
  And she calls me up and she's like, hey,
• 22:25
  Sam, you know, don't tell anyone yet,
• 22:28
  but I'm getting a team here.
• 22:30
  Can you build it for me?
• 22:32
  And I was like...
• 22:33
  well, that kind of sounds fun.
• 22:35
  And she's like,
• 22:35
  do you think you know any
• 22:36
  athletes that would be good at this?
• 22:37
  I'm like, hell yeah,
• 22:38
  I know athletes that would
• 22:39
  be good at this.
• 22:40
  And New York and the
• 22:41
  Northeast is full of quality athletes.
• 22:43
  So, you know,
• 22:44
  we kind of sat on it for a
• 22:45
  little bit and I kind of just said,
• 22:49
  you know,
• 22:49
  I'd be interested or excited to
• 22:51
  be kind of like the GM of the team.
• 22:54
  I don't want to coach.
• 22:56
  I don't want to play.
• 22:56
  I'm too old for that shit.
• 22:58
  Excuse me.
• 23:00
  But
• 23:02
  I did find that interesting.
• 23:04
  I did find that interesting
• 23:05
  to build a team.
• 23:06
  So we partnered up together.
• 23:08
  She's the boss.
• 23:09
  She owns the team.
• 23:11
  Let's not be confused of
• 23:13
  whose team this is.
• 23:13
  This is her team.
• 23:14
  But I'm going to build a roster.
• 23:16
  I'm going to build a team.
• 23:18
  And it's going to be really
• 23:19
  interesting because it's
• 23:21
  really popular down there in Florida.
• 23:23
  How much of a grid do you know about?
• 23:26
  So actually,
• 23:26
  I have a couple of friends
• 23:27
  that are competing this year.
• 23:28
  So I've really dug in this
• 23:30
  year for the first time
• 23:32
  since the OG version that
• 23:34
  came out in the mid-teens.
• 23:38
  And so I've been watching a lot.
• 23:40
  It's very entertaining.
• 23:42
  Have you watched a full match?
• 23:43
  I have.
• 23:44
  Yeah, very entertaining, right?
• 23:47
  I mean, I have a couple quibbles,
• 23:48
  but it's more about every
• 23:52
  sport complains about
• 23:53
  delays in the game because
• 23:55
  of a challenge flag.
• 23:56
  That really kind of gets on me.
• 23:59
  But other than that,
• 24:00
  I think the production is
• 24:01
  really well done.
• 24:03
  I think the athletes are great.
• 24:06
  And the announcing team that
• 24:08
  they have for that is phenomenal.
• 24:10
  Yeah.
• 24:10
  I mean, you hit it right on the nail.
• 24:14
  The young lady, Cassie,
• 24:17
  that does it with Taylor,
• 24:18
  they explain it to you.
• 24:20
  The production in each race
• 24:21
  is different because it's
• 24:22
  kind of a complicated sport.
• 24:24
  They show you what's the breakdown,
• 24:26
  what you need to do.
• 24:27
  So they make you understand
• 24:28
  what's going on.
• 24:29
  And it's so fast and so exciting.
• 24:32
  It's like watching the last
• 24:33
  ninety seconds of a basketball game,
• 24:35
  of an NBA game.
• 24:36
  Like, how many,
• 24:38
  how many twenty minute
• 24:39
  AMRAPs have you seen where you're like,
• 24:40
  oh, my God, geez,
• 24:41
  I got to just get to the
• 24:42
  last two minutes to see
• 24:44
  who's going to win this race.
• 24:45
  And that's what you get race
• 24:47
  after race after race of exciting,
• 24:48
  you know,
• 24:49
  people running to a finish line.
• 24:53
  It's it's I kind of got hooked on it.
• 24:55
  I've watched, you know,
• 24:56
  like probably twenty,
• 24:57
  twenty five matches in the
• 24:58
  past couple of weeks.
• 24:59
  And it can get pretty exciting.
• 25:01
  Some of the ones this
• 25:02
  weekend were super exciting, too.
• 25:04
  So, you know,
• 25:04
  back to answer your question.
• 25:07
  You know, it's super popular down there.
• 25:09
  The athletes are loving it.
• 25:11
  It's growing.
• 25:11
  There's an opportunity for growth.
• 25:17
  Excuse me.
• 25:19
  And it's basically unknown
• 25:21
  and untouched up here in the Northeast.
• 25:23
  There are athletes that go down there,
• 25:25
  compete from upstate New York,
• 25:27
  Massachusetts, Philadelphia,
• 25:29
  one or two from Long Island.
• 25:31
  But this pool of athletes
• 25:33
  that are up here is basically untapped.
• 25:36
  So it's a pretty exciting opportunity that,
• 25:38
  yes,
• 25:38
  we're going to have to put together a
• 25:39
  team of rookies,
• 25:39
  but it's going to be a team of studs.
• 25:43
  Yeah.
• 25:46
  My one friend is one of the
• 25:47
  rookies on Houston.
• 25:50
  Her name's Lauren Olson.
• 25:51
  She's killing it.
• 25:52
  It's given her the opportunity to like,
• 25:56
  she's competed in CrossFit for years.
• 25:59
  And it's always been that
• 26:00
  borderline semifinal team athlete.
• 26:04
  And this has given her the opportunity.
• 26:06
  She's a rock star in this league now.
• 26:08
  I think she's I think she's
• 26:10
  one of the best players on
• 26:11
  that team so she's a tall
• 26:12
  girl redhead right kind of
• 26:13
  redhead brown hair she's
• 26:15
  always dancing and stuff
• 26:16
  like that always dancing
• 26:17
  yeah so I think she's one
• 26:18
  of the best players on this
• 26:19
  team um I think she's going
• 26:21
  to be a star in this league
• 26:22
  I've watched her uh this
• 26:24
  year uh you know there's
• 26:26
  some other big names on
• 26:27
  that team uh but I I was
• 26:29
  definitely attracted to
• 26:30
  what she did and I think
• 26:31
  she's the perfect example
• 26:33
  Right.
• 26:33
  So she's a great athlete.
• 26:34
  She's the top, you know,
• 26:35
  she's going to be in that
• 26:36
  top one percent conversation.
• 26:38
  But, you know,
• 26:38
  is she going to be able to
• 26:39
  get past the semifinals?
• 26:40
  She can, you know,
• 26:41
  maybe just get there
• 26:41
  because those kind of athletes, you know,
• 26:44
  that's fine.
• 26:45
  But she can be a star in
• 26:47
  grid and and she has been the first year.
• 26:49
  So it looks like she's
• 26:51
  having a lot of fun.
• 26:52
  And she dances.
• 26:52
  She hams it up for the camera.
• 26:54
  She, you know,
• 26:55
  she does all the things that
• 26:56
  grid leg wants.
• 26:58
  And that's what CrossFit is missing.
• 27:00
  Like we don't have the
• 27:01
  personalities in CrossFit
• 27:03
  that run up to the camera
• 27:05
  and like mean mug the camera anymore.
• 27:06
  You know what I mean?
• 27:07
  It's kind of like WWE meets CrossFit.
• 27:11
  Yes, very much.
• 27:12
  And I'm not a big wrestling
• 27:13
  fan and I'm not, not one for, you know,
• 27:16
  if it was me,
• 27:17
  I'm not a very boisterous way.
• 27:18
  I probably just sit in the corner,
• 27:20
  but yeah,
• 27:21
  as someone who's watching it,
• 27:22
  it's pretty freaking entertaining.
• 27:25
  You know, when they grab the camera,
• 27:26
  they're yelling,
• 27:27
  they're doing flips there, you know,
• 27:28
  they're all jacked up.
• 27:29
  And then you have the
• 27:30
  interview crew right there in between.
• 27:32
  They're just constantly,
• 27:33
  constantly promoting the athletes.
• 27:35
  And I bet if you ask her, if you ask Olsen,
• 27:38
  but she's,
• 27:38
  she's having the time of her life there.
• 27:40
  She is.
• 27:40
  She looks like she's having
• 27:41
  the most fun she's had competing.
• 27:43
  And that's what,
• 27:45
  these athletes want they
• 27:46
  want an opportunity to
• 27:47
  compete they want to be a
• 27:49
  part of something you know
• 27:50
  it's not all about you know
• 27:51
  monies and sponsors and
• 27:53
  instagram followers they
• 27:54
  want to showcase their
• 27:55
  abilities yeah yeah I've
• 27:59
  actually I actually posed a
• 28:01
  question on our sunday
• 28:01
  night show is grid like
• 28:04
  becoming an entertainment
• 28:06
  alternative like when your
• 28:08
  crossfit season's on a break
• 28:10
  And they've done a really
• 28:11
  good job of putting the
• 28:13
  matches on on weekends that
• 28:15
  CrossFit's on a break.
• 28:17
  That's pretty smart strategically.
• 28:20
  if you're looking for
• 28:21
  fitness racing you got your
• 28:22
  options yeah and I think it
• 28:25
  doesn't require a ton of
• 28:27
  volume training the way
• 28:28
  that the the races are um
• 28:30
  you know you basically can
• 28:32
  train the way you are if
• 28:33
  you're training basic
• 28:33
  crossfit and work in a few
• 28:36
  uh extra workouts a week
• 28:37
  tests a week and I think
• 28:39
  you would be just fine if
• 28:40
  you are very very fit as these people are
• 28:43
  um if you want to just focus
• 28:45
  on great I'm sure you could
• 28:46
  do more if if you want to
• 28:47
  continue a lot of these
• 28:48
  people do still continue
• 28:49
  the crossfit season you can
• 28:52
  I mean if you're going if
• 28:53
  your goal is to make the
• 28:54
  games I mean you're locked
• 28:55
  in you should be locked in
• 28:56
  on that one task and you
• 28:57
  probably shouldn't do
• 28:58
  anything else and do that
• 29:00
  because that's the pinnacle uh for them
• 29:03
  But for the people that are
• 29:05
  looking for another
• 29:05
  opportunity on a consistent basis,
• 29:09
  you know, you know,
• 29:09
  you're guaranteed those
• 29:10
  four four matches during
• 29:12
  the year and then hopefully playoffs.
• 29:13
  So there's no worry about qualifying.
• 29:16
  You know, you're on the team,
• 29:17
  you're playing and you're
• 29:18
  having these these events.
• 29:21
  so about building your team
• 29:23
  and that you actually, you know,
• 29:25
  your area pretty well.
• 29:27
  And you, I'm guessing, you know,
• 29:28
  some of the stud athletes
• 29:30
  that you want to reach out to,
• 29:32
  but you're also having a
• 29:33
  combine if athletes want to
• 29:36
  give it a shot and show you
• 29:38
  what they can do.
• 29:40
  Um, how, how is that happening?
• 29:43
  Yeah.
• 29:43
  I mean, listen, I, you know,
• 29:44
  the second this started, I had a list,
• 29:46
  um,
• 29:48
  I'll be about twenty five deep, you know,
• 29:50
  of that twenty five,
• 29:51
  a bunch of them are interested.
• 29:53
  Everyone's got to do the combine.
• 29:54
  I need the data.
• 29:55
  You know, we hired a head coach,
• 29:57
  Lexi Wilford.
• 29:58
  She played with the Atlanta
• 30:00
  Wild for the past two years.
• 30:02
  Now she's going to be coaching our team.
• 30:03
  So, you know,
• 30:04
  we're very going to be very data driven.
• 30:07
  I'm going to go off of
• 30:09
  knowing these people and their character.
• 30:12
  You know, anyone can try it out.
• 30:14
  You know, listen, my specialty,
• 30:16
  I believe that what I'm
• 30:16
  going to bring to this team
• 30:17
  is I know how to find
• 30:18
  diamonds in the rough.
• 30:20
  The obvious ones are the obvious ones.
• 30:21
  I know who these...
• 30:23
  all-star players are and
• 30:23
  everyone else knows who
• 30:24
  they are too but finding
• 30:25
  the ones that I've seen
• 30:26
  come up along the past few
• 30:28
  years that you that people
• 30:29
  don't know about but I know
• 30:30
  how great they are um
• 30:32
  anyone that wants to do the
• 30:33
  combine uh they can find it
• 30:35
  through our instagram page
• 30:36
  they can find it they can
• 30:37
  dm us on on the new york
• 30:39
  wolves page it's free it's
• 30:42
  basically gonna run like an
• 30:43
  online competition there's
• 30:44
  thirteen workouts out each
• 30:46
  one takes anywhere from
• 30:48
  Thirty seconds to three
• 30:49
  minutes at the most.
• 30:50
  You can do them as much as you want.
• 30:51
  You have to submit a video.
• 30:52
  You have to tag us in the video.
• 30:54
  And we're going to find the
• 30:55
  best players for our team.
• 30:58
  And this may not be the best
• 30:59
  scores all across.
• 31:00
  There's no leaderboard.
• 31:01
  This is not like you win the combine,
• 31:03
  you're on the team.
• 31:04
  This is still a very
• 31:06
  strategic standpoint
• 31:06
  because you need to find
• 31:08
  different players that can
• 31:09
  do different things and
• 31:10
  players that can do a lot of things.
• 31:13
  Um, so we want players that are committed.
• 31:15
  We want players that are,
• 31:16
  that are going to be an all
• 31:17
  in process of this.
• 31:18
  And it's different.
• 31:19
  Like, you know, you can be super,
• 31:21
  super strong and not have
• 31:22
  the gymnastics and that
• 31:23
  still works in grid.
• 31:24
  You know,
• 31:25
  you can be what's considered a
• 31:26
  strength specialist,
• 31:26
  a gymnastic specialist.
• 31:28
  You could be a utility player.
• 31:30
  Um,
• 31:31
  my preference is players that can do
• 31:32
  everything.
• 31:33
  I want utility players that
• 31:34
  could do gymnastics and, and strength.
• 31:37
  Um, but we're, we're looking at everyone.
• 31:39
  We have people trying out that are, um,
• 31:42
  collegiate football players,
• 31:43
  collegiate gymnastics that
• 31:44
  have no CrossFit experience.
• 31:45
  So it should be a nice, interesting,
• 31:47
  diverse group.
• 31:47
  It's going to be a lot of rookies.
• 31:48
  You know,
• 31:50
  we can't sign players from the
• 31:52
  good league until their
• 31:54
  free agency period starts.
• 31:56
  So like football, like, you know,
• 31:57
  like all these other sports,
• 31:58
  there is a resigning period.
• 31:59
  So we can't depend on that
• 32:01
  free agency to do our recruiting.
• 32:03
  We're going to have, you know,
• 32:05
  eighty percent rookies here.
• 32:07
  Aaron Frazier,
• 32:08
  live combine would be really cool.
• 32:11
  You know what?
• 32:11
  I'm glad you asked that
• 32:12
  because that allows me to
• 32:13
  plug the two live combines
• 32:15
  that we have scheduled.
• 32:17
  So I might have even forgot that.
• 32:19
  But July the nineteenth,
• 32:21
  we're doing our first one
• 32:22
  at Black Bear Athletics on Long Island.
• 32:24
  That's going to be from like
• 32:25
  twelve to three.
• 32:25
  That's on the website as well.
• 32:28
  And that's going to allow you to come down,
• 32:29
  meet myself,
• 32:30
  meet other people from the team.
• 32:31
  We have media there.
• 32:32
  Do a couple workouts.
• 32:33
  You obviously don't have to
• 32:34
  do all twelve of them that day.
• 32:35
  You could repeat them again
• 32:37
  as you can in the other workouts.
• 32:38
  And then we're doing another
• 32:39
  one at CrossFit Union Square,
• 32:41
  another awesome gym.
• 32:42
  This one's in the city.
• 32:44
  which is the only way you'll
• 32:45
  ever get me to go to the
• 32:46
  city is to go to this gym.
• 32:48
  And that's gonna be August
• 32:50
  ninth and that's from
• 32:50
  twelve thirty to four and
• 32:52
  that's gonna be another combine.
• 32:53
  And there may be some other
• 32:54
  satellite ones going on in
• 32:56
  different gyms and we can
• 32:57
  announce that as that gets
• 32:58
  later because we plan on
• 32:59
  having little pockets of
• 33:00
  gyms in the northeast.
• 33:01
  This isn't New York only.
• 33:02
  There's gonna be Rhode Island,
• 33:03
  there's gonna be the city,
• 33:04
  there's gonna be Jersey,
• 33:05
  there's gonna be Connecticut.
• 33:06
  And these little pockets of
• 33:07
  gyms are gonna allow
• 33:09
  athletes to practice with
• 33:10
  people local to them.
• 33:12
  practice with their
• 33:13
  community and kind of get
• 33:14
  the whole Northeast
• 33:15
  involved because you know,
• 33:17
  until they make a Boston
• 33:18
  grid team you know,
• 33:19
  I plan on tapping from,
• 33:20
  from the whole area.
• 33:22
  So as, as viewing grid,
• 33:25
  the one thing that I think
• 33:26
  that is lacking on the
• 33:27
  teams is communication.
• 33:29
  Right.
• 33:30
  And it's because it's essentially,
• 33:32
  you have all these athletes
• 33:33
  all over the country from
• 33:34
  most of these teams,
• 33:35
  they come together for that
• 33:36
  event or that match and,
• 33:38
  And they're not,
• 33:39
  they're not training daily for this.
• 33:42
  Right.
• 33:42
  Right.
• 33:43
  And so the communication sometimes lacks,
• 33:45
  is there an intent to kind
• 33:47
  of keep your team mostly
• 33:50
  people from your area?
• 33:52
  Or are you willing to grab
• 33:54
  if someone online from I'm in Columbus,
• 33:56
  Ohio gets on and they send
• 33:59
  you a video and you're like, damn,
• 34:00
  that guy's good.
• 34:01
  Are you willing to grab from outside your,
• 34:03
  or do you really want to
• 34:04
  keep it a New York based team?
• 34:08
  Yes and yes.
• 34:09
  I mean,
• 34:09
  this is going to be a
• 34:11
  Northeast-based team with a
• 34:13
  lot of athletes from New York,
• 34:14
  New York City, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
• 34:16
  New Jersey.
• 34:19
  We expect people to show up.
• 34:20
  We're going to have practices.
• 34:21
  We expect people to show up.
• 34:23
  If you're showing up from Ohio,
• 34:24
  then you're showing up from Ohio.
• 34:26
  I'm not going to say no to
• 34:28
  any opportunity.
• 34:29
  We'll look at everyone.
• 34:31
  You know, you have people like Kelsey,
• 34:33
  Kelsey Keel.
• 34:33
  She's competing.
• 34:35
  um with the sharks and
• 34:38
  that's obviously a top top
• 34:39
  level talent um you know
• 34:42
  listen if uh danielle
• 34:43
  brandon decides she wants
• 34:44
  to to be a new york world
• 34:45
  all of a sudden you know I
• 34:46
  think that's something that
• 34:47
  we would consider um but I
• 34:50
  would say predominantly the
• 34:51
  team is going to be in that
• 34:52
  northeast and we're going
• 34:53
  to make every opportunity
• 34:54
  to practice together
• 34:55
  because the way that grid
• 34:57
  is is it's very coaches coaching um heavy
• 35:00
  That's super important, the coaching,
• 35:02
  the strategy, the substitutions,
• 35:04
  and the transition and the
• 35:05
  teamwork is a very big part
• 35:08
  of this event.
• 35:08
  It's not just about who has
• 35:10
  the fittest people.
• 35:11
  It's actually furthest from that.
• 35:14
  That's what's kind of cool
• 35:15
  about this event.
• 35:16
  The coaches for GRID is very
• 35:18
  different than a CrossFit coach.
• 35:19
  A CrossFit coach, you go to an event,
• 35:21
  what are they doing at an event?
• 35:22
  They're holding the athlete's water bottle,
• 35:24
  cookie, and backpack,
• 35:25
  and they're kind of keeping
• 35:26
  their emotions in check in
• 35:27
  between events.
• 35:29
  um you know a little bit of
• 35:30
  guidance obviously in the
• 35:31
  workouts the coaches in a
• 35:32
  grid match are doing
• 35:34
  everything they are running
• 35:35
  the entire show just like I
• 35:38
  say basketball is pretty
• 35:39
  good analogy analogy or
• 35:40
  football they are running
• 35:42
  the whole show of what
• 35:44
  needs to go on match by
• 35:45
  match race by race yeah
• 35:49
  um jody lynn who is in the
• 35:51
  northeast um if you need a
• 35:53
  custom cabinet design she's
• 35:54
  your your person uh she
• 35:57
  asked the question in your
• 35:58
  role as gm do you need to
• 35:59
  gather all the money for
• 36:00
  the team or is that because
• 36:02
  you know in football the gm
• 36:04
  is kind of the guy who
• 36:06
  signs or signs the players
• 36:08
  makes the deals all that
• 36:10
  kind of stuff are you
• 36:11
  responsible for that or do
• 36:12
  you have like a cfo
• 36:14
  So we have a CEO, CFO,
• 36:18
  and it is an amateur league.
• 36:20
  So these athletes are not
• 36:21
  signing paid contracts on
• 36:23
  any of the teams right now.
• 36:25
  There are different
• 36:26
  individual sponsorship
• 36:28
  opportunities where
• 36:29
  athletes can work with a sponsor.
• 36:31
  They can get their company's
• 36:33
  name on their jersey.
• 36:34
  They can sell their own
• 36:35
  sponsorship deals and work with us.
• 36:38
  I will help every one of my athletes
• 36:40
  get as much sponsorship
• 36:41
  money for themselves as possible.
• 36:43
  I mean, I will do that.
• 36:44
  It's kind of a specialty I
• 36:46
  have as well with my events.
• 36:49
  But I'm consider, yeah, I mean,
• 36:52
  so yes and no.
• 36:54
  I do definitely think of
• 36:55
  myself in more of that GM baseball role.
• 36:58
  You know, get the roster,
• 36:59
  get the people set up, you know,
• 37:01
  put them in the best
• 37:02
  possible chance to succeed
• 37:03
  and then let the manager, you know,
• 37:05
  make the role.
• 37:05
  I guess baseball is not
• 37:06
  really like that anymore if
• 37:07
  you think about it.
• 37:08
  But,
• 37:10
  Hopefully the analogy fits.
• 37:12
  Everything's constantly changing,
• 37:13
  but I get what you're saying.
• 37:17
  So are you guys going to be
• 37:18
  competing next season?
• 37:28
  not going to announce
• 37:29
  anything because I'm not
• 37:30
  sure if they've officially
• 37:31
  announced it yet um but
• 37:33
  I'll be down there I'll be
• 37:33
  scoping stuff down there
• 37:35
  and then they hit their
• 37:36
  resigning period then they
• 37:37
  hit their free agency
• 37:37
  period uh but we're not
• 37:39
  waiting for that we're
• 37:40
  building our team now and
• 37:42
  we're going to get to work
• 37:42
  now it starts in spring of um
• 37:46
  and it's going to be pretty
• 37:47
  awesome we would like the
• 37:48
  whole community kind of get
• 37:49
  behind the wolves and we're
• 37:51
  going to try to build the
• 37:51
  fanship like you know we
• 37:53
  want our athletes at the
• 37:54
  gym practicing with other
• 37:56
  people from the community
• 37:57
  because that's how that's
• 37:59
  how you kind of get the
• 38:00
  community invested is you
• 38:01
  have to be a part of it you
• 38:02
  know it can't just be
• 38:03
  watching it from afar
• 38:04
  people have to be involved
• 38:06
  um but we're working right
• 38:07
  now I mean we are working
• 38:08
  right now I've had talks
• 38:09
  with many of athletes as
• 38:11
  soon as we can sign them
• 38:12
  we're going to start signing athletes um
• 38:16
  it's funny you say that to
• 38:17
  be a part of the community.
• 38:18
  I love that.
• 38:19
  I was watching boys
• 38:20
  interrupted last night and
• 38:21
  they were talking about
• 38:22
  when they would do class
• 38:23
  workouts and get beat by
• 38:26
  one of the studs in the class workout.
• 38:28
  Right.
• 38:29
  And they're like this,
• 38:30
  how's this happening?
• 38:30
  What's happening to me?
• 38:32
  And almost like it was an offense to them.
• 38:35
  And I wanted to be like,
• 38:36
  but do you realize what you
• 38:38
  just made that other dude's day,
• 38:41
  that community key guy that
• 38:43
  beat you in one workout.
• 38:46
  You made his day for like a month.
• 38:50
  you know what you talk about
• 38:51
  finding diamonds um you
• 38:53
  know we're going to have
• 38:54
  practices and there will be
• 38:56
  parts of the practices that
• 38:57
  are open to the community
• 38:58
  you want to come throw down
• 38:59
  come throw down we we can
• 39:00
  run simulation matches we
• 39:01
  can find stuff you never
• 39:03
  know who you find that way
• 39:04
  you have to keep an
• 39:05
  open-minded and you can't
• 39:07
  you know kind of assume
• 39:09
  because of someone's look
• 39:10
  or style that they're not
• 39:11
  going to be good at this
• 39:13
  you never know where you
• 39:13
  find your next year's
• 39:14
  players or you know
• 39:15
  villains because they do have
• 39:17
  same day signs they do have
• 39:19
  you know roster changes as
• 39:20
  the year goes so why not
• 39:22
  kind of groom people as
• 39:24
  they go you know I mean the
• 39:25
  more the merrier same thing
• 39:26
  goes for our combines down
• 39:28
  on the on the nineteenth
• 39:29
  and the ninth like whoever
• 39:30
  wants to come you have no
• 39:32
  intention of of trying out
• 39:33
  come down let's see let's
• 39:34
  see what you got you know
• 39:35
  let's see what you can test
• 39:37
  Mike Halpin says Adler
• 39:38
  talked about jumping into
• 39:39
  classes at his affiliate
• 39:41
  and that it challenged him
• 39:42
  as everyday athletes still
• 39:43
  have specialties,
• 39:44
  which is what the grid league highlights.
• 39:46
  If you like, you look at Matt Rattay,
• 39:50
  the man is faster on his
• 39:51
  hands than anybody in the world.
• 39:53
  Right.
• 39:54
  And he may not compete at
• 39:56
  CrossFit semifinals, but man,
• 39:58
  if there's no way anybody's
• 40:00
  beating him in a handstand workout.
• 40:02
  Yeah.
• 40:03
  And it gives those people that opportunity,
• 40:05
  those everyday heroes that
• 40:07
  have one thing they're really good at.
• 40:10
  Yeah, I mean, I'm a fan of Matt.
• 40:12
  I've watched him.
• 40:13
  He's an OG.
• 40:14
  I mean, he's been around a lot.
• 40:15
  He's been doing a lot of stuff.
• 40:16
  He's not just a gymnast.
• 40:18
  You know, the dude is super strong too.
• 40:20
  I think that fits the kind
• 40:22
  of person that's perfect for this.
• 40:24
  All right.
• 40:24
  So you're an elite athlete.
• 40:25
  You're in the top one percent.
• 40:27
  But you know what?
• 40:28
  Your gymnastics holds you back.
• 40:30
  You're still really good at it,
• 40:31
  but you're not going to get
• 40:32
  to the next level.
• 40:33
  You're not going to get to
• 40:33
  the games because you just
• 40:35
  can't do it like they can.
• 40:37
  you're still freaking amazing.
• 40:39
  And that allows you to shine on the grid.
• 40:42
  The gymnastics is also a
• 40:44
  little bit different.
• 40:44
  I mean,
• 40:44
  we have the need for pure gymnasts.
• 40:47
  I mean, if you can do back flips,
• 40:48
  if you can do aerials, if you can do,
• 40:50
  you know, back handsprings,
• 40:52
  that's a little bit
• 40:53
  different than the Von
• 40:54
  Limmel CrossFit that you'll see.
• 40:57
  Butterfly ring muscle-ups.
• 40:59
  So there's all sorts of
• 41:00
  athletes that can get involved and shine.
• 41:03
  Strongmen, stuff like that.
• 41:06
  Yeah.
• 41:07
  Well, I'm super excited for you.
• 41:10
  Keep sharing your stuff to my DM.
• 41:12
  I'll share everything I can
• 41:15
  with details of what you
• 41:16
  guys have going on.
• 41:17
  Good luck with Fight for the Fittest.
• 41:19
  Thank you.
• 41:20
  I have to make a decision in
• 41:22
  October of what competition
• 41:24
  I'm going to go to.
• 41:26
  I haven't been back to New
• 41:27
  York in a long time.
• 41:29
  There's something really
• 41:30
  wanting me to go up there.
• 41:33
  So maybe I'll pop in.
• 41:34
  Maybe you'll see me.
• 41:35
  If you're on like the edge of deciding,
• 41:38
  let me know what I can do
• 41:39
  to tip the edge to one side
• 41:41
  because I would love you to
• 41:42
  come to the event.
• 41:43
  That'd be awesome.
• 41:44
  Yeah.
• 41:45
  It's been a wild year.
• 41:46
  My wife had two total knee
• 41:47
  replacements this year.
• 41:49
  So that took out the front
• 41:50
  half of my travel schedule.
• 41:52
  So I've got some travel
• 41:53
  budget for the back end of
• 41:55
  the year and I'd like to go
• 41:57
  see some stuff.
• 41:59
  So I've heard so much about
• 42:02
  it and your people up there
• 42:03
  are so awesome.
• 42:04
  I'd love to love to head up there.
• 42:06
  All right.
• 42:07
  So then we'll talk soon and
• 42:07
  we'll make it happen.
• 42:09
  Okay.
• 42:09
  Awesome, Samuel.
• 42:10
  Thank you so much for being on.
• 42:12
  And with everybody else,
• 42:13
  thank you for being in the chat.
• 42:15
  Can't wait to be back with
• 42:17
  you guys tomorrow on Lunch
• 42:18
  with Clydesdale.
• 42:19
  And yeah,
• 42:21
  make sure you go follow Sam with
• 42:23
  both the New York Wolves
• 42:25
  and Fight for the Fittest on Instagram.
• 42:27
  And we'll see everybody next
• 42:28
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 42:31
  Bye, guys.