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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Monday Show! Happy Memorial Day! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Happy Memorial Day to everyone.
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Hope you're having a great day.
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Good to be with you.
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Let's get after it.
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From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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we cover it all.
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Midday motivation every time you press
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call.
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Lunch with the Pliesdale.
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Cowboy bring the heat.
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Crossfit, boobies, music on repeat.
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Half hour hustle, yeah,
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we building that brand.
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Grab a plate, tune in now,
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you part of the fam.
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It's lunch time!
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What is going on, everybody?
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Hope you are having a great Memorial Day
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weekend.
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I know I did.
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It's been full of anniversary celebrations
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and hanging out and just kind of relaxing,
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getting caught up on some stuff and still
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have a full day in which to get
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a lot of that done.
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So with that,
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hope you're having a great day.
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Can't wait to talk to you all.
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Let's get into it a little bit.
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So I know the cowboy isn't here,
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but he's here in spirit.
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And hold on before we get to that.
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John asked me a question.
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John Jenkins says morning said last night
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you were headed to syndicate.
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When is the best time of the day
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to come find you and just say hi
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and thank you for the shows.
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Well, I'm going to be there Friday,
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Saturday, and Sunday,
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so I'll be available all those days.
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In the past,
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I would generally bury myself in the media
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room,
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try to get content from the athletes.
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I'm going to try out some new stuff
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this year.
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And I'm going to pace myself a little
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bit.
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So I'm going to try to be out
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and about a lot more than I used
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to be in the past.
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So I'll try to be around for people.
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You can come find me any of those
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days.
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But I will be in the media pits
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for some of it.
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I'll probably be in the athlete lounge for
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some of it,
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and I'm going to try to get out
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and about into Vendor Village,
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into the whole scene,
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and maybe even the stands for a little
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bit.
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So just try to find me,
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hook up with me,
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and I'm going to try to go live
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from the Syndicate Crown on Friday because
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we're heading down.
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Most of the way Thursday night.
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And then we're going to finish up the
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drive Friday morning.
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And, yeah.
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And then check in,
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get all of our credentials and all that
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stuff.
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So, yeah, should be fun.
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Can't wait to meet anybody who's there.
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Ed puts it great.
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John,
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look for the guy with the jazzy hands.
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I'll just be doing this all day.
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Uh, Kenneth, the lab says,
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just start yelling lunchtime and see what
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happens.
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Yeah.
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That's a good thing too.
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Uh, and a shoop says,
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this is my third year at syndicate.
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Hope to meet you there.
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Yeah.
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Come find me.
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Come find me.
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I would love to meet all of y'all.
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So with that, um,
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Corey sent me this thing on Instagram and
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it just sparked a memory for me.
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So I'm going to play it for you.
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There was a guy back part of CrossFit
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media in the early days,
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and this is going to introduce you to
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him and kind of the way that he
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went about media.
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And I loved it so much.
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And I miss him in the CrossFit media.
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He worked for CrossFit and I'm going to
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share my screen now.
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and let you guys see if you remember
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who this guy is.
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Nothing wasn't better back in the days.
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I get that.
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But I do like one eleven games.
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Maybe it's not my favorite games.
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However,
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one person I do miss is this dude
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up here, Ben Hollinghouse.
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I thought he was hilarious.
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Probably the funniest dude or dude for
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that matter that's ever held a microphone
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in front of the faces of the athletes.
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I sort of miss him.
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If you haven't seen some of the stuff
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he did, go back and watch it.
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You can probably find it online.
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Just wear some floaties or something.
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We're here with Julie Fouché.
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She didn't bother to dress up for the
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interview.
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Was there any chafing involved?
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Not that I noticed.
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Do you think the fact that you did
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it faster than the other athletes helped
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you win this event?
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Did you see any starfish?
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No, I caught a couple stingrays.
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I stung them,
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so they got out of the way.
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Shit on moves, boss.
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Yeah.
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Looks like,
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I don't know if Becky was doing the
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workout or she was playing sand
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volleyball.
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I actually saw a jellyfish.
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You did?
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I skimmed it with my hand.
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I thought I was going to have to
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take a timeout, but it didn't bite me.
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Did you push it towards one of the
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other athletes?
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Tell us about the sand.
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You seem to like it.
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You've got it all over you.
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I do.
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I do.
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And I run on it all the time
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in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Because of all the beaches in Nebraska.
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What's your plan going into the next
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event?
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Just hang on for that L-sit.
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What letter sit would you like to do?
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An I. Okay.
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And I sit?
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Okay, yeah, is your head the dot?
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Yes.
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I mean,
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do you think we're really supposed to walk
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on our hands?
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I mean, we were made with legs.
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What if they did, like, a max, like,
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leg walk?
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You kind of throw like a girl.
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What?
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No, I don't.
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I mean, you are a girl, so.
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And to be honest,
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CrossFit girls are pretty tough.
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They're usually better than the guys,
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so it's actually kind of a compliment.
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Do you ever mean mug the other athletes?
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No.
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Your game face, kind of intimidated.
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I don't have a game face.
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Look at me.
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I'm smiling all the time.
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Tell me your two favorite Sesame Street
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characters.
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Oscar the Grouch, number one,
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and Cookie Monster, number two.
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So that gives you a good taste of
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what Ben was like back in the day.
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I really miss his humor with the
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interviews.
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He brought a levity to everything,
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and I think he's sorely missed.
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I think we need more of that,
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especially with the way sports media
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overall is going.
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with alternative broadcasts,
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not taking everything so seriously,
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I think bringing someone like that back
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into the fold is actually what CrossFit
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needs more of today.
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And maybe we forgot about all of those
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people who helped to make it what it
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was.
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I, you know, I just,
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I miss him dearly.
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And I do have a story,
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but I'm going to,
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Uh,
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Helson says talking about CrossFit media
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in the early days,
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are we sure Armand Hammer is not CrossFit?
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Uh, Helson, I, I, I don't know.
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That's a great guess.
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He knows so much,
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so much about the history of CrossFit and
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Armand is like the, the old historian of,
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Little do people know that guy is
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CrossFat.
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Everybody's trying to figure out who
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CrossFat is.
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Mark Phillips,
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current athletes can't name Sesame Street
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characters.
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Ed says, okay, fine, Scott.
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I'll be that guy for Clydesdale team at
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Syndicate.
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There you go.
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We need to bring it back.
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We need to bring it back.
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I wish I was that quick-witted.
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I think I can be funny at times.
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I don't know if I could do it
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in a quick spot like he has been
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doing or like he used to do.
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Man, if I could,
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that'd be something to dive into and bring
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back that would be awesome.
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Uh,
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Wayne says same with the athletes
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responses were candid and fun,
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not so calculated like many today,
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but I think it's because he caught them
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off guard in the moment.
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And, and because of that,
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their defenses came down and then they
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just leaned into it.
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So, um, anyway,
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I have a really funny story about Ben,
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um,
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I was volunteering at the twenty fourteen
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regionals Central East in Cincinnati and I
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was running the check in area where media
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came in or CrossFit officials came in and
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I just had to check and make sure
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that people were on the list.
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very old school, no computer,
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literally a clipboard with a list of
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names.
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And I had to check and make sure
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that they, to come in that entrance,
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they were on that list.
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Well,
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Kiki Dixon came in through that door
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because she was being the floor announcer
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for the weekend.
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Ben comes in right after her.
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Kiki comes up and she gives me her
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name and she's not on the list.
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I am fairly new to kind of the
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sport and broadcast of CrossFit at this
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time.
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And I didn't know who Kiki was.
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And her name wasn't on the list.
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And so I'm like, I'm sorry,
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you can't come in.
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Your name's not on the list.
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And she got a little feisty and said,
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you don't know who I am?
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And I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't.
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And I was strictly told that if you're
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not on the list,
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you can't come in this door.
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And while I'm having this conversation
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with Kiki, Ben is behind her.
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saying,
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my name better be on that damn list.
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And he's throwing stuff on the ground.
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And he's like throwing a tantrum about his
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name better be on that list or there's
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going to be hell to pay.
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He's going to come in there all while
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Kiki's trying to be serious about her
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tantrum.
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But because Ben is going off,
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it's completely diffused the situation.
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And it's made kind of like this funny
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spectacle.
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where one of the big,
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what they call the black shirts,
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like the head honchos of those events came
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over and said,
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it was an oversight on our part.
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Kiki should have been on the list.
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She can come in through this door.
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And even when after that happened,
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Ben is still throwing stuff and like,
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I better be on that list.
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I am CrossFit media.
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I need to be on that list.
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And he kept just doing it.
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And the whole time I'm howling.
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I can't even,
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my eyes are so teared up.
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I can't even look on the list to
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see if he's even on there or not.
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But I miss that dude tremendously.
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He sat down with us for lunch.
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I got him and Bill Grundler ate lunch
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with me that first ever year I
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volunteered.
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And they were so much fun and so
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relaxed and so cool.
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And I truly, sincerely miss this dude.
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And I think that's the kind of guy
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we need to be
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to have back in the sport doing things
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like this.
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Man,
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I wish I could figure all that out
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and somehow bring that back because I
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think it would make, one,
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make some great content.
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Two,
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because he was so over the top with
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these interviews,
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and you can see in the picture,
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he was doing this on ESPN.
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All of this was in an ESPN polo
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with an ESPN mic doing all that stuff.
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And yeah, sorely, sorely miss that dude.
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Ortega says,
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that's what I tell people when they don't
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let me into different areas.
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Do you know who I am?
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Yeah.
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It actually made me remember an old Tiger
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Woods story where he was trying to get
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into a place, wasn't on the list,
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and said, don't you know who I am?
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I'm Tiger Woods.
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And the person came back and said,
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I don't care if you're the Lion King.
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You're not on the list.
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Kenneth DeLapp said, Rolo before Rolo.
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Yeah,
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this guy didn't do like social media
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content.
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Like it was all saved for like CrossFit
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media.
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He made videos.
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He did interviews.
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He did a ton of content back in
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the day that was so cool.
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So, so fun.
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So effervescent.
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It just was light and didn't take
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everything so damn seriously all the time.
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So.
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Anyway, just a good memory.
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Thanking the cowboy for sending that to me
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this morning.
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So, man,
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the weather here keeps changing so much.
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Allergies are so bad.
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My throat is getting so dry doing these
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shows.
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I think I need to put a humidifier
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down here or something.
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Anyway.
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I did want to talk a little bit
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about the weekend.
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I've watched some content.
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I want to say, like,
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I think the main storyline from the
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weekend that's getting overlooked is Ellie
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and Bailey.
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Ellie and Bailey,
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after going through so much,
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Ellie with the back injury,
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Bailey with the heart stuff,
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and if anybody can sympathize with Bailey,
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it's me.
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When your heart's not working right,
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you just don't feel good a lot of
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the time, a lot of the time.
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And for him a year later to come
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in, finish top three,
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punch his ticket to the CrossFit Games,
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I think that's an amazing story.
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And I know he has his own YouTube
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stuff,
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and I hope that he documents this well,
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because I think it's one of the best
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comeback stories we've seen in CrossFit in
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some time.
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And on the flip side, you have Ellie,
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who, like,
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I was at those games that she was
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hurt,
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and she looked like a shell of herself
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fighting through that back injury.
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And right after that,
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she had to take a step away.
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She had to run,
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do triathlons and run different events and
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do high rocks and all of that kind
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of stuff.
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The fight she had to give to make
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it all the way back to here and
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now get to go to the CrossFit Games
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is nothing short of miraculous.
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And I think it's getting lost in the
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shuffle of it all because Justin didn't
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make it.
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Let's be honest.
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Justin has so many more attempts to make
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it to the games.
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Not so many more.
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He has online.
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He's been doing well online all year.
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Why wouldn't that be a valid opportunity
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for him?
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Once he gets back or maybe he does
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it over there.
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Carolyn kind of proposed that last night.
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I think that the true drama was these
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two people that were down and out coming
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like true Rocky stories coming back from
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basically questioning whether they would
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ever be able to compete again to
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where they're now going back to the games.
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And I see Wayne saying it would make
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a great road to the games.
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And Ortega is kind of right.
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The only way it makes sense as a
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story is if he had footage through that
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struggle and then to the games.
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Same with Ellie.
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Ellie.
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If there was footage,
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like we have footage from the games of
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her trying to battle through that back
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injury before she withdrew.
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But if you had footage of her over
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the last couple years fighting through
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that, making her back stronger,
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figuring out what to do,
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all of that stuff,
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it would make a great,
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great story if we had the footage from
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that.
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It'd be interesting to know if like
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Justin's media guy was doing something
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like that.
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Because it'd be awesome to see that.
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And I know Bailey was starting to put
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out stuff when he found out about his
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heart condition.
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If he did some footage over that time
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and had someone put that together as a
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documentary,
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that would be really cool to watch.
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Really cool to watch.
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But I think those are the best stories
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from the weekend, the two of them.
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followed closely by hannah black who some
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would argue two years ago was a
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one-dimensional strong athlete who had a
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lot of holes and i know that the
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competition in africa wasn't the best
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competition in the world but she didn't
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finish any lower than fourth nine events
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no lower than fourth
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when every one of her competitors had a
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bad finish at some point during the
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weekend she did not how she'll finish at
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the games i don't know but knowing that
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she is closing the gap on those holes
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and she does have a couple home runs
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it makes her like a fun watch to
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see what the hell she's going to do
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at the games
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i got to interview her on her first
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semi-final first event it was that sled
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drag on the piece of paper with the
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run and all that and she had won
19:54
her heat and i interviewed her right after
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After that,
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we actually had her on the show a
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couple times.
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She's such a fun, nice, polite girl.
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But she's funny too.
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She's really funny.
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And I think that she could be a
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superstar in the future of this space if
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she keeps putting in this work.
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Lupe says,
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Ellie's comeback is proof in the pudding
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that CrossFit and repeated doing it isn't
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the magic bullet people blindly say, blah,
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blah, time and modal domains, blah, blah,
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think it is.
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I think you cannot apply the theory of
20:47
CrossFit on a elite level athlete, right?
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Elite level athletes in every sport do it
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at a level that makes it more risky
21:04
and more chance of injury.
21:10
The average CrossFitter going to the gym,
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if they do the workouts with smarts and
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are...
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strategic about it and do their one day
21:25
a week their one hour a day five
21:27
days a week i think you're going to
21:29
be fine it's only when we let our
21:32
egos get in the way and we push
21:34
ourselves beyond the limit uh repeated
21:39
times do we put ourselves out there for
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um a risk of injury and all the
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times i got injured it was away from
21:50
the crossfit gym
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Elite level CrossFit athlete is not for
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health.
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Agreed.
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One hundred percent.
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Elite level football is not for health,
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but going out and throwing the football
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around with your kids can add to your
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health.
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What pro athletes and elite athletes do is
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extreme.
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And we have to remember that.
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We can't apply what they do to what
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we do every day in the gym.
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That's just nonsense.
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Yeah, Ortega.
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I know you're a vet.
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A lot of my friends are vets.
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And it's cool what Thirdsy's doing by
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So.
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Kipping it real,
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Tyson Bajent didn't even understand or
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comprehend the elite athletes doing
24:14
multiple Metcons in a day in Hiller's new
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video.
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Yeah, I think I agree.
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Tyson uses CrossFit to stay in shape for
24:26
football.
24:28
And so he's not doing eight sessions a
24:31
day, six sessions a day,
24:34
six hours a day.
24:38
But ask him how many hours a day
24:40
he spends on football.
24:43
I think that's where the connection could
24:45
be because I've heard him say like during
24:50
training camp,
24:52
he goes to the facility at like six,
24:55
seven in the morning and he leaves at
24:57
like seven, eight o'clock at night.
24:59
So he does understand the commitment it
25:03
takes to be an elite athlete.
25:08
So anyway, Lupe says,
25:17
forgot to say it last night,
25:18
but Tyson also mentioned he stays away
25:20
from CrossFit during the season.
25:23
What we were talking about last night was
25:25
the girls unfiltered talking about not
25:29
doing other sports while they are now
25:33
competing in CrossFit.
25:35
I was making the argument that I think
25:37
that that is bad for the body,
25:39
bad for the mind, bad for the soul.
25:42
My example of Tyson wasn't doing CrossFit
25:45
during football season,
25:49
but playing hoops or...
25:52
doing other fitness like activities,
25:57
I think you have to get a,
26:00
I think you have to get away from
26:03
your job and do other things to get
26:07
your mind off of that,
26:09
to help you mentally get through, um,
26:15
whatever it is you're trying to accomplish
26:17
whether it be crossfit football soccer
26:20
golf whatever you have to take steps away
26:23
from that at times just to clear the
26:26
mind clear the soul and get be able
26:29
to give a hundred percent when you come
26:31
back to it yeah um the other the
26:42
last thing i really wanted to address
26:45
And I know people in the comments come
26:47
after me because of my thoughts on the
26:49
broadcast and different things like that.
26:52
And Jamie and I have argued for a
26:54
very long time that the broadcast shows
26:59
the leader most of the time
27:02
does a one shot on that leader so
27:05
you can't really see what's going on.
27:07
And then once they finish,
27:09
there's footage of them rolling around on
27:12
the floor or celebrating or doing whatever
27:19
while other things are going on on the
27:22
floor.
27:24
I was watching F-One yesterday.
27:27
And Kimi Antonelli was winning the race,
27:33
and he was battling with his teammate,
27:36
George Russell.
27:37
George Russell's car died during the race,
27:41
so Kimi Antonelli is in the lead,
27:43
and he's in the lead by like, fifteen,
27:46
twenty seconds, which in F-One is a mile.
27:54
He was so far in the lead,
27:56
the broadcast didn't stop showing him
27:59
because the fights for place were
28:01
happening at four or five and two, three.
28:06
And so the broadcast completely shift
28:08
focus to those people fighting for
28:11
positions and fighting for points.
28:16
Because at one point,
28:17
unless his car died on him,
28:19
it was inevitable that Kimmy was going to
28:22
win the race.
28:26
So I found it very refreshing that F-One
28:31
went to the people behind because the race
28:35
was more dramatic at that.
28:40
And they focused their attention where the
28:43
races were back in the lineup and not
28:49
so much the leader because it was
28:52
inevitable, right?
28:54
So why watch the same guy drive around
28:57
the track over and over again with nobody
29:00
around him when you can go back in
29:03
and watch some head-dead races lit back in
29:06
the race?
29:07
CrossFit never does that.
29:09
Or the media teams that cover,
29:12
they always stick with the leader,
29:15
even if it becomes inevitable.
29:18
And I'm not saying completely forget about
29:20
the leader.
29:21
But you have other cameras around.
29:24
Show some other stuff.
29:29
I think that's a piece that's missing.
29:32
I think another piece that's missing on
29:34
the CrossFit side is WFP came up with
29:37
a finish line cam,
29:39
just like the NFL has an end zone
29:41
cam, like in the pylon,
29:44
right at the line.
29:47
And that way,
29:48
you have that thing running all the time.
29:50
So if there's a close race at the
29:51
finish line, you not only can show that,
29:55
you can show instant replays of that,
29:58
of them crossing the line to see who
30:00
beat who.
30:08
Shanna says,
30:08
it's so much fun playing other sports
30:10
sometimes, but you do have to be careful.
30:13
Yeah,
30:13
I'm not saying throw caution to the wind.
30:15
And if you heard me last night,
30:17
I said that you don't want to be
30:20
Ricky Garrard jumping a mountain bike off
30:22
of a ramp.
30:23
Like that was beyond the realm of safety.
30:28
But playing a pickup game of basketball
30:33
where you and the people around you know
30:35
that you're trying not to get hurt,
30:37
you're just there to have fun,
30:39
I think is okay.
30:47
Um, Kenneth Dilap,
30:49
I agree with your thoughts,
30:50
but I still like to trigger you.
30:52
Of course.
30:57
Um, Kenneth says,
31:00
you think a big part is due to
31:02
the majority of comps outsourcing the
31:03
coverage can or should HQ have a homegrown
31:08
coverage team?
31:10
I think HQ learned that a home grown
31:14
coverage team was too expensive.
31:18
And that's where we are in this world
31:20
of CrossFit.
31:21
Everything is about the bottom line,
31:24
the bottom dollar.
31:26
And I think that's what a lot of
31:30
their decisions are based on.
31:34
Avera says,
31:35
I cannot believe how much I have enjoyed
31:37
watching Mayhem, French Throwdown,
31:39
and Torian this year.
31:41
All the bitching about how screwed up the
31:43
season is.
31:44
Not from where I sit as a fan
31:45
of competitive fitness.
31:49
So I still think that this season is
31:52
screwed up and doesn't make a lot of
31:55
sense.
31:57
And I'm not going to back off that
31:58
statement.
31:59
It doesn't mean that I don't enjoy
32:01
watching the events.
32:04
I enjoy them for what they are.
32:06
But could you imagine the drama if Justin
32:10
got to pick one place and it was
32:12
Torian and he didn't get his ticket and
32:15
he's not going to the games?
32:17
The content around that,
32:19
the story around that would be wild.
32:23
Wild.
32:27
And those stories happened all the time.
32:30
And then the next year you have the
32:32
redemption story.
32:33
Can they come back?
32:35
Can they make it?
32:38
It just creates a dramatic storyline that
32:41
makes sense.
32:45
Now you have...
32:48
Emily Rolfe going to three different
32:50
events.
32:51
You have Olivia Kerstetter going to two
32:53
different events.
32:55
You have Justin with a last chance at
32:58
the online semifinal.
33:00
How dramatic is that?
33:09
Um, Shanna says,
33:10
how hard is it hard to,
33:13
too costly to have a split screen one
33:15
on the main floor and a small one
33:16
showing individual people i know matt
33:19
souza pulled it off and i know they
33:22
don't have the budget of like hamilton
33:23
roads so i think it's doable um but
33:29
i don't i don't think torian ever used
33:31
a split screen the entire weekend uh jody
33:39
wants to know do i think justin will
33:40
go to the games
33:43
Yes.
33:45
I think he'll be there to cheer on
33:47
Ellie.
33:47
No, I'm just kidding.
33:50
I do think he's going to qualify through
33:51
the online semifinal.
33:54
So many of the big names have qualified.
33:58
There's, what,
33:59
seven spots available at the online?
34:04
And Roman and Dallin and Jason and...
34:12
James and all those people have already
34:15
qualified.
34:15
So they're out of the mix for the
34:17
online semifinal.
34:19
So I think he has a very good
34:20
shot at making it at the online semifinal.
34:31
LMAO.
34:32
Damn, Scott.
34:33
I know it was right there.
34:35
I opened the show with,
34:36
we need to bring more levity and more
34:38
funny.
34:39
And so there it is.
34:42
There it is.
34:47
Justin still does not have tickets to the
34:49
game.
34:49
Online does not guarantee anything.
34:52
I know,
34:53
but when you take away all the people
34:55
who have already qualified and how well
34:58
Justin did online in quarters and the
35:02
open, I think he's going to be fine.
35:06
Maybe he won't.
35:08
Maybe he won't, but who knows?
35:23
Yeah,
35:23
the main problem with the season is people
35:25
being allowed to compete how many times
35:28
they want.
35:29
Like Kyra punched her ticket on her third
35:33
attempt.
35:35
Yeah, I do think that's a problem.
35:36
I think it takes away storylines.
35:40
It doesn't mean that we're not getting the
35:42
fittest to the games.
35:43
It doesn't mean that people that don't
35:45
deserve it are making it to the games.
35:47
What I do know is it's not as
35:51
dramatic and the storylines are not there.
36:03
AstroServe,
36:05
Torian didn't even have an insert for Time
36:06
to Beat.
36:07
They're a sports broadcast where they even
36:12
have a live leaderboard going while the
36:14
events are going.
36:16
Yeah,
36:16
Torian didn't have any of the graphics.
36:19
Now,
36:20
I've been told that those graphics are
36:22
extremely, extremely expensive.
36:28
But French Throwdown did it better than
36:29
anybody.
36:31
They had to work out above the
36:33
leaderboard.
36:34
They had the leaderboard.
36:36
And then the leaderboard filled down the
36:38
side as people finished.
36:41
I cannot say enough good things about the
36:43
broadcast at French Throwdown.
36:48
For a twenty lane floor,
36:51
they did a really nice job.
36:55
But directing where the cameras go on a
36:57
twenty lane floor had to be
37:00
had to be so crazy.
37:04
I can't even imagine.
37:17
If he doesn't,
37:18
then he doesn't deserve to be there.
37:20
Pretty clear cut.
37:24
Yeah, Mark, you sound like...
37:27
Drago in Rocky if he doesn't if he
37:31
dies he dies Yes graphics like that are
37:40
expensive
37:53
So Scott,
37:54
you believe if athletes can only compete
37:56
at one live semifinal event,
37:58
the current format is solid.
38:05
I don't understand the question and I
38:07
don't understand why both can't.
38:09
I do not like the current season
38:10
structure.
38:14
It's what we have.
38:15
It's what is in front of the athletes.
38:17
It's what they get to do,
38:19
and they are able to do whatever they
38:23
want.
38:24
And I can still watch and enjoy it
38:27
for what it is.
38:28
Do I like it?
38:29
No.
38:32
I think you should get one shot.
38:37
That is what every other sport does.
38:41
This...
38:44
We have to make everybody happy is not
38:48
good for drama in sports.
39:05
For the fittest, it's very low stakes,
39:08
and that's a bad sports story.
39:11
You're right.
39:15
I think what's happening now is the
39:17
athletes are going for the experiences
39:21
because it's open to go to multiple
39:23
locations.
39:25
Why not experience what you can
39:27
experience?
39:28
But I don't think that that brings drama
39:30
to the spectator watching.
39:34
It's great for them to be able to
39:35
go here, go there.
39:37
If I'm Kyra,
39:38
I got to go to Mayhem,
39:40
compete at Mayhem's gym.
39:42
I got to go out west.
39:45
I got to compete in the Del Mar
39:47
fairgrounds.
39:48
And then I got to go to Australia.
39:50
I've had an amazing experience.
39:53
But what does that do for the drama
39:55
for the spectator?
39:57
I don't think it does a whole lot.
40:00
Unless you're a massive Kyra fan who gets
40:02
to see her compete three times.
40:13
Got to make money to keep the sport
40:15
around?
40:15
I don't understand.
40:23
Kenneth,
40:24
I think that by making the storyline of
40:27
the season more dramatic brings more eyes
40:31
to the table,
40:32
and that's how you make more money.
40:35
Right now, there's no drama anymore.
40:38
There are no stakes.
40:40
Now,
40:41
as we get to the end of the
40:41
semifinals and there's no alternative,
40:45
it's getting more and more dramatic.
40:48
But the first few we've had aren't that
40:52
dramatic.
41:04
Joseph Ramirez says that's the way you
41:06
should bring back regionals.
41:07
You don't qualify in your region.
41:08
There's always next year.
41:10
See,
41:10
that's kind of like what I grew up
41:13
with in sports.
41:14
You're in a division.
41:16
You compete in that division.
41:20
And either you win and move on to
41:21
the playoffs or you get a wild card
41:24
to the playoffs.
41:25
And then you get one shot from that
41:28
spot forward.
41:30
That's it.
41:40
Avera says,
41:40
so athletes can compete at only one
41:42
semifinal event and either eliminate
41:44
online semifinal or reduce number of
41:48
online spots to one or two.
41:50
That has been my proposal.
41:56
And my man, Justin Kotler,
41:58
happy anniversary, brother.
41:59
Current season structure is an
42:02
abomination.
42:03
Can't blame the athletes as CrossFit
42:05
created and perpetuated this mess.
42:09
It is.
42:10
It is an abomination.
42:13
I felt like at one point they were
42:15
moving in a direction,
42:17
like we've talked about, Justin,
42:19
of what WFP is doing with a point
42:22
system.
42:24
You either have to do one and done
42:26
or a point system, not both.
42:30
We are some bastardized thing in the
42:31
middle at this point.
42:33
And it's half-assed and it's...
42:38
Again,
42:38
I enjoy watching the athletes compete,
42:40
so I'm going to watch anyway,
42:42
but you're never going to bring in casual
42:45
fans doing that.
42:56
The problem with regionals is simple,
42:57
according to Castro, too expensive.
43:00
you can still use third-party event
43:02
coordinators to put on events.
43:05
And if there's higher stakes at those
43:07
events, more people will come.
43:09
You're actually helping the event
43:11
coordinators by making it a higher stakes
43:16
event.
43:18
Right now,
43:21
we all are just meh about going to
43:23
the events because they're going to
43:25
compete here,
43:26
they're going to compete there.
43:28
Who knows where they're going to punch
43:30
their ticket?
43:31
They're competing at six different events.
43:34
Make it high stakes.
43:36
The only place you're going to get to
43:37
see Alex Kazan is at this event.
43:41
So you better go now or you're going
43:45
to have to go to the games.
43:56
Okay.
44:01
Who will be the Justin story of the
44:03
coming weekend?
44:04
Someone big will miss out.
44:07
Again, Wayne,
44:10
I think we're making too big of a
44:12
deal out of Justin not making it because
44:14
he has another shot.
44:17
The true storyline is Bailey Martin coming
44:20
back and Ellie coming back and Hannah
44:23
Black putting in the work to get more
44:26
well-rounded.
44:29
Justin only becomes a storyline if he
44:31
fails to get one of the seven spots
44:33
online.
44:42
That's the problem.
44:54
Just Vermeer,
44:55
should Ellie have been there in the first
44:56
place?
44:59
I can't say should or should not because
45:02
the way this season is structured,
45:04
she followed the rules as they were
45:06
written.
45:07
She did what she needed to do.
45:10
So in this season format, she was invited,
45:14
she got to participate,
45:15
and she punched her ticket.
45:29
Um, Accu black dragon.
45:31
The fact is this doesn't matter what
45:33
happens this year or next or the next,
45:35
because every year the structure changes.
45:38
It's crazy how the athletes put up with
45:39
this year after year.
45:41
They don't have another shot.
45:42
They don't have another option.
45:46
Nobody has stepped up.
45:48
Nobody has stepped up to be better than
45:51
this.
46:06
um it's a strange sport still imagine
46:10
seeing lebron and messi only two times per
46:12
season uh justin says he could have two
46:21
more shots if he wanted i guarantee if
46:24
he wanted he could fly back and do
46:26
norcal this upcoming weekend and then also
46:29
do online semis it's wild
46:32
Yeah,
46:32
I just think logistics are preventing him
46:34
from that, not the invite from NorCal.
46:55
So the whole based off quarterfinal scores
46:57
sort of didn't end up being completely
46:59
true.
47:00
No.
47:00
No.
47:03
No,
47:03
the minute it didn't become true the
47:05
minute they invited people to the first
47:08
few semifinals before the quarterfinals
47:10
even happened.
47:24
Wayne says that would be a really bad
47:27
look for whichever event allowed it.
47:28
It's been allowed the whole season, Wayne.
47:31
It's been allowed the whole season.
47:34
People came in and got invites based on
47:38
last year, not this year.
47:42
The invites are happening.
47:44
What makes a difference if it happens at
47:45
the end of the season or the beginning
47:47
of the season?
47:49
It's still an invite based on nothing you
47:51
did this year.
48:00
And Justin's right.
48:01
By inviting someone,
48:02
you get that major draw last minute for
48:04
people to come in and helps their ticket
48:07
sales.
48:17
Kipping says,
48:18
I promise you there are three events right
48:20
now calling Justin's phone and I know
48:23
confirmed one of them.
48:35
It's going to be a wild week.
48:36
We got three events this weekend.
48:38
We got NorCal.
48:39
We got Syndicate Crown.
48:41
And we got the Mad Fitness Festival.
48:45
NorCal's getting two tickets.
48:47
Syndicate's getting three.
48:49
I think Mad is getting... I don't know.
48:53
Probably at least two.
48:55
All three have pretty stacked fields.
48:58
It's the last live weekend to get a
49:01
ticket.
49:02
And then it goes to the online semis.
49:11
And I'm with Shannon on this one.
49:13
I just want to have the same season
49:15
structure from year to year,
49:16
but not this one.
49:22
And everybody's saying three at mad.
49:23
That's what I thought it was.
49:25
But then I held my tongue for a
49:27
second because I didn't know a hundred
49:29
percent.
49:36
But with that,
49:37
it's been a great discussion, guys.
49:39
I'm going to get back to my Memorial
49:43
Day festivities of cleaning out my garage
49:46
and organizing it.
49:48
Hope you guys have a great rest of
49:49
your day.
49:51
Vera says, but Scott,
49:53
if you take all the top athletes,
49:54
I wonder how many actually competed in
49:56
more than one in-person event.
49:59
I suspect most only competed in one live
50:02
event.
50:03
I think you'd be surprised if you counted
50:05
it up.
50:13
With that,
50:14
hope you guys have a great rest your
50:16
day.
50:16
Happy Memorial Day.
50:18
Don't forget why we're here,
50:19
who sacrificed for us to be here,
50:22
and go do your stuff now.
50:25
With that, have a great rest your day.
50:27
See you soon.
50:28
Bye, guys.
50:29
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
50:30
room to jazz me up.
50:33
I'm already jazzy.
50:44
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
50:45
saddle Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in
50:47
the saddle Talking to reps,
50:49
real life strength in the battle From the
50:53
gym to the screen, yeah,
50:54
we cover it all Midday motivation every
50:59
time you press call Lunch with the
51:02
Clydesdale Cowboy,
51:03
bring the heat CrossFit, movies,
51:04
music on repeat Half-hour hustle, yeah,
51:07
we building that brand Grab a plate,
51:09
shoot it,
51:09
now you part of the fam