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Lunch with the Clydesdale & Cowboy - Wednesday Show! Kate Currie is our Special Guest! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I am so excited.
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  We have one of my favorite people in
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  the entire world on today.
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  And you get to meet her next.
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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 Clydesdale.
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  Cowboy bring the heat.
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  CrossFit movies, 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 lunchtime.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale,
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  Cowboy and Kate.
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  We have Kate Curry with us today.
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  We are so excited to have her.
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  Hey, guys.
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  Games athlete, Kate Curry.
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  Put some respect on that woman's name.
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  Two-time games athlete.
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  That's right.
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  Look, there we go.
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  Two-time, two-time.
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  Well, I'm so excited to have you on.
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  I've decided we're going to do one
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  interview a week and I'm just going to
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  have the people on that I like to
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  talk to and I like to hang out
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  with.
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  And I thought,
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  who better the week before the CrossFit
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  Games than two-time CrossFit Games
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  athlete, Kate Curry.
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  Thanks, Scott.
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  I'm stoked to be here.
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  And I mentioned that hopefully internet
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  issues aren't terrible.
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  I can hear you guys beautifully,
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  but if there's a delay or if my...
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  camera gets a little funky.
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  I'm sorry about that,
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  but really excited to talk to you.
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  I try to join this as much as
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  I can from work to hang with the
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  lunchtime crew,
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  so it's cool to be on it today.
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  Yeah,
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  I think it's a cool thing when people
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  try to get out of work to listen
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  to my show.
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  Yeah, no kidding.
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  When do you actually eat lunch?
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  If everybody's doing this at lunchtime,
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  when is everybody eating?
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  So it all depends on if I have
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  meetings right after this.
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  So usually I have like everything prepped
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  to go like in the microwave as soon
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  as I'm done and I'll eat at my
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  desk as I'm working.
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  And I have to delay it however long
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  the meetings go.
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  I'll do a snack right before the show.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I usually do this,
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  go make my lunch and then eat while
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  I'm working.
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  Yeah,
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  I'm a later lunch eater just because I
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  have the two breakfasts, right?
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  Like the pre-training breakfast and then
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  the post-training breakfast.
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  So that tides me over until a little
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  bit later in the afternoon.
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  So I'm actually doing okay right now.
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  I think I'll make it through without
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  getting too hungry.
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  So you're like the third person that
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  talked about two breakfasts this week that
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  I've talked to.
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  And so is it two full breakfasts or
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  is it like a protein shake breakfast and
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  then like a real breakfast?
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  How do you break that down?
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  I mean,
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  the first one's definitely a little
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  lighter,
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  but it's still pretty significant.
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  I'll have like overnight oats with protein
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  and Greek yogurt and berries and a cup
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  of coffee before I go to the gym.
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  I eat that at like five thirty in
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  the morning and then we'll have some carb
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  sources while I'm training.
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  And when I get home later,
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  I have like the bigger breakfast.
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  That's like the egg whites,
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  the turkey sausage,
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  the bagel that there's a lot more volume
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  in that lately.
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  So
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  they're both pretty significant but the
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  second one is the bigger of the two
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  how do you feel about pocket jerky what's
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  pocket you just keep it in your pocket
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  what is pocket jerky uh there are times
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  when i'm in a hurry and i just
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  grab it and i put it in my
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  pocket and i'll nibble on it when i
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  can like during a meeting or during the
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  show or whatever
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  Sometimes it's,
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  it's hoodie jerky where I'll just put it
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  in my pouch.
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  Oh, I get in your hoodie.
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  Got it.
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  It's like emergency, emergency jerky.
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  You never know when you might need it.
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  Good protein source.
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  I support that.
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  You know, get it when you can.
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  It's there in a pinch.
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  Like, I feel like if I am not,
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  if I'm traveling and I don't have some
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  sort of snack with me,
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  there's a little bit of like anxiety.
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  So if you can keep that at bay
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  with a little bit of pocket jerky,
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  like more power to you.
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  Uh, this, I do not do pocket tots.
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  Not, I mean,
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  you have some of your tots.
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  Somebody needs to patent that.
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  That's not a bad idea.
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  I would be so down with pocket tots.
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  I would want to represent be in with
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  some pocket tots.
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  I love tater tots.
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  Uh,
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  glad needs to come out with like a
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  pocket liner.
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  You know,
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  they came out with a crock pot liner
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  and all that little pocket liner.
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  So that way you don't get any fuzz
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  on it.
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  Like Jay Birch is talking about.
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  Dude,
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  lint makes you a man if you eat
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  it.
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  Like,
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  just put a little hair on your chest,
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  it'll be fine.
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  Yeah, growing up, you know,
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  you'd always ask your mom for the candy
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  out of her purse,
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  and she'd have to blow it off,
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  you know,
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  because anything that got on the candy
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  from the... Stuff off of it?
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  Yeah.
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  There you go, boy.
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  And now Kate gets to firsthand experience
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  off the rails show.
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  It's fun.
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  I'm all for it.
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  You're welcome.
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  I love a tangent.
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  So you actually have a day job because
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  Masters athletes don't have the luxury of
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  like full sponsorships and doing all that.
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  What do you do during the day?
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  Oh, no.
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  No.
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  Apparently not pay her internet bill was
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  pretty tops on the list of what she
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  does during the day.
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  I will give her an opportunity to get
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  back in, but that was,
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  that's the most abrupt leave I've ever
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  seen.
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  Maybe she didn't want to talk about her
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  day job.
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  Maybe it's top secret.
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  So Mark Phillips just said,
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  he got too personal.
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  You asked too many questions.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe she's a spy.
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  it's entirely possible.
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  And she can't talk about it.
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  The government actually just shut it down
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  is what it is.
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  Holy smokes.
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  That was abrupt.
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  That was abrupt.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, while she's doing that,
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  I do have a couple of quick updates.
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  One is I just got noticed that my
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  shirts are delayed.
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  They are in a cargo ship.
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  So they actually are in a cargo ship.
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  Somewhere.
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  So there is a,
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  there is a fairly good possibility.
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  I'm not going to have them for the
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  games.
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  And she's back.
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  Hey, there she is.
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  Sorry.
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  No, don't apologize.
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  It's fine, dude.
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  It just adds comedy to the day.
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  No, it's so annoying.
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  And I was telling you guys,
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  like I work from home to try to
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  make this easier today.
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  And then my internet,
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  the internet gods are not in my favor.
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  It's all right.
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  It was perfect timing because God's like,
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  so what do you do?
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  And then you just went black.
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  what do you do and that's the universe
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  saying like nobody actually cares what i
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  do outside of crossfit i think right well
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  we made up the story that you're a
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  spy and the government shut you down yeah
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  correct
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  I've been compromised,
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  so I got to go again.
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  Yeah, no, I'm an interior designer,
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  so I work in architecture.
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  It's a global firm.
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  We have offices all over the world,
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  but I work in our DC studio.
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  uh recently have pivoted to focus on
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  sports and it's our sports recreation and
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  entertainment practice so big focus on
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  collegiate athletics right now which is
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  really rad as a former college athlete
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  getting to design spaces for student
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  athletes and coaches and fans and just
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  like thinking about that experience has
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  been really really special after doing
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  this for a long time to start focusing
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  specifically in that world again and like
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  really being able to combine like my
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  passions for CrossFit and wellness and
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  nutrition and recovery with what I'm doing
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  professionally.
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  It's like really special.
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  And it's interesting,
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  the SAP Center where the elites will be
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  competing next week is a project of my
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  firm's that we're actively working on
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  right now with the San Jose Sharks.
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  So I told all the guys that are
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  working on the project that I'll make sure
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  to go around and take credit for
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  everything next week when folks are
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  Infiltrating SAP.
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  Look at what I did.
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  Look at what I did.
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  I had nothing to do with the project.
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  But I'd be like, oh, you like that?
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  Exactly.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  Are you going to tell them that CrossFit
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  HQ isn't allowing you in the building,
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  though?
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  You have to go to an adjacent building
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  down the street.
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  Well,
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  I'll get to go at least on Friday
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  to watch the elites when they compete
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  there.
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  So I'll get in when I'm done.
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  I guess they opened it up for the
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  whole weekend now for Masters athletes.
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  That's a rumor on the street.
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  That is a rumor on the street.
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  Yes.
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  And I know you mentioned we got that
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  information.
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  After the fact.
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  So we had reserved our travel and our
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  Airbnbs and so forth.
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  So we'll be able to go on Friday,
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  but then not stick around for the rest
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  of the weekend, unfortunately.
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  We're heading south to San Luis Obispo for
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  a couple days afterward.
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  Oh, nice.
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  That's really nice.
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  I tried to get my wife to come
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  with me.
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  I hope it's nice.
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  It looks cute.
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  To do some sightseeing and stuff after,
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  but it just didn't work out.
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  I like that.
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  It seems nice.
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  San Luis Obispo.
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  That's where Grunler's at.
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  Oh, that's where Bill lives.
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  At least she froze like in a like
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  it's a pretty pose.
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  Yeah.
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  It's a nice picture.
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  It's a nice picture.
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  Anyway, yeah.
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  San Luis Obispo.
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  That's where Bill Grunler's at.
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  But he's probably going to be at the
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  games all weekend.
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  He probably won't actually be at his
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  place.
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  So I think now we have the delay.
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  Can you guys hear me again or no?
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  Hey, there we go.
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  We can.
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  Okay.
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  I can hear you guys again.
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  I'm sorry, y'all.
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  It's fine, Kate.
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  It's absolutely fine.
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  So you say you played college sports.
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  What was your athletic background?
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  Oh, no.
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  This is fantastic.
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  When you come back.
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  So John George,
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  she is in the forty to forty four
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  year old division.
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  Yes, she is.
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  This is year three.
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  She will be in the third tier of
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  that.
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  Let me.
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  Try this again.
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  I'm trying again,
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  so we'll see if that's any better.
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  Oh.
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  It's fine, dude.
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  Yeah.
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  You were saying I'm forty forty two.
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  So, yeah,
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  this is my third year in the forty
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  to forty four division.
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  Do you you play college sports?
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  What what kind of background do you have?
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  I was a gymnast,
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  so I did Division one gymnastics many
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  moons ago,
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  but that
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  obviously translate,
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  that helps with CrossFit.
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  But after college,
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  so when you're sort of like forced in
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  retirement at twenty-two,
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  I ran marathons for about eight years.
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  So I undid any semblance of like fast
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  twitch muscles or like explosive power
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  that I'd had from gymnastics that would
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  have been really beneficial for CrossFit.
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  Like I completely got rid of all of
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  that by running twelve marathons before I
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  eventually
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  joined the fun uh i started crossfit like
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  right before i turned thirty four so i
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  don't know what that math is like eight
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  years ago does that math math correctly so
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  so it's twenty eighteen yeah like at the
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  very end of twenty seventeen the twenty
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  eighteen open was my first like foray so
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  we are we are so similar as far
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  as that's concerned because i was right
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  after the open in twenty eighteen oh cool
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  Only you've been to the games and not
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  yet.
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  Not yet.
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  Keyword on yet.
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  You dove in like headfirst because you
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  went age group.
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  They've called it different things,
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  but basically age group semifinals.
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  Like a year after you started,
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  you've done it every year since.
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  Yeah, so it was pretty eye opening.
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  I had that one year in the third,
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  whatever,
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  the eighteen to thirty four division and
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  seeing how well I did in the open
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  after having started it a couple of months
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  prior, like I was like, oh,
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  I could maybe be competitive in this when
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  I age up to master.
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  So you have been doing it for a
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  while and I always did quite well,
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  but I was not with really and I
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  think my best finish
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  Well, I guess in twenty twenty three,
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  it was Jamie and I were both like
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  the old ladies in the thirty five to
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  thirty nine division.
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  And we were top thirty that year because
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  it was a really small field for semis,
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  but only ten made it to the games.
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  So I was kind of there,
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  but not quite within reach for that entire
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  thirty five to thirty nine.
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  age group and then aged up at forty,
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  made it by the skin of my teeth,
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  which was great.
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  And then last year was on the outside
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  looking in.
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  So excited to go back.
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  Don't go there quite yet.
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  Oh, sorry.
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  I'm too fast.
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  Slow down.
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  Pump the brakes.
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  No, no, no, no.
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  I want to show something first.
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  So I was diving through my old
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  documentary.
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  Oh, man.
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  Because my interview with you is one of
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  my favorite things that happened during
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  that documentary.
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  And I just have to say,
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  that documentary is probably the thing I'm
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  most proud of that I've ever done in
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  my life.
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  Yeah, it was really special.
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  And re-watching it now,
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  it came off better than I even remember
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  it coming off.
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  And I'm not trying to brag,
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  but damn it, I'm proud of that.
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  And it's got me fired up now.
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  I want to talk to as many Masters
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  athletes as I can at the Games this
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  year.
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  Awesome.
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  When you guys are done, find me.
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  I want to sit down and have a
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  chat.
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  One million percent.
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  So I'm going to share this real quick
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  and show the interview I'm talking about.
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  So this is Kate right after she finished
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  her final event at the twenty twenty four
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  CrossFit Games.
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  You have tears of joy because you finished
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  your first games.
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  Yeah.
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  I finished my... I PR'd my first spot.
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  And I, like,
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  stood around and kind of watched everybody
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  finish.
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  And just, like,
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  thanking all the volunteers and stuff.
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  I just got so emotional.
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  It's, like,
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  it's such a big deal to be here.
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  And even if, like, you're not winning...
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  I'm so happy.
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  I'm so sad it's over.
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  It was a good way to end it,
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  though.
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  I learned that I'm fit enough to get
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  here,
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  but I've got some work to compete to
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  hang with the big girls.
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  We put in a lot of work on
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  top entering the past two years,
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  and that's what enabled me to get here.
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  Last year, I couldn't even...
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  clear the barbells that were required to
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  hit like that was no issue um so
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  now it's a cool problem to have like
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  we just got to go faster and like
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  and now my internet's gonna fuss with me
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  at least i'm not the only one but
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  while we're um while we're catching up on
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  that you talk about how like happy you
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  were to be there and how sad you
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  were that it was over yeah
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  And then you go on from this point
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  and hopefully it'll catch up and we can
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  play it.
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  But how you were ready to prepare for
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  the next season.
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  And so I'm going to try to play
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  this one more time.
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  Let's see what we got.
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  And no.
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  Should I make that same face?
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  I was going to ask you if you
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  could.
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  Get a little bit more uncomfortable.
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  I'm pretty like...
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  Okay, it's just gonna buffer now.
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  So I'll stop sharing.
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  So you go on to say that you're
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  excited and you wanted to get back to
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  games training as quickly as possible.
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  I really did, yeah.
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  So the next year,
• 17:37
  you actually missed the games by one spot.
• 17:40
  It was it was it was eleven because
• 17:42
  they had reduced the field.
• 17:44
  Yeah.
• 17:45
  So it was that next year they reduced
• 17:48
  from forty to thirty.
• 17:50
  And I didn't have a good online semifinal
• 17:53
  for a couple of reasons.
• 17:54
  Like no excuses.
• 17:56
  The programming was not great for me and
• 17:57
  some weaknesses were exposed.
• 17:59
  There were two heavy barbell cycling
• 18:02
  workouts that just weren't good for me.
• 18:05
  And then I also had the flu really
• 18:07
  bad.
• 18:08
  So yeah.
• 18:09
  doing that weekend super sick sucked.
• 18:13
  And it was like as I was starting
• 18:16
  to feel better from my sickness toward the
• 18:18
  end of the weekend is when my energy
• 18:21
  was tanking just from being fatigued from
• 18:24
  competing all weekend.
• 18:25
  So I was very much on the outside
• 18:28
  looking in.
• 18:28
  And I was really bummed.
• 18:32
  and like took a little time to be
• 18:33
  sad,
• 18:34
  but then sort of leaned into off season
• 18:37
  competition opportunities that, you know,
• 18:40
  I wouldn't have signed up for had I
• 18:43
  been training for the games all summer.
• 18:44
  So tried to make the most of it.
• 18:46
  But it was,
• 18:47
  it was a big disappointment last year for
• 18:49
  sure.
• 18:49
  Cause I was really itching to get back
• 18:51
  there.
• 18:53
  At the end of this interview,
• 18:55
  you actually say,
• 18:56
  I will be back next year.
• 18:58
  So when you have those expectations,
• 19:00
  right,
• 19:01
  and you throw it out there publicly that
• 19:05
  I'm coming back,
• 19:07
  and then you hit that wall where you
• 19:11
  just miss it, right?
• 19:12
  Yeah.
• 19:14
  How did you deal with the disappointment?
• 19:15
  You know, I'm like that.
• 19:28
  That are frozen.
• 19:29
  You're breaking up a little bit.
• 19:32
  So it's like every second.
• 19:35
  Every third word.
• 19:36
  Yeah.
• 19:39
  So let's try.
• 19:40
  Can you answer about the disappointment
• 19:42
  one more time?
• 19:43
  I think we have you back.
• 19:45
  Yeah.
• 19:47
  Can you hear me, you think?
• 19:48
  Yep.
• 19:48
  Yeah, we got you.
• 19:52
  Okay.
• 19:53
  I was sad,
• 19:53
  but when you miss out on a goal...
• 19:57
  when you've given it everything you could,
• 19:58
  you can't be too upset.
• 20:01
  Like I literally did everything that I
• 20:03
  could and it wasn't enough.
• 20:05
  And I had to find peace with that
• 20:08
  pretty quickly.
• 20:10
  And you learn, I mean,
• 20:12
  this is so cliche,
• 20:13
  but you do learn so much more from
• 20:15
  your failures than you do your successes.
• 20:17
  So there was just so much to be
• 20:19
  gleaned about what to work on and what
• 20:23
  to improve on.
• 20:24
  And like, I,
• 20:27
  love the opportunity for growth like it
• 20:29
  just i don't know it kind of set
• 20:31
  us up for a cool redemption arc and
• 20:33
  like pivoting training a little bit and
• 20:37
  focusing on new things to improve and it
• 20:40
  lit a fire under my butt quite frankly
• 20:42
  that
• 20:44
  I have tried to keep that feeling of
• 20:46
  not making it with me as fuel to
• 20:50
  get back there.
• 20:51
  So it was like it was definitely a
• 20:52
  bummer.
• 20:53
  But this isn't the only thing we have
• 20:55
  going on.
• 20:55
  Right.
• 20:56
  We have our careers.
• 20:57
  We have families like there's so many
• 20:58
  other things.
• 20:59
  And like this was one piece that didn't
• 21:01
  work out perfectly.
• 21:02
  And like, that's OK.
• 21:02
  I still have.
• 21:04
  my family, I have my career,
• 21:05
  I have my health.
• 21:06
  Like I have so much to be grateful
• 21:07
  for.
• 21:08
  And then I had a new plan of
• 21:10
  attack on what to focus on to try
• 21:11
  to improve things the following season.
• 21:16
  And you must have,
• 21:17
  because when you're now in the third tier
• 21:21
  of your age group, right.
• 21:23
  And it traditionally people get worse as
• 21:26
  they age through that five years.
• 21:28
  Right.
• 21:28
  Yeah.
• 21:30
  You got better.
• 21:33
  You finished tenth in semifinals this
• 21:35
  year.
• 21:36
  Your best finish ever in a semifinal.
• 21:40
  What do you attribute that to?
• 21:44
  I think there are a number of things.
• 21:47
  I think the programming was better for me.
• 21:51
  It doesn't hurt that six badass ladies had
• 21:54
  already punched their tickets and weren't
• 21:57
  competing online.
• 21:59
  I can't ignore that.
• 22:03
  Um,
• 22:03
  but even if we put you in sixteenth
• 22:05
  place, that's your best finish ever.
• 22:08
  That's true.
• 22:09
  I think of it to competing a little
• 22:12
  bit because I see with Corey the weekend
• 22:17
  before and wasn't even sure whether I was
• 22:21
  going to do online.
• 22:22
  So, you know,
• 22:23
  I didn't make any arrangements.
• 22:25
  I didn't have any more PTO to travel
• 22:26
  down to Georgia.
• 22:27
  Like we just did it at home after
• 22:30
  work in between people's work schedules.
• 22:32
  Like,
• 22:32
  it was a little bit less of a
• 22:36
  production,
• 22:37
  which I think just allowed me to put
• 22:40
  it out there without extra pressure.
• 22:43
  So I think that helped a lot.
• 22:46
  And also I'm just fitter.
• 22:48
  Like we started doing more sports specific
• 22:52
  CrossFit style training much earlier in
• 22:55
  the season than in past years.
• 22:58
  Historically,
• 22:59
  we would do like a big strength emphasis
• 23:01
  for the majority of the season and then
• 23:02
  just try to get
• 23:03
  fit enough like before quarters or semis
• 23:06
  and we started that much earlier this year
• 23:08
  and i think that helped a lot especially
• 23:11
  like qualifying through an online stage
• 23:13
  like you know having the burpee fitness
• 23:15
  the shuttle run fitness like the high
• 23:18
  heart rate uh fitness in a better spot
• 23:21
  than it had been previously um larry young
• 23:25
  says sometimes i think you just have to
• 23:27
  say it to make it happen and sometimes
• 23:29
  it just doesn't yeah it was scary
• 23:34
  For a long time,
• 23:35
  I wouldn't say out loud,
• 23:36
  except to my husband, maybe,
• 23:39
  was the only person who knew I want
• 23:41
  to make it to the CrossFit Games.
• 23:43
  I was reluctant to put that into the
• 23:45
  universe.
• 23:46
  Because once it's out there, people know.
• 23:50
  And there's expectations or
• 23:52
  accountability, right?
• 23:53
  And there's the possibility to fail and to
• 23:56
  not reach that goal.
• 24:00
  That's what happened last year.
• 24:02
  I didn't make it and it's okay.
• 24:04
  Like, it's all okay.
• 24:05
  So I think making it known really doubling
• 24:08
  down putting into the universe and seeing
• 24:11
  what happens is really important.
• 24:12
  And, and I got,
• 24:17
  I got a firsthand account look of your
• 24:20
  confidence growing at the twenty four
• 24:23
  games from the beginning of that weekend
• 24:26
  to the end of the weekend.
• 24:28
  I think I interviewed you when you were
• 24:31
  coming in for check-in, I think day one,
• 24:34
  and then when you were finished.
• 24:36
  I was probably so scared and sweating and
• 24:39
  overwhelmed when we first talked.
• 24:41
  There was a lot of deer in the
• 24:43
  headlights moments at that first games.
• 24:47
  And it was really cool to see your
• 24:49
  confidence grow.
• 24:50
  Thanks.
• 24:53
  So now you're coming in in a higher
• 24:56
  seed.
• 24:57
  What are your expectations of this year's
• 25:00
  games?
• 25:03
  I should have prepared for that question.
• 25:05
  Um, it's not a placement.
• 25:11
  I think it's a feeling and I don't
• 25:12
  want to do the cop-out answer of like,
• 25:14
  I want to come off the floor knowing
• 25:15
  I gave it my best.
• 25:17
  Um,
• 25:19
  i stand i know i know i you
• 25:24
  know realistically you guys like i'm not
• 25:27
  in the hunt for a podium finish like
• 25:30
  that's not lost on me but well not
• 25:32
  with that attitude hold on give me a
• 25:35
  second
• 25:38
  I might not win at the end of
• 25:40
  the weekend,
• 25:40
  but I can beat the girls that will
• 25:42
  win in certain events.
• 25:44
  Like, I've done it.
• 25:45
  I did it at Magic City.
• 25:46
  I did it online.
• 25:47
  Like,
• 25:48
  there are opportunities to shake things up
• 25:51
  and, like, show out.
• 25:53
  And I...
• 25:54
  I feel more like I belong now than
• 25:57
  ever before.
• 25:58
  And I'm ready to compete that way.
• 26:00
  So like the scared deer in the headlights
• 26:03
  that you saw in twenty twenty four,
• 26:05
  like she's not going to be there this
• 26:07
  year.
• 26:08
  Like I'm going to show up, be confident.
• 26:11
  And try to make some moves.
• 26:13
  Dude, hell yes.
• 26:15
  Hell yeah.
• 26:16
  I love that.
• 26:18
  Absolutely love that.
• 26:21
  So they've announced some of the workouts.
• 26:25
  They've promised to announce the number of
• 26:27
  workouts,
• 26:28
  yet we still don't know what that is.
• 26:33
  I was saying before we went on there,
• 26:35
  they need to stop making promises.
• 26:37
  Just stop.
• 26:39
  Just say you'll get it when you get
• 26:40
  it.
• 26:42
  Like if they lowered our expectations and
• 26:44
  then they could exceed them occasionally
• 26:46
  versus like leaving us here and then
• 26:49
  letting us down a lot.
• 26:51
  So it's a sales technique under,
• 26:53
  under promise and over deliver all you
• 26:56
  have to do.
• 26:57
  And they flip that in the wrong direction.
• 26:59
  They have.
• 26:59
  Yeah.
• 27:00
  Took that in was like,
• 27:01
  we will over promise it under deliver
• 27:03
  consistently year over year and see how
• 27:06
  that works out.
• 27:06
  And it hasn't,
• 27:08
  it hasn't worked out real well at all.
• 27:09
  Oh, Vicky says Kate, the disruptor.
• 27:17
  Hell yeah.
• 27:17
  I'm into that.
• 27:18
  Maybe I'll change my little tag.
• 27:18
  Yeah.
• 27:21
  John George says,
• 27:22
  talk shit in the corrals and be the
• 27:23
  spoiler.
• 27:25
  That's like the opposite of who I am
• 27:26
  at a competition.
• 27:27
  My coach gives me crap because I'm always
• 27:30
  just like making best friends.
• 27:32
  And like, he's like,
• 27:33
  if you focused on competing against these
• 27:36
  women,
• 27:36
  as much as you focused on loving on
• 27:38
  them and like becoming besties,
• 27:39
  like you could maybe do something.
• 27:41
  But I'm like,
• 27:42
  I just love everybody here is so fun.
• 27:43
  And I like getting to know them.
• 27:47
  Getting to know you and hearing him say
• 27:50
  talk shit in the crowds,
• 27:51
  like you would be the last person I
• 27:53
  would expect to talk shit to anybody.
• 27:55
  I'm back there like complimenting people's
• 27:57
  outfits or like telling them how strong
• 27:59
  they are.
• 28:00
  I'm like hype woman.
• 28:02
  You're offering your snacks.
• 28:04
  My mangoes.
• 28:07
  If you know who Kate is and you
• 28:09
  walk by her in the athlete area,
• 28:10
  you will get a high five or a
• 28:11
  hug every single time.
• 28:13
  It doesn't matter what's going on.
• 28:14
  I can tell you that from experience.
• 28:16
  Whether you want it or not.
• 28:19
  Whether you want it or not.
• 28:23
  Speaking of your mango strips,
• 28:26
  they were in your hand nonstop at the
• 28:28
  twenty four games.
• 28:30
  Do we have a new snack of choice?
• 28:34
  Yeah,
• 28:34
  I'm real into the applesauce packets,
• 28:36
  but there's a mango applesauce, Scott,
• 28:40
  that's like my go-to right now.
• 28:42
  So it's sort of the best of both
• 28:43
  worlds.
• 28:43
  Like I can eat it real quickly,
• 28:45
  but it has like that delicious mango
• 28:47
  flavor that I love so much.
• 28:50
  So here we go off the rails.
• 28:55
  I love mango everything,
• 28:58
  but I can't stand extracting real mango
• 29:03
  from the seed.
• 29:05
  Oh, God, no.
• 29:05
  That's a top ten list of my least
• 29:08
  favorite things to do.
• 29:09
  I will pay to get the pre-chopped one
• 29:12
  in the little plastic container if I want
• 29:15
  fresh mango because that's a lot of work.
• 29:18
  I'll pay for the convenience, please.
• 29:20
  It's like God is like,
• 29:22
  this is so good that we have to
• 29:25
  protect it by attaching it to this seed
• 29:27
  so hard that people just give up and
• 29:31
  leave it alone.
• 29:32
  This impermeable skin.
• 29:34
  Yeah.
• 29:35
  Basically a childproof cap.
• 29:36
  True.
• 29:37
  It's true.
• 29:40
  I used to work with a guy that
• 29:41
  would cut it open, like cut off...
• 29:45
  kind of like straight down without hitting
• 29:47
  the seed.
• 29:48
  And then he would make X's in the
• 29:50
  skin.
• 29:51
  And then he popped it up like this.
• 29:54
  And he would just eat it like a
• 29:56
  cup of corn.
• 29:58
  It's actually a really good idea.
• 30:04
  Not a bad.
• 30:04
  With practice, we too can be.
• 30:08
  efficient mango cutters if you stay
• 30:10
  focused and stay in it you too can
• 30:13
  accomplish that dream yeah yeah one day I
• 30:17
  will be able to eat a mango like
• 30:18
  it's a corn cob
• 30:20
  Add it to the list of twenty twenty
• 30:22
  six goals.
• 30:23
  Hundred percent.
• 30:24
  Yeah.
• 30:24
  CrossFit Games.
• 30:25
  Next up.
• 30:26
  Yeah.
• 30:26
  Before the turn of the year.
• 30:30
  Meg went to the extreme and bought that
• 30:32
  mango thing.
• 30:33
  I'm assuming like a mango chopper or a
• 30:35
  mango opener.
• 30:37
  And it still doesn't work.
• 30:39
  Damn it, Meg.
• 30:42
  But that comes from someone who can't peel
• 30:43
  an orange.
• 30:45
  Yeah, but I can peel an orange barehanded.
• 30:47
  The only thing I can do with a
• 30:49
  mango barehanded is throw it across the
• 30:50
  room.
• 30:51
  You're not doing anything else with it
• 30:52
  besides that.
• 30:56
  John George, just like a coconut.
• 30:58
  Damn it, so annoying, both of them.
• 31:02
  Can't say I've ever tried to open a
• 31:04
  coconut, John George.
• 31:04
  I have never cut one personally.
• 31:08
  I think I've had a drink out of
• 31:09
  one at a resort,
• 31:10
  but that's about as close as I've gotten
• 31:11
  to fresh coconut.
• 31:13
  No,
• 31:13
  one of those is way more dangerous than
• 31:15
  the other one.
• 31:16
  Again,
• 31:16
  if we're throwing it across the room,
• 31:17
  I feel like you could probably mug
• 31:20
  somebody with a coconut.
• 31:21
  Not that we condone that type of behavior
• 31:24
  here,
• 31:24
  but you could knock somebody out with a
• 31:26
  coconut pretty easily.
• 31:27
  One hundred percent.
• 31:28
  The mango would squish.
• 31:30
  There's an island up in Lake Erie where
• 31:33
  there is a resort and it has like
• 31:35
  swings hanging from the ceiling that are
• 31:38
  the bar stools.
• 31:40
  And in it,
• 31:41
  they serve a coconut drink where they tap
• 31:43
  a hole in it somehow and then pour
• 31:45
  the liquor right into the coconut.
• 31:48
  Like one dose.
• 31:49
  And then a straw and you go.
• 31:51
  Every time I've been there,
• 31:52
  they've been out of them.
• 31:55
  It's like my life's dream to one time
• 31:58
  get one of those and now I've quit
• 31:59
  drinking.
• 32:00
  So what's a man to do?
• 32:03
  Get you a coconut,
• 32:04
  drill a hole in it,
• 32:05
  just drink the milk out of it.
• 32:07
  A mocktail.
• 32:07
  Can you squirt some Kool-Aid in there?
• 32:09
  Get you a mocktail, yeah.
• 32:10
  Ask them for a non-alcoholic version of it
• 32:13
  next time if they have the coconuts.
• 32:15
  Could you puree some mango and put down
• 32:17
  in there?
• 32:17
  Get you a mango Foxtrot.
• 32:19
  Yeah.
• 32:21
  Get you a mango Foxtrot C-IV and pour
• 32:24
  it into your hole.
• 32:26
  Shake it up.
• 32:27
  Well, probably not.
• 32:28
  It's carbonated,
• 32:29
  so maybe not shake it up quite so
• 32:30
  much, but...
• 32:32
  Just saying,
• 32:33
  I want to understand mango and coconut
• 32:34
  goes pretty well together.
• 32:37
  Yeah.
• 32:37
  Tropical smoothie all inside of a coconut
• 32:40
  and two hundred milligrams of caffeine.
• 32:42
  Let's go.
• 32:44
  Let's making that happen.
• 32:46
  Can I get the name of that bar
• 32:48
  again?
• 32:50
  It won't do you any good, Papa Frank,
• 32:52
  because they are clean out of coconut
• 32:54
  every time Scott goes.
• 32:56
  It's probably because I go at stupid
• 32:57
  times, honestly.
• 32:58
  I hate people.
• 33:00
  I hate people,
• 33:00
  so it's probably when they have a low
• 33:02
  inventory of coconut.
• 33:04
  What is the name of that?
• 33:07
  Everybody just left,
• 33:08
  and they took all the coconuts with them.
• 33:10
  Sorry, sir.
• 33:16
  Did you say a swanky resort in the
• 33:17
  Poconos with swings?
• 33:19
  Not in the Poconos, dude.
• 33:22
  No, no, John George.
• 33:23
  But when you said swings hanging from the
• 33:24
  ceiling,
• 33:25
  that was the first thing I thought of
• 33:26
  as well.
• 33:26
  So moving right along.
• 33:31
  This is Put-in-Bay.
• 33:32
  Put-in-Bay is the name of the island in
• 33:34
  Lake Erie.
• 33:35
  Put-in-Bay?
• 33:37
  It's Put-in-Bay.
• 33:40
  Put-in-Bay.
• 33:40
  I thought you said put like pudding.
• 33:45
  Yeah.
• 33:45
  Yeah.
• 33:46
  Put-in-Bay.
• 33:47
  Oh, Put-in-Bay.
• 33:48
  It's right next to Custard Creek.
• 33:51
  That's for resistance swimming.
• 33:53
  You swim in Put-in-Bay.
• 33:55
  Put-in-Bay.
• 33:56
  Cool.
• 33:56
  Mm-hmm.
• 33:59
  Yeah.
• 34:00
  No, thank you.
• 34:00
  I don't want to go to Put-In-Bay.
• 34:02
  When I was growing up in Florida,
• 34:03
  there was a coconut ice cream that was
• 34:04
  served in a shell that you could buy
• 34:06
  at Publix.
• 34:09
  Publix has some cool stuff, dude.
• 34:11
  I love shopping at Publix.
• 34:14
  Give me or give them all my money
• 34:16
  because it's an expensive grocery store.
• 34:18
  It is an expensive place.
• 34:20
  They got the goods.
• 34:21
  The one in Birmingham when we were there
• 34:23
  for Magic City, Corey,
• 34:25
  I went like three times a day.
• 34:26
  It was a little extreme.
• 34:30
  We didn't go three times a day,
• 34:31
  but we went often.
• 34:33
  To the point where I ran into Joey
• 34:35
  Perez down there at the store.
• 34:38
  And I ran into somebody else that I
• 34:39
  knew.
• 34:40
  And it's like, okay,
• 34:42
  there's a lot of us here, apparently,
• 34:43
  because everybody's going to Publix.
• 34:45
  Yeah, we don't have them here.
• 34:48
  No, we don't either.
• 34:49
  It took me two trips before I realized
• 34:50
  that there was parking around the outside
• 34:52
  of the building.
• 34:52
  I didn't have to stop and pay.
• 34:54
  Yeah,
• 34:55
  I had to pay the freaking and take
• 34:58
  the elevator down into the store,
• 35:00
  which is also a trip.
• 35:02
  Weird fact,
• 35:03
  Publix is the largest employer in Florida.
• 35:06
  Oh, really?
• 35:08
  yeah yes and they're uh i want to
• 35:10
  say they're they're like the people that
• 35:11
  work for them actually own stock in the
• 35:13
  company just from working there like they
• 35:15
  have real good retirement benefits and
• 35:16
  stuff like that i read about them not
• 35:18
  that long ago i knew i liked public
• 35:20
  see this is only adding fuel to that
• 35:22
  fire and the pub subs don't even get
• 35:25
  me started on a pub sub yeah that's
• 35:28
  what judy reed says oh yeah
• 35:34
  When I worked in Florida,
• 35:35
  we did occupational injury and illness
• 35:37
  data.
• 35:38
  I was a statistician, and we would survey,
• 35:41
  and they were the largest employer in
• 35:43
  Florida.
• 35:43
  Where in Florida were you?
• 35:46
  Tallahassee.
• 35:46
  Okay.
• 35:48
  Who was number two?
• 35:49
  Sorry, I cut you off.
• 35:50
  Oh, no.
• 35:51
  Number two, Disney.
• 35:52
  Oh.
• 35:54
  Shocking.
• 35:57
  So little facts that you didn't really
• 35:59
  care about or know.
• 36:00
  There you go.
• 36:01
  They should just change Orlando to like to
• 36:04
  just call it Disneyland and just call all
• 36:06
  of Orlando Disneyland.
• 36:07
  Cause the vast majority, right.
• 36:08
  It's Disney world.
• 36:10
  Excuse me, Disney world.
• 36:12
  Disneyland is that thing in California is
• 36:14
  that yeah.
• 36:15
  Monstrosity in California, but yeah,
• 36:17
  they should just call it or just call
• 36:19
  it Disney in general.
• 36:21
  You fly into the Disney airport,
• 36:24
  they had the Disney resort,
• 36:26
  get your Disney rental car.
• 36:29
  Yeah, there you go.
• 36:32
  Kate's like,
• 36:33
  what the hell is going on here?
• 36:34
  Corey has lost his mind again.
• 36:36
  No,
• 36:36
  I was trying to think of something clever
• 36:38
  to say, and I couldn't think of anything.
• 36:41
  she's used to it she's in that group
• 36:43
  chat that group text that we're in with
• 36:45
  other masters athletes half of whom i do
• 36:48
  not know um yeah so it gets active
• 36:52
  he's always popping off in that so yeah
• 36:54
  i'm used to it i mean the people
• 36:55
  say dumb and i can't help myself so
• 36:59
  it's warranted yeah uh speaking of the
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  market.
• 37:26
  Just got to be part of our ad
• 37:28
  read, Kate.
• 37:29
  Congratulations.
• 37:29
  I was very professional.
• 37:32
  I'm impressed.
• 37:33
  We've had lots of practice.
• 37:35
  I know.
• 37:37
  I try to be the king of the
• 37:38
  segue, and then the chat took over,
• 37:39
  and they got better at it than me,
• 37:41
  so I just let them do this.
• 37:42
  Yeah.
• 37:44
  They're doing the heavy lifting.
• 37:45
  Now you just have to read.
• 37:46
  They really are.
• 37:48
  They really, really are.
• 37:50
  So you're coming into the games.
• 37:53
  We know a little bit of information.
• 37:54
  Are you... How...
• 37:58
  we get negative about the whole thing,
• 38:00
  right?
• 38:00
  The,
• 38:01
  the whole like legends do this and the
• 38:03
  programming is that,
• 38:04
  and they didn't release this,
• 38:06
  but you get to go to your second
• 38:07
  CrossFit games.
• 38:10
  Is it hard to like push out the
• 38:13
  negativity and think about what you get to
• 38:17
  do?
• 38:17
  Or is it just piece of cake for
• 38:19
  you?
• 38:21
  I'm glad you asked this because it was
• 38:22
  something that I wanted to make sure I
• 38:25
  talked about while I had this platform
• 38:27
  with you guys today.
• 38:28
  Like I think masters athletes were real
• 38:32
  loud and were real complaining.
• 38:35
  Like I get that we are a majority
• 38:39
  when it comes to like participation in the
• 38:41
  open and funding the season.
• 38:43
  And therefore we feel,
• 38:45
  and I'm speaking collectively,
• 38:46
  like maybe it's not my place to do
• 38:47
  that, but there's a sense of like,
• 38:52
  not entitlement per se,
• 38:53
  but like we're owed something from
• 38:55
  CrossFit and like the reality of it is
• 38:58
  like what other sports exist that have
• 39:00
  platforms for
• 39:04
  age group athletes, for adaptive athletes,
• 39:06
  for people outside of like the elite realm
• 39:09
  to compete at this level.
• 39:10
  Like we are not guaranteed any of this
• 39:12
  and it could all go away like in
• 39:16
  an instant, right?
• 39:17
  So when it comes to things like
• 39:19
  complaining about the programming not
• 39:21
  being perfect or the communications or
• 39:23
  like if...
• 39:25
  when the equipment or apparel is handed
• 39:28
  out and folks are upset that we don't
• 39:31
  get enough for the weekend.
• 39:34
  I try not to think about any of
• 39:36
  that because I'm just so grateful to have
• 39:38
  any of it, honestly.
• 39:41
  So for me, it's not hard.
• 39:43
  Would I hope that the test is really
• 39:46
  well balanced?
• 39:47
  Of course.
• 39:48
  Do I hope that we have clear
• 39:51
  communication?
• 39:52
  Obviously,
• 39:53
  but I'm not going to shit on CrossFit
• 39:56
  or on legends.
• 39:56
  Like if it's not perfect,
• 39:59
  because at least we have something and
• 40:02
  that's more than anybody is owed.
• 40:04
  Like nobody is paying us to be there.
• 40:07
  Like we're not fulfilling any obligations.
• 40:10
  Like we are voluntarily spending our money
• 40:13
  to go and compete in something that we
• 40:15
  love.
• 40:17
  How fortunate are we to be able to
• 40:19
  do that?
• 40:19
  I just think it's the coolest thing,
• 40:21
  and I'll take it in whatever capacity I
• 40:23
  can get it.
• 40:23
  And especially having missed out last year
• 40:26
  and now having the chance to go back,
• 40:28
  I'm like,
• 40:30
  doubly excited and like way less concerned
• 40:33
  about the things that aren't perfect.
• 40:35
  So I don't know if that actually answers
• 40:38
  your question.
• 40:38
  I feel like I went around a little
• 40:40
  bit,
• 40:40
  but I tried to focus on the fact
• 40:42
  that it exists in any capacity and lean
• 40:47
  into how special that is.
• 40:50
  I'm,
• 40:51
  I'm honestly to the point where I just
• 40:53
  want a thin thread that makes it relate
• 40:58
  to the CrossFit games.
• 41:00
  And I think we've lost that.
• 41:02
  That's my biggest complaint.
• 41:05
  Yeah.
• 41:06
  I want just a small thread of like
• 41:09
  that you guys do a same workout or
• 41:12
  a handful of workouts that the elites do.
• 41:17
  I don't even care if it's in the
• 41:18
  same location.
• 41:19
  Yeah.
• 41:20
  I'm with you on that.
• 41:21
  And I think it's tough because when they
• 41:23
  initially announced the anniversary and
• 41:25
  bringing us all back together,
• 41:27
  I think we had a picture in our
• 41:29
  minds that's not exactly how it's playing
• 41:32
  out.
• 41:33
  Right.
• 41:33
  Like, yes, we're a couple of days before.
• 41:36
  Yes, we're a mile down the street.
• 41:38
  But like generally,
• 41:39
  I still think it's cool that we are
• 41:41
  brought together.
• 41:43
  in the same vicinity the same time frame
• 41:46
  to kind of feed off of the energy
• 41:48
  um you know i was not a part
• 41:51
  i visited i went as a spectator when
• 41:53
  the age group was in like the cow
• 41:55
  barn adjacent to the main event in madison
• 41:59
  and like that was cool to be like
• 42:00
  more connected and there was some
• 42:02
  programming overlap when both the age
• 42:05
  groups and the elites would use north park
• 42:07
  for example so i think
• 42:09
  I think there's opportunities that are
• 42:10
  being missed by not having some of those
• 42:12
  connective thread, Scott,
• 42:14
  that you're saying.
• 42:14
  I think it'd be really cool to compare
• 42:17
  and to understand how good the elites are,
• 42:20
  but how amazing the age group can still
• 42:24
  hang with some of those same workouts.
• 42:26
  Comparing it to Crash Crucible that I did
• 42:30
  a couple of years ago,
• 42:31
  JR makes all of the Masters athletes do
• 42:33
  the exact same programming as the elites.
• 42:36
  And it's hard and we're not doing as
• 42:40
  well,
• 42:40
  but it's really damn impressive when you
• 42:43
  kind of see that across everybody.
• 42:46
  So I'm I'm with you.
• 42:48
  I think that would be cooler and
• 42:51
  preferable, but I'm OK.
• 42:54
  Like,
• 42:55
  I think it is cool that we're somewhat
• 42:58
  adjacent this year as opposed to being,
• 43:00
  you know,
• 43:00
  like Labor Day weekend and a totally other
• 43:04
  location there's pros and cons for both
• 43:06
  but uh Vicky says yes Kate people had
• 43:10
  an expectation that was never stated
• 43:12
  that's not on CrossFit or Legends I
• 43:15
  disagree slightly expectations have been
• 43:18
  set for years and the problem is it
• 43:23
  it's getting less and less and less each
• 43:25
  year without explanation
• 43:29
  And I think if you are running an
• 43:31
  organization,
• 43:33
  the last thing you want to do is
• 43:36
  catch your people off guard, right?
• 43:42
  People – if there are cuts coming and
• 43:47
  you're going to have to make it smaller
• 43:49
  or less apparel,
• 43:50
  if you say that up front,
• 43:51
  people are much –
• 43:53
  take it much better than when they're
• 43:56
  caught off guard by it later down the
• 43:58
  road.
• 43:59
  That's all.
• 43:59
  Especially people that are traveling like
• 44:01
  internationally to kind of know what
• 44:02
  they're getting into or across the
• 44:04
  country.
• 44:05
  Like I agree with that.
• 44:08
  So,
• 44:09
  and you say expectations by whom Vicki,
• 44:11
  I'm saying that for years,
• 44:13
  the masters athletes got huge kits of
• 44:17
  stuff.
• 44:19
  And I see everybody in here talking about
• 44:21
  flow elite and,
• 44:23
  And I know you're here to complain about
• 44:25
  it,
• 44:25
  but I am of the belief that if
• 44:28
  you expect to get everything for free,
• 44:30
  you're going to be sorely disappointed.
• 44:33
  We did a whole show about that.
• 44:34
  Right.
• 44:36
  You have to pay to go see a
• 44:37
  movie.
• 44:38
  You have to pay for your streaming
• 44:39
  service.
• 44:41
  You have to pay to watch sports now,
• 44:44
  pretty much.
• 44:47
  It is not out of the realm that
• 44:49
  a handful of events at the CrossFit Games
• 44:52
  are on a streaming service.
• 44:55
  Also,
• 44:56
  and it's the only thing I'm going to
• 44:57
  say about it,
• 44:58
  and I could be completely off base here,
• 44:59
  but I think I heard Savant say this
• 45:01
  morning that it was going to be on
• 45:02
  Floyd Leeds' free channel.
• 45:05
  Interesting.
• 45:07
  so so there if that's if that's if
• 45:09
  i did hear that correctly then you then
• 45:11
  the people that i didn't have absolutely
• 45:13
  nothing to about which is normally the
• 45:15
  case and i'm one of the people that
• 45:17
  and i'll say it right now i usually
• 45:20
  am just to be because i'm old and
• 45:22
  that's what we do so moving right along
• 45:26
  and and i think shanna says shanna who
• 45:28
  former crossfit games athlete and maybe
• 45:30
  again this year yep uh there was
• 45:32
  definitely a precedent set in the early
• 45:34
  years for masters that is much different
• 45:36
  And so for people that have been around
• 45:38
  for a long time and have been to
• 45:39
  multiple games,
• 45:40
  they experienced what it was.
• 45:43
  And it's not that anymore without
• 45:45
  explanation.
• 45:47
  So, I mean, I've,
• 45:50
  I see both sides to all of this
• 45:51
  stuff and I've just got to imagine from
• 45:53
  like a sustainability standpoint, it just,
• 45:57
  was really cool and because it's not just
• 45:59
  masters where the experience has changed
• 46:02
  like sure the elites might still be
• 46:03
  getting a ton of stuff but the sponsors
• 46:06
  are totally different their venues have
• 46:08
  changed consistently as well like there's
• 46:11
  been an evolution and you've got to
• 46:14
  imagine a lot of that is financially
• 46:15
  driven and just trying to find some
• 46:18
  efficiencies and streamlining things and
• 46:20
  like it sucks but i get why the
• 46:24
  groups that aren't pulling in
• 46:26
  big marketing money or you know the
• 46:29
  spectators are gonna be on one side of
• 46:31
  that and it's unfortunate but like
• 46:33
  whatever needs to happen to keep this
• 46:36
  going and like continue to be an option
• 46:39
  and a goal for us to strive for
• 46:41
  like i'm okay with tempering those
• 46:45
  expectations just a little bit
• 46:49
  I think that a lot could be solved
• 46:51
  with two quick things.
• 46:54
  And that is one,
• 46:55
  make the programming similar to the games.
• 46:58
  Allow the Masters athletes to play the
• 47:01
  same game for at least a part of
• 47:04
  the games.
• 47:05
  And two, use another funding stream.
• 47:10
  And if people want a full games kit,
• 47:12
  they can buy it.
• 47:13
  Hmm.
• 47:17
  That way you can maybe make some more
• 47:19
  money.
• 47:20
  It's another revenue stream for you
• 47:22
  legends or you CrossFit.
• 47:25
  And people still get the whole kit that
• 47:27
  they want to be able to wear in
• 47:32
  their gym year round to show that they
• 47:34
  were a games athlete.
• 47:36
  I got news for you.
• 47:36
  When I make the games,
• 47:37
  I'll be wearing my kit year round,
• 47:39
  regardless of what else happens.
• 47:41
  It could be one shirt and one pair
• 47:42
  of shorts.
• 47:44
  Well,
• 47:44
  I'll be showering in it and washing it
• 47:46
  while I'm wearing it.
• 47:47
  Can you see behind my shoulder?
• 47:49
  Like I have that shadow box with some
• 47:53
  of my kit from twenty twenty four.
• 47:55
  I'm with you, Corey.
• 47:55
  Absolutely.
• 47:56
  Yep.
• 47:58
  Let me ask you this.
• 48:00
  Let me ask you this.
• 48:01
  You're an interior designer.
• 48:03
  Mm hmm.
• 48:05
  Do you have two people,
• 48:06
  one on each shelf,
• 48:08
  your interior designer going,
• 48:10
  that does not look good in this room?
• 48:12
  Are you saying that doesn't look good,
• 48:13
  Scott?
• 48:14
  What the heck?
• 48:15
  That was better I could tell.
• 48:16
  Touche, touche, touche.
• 48:17
  Okay.
• 48:24
  yeah um yeah there's a balance there's a
• 48:27
  give and take there for sure but that's
• 48:29
  something i'm really freaking proud of
• 48:31
  it's in the little vestibule like it's
• 48:33
  outside of the bathroom it's not in a
• 48:34
  really prominent space in our house i see
• 48:39
  i'm married to an interior designer and so
• 48:42
  i know what is not allowed on the
• 48:44
  walls in my house yeah yeah right but
• 48:47
  she's not i have the same so
• 48:49
  conversation with my husband about like
• 48:51
  his concert posters and things we get a
• 48:53
  little strategic about where we can like
• 48:57
  the main cave things um uh daniel arnson
• 49:06
  uh thank you for the donation i choose
• 49:08
  to blindly only see one side of it
• 49:10
  and decide that only benefits me at least
• 49:14
  you're willing to admit it
• 49:15
  Oh, he's all up in it.
• 49:17
  It's absolutely fine.
• 49:19
  The self-awareness is clutch.
• 49:22
  Yeah.
• 49:23
  Yeah.
• 49:23
  He knows.
• 49:24
  He came in here bitching and was like,
• 49:26
  I'm here to bitch.
• 49:26
  All right, here we go.
• 49:30
  Shana says,
• 49:31
  Corey wearing the same outfit daily.
• 49:32
  Wonder how long that would last.
• 49:35
  Mark Phillips then chimes in.
• 49:36
  I have some shirts hanging on for dear
• 49:38
  life.
• 49:38
  Don't underestimate men and their clothes.
• 49:42
  I got two pairs of socks right now
• 49:44
  that probably need to be thrown away that
• 49:46
  I refuse to throw away.
• 49:49
  I got like,
• 49:50
  Brandon made some EMOM company socks for
• 49:54
  the first or the second Southland camp I
• 49:56
  went to, one out of the two.
• 49:59
  And I've been wearing them for years.
• 50:00
  That was in like three years ago.
• 50:02
  And one of them's got a hole in
• 50:03
  the bottom of it, probably about this big.
• 50:05
  And I refuse to get rid of them
• 50:06
  because nobody else has EMOM company
• 50:08
  socks.
• 50:08
  So, and I love them.
• 50:12
  probably shouldn't wear them.
• 50:13
  It gets a little bit bigger every time
• 50:15
  I do,
• 50:16
  but they're sitting on top of my dresser
• 50:17
  right now because I'm trying to force
• 50:19
  myself to just get rid of them,
• 50:20
  and I still refuse to.
• 50:23
  Sentimental socks.
• 50:25
  Yeah, a hundred percent.
• 50:27
  Shanna says,
• 50:27
  I gave a game shirt to a friend
• 50:29
  and she qualified the next year.
• 50:30
  Corey, I'll send you a shirt this year.
• 50:32
  I expect you to wear it.
• 50:35
  Don't think I won't.
• 50:37
  Test me.
• 50:41
  Test me.
• 50:41
  I'll wear it on a show, Shannon.
• 50:43
  I will wear that thing to work.
• 50:44
  I don't care.
• 50:45
  I'm the bunts right there on the front.
• 50:52
  Larry's popping in here.
• 50:53
  There's no way Larry is wearing Shannon's
• 50:55
  shirt.
• 50:55
  I'm just, I've met both in person.
• 50:58
  Not going to happen, Larry.
• 50:59
  Sorry.
• 51:00
  Mm-mm.
• 51:03
  And then Wayne says all I get is
• 51:06
  the four by six space behind me.
• 51:09
  I actually get the whole basement.
• 51:10
  Okay.
• 51:12
  That is, this is my space.
• 51:15
  Scott's domain.
• 51:18
  Shannon, if you send me a shirt,
• 51:19
  it has to be autographed.
• 51:20
  I'm just saying.
• 51:21
  Okay.
• 51:27
  Please, please, for the love of God, no,
• 51:30
  Shanna.
• 51:30
  Actually, no, please, for the love of God,
• 51:33
  send Larry Young your shorts,
• 51:36
  one hundred percent.
• 51:37
  He is a mountain of a man.
• 51:38
  I would love to see him in your
• 51:40
  shorts.
• 51:42
  Have you guys seen when Aunt Haynes,
• 51:46
  Aunt Haynes coaches a female Masters
• 51:48
  athlete?
• 51:48
  I think her name is Lee Coates, maybe.
• 51:51
  Yeah.
• 51:52
  And every year they do like an outfit
• 51:55
  swap and he'll put on her sports,
• 51:57
  her like games,
• 51:58
  sports bra and booty shorts.
• 52:00
  And she's teeny tiny.
• 52:03
  And he is not a large man and
• 52:05
  he rocks it.
• 52:06
  And they put it on Instagram every year.
• 52:08
  It's pretty funny.
• 52:09
  That's fantastic.
• 52:11
  Lee Coates may be the only person shorter
• 52:13
  than Corey.
• 52:14
  She's so small.
• 52:15
  Like he always has to be there to
• 52:17
  lift her up to the rig at the
• 52:19
  games, but she is fantastic.
• 52:22
  I think technically Joseph is a little bit
• 52:24
  shorter than I am.
• 52:25
  Ortega is about the same size I am.
• 52:31
  Well,
• 52:32
  I can't wait to see you this week
• 52:34
  or next week.
• 52:35
  So soon.
• 52:35
  Yeah,
• 52:35
  I'll see you in a couple of days.
• 52:37
  So when it's all over, come find me.
• 52:40
  If you're a Masters athlete,
• 52:42
  you're at the games, come find me.
• 52:44
  I want to record some stuff with you
• 52:46
  guys and put it out for promotion and
• 52:49
  And that way we can guarantee better
• 52:52
  internet.
• 52:54
  Probably.
• 52:56
  Thanks for sticking it out with my crappy
• 52:57
  internet.
• 52:58
  Even with the choppy internet,
• 53:01
  you are a joy to have on.
• 53:03
  And I've interviewed you before and your
• 53:05
  internet was great.
• 53:06
  Because I was at the office.
• 53:10
  How is your home internet terrible?
• 53:11
  That doesn't even compute.
• 53:13
  Corey, I don't know.
• 53:15
  I'm not an internet specialist.
• 53:17
  I don't know.
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  We've narrowed down what Kate doesn't do
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  in IT.
• 53:22
  I'm not an IT technician.
• 53:24
  No.
• 53:25
  I'm a consumer.
• 53:28
  Got it.
• 53:28
  Got it.
• 53:31
  Sorry.
• 53:31
  No, it's fine, dude.
• 53:32
  It's fine.
• 53:32
  I spend so much money on internet and
• 53:34
  I've changed companies seventeen times
• 53:37
  because this is what I do and I
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  cannot afford for it to be bad.
• 53:43
  and so thank god you do thank god
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  one of us does but i can't wait
• 53:51
  to see you i hopefully i can get
• 53:52
  there soon enough to watch you guys do
• 53:54
  some events um on wednesday and then
• 53:57
  thursday uh but i'm super excited for that
• 54:00
  me too
• 54:04
  I don't know if you missed the beginning
• 54:05
  of the show, Larry,
• 54:06
  but I got a report that my shirts
• 54:08
  are delayed.
• 54:11
  They're in a container somewhere in the
• 54:13
  Strait of Hormuz.
• 54:16
  They didn't really tell me that they're in
• 54:17
  a container.
• 54:18
  They did say that the actual shirts were
• 54:21
  delayed in getting to them to print.
• 54:25
  So it's going to be iffy whether I
• 54:27
  have them at the games or not.
• 54:31
  And
• 54:34
  And that makes me sad because that's why
• 54:36
  I bought them.
• 54:37
  I bought them to have them at the
• 54:38
  games to sell there.
• 54:42
  For four ninety nine again, Daniel Arnson,
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  I hope whoever made the flow decision
• 54:46
  stubs their toe while watering their spice
• 54:49
  garden.
• 54:54
  I don't even know what a spice garden
• 54:55
  is, but I'm with you, Daniel.
• 54:57
  I get it.
• 54:58
  Kate is sassy.
• 54:59
  I like it.
• 55:02
  Okay.
• 55:03
  Did you,
• 55:03
  did you test out any of the, uh,
• 55:06
  announced the workout yet?
• 55:08
  I have tested all of the ones that
• 55:10
  have been released so far.
• 55:12
  So yeah.
• 55:14
  How'd they go?
• 55:15
  You ain't gotta say nothing, but like,
• 55:17
  how'd they go?
• 55:20
  I think they're really fun.
• 55:23
  I think some of the caps are aggressive.
• 55:25
  Aggressive.
• 55:26
  Yes.
• 55:27
  We can talk about that when we get
• 55:28
  off.
• 55:31
  I think they were great learning
• 55:33
  opportunities and they've made me excited
• 55:38
  to compete.
• 55:39
  I like how varied they are.
• 55:40
  And everybody's talking, myself included,
• 55:42
  talking so much crap about carrying the
• 55:44
  med ball.
• 55:46
  But that one feels...
• 55:48
  yeah but like that one's grindy and hard
• 55:51
  like it felt like games training like a
• 55:53
  games workout when i was testing that one
• 55:55
  so that's like the silver lining of that
• 55:57
  misery i guess sure yeah no i can
• 55:58
  see that i do want to pull this
• 56:04
  up real quick since everybody's talking
• 56:05
  about it here is the uh stream schedule
• 56:09
  for the elites um and someone actually
• 56:12
  corrected me all the athletes at the
• 56:13
  crossfit games are elite
• 56:16
  But CrossFit calls the individual of
• 56:19
  eighteen to thirty four elites.
• 56:23
  And I don't know what to call them
• 56:24
  other than that,
• 56:25
  because everybody's an individual other
• 56:28
  than the team athletes.
• 56:30
  Everybody's elite.
• 56:31
  I don't know how to differentiate anymore.
• 56:34
  But anyway, no offense taken.
• 56:36
  We get it.
• 56:39
  Here are a flow elite is going to
• 56:41
  broadcast everything and select events
• 56:45
  will be on the CrossFit games channel and
• 56:47
  YouTube.
• 56:49
  Hiller's comment makes me laugh here.
• 56:51
  That's funny.
• 56:53
  Corinne pepper.
• 57:01
  So there it all is on flowly.
• 57:03
  It is their free channel.
• 57:05
  I don't know if you could see that
• 57:07
  over here.
• 57:11
  uh on the free streaming channel the also
• 57:17
  on the masters athletes will be on flow
• 57:19
  elite too but i do not know if
• 57:21
  that is a free channel
• 57:23
  I'll go take a look at some point
• 57:26
  today.
• 57:27
  Like I said,
• 57:27
  I just got to turn mine back on.
• 57:28
  It's working.
• 57:30
  I will be able to watch all the
• 57:30
  Master stuff,
• 57:31
  the game stuff I'll probably have to watch
• 57:33
  at Monster Games.
• 57:34
  They're supposed to have a spot with a
• 57:39
  big TV for us to have a viewing
• 57:40
  party for while the game is going on
• 57:42
  while we're competing.
• 57:43
  Yeah.
• 57:47
  I feel like I could get confused in
• 57:49
  keeping track of all the different
• 57:50
  platforms, but hopefully.
• 57:53
  So if you are confused,
• 57:57
  everything is on Flow Elite.
• 58:01
  Oh, okay.
• 58:01
  It's YouTube and the CrossFit Games
• 58:03
  channel where it's select.
• 58:04
  Got it.
• 58:05
  I just need to tell my mom.
• 58:14
  What does my mom need to watch?
• 58:15
  What do I need to tell mom?
• 58:16
  So for all Masters events,
• 58:18
  it's going to be on Flow Elite.
• 58:20
  We just don't know if it's pay or
• 58:21
  free.
• 58:21
  Yeah.
• 58:23
  Got it.
• 58:24
  Or as Daniel,
• 58:25
  who I think is happy about this decision,
• 58:28
  says on the dumb, dumb,
• 58:29
  stupid pants platform.
• 58:33
  Otherwise known as, yeah.
• 58:34
  Otherwise known as flowly.
• 58:38
  Why do I picture Daniel Arnson as a
• 58:42
  twelve-year-old boy stomping his hands and
• 58:45
  legs on the floor?
• 58:47
  Stupid.
• 58:48
  Yeah.
• 58:48
  A hundred percent.
• 58:55
  AKA flowly.
• 58:57
  AKA also.
• 58:58
  Dumb dumb stupid pants.
• 59:00
  Dumb dumb stupid pants.
• 59:03
  They should adopt that.
• 59:04
  If they go public and they start and
• 59:06
  like make a trade offering,
• 59:07
  that's what the letters are going to be.
• 59:09
  DDSP.
• 59:09
  It's kind of cute.
• 59:13
  Yeah.
• 59:14
  Just watching you guys on DDSP.
• 59:15
  DDSP.
• 59:22
  Oh, that was good.
• 59:23
  That was good.
• 59:24
  Well, that's a good place to end.
• 59:25
  We're going to head out for the day.
• 59:28
  Hopefully we can chat with Kate briefly
• 59:29
  after this,
• 59:31
  but hope you have a great rest of
• 59:32
  your day.
• 59:32
  We'll be back tomorrow for the same old
• 59:36
  off the rails, dumb, dumb, stupid pants.
• 59:40
  Maybe that's what our channel should be
• 59:41
  called.
• 59:41
  I like it.
• 59:44
  Lunch with the DDSPs.
• 59:49
  See you guys all tomorrow.
• 59:52
  Stay jazzy.
• 59:52
  You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
• 59:55
  room to jazz me up.
• 59:56
  I'm already jazzy.
• 1:00:21
  midday motivation every time you press
• 1:00:23
  call lunch with the glides they'll cowboy
• 1:00:27
  in the heat crossfit movies music on
• 1:00:29
  repeat half hour hustle yeah we building
• 1:00:31
  that brand grab a plate shooting all