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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Monday 4/13 Show! Where is all the Drama, CrossFit Threw it Away! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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last night's show i played hurt i don't
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know if you could tell but i'm gonna
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tell you why next
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I love the chase and the hunt and
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I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want and I
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always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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It's time to break.
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it's lunch time what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the Clydesdale it is
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me solo today uh Corey had to take
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care of uh some family things today um
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but hopefully he'll be back tomorrow and
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uh we'll get back to the fun and
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frivolity of it all um yeah last night
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man I played hurt uh
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And I was having like some stomach issues
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before the show last night.
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And the only thing that like felt good
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was like ice cold fruit.
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And thankfully,
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like my wife had cut up some cantaloupe,
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cut up some strawberries and put some
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blackberries and little bowls in the
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fridge so you can just grab them.
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And I ate a blackberry right before the
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show went live.
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And the seed got stuck in my tooth.
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And it was there for the entire show.
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The entire show.
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It was the most annoying thing.
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Ever.
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Doing the show, it's stuck there.
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Every time you talk, you can feel it.
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Trying to get past it.
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I love the flavor of a good blackberry.
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It reminds me of when I was a
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kid.
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My aunt had some blackberry bushes.
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We had some in the back of our
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yard.
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You pick them fresh off the bush, tree,
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whatever.
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I just love them so much.
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But those seeds, dang.
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I don't remember as a kid that being
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an issue.
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I wonder if like as you age,
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the gap just gets to be or the
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crevice in your tooth just gets to a
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point where it just neatly,
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that seed just neatly fits in there and
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then you cannot dislodge it.
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You just can't.
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so i did that all last night and
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but i did it for you all it's
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a great show last night i got to
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fight with carolyn jamie was starting to
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fight and then we ended the show so
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um uh blackberry souvenirs yeah
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Yeah.
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A Hexie Lover also says,
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how can there only be a handful of
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people waiting for the best daily show?
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My gosh, you are so awesome, Hexie Lover.
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You say such kind things in the chat.
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You're the best.
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We got Ortega here.
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We got Jenny here.
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We got Jay Birch.
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We got Vicky and Joseph and Jason Bourne.
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Jason Bourne.
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Amanda went to Louisiana.
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Why do you go to a Louisiana?
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Competition?
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Training?
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What was happening in Louisiana?
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Jay Birch says Jamie was starting a fight.
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Yeah, starting a fight.
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She wasn't as frisky last night as
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Carolyn.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Carolyn and I, I think,
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I don't know if we're ever going to
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agree on... I think that... Oh, cool.
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Amanda's daughter is in the Coast Guard.
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She just got promoted.
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Well,
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that's a really good reason to go to
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Louisiana.
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It's always awesome seeing your kid do
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well.
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Yeah, my kid just, she was up at...
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Lake Chatelaine, Chatelaine in Idaho,
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filming a new spot for her company.
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The pictures were gorgeous.
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I know Greg Glassman has a home up
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there.
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It just was amazing.
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She got back last night.
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She was so tired.
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She just kind of conked out.
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Yeah.
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Lots of people going to Mayhem this
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weekend.
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I don't even remember what I was talking
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about now.
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Oh, well.
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Mayhem is this weekend.
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We got lots of people in the chat
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going.
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I know the Reeds are going.
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I know Vicky's going.
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I know Ortega's going to be there.
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My question to you is,
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when do you go?
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The first...
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the first event is not,
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I'm guessing because it's a run,
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it's not even going to be like viewable
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by the spectators.
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And, um, so do you go,
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do you try to be there Friday or
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do you,
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is your main concern to be there by
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Saturday?
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So, and Vicki got me back on track.
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Just wonder what the schedule is.
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Um,
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Yeah,
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I know the schedule is not for spectators,
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Vicki, for Friday,
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but do you try to get there?
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Do you try to meet up with people?
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What is the plan?
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How do you plan out your trip to
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Mayhem when it's a two-day event?
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So, just curious.
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Yes.
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We'll talk about that in a minute.
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I think what Carolyn and I were fighting
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about and probably will always fight about
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is that I think that
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Basically,
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CrossFit grew too big for its britches.
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We started renting all these big arenas
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for regionals, for semifinals,
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whatever they were at the time.
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And I really think that we need to
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go take a step back to take a
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couple steps forward.
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And I think that it would be cheaper
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to get facilities that were outdoors.
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until, excuse me,
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one thing is we need to go back
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to a regional setup with one shot and
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then get a place that meets the needs
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of that region,
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whether it be an outdoor high school
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stadium, a Division III college stadium,
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a local abandoned supermarket,
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I don't know.
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And then you, as you grow,
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then you start looking at different
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venues, different things.
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Carolyn is always going to look at it
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from the athlete point of view where she
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will want it to be fair for everyone
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across the regions to get to the games.
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And
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And I get that,
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but I just don't think we're big enough
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yet to take all that on.
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Like Australia has proven they can fill an
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arena for a regional semifinal.
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Torian Pro is packed each and every year.
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They have proven that they can fill that
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arena.
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So for them,
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they don't need to take that step back.
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They can keep holding the Torian at that
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arena because they fill it every time.
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If it's done well in Europe,
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they've proven that they can fill the
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arena.
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In the US,
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I think we need a reset.
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We need to get back to where the
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drama is back.
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The impending doom is back.
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Am I going to make the games?
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And then see if that starts drawing people
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back to those regional type events.
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But we can't afford big arenas for every
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one of them.
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And so I think you find something
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appropriate for whatever region you are
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in, whatever you think you can fill,
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and Ortega says NCC can fill a venue.
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But they don't need to.
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The beauty of NCC is that it's outdoors,
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that it's grassroots.
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And as long as it's a good test
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to get to the games, which,
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by the way,
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Carolyn made it to the games from last
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year, it was outdoors.
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Some of those elements you have to take
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on.
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And I am betting that renting that park
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is way cheaper than renting the Del Mar
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fairgrounds.
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So it is done.
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So NorCal got people to the games.
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Granite Games did it for two years at
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the Vikings facility.
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They were both outdoors.
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Technically, Del Mar is outdoors.
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It just has a roof over it.
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Jonathan, I'm saying that
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I don't know about the number of semis.
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What I'm saying is there needs to be
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one shot for the athlete to go from
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the semifinal level to the games.
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There's no tension at Mayhem this weekend
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because if you don't make it,
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you have three more shots.
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You can sign up for two more semifinals.
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You can do the in-affiliate semifinal.
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You have so many shots.
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There's no more tension left.
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Vicky says, I agree.
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There's not enough tension in the current
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structure.
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Wayne says, I agree with you, Scott,
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but it will always be a hard sell
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to the elite athletes as they now have
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an exception of what semis games level
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venue should be.
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Expectation, I think,
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of what semis games level.
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But the problem is we can't...
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We're not going to succeed.
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We're not going to survive in the current
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structure.
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So...
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Jenny says there's still tension.
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It's going to be exciting,
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but it's not as exciting and it's not
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as much tension.
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The beauty of playoff sports is that if
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you don't win, you go home.
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It is a one and done in most
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sports,
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unless it's baseball or basketball with a
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series.
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If you're in tennis and you're playing
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Wimbledon and you lose along the way,
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you go home.
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the stress and the tension of that is
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much higher than, well,
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if I don't win today,
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I can come back in round four and
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do another one.
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I'm not saying mayhem isn't going to be
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great.
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It's got a great field with great athletes
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and to see who makes it on is,
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is going to be fun.
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But if you're trying to get the most
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people to watch and,
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And the most people at an event,
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you need to have that piece that you
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need to succeed here or you go home.
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I'm reluctant, Jay Birch,
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to call it regionals because I don't think
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the old regional structure works anymore.
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It's not affordable.
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We have to find a modification between
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that and what we have today.
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Yeah, Hexy lover.
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Olympics, one and done.
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You go to the Olympic trials and you
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mess up,
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there's no Olympic trials part two.
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And you won't get another shot for four
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years.
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Ma'am is great and athletes will try hard,
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but it does nothing for spectator and
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growth to make the venues worth it.
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And I just,
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I think you have to find something that's
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affordable and sustainable until you can
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show the growth again.
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If this was two thousand eighteen, yeah,
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the convention centers worked.
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And even then,
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some of the regionals were not making
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money.
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But in the central regional,
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when it was one and done,
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that place was packed.
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Nashville was packed to the roof.
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Every single every single day but Friday.
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Cause people were still working,
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but the weekends were packed and the drama
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on Sundays at regionals was through the
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roof.
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And for us nerds,
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like on Sunday at mayhem and seeing who's
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still in the hunt to get their ticket,
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we're going to be dialed in,
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but we lose the fringe.
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We lose the fringe.
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John George,
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love your idea of scaling down venues like
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high schools.
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Could even use small colleges.
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Exactly.
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Like Division III schools,
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Division II schools, high schools.
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Colleges might even be better because
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sometimes the football field is away from
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like the classrooms.
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And so it could be its own event
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with like a really nice parking lot where
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you could set up a really nice vendor
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village.
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And then you have the track and you
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have the field.
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You just have to find those ones that
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have turf installed so you're not damaging
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the field.
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But it'd be like having North Park at
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a regional level, right?
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When they did the football stadium,
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high school football stadium in Fort
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Worth,
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there was like sixteen thousand people
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there.
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That's more than any games.
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That's more than any regional.
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It was packed.
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A two thousand fourteen regional at
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University of Cincinnati was great.
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It really was.
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That was my first volunteer experience.
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And it was in the basketball arena.
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And then they had a warm up area
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in the indoor track facility.
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Didn't use the turf fields for events,
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but definitely could have.
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They could have.
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At University of Cincinnati,
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you walk out of the basketball arena,
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and there is the practice football field
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right there and a baseball stadium.
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Also a great way to connect with a
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younger audience,
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CrossFit needs that badly.
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It was free to get in at Fort
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Worth.
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Well, that was my next topic, Jay Birch.
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So a lot of tickets have been released
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over the last few days.
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And I just wanted to take a look
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at a few of these.
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So Del Mar released their tickets.
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For a three-day pass to Del Mar,
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it's a hundred and twenty-five dollars.
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So say you're the Reeds and you're a
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family of four,
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that's five hundred dollars for the
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weekend to get into Del Mar.
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And when you're there.
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Again, this is up,
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this is up in like two weeks,
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three weeks.
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If someone doesn't make it to the games,
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they can try again at NorCal Classic or
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they can do an affiliate.
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Do I want to pay five hundred dollars
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for my family to go where it's not
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a definitive qualifier for the games like
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that?
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It's this or nothing.
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If it was one of those,
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I'd pay that.
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Pay that in a heartbeat.
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But one hundred twenty five for the
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weekend.
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Single days are twenty five to forty five
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dollars.
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And then the kids prices.
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So then we go to.
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Which one is this one?
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CrossFit Games Masters.
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Single day tickets are one hundred twenty
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five dollars.
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Single day.
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Full event, three day pass,
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three hundred dollars.
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This is for the age groups.
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And I know that event organizers are
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looking at this like.
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Looking at this like what it's the way
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we make money.
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But the problem is your volume of
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attendance is low because you're
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outpricing the demand for your event.
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You need to lower that price and try
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to get more volume.
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Then you get more volume.
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Then if you can say we had X
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thousand people there last year,
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then more vendors want to be there.
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Then you have a bigger vendor village.
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It's just a ball that can gain some
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momentum.
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But when you're pricing things for the
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Masters age group games at three hundred
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dollars for the weekend and one hundred
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twenty five for the day, too much,
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too much.
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There are only two old regionals that
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don't currently have an event,
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Northeast and Northwest.
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The event structure isn't that far off and
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privately funded.
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I agree, Wayne.
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I think that that needs to be the
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way we go.
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But I've talked to some of these event
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organizers.
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They're not making money right now.
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So how long do they stay until they
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can't sustain it anymore?
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And maybe we just reduce the expectations
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of what that event can be.
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And then finally,
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we look at the last one,
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the CrossFit Games,
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which we looked at last night.
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And... This happened to me last night,
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too.
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We're not selling seats to the Games.
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It's the
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There are seats available everywhere.
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And if you wanna finish line seat,
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you're paying eight hundred dollars.
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One person, one ticket,
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eight hundred dollars.
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You go over here to the side,
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still eight hundred.
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Until you get to, whoa,
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one oh one is six hundred and forty
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dollars.
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And then if you come all the way
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around to clear across the arena,
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it's three sixty for one person for the
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weekend.
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If you go up to the upper deck,
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it's three sixty on the sides and at
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the finish line,
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it's four eighty on the corner straight
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on.
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It's four eighty.
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So there you go.
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It is ridiculous the amount of money.
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after the low ticket sales the last two
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or three years why are we still out
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pricing the demand for the product the key
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is to get more people in the door
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so that you can show what's available and
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what what it can be and get more
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people in
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to the arena and then you can advertise
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to more sponsors more vendors more things
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like that but they are over pricing this
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so nobody's going to show up no vendors
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want to be there because there's not
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enough attendance for them to make their
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investment to go to california for this uh
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hiller says i heard taylor swift is
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showing up so these prices make sense yeah
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That's about the only way those prices
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make sense.
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On delay, like always,
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that tension you described is kind of what
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WFP was doing with ProCard,
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but they just changed things this year as
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well, so last year didn't really matter.
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I don't think that's true, Howie,
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but I get what you're saying.
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But even the WFP tension,
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they didn't know how to market the
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tension.
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There was no bigger tension than Sunday at
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a regional,
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and there's five spots on the line,
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and seven guys have a shot for it,
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or seven ladies,
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and it comes down to these three events.
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Who's getting their ticket to the games,
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and who has to wait another year?
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We talked about it last night.
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The storyline that Brent Fikowski missed
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out on the games by a spot three
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years in a row,
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created tension, created a storyline,
23:30
created drama.
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But right now you have eight chances to
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make the games.
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So if you don't make it this weekend,
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you sign up for three more.
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You know,
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a lot of people are calling it the
23:44
Luke Parker tour.
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You just go to as many semifinals as
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you can until you can get in.
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And what's dramatic about that?
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Where's the tension?
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We've lost all of that over the last
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five years.
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All of it.
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We've given away the best marketing tool
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we had at the semifinal regional level by
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allowing athletes to pick and choose when
24:15
and how much they compete at the semifinal
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level.
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We've thrown it away.
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The reason there was more tension in
24:25
NorCal Classic last year is because it was
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the last shot.
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If you didn't make it there,
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you weren't making it.
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And that's what made the end of NorCal
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Classic the most drama-filled,
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tension-filled semifinal we had last year.
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On the women's side,
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it was down to Hattie Cano and Carolyn
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Prevost on who got in.
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One event, take it all,
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go to the games.
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If you don't make it, you're going home.
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And on the men's side,
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we saw what happened with Nate Ackerman.
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He was right there.
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Now,
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other things contributed to that tension,
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but that tension only happens with the
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other things because it's a get in or
25:29
go home moment.
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I thought Taylor did that.
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But Taylor's issue would not have mattered
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if Nate had another chance.
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The reason it became a big deal is
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because that was Nate's last shot.
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And as I've said a hundred times,
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you have to show up in the playoffs
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in every sport, whether you're sick,
26:08
whether you're injured, or you go home.
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So all of this talk of, well,
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if I'm not feeling good on the weekend
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of regionals, that's my whole season,
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blah, blah, blah.
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That's sports.
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That's sports.
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It's what sports,
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it's why sports are great.
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Sports are great because the ending isn't
26:45
written.
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And when the ending means elation in your
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ticket to the CrossFit Games or despair
26:57
because you didn't make it,
27:00
that's the drama that we need.
27:03
That's the drama that makes sports great.
27:06
And we as CrossFit tossed it in the
27:08
garbage five years ago.
27:17
and said we don't need it because the
27:19
athletes want to have some choice.
27:21
Let's give them this.
27:23
Let's give them that.
27:24
And I love the athletes.
27:27
But...
27:37
Colin Murakawa played the weekend of golf
27:40
at the Masters with a bad back.
27:42
Yeah.
27:43
Or you choose to withdraw and you don't
27:45
have a shot.
27:48
Because the masters isn't going to move
27:50
the date because of how your back feels.
28:01
I want the drama back.
28:05
I want it back.
28:10
And it's so easy to do.
28:13
You get one regional or semifinal,
28:16
whatever you want to call it,
28:18
to have your shot at the games.
28:21
If you want to do the last chance
28:24
qualifier for one or two spots most after
28:29
it's all said and done, fine.
28:36
But I'm not even a big fan of
28:37
that.
28:39
I want the one shot back again.
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Yes, let's call it the no mulligan season.
29:17
It's perfect, Wayne.
29:19
You get no mulligans.
29:22
You have to show up and you have
29:23
to perform on the date that your playoff
29:26
game is.
29:28
Because let's call it what it is.
29:30
The CrossFit game season is a playoff.
29:35
You eliminate players as you get to the
29:37
games.
29:43
Joseph Ramirez, speaking of drama,
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congrats on three thousand subscribers.
29:46
Thank you so much.
29:48
Means a lot.
29:49
You guys are the best.
29:51
Couldn't have done it without you guys at
29:53
all.
29:59
David Johnson,
30:00
we got plenty of drama with the online
30:01
qualifier being in the middle of the
30:03
in-person semifinals.
30:05
And I know you're speaking of the Masters
30:06
this year.
30:12
I don't want to get into Masters talk
30:14
because I'm disgruntled at how the Masters
30:19
athletes have treated the opportunities
30:23
they were given this year.
30:28
And maybe we'll talk about that tomorrow
30:30
when Corey's on the show.
30:32
But I'm very disgruntled at you were given
30:35
the thing you wanted and then nobody took
30:38
advantage of it.
30:43
I shouldn't say nobody.
30:44
There are people that are taking advantage
30:48
of it.
30:50
But there it is.
30:56
Shane,
30:57
I'm talking about the in-person semifinals
30:59
that were asked for.
31:00
They...
31:03
They were given those who didn't exist
31:06
before this year and so few people signed
31:10
up for those to the point where it's
31:14
almost a joke at what the placings are
31:17
for people who are at these events.
31:29
It's hard to take advantage when timing is
31:30
off and there's only one spot in your
31:32
age group.
31:33
I know there are details that make it
31:35
tough for some age groups.
31:38
Um, other age groups,
31:40
there are more than one spot and they
31:43
didn't take advantage either.
31:45
Um, so it is what it is.
31:51
I'm sad because I want this for the
31:53
masters community.
31:56
And it sucks that it wasn't more
32:00
well-received.
32:08
If you were number thirty and one and
32:10
two sign up and you've never beat them,
32:12
then what?
32:13
You go for the experience,
32:15
but you're not making it probably.
32:18
But if you're thirty,
32:19
you're probably not making it online
32:21
either.
32:23
Maybe.
32:25
but it's an iffy proposition there.
32:27
I don't know.
32:33
We'll talk,
32:33
we'll talk about it later in the week
32:35
for sure.
32:36
This is like the last week where we
32:38
don't have a ton to talk about.
32:40
We have mayhem this weekend,
32:42
but once mayhem kicks off, it's bang,
32:44
bang, bang, bang,
32:46
different events that we'll get to talk
32:48
about in more detail.
32:50
Um,
32:52
So this week,
32:53
if there's a topic you want to talk
32:55
about, shoot me a DM,
32:57
shoot me a comment on this YouTube
32:59
channel, and we'll rack it up,
33:03
knock it down.
33:17
I'll make sure to be on tomorrow.
33:18
I got lots of thoughts regarding the
33:20
Masters.
33:21
I know you do, buddy.
33:22
I know you do.
33:28
Larry Young,
33:28
Masters still sending invites,
33:31
so not a ton jumping on it.
33:35
There aren't that many Masters
33:37
competitions in the country,
33:39
like in the U.S.,
33:41
for Masters athletes to go to and test
33:44
yourself against the best.
33:47
And you were given two new opportunities
33:49
this year.
33:51
It's not ideal.
33:53
Timing isn't great, but they're there.
34:08
Mark Phillips,
34:09
who was our researcher last night,
34:11
wrote a small script to pull placements
34:13
for legends for each group,
34:15
can post whatever list anybody wants.
34:24
Before I jump off today,
34:27
don't forget the Hattie episode three
34:30
documentary is going to go live at one
34:33
p.m.
34:34
That is eleven minutes from now.
34:39
That is.
34:43
That is happening one o'clock,
34:45
eleven minutes from now, episode three.
34:48
It is day two at the CrossFit Games.
34:52
I'm finishing up episode four,
34:53
which is the finale.
34:55
And as soon as I get that up,
34:58
it will be available for members.
35:00
And then probably forty eight hours after
35:02
that, it will be available to everyone.
35:08
What I'm hoping for this year is to...
35:13
Oh.
35:15
Joe Valens,
35:16
one of the contributors to the
35:18
documentary.
35:20
Go check out his awesome photography.
35:26
What I'm hoping to do this year is
35:28
I'm hoping Jamie and Carolyn both make the
35:31
age group games.
35:33
And I want to do a full documentary
35:35
of their weekend.
35:38
Well, it's not even a weekend.
35:39
It's Monday through Wednesday.
35:46
So that's my hope.
35:48
If Jamie's healthy enough to get through
35:50
the next couple of weeks,
35:51
we'll see how that goes.
35:53
Hopefully we'll be able to get that done
35:56
and get you a behind the scenes look
35:58
at two people who handle competition very,
36:02
very differently,
36:03
but they talk a lot cause they're not
36:05
in the same age group.
36:06
So I'm hoping to get those interactions
36:08
between the two of them and, uh,
36:12
and kind of capture.
36:14
their differences.
36:16
And then I think I'm going to stay
36:18
for the whole week.
36:19
I'll see if I can get embedded with
36:22
another athlete this year,
36:24
but I got to know who's going.
36:26
So we'll see.
36:42
Uh, Shannon says, well,
36:43
I'm not spending all the money on an
36:44
opportunity for one spot and then doing
36:46
online.
36:47
If I don't make it one to two
36:49
weeks later, too much stress on the body.
36:51
I understand all that.
36:52
I really do.
36:54
It's,
36:54
it's just disappointing because I want
36:57
these types of things for the master's
36:58
community.
36:59
I'm not,
37:00
I'm not being critical of the master's
37:02
community at all.
37:03
I understand all of that stuff.
37:06
I want it to be,
37:08
I want it to be better.
37:12
Hexie Lover, off topic,
37:13
what's the latest on the Bears moving?
37:15
Blaming Chicago Mayor, thoughts?
37:20
I have so many thoughts.
37:23
It's going to be resolved by the end
37:24
of next month.
37:25
We'll know whether they're staying in
37:27
Illinois or moving to Indiana.
37:30
Again, if you're not from that area,
37:33
where they're moving in Indiana is
37:36
actually closer to the existing stadium
37:40
than the Illinois site that they're
37:42
proposing.
37:45
And it's still considered the Chicagoland
37:47
area.
37:49
It just has a different state who's
37:51
willing to give them pretty much anything
37:54
they want.
37:57
I think here's the deal.
38:03
Where the Bears play currently has a lot
38:07
of politicalness around it.
38:09
It's in the Parks District.
38:12
It's run by a committee there that have
38:14
not been very favorable to the Bears in
38:16
their history.
38:19
The governor wants Soldier Field
38:21
renovations from two thousand...
38:25
three, four-ish to get paid off.
38:28
The Bears have paid off their share of
38:30
the loan,
38:31
and the Illinois government has pushed the
38:36
payback down the road,
38:38
and now they still owe money,
38:40
and they want to blame the Bears for
38:41
that.
38:46
When the Bears initially wanted to go to
38:48
Upper Arlington, which is in Illinois...
38:51
They offered to pay off that loan for
38:53
the state and the city,
38:55
and the government officials tried to play
38:59
hardball,
39:00
and now the Bears are not going to
39:01
go back and do that.
39:03
I don't know what's going to happen.
39:04
I don't really care.
39:06
For me, if they moved to Indiana,
39:07
it's actually a closer drive for me to
39:08
go than if they went to Upper Arlington.
39:12
Not Upper Arlington.
39:15
Arlington Heights.
39:16
Sorry.
39:19
So that's that.
39:21
Right now, football, I'm just drafted out.
39:24
The draft is next week.
39:26
Everybody's talking about it.
39:28
NAI, you're crazy.
39:30
No way do the Bears want Geno Smith.
39:38
Um, Wayne short mark.
39:39
I would be interesting to see where the
39:41
legends competitors are coming from
39:42
geographic location.
39:44
Are they mostly local or traveling?
39:47
Uh, Wayne, mostly us,
39:48
but almost every single group has one to
39:50
four from overseas.
40:12
So anyway, there it is.
40:14
I tried to read Larry's thing.
40:15
I don't have the context.
40:17
I must have missed the comment earlier or
40:20
something.
40:26
Shana says,
40:27
I think most are staying as close as
40:29
possible to where they live.
40:31
So, like, there's so many factors, right?
40:34
Like,
40:34
Jamie is closer to Magic City than she
40:38
is to Del Mar, right?
40:42
Magic City would be a drive,
40:44
but then the online semis are the very
40:46
next week,
40:47
and with her hip and her shoulder,
40:50
the drive is too costly on her body.
40:54
So she's picking Del Mar because the
40:57
flight would be easier on her body,
40:59
and she'd have an extra week to recover
41:01
for the online if needed.
41:05
So I think it's just...
41:08
And if you do like what Mark did
41:10
and you pull up all the people and
41:13
their placements in quarterfinals,
41:15
you can get a really good shot or
41:18
vantage point of your shot at qualifying
41:22
at these semifinals.
41:27
Because I think at Del Mar,
41:29
Jamie is in the top three of quarterfinals
41:32
of those who signed up in her age
41:34
group at Del Mar.
41:38
Carolyn won quarterfinals,
41:40
so it didn't really matter where she went.
41:46
And I know other people had other reasons.
41:49
I talked to one guy last night whose
41:51
daughter is graduating the weekend of
41:54
Magic City,
41:55
so that took that completely out of
41:57
context.
42:05
uh jamie is second behind adrian winges
42:08
from placements that is very true shanna
42:15
you can do that for legends but no
42:16
published leaderboard for magic i don't
42:18
know why they don't just publish it i
42:21
don't know makes no sense maybe they don't
42:25
want people to game the system
42:32
Joseph Ramirez,
42:33
I'm graduating the week of online semis.
42:37
What degree, Joseph?
42:47
My college graduations,
42:48
I wish I wouldn't have gone.
42:51
I did it for my mother because she
42:54
wanted to see me walk, but it really,
42:58
it wasn't that big of a deal to
43:00
me.
43:01
But I get it.
43:02
If your daughter's graduating,
43:04
that may mean more.
43:08
A bachelor's in cybersecurity.
43:10
Look at you, man.
43:14
Job of the future.
43:17
All right, I'm going to head out,
43:19
get back to work.
43:20
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43:22
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43:25
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43:27
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43:39
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43:40
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43:42
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43:43
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43:45
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43:46
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43:48
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43:50
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43:52
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43:56
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43:57
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44:01
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