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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Happy New Year!!! (Birthday Show) · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody
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welcome to twenty twenty
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five we are we are bringing
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in the new year folks with
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lunch with the Clydesdale
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um man these are becoming
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some fun shows for me
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um yeah so it is twenty
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twenty five happy new year
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to all of you hope you have
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a tremendous year coming up
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and that you have set goals
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for yourself uh to that you
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can achieve um and if
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you're not one of those
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goal setters or um what are
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they called uh
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Whatever.
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But anyway,
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if you're one of those people to do that,
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I hope you have so much success.
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And if not,
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I hope you just enjoy your
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twenty twenty five.
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And thank you very much to
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both Jody and Judy for the
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birthday wishes.
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Yeah, it's been a great birthday.
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I woke up, my wife slept in.
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I got to watch my ESPN show
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Get Up this morning with a
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nice hot cup of coffee and
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just hanging out,
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savoring the Penn State
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victory last night to start the new year,
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which was really freaking awesome.
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They did so well.
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Their defense played so well,
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especially the defensive line,
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stopping the number one
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running back in the country,
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holding him to just a hundred yards,
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which sounds like a lot.
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But in his case,
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he's never been held to just a hundred.
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He's had more than one
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hundred twenty five in
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every game this year.
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So they played really well last night,
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ended up winning, I think,
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thirty one to thirty one to ten.
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So, yeah, super awesome.
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But I woke up today,
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enjoyed my birthday morning.
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It's my birthday, Bruce.
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My birthday.
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um and so had my cup of
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coffee watched get up my
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wife got up and then she
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gave me some gifts uh so uh
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I got the new teddy swims
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vinyl uh which I'm super
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pumped for I love him um if
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you don't know before I got
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into all this stuff I love
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singing I used to be in a
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band back in the day
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And Teddy swims is one of my
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favorite singers out there today.
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I love his voice.
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And so she got me the new vinyl for that.
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So I'll be listening to that
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this afternoon.
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And she also got me a mini,
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I don't know if you can see
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behind me right there.
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That is soldier field.
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That's a Chicago bear
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stadium in little mini bricks.
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She got me beaver stadium,
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which is Penn state stadium
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in many bricks as well to put together.
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So that'll give me a long,
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couple months uh work to put
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that together so uh having
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a great morning uh really
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enjoying it and then after
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this show we're going out
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for chicken wings which I
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love to death uh and it's a
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new place that my best
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friend found um and it's
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actually pretty close to my
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uh pretty close to my house
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and they have both sauces
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and dry rubs um so we're
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gonna get like little mini
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uh mini baskets to try some
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different flavors
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and have a lovely day that
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way so and then the rest of
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the day is going to be
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college football probably
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uh until tomorrow so that
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is awesome and I'll be back
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with you tomorrow thank you
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everybody for the uh
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the birthday wishes lex and
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carolyn uh just called me
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before the show saying a
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beautiful rendition of
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happy birthday to me uh
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with the doodles on a nice
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walk in california and um
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I'm so glad that they're in
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my life now they are such
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good friends and uh
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couldn't have that was just
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awesome and thank you
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meredith for the um well
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well wishes and happy birthday
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Carolyn with a happy birthday as well.
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Bruce,
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we all want to know when Soldier
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Field is being replaced.
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It's never being replaced.
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If you don't know,
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Soldier Field is actually a
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historic monument in Chicago,
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so it cannot be replaced.
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They do want to build a new stadium,
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but they cannot tear down
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Soldier Field as it is a
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historic landmark.
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And it was built to
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commemorate the soldiers
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lost in World War I. It is that old.
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And so, yeah, we have prop that we,
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like I have any money at all in this.
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The Bears have a land in
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Arlington Heights where
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they can build a stadium.
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They're also in negotiations
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with downtown Chicago on
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the lakefront to build another stadium.
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But there's no shovel in the ground,
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and this has been going on for a while.
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And if you're a Bears fan,
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you're kind of sick of the
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stadium talk as it's
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heading nowhere fast.
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Um, like Scott, you were in a band.
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I was, yeah.
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A long, long time ago.
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Uh,
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they said you were going to keep the
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Memorial and tear down the stadium.
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Um, that I have not heard.
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Um, I have not heard, but, oh, sure.
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There's been so many rumors
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back and forth about this stadium.
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I just, I really can't keep up anymore.
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Uh, so, so anyway, um, this has been fun.
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Um, what I want to do first,
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before we kick into this,
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the first person in the
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chat that can name my age today,
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what I turned today will
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win one of our either coffee cups.
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or uh drink bottles if I can
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get it in screen there we
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go first person in the chat
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that can name my exact age
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um bruce you're wrong I
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will win one of those look
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at you dude larry young
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gets it so larry just tell
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me which one you want you
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want the coffee cup or the water bottle
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I will send it to you and
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get your DM me your address
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and I'll send that off to you.
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This weekend.
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Larry Young was fast.
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Second guess in.
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So, nice.
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Well,
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a couple of things I want to talk about.
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One is the amazing victory
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last night by the Penn
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State Nittany Lions.
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We are in the final four,
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which is awesome.
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We are...
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We're headed to the fun for
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when we play you the winner
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of Georgia and Notre Dame,
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which happens tonight.
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I'm picking Notre Dame in that game.
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It's a Georgia's favored by one point,
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which to me is just a pick
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them game anyway then.
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So I think Notre Dame wins outright.
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We start off the day with
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Texas and Arizona State.
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As much as I love the story
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of Arizona State,
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I think Texas is going to
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pull that off today.
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And in the middle game is Ohio State,
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Oregon.
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And I'm really conflicted
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because I would like
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another chance to beat Ohio
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State as Penn State would
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play them in the national
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championship game if both
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made it that far.
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But I really,
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I have OSU fatigue from
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living in Columbus for so long that
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I think that if OSU plays their A game,
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they win the game today.
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And I'll have to listen to
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the Buckeye fans gloat around about that,
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including Judy Reed.
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So I'll pick the Buckeyes to
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win the middle game,
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Texas to win the first game,
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and Notre Dame to win the
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last game of the day.
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then hopefully the penn
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state will have an
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opportunity to play ohio
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state in the national
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championship game which
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would be great for the big
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ten um and maybe we get
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revenge uh from the earlier
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loss this year next thing
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on my list is um emma carey um
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for those of you who don't know, uh,
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we actually,
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we were the first podcast
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that Emma Carey ever did.
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And I don't know if you can
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see that gray shirt right there.
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That is the first shirt I
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ever had sent to me,
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signed by an athlete.
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And that is Emma Carey.
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She actually ran a
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competition for the kids in her gym.
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Um,
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and that was the shirt that they gave
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out to all the kids.
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Um,
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at that time.
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And then her and her parents
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sent me that shirt signed by her.
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And so that is, uh,
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that's the first shirt I
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ever framed and hung.
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And then now you see, like,
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I have a lot more shirts
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from athletes that have sent me them,
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which is really cool,
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but it kind of started a trend.
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So I I've known Emma.
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She's one of the first
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interviews we ever did on like episode.
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Thirty-two or thirty-three.
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And we're,
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we've done well over a thousand
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episodes at this point.
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So when I saw that she was
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retiring from the sport,
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it brought a little tear to my eye,
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but I understand from a Larry, I saw,
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I actually got the notifier
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already that you sent me.
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So I'll get that out to you this weekend.
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And so it saddened me a
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little bit that she was
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retiring because when she was coming up,
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I don't know if I ever saw
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a young athlete retire.
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as talented and driven as
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she was mal o'brien and her
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were almost mere images of
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each other and um I thought
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that we were going to have
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this epic showdown for
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years to come uh and I don't know
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what happened and now we
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don't have either one mal
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o'brien has not made any
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announcements that she's
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never coming back but at
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all in all intensive
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purposes purposes we have
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not seen her do anything
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like that so my guess is
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that uh she probably will
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not be and emma carey has
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made it clear that she has
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found happiness in other
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directions with her faith uh which
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I I'm so happy for as a man of God,
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I think that that is shows
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a maturity that I probably
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don't even have at.
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Um,
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that she wants to serve God and Christ
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before serving CrossFit.
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And, um,
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and I was hoping that some way she
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would find a way to be able to do both.
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Um,
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But in her mind,
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it is clear that it is one or the other.
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She doesn't get satisfaction
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from CrossFit anymore if
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you read what she wrote.
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And she gets more
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satisfaction after over-serving the Lord.
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And so I have to respect that.
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And I'm really happy for her
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that she came to that
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decision and she is...
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And she's happy and content with that.
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My hope is that I can get
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her on the show and do a
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show with her like I did
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with Olivia Sulik,
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who made the same decision
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about two years ago.
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I met both of them when they
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were very young in the teen
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division and have been
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following them forever.
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uh caro carolyn says emma
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was definitely a workhorse
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could she could suffer like
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no other and super talented
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she is so driven in
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everything that she does
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that I think that that may
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have been one of the
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downfalls of her early on
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is she suffered injury like
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a big back injury um at a
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very young age because she
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was so driven and in that
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first episode we had with
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her she talked about like
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wanting to learn double
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under so much that she
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would spend eight hours
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straight trying to learn
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them and be all marked up
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from the misses.
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She was programming for herself,
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and if she had a goat,
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she would program it every
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day so that she could get better at it.
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She was so driven for a young woman.
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And you hear the same
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stories about Mal going to
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the edge like that.
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Even Hayley Adams said,
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Um,
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so I'm sad that she's not going to be
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in the sport.
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I'm sad that we can't cover her anymore,
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but I'm happy that she has
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found happiness and peace
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with the life that she has chosen, uh,
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and where she's going.
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And I wish her all the well, all well,
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and I wish her wellness and
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happiness for everything.
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Sorry.
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Can't talk on my birthday.
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Um, so yeah.
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So I wanted to get that out of the way.
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And then what I'm going to
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talk about a little bit is
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some of my favorites from
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twenty twenty four.
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I was I just did some quick
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math before coming on here.
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And this channel has put out
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at least three hundred and
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twelve episodes in twenty twenty four.
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Yeah, three hundred and twelve episodes.
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We did a semifinal series.
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We did a road to the game series.
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We did the champions of legend series.
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We did athletes of the
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Masters CrossFit game series.
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Um, in addition to that,
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we sprinkled in things here and there, um,
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throughout this season.
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And it was such a rewarding,
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rewarding experience, uh,
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doing all those different
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series and getting to know
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as many of the athletes in
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the space as possible.
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And like Carolyn said, make sure you like,
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and subscribe to the channel.
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Yeah.
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Hit that notifier just like Judy Reed.
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So, you know,
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when the episodes are coming on.
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Um,
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and so I went through like the list of
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shows that we did and a
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couple of things I just
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want to point out some favorite moments,
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um, of the year.
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And one of those had to be, um,
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it had to be that Emily Rolfe,
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one of my dear friends,
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podiumed at the games.
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I wish it was under
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different circumstances,
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but I was so happy that she
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was able to do that.
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And she's always been so
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gracious to us and
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participated in so much of
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what we do here that I was
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so happy when she was on the podium.
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And it's probably one of the
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things that I took enjoyment
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of in the weekend of the CrossFit Games,
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which was a tough weekend this year.
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In addition to that, earlier this year,
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earlier in twenty four,
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we brought on Carolyn
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Prevost as a co-host to our
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Sunday night CrossFit show.
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which at the time was Thursday night,
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we moved it to Sunday night.
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And along with that, we got Lex.
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And it has been such a good
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friendship and partnership
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to get the contributions
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from the two of them for the show.
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I think they've added so
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much to what we do on this channel.
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and I could not thank them
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any more than that and it's
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definitely one of the
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highlights of twenty twenty
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four for me um having uh
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partnerships with with them
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and their and them
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constantly contributing to
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what we do uh to our
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rundowns um to letting us
16:16
know what news is going on
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nobody follows the crossfit
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space like uh lex um lex
16:24
and the barbell spin probably comb
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Instagram and news more than
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anybody in the space.
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And so I thank them so much for that.
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And then one last favorite
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moment for me is my friend, Jamie Latimer,
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after years of trying,
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finally making it to the CrossFit Games.
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To be there in Birmingham
16:48
for her first ever CrossFit
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Games appearance was so
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cool and so magical.
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And I could not be happier for her.
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She puts in so much effort
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every year to do that.
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And I, I think when she qualified,
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I teared up because I knew
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how much it meant to her and to watch her
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I mean,
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our relationship started with me
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doing a documentary of her
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at quarterfinals, I believe,
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or semifinals.
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And we've become such good friends.
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And then to see her make the
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CrossFit Games was so
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awesome and definitely one
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of the top highlights of the year.
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Carolyn says, yeah,
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Lex is the queen of knowing it all.
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She, she, it's amazing what she knows.
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Um, she's, she has so many connections and,
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um, and she's added so much to,
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to this channel and they're
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just dear friends too.
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I want to point, make that clear.
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They are great friends first,
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great partner second.
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Um,
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So I went through my list of
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shows for the year and I
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ranked them and it was really tough.
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Like I said,
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we did three hundred and
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twelve shows this year.
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And so what I did is my top
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ten list is pretty much
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athlete interviews.
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And really what I was
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looking at is things that.
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like my favorite interviews
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are when I start talking to
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somebody and we go
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completely off script and
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we head down a rabbit hole
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that I didn't even know was
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going to happen.
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And it just free flows.
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I love when that happens during a podcast.
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So yeah,
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going to point out first a
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couple people that I I have
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on the show regularly and I
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kind of omitted them from
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this list because I've had
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them on so many times that
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it kind of blurred together
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which time um I they were
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here and what we talked
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about but anytime I have
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ariel owen emily rolf
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hattie canyo bethany flores
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saxon pancheck tristan
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um oh my gosh I'm just
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totally brain farted uh
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tristan patrick uh justin
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kotler or rebecca fusile on
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uh those shows are awesome
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uh we have all those people
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I consider friends and we
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have great conversations um
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and they're always off
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script um what I love is
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that we're to the point in
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the relationship where they
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turn the questions around
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on me um and we just have
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great back and forth conversations
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So all of those people I
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love every time they're on,
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but I didn't put them in my top ten.
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A couple honorable mentions
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that I just didn't have space for,
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but I loved was Mike Beamer,
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who was episode nine twenty one.
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Mike Beamer was in the sixty
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to sixty four year old
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division at the Masters CrossFit Games.
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The man can do like ten
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consecutive muscle ups.
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He is a complete beast.
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uh,
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was a military man who found CrossFit
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afterwards and blew it up.
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Great guy.
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Great interview.
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Learned so much from him.
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Uh,
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another honorable mention was Ryan Redkey,
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uh,
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eight nineties episode eight ninety six.
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With that, uh,
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Ryan competed in the forty
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five to forty nine year old division.
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He said he talked about, um,
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taking a Mercedes and making
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it run on vegetable oil.
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And that was one of his hobbies.
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He was also on Fear Factor
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and won an episode of Fear Factor.
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Those are things that I
20:25
didn't know going into that
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interview that we had a
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tremendous time talking
20:29
about and was really good.
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I can't even read some of my own writing.
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Another one was Tristan Harrison.
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Um,
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Tristan Harrison was a semifinal athlete.
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It's episode eight, twenty nine.
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What's crazy about him is he
20:51
had kind of accidentally
20:53
qualified for semifinals.
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He was super stoked about it,
20:55
but he was starting a new
20:56
job right after semifinals.
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Um,
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and in addition to that he
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ended up on kill taylor uh
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where he did he almost
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killed taylor but fell just
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short um and now you see
21:10
him I think he was at crash
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I think he's done some
21:13
other events so I think he
21:15
was about ready to retire
21:16
but ended up not uh and
21:19
that's a great interview uh
21:20
eight twenty nine uh lacy
21:23
true love nine oh four uh
21:25
thirty five to thirty nine year old um
21:29
Just great backstory about
21:30
some of the stuff she went
21:31
through and how she has
21:33
fought to make it to the CrossFit Games.
21:36
That was great.
21:37
Jen Dieter, episode seven, forty two.
21:41
She was a Jacksonville
21:42
Jaguar cheerleader who is
21:43
now competing in the
21:44
Masters CrossFit Games.
21:46
We learned a lot about her.
21:49
That was a great episode.
21:52
And then Chloe Gavin David
21:55
was a surprise to me.
21:57
She is so fun to talk to.
21:59
I really thought she'd be in my top ten.
22:02
I just was running out of space.
22:04
So, yeah,
22:05
Chloe Gavin David was a great interview.
22:07
That is episode eight forty two.
22:13
Then let's do our top ten.
22:15
So my tenth favorite episode
22:17
was episode eight fifty nine.
22:18
It was Hattie Cano after she
22:20
qualified for the CrossFit Games.
22:22
What was awesome about that
22:23
is Hattie had actually had
22:25
a show on my channel where
22:27
we went live every
22:28
Wednesday night and she was
22:30
in Bali training and she
22:33
would show us around Bali,
22:35
different things she would do there.
22:36
And so her and I became
22:38
friends over the course of that series.
22:41
And then to watch her come
22:43
where nobody expected her to do this,
22:45
come out of nowhere and
22:46
qualify for the CrossFit Games.
22:48
And not only that,
22:49
but tie for third at the
22:51
West Semi-Final with Ariel Lowen.
22:54
And really,
22:55
she was leading going into the last event,
22:57
but that last event got her
22:59
and she fell back to a tie for third.
23:02
That was a fun episode to
23:03
kind of talk to her right
23:06
after she had reached all of her goals.
23:11
And that was fun because we
23:12
did all that leading up to it.
23:14
Number nine was Paige Semenza,
23:16
episode eight, thirty four.
23:18
Paige Semenza.
23:19
This was she had kind of
23:21
started talking about.
23:25
having a bad year the year
23:26
before suffering through a
23:28
back injury and that she
23:31
had made a lot of changes
23:32
in her life and she was
23:33
heading in a different
23:34
direction and was starting
23:36
to find happiness in
23:38
crossfit again um that got
23:41
a lot deeper than I ever
23:42
anticipated it to go and um
23:46
and that show was really
23:47
really fun uh jody lynn
23:51
says I love those bali shows
23:54
I did, too.
23:55
They were a lot of fun.
23:56
And Larry Young asked New
23:57
Year's resolution.
23:59
I haven't really sat down
24:00
and done any goal setting yet.
24:02
I have.
24:03
We'll talk about that after
24:04
I get through the top ten.
24:05
But but I haven't really sat
24:07
down and done that yet.
24:09
Number eight is Tammy Saunders.
24:14
She's known as Coach Tam Tam on Instagram.
24:17
Her episode is nine thirty five.
24:19
She was a master's athlete
24:21
who has overcome a lot in
24:22
her life to then become a
24:24
gym owner and and now an
24:27
athlete that qualified for
24:28
the CrossFit Games.
24:29
Her coach is Bill Grundler.
24:31
which was fascinating and I
24:33
didn't know going into it.
24:36
So we got to learn a little
24:37
bit more about Bill as a coach.
24:39
We got to learn about her as
24:41
an athlete and all the
24:42
stuff she's overcome.
24:44
That is a great episode to
24:45
go back and check out.
24:46
That's nine thirty five.
24:50
Number seven is Will Morad.
24:52
I interviewed him before the
24:54
syndicate crown.
24:56
What was great about that is
24:57
Will was crushing both
24:59
qualifying events up to the
25:01
semifinal and in the Masters.
25:03
And we really talked about
25:05
him trying to do the double,
25:07
making it to the CrossFit
25:08
Games and making it to the
25:10
Masters CrossFit Games.
25:13
was a great conversation um
25:15
we got into a lot of things
25:17
around the sport we it was
25:19
almost a mini preview of
25:21
what was to come my guess
25:23
is he knew he had some
25:25
plans on in his mind um but
25:27
was not ready to divulge
25:29
those and so if you go back
25:31
and listen to it you can kind of detect
25:33
that there was something in
25:34
the planning stages that he
25:36
wasn't ready to divulge to us.
25:40
But it was a great conversation.
25:44
Regretfully,
25:44
he got hurt at the Syndicate
25:46
Crown and was not able to
25:47
make the elite CrossFit Games,
25:49
but did go on to win the
25:51
Masters CrossFit Games in
25:52
the thirty five to thirty nine.
25:56
Number six was Claudia Ragsdale,
25:59
episode nine, twenty seven.
26:01
She again was a master's athlete.
26:03
She is coached by Coach L with Brute.
26:07
It's so funny.
26:08
We became fast friends with
26:11
this interview and then
26:12
subsequently at the Masters
26:14
CrossFit Games.
26:16
She said that we are spirit
26:17
animals that were kind of
26:18
the same athlete.
26:19
We like to lift heavy weights,
26:22
don't like the cardio as much.
26:24
So we just became fast friends.
26:25
But in the interview itself,
26:28
we went into a topic that I
26:31
never thought I would talk about,
26:33
and that is how menopause
26:34
affects training.
26:37
And she was very open and
26:38
honest about how the
26:40
hormonal change really
26:42
affected how she trained
26:44
and how she needed and
26:46
different things she was
26:47
using and doing to make
26:49
that easier on herself.
26:52
Didn't expect to go down that path,
26:54
but when the athlete or the
26:56
guest wants to do that,
26:57
we're going to go where they want to go.
26:59
And so we dove down that rabbit hole.
27:02
Fascinating conversation.
27:03
I learned more about
27:04
menopause than I ever
27:05
thought I would know.
27:07
But yeah, that was a great conversation.
27:11
Number five was James Sprague.
27:14
I've had James Sprague on
27:15
the show a couple of times,
27:17
but it was always in a group.
27:19
So early on in, in our evolution as a show,
27:22
we used to have what we
27:23
called the brute teens on,
27:25
and that was Dallin, Emma, James,
27:32
maybe even tutor.
27:34
And then Matt Torres.
27:36
So we would have them on as
27:38
a group early on in, in,
27:42
in this podcast history uh
27:44
and that this was the first
27:45
time I had james on as an
27:46
individual and I I've known
27:51
james outside because I go
27:53
to so many different
27:54
masters events and his dad
27:56
competes in the masters
27:57
event I would always see
27:58
him and chat with him we
28:00
just could never connect
28:02
for uh like a one-on-one show
28:06
But what's awesome is this
28:08
interview went so well.
28:09
He gave me his phone number.
28:10
So now we can text,
28:11
we can chat back and forth.
28:14
Getting him on the show will
28:15
be much easier in the future.
28:18
And I've loved his dad forever.
28:21
He's just one of the nicest
28:23
guys in the world.
28:24
And to watch his son cheer
28:26
him on is how I got to know
28:27
James really well first.
28:29
And then to see James as an
28:30
athlete this year and have
28:32
that conversation with him was great.
28:34
So yeah,
28:36
That is number five.
28:38
Number four is Brandon Luckett.
28:40
I'd never had Brandon
28:41
Luckett on the show before.
28:42
There was all this hoopla
28:44
about him being washed up
28:46
and John Young telling him
28:47
he was washed up,
28:50
but he was killing the
28:52
qualifiers getting into semifinals.
28:54
Uh,
28:54
so we talked to him right before
28:56
semifinals and his background and his,
28:59
what he does for a living
29:01
and his imam group and the
29:02
Southland group.
29:04
Uh,
29:04
it was just a really fun conversation
29:07
about the crew he hangs out
29:08
with about the crew.
29:10
He helps coach, um,
29:12
which he would never say
29:13
that's what he does, but he does, uh,
29:15
as I've talked to many of them,
29:17
like our very own Corey Leonard, um,
29:22
It was just a really good conversation,
29:24
a really down to earth dude
29:27
who has a very big brain
29:30
about a lot of things.
29:32
And it was just fun to dig
29:34
into that and learn more
29:35
about Brandon and kind of
29:37
his philosophies.
29:39
And he's someone that I
29:40
would want on the show on a
29:41
regular basis.
29:42
He was he was so good.
29:47
Number three best interview
29:49
of the year was Jamie Hygieia.
29:52
For those who didn't know,
29:53
Jamie was a CrossFit OG,
29:57
was in the games back in, I think,
29:59
twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen,
30:01
twenty sixteen because it was in Carson.
30:05
She.
30:07
At the age of thirty nine,
30:09
qualified for the West semifinals.
30:11
So in our semifinal series,
30:13
we had her on and got and
30:16
basically she was playing
30:17
with house money at the time.
30:19
And what was cool is her gym
30:22
was like fifteen minutes from Carson.
30:26
So not only did she get to
30:27
go experience her semifinal
30:30
in front of her home crowd,
30:31
she also got to be kind of
30:33
the host for everybody
30:34
traveling in as they were
30:36
looking for places to drop in.
30:38
Her gym was the obvious
30:40
choice being so close to the stadium.
30:45
Yeah,
30:45
Carolyn said she just moved to Hawaii.
30:47
She did.
30:48
She just announced she moved to Hawaii,
30:50
and Carolyn says she loves Jamie.
30:54
but it was one of the
30:55
coolest conversations.
30:56
So laid back, so easy to talk to.
31:00
We talked about each other's goals.
31:03
You can tell that she's a coach too,
31:06
just by the way she talks.
31:08
And I'd never,
31:09
I'd never had the
31:10
opportunity to sit down and
31:11
talk with her in the past.
31:13
We have bumped elbows before
31:15
at different events when
31:16
she was doing sideline reporting.
31:20
But yeah,
31:21
Yeah,
31:21
it was my first time to actually get
31:22
down and sit down and have
31:24
a conversation.
31:25
And I could have done that
31:26
for a couple of hours.
31:27
It was so easy.
31:30
My number two episode from
31:32
twenty twenty four was Zoe
31:35
and Ashley Fiala.
31:37
If you didn't know their story,
31:39
Zoe qualified for the team
31:41
CrossFit Games.
31:43
Ashley qualified for the
31:44
Masters CrossFit Games,
31:46
and they were both on the same weekend,
31:49
and they had to split and
31:51
go separate ways.
31:52
And Ashley, as a mom,
31:54
did not want to do that.
31:55
She wanted to go watch Zoe
31:58
and support her in her
31:59
effort at the CrossFit Games.
32:01
But Zoe was having none of
32:03
that and knew that her mom
32:05
had been trying to do this for many,
32:07
many years.
32:09
And the fact that she got in, she said,
32:12
listen,
32:12
if you don't go to your CrossFit Games,
32:15
I'm not going to mine.
32:17
Put her foot down.
32:18
They talk about that on the show,
32:20
about the back and forth,
32:21
how they were going to handle it.
32:24
And they're just two great people.
32:27
And that is episode eight eighty nine.
32:30
That is Zoe and Ashley Fiala.
32:33
Great, great story.
32:35
Great,
32:35
great human beings and a great episode.
32:40
But my number one episode of
32:42
the year is Denise Moore.
32:48
Denise Moore, episode seven fifty one.
32:51
I got to meet Denise at the
32:53
Legends event last December.
32:56
So two Decembers ago,
32:58
Denise came on the show as
33:00
she had won the sixty five plus division.
33:04
And I had all the champions
33:05
on the show after Legends
33:07
and in through January.
33:10
And what I learned is that
33:12
she is one badass woman.
33:17
What we found out was that
33:18
she was a breast cancer survivor,
33:21
that after the breast cancer,
33:23
she had implants put in.
33:26
She was actually...
33:28
um being poisoned by the
33:31
implants um which made her
33:34
training suffer and then
33:36
she made the choice to have
33:38
those implants removed and
33:40
since then has felt so much
33:41
better um and is back to training and
33:48
What an amazing woman.
33:50
And what's awesome is she's
33:51
become a big listener of the show.
33:53
She's in the chats all the time.
33:57
I would consider her a friend now.
33:59
She is just an amazing woman.
34:01
And that is episode.
34:04
Seven fifty one.
34:06
It is a great,
34:07
great episode and by far
34:10
stands out above the rest
34:13
because of the hurdles she overcame.
34:16
um and the setback she had
34:19
um and how she was trying
34:20
to figure all that out um
34:22
just just a really cool
34:25
awesome badass woman um and
34:28
so for that she gets the
34:30
number one spot uh on the
34:33
twenty twenty four episode
34:35
uh best episodes of the
34:36
year those and just so you
34:39
know like when I try to have people on
34:43
I love talking about CrossFit,
34:44
but if we get through an
34:45
episode where I don't say
34:47
the word CrossFit and we
34:48
just talk about what
34:49
happened personally in
34:50
their life and what they
34:51
overcame to get where they're going,
34:53
those are my favorite episodes.
34:55
Those are the ones that like
34:57
really resonate with me and hit home.
34:59
Uh,
35:00
I love telling stories and the more I
35:02
can do that.
35:03
And I've really missed it
35:04
because since the games, you know,
35:07
I have not done a lot of
35:08
interviews other than masters athletes.
35:11
and um and part of that is
35:14
masters have the coolest
35:15
stories they've just they
35:16
have more life experience
35:18
um and it it just was
35:21
easier after everything
35:22
that happened at the games
35:24
now it's time, you know,
35:25
we're in twenty twenty five.
35:27
Now it's time to ramp back up,
35:29
get back into the habit of
35:30
doing some in-person
35:32
interviews with people as
35:33
we get into this,
35:34
as we know more about the
35:36
different seasons that are
35:37
happening this year,
35:38
directions people are taking,
35:40
all of that stuff and get
35:42
back to the storytelling
35:43
that I love to do so much.
35:48
We have been doing this now.
35:50
I didn't even make a big deal about it,
35:52
but we hit our five-year
35:53
anniversary in November.
35:55
So we've been doing this for
35:56
over five years now.
35:58
And bringing on Carolyn and Lex,
36:02
bringing on Jamie last year,
36:05
getting Kat back this year.
36:07
She'd been through some stuff.
36:08
She came back this year, which is awesome.
36:12
Just makes us stronger, and I love...
36:15
Love that this channel is
36:16
growing and getting better
36:18
and better each year.
36:21
Larry asks about New Year's resolutions.
36:25
I guess personally,
36:26
I don't have a lot of
36:27
resolutions because I've
36:29
got to have a procedure on
36:31
Friday with my heart.
36:33
My wife has to have a total
36:34
knee replacement on Monday.
36:36
Those are the things that I
36:37
have in my forethought of
36:39
things going on.
36:41
And they're kind of taking
36:43
precedence over the rest of
36:45
twenty twenty five.
36:47
I just want to get my wife
36:48
back to where she can walk,
36:50
where she can do the things
36:51
she loves to do and is not
36:53
in constant pain.
36:55
That is like the thing that
36:56
I want more than anything
36:57
this year is I want her
36:59
back out in the garage,
37:00
working out with me,
37:02
doing the stuff she loves to do.
37:06
And she hasn't been able to
37:07
do that for three years
37:08
because insurance denied her for so long.
37:11
We finally got that resolved.
37:12
We're finally going to get
37:17
her fixed and back to normal,
37:19
doing the things she loves doing,
37:21
and we get to do it together.
37:22
And that's what I'm most
37:24
excited about for twenty twenty five.
37:26
What I will say is Carolyn says,
37:29
let's hit three to five
37:30
thousand subscribers.
37:31
I would love to do that.
37:33
would love to do that um I
37:35
just want to put the best
37:36
content I can out every
37:38
single week and um and do
37:41
that um carolyn says I can
37:47
recall each of these
37:47
interviews you named good
37:48
shows yeah it was tough it
37:51
was tough like I said we
37:52
did over three hundred
37:53
shows this year so to
37:55
narrow it down to the top
37:56
ten was really tough and I
37:58
appreciate every athlete
37:59
that takes the time to come
38:00
on the show um
38:02
And every one of them has
38:03
something great to offer.
38:05
Uh, but yeah, so, so for me, like.
38:12
Twenty twenty five is about
38:14
getting my wife back,
38:15
getting the channel rolling again,
38:19
figuring out a direction as
38:21
a group and as a team where, um.
38:27
where we're going to go,
38:27
what we're going to cover,
38:29
what we're going to do as a
38:31
team so that we can be
38:33
precise and make a plan and
38:36
make it effective and do
38:39
the things we love to do.
38:43
And then personally,
38:44
I've done a lot in the last year.
38:46
I just want to keep that going.
38:49
I really just want to keep that going.
38:52
Uh, Jake Chapman says, uh,
38:53
best show was when the one
38:54
you listed the top five Arnold films.
38:57
Yeah.
38:57
I missed that.
38:58
I wanted,
38:58
I want that to be kind of bring
39:00
that stuff back as part of my lunch show.
39:03
Um, but I love doing that with Charlie.
39:06
Um,
39:06
Charlie and I have debates about this
39:08
stuff all the time on text.
39:10
Um,
39:10
and I'm hoping that he'll be able to
39:11
drop in on some of these
39:12
lunches where we can do
39:14
some top five goofy lists.
39:16
Um, like we did in the past.
39:17
Those were a lot of fun.
39:20
Jeffrey Birchfield says,
39:21
I prefer goals as opposed to resolutions.
39:23
I agree.
39:24
I agree.
39:29
Right now, though,
39:30
my goal doesn't have to be January first.
39:32
I need to get through this stuff.
39:34
And maybe my goal setting
39:35
happens with like in the
39:39
fifteenth of January when I
39:40
know kind of where we're at.
39:45
Goofy, this is deadly serious stuff.
39:47
Yeah,
39:47
the top five Arnold films are
39:48
definitely serious stuff.
39:51
Sorry, I should not have trivialized that,
39:54
Jake.
39:55
My bad.
39:55
My bad.
39:59
Goals without a plan are just dreams.
40:01
I agree.
40:04
Completely.
40:06
And I am going to sit down
40:08
with the team here and try
40:10
to figure out what we're
40:11
going to do next.
40:15
with this channel going
40:17
forward for the year,
40:18
what we're going to cover,
40:20
what we're going to look at.
40:20
I have some ideas in my mind.
40:22
I want to bounce them off
40:24
Jamie and Carolyn and Lex
40:25
and Kat and Amy and Charlie
40:27
to see if it's something
40:29
that they believe in and
40:31
can we make it work.
40:34
But just have to get through
40:35
these next couple days and
40:37
then we'll set those goals
40:39
up both professionally and personally.
40:46
Jake Chapman says, are you going to Waza?
40:48
I am not.
40:50
My wife is off work for six weeks.
40:53
She's going to need constant
40:56
care for at least the first couple weeks.
40:59
So I was not able to commit
41:00
to anything in January as
41:03
I'm going to be her primary
41:04
caretaker for the next few weeks.
41:08
what we have on the docket
41:09
now is getting all the
41:10
Christmas decorations down,
41:12
getting a bed on our first
41:14
floor so she can sleep on a,
41:16
the main floor of the house.
41:18
Um,
41:18
I've got to do all that this weekend and,
41:21
uh, have her all prepped and ready to go.
41:23
And then her surgery is
41:24
early morning Monday and we will, uh,
41:31
Yeah.
41:32
Hopefully everything goes
41:33
well and we can get the bed
41:34
out of the living room and back upstairs.
41:36
But she needs a place where
41:38
she can get her leg up on
41:40
the main floor of the house.
41:43
Carolyn, I hope they have a good feed.
41:45
The rosters look great.
41:47
Yeah.
41:49
I hope that...
41:52
From the layout, it's hard to tell.
41:54
I think that thirty lane rig,
41:57
thirty lane floor is too
41:59
hard to get a good feed
42:03
because all you really see
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is the center few lanes.
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And if you're not in the center few lanes,
42:08
you kind of miss it all.
42:10
But I don't know what the
42:11
new setup is like in South Beach.
42:13
So we'll see if they do a
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thirty person floor when
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they do the feeds from what
42:19
used to be the barge.
42:24
On that stage,
42:24
it was much better because
42:25
it's a ten person floor.
42:28
That was much easier to watch.
42:30
But we'll see what they have
42:31
going on in South Beach.
42:34
I'm kind of sad because I
42:35
wanted to see the new location.
42:36
I wanted to see what was
42:37
going on down there.
42:39
But regretfully,
42:40
I'll just have to get
42:41
feedback from others who are there.
42:46
Jake Chapman,
42:47
my wife is coaching her mom
42:48
in the sixty five plus again.
42:49
That is awesome.
42:51
I love hearing those stories.
42:53
I love the Masters athletes so much.
42:54
Their stories are so good.
42:59
It's a bit nuts.
43:00
The Masters don't get a
43:01
coach's pass to go to the warm-up areas,
43:03
but the teens and the indies do.
43:06
That has been an issue for
43:08
the last couple of years.
43:09
I know I'm really good
43:11
friends with Rudy Berger and his wife,
43:13
Lynette.
43:14
And Lynette is the wife,
43:17
and she can't ever get a
43:19
coach's pass to coach him,
43:21
help him warm up at Wadapalooza.
43:24
Um,
43:25
luckily I think she is also the coach
43:28
of Max Krieg and I know
43:31
he's at least on a team.
43:33
So maybe she has a coach's
43:34
pass for that and can go back,
43:36
but it really stinks for
43:38
people like your wife who don't have that,
43:40
that alternative.
43:41
Um, but I,
43:43
but I don't even know what the war,
43:44
the old warmup area was massive.
43:46
I don't even understand why
43:48
more people couldn't have a coach's pass,
43:50
but I don't know what the
43:50
new warmup area looks like at all.
43:57
So, um, with all of that,
44:05
so I don't know if you guys
44:07
have been seeing the news,
44:08
the stuff that happened in, um,
44:11
new Orleans has been crazy this morning,
44:13
but I just got an update
44:14
from ESPN that Caesar
44:16
superdome in new Orleans
44:17
was on lockdown Wednesday
44:18
for security sweeps.
44:21
Um,
44:23
no immediate word sugar bowl might be
44:25
delayed.
44:27
So the Notre Dame-Georgia
44:33
game at the Sugar Bowl
44:34
tonight might be delayed.
44:40
If you didn't see, a man drove into...
44:43
A crowd of people at the
44:45
corner of Canal and Bourbon
44:47
this morning killing ten
44:49
people and injuring at least thirty five.
44:53
The suspect was shot at
44:55
police and then was shot
44:57
himself and killed.
44:59
But it has put everything
45:01
around the Sugar Bowl in
45:02
New Orleans in up up in the air.
45:05
So, man,
45:07
waking up to that on your birthday
45:09
is not what you want to see.
45:11
So bummed about that.
45:12
And like Carolyn said,
45:13
there are awful humans out there, so,
45:15
so sad.
45:23
Jay Birch,
45:24
we're headed there in March for St.
45:25
Patrick's Day.
45:26
Well, the last time I was in New Orleans,
45:27
I actually stayed in the
45:29
Les Meridien Hotel right
45:31
where this incident happened,
45:33
right across the street.
45:35
It was...
45:36
Like,
45:37
looking out my hotel window would
45:39
have been Canal and Bourbon.
45:41
And I was there for work.
45:45
But that Canal is not a small street.
45:47
Like, that is a big, busy street.
45:49
And then Bourbon, of course,
45:50
is the big tourist attraction.
45:55
Just all,
45:56
I can't even believe that's happened.
45:59
Thank you, Jay Birch,
46:00
for the birthday wishes.
46:03
back on CrossFit stuff,
46:04
masters carry the open,
46:06
but get the least
46:06
consideration just doesn't
46:07
make sense to me.
46:09
I guess they know the
46:09
masters will continue to show up.
46:12
I do agree with you for the most part,
46:14
Larry, my beef with the masters is they,
46:16
they, and I,
46:18
they are the athletes I love
46:19
more than anything.
46:20
I want to cover them.
46:21
I love getting stuff out about them.
46:25
They don't share the stuff that the,
46:27
that content that people create for them,
46:30
they don't share.
46:33
If they want to become more popular,
46:35
you need to take the
46:36
grassroots approach of you
46:38
share so other people will
46:39
share and more people will
46:40
share to get the word out
46:42
of what these amazing athletes can do.
46:45
I do an eleven part
46:46
documentary about the
46:47
Masters CrossFit Games and
46:49
it doesn't get shared by that community.
46:52
That is frustrating.
46:56
So frustrating.
46:58
Why in the...
47:00
And that was all free of charge.
47:01
All they had to do is hit a
47:04
share button on their Instagram,
47:07
add it to their Facebook,
47:08
whatever social media, just add links,
47:11
add, you know,
47:12
and I put stuff out there like that.
47:14
I tagged legends in every
47:16
single one of my posts and
47:17
they didn't share a single one.
47:19
That is the frustrating thing.
47:22
When people do try to give
47:24
them what they deserve,
47:26
it's just not getting
47:27
shared with anybody.
47:31
Karen says, that is true, Scott.
47:32
They have to share more.
47:33
They have to.
47:35
That's how CrossFit grew in
47:36
the first place.
47:37
It was people posting videos
47:39
and it getting shared and
47:40
getting shared again and
47:41
getting shared again and going viral.
47:44
The Masters community does not do that.
47:49
And that is a shame.
47:52
But with that,
47:57
we're going to call it a day
47:58
because I'm going to go get
47:58
some chicken wings.
48:00
I'm so excited about this place.
48:02
They have dry rubs.
48:03
They have Cheetos flavor.
48:04
They have flaming hot Cheetos flavor.
48:07
Uh,
48:07
they have like a barbecue potato chip
48:09
flavor of dry rub.
48:11
And then they have the traditional,
48:12
like Buffalo sauce, Buffalo garlic.
48:15
Um,
48:16
mango jalapeno mango
48:18
habanero all of that stuff
48:20
um so we're going to get a
48:22
bunch of little baskets to
48:23
try a bunch of different
48:24
flavors and I'm super
48:25
stoked because chicken
48:26
wings are the greatest food
48:28
on the earth um and it's my
48:31
birthday and I am going to
48:32
partake in my favorite thing in the world
48:35
But I still kept New Year's Eve sober.
48:38
I watched Penn State win.
48:40
And now I'm going to go eat
48:41
some chicken wings and
48:42
probably have a water or a Diet Coke.
48:46
With that, guys, happy New Year.
48:49
Enjoy twenty twenty five.
48:50
It's going to be awesome.
48:52
So glad you guys are here with us.
48:54
Can't wait to hang out with
48:56
you all through twenty twenty five.
48:58
And we'll be back tomorrow
49:00
with another show.
49:01
Thank you so much.
49:02
And we'll see you soon.
49:03
Bye.