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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Tuesday Show! - Why is Hopper Going to Europe? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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We got workouts.
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We got Hopper going the Francais.
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And all of that and so much more
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I got it all mixed together, man.
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All the things.
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I don't know what does what anymore.
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That's fantastic.
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We got several buttons.
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It's fine.
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Not a big deal.
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Now we can start the show.
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It's beautiful.
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I feel much better now.
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There we go.
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Dude.
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I told you before we went on the
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air,
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I've literally been in a meeting since
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eight o'clock this morning.
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Not a meeting.
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Several meetings back to back to back to
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back.
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Like one little ten second,
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ten minute break to pee.
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Yeah.
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And that's been about it.
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And let's get back into it because we
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definitely have things that truly need to
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be discussed.
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Yeah.
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Definitely didn't need to be an email.
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Well,
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Actually,
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the meetings have actually been productive
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today.
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I will have to give them that.
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These were meetings that could not have
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been an email that actually had to occur.
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They had to go through them.
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Well, thankfully,
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because that's not normally the case.
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So good on them.
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So I was watching Dave's Weekend Review
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yesterday.
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And he made the announcement that media at
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the new location will have to be shrunk
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down.
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And he stopped and said, well,
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it's because every arena is different and
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the floor space is actually different.
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You wouldn't think it is because it's like
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a basketball or a hockey.
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And they should all be about the same
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size.
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But the way the seats come in,
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it's all different.
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So they're going to have to shrink the
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media pits in San Jose,
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meaning that they're going to have to
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reduce the number of credentials that they
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give out.
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And then he said, well,
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and we're thinking about not doing the
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Sparkly Band this year.
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What's the Sparkly Band?
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So the Sparkly Band is what I got
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last year after...
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some weird things kind of transpired and
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it allows you in the warmup area,
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all the, all the like all access stuff.
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Right.
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And how I could do the Hattie thing,
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like while she was warming up and all
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of that.
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Right.
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And you know what?
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I'm okay with it.
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Well, here's the thing.
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Everybody gets it or nobody gets it.
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I disagree.
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If CrossFit media is going to be there,
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that's one thing.
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What I'm talking about outside media,
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you know,
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all the other people from you to whoever
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else, everybody gets it.
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Nobody gets it.
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I disagree.
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It all depends on your plan with it.
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In my opinion.
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Okay.
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After being back there last year and
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everybody having it,
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Not everybody,
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but a lot of people having it.
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It was too much.
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It was too much, I think,
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for the athletes.
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When I was back there,
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I felt like because so many people were
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there,
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I was another annoyance to the athletes.
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Okay.
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That's fair.
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Right.
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If one T like,
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and just because he's done it for so
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long,
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if Siobhan is doing a behind the scenes
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and he has a plan to do this,
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that makes sense to me okay right but
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if i'm if i'm lucy campbell or emily
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rolf or pat velner or justin madaris i
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don't want sixteen people coming up to me
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doing behind the scenes that's fair right
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and after being back there and seeing some
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people just sitting there with their
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camera doing nothing
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like why why are we back here you
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just are doing it because you can and
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you're not really doing anything with it
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and you got it just to be able
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to be back there with everybody else and
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feel it feel important right so after
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seeing it like play out with so many
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people getting them last year i'm okay
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with the reduction all right like come in
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and say we're giving out
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two sets of sparkly bands to two different
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media companies because they,
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they came to us with this proposal that
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will help promote CrossFit.
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That would be more.
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Yeah.
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I'd be, I'd be much better with that.
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But the wild West of last year shouldn't
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happen again.
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Well,
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I think if anybody's back there and
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they're just sitting back there,
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like you said,
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like having to have a camera in their
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lap and you're not meeting at that point,
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you're just creepy hanging out and just
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wanting to be close to the athletes
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because you want to be close to the
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athletes.
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That's nonsense.
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When I think people go in with the
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intentions,
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I'm going to be able to do stuff,
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but those athletes are trying to win the
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CrossFit games.
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Like,
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They have things that they are planning on
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doing and need to get into a headspace
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that allows them to do it.
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Like when I did behind the scenes at
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the Masters Games, it was just me.
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I'm the only one back there doing it.
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So it's not eighteen cameras.
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And I tried to be very...
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meticulous about seeing you can tell when
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someone's like in the beginning of their
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warm-up and when they're about to go to
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the corral yeah right the the intensity is
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changing and so you approach them when
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they're when they've got the green band
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like you know stretching it out and they
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can talk not when they're snatching a
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hundred and eighty just warming up to to
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hit the corral
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True story.
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So,
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and I'm not sure everybody in the media
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space that got a sparkly band last year
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knew the difference.
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I think you're wise enough to be able
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to point to,
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let me not say point out as if
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we're trying to accuse people,
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but be able to see the difference.
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Right.
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Because you've been back there long enough
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to see people that clearly have a plan
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and are doing stuff that they know what
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to do.
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And then people that are back there,
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they're just like, well, I'm here.
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Now what?
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Yeah.
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Mr. David Johnson is correct.
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You don't like it.
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Just wait till next year.
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They're going to change it again anyway.
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Pretty much.
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Pretty much.
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Shout out to David Johnson while I got
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his...
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Name on my brain for punching his ticket
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this past weekend at Magic City Games.
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That dude is cool.
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Got to hang out with him a bit.
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Actually,
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a fairly good amount this weekend,
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and he is unbelievably fit.
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He's a beast.
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Good friend.
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Yeah, he's chiseled too, man.
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Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
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A hundred percent.
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Mark Phillips,
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you're giving them way too much credit,
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in my opinion.
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Well, Mark,
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I think what's going to happen is,
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because what I said is what I think
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should happen,
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I didn't say it will happen.
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Right.
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Because CrossFit doesn't know that they're
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either at volume one or volume eleven.
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They don't know there's a five on the
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dial.
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These amps go to eleven.
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Right.
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It's like the Masters in-person semis.
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They want them.
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Let's just throw everybody in the hopper
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with forty people per age group and just
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make it a total crazy thing that has
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to be handled.
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Not like, hey, let's try this out.
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This is their version of trying it out.
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David Johnson, Scott,
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did you know Corey isn't six foot tall?
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I had no idea.
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I kind of did.
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The conversation we had before,
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before we got up there was he was
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asking me about the, uh,
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fourteen point seven.
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He's like, man,
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I think the little guys are gonna like,
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just smash us on that one.
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And I said something effective.
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I've been five foot six since I was
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fifteen.
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He was like, damn it.
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He said in my head,
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everybody's the same size as I am.
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I haven't met.
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And I'm like, dude,
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I ain't never been six feet tall or
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anything close to it.
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As a matter of fact,
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while we're talking about that.
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Speaking about six foot tall people,
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Savan's in the chat.
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Media standing around and not doing shit
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is crazy and common.
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Yeah.
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I wouldn't lie.
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I wouldn't lie.
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I would forego a sparkly ban if we
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got a good behind the scenes.
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A hundred percent.
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right where athletes aren't like overrun
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with people and the people putting it
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together that i trust to do a good
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job would have that ability oh i see
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you warming up for the snatch what's your
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favorite color yeah nobody and there were
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people back there that i saw no content
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from like get published right why are you
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back there at that point right
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That's a sparkly band that could have gone
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to somebody else.
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Or that's space you're taking up for no
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good reason.
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Like, come on.
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Yeah.
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So a couple things happened in the last
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twenty four hours.
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One is Jason Hopper made a announcement.
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A secret,
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they say that he has decided to go
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to the French throwdown.
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If it's a secret,
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why did he announce it?
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I don't know.
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Maybe that's just me.
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I don't know.
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And maybe he didn't call it a secret.
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Maybe just the person with the thumbnail
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did.
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Who the hell knows?
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The rules of this season are you can
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go wherever you want to go and you
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can punch in your ticket, whatever.
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Where it gets confusing to me is...
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is that he was not on the roster.
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Oh.
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Like the initial roster.
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And now he is on the roster.
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It just comes across as, oh, my God,
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the games champ wants to come.
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Let's find a spot.
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Yeah, the champ called up and was like,
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hey, man,
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you think I could roll up over there?
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And they're like, yeah,
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because they don't want to turn him down.
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because he is in fact a champ right
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and i get it from french throwdown's
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perspective we just got a draw to our
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event hell yeah we're gonna take it yeah
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it's gonna sell more tickets but it it
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just goes back to like all the semifinals
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can play it however they want to play
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it and and then it gets confusing
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It's already a confusing system,
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and then you add these little tidbits to
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it to make it even more confusing.
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Lito,
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who is going to the French Throwdown in
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the Masters Division.
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French Throwdown had two ways of
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qualifying,
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online qualifier and quarterfinals,
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no invites,
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but obviously different if you're the
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champ, I guess.
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I'm sure he had a high quarterfinal
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finish.
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But I don't know that he got an
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invite or how that all went down from
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that.
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Well,
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I would like to know what the time
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limit was supposed to be on invites
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because I know anything I've ever done
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that I've had to qualify for,
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like you have until X date to say
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yes or no.
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Not just, hey, here's an open invite.
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If you decide to come the day before
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it starts, just let us know.
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We'll make spot for you.
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Like, I'm pretty sure that's not a thing.
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So that is a super,
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I'm super curious as far as that's
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concerned.
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Sorry, quarterfinals in Europe only.
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Online qualifiers are open worldwide.
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So yeah,
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so let's just make it even a little
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bit more confusing.
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Just add a little bit more stuff to
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the pot.
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I don't know, dude, that's odd.
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He took Roman's spot probably.
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It's not about that there wasn't a spot,
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but there's a backfill process that they
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just threw out the window to allow him
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to come.
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And again, Jeremy asked,
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can you blame them?
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No, I don't blame them.
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I don't blame French Throwdown for doing
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it.
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You have a draw that is coming to
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your event that will sell tickets.
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Sell tickets, get eyes on the stream,
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all of it.
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The champs coming to town.
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And in this wild west of a season
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that we have this year,
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you do what you need to do to
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survive.
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I had a great talk with Wilson Pak
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on Friday.
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And it's hard for these event
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coordinators.
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It's hard during this season of the invite
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process.
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Just filling the roster is hard.
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Making money is hard.
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Trying, not even making money,
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breaking even is hard.
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They're just in a really bad spot where
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they can't promote who's coming until last
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minute because of the way the invite
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processes are happening,
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whether it's blanket invite,
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quarterfinal invite.
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Qualifier, no.
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It's just impossible to narrow down your
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list of athletes until last minute.
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I do like what David said up there
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about the setup of the season.
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Setup of the season allows athletes to
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make it to the games who otherwise
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wouldn't if the top athletes don't travel.
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Well, in the Masters division, for sure.
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big time big time there's a lot of
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that going on but yeah and then what
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uh lito right there
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Personally, I'm buzzing.
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I get to see the champ compete.
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Not going to lie.
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But I get the frustrations of qualifying
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athletes who made the decision to go there
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based on who else was going.
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And now, surprise.
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Hey, by the way.
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Yeah, the champ's going to come here.
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Just, you know,
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just in case y'all were wondering.
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Just want to go ahead and let everybody
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know that the champ's not going to come
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here.
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So we're going to let him come here
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because he's the champ.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, go back.
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If we'd had these rules back then,
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like Matt could have gone anywhere he
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wanted to.
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Right.
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We kind of had those at in nineteen
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with that wild sanctional year.
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Where everybody I say everybody,
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I feel like the majority were also giving
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out prize money.
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So like you could go make some money
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if you qualified already.
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Cool.
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They'll just go down the list like Pat
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Vellner wasn't even real sure how he
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qualified that year.
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Because he was like,
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I think it was through the open,
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but then I also won Waterpalooza.
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And it was just, okay, this guy's here.
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He already qualified.
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Oh, you just won that.
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All right, so you're already qualified.
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So we need to move you from here
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to there.
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And then this guy's actually going to go
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now.
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Bro, it was a mess.
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I remember that vividly.
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Jeremy says he's injured, though.
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What do you think he's operating at,
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seventy five or eighty percent?
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I don't know.
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But what I do know is when he
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was talking about it on Boys Interrupted,
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he said,
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I've seen the workouts and I know it's
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not going to affect my groin like mayhem
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would have.
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So if he waited to make this decision
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until he saw the workouts,
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now we're talking even another level of
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like, what the hell?
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Right.
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I'm just going to wait and see.
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And then when they come out,
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I make my decision.
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Here's the thing, though.
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Like you said,
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the season is set up where he can
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do that.
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He can't.
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And if you're taking advantage of the
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rules,
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you're taking advantage of the rules.
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Yeah.
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Barry McOchner says it would be a fun
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event to watch.
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I don't disagree with you.
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I'm excited to tune into the French
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Snowdown now because you know Europe's
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going to bring some decent athletes.
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Jason's going to be there.
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Lito's going to be there.
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I'm going to watch.
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I think he's pulling a Tom Brady-Pats
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injury report.
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And if you weren't a football fan back
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in the day when Belichick was in his
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heyday,
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he got busted for not putting people on
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the injury report correctly.
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So he put everybody on the injury report.
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Yeah.
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Everybody's injured.
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It's fine.
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Yeah.
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This person has a, a Nick,
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this person has a sprain.
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This person's just tired.
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He playing the game.
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Right.
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You can look at injury report and go,
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I mean,
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technically everybody on this team has got
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something going on at some point.
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Some of the stuff they're going to
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address,
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some of the stuff you can play through,
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some of the stuff is legit.
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Let's put it all out there and see
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what happens.
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And then it makes it very hard to
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prepare for on the other end.
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I'm not mad at it.
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The right people will qualify.
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So let me pose this question to you
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because I've gone back and forth in my
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own head and I can't.
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I think the way,
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if you want the event organizers to be
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able to survive,
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we have to go back to assigning people
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to one event.
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Whether we call that regionals,
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whether we call that semifinals,
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whatever you want to call it,
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the event organizers are not going to
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survive unless that happens.
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But I've also said we have areas of
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the world that cannot compete.
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And if you go back to regional base,
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you're going to get people at the games
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that are guaranteed to finish thirtieth,
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twenty ninth.
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What's his name from South Africa that was
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like forty and made the games because he
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was Smith before Smith.
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Yeah.
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Before he popped.
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But he's physically in South Africa.
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Steroids and no steroids.
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And he was, what, thirty seven,
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thirty nine, something like that.
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The last time he made the games,
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it was something ridiculous like that
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before he actually before they finally got
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him.
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That's the kind of stuff you've got to
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run into.
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Right, so.
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If you if you need these event organizers
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to survive and to run your semifinals,
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you need to help them out.
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by setting the lineup early enough for
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them to promote.
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Ooh, Ortega.
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What if he doesn't punch his ticket in
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France?
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Ooh.
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So this goes back to we've removed all
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the drama.
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We've removed all the drama from the sport
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because he said it last night on Boys
22:19
Interrupted.
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If I don't qualify at the French,
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I will go to syndicate.
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I have a backup plan.
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Which is the third backup plan at this
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point.
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Right.
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It's the backup to the backup.
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Waterpalooza, he tried to buy his way in.
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Yep.
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Last minute.
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Because he liked the workouts.
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And he liked the prize money.
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Then signed up for Mayhem.
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Had to withdraw three days before.
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Now he's going to go to French.
22:54
But he's still got his registration down
22:56
here at Syndicate.
22:58
Just in case.
23:01
What fun is the qualification to the games
23:04
when you get to have this backup plan
23:06
down here?
23:08
The backup to the backup plan.
23:12
It just... Yeah, I don't like it.
23:14
It takes away from everything that is
23:16
great about sports.
23:21
Oh, this guy's here.
23:23
Oh, wait, no, he's also here.
23:24
Oh, wait, no, he's also here as well.
23:27
You didn't get that beforehand.
23:29
And Syndicate has a great rule that if
23:30
you qualify for the games,
23:31
you're no longer eligible to compete there
23:34
because they want the podium to be the
23:36
people that go to the games.
23:38
Thank you, Wilson Park, for making sense.
23:41
So like Anika Greer and Miley Wade
23:45
qualified out of Brazil,
23:48
they're on the roster.
23:49
They're no longer coming to syndicate.
23:53
They probably would want to anyway.
23:56
Next man up.
23:57
Well, no, once you point your ticket,
23:58
dude, that's it.
23:59
We locked in.
24:00
Games is up next.
24:01
There's nothing else to do.
24:02
Unless you're Colton Mertz,
24:03
who probably would go to every competition
24:05
they'd let him attend if they let him.
24:09
That's just who that dude is.
24:14
Yeah.
24:14
Lito said his three spots in France,
24:16
though.
24:17
I just don't see who are the three
24:19
people who are going to beat him,
24:20
I guess, even at his eighty percent.
24:25
The fear, Lito, is if that groin pops,
24:31
and he's no longer at eighty percent,
24:34
and if that happens on event one,
24:37
now you're stuck.
24:44
This season structure allows people to
24:47
take the path of leash resistance.
24:50
Because Jason can look at these workouts,
24:53
because everybody's not doing the same
24:54
workouts.
24:54
And he can look at these workouts and
24:56
go, and look, and more power to him.
24:57
I'm not faulting him for that.
24:59
I'm just saying,
24:59
or anybody that is taking whatever path
25:01
that they can get.
25:02
But you can look at those workouts and
25:04
go,
25:04
and then look at the field and go,
25:06
yeah,
25:07
I can come in top three on those,
25:09
even at eighty percent.
25:09
Whereas everybody did the same workouts.
25:13
You might have had it.
25:14
I did them a week later or a
25:15
week before anybody did.
25:17
But then you showed up,
25:19
and you did whatever you did.
25:20
And if you made it, cool.
25:21
If you didn't, Sam Briggs.
25:25
Yeah.
25:27
But Sam Briggs' story is legendary.
25:31
It's legendary because she didn't have a
25:34
backup plan.
25:35
That's what I'm saying.
25:36
It's all or nothing.
25:37
The Katrin David's daughter story of not
25:43
being able to do a rope climb
25:45
became the antithesis of,
25:49
I went from all the way down here
25:51
to CrossFit Games champion.
25:55
Yep.
25:55
You don't get that story with backup
25:58
plans.
25:59
No.
26:03
And I think it's...
26:08
It's okay if the champ doesn't make it
26:10
back to the games because this was his
26:13
only way that he can.
26:13
Like, it's all right.
26:15
Yeah,
26:15
the Sam Briggs is exactly the example.
26:18
She won in XIII,
26:20
didn't qualify out of regionals in XIV.
26:24
It happens.
26:27
And the games went on.
26:29
The games went on.
26:30
She is still a legend.
26:32
FYI.
26:33
She made it back.
26:34
Fifteen.
26:35
Sixteen.
26:36
Shit.
26:37
I said.
26:38
Seventeen.
26:39
Pretty sure.
26:40
At least.
26:40
Right.
26:40
I think she's probably going to come back
26:42
in twenty eight.
26:43
Just.
26:43
Would not surprise me in the least.
26:49
I saw her name on a roster somewhere.
26:50
I'd be like.
26:51
Yeah.
26:53
Yeah.
26:53
That makes sense.
26:56
Yeah.
26:57
So like,
26:59
so I go back to this question.
27:02
I truly, so I'm going to,
27:03
I'm going to put some parameters around
27:05
it.
27:07
If we go to a system where you
27:09
get one shot,
27:10
one opportunity and everything you ever
27:15
wanted and we,
27:17
do we want it regionally locked or you
27:22
get to pick one and,
27:25
I think if you get to pick one,
27:26
it's going to end up being regionally
27:28
locked.
27:29
Does that make sense?
27:31
Like, well, you know,
27:32
there's someone going,
27:33
I'm going to Africa.
27:34
I'm first up Africa.
27:36
Right.
27:39
But then you got to set.
27:40
Okay.
27:40
So then you got to get with all
27:41
those event organizers.
27:43
Hey man, look,
27:43
we're sending all of these out at the
27:44
same time.
27:48
And like you get however many days to
27:50
choose, choose wisely.
27:54
There's going to be a lot of frantic
27:55
phone calls in the middle of the night.
27:56
Be like, hey, man, where are you going?
27:58
Hey, man, where are you going?
27:59
Hey, man, where are you going?
28:00
I know the boys in the real estate
28:01
say that they don't necessarily take that
28:03
into account to a degree.
28:05
They do,
28:06
so they're not just beating up on each
28:07
other.
28:08
But I will guarantee you,
28:10
if you put all the invites out on
28:14
one day and you just tell the athletes,
28:16
hey, choose.
28:19
Choose wisely.
28:20
And let's see what happens.
28:22
That would cause a drama.
28:25
Or we do like two,
28:29
twenty-three semis where they were semi,
28:34
they were continent locked.
28:36
Yeah.
28:37
And then like the U.S.
28:40
told you which one in the U.S.
28:42
you're going to or North America.
28:44
Yeah.
28:46
There, whatever.
28:46
Yeah.
28:47
Right.
28:51
I'm kind of in the camp of,
28:56
even though I was against it back in
28:58
the day, going back to regionally locked,
29:02
I think that you get more fans coming
29:05
to see their local heroes in their local
29:10
area than you do with a choose wherever
29:17
you go.
29:19
Yeah,
29:19
you're going to get more butts in the
29:20
seats if it's regionally allowed.
29:21
Yep.
29:25
I would agree with that.
29:31
David Johnson,
29:32
I think they should let them travel but
29:34
limit it to one in person.
29:38
You get back to people having temporary
29:39
residence for the easier path.
29:41
No system is without flaws.
29:43
I'm okay with that flaw.
29:44
If you're willing to rent a house...
29:49
in a region that makes sense to you,
29:52
if it means that much to you to
29:57
circumvent the system, go to town.
30:00
If you wanted to rent a house in
30:02
Cookville, Tennessee,
30:04
because you feel like that's your best,
30:06
then hey, bro, go for it.
30:08
You know people wanted out of the East
30:10
there for a while.
30:14
I live in St.
30:14
Louis.
30:15
I'm on the West now.
30:19
No, no, no.
30:20
Hey, bro, technically, I'm in the West,
30:23
even though I'm on the east side of
30:25
the Mississippi River,
30:26
which makes zero sense whatsoever,
30:28
but okay.
30:31
You'd think that'd be a demarcation line.
30:34
It's not.
30:35
Jeremy says it wasn't broke,
30:36
but they decided to fix it anyway and
30:38
subsequently made it worse.
30:41
That is classic CrossFit HQ stuff.
30:46
Oh, Amanda.
30:47
I met Amanda this weekend.
30:48
Amanda's awesome.
30:53
Use how you're ranked after the opening
30:54
quarterfinals as priority for choosing.
30:57
Higher ranking chooses first.
31:00
Puts emphasis on doing well in both.
31:03
Make the open mean something.
31:05
I don't hate that.
31:06
Make the open mean something.
31:09
For the up-end, higher-end athletes,
31:11
make quarterfinals mean something.
31:13
Other than just a pay-per-view win.
31:17
Yep.
31:21
Good job, Andrew.
31:22
Just put your parents' address for the
31:24
West if you live in the East.
31:26
That was done, that's for sure.
31:28
But again,
31:30
if it means that much to you to
31:32
show residents somewhere else.
31:35
Yeah, if you're willing to spend,
31:38
I don't know if you've looked at rent
31:39
prices anywhere here recently,
31:41
but it ain't cheap.
31:43
It ain't cheap.
31:45
If you're willing to spend that amount of
31:46
money just to be able to say that
31:48
you live in Idaho, then hey, bro,
31:51
go for it so you can compete in
31:52
the West.
31:54
By all means, please do.
31:56
Even though you're still training at
31:57
Mayhem in Cookville or wherever.
32:01
By all means, please do.
32:02
Knock yourself out.
32:03
You're just throwing money away just to be
32:04
able to say you live in the West.
32:06
well i don't i don't think the east
32:08
is necessarily the best anymore no i'm
32:11
just like all like dylan james and justin
32:15
are all over there now on the west
32:17
side yep it's it'd be it'd be interesting
32:22
to see how it went regionally locked now
32:25
but again i'm gonna i don't hate andrew
32:26
stenn's idea not at all because it does
32:30
make the open matter then
32:35
so yeah one last thing before i get
32:41
back to my deluge of meetings today um
32:49
age group workouts are out and available
32:53
yes sir and at first glance i do
33:00
not hate these i i think they're very
33:04
entertaining
33:06
What always sucks to me is CrossFit seems
33:10
to do their – well, CrossFit wrote these.
33:13
I did get confirmation on that, right?
33:16
These are not Bob and Joe.
33:18
These are CrossFit.
33:21
These are the ones I want to watch.
33:25
That deadlift ladder looks freaking
33:27
awesome as a spectator sport.
33:30
Okay,
33:31
so I saw – Let's go through them
33:33
real quick.
33:34
Yeah, please.
33:36
So we have the first one is five
33:38
rounds of time, seven squats, snatches,
33:40
three rope climbs.
33:44
Second one is three rounds of twenty
33:47
lateral burpee box jump overs,
33:50
ten fifty foot shuttle runs,
33:52
then three rounds of one hundred double
33:55
unders, fifty foot handstand walk.
33:58
Handstand walk means nothing.
34:02
I like it, though, because it's there.
34:07
And I like the shuttle run in this
34:11
stage.
34:16
Sorry, my throat.
34:18
No, you're good.
34:21
Ten, fifty-foot shuttle runs.
34:24
So, three rounds.
34:25
So, sixty bucks.
34:29
Is the fifty-foot shuttle,
34:29
it's fifty-foot down and back or it's
34:31
fifty-foot down?
34:34
So,
34:34
like twenty-five feet down and back is
34:35
one?
34:37
I think it's probably twenty five feet
34:39
down and back.
34:43
But that's one hundred and fifty of those.
34:52
Three is a thousand meter row,
34:54
fifty thruster, chest to bar pull ups.
34:58
It's Jackie.
34:59
It's double Jackie.
35:02
I love it.
35:03
I'm not mad at it.
35:07
And then one deadlift every minute on the
35:10
minute until ten minutes.
35:13
And wherever you cannot lift the deadlift,
35:17
Max cleans for the tiebreak.
35:22
Oh, so the weights are set.
35:24
Yes.
35:26
Okay.
35:27
Yeah.
35:28
It's a big spreadsheet because all the
35:30
ages have different weights.
35:31
Of course they do.
35:35
Of course they do.
35:36
And then finally...
35:38
As many reps as possible in ten minutes,
35:40
a fifty foot dumbbell walking lunge,
35:43
and then two, four, six, eight, ten,
35:46
et cetera.
35:47
Strict handstand pushups.
35:52
That I do like.
35:54
I do.
35:55
I like it.
35:56
I think adding the squat to the snatch
35:59
makes that a more technical lift.
36:04
Oh, for the first one,
36:05
for the rope climb one?
36:06
Yeah.
36:07
I think that having strict handstand
36:10
push-ups and a handstand walk,
36:13
because I think it's unbroken for the
36:16
younger age groups, the handstand walk,
36:20
it just makes you think about it before
36:22
you do it each time.
36:26
But anyway, I don't hate these.
36:31
For Shanna, who can...
36:33
deadlift the ladder.
36:36
She said it's just a race to see
36:38
who can do as many cleans as possible.
36:42
I need to go see what the weights
36:43
are on the deadlift ladder for me because
36:45
let's see.
36:49
But Shana has a pretty good deadlift for
36:53
her age group.
36:56
Where are the semifinals?
37:01
interesting to ted's test deadlift and
37:03
strict handstand push-ups again since we
37:06
did those in quarterfinals but i'm not
37:08
here to complain about it i just do
37:10
what's written david johnson says last
37:14
weight is five hundred for you all for
37:18
us well that's my one rep here's the
37:23
thing like they tell you the increment
37:25
that you have to go up and they're
37:27
not
37:29
It's sometimes there's like big jumps.
37:33
Sometimes it's little jumps,
37:35
but you have to do ten deadlifts.
37:38
So even your one rep may be whatever.
37:42
How often do you deadlift one rep at
37:45
a heavier weight that many times in that
37:48
short time frame?
37:51
Not super often,
37:51
if I'm being completely honest.
37:53
Oh, wait, that's the wrong one.
37:56
Right.
37:56
Is that four?
38:04
Alito says I'm a really poor deadlifter
38:06
and I can lift the final bar.
38:07
It is very light.
38:10
I just think the compounding effect,
38:15
I'm anxious to hear after this is all
38:17
over,
38:19
what is said about having to do that
38:21
many heavier deadlifts that quickly
38:27
through this ladder.
38:28
Yeah.
38:29
Yeah.
38:32
see okay nope that's girls that's women
38:38
boys david jones there we go so three
38:40
sixty five three seventy five four five
38:42
four thirty five forty five fifty five
38:44
that's not terrible so david johnson says
38:51
this one would be amazing to watch in
38:53
a live setting because people would be
38:55
randomly failing and then running to clean
38:58
the bar
38:59
That is correct.
39:00
You never know who it's going to be.
39:04
That's correct.
39:05
You're going to have to have a hell
39:06
of a pit crew as well.
39:09
Yeah.
39:11
Adding weights, changing weights, whatnot.
39:13
That would be really fun to watch live.
39:15
He's absolutely correct because all of a
39:17
sudden, like you said, people are failing,
39:19
running around, trying to get to the bar.
39:21
Yeah.
39:23
A minute,
39:24
especially once you start getting those
39:25
super heavyweights,
39:27
that's not a whole lot of time to
39:28
change weight.
39:29
It just isn't.
39:30
Yeah.
39:34
See, I know for me,
39:36
my first rep sucks,
39:38
and then my other reps are pretty decent.
39:42
And so to force me to make it
39:43
a one rep every time would kill me.
39:49
And my back would be smoked.
39:52
towards the end of this ladder,
39:54
having to do that many lifts.
40:00
I'm looking at cows at CrossFit.
40:01
Just have eleven boars out.
40:05
Amanda says pit crew will be vital.
40:13
A lot of it is like ten pound
40:15
increases,
40:16
but there are a couple bigger jumps.
40:20
Most of the women is...
40:22
like just slapping stuff on yeah mine's
40:29
ten pounds thirty pounds three seventy
40:33
five to four or five thirty pounds ten
40:36
pounds ten pounds ten pounds ten pounds
40:41
ten pounds fifteen pounds I guess for
40:47
loading sake it probably in terrible
40:50
Imagine misloading the last bar and not
40:52
realizing it until afterwards.
40:55
Or one of the middle ones.
40:57
I think that would be worse.
40:59
Yeah.
41:00
Well,
41:00
because if it's one of the middle ones
41:02
and you don't realize it,
41:03
you just kind of keep going.
41:05
And then all of a sudden somebody's like,
41:07
I don't know if we loaded that more
41:09
correctly.
41:10
Like that's going to be, that could be,
41:12
that's a nightmare scenario.
41:13
Yeah.
41:26
Our friend Lana loved the deadlift
41:28
workout.
41:30
David Reed says,
41:31
the deadlift workout can be gamed.
41:33
If I knew I was at my limit,
41:36
I would go to the next round,
41:39
obviously not try the deadlift and recover
41:42
for the cleans.
41:45
What if you don't attempt the lift that
41:49
gives you an extra five seconds to clean?
41:54
ish and you have to have that bar
41:56
sitting to the side because it's a
41:58
different weight yeah of course you're not
42:02
going to clean it and it still needs
42:04
to be on camera yeah i'm late watching
42:10
from the beginning like share and
42:11
subscribe and uh congrats on the abadabado
42:15
yeah it took us a couple attempts but
42:20
it's fine we know where it's at now
42:21
it's cool
42:23
It was us hitting the yabba-dabba-doo
42:25
button.
42:26
It was like Dave Castro deadlifting.
42:30
We were almost there.
42:31
We were almost there.
42:33
And finally, after about thirty seconds,
42:34
we got there.
42:37
I will have that video burning in my
42:38
brain for the rest of my life.
42:47
You don't even have to attempt.
42:49
You can use the full sixty seconds for
42:50
cleans.
42:51
Yep.
42:58
Well,
42:58
I had a lot more planned than this.
43:01
Well, it'd be like that sometimes.
43:05
But I've got to get back to work.
43:08
You knuckleheads have to get back to work
43:10
too.
43:11
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44:02
I'm trying to find the Dave Castro
44:07
deadlift.
44:10
And you would think Google would just be
44:12
like, oh,
44:13
you need a Dave Castro deadlifting.
44:15
Got it.
44:15
Apparently he's hired someone to scrub.
44:25
Because I am not.
44:30
Nope, not there.
44:34
I was trying to do a quick for
44:35
you, Barry.
44:37
But struggling.
44:39
Yeah, I don't see it.
44:44
I don't see that one, I should say.
44:46
There's a bunch of videos of Dave Cash.
44:48
Oh, wait.
44:48
Huh.
44:48
That's odd.
45:04
Lipson and Kalipa.
45:07
Okay.
45:19
The fun part about this is that it's
45:22
taken almost as long to find it as
45:24
he did to actually deadlift it.
45:30
Oh, here we go.
45:30
Progenics.
45:43
Here we go.
45:52
I'm sorry, dude.
45:53
Drive, drive!
45:53
Nice, dude.
45:54
That ain't it.
45:54
That's not the one.
45:55
Yeah, that's PR.
45:58
Come on.
46:07
And here we go.
46:08
Woo!
46:32
Shout out to Dave's grip.
46:42
Shout out to Dave's grip,
46:44
to Dave's grip strength,
46:45
because like that was what?
46:46
Twenty four seconds of him with four
46:48
hundred sixty five pounds in his hands.
46:55
Wow.
46:57
Wow.
46:58
There it is.
47:01
And he doesn't even make the lift.
47:03
No.
47:04
Twenty four seconds of fighting.
47:06
And then finally, he was just like, yeah,
47:08
this ain't happening.
47:09
Grit determination drive.
47:11
Dave Castro.
47:13
Castro.
47:15
Castro.
47:15
Castro.
47:16
Castro.
47:17
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47:18
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