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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Anyone Pumped for the Winter Olympics? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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So the question of the day is,
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to smear or not to smear?
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Let's find out.
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I love the chase and the hunt,
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and I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want,
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and I always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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It's time to break up so I can
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make a better me.
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Eeeeee!
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Abba dabba doo!
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it's lunchtime what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunchtime with the cloudsdale i
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know that cowboy is here too we are
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here man we got people we got people
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competing to be in the chat today right
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paul king says he's first when i see
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third uh same um we got joseph ramirez
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we got frida we got craig we got
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mike devito
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My mind is all over the place this
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week.
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It's been like, you know,
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the Bears are really good,
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then the season ends and you go through
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this thing.
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And now, like,
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all they're talking about is the stadium
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and whether it's going to be in Indiana
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or Illinois.
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And it looks like it's all coming to
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a head at the end of this month.
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Basically,
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Illinois and Arlington Heights is the girl
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that you've been lusting after for like
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three years, right?
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Right.
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And you've been doing all the things and
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you bought her nice things and you bought
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three hundred acres of land and you've
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been talking nice and sweet to her and
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her mom and dad won't let her date
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you.
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And then this girl down south comes in
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and says, we got it all.
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We'll cook you every meal.
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We'll give you massages after work.
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We will rub your feet and you won't
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have to pay a thing.
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And you can keep that two billion dollars
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in your pocket that you were going to
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use to build the stadium.
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We'll build it for you and then just
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lease it to you for thirty five years
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and it'll become yours then.
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It's kind of hard to argue with,
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ain't it?
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It is.
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The Bears owners don't want to move to
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Indiana.
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Yeah, well, I imagine not.
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They're the Chicago Bears.
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But they basically told the Illinois
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legislator, there's one thing we need.
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We need to know what our taxes are
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going to be after we build this huge
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structure in your state.
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We just need to know what the taxes
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are.
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If you can tell us that by the
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end of the month,
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we're staying in Illinois.
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if you can't we're gonna go we're gonna
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go hang out with the other girl and
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it's utterly crazy yeah so and then the
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other thing i i actually watched part of
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the royal rumble for the first time in
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like probably twenty years right when i
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was a kid the royal rumble was the
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coolest event in wrestling
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Because you didn't know who was in it
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until they showed up every two minutes and
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showed up in the ring.
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And I remember as a kid, like, oh,
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my gosh, it's Coco Beware.
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Or, oh, my, you know,
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like the craziest wrestlers out of the.
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And so I watched the women's version and
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it was held in Saudi Arabia.
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So all the women had to wear full
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pants and full sleeve shirts.
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which is crazy but the then the stands
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what they thought was a cool thing they
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put an led light over every seat in
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the stadium and so when people came down
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like in the the screen went to who
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it was and and the light board all
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the seats lit up in the same colors
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and they like the whole arena
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for this really cool effect.
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But when they weren't on,
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they were this white thing.
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And when you looked at the stands,
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it looked like nobody was there.
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That's wild.
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Even though it was sold out,
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it looked like nobody was there at all.
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It was such a bad look on TV.
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And I'm thinking,
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so CrossFit's not the only one with the
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image issue when you're showing the stands
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empty.
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No, I would imagine not.
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I would imagine not.
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oh man that's all flown away for the
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weekend for coaches Congress and forgotten
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his slippers I'm so annoyed like my and
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now that I'm old right I'm in my
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fifties feet my feet being comfortable is
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like the most important thing on my body
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and I was just thinking to myself this
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morning I need a new set of slippers
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because I hate the ones I have
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I don't have slippers,
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but I am barefoot in my house from
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the time I get home until the time
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I wake up in the morning.
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No socks, no nothing.
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My feet need to be free.
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Now,
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walking around a hotel room with nothing
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on my feet, that ain't... No.
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That's questionable at best.
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Yeah.
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That's questionable at best.
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I usually, if I'm in a hotel room,
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I usually have, at the very least,
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like a pair of Hey Dudes on,
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just kind of moving around the room just
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because.
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It's a hotel room.
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Like,
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you want to know who was murdered there
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before you got there?
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Jake might be pregnant.
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Well, congratulations, man.
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Just had a baby.
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So, like,
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should be just about the right amount of
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time.
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Shay says slippers for life any time of
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the year.
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Mark Moss.
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I'm basically Rich Froning now.
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I've got the Vivo barefoot shoes.
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Vivo?
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Vivo?
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Vivo?
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Vivo?
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Vivo?
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Vivo.
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Vivo.
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Give me the Vivo barefoot shoes.
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Yeah.
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There's no way.
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I'm actually looking into purchasing some
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new slippers myself.
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You're looking into it?
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Like price shopping?
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I am not an impulse buy guy.
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Like,
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like i look like that that that lego
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rv of uh freaking bad right yeah i
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looked at that for three months before i
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purchased it as a matter of fact because
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uh my son bought his baby sister a
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lego uh the two girls from wicked and
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so the
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the Wicked Witch and the whatever her name
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is, Glinda,
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like a little set where you actually got
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to build them each.
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And she did that last night, dude,
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and was like all the way up in
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it.
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And she finished it right before she went
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to bed.
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And she was so proud of herself and
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whatnot.
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I said,
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there's somebody else who's all up into
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that kind of stuff.
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I'm Mark Phillips.
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I use the faux fur line Crocs.
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I can't tell if that makes me fancy
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or lame.
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Fancy.
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Yeah, I think I'd like those.
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Absolutely.
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I think that might be a solution.
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Mark likes the Vivo barefoot,
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but he had to use his kid's college
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fund to pay for them.
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Gosh,
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everything's so expensive these days.
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I'm tired of buying stuff.
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It's really fancy.
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She's got heated floors.
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Yeah,
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that's what I was like freaking out about.
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Heated floors.
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Man.
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Yeah, my in-laws,
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they've built all their own homes and they
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put like tubing into the floor.
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Yeah.
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And they pour it like the concrete.
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And then it has water that goes through
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it that they hook up to their wood
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burning stove.
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And then the steam goes through that hose.
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So all of their floors are warm.
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I would imagine that's got to heat up
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the whole house too.
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I mean, you can't not.
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Yeah.
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but that'd be nice walking on this nice,
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warm wooden floor.
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The wood burning stove part is kind of
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interesting.
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I was expecting to hear you say like
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a, a tankless water heater,
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but not wood burning stove.
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That's, that's a new one on me.
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Yeah.
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It's dude.
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They live in the nineteen thirties.
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Is that when it's.
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That is where they live.
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They, they use their flux capacitors.
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They went to nineteen thirty.
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They're all there.
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They live on.
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My brother-in-law is a milk farmer.
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It is truly like the middle of nowhere.
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Alrighty then.
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Jay Birch says he's been a member of
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this channel for thirty months.
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Almost three years, baby.
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Dude, that's awesome.
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You and Ken at The Lap were like
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the original two.
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Mark Moss said walk barefoot almost
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anywhere.
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Draw the line at Porter Potties.
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Yeah.
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No, thank you.
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Shea,
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heated floors are a necessity in Canada,
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especially in bathrooms.
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That's why I don't live in Canada.
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Same as Sweden.
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Sweden!
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I, uh...
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speaking of Canada, you know,
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we talked about,
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I talked about the other day how my
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high school had this gold shirt test and
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we compared it to the man test.
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Right.
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I've got so many responses from Canadians
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saying that that was a thing in their
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elementary schools that you would take
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this fitness test and you would,
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and you got like a gold,
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there was a gold standard,
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a blue standard, different things.
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And it really was motivating for kids and
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their fitness as they were growing up.
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Um,
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And I think that's been lost.
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I grew up in the eighties and we
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didn't do any of that through elementary
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or we had PE every day.
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Yeah.
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But we didn't have like a presidential or
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any of that,
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like any kind of standards or whatever.
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We just had PE and then you went
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on about your business or you played
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sports.
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There wasn't no...
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When we get back together,
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when I get back together with high school
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friends,
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we still talk about the gold test.
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Because one of them was you had to
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tread water for an hour to get the
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gold level.
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So you literally had to come in before
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school started and go in the school pool
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and you had to tread water for an
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hour.
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And once you achieve gold level at any
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of the tests,
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you never had to take that test again.
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They were like, you're good.
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And like the tread water one was a
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big one because like that,
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it was time consuming.
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Yeah.
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and uh i don't know if i could
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shed water for an hour today yeah i
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mean i was swimming then so like it
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it was not a bit even a thing
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for me right and literally all it is
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is you just can't touch the wall right
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or touch the floor if you do your
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time is done um so i mean i
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could even swim like little laps and not
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it was it wasn't hard for me but
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there were there were a lot of kids
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who couldn't even get like the five minute
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blue test right which was the lowest level
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i am not buoyant i don't float so
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like that probably we won't be working
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against me because i would have to be
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like actually treading water the whole
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time yeah jay birch if you actually like
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used a gator for buoyancy you were
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disqualified as well
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Oh,
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there was no pool at my school anyway.
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It was cool how many people responded that
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they had something similar.
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One person responded that they used the
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presidential physical fitness test and
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actually created fitness teams.
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At their school.
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So it looks like a,
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like a lot of that stuff was done
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early on.
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And then of course we talked to like
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to Carolyn's Monday night about she has a,
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she owns an affiliate at her school.
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Yeah.
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I remember that.
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And so like she teaches CrossFit as phys
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ed at her school.
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But the complication of that is like if
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you want people to get involved in the
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open and their March break is what they
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call spring break is right in the middle
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of the open.
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So she can't do it with her kids
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because she loses them for a week.
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Yeah, that sucks.
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Yeah.
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But I would say the benefits far outweigh
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the fact that they can't do the open.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But it would be cool to get people,
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kids at that age to sign up for
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the open and become like,
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this is the thing you do every year
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at fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.
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And then they do that for the rest
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of their lives.
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Right.
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Get them in early.
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Get them in early, get them in young,
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get them fit, baby.
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Get them building habits, man,
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because that's the biggest thing I try to
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instill in people all the time,
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especially new people that come up and
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they do a workout and they feel good
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or whatever.
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It's a couple months in,
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they're slogging through because they want
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to be able to do more stuff.
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They want to go farther.
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They want to go faster.
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Hey, man, keep showing up.
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Keep showing up.
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The number one habit you need to have
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is to show up to this place once
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a day for an hour,
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and I guarantee you it's going to pay
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off.
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Yeah,
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I think the hardest thing for me is
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I was in a sport every season.
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All four seasons I played a sport.
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And when I graduated and then I swam
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in college briefly, and then I quit that,
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I didn't know how to just train.
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I only knew how to train for something.
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And so like, I just didn't know,
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I didn't know what to do.
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So when all that was over,
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like I was lost.
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I would go to the gym and I
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would hop on a treadmill and I would,
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but I didn't really know what I was
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doing because I trained differently for
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football than I did for swimming.
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Like football was high weights, low reps.
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Swimming was low weights, high reps.
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So my whole like thing was discombobulated
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when I was done and I didn't know
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where to go.
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And there was no CrossFit in nineteen
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eighty nine.
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No, sir.
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So I didn't have a gym to go
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to to like teach me this is how
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this is how you train at all.
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Right.
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Right.
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No,
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and even global gyms back then were still
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people just in there doing back buys and
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tries.
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I mean, it was bodybuilding type shit,
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right?
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Yeah,
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I was doing the treadmill or the
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elliptical or the stairmaster,
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and then I would hop on the bench.
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I probably avoided squats at the time.
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Maybe do some curls.
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Curls for the girls, baby.
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You know how I'm saying it is how
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willy-nilly I went about it.
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Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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Dude, before I started CrossFit,
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when I was at a global gym,
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I would literally go in,
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I would run maybe two miles or so
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on a treadmill, I guess,
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just to get myself going.
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And then I would literally go and see
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what machines were open and I would go
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do whatever those were.
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And then I would make some stuff up
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and then I would go to work.
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Jay Birch says it was called hauling hay
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and digging post holes, not crock.
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See, I did that for a summer too.
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Like, but, but I don't,
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I didn't look at that as training.
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Right.
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And then I moved to college and then
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I really had no clue.
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Like you have access to this really nice
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facility in this gym,
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but what do I do there?
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yeah a lot of the kids dude lsu
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has a ridiculous student center like a
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fitness center there's a they don't call
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it a lazy river but it's a lazy
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river outside spells out lsu right you can
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get in and in like to spend time
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outside whatnot the the workout facility
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inside is world-class
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period like anything you can imagine
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there's a functional fitness space i know
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it's my son goes there right and like
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how many people use it and he was
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like very very few and it's because they
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have no idea what to do like they
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got all this stuff there and it's shiny
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and it's brand new and whatnot but very
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few of them go in there with any
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kind of because there's no guidance
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they're just like here's the keys go for
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it do whatever you want
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Well,
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let's get into some of the topics of
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the day.
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Yesterday at the end of the show,
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we bled over into the CrossFit Games
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podcast, sport of fitness podcast.
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And so at that,
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they actually announced who was doing
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twenty six point one.
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So let's show that this is on the
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game's Instagram channel.
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If you did not see it.
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The CrossFit Games Open starts now.
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So that is who is doing twenty six
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point one.
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Any initial thoughts on that?
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Never bet against Colton Mertens.
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Actually,
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my initial thoughts was that it was very
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well produced.
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I like the graphics.
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I like the top gun looking graphics and
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whatnot.
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The whole thing was very,
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very slickly put together,
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but never bet against Colton Mertens would
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be my first,
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especially on the first workout for the
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Open.
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Because you know it's going to be more
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than likely going to be some sort of
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motor test,
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probably going to have some burpees in it,
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something along those lines,
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and
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i'm not betting against him i wouldn't
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there's no way so here was my initial
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thought they got all the trash talkers in
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one building at one time for the first
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opening holy smokes yes alan pepper has
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been calling out austin hatfield left and
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right in the last few weeks if you
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did not see his five favorite people to
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compete with and five people he hates to
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compete with um
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He calls out Austin Hatfield hard, right?
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Jason and Dallin have been ripping on each
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other nonstop for two years.
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For two years now, yeah.
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Colton shreds everybody equally all over
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the place, right?
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And Austin talks trash too.
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The problem is Austin hasn't backed it up
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yet.
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colton comes out there and says these
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nerds knew i was fixing to come out
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there and they were everybody else was
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competing for second place like he says
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that on camera well i don't know if
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i think he said like um i hope
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you believe in god because or it was
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something like he gave you a nightmare
19:48
week one by pitting you against me or
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something like it something to that effect
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um
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It's completely insane,
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and I think it is what we need
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to lean into if you want the sport
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to grow.
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We've talked about that on this show a
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ton.
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The trash talk, smack talk,
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the rivalries are important to the sport.
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And Dallin has figured that out by his
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call-outs and his...
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Dallin has upped his game.
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Five hundred percent.
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In the last two months.
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On his YouTube channel.
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This is what I made.
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This is how I made it.
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This is who I like.
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This is who I don't like.
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And it's all done with like a comedic
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element.
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That makes it lovable.
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Instead of.
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Yeah.
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That you're like this guy's a dick.
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It feels authentic.
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Right.
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It feels like he's just being himself.
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Like.
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And I would.
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Yeah.
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venture to say that it probably has a
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whole lot to do with his wife,
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who was actually in charge of his social
20:54
media, telling him probably what to say,
20:58
but not necessarily how to say it.
21:00
Like, hey,
21:01
this is what we're going to do.
21:02
And he just buys in and it's working.
21:05
it's freaking awesome.
21:07
And Jason has been great with the, like,
21:10
Hey, get out of my DMS,
21:12
that whole bit, get out off my feed,
21:15
that whole bit.
21:16
Um, Jay says,
21:17
Austin is not a good trash talker.
21:20
He's just a smart ass.
21:23
Yeah.
21:23
And I, and you know,
21:26
Dallin called him out in the last video.
21:28
Like he just repeats movie lines.
21:31
Um,
21:33
And he showed like,
21:34
he shows the movie line,
21:35
then Austin saying it.
21:37
And it's, you have to see it.
21:40
It's done really, really well.
21:43
Again.
21:44
Good.
21:46
Uh,
21:46
Frida said that looked like they went for
21:48
the eighties superhero comic book.
21:49
Look, everybody's copying off me for it.
21:52
I know.
21:52
Well, here's the thing.
21:55
So like everything old is new again,
21:58
right?
21:58
Everything comes in cyclical cycles, blah,
22:00
blah, whatever.
22:02
Um,
22:04
You just watched the Wrecking Crew movie.
22:07
What did you say he gave you?
22:12
The new Running Man.
22:13
Have you seen it?
22:14
Yep.
22:15
same thing right like super ridiculous
22:18
over-the-top action one-liners everybody's
22:23
cussing the entire time just like it was
22:26
in you know nineteen eighty five whatever
22:29
so if we're leaning into all of that
22:31
and we're getting like that was a great
22:32
time a fun time for like any kind
22:36
of media stuff and whatnot like it was
22:38
good entertaining stuff and if that's what
22:40
we're kind of leaning into as far as
22:41
this kind of stuff is concerned then good
22:43
because holy smokes
22:46
it's fun and it's entertaining and it's
22:48
going to capture people's imagination and
22:50
make them want to kind of pay attention
22:51
more because, because of that.
22:54
Yeah.
22:55
I agree.
22:55
I agree.
22:56
I,
22:58
I wanted to get your take on the
22:59
running man, but Jay Birch is asking me,
23:01
don't spoil anything.
23:02
So that's fine.
23:04
So we'll talk about this.
23:05
I enjoyed the shit out of it.
23:08
I did too, but I felt like,
23:10
so my wife and I watched it together.
23:12
I remember vividly the original.
23:14
Oh yeah.
23:15
Same.
23:15
She does not.
23:17
And so I knew like the differences between
23:19
the two and there were some things I
23:21
liked in the original better than I liked
23:22
in the new one.
23:23
And some things I liked in the new
23:24
one better than the original.
23:26
And, but I still enjoyed both very,
23:28
very much.
23:29
They're two very, very similar,
23:31
but very different movies.
23:33
she was very like, I don't,
23:37
I don't get this or I don't get
23:39
that.
23:40
And, and so because I saw the original,
23:43
I, I could fill in the blanks better.
23:45
I think if that makes sense, I don't.
23:48
Sure.
23:50
And that's the only reason I could think
23:51
like that.
23:51
I,
23:52
I got it and she didn't because she
23:53
didn't remember the original.
23:55
I mean, it's a,
23:57
it's a great Arnold Schwarzenegger.
23:59
one liner machine.
24:02
There's a ton of them in there to
24:04
watch.
24:04
And like, it's entertaining.
24:07
The one thing I will say was way
24:08
better in the original was Richard Dawson
24:10
as a game show host was way better.
24:13
You were never going to top that.
24:15
No,
24:16
never ever going to top that one because
24:17
he really was a game show host.
24:19
Correct.
24:20
And he just like, he went.
24:22
Ten times of what his,
24:24
what his persona was on TV.
24:26
Right.
24:26
And he just from the family feud to
24:28
like,
24:30
taken to its logical conclusion.
24:31
If that somebody like had that much power,
24:35
he just went all the way there.
24:36
I will say this,
24:37
the dude that they got,
24:38
who's hosting it now,
24:40
I think he did a fantastic job.
24:42
He really did,
24:42
but he is no Richard Dawson and he
24:44
never will be.
24:44
But he was an actor playing a game
24:47
show host.
24:48
Correct.
24:48
That's what I'm saying.
24:49
Richard Dawson was a game show host
24:50
playing himself.
24:51
Playing a game show host.
24:52
Right.
24:55
But no, I, whatever I said,
24:56
I enjoyed the shout out of it.
24:58
I'm going to watch it again.
25:01
And Jay Burch,
25:01
just to demonstrate how old he is,
25:03
he liked Richard Dawson and Hogan's
25:05
Heroes.
25:05
We all did.
25:06
We all did Jay Burch.
25:12
So that is the opening twenty six point
25:14
one.
25:14
I think that's great.
25:15
I think we're off to a great start.
25:17
I think that's a great way to kick
25:18
it off.
25:19
And I think that the the vibe on
25:21
that reel is it is sponsored by the
25:23
Air National Guard.
25:24
It gives it that top gun feel.
25:27
They're trying to, you know,
25:29
lean into that, which is cool with me.
25:30
Yeah.
25:31
To play it, play it up.
25:34
So then when we came on live,
25:37
I said to smear or not to smear.
25:39
Oh, yeah, we did.
25:40
We're going to talk about this,
25:41
and as we go through it,
25:42
I'll decide whether it becomes smear or no
25:44
smear.
25:46
But the WFP announced more signings
25:48
yesterday.
25:49
Oh, okay.
25:50
I don't know if you saw that.
25:51
I did not.
25:53
And so on their Instagram,
25:56
they – here it is.
25:59
There's BKG.
26:02
Chris Ibarra, Ty Jenkins, Enola Kai,
26:06
and Tudor Magda.
26:08
And those are added to the original group,
26:12
which was Pat Vellner, Nate Ackerman,
26:15
Jennifer Muir, Jack Farlow, Emily Rolfe,
26:17
Yellow Hosta,
26:20
Travis Mayer, Lydia Fish,
26:21
Roman Krennikoff, Emmett Tull,
26:23
Andreas Olberg, Sydney McElishan,
26:27
Oda Lundvinkum, Guy Mejeros,
26:30
and Chandler Smith.
26:33
So what I wanted to do is show
26:38
the leaderboard and see where the holes
26:40
are.
26:41
Because when they're announced on
26:42
Instagram, you can see who signed,
26:45
but we don't know who isn't signing.
26:47
Right.
26:48
Right?
26:49
And I'm sure there are more that have
26:50
signed we don't know about yet because
26:52
James has said he's doing it and he
26:54
did not appear on that Instagram post.
26:57
Right?
26:58
So here's the WFP leaderboard from the end
27:01
of the tour season last year.
27:04
James says he's doing it,
27:05
but then we have Dallin Pepper,
27:06
Ricky Garrard,
27:07
Justin Medeiros not on the list.
27:11
Then you have Roman and Guy and Tudor
27:13
and Chandler.
27:14
They're all there.
27:15
Yona was not.
27:17
We have Nolikai and Jack, they signed.
27:20
Mertens, not on the list yet.
27:25
Hosta, Vellner, and Mayer signed.
27:27
And then we have Adler,
27:28
not on the list.
27:30
Ty Jenkins on the list.
27:32
BKG on the list.
27:33
Ibera on the list.
27:34
And Ackerman on the list.
27:36
So when you get down into this like
27:38
ten through twenty,
27:39
it's most of them have signed.
27:43
But up at the top is where we're
27:45
missing some people.
27:47
And we don't know how they're going to
27:48
handle that.
27:49
They haven't announced if Dallin says no,
27:52
does Ricky move up to two?
27:55
And does he get the number two money?
27:59
Excellent question.
28:00
Vice versa, right?
28:01
Or do you have twenty and if only
28:04
fifteen sign,
28:06
then the other five positions don't go to
28:08
anyone and the money just goes back in
28:10
the pot?
28:12
I would like to know what their
28:13
contingency plan is.
28:16
Be honest with you, just out of curiosity.
28:18
Cause I have no,
28:20
like I have no dog in this fight
28:21
whatsoever,
28:24
but I would like to know what their
28:25
contingency plan is just to see if they
28:27
actually even have one or if they just
28:28
flying by the seat of their pants at
28:29
this point,
28:30
because I don't think they were expecting
28:32
that many people to not re up.
28:35
So the women's side is worse.
28:39
So when we look at the women's side,
28:40
we have no Laura, no Amy, no Emma,
28:42
no Lucy, no Ariel.
28:44
Right.
28:45
Emmett tall is the first sign.
28:48
Brooke Wells retired Olivia curse date or
28:53
no Sydney Wells.
28:54
No Anika Greer.
28:55
No.
28:57
So it's Emmett tall.
28:58
And then the next person is Andrea Solberg
29:00
at eleven.
29:03
It's two out of two,
29:05
two out of eleven so far.
29:07
And then Lydia Fish is signed.
29:08
Sydney McElishan is signed.
29:09
Emily Rolfe is signed.
29:11
Danny Spiegel is not on the list.
29:14
Hannah Black is not on the list.
29:17
Mano Ankeny is not on the list.
29:20
And then you have Jennifer Muir,
29:21
Oda and Ella Wilkinson is not on the
29:24
list.
29:27
So it is really bare bones who is
29:29
signed on the women's side.
29:35
What was their timeframe?
29:38
When we were live last week,
29:39
someone was in the chat and said they
29:41
had a ten-day window.
29:44
It has been more than ten days.
29:47
Ten business days?
29:48
Again,
29:49
they could change the rules and us not
29:51
know and give more time or more...
29:55
I was watching the spin this morning and
29:58
Patrick Clark was in the comments saying
30:00
that some of the people...
30:02
have officially declined,
30:04
but was not giving any more answers than
30:07
that, that I could see.
30:09
He's probably not allowed to,
30:11
so I can't blame him for that.
30:13
I'm just wondering, like, what's the,
30:14
like you said,
30:15
what's the contingency plan?
30:16
Because out of the people you just
30:19
mentioned on the female side,
30:20
there's only like, what, seven of them,
30:23
six or seven, six or seven, one, two,
30:27
three, four, five, six, seven, seven.
30:33
That's not a lot of and there's no
30:37
competitive vision anymore.
30:39
And yet you're going to fill a person
30:41
roster for every event.
30:47
That's a lot.
30:48
It that's impressive.
30:50
With what you're seeing at this point.
30:52
Now,
30:52
maybe we're jumping the gun and most of
30:56
these people end up signing,
30:58
but I don't think that's the case.
31:00
I think there is going to be a
31:01
significant group that decide not to do
31:04
it.
31:04
You can only go off of the information
31:06
that you have, right?
31:07
And the information that we have right
31:09
now, it doesn't look great.
31:12
it doesn't look great and how do you
31:14
determine like you just keep going down
31:15
the list they didn't go with fifty before
31:19
right how many was it thirty and twenty
31:21
so thirty pros twenty competitors
31:24
basically what they're saying is we're
31:26
gonna call you all pros now you all
31:28
get to compete for the same points um
31:32
so even if so that's fifty in and
31:34
of itself you still lost
31:38
Let's say it window shuts right now.
31:42
You got seven women that have signed.
31:46
Seven out of you.
31:47
So you still got forty three that haven't
31:51
obviously.
31:52
Right.
31:52
And you can send out the rest of
31:54
those invites yet.
31:56
Doesn't leave a whole lot of people.
32:00
No, like, and remember, Torch Top One,
32:03
if you made it to Copenhagen,
32:04
you get a free invite.
32:05
Right.
32:06
So you don't have to do the qualifier.
32:09
And they have five wild cards.
32:11
But if only seven of twenty have signed,
32:14
that's thirteen open spots they have to
32:16
backfill.
32:18
So you add the ten from Copenhagen,
32:20
now you're still only at seventeen.
32:24
And you have to get to fifty?
32:28
How many people actually signed up for the
32:29
qualifier?
32:31
I don't think they've even opened it yet.
32:34
Because I don't think we know.
32:36
We don't know who doesn't need to do
32:38
the qualifier.
32:39
Man.
32:39
I hope they get it together.
32:46
I mean, again,
32:47
like we have said a million times,
32:48
nobody wants to see them fail.
32:50
It's just very curious to watch.
32:54
Frida says,
32:54
I would not be surprised if Otis signs.
32:56
She did sign.
32:57
She is one of the signed athletes.
33:00
She is one of the seven.
33:05
But it's crazy.
33:07
And to be honest,
33:08
I was thinking about this.
33:09
If I'm Sidney McAlishan and I've been
33:14
borderline making the games or not and
33:16
I've got guaranteed money,
33:18
damn right I'm signing.
33:22
Well, wouldn't you?
33:25
This would pay for my season.
33:27
And I get to go to these events
33:29
for free.
33:29
They pay my money because I'm a signed
33:31
athlete now.
33:33
Like, why wouldn't I?
33:34
If I'm Lydia Fish or Sydney McElishan,
33:37
and it's Hannah Black,
33:39
it's iffy if I make the season or
33:41
not.
33:42
And it's a good way to compete against
33:46
high-level competition,
33:47
so you're going to get some more
33:48
competition experience under your belt.
33:50
Like, it's a win-win.
33:51
Right.
33:52
Especially for those fringe athletes.
33:54
Like,
33:54
let's go and see what you can do.
33:57
Those are the people that probably need to
34:00
sign.
34:00
Should sign, yeah.
34:02
Right.
34:03
Now, if you're a top-ten games athlete,
34:06
you've got choices.
34:07
Like, I respect James.
34:09
He's going to sign up and take the
34:10
hundred grand, guaranteed hundred grand,
34:12
and fit it into a schedule.
34:15
But a lot of athletes don't want to
34:17
fit it in.
34:18
They just want to concentrate on what they
34:19
want to concentrate on.
34:20
They want to train for what they train
34:22
for.
34:22
James can take that,
34:23
get the guaranteed hundred,
34:25
and then if he does great, good.
34:29
If he doesn't,
34:29
he can't lose at that point.
34:32
The only way he can lose is if
34:34
he gets hurt doing one of the events
34:38
and it's bad enough where he can't compete
34:39
in game season because ultimately he wants
34:41
to win the games.
34:44
Will is heading to do a podcast with
34:45
Rich,
34:45
so maybe Will can answer some of those
34:47
questions.
34:48
Yeah,
34:49
I'm not optimistic of him answering
34:51
anything clearly enough so that we
34:53
understand at this point.
34:55
I'm sorry.
34:57
Maybe he won't be chewing gum this time.
34:59
Here's the smear campaign.
35:00
I should set an alarm.
35:03
When you surround yourself with yes-men...
35:07
That's why all this stuff goes out without
35:09
being double-checked,
35:11
without being corrected,
35:13
like the drug thing.
35:16
There should be somebody there that is
35:19
like the people you are calling the smear
35:22
campaign.
35:23
You should hire one of them to tell
35:26
you before it goes out to the public
35:28
what the hell you've done wrong.
35:30
Yeah.
35:30
Hey, man, this doesn't look great.
35:34
But I heard directly from people that were
35:38
initially working for WFP when they gave
35:41
feedback were let go.
35:45
Which is a... When you do that,
35:49
you're setting yourself up for this shit.
35:51
A hundred percent.
35:52
Because you can't see the forest for the
35:54
trees because you think you're doing
35:56
everything right and you have nobody to
35:58
double check your work.
36:01
Because I...
36:03
I'm doing Monster Games qualifiers right
36:05
now.
36:05
Before I send my videos and, like,
36:08
upload them to Competition Corner,
36:09
I go back and look at them because
36:12
I am my own check at this point.
36:14
If I have any questions,
36:15
I get somebody else to look at them
36:17
for me.
36:18
Hey, man,
36:18
can you take a look at this and
36:19
tell me if you think, like,
36:20
these reps look clean or whatever before I
36:23
upload this?
36:24
And that's just little me trying to make
36:27
a –
36:28
fairly decent sized competition as a
36:31
master's athlete.
36:32
I'm not trying to put on this thing
36:34
where we're giving away millions of
36:35
dollars.
36:40
That's the problem that most people make
36:42
when they start a business.
36:43
They start it with all their friends and
36:45
all the people that agree with them on
36:46
everything.
36:48
You need to have naysayers in the room
36:52
that are willing to step up and tell
36:55
you, hey, let's look at this again.
37:00
Maybe we need to go in a different
37:01
direction.
37:03
Did you double check?
37:04
Last year we had this PR nightmare with
37:07
cannabinoids.
37:09
Before we put out the rule book,
37:11
let's get that shit fixed.
37:14
Just make a checklist.
37:15
Hey,
37:16
what were the major talking points of last
37:18
year?
37:19
cannabinoids, equipment failures,
37:23
information questions, right?
37:25
And stuff that's going on to the public.
37:26
Okay, cool.
37:27
Did we address those things?
37:30
Yes, no, maybe.
37:31
Okay, what do we need?
37:33
Let me make a flowchart.
37:34
It really wouldn't be that hard to do.
37:38
I just don't understand it.
37:39
David Reed asks or says,
37:41
is it a win if it impacts your
37:42
pursuit of being the fittest on earth?
37:45
It's a win for those people who are
37:47
not ready to be the fittest on earth.
37:49
Correct.
37:50
Fringe athletes.
37:51
There are a group of athletes who are
37:54
borderline games athletes.
37:57
That are your twenty to thirty place
37:59
finishers at the games who are trying to
38:01
get more competitive experience,
38:03
who are trying to develop themselves into
38:06
somebody who can compete.
38:09
You get to do it on somebody else's
38:10
dime if you can get one of these
38:12
pro cards.
38:17
And it's pretty decent competition.
38:19
You can learn your game and you don't
38:21
have to worry about finding money to pay
38:24
for everything.
38:25
And a lot of these level athletes aren't
38:27
getting the sponsorships that a Dallin
38:30
Pepper or an Emma Lawson are getting and
38:34
can fund themselves through the season.
38:36
They need help.
38:37
And this is a way for them to
38:39
do it and not have to worry about
38:42
the financial aspect of the season.
38:45
But you have to be realistic and look
38:46
in the mirror and say,
38:47
I need a year of development before I
38:50
can go for this big goal.
38:53
And it doesn't mean you don't do the
38:54
open.
38:55
It doesn't mean you don't try to compete
38:57
and get to the games.
38:59
It just means that you know that there's
39:01
some development that you need in your
39:03
game.
39:04
And so you're going to take some time
39:06
to look at that.
39:08
It's an opportunity that they're literally
39:11
handing to you.
39:12
And if you look at it from the
39:13
right perspective and go,
39:15
I can take these people's money,
39:17
let them get me to the competition,
39:21
compete at the competition,
39:23
pay me for being there.
39:26
And then I got more experience.
39:28
There's money in my pocket.
39:29
That's one less thing I have to worry
39:30
about trying to get a sponsor,
39:31
trying to book plane tickets,
39:33
all this other nonsense.
39:34
It takes some stuff off of their plate.
39:36
And like you said,
39:37
especially the people who are hungry,
39:42
who are trying to make those game spots.
39:44
You make it or you don't, right?
39:46
But if you don't,
39:47
you still have opportunities to compete at
39:48
a high level.
39:50
And they're paying you for it.
39:51
They're flying you to these places.
39:52
As long as you wear a WFP shirt,
39:54
you can fly wherever you want to go.
39:57
Well,
39:59
the pro card athletes don't even have to
40:00
wear anything on their flight, right?
40:03
They've earned that as part of their pro
40:05
card.
40:07
Chetanufi,
40:08
that's a culture problem where dissenters
40:09
are not only discouraged,
40:11
they're silenced by firing them.
40:13
No one's speaking up now.
40:16
And that is, I think,
40:17
the biggest flaw that the WFP has right
40:19
now.
40:20
They have nobody to check them before they
40:24
release the stuff.
40:25
Yeah.
40:27
Because it was a group of people that
40:29
were mad as hell and they were going
40:32
to take on CrossFit and they were going
40:34
to create something new,
40:35
something they always thought would be
40:37
better.
40:39
And that group of people all thought the
40:40
same way.
40:41
They didn't bring anybody with them that
40:44
might be a dissenter.
40:48
The problem is that's when you make a
40:50
decision based off of emotion instead of
40:52
logic, right?
40:54
Because the rage, the anger,
40:57
the whatever that you had is eventually
40:59
going to fade.
41:00
You can't hold on to that forever because
41:01
it's going to poison you.
41:02
And then you're left with whatever you're
41:04
left with.
41:04
And now you're just making decisions based
41:06
off of what?
41:07
Because you have no other,
41:09
you're in an echo chamber.
41:10
If you fire the people that tell you,
41:12
hey, man,
41:12
this is probably not a good idea.
41:14
And here's why.
41:15
And they're just presenting it to you.
41:17
They're not saying you're an idiot and
41:18
this is why.
41:19
They're saying, hey, man, look,
41:21
this needs to be fixed.
41:25
And you go, no, it doesn't.
41:26
And you just run them off.
41:28
Then you're setting a standard for
41:29
everybody else that works there.
41:31
Because they go, well,
41:32
they just fired Scott because he told him
41:34
it probably wasn't a good idea to do
41:36
X, Y, Z. Well,
41:38
I'm not going to say anything.
41:39
I'm going to go ahead and hold on
41:40
to my money at that point.
41:43
You know, hold on to my job.
41:45
I want to keep working here and kind
41:46
of see where it goes.
41:48
Ride this ship all the way to the
41:50
bottom.
41:50
You know, I don't understand it.
41:58
Jenny says,
41:58
we'll study change the drug policy back in
42:00
March,
42:00
but it took almost a year to actually
42:01
update the drug policy.
42:03
And when spin points it out, it's crazy.
42:07
Yeah.
42:08
Listen,
42:08
I tried to defend them last year when
42:10
it came out because the organization I
42:13
work for the document always lags the
42:16
policy for a month, two months,
42:21
six months.
42:22
Right.
42:24
It's just where I work.
42:25
I work for government.
42:26
Everything takes forever to update.
42:28
But when a full year comes and you
42:30
put out the new rule book and you
42:32
don't go one, it was your,
42:34
one of your biggest PR nightmares from the
42:36
year before.
42:38
Why nobody went in and said, Hey,
42:40
did we,
42:41
did we get that shit fixed before we
42:43
put it out?
42:45
That's what's ridiculous.
42:46
That's what I just cannot.
42:48
I cannot fathom.
42:49
Yeah.
42:55
Ah, Frida, true.
42:57
Just reacting to stuff will never work
42:58
when you are in a leading position.
43:02
The minute they got called out because the
43:04
paperwork wasn't updated,
43:06
they should have had someone in there
43:07
fixing that document.
43:11
I can edit a Word document.
43:12
Doesn't happen again.
43:16
I know how to edit a Word document.
43:18
I'm just throwing that out there.
43:20
Well, it's a Google document,
43:23
which is even crazier because it's online
43:26
and it shows when updates are made.
43:30
It's the old saying, like, fool me once,
43:32
shame on me.
43:33
Fool me twice, shame on you.
43:35
Anybody who's buying into this still,
43:38
shame on you because they're showing that
43:41
they're making the same mistake over and
43:44
over and over.
43:46
They're not even correcting the mistakes
43:48
they made last year.
43:53
And then we get a correction.
43:54
Twenty four hours later.
43:57
Why did it take twenty four hours to
44:00
delete a line?
44:03
It went out wrong and you knew it.
44:05
It should have been done in five minutes.
44:08
It was deleting a line out of the
44:10
rule book.
44:14
Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete.
44:16
It's not hard.
44:20
And then you just move on.
44:22
You save that.
44:23
Now it is deleted.
44:25
It's your IT tip of the day, folks.
44:28
Save that.
44:28
Now it is deleted.
44:30
And now you have an updated document.
44:32
And you're good.
44:33
Press release.
44:35
And you say correction at the top.
44:38
We removed cannabinoids from the drug
44:41
list.
44:42
Done.
44:46
Taken care of.
44:48
Taken care of.
44:51
It takes three seconds.
44:52
Exactly.
44:53
Joseph Ramirez,
44:54
highlight delete is a complicated task.
44:59
Again,
44:59
it all comes down to your surrounding
45:01
yourself with like-minded people and all
45:06
yes men.
45:08
And because of that, yes men, yes women,
45:12
it's not gender specific.
45:15
It is,
45:16
but you're surrounding yourself with all
45:19
the same thought.
45:21
And because you're in that same thought,
45:25
nobody can call each other out.
45:28
And because of that,
45:29
you're making the same effing mistakes you
45:32
made last year.
45:36
the uh what's it what's the quote the
45:38
definition of insanity is doing the exact
45:41
same thing over and over again and
45:43
expecting different results yeah yeah all
45:44
right deep breath yeah so i guess we
45:53
went smear instead of not smear all right
46:03
I read some bad news today.
46:05
If you're a feast of coffee fan.
46:08
Oh, so I wanted to share this.
46:10
I just came out this morning.
46:12
I think she wrote a post on Instagram
46:16
saying she hated to share this,
46:18
but she is not doing the twenty twenty
46:20
six CrossFit game season because she is
46:24
injured.
46:26
If you watched Copenhagen in the WFP,
46:30
she was unable to do some of the
46:31
events.
46:32
It was due to,
46:33
I'm going to go to the injury
46:36
specifically.
46:37
Start right there.
46:41
Well, this is talking about the WFP.
46:44
The injury was a great decision,
46:48
so I decided to compete.
46:50
MRI revealed a partial thickness tear of
46:53
the supraspinatus rotator cuff tendon and
47:00
a slap tear of the left shoulder.
47:03
So she is now in the process of
47:05
rehabbing.
47:06
However,
47:07
what is cool is she still signed up
47:09
for the Open.
47:09
Yeah.
47:11
And she's going to do the open as
47:13
part of her community and be humble about
47:18
it and know what she can and can't
47:20
do.
47:21
And she said probably scale some of it.
47:25
But she's going to sign up for the
47:26
open and do it,
47:27
which I thought was a really cool
47:28
statement in all of this.
47:34
She says here, the next time I compete,
47:36
we're making sure that we are strong,
47:38
healthy, and most importantly,
47:40
competing through a weekend safely.
47:45
This will be my first season in seven
47:46
years that I will not be making the
47:48
chase to get back to the CrossFit Games,
47:50
and it's exposed me emotionally and
47:51
spiritually in more ways than I ever
47:53
expected.
47:54
I'm hopeful that it'll be an incredible
47:56
year of new growth and opportunities and
47:58
reconnect.
48:00
I will still be taking part in the
48:01
CrossFit Games Open with my community
48:03
testing what I can and keeping humility in
48:06
the things that I might require scaling.
48:11
Just because we are starting the season
48:12
different doesn't mean we can't make it
48:14
beautiful.
48:17
So I thought it was a cool way
48:19
to kind of wrap it up and ended
48:20
up that she made it perfectly clear that
48:24
while she cannot compete to get to the
48:27
games,
48:28
she is going to sign up for the
48:29
Open and still do it with her community,
48:31
which I thought was super, super cool.
48:34
God bless her, dude.
48:38
I can't imagine, right?
48:40
Her entire identity, self,
48:42
whatever you want to call it.
48:43
I say entire, right?
48:45
professional identity is tied up in making
48:47
the games and trying to be the fittest
48:49
on earth.
48:50
And then now you got to take a
48:52
year off and she's in her prime dude.
48:54
Like she is fit.
48:58
Several days.
48:59
She was fitter than she's ever been.
49:01
Absolutely.
49:02
She was performing in ways that she had
49:05
never performed in the past.
49:08
And, uh,
49:09
that's gotta be heartbreaking for her.
49:11
I can't imagine.
49:12
As someone that I know personally and have
49:14
grown to love, she is amazing.
49:19
I just want her to be good through
49:20
this.
49:21
Listen,
49:22
I'm doing the Open differently this year.
49:23
I don't know what I'm going to be
49:25
capable of.
49:25
I'm going through all of this stuff in
49:28
my nose and my breathing,
49:30
but I'm going to do it.
49:31
I signed up.
49:31
I'm going to do it,
49:32
and I need to be humble like her
49:34
and realize there are just things I'm not
49:36
going to be able to do,
49:38
but I'll do the best I can with
49:39
what I got.
49:41
That's all you can do.
49:42
Chase did the same thing a couple of
49:43
years ago when he had his shoulder
49:44
surgery.
49:45
He signed up and he did everything in
49:49
the one arm category,
49:51
whatever it was for adaptive.
49:52
Do you remember that?
49:53
Like that was,
49:55
it was fun to follow along and see.
49:57
So like you do what you can with
49:59
what you have.
50:02
Even if you're not,
50:03
even if you have both good working arms
50:05
and both, like everything,
50:06
you're still working with what you got.
50:09
It doesn't matter.
50:10
Right?
50:11
That's the beautiful thing about CrossFit
50:12
is that you get out what you put
50:14
in.
50:17
Yeah.
50:17
So you're going to work with what you
50:18
got no matter what and bless her for
50:20
even though, you know,
50:21
she might not be able to do the
50:22
stuff she wants to do,
50:23
but she's going to do whatever she can
50:24
do.
50:27
That's a beautiful way to look at it.
50:29
Good for her.
50:30
I don't know how long it's been since
50:31
I've shared this story,
50:32
but when I was first into the media
50:33
and I, you know, I didn't,
50:35
there was a lot of times I didn't
50:36
feel I belonged in the media.
50:38
You know, I, I jumped in and,
50:40
and did whatever.
50:41
And we were at the games fee was
50:43
on the demo team.
50:45
And we got access to go out to
50:47
the pit for the first time ever.
50:49
And so I go down under the Coliseum
50:52
in Madison, and I'm looking around,
50:54
and there's all these games athletes,
50:56
the demo team sitting on some sandbags,
50:59
and I'm going out to the pit,
51:01
and imposter syndrome is hitting me very,
51:04
very hard.
51:04
I understand.
51:06
And Fi comes running over and jumps up
51:08
and gives me a big hug and was
51:11
like, I'm so glad to see you.
51:13
And it just took all that imposter
51:15
syndrome away.
51:17
Like she said, Hey,
51:19
I'm so glad to see you.
51:20
You belong here.
51:21
And it just took all the rest of
51:23
it away.
51:24
And because of that,
51:25
like I know fee sign that letter and
51:31
all that kind of stuff,
51:32
but I will always have a special place
51:34
in my heart because she did that for
51:37
me.
51:38
And she's,
51:39
she was the first person to come out
51:40
and talk to Dave and she did all
51:43
that stuff.
51:43
She did the open last year.
51:45
She did not sit out the season and,
51:48
And so I give her credit for all
51:49
that too.
51:53
I couldn't have said it any better.
51:54
Yeah,
51:55
she signed a letter and then came back
51:56
out and said she regretted signing the
51:57
letter and talked to Dave.
52:00
She's about as real as it gets, dude.
52:03
Yeah.
52:03
About as real as it gets.
52:05
So, yeah.
52:08
Hopefully she will find her way through
52:11
the season and we'll see her back and
52:12
better than ever next year.
52:15
The last thing, and again,
52:17
it'll probably be more of a conversation
52:18
for tomorrow because we're really going
52:19
long.
52:21
The Olympics start tomorrow.
52:25
My question to everybody,
52:26
and think about this,
52:29
think about this over the next day,
52:32
and we'll talk about it tomorrow.
52:34
Are you hyped for the Olympics?
52:37
I am jazzed for the Olympics, Scott.
52:39
You are jet.
52:40
Yeah.
52:46
Oh, Jenny says Luca finished.
52:50
Overall, they just announced he signed.
52:52
So that's three who must have declined at
52:55
a minimum.
52:56
Let's add at a minimum.
52:57
Yeah.
52:57
Okay.
53:03
I'll put it to you like this, Scott,
53:04
as far as that living is concerned.
53:07
Last night, I went on YouTube TV,
53:10
went to my recording,
53:12
whatever you want to call it.
53:13
I set all of the curling to record
53:15
because me and my wife watch curling like
53:17
it's our job.
53:19
All of the snowboard stuff because that
53:21
stuff's cool to watch.
53:24
And then whatever else we see that might
53:26
catch our fancy,
53:27
we might add that to it later on.
53:30
But it starts today.
53:32
Like there's curling going on today.
53:35
The opening ceremony is just tomorrow.
53:39
Yeah.
53:40
Yeah.
53:41
Yeah.
53:41
When I was a kid,
53:42
like I remember being even more hyped,
53:44
right?
53:45
One, my main sport was an Olympic sport.
53:48
So the Summer Olympics were very big for
53:49
me.
53:50
Hell yeah.
53:51
But I find now that like I get
53:54
Olympic fatigue in week two.
53:58
where I get hyped that I get to
53:59
see the stuff I don't normally see.
54:01
I do like curling.
54:03
I do like the half pipe.
54:05
I do like when the snowboarders are going
54:07
down the hill at five hundred miles an
54:09
hour,
54:09
jumping off the houses and all that stuff.
54:14
I love downhill skiing.
54:18
And so I get into like all the
54:20
new stuff that I don't normally see.
54:23
But I find myself as I get older,
54:25
more second week fatigue.
54:28
Yeah.
54:30
And then you wear us off, right?
54:32
Cool, curly.
54:33
And you watch like four matches and you're
54:34
like, all right,
54:35
that's probably enough of that.
54:36
And the snowboarding,
54:38
the snowboarding for me is a little bit
54:39
easier to get into because various people
54:41
doing various different tricks and
54:42
whatnot.
54:43
I mean, it's,
54:44
the scoring is a lot more subjective,
54:46
right?
54:46
It's kind of, hey, what can you do?
54:48
What can't you do?
54:49
The racing obviously is objective because
54:51
it's just how fast can you get down
54:52
the side of this mountain?
54:54
I never understood the luge.
54:56
Because you're literally just on a sled,
55:01
basically, just going down this ice chute.
55:03
It's the skeleton where you're going
55:04
headfirst that really boggles my mind.
55:08
That's what we did every day as a
55:09
kid, though,
55:10
like going down the side hill.
55:12
You could tie a dead person to a
55:15
luge,
55:16
and they'd probably still do pretty good,
55:18
right?
55:19
Because you just sling them down the thing
55:20
and call it...
55:22
I do think there's some steering.
55:24
Maybe.
55:27
Maybe.
55:29
But even that,
55:30
that's kind of fun to watch.
55:31
But yeah, I get it.
55:33
After the second week,
55:34
maybe sometime around the third,
55:35
you're like, okay.
55:39
Anyway,
55:40
we'll talk about this more tomorrow.
55:42
Chattanooga grew up in Alaska and has a
55:44
special love for the Olympics.
55:46
I want to go back to a little
55:49
bit of the Fee stuff and then we'll
55:50
call it a day.
55:52
Fee was cool as hell at the games.
55:54
She took a few minutes several times
55:55
throughout that weekend to say, hey,
55:57
ask if we were enjoying everything.
55:59
She just is that person.
56:02
Chattanooga,
56:03
one hundred percent how you handle
56:04
something you regret.
56:04
So, yeah, exactly.
56:08
And
56:11
Ortega asks their steering.
56:12
Come on.
56:14
Ortega,
56:15
you've never been on a runner sled in
56:16
your life.
56:20
Anyway, with that,
56:23
we'll talk about more Olympics tomorrow.
56:25
We'll talk about more of all this WFP
56:26
stuff.
56:27
I'm sure they're releasing more signees
56:29
and we'll get a better picture as to
56:31
where they stand.
56:33
How the hell they're getting fifty.
56:36
How the hell they're getting fifty.
56:37
I have no idea.
56:38
But we'll see.
56:39
I am curious to find out though.
56:42
With that, man,
56:45
I took my third Z last night.
56:46
It took me literally like ten seconds to
56:48
fall out.
56:50
I was so tired last night when I
56:52
took it out.
56:53
I went,
56:53
I did not wake up until this morning.
56:55
It was great.
56:56
My sleep stats from last night were
56:57
fantastic as well.
56:58
Like over an hour of deep,
57:02
like an hour and a half of REM
57:03
sleep, which is amazing in and of itself.
57:06
Did not have to get up to go
57:07
pee in the middle of the night.
57:08
Always a plus.
57:09
Yeah.
57:12
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57:14
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57:16
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57:18
With that,
57:19
Ortega was on a bobsled once and he
57:22
was scared as F.
57:25
People also want to hear how your monster
57:27
games is going tomorrow.
57:28
So we'll put that on the docket if
57:30
you're here.
57:34
Funny to hear Corey talk about winter
57:35
sports.
57:35
Have you seen snow in the last two
57:39
years?
57:40
We got over a foot last year.
57:44
I mean, just once.
57:45
But it lasted for about a week before
57:48
it actually finally all melted away.
57:51
So with that, guys,
57:51
thank you so much for jumping on today.
57:55
Even got a little mini smear campaign riff
57:58
out of the deal.
57:58
With that,
58:00
we will check everybody tomorrow.
58:02
See everybody then on lunch with the
58:05
Clydesdale.
58:05
Bye.