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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Dave Castro Goes Live and Takes Q&A · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Did Dave Castro accidentally fall into the
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coolest podcast in the CrossFit space?
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He may just have.
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Let's talk about it next.
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I love the chase and the hunt and
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I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want and I
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always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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What is going on everybody?
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Welcome to Lunchtime.
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It's lunch with the Clydesdale.
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Good to see you all today.
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What's up, Jody?
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Corey?
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Good to see you in the house.
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Sean in Oregon.
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Yeah.
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Love the new music.
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Yeah, I just switched that over, gosh,
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about a week ago.
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What's up, Meredith?
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Terry?
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Yeah.
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What's up, Jeff Baco?
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So, yeah.
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So,
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I don't have a ton of time today.
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I have a one o'clock meeting.
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that I have to get to.
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So we're going to hop right into things
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today.
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Yesterday,
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I tuned into the Dave Castro channel on
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YouTube,
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and it was advertised as part of the
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affiliate series that he's doing with
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Nicole Christensen.
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um and the and they do an affiliate
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thing where they interview an affiliate
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owner talk about what they do and
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yesterday the affiliate didn't show but i
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think what happened was actually pretty
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damn cool i think what happened is dave
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may have found a really cool concept for
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a podcast accidentally so the podcast
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opens up yesterday
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with Nicole Christensen struggling after
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doing a workout at her affiliate that
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afternoon.
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Her voice was gone.
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She said that it was the first time
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she nearly puked in like six years.
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And she tells Dave what the workout is.
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And it was her talking about,
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it was interval work.
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You, you do.
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Twenty five meter sled push and then an
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echo bike of ten or fourteen calories.
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Women, men.
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And then you rest for like four to
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five minutes because it doesn't take that
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long to do that.
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And you do it again.
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And it's four rounds.
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And Dave was like, wow, like all that.
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rest and it still like knocked you out
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and she said yeah like the whole the
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whole community was crushed there were
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dnfs that people couldn't get past round
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three the whole thing but and it was
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designed to be a sprint and it was
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written by misfit um affiliate
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So Dave starts kind of critiquing the
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workout and how he would change it.
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Nicole is very adamant about what she
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feels about it,
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and they start debating this workout.
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Well,
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because the affiliate didn't show up,
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They actually called the head coach of
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Misfit, brought him on,
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and it became this discussion of the
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programming.
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But I love the fact that Dave had
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his ideas and the other two were very
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honest.
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adamant about their position of that
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workout and what it brought to the
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community,
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what it brought to the affiliate,
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what the stimulus was trying to be.
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And they really defended it well.
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And I think it's actually created possibly
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a really cool podcast series of where you
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bring your workout to Dave.
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He gives his thoughts.
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You defend why you did it your way.
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And you have this discussion.
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And I don't generally get into programming
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talk.
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When we do programming stuff and like
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event programming,
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I really turn that over to like Jamie
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and Carolyn.
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And I just kind of mediate it because
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one, I no longer coach.
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I never was a programmer and I don't
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really understand all the aspects of
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programming,
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even though I have an L one and
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I have programmed a few classes over the
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years.
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but I really thought it was fascinating
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and it really sucked me in as to
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why he thought what he thought.
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And,
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and what's funny is he even talks about
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that.
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He has rules that you shouldn't break.
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And even with those rules, he said,
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and I know I've broken probably every
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single one of them.
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Um, and you know what I mean?
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I, I just,
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I thought it was really cool.
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I, Larry said that, uh,
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My favorite part was the could care less
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what Dave thought about their programming.
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They were polite, but at the same time,
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we like what we do.
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I liked how they defended why they do
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it.
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And what we actually learned is the
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original program wasn't even Echo Bike.
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It was SkiErg.
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And when Nicole said Echo Bike,
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the guy from Misfit was like, damn,
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that's even more rough.
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Like...
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like you even escalated it a little bit
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more.
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Uh, Austin also basically said these long,
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late workouts make you good at that,
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but forces no adaptation.
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So, yeah.
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Um,
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And he actually – the guy from Misfit,
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is that who was – it was his
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name, Austin.
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I don't remember because I have it queued
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up for something else.
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But he talked about how he has like
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three buckets of frequency,
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things that are –
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things that they sprinkle in periodically,
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things that they want to do somewhat
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often,
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and then things they want to put in
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every single week.
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And so he has like frequency buckets on
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top of
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everything else and balance.
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And Dave's biggest concern with sled push
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is he thinks it's a cheat to get
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away from doing higher skilled workouts in
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the affiliate.
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And he said,
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even though I know you guys aren't trying
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to do that,
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he said that's a fear when he sees
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sled push in a workout at the affiliate.
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So,
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and they go off into some other topics
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as well,
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but I really think like it could be
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a really cool concept for, um, a podcast.
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And I think at one point,
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even Nicole says, yeah,
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we could do this and call it like
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Dave shits on your programming.
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And then you talk it out and discuss
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it and, and stuff.
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So it was, um, it was really,
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really cool to, uh,
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It was really, really cool to watch,
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and I hope they do some more of
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this because it just accidentally happened
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when the affiliate wasn't there.
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They had to fill time.
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Frida, Echo Bike is insanely hard,
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and a sprint gave me shivers to hear
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it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Mark Phillips,
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is this the affiliate interview one?
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I missed it.
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It was.
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Just know the affiliate never shows up.
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And so they talk about some other things.
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And the reason I really tuned in,
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because the affiliate interview,
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it's not something,
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as I'm trying to watch all the content
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in the space,
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it's not something I normally dive into,
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but he was going to do a ten-minute
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Q&A at the end.
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And I wanted to see what he had
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to say during that interview.
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So, Denise,
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more interesting because I think heavy
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sled pushes are a great addition to
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training.
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Yeah, Dave had alternatives.
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He thinks moving a heavy object over a
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distance is a good thing,
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but he thinks that some affiliates rely on
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it too much and then remove some
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high-skill events to do that,
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some high-skill options.
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He actually thought a plate carry would be
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good or something like that because a lot
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of gyms also don't have very many sleds.
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Now,
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Nicole was saying they only had two sleds,
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but because it was a six minute interval
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with a lot of rest,
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they actually launched people on the sled
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push every thirty seconds because it
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didn't take thirty seconds to do a twenty
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five meter sled push.
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You just pushed it down to the other
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side of the floor.
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And then at the next thirty seconds,
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that person would then push it down to
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the other side of the floor.
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And then you would jump on your echo
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bike once you finish the sled push.
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And Dave said that messed with his mind,
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you know, the logistics of it all.
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And she's like,
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you do the logistics for the CrossFit
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Games and a class adaptation of these
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logistics is blowing your mind.
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Like it was a really cool back and
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forth.
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And I think it showed both personalities a
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lot more than in other ways that they've
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done it.
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Jody Lynn, I agree.
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Denise, I wish I could do sleds.
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Sled pushes destroy me.
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Yeah, my buddy and I...
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We used to do Saturday odd object days
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where we would just basically do like sled
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pushes, sandbags,
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different stuff like that outside in the
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warm months to do that.
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And we would do it during open gym
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and just kind of look around the internet
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for really cool stuff.
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And it was just kind of a break
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of the week that we really enjoyed.
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But it was not programmed for us.
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We were just being mavericks and doing
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whatever we kind of saw on the internet.
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And I kind of miss that, you know.
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I'm Mark Phillips.
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We just have a torque tank.
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It's okay.
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Yeah.
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I don't like that you have to go
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kind of at its pace.
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They're just weird.
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Yeah.
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Um, how has that scored total time?
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Sorry if you already said it.
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Uh, I don't,
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they didn't really talk about how it was
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scored.
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They really just talked about how it made
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them feel.
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Um, and maybe it was just, Hey,
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and she said they did like some high
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skill work before it, uh,
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just working on some high skill stuff.
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Uh, so maybe it was just complete,
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maybe get you to your check Mark for
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the day.
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Um,
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So I don't really know, uh, David Reed.
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Uh, we only have one sled,
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so never do them in class,
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but I did them last Saturday before
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partner class with Cindy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We always,
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we never really had them in class either.
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Um,
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that's why my buddy and I would do
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like odd object Saturdays and we had two
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sleds back then.
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Uh, Frida, you could use a box, uh,
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you use for box jumps and add weight,
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uh, if needed Jody.
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Yeah.
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Jody works out in her basement though.
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I don't know if she has the
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And that's kind of the bad thing if
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you are a garage person or something like
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that.
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Like my garage isn't big enough to have
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twenty five meters.
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My driveway is probably a twenty degree
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angle too.
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So I'd have to be one of those
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mavericks that go out on the street and
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push a sled,
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wake everybody up in the neighborhood.
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Jody says, I will give it a try.
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I have a little bit of runway.
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Not much, though.
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So they did stick to plan, though.
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And at the very end of their little
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podcast, they opened it up for questions.
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And I did get one in.
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And so I did want to share that
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with you guys.
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They've answered it.
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And I thought that was really cool.
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So I'm going to go ahead and share
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that now.
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So here it is.
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So as the leader,
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as the leader in fitness,
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in the fitness space,
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I'll say as a leader,
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I'll say that as a leader in the
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fitness space,
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do you feel a responsibility to bring the
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community back together?
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Or do you believe the strong will survive?
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I think there's an aspect of wanting the
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community together and fostering that and
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keeping it, again,
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marching in the right direction,
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arm in arm,
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that I would like to see for sure.
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but not at the expense of compromising our
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values to get some people who might be
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on the outside or on the verge of
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going on the outside because for a variety
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of reasons that might compromise who we
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are.
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Like meaning you also have to want to
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be here.
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And if you don't want to be here,
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I don't see it my responsibility or our
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responsibility to compromise who we are or
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the methodology or CrossFit to get you on
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board.
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If you want to be in the club,
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we want you in the club and we
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want you marching in the same direction.
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So that's how I feel about that statement.
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What do you think, Nicole?
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Oh, I mean, yeah, I'm right there, too.
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I think, you know,
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if you believe in what you do,
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and I think a lot of affiliates do,
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and they believe in the methodology,
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then it's then people are attracted to it.
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Because, you know,
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I can't remember who is it,
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James always said, like,
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I've never seen it not work.
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I mean, we believe what we do,
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because I've literally never seen it not
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work.
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You know, and so yeah,
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I think when if you want to be
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part of the club,
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and you want to you want all the
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the goods of the,
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the community and what it has to offer,
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like the buy in is believing in the
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methodology.
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And this is what we do.
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And we know it works.
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So that's the question I got in.
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And just to kind of rehash that,
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I asked,
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as a leader in the fitness space,
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do you feel you have a responsibility to
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try to bring the community back together?
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Or are you taking the approach of the
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strong will survive?
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And...
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And that was their answer,
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that they would love to walk arm in
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arm with people,
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but they're not going to compromise who
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they are to do that.
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And so I'd love to get your thoughts
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on that.
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Do you think they have a responsibility to
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reach out to some of these other entities
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and try to get that arm in arm
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relationship?
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sentiment to move forward or do you think
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that that it's too much of a compromise
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to do so uh amanda fillers i'm the
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crazy person in the neighborhood dragging
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pushing the sled around the block yeah uh
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nicole takes precisely zero of dave
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zero larry young says yeah i agree she
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did not give in to him at all
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during the show yesterday um and she
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fought for what she believed in for sure
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so do you so as he answered that
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i was thinking like that that makes a
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lot of sense it makes a lot of
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sense that you would not want to
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compromise who you are in order to get
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community buy-in and to walk arm-in-arm
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And, but at what,
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but what are you talking about is again,
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I think it goes back to what we've
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talked about in the past.
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What are your core values?
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You should not compromise your core values
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of who you are and what you want
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to be to, to walk arm and arm,
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but like stubbornness and
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lack of communication have been issues
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with CrossFit.
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Those are things that maybe could change
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and maybe help in communicating something
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moving forward.
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Larry Young.
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I felt this was a shot at mayhem,
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but when mayhem basically pulled CrossFit
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out of the quicksand and started the
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resurgence of CrossFit with open and
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classic pulled.
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Yeah.
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thought about that too last night Larry
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with with Rich talking about leaving he
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had such an impact on last season
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with the open announcement,
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the Rocky shorts, getting everybody hyped,
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a huge crowd at mayhem for that open
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announcement.
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It just looked awesome.
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It gave people chills, all of that stuff.
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And then the mayhem classic went off so
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well.
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They put so much money into that to
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make it look good,
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to have a great broadcast,
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to have the best cast of athletes they
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could have.
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It wasn't their fault that people
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withdrew, but,
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they did the best they could with it
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and really kind of helped start the upward
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climb that we've seen from that point to
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the games.
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And, um,
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and so it's making this rich thing even
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weirder, um, even weirder.
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So, um,
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Frida,
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it kind of sounds like the old school
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approach.
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I get that.
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I get that.
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And you want to stick to your methodology.
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You want to stick to who you are.
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But I don't want to stay old school
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just to say we're staying old school.
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Like there weren't other entities trying
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to do what CrossFit was doing.
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There weren't competitors trying to take
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on CrossFit.
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I guess in this newer generation,
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how do you deal with that?
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And I'm not sure that sticking completely
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old school is the answer.
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I think, again,
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your core set of values and who you
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are, you should stick to for sure.
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But do we know what that is?
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And I don't know if CrossFit knows who
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they are enough to say that anymore.
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I feel it should stay with the workout
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methodology part.
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I agree.
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I do agree with that.
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But didn't he say he was still paying
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for the broadcast?
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Maybe he feels he's really not getting a
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good return on investment.
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I don't know if he's still paying for
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the broadcast.
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He did talk about how hefty of a
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price it was,
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and they had to make that decision.
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But I do think that Mayhem has enough
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cash to pay for that.
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And I don't think that,
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and here's where things are weird yet.
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It's again,
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this sport thing that they did to help
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out,
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but it's bigger than that with the
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affiliates.
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So Larry,
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I think HQ and Malik to rich,
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he would have a seated table.
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Then both pulled back senior comments,
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just speculation.
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I don't really know.
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I don't really know about that, Larry.
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I don't know.
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I see Dave as a completely separate vibe
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from CrossFit.
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I think that you're in the minority.
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I think that many people look at Dave
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as the face of CrossFit.
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He's the only one that regularly speaks.
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He's the only one we get information from.
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And so I do believe that there is
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a blurred line there.
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Even though I think in actuality you are
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correct.
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But I think it's very confusing for the
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mass public because he is the only,
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the only person we get to see and
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hear from.
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Anyway, that's enough about that.
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Speaking of semifinals,
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I want to just kind of lament something
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real quick.
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And that is that we don't have this
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set semifinal anymore.
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I was talking to Corey after the show
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yesterday.
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It's so hard to do interviews like I
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used to do them.
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We used to set up the semifinal season
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by looking at the rosters and being able
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to see who was going to compete in
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semis.
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And then we would reach out to as
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many as we possibly could to interview and
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learn new things about new people.
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I'm stuck in this paralysis of doing
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interviews now because I don't know who
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that group is anymore.
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And there's no way to easily get a
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list of who it's going to be.
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We don't see the rosters at different
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events until much later.
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I think semifinals are confusing the way
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they're done now.
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Because every semifinal had different
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rules.
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We don't know who's coming.
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We don't know who's withdrawing.
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We don't know all this stuff that's going
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on.
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And then it'd be nice to know who's
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going to be a semifinal this year.
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I think that information needs to be out
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there quickly because then you have these
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things happening now where qualifications
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for the TFX are happening.
23:38
People think that that's for the semifinal
23:41
that they held last year,
23:42
but TFX has another event that they hold
23:45
in January in Austin, Texas.
23:48
which was different than the semifinal
23:50
they held in Oklahoma.
23:52
So now you're getting things with the same
23:54
name, confusing people.
23:55
I've seen questions to Dave about TFX.
23:59
Should they do this qualifier?
24:01
Should they do that qualifier?
24:02
It's not even for the right qualifier.
24:06
And if the mass public are confused about
24:09
that already,
24:10
I think we need to get the names
24:12
of those semifinals out there so that they
24:14
can talk about how to qualify,
24:17
how they're going to pick their roster,
24:20
all of those things moving forward.
24:24
But on a personal note,
24:25
it's just been really hard to see who
24:28
these up-and-comer athletes are in the
24:31
space because I don't have a list of
24:33
like semifinal athletes to learn and get
24:35
to know more.
24:39
It's crazy.
24:41
And I think the faster we know this
24:43
information,
24:45
the more this will clear up a bit
24:47
as we move forward.
24:49
But right now, it's just an awful mess.
24:56
um denise dawn certainly is not the face
24:59
of crossfit i agree ever since the the
25:03
lazar death he has been mia cory and
25:11
masters are supposed to get our very own
25:13
live semi-final that is something entirely
25:15
different and that is the limit of the
25:17
information we have i know
25:23
Frida,
25:23
what irritated me the most was that the
25:25
athletes were allowed to do as many as
25:26
they wanted.
25:28
I don't like that either.
25:30
I don't, I didn't like that.
25:32
And because it's taking opportunities away
25:34
from so many other athletes, I,
25:37
I don't like the fact that you have
25:38
to be ready on this weekend.
25:42
And if you get sick or anything like
25:43
that, then you're just F for the year.
25:46
But, um,
25:49
but I don't think you should be able
25:50
to do as many as you want.
25:51
Maybe two, maybe cap it at two.
25:54
See how that works.
26:04
I don't know.
26:04
Uh,
26:05
Other thing I want to talk about is
26:07
Hiller put out the list of lists today.
26:10
If you have not seen it,
26:12
he put out the list of the twenty
26:14
four athletes who most likely have used
26:18
PEDs.
26:21
And.
26:23
He said it's twenty four, not twenty five,
26:25
because he didn't he didn't want to make
26:27
it a perfect number.
26:28
He just wanted to do the people he
26:30
thought.
26:32
It's a really interesting and very
26:33
comprehensive list of athletes in the
26:36
history of CrossFit that he has thought
26:40
that have used PEDs.
26:47
I.
26:50
I will say that the evidence he gives
26:52
for some of them are way more compelling
26:57
than others.
27:01
Some of the evidence he gives for some
27:04
of the athletes, you're like, okay,
27:09
he is saying this a little more clearly
27:14
than with others.
27:18
and uh mark yes men only um if
27:31
you haven't seen it i don't want to
27:32
spoil it when you get to number three
27:35
the list of things he points out um
27:40
And number three,
27:41
the person he lists and the video
27:45
evidence, picture evidence,
27:47
whatever it is that he goes along with
27:49
is very, very compelling.
27:51
I think number three showed up to be
27:54
more possible than two and one by the
27:57
evidence he had shown.
28:06
Jar Jar Binks, Alex Smith had me LOLing.
28:17
Eric Mackey,
28:18
the criteria for this list was a stretch.
28:20
Reaching on this one hits and misses.
28:23
Yeah,
28:23
I think like it's a list of people.
28:27
And I think you have to look at
28:28
the evidence with each one to make your
28:30
determination.
28:31
Whether you think it's someone really on
28:34
the list or not is the way I
28:36
looked at it.
28:44
and some of the evidence is way more
28:48
compelling than others that's all i'll say
28:53
sean oregon hillary sure as heck knows how
28:55
to keep himself in the middle of the
28:56
conversation he is self-admitted that he
29:00
knows what videos will get him clicks and
29:04
likes and all those things but it allows
29:06
him to do the stuff like travel and
29:09
spend some time with some people
29:12
And, um,
29:13
and those are the videos that I enjoy
29:15
the most.
29:17
And if it means he has to do
29:18
these others to make the money to go
29:19
do that, I understand it.
29:23
And as a podcast host and looking for
29:26
topics, he's awesome at providing those.
29:29
Um, so yeah,
29:32
I think he knows what he's doing.
29:34
Um, for sure.
29:40
I think it's all part of his plan.
29:48
Last thing I'm going to touch on today,
29:52
Eric Mackey,
29:53
Liz Wishart was a great video.
29:54
It was.
29:55
Really, really was.
30:02
Sean in Oregon.
30:02
I'm a paid member of his channel, too,
30:05
and love his work.
30:06
Yes, I am as well.
30:08
I am as well.
30:10
And that reminds me,
30:11
don't forget to like and subscribe, guys.
30:13
We are getting so close to three K
30:15
subscribers.
30:16
We need like forty forty five more
30:19
subscribers.
30:21
And I'm hoping to hit that by year's
30:22
end to get three K.
30:24
Just sounds way better than two nine five,
30:28
whatever, whatever we are,
30:29
two nine five five.
30:33
so love to say three k trying to
30:36
get there by year's end but hit that
30:38
like button it helps us get in the
30:40
algorithm as well really appreciate that
30:42
if you could do that uh how will
30:48
you celebrate when you get three k uh
30:51
i don't need to um i don't even
30:56
think about the celebration i just i don't
30:58
know we'll fit i'll figure out something
31:00
we'll do something
31:04
Um, try your dagger.
31:06
I'll go make other accounts and subscribe.
31:10
Uh, no need to do that.
31:11
I let's make them legit.
31:14
Let's make them legit.
31:19
So, um, last thing again,
31:21
I have a one o'clock meeting,
31:22
so I'm going to get through this quick.
31:24
MFC is this weekend masters fitness
31:26
championships.
31:28
Um, three thousand burpees.
31:31
No, thank you.
31:32
I will find it.
31:33
I would rather do three thousand cows on
31:35
a bike than three thousand burpees.
31:39
Um.
31:44
mfc's this weekend please uh i think
31:48
they're gonna broadcast i've heard they're
31:50
gonna broadcast really really really um i
31:55
hope it comes off well um but they're
31:58
doing pairs championships and they're
32:01
they're calling it the crossfit games
32:02
champion of pairs is this a category we
32:05
need i'm curious to know do we really
32:09
need the crossfit games champion in pairs
32:15
I know that the games are trying to
32:17
help MFC be relevant in their offseason
32:21
competition.
32:23
I've always looked at MFC as the East
32:25
Coast Masters Championship,
32:27
Legends as the West Coast Masters
32:30
Championships.
32:33
And...
32:36
I don't get why you have to be
32:38
gimmicky with pairs or whatever it is
32:42
you're doing to try to make something
32:46
else.
32:48
I think we need to be better at...
32:51
promoting our masters individuals and
32:53
getting people to watch them as opposed to
32:56
pairs.
32:59
A friend of mine sent me a text
33:00
today and maybe we'll talk about it on
33:02
the show at some point, but they're,
33:05
they're losing individuals right now.
33:08
And they're just handing spots over to
33:11
teams or pairs that lost a person to
33:14
injury in the individual instead of going
33:17
back to the leaderboard and offering it to
33:20
people who actually qualified as an
33:22
individual.
33:24
All this weird back behind the scenes
33:26
stuff that happens is more reason to look
33:33
skeptically at what they do.
33:37
You need to be on the up and
33:39
up, do things in a proper way,
33:42
and not just fill seats to fill seats.
33:47
If you have a spot in the individual
33:50
elite division,
33:51
offer it to the individuals that qualified
33:56
in that field,
33:57
not a team that lost a member.
34:00
That's just asinine,
34:02
and it makes people question why and what
34:05
you do.
34:18
I know a lot of Masters athletes that
34:20
like teams better, easier on the body.
34:24
Maybe that is why they are trying this
34:26
format.
34:29
Okay.
34:31
I can get behind that.
34:35
Then don't make your competition
34:37
everything else around it.
34:42
When I've been at every MFC,
34:45
the teams are never on the main floor.
34:48
If you are really trying to promote this
34:50
as a new option moving forward,
34:53
it should be on the main floor and
34:54
the main broadcast.
34:57
And with that explanation,
34:59
that as we get further along in this,
35:04
this is in CrossFit,
35:06
it's easier on the master's body to do
35:08
teams.
35:09
We want to celebrate pairs.
35:11
Here you go.
35:12
That makes sense.
35:15
but making it a part of this big
35:16
three-ring circus that's always on the
35:20
subfloor instead of the main floor,
35:23
you're never going to get there.
35:25
You're never going to get there.
35:32
Denise,
35:32
there are only two women in the elite
35:34
division over sixty.
35:35
The rest are RX.
35:38
Yep.
35:43
I do like what Shannon is saying though.
35:45
I do get that.
35:50
Sean in Oregon,
35:50
Paris champs is interesting.
35:52
Each Friday,
35:53
Saturday is a team wad in my gym
35:55
and most comps I sign up for prior
35:57
to prioritize teams of two or three.
36:01
Uh, so I can relate to teams.
36:04
Um,
36:06
Again,
36:07
I see what you're saying and it makes
36:09
sense to me.
36:10
But if that's the way you're going to
36:11
go about it,
36:12
then make sure you're prioritizing that as
36:18
the event of choice when you go to
36:20
watch.
36:22
So you can truly promote it and see
36:25
if it's going to work.
36:26
See if it works for the spectators.
36:28
See if it works for the athletes.
36:30
Then we can get a true test and
36:32
see if this can move forward.
36:46
I agree Scott their teams are always off
36:48
camera out of sight out of mind exactly
36:51
Dan Church I missed the beginning are you
36:53
coming to MFC Scott if you need a
36:54
place you can stay with me I have
36:56
an extra room I haven't decided yet just
37:00
like last year Dan I probably I'll make
37:03
a decision on a whim this weekend and
37:05
see I do have a three-day weekend
37:11
I know Jamie's going to be there tomorrow.
37:14
Um, I can't get off work for that.
37:17
Um,
37:17
but maybe I'll come up for a day
37:18
on the weekend.
37:26
Corey,
37:27
I thought you only needed to sign up
37:28
and not qualify if you were over sixty.
37:30
I think you're right, Denise.
37:37
It's counter logical.
37:38
Nobody watches the coverage.
37:39
If the coverage was decent,
37:41
more would watch.
37:45
Uh, Jake,
37:45
what I'm trying to say is they don't
37:48
ever,
37:48
they are trying this new thing of teams
37:50
of two, uh, in the master's divisions.
37:53
One of our master's athletes jumped in and
37:55
said,
37:56
it's easier on the body and they actually
37:57
prefer that.
38:01
And so they are crowning pairs champions
38:04
at MFC this weekend.
38:10
What I'm saying is, yes,
38:13
you're doing this.
38:14
We'll never know if it works if you
38:16
never put it in the spotlight.
38:18
They are always on the third stage.
38:20
It's never on the broadcast.
38:22
Nobody ever gets to see it.
38:24
And I will tell you,
38:25
there are usually bigger names in the
38:26
pairs divisions at MFC than there are in
38:29
the individual.
38:30
But they've never spotlighted it for us to
38:34
even know if people would watch it.
38:38
because they try to be everything for
38:39
everyone.
38:40
I think they need to focus down on
38:42
maybe just pairs and see if they can
38:45
make that a viable option.
38:55
Shanna, I agree.
38:57
It needs to be in the spotlight.
38:58
It does.
39:04
Denise, I would have to take boats,
39:05
trains, planes,
39:06
and cars for me to get to Fort
39:08
Wayne.
39:09
It is not the easiest place to get
39:10
in and out of, but thankfully for me,
39:12
it's only about two,
39:14
two and a half hours away.
39:15
So I can actually drive up there.
39:17
Now I have to drive through every corn
39:19
field in Ohio to get there,
39:22
but I can get there in like two
39:23
and a half hours.
39:41
Don't moan to me about travel.
39:43
I watched your show where you took us
39:46
on a trip to get to Coaches Congress
39:49
and back.
39:50
Dude, I do not envy that at all.
39:55
I feel so bad that you have to
39:57
do that.
40:02
Jody says I should go.
40:06
I might go.
40:07
It's just been a busy year for us
40:10
with everything in the house.
40:11
So I just don't know.
40:13
I don't know.
40:15
Yeah,
40:15
I got five minutes before my meeting.
40:17
I better get going.
40:19
I just don't want to go to this
40:20
meeting.
40:21
This is a meeting where the person that
40:24
we meet with has to give us a
40:25
resume.
40:26
Twenty seven times during the meeting.
40:28
And there's only like ten percent of the
40:31
meeting is valid information for me to
40:34
take away from it.
40:35
The rest is her just bragging about all
40:37
the things she's done.
40:42
So.
40:44
With that, I better get going.
40:47
Thank you guys for hanging out.
40:49
This has been fun.
40:50
We'll be back at it tomorrow.
40:53
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
40:55
And we will have, I don't know,
40:57
we'll do something.
40:59
But don't forget to like and subscribe.
41:01
You knuckleheads get back to work.
41:02
I got to go.
41:03
We'll see you then.
41:05
Bye.