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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Cajun Wednesday - Why CrossFit Can't Be Killed! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  You're muted.
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  You are one hundred percent muted.
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  Connection.
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  There it is.
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  All right.
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  Perfect way to start.
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  It is Wednesday feeling like a Monday,
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  but we're still cooking it up.
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  Cajun with Corey.
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  This is this week.
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  Oh.
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  man the amateur trying to
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  tell the pro what's going
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  on I don't even know how
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  that happened like we were
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  literally just talking and
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  then oh let's start oh wait
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  scott's muted we already
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  got trained olive in the
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  house meredith leto jay
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  birch denise helson omar
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  man what a week it's been
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  That's putting it mildly.
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  That is putting it mildly.
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  So I did all those little
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  vignettes at the games, right?
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  And I put up the Amanda Hari
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  one last night.
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  Yeah.
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  She is very, very popular.
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  She's good stuff, dude.
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  She's good stuff.
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  Yeah, she is...
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  Probably my best friend in
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  the media space.
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  We hang out the whole time.
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  Yeah, she's awesome.
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  We actually went to Trivia
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  Night on... Was it Wednesday?
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  Thursday night?
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  Thursday night.
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  We accidentally went to
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  Trivia Night at a pub on Thursday night.
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  We went to get dinner.
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  Ended up being Trivia Night.
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  We participated...
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  We were four points out of
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  the lead going into Final Jeopardy.
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  Bet the house.
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  Like you do.
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  Because I don't wuss bet, man.
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  I don't wuss bet.
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  I bet like I know what I'm talking about.
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  All chips on the table or no
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  chips on the table.
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  And the question was, how many U.S.
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  states touch the Mississippi River?
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  Man, that's an excellent question.
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  I would say ten off the top of my head.
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  Ten off the top of your head.
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  Are you kidding me?
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  I'm just trying to think.
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  Geography is obviously not my thing,
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  but I'm just trying to think of going up,
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  like us in Mississippi, Arkansas,
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  and whatever's next to Arkansas, two,
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  four, six, eight, ten.
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  It is ten.
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  Is it really?
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  It is ten.
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  Yeah, we needed you at our table.
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  Oh, man.
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  We lost all of the money.
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  The winner got like a
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  hundred dollar gift card to that pub.
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  That you're never going to
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  be able to use anyway.
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  Like a big deal.
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  Crazy.
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  I like that, Tristan.
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  I'll roll with that.
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  Yeah.
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  I, so, you know,
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  I drove to Montana and so I,
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  I hit the Mississippi and Illinois,
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  Wisconsin and Minnesota on the way.
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  Forgot about Iowa.
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  Forgot about Kentucky and Tennessee,
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  but I had all the other states.
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  So I actually had seven and
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  just forgot those.
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  It just makes, in my head,
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  going up like that, it makes sense.
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  And like I said,
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  I'm not fantastic at geography.
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  For Monster Games,
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  one of my partners who
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  lives not far from there,
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  who's going to compete, I was like, hey,
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  why don't you come and pick
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  me up from the airport whenever I land?
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  And about five seconds after that,
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  I realized, I texted it back and I said,
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  I just realized I might be
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  actually going three and a
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  half hours out of your way.
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  Like I know nothing about
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  what the geography looks like up there.
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  So kind of take that with a grain of salt.
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  Yeah.
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  CrossFit says, is that a trivia or autism?
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  A little bit of both.
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  It's a, it's a feature, not a bug.
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  Definitely both.
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  Definitely both.
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  Yeah,
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  I love having you on because then I
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  get to tell you a couple of stories.
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  Yeah.
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  So, you know, I get the enhanced access.
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  I'm backstage.
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  I decide, hey, here comes Amy Kringle.
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  She just killed this last event.
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  I'm going to talk to her.
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  She's a very attractive woman.
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  is good looking and I only
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  say that to because it'll
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  make sense the next part of
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  this right so I start
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  filming her to like get her
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  on camera amy is a close
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  talker oh she's gotta get
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  like right here yeah so
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  that is not like it's not a
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  big deal in most general
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  senses right but when
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  you're trying to keep
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  someone in frame on a camera yeah
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  it becomes a big deal
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  because I don't want to
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  just have like her nose hairs.
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  Yeah.
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  She's doing this right on the camera.
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  Right.
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  So I keep backing up and I'm
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  trying to be nice about it.
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  I'm, I'm backing up as she's talking.
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  She has backed me up into a
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  box and I have now tripped
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  and I'm about to go ask over tea kettle.
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  And finally I say,
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  and I think it's still on the video, like,
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  hey, don't mean to be rude,
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  but I'm trying to keep you in frame.
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  Please.
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  Every time I step, you step,
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  and that's not helping us.
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  It's not helping my cause right now.
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  That was probably the
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  funniest moment backstage is –
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  yeah because you can't see
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  what's behind you and so
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  like you just she steps and
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  you're like trying to move
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  you and it's it's in the
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  warm-up area so it's it's kind of crowded
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  Yeah, there's people and stuff everywhere.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  There's equipment on the floor everywhere.
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  There's stuff everywhere.
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  And most people, like,
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  I would catch them sitting
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  on a rower because they
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  just came off the floor.
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  Yeah.
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  I learned really quickly in
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  the weekend that better to
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  get after the event than
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  before the event.
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  Oh, dude.
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  I would agree to that.
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  If you try to talk to me at
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  Monster Games on the last
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  day before the event,
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  I didn't talk to anybody
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  for the first thirty
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  minutes I was in the warm-up area.
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  I had my earbuds in, my music playing,
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  and I literally did not
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  speak to a single soul for half an hour.
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  And that's not, you know me, dude.
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  Like, I talked to the wall.
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  I thought I would talk back,
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  but I was locked in,
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  so I can't imagine the
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  level of the games.
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  Yeah.
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  After, sure,
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  we can talk about whatever you want to.
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  I don't care.
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  We'll talk for twenty minutes.
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  Like talking to Braun or
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  or a tutor,
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  they were sitting on a row or
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  just catching their breath
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  and watching the next heat on the TV.
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  And that's when I would like
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  grab them really easy.
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  They're not moving so easy
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  to keep in frame.
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  Braun seems like he's cool as shit.
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  Like that, that, that interview just like,
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  he seems like he's just as
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  laid back as they come.
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  Like happy to be there.
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  Braun is that dude that you
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  wish you could go to a pub with.
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  and just hang out for the
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  night with a couple beers I
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  can see that um and and
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  tutors this like like if
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  you're looking at like
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  straight up good looks the
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  dude looks like superman
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  yeah right like I I don't
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  understand why he's not more popular
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  I feel like,
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  and maybe it's because I don't
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  pay that much attention to
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  him or maybe because it's
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  just his stuff's not out there enough,
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  but the people that are
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  getting paid attention to
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  right now are the boys
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  interrupted and the Jameses
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  and the people who are
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  putting themselves out
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  there to be seen more than
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  anybody else is.
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  I'm a straight dude.
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  Been married for nearly thirty years.
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  Tudor is a good looking dude.
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  You're right about he looks like Superman.
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  I've been trying to figure
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  out what or who he looks
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  like every time I see him
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  because he's been nagging
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  at me and it makes sense.
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  It's the hair.
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  It's the straight jet black
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  kind of over a little bit side part.
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  Just like Clark Kent, man.
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  A hundred percent.
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  This is correct.
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  Jamie Latimer has been
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  screaming about Tudor since day one.
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  No one is listening.
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  We just won most improved at the games.
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  And well-deserved, I thought.
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  Agreed.
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  I know next to nothing about
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  him or his personality.
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  So what's bizarre is like, mentally,
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  he's a lot like Farlow.
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  Like those two are like...
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  beyond smart right and maybe
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  that's it like his mind
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  works so much and
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  overthinks everything that
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  he like gets in his own way
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  the few people I know that
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  especially engineers like
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  their brain works
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  differently than other
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  people and they're not
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  usually real social
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  butterflies as it as it
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  comes they'll have a
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  conversation one-on-one
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  necessarily,
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  but they want to know how things work.
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  They want to know how things
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  like what makes this happen?
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  Why does that go on?
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  And that is just not a
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  conversation that ninety
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  nine percent of not
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  engineer people want to
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  have with other people.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm an insurance agent, dude,
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  and I can if I get on phone
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  with somebody I've never spoken to before,
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  I can usually tell within
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  about three minutes if
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  they're an engineer or not,
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  just from the line of
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  questions that they go to
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  that they go to ask them.
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  Yeah,
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  the last story I wanted to tell you
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  is I was in the back,
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  ran into Jake Marconi,
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  who is just a straight up good dude.
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  And he, you know,
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  it was announced he left
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  HWPO to kind of move back into his home.
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  And I think he's still working there,
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  but more like on affiliate stuff,
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  things like that.
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  He's not there there.
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  He was there to coach on her last games.
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  And so it was going to be,
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  it's his last games as a coach.
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  Yeah.
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  Dude, we had one of those, like,
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  bro conversations that was so awesome.
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  You know,
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  part of the reason he wants to be
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  done with competitive
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  coaching is his dad is sick.
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  And he just wants to spend
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  more time with his dad.
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  You know, I'm a guy who just lost my dad.
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  And, like...
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  The bond that we had in that
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  quick moment was so cool
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  and so communal and so much
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  about why I love CrossFit.
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  We have this shared experience.
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  We understand each other and
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  we can have a conversation
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  in the middle of a warmup area.
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  It was freaking awesome.
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  That's an awesome thing.
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  I love that kind of stuff.
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  Love, love, love that kind of stuff.
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  It was, um,
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  it was like probably one of the
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  coolest experiences of the
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  weekend for me.
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  And just, it's just two bros hanging out.
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  God bless him.
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  I will be, uh,
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  hope he gets more time with
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  him than he thinks he will.
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  Yeah.
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  Like,
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  I don't think it's anything terminal
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  or anything like that.
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  It's just his dad slowing down.
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  You know, we were talking about how like,
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  he goes like, like,
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  I don't talk to my dad a ton, but my dad,
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  like, you know,
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  he's there when my mom's talking and,
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  and I said, yeah,
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  and he does the interject thing, right?
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  Like when you need to hear something,
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  he does the interject thing.
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  And he's like, that's it exactly.
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  Yeah.
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  I said, yep.
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  That was my,
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  That was my dad, right?
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  Like, I'd call my mom,
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  and then he would be like,
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  make sure to tell him.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  No, my dad does the same thing.
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  You know?
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  My dad does the same thing.
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  I'm going to phone my mom,
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  and I can hear him in the background.
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  What?
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  Oh, no.
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  And just,
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  it's like three or four word
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  sentences every other,
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  like every five minutes or so,
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  because he's paying attention.
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  A lot of talk about the boys interrupted.
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  CrossFit says,
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  I wish Justin would loosen
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  up on the boys.
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  I don't think he can.
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  I think if he loosens up,
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  that show goes completely off the rails.
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  Somebody's got to keep him in line.
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  Right.
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  He's the only one that's
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  kind of keeping them on track.
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  But when they started
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  talking about the poop
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  conversations and Hopper
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  being out of toilet paper
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  twice and did the old,
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  can you spare a square?
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  I laughed so hard.
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  I was watching it in bed.
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  I could not stop laughing.
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  That's good stuff, dude.
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  I'm happy for Hopper.
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  I really, really am.
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  And I really do think,
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  I forgot who had said it,
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  but they are not going to
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  hear the end of it until
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  the game next year.
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  Tristan Patrick, fun fact,
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  I was in the bathroom
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  during one of those poop conversations.
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  Walked right in as Justin was walking out.
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  Did you see it yet, Corey?
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  No, I haven't.
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  I haven't had a chance to.
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  Here's the funny part.
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  Pepper and Hopper are having
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  a conversation while
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  sitting on the toilet.
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  Like you do.
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  And Hopper has run out of paper.
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  So,
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  Dallin has to get some under the thing
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  to him, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Justin is taking a leak in
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  the same bathroom.
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  The other two are actually
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  discussing paces for the next workout.
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  Justin doesn't let them know
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  that he's there listening.
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  He actually goes out and
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  does their pace on the floor and said,
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  wow, this is really easy.
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  This is really working well.
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  It just turns out those guys,
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  they own us something.
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  I'm going to go ahead and roll with this.
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  That's outstanding.
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  That is outstanding.
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  Yeah,
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  that's dudes being dudes right there.
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  Then they talked about how
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  Hopper was crop dusting everybody.
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  That I have no problem believing.
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  and someone in the chat said,
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  I think it was cross fat
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  that the hopper just gave
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  someone pink guy.
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  He lost it.
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  But I think they were talking about how,
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  like,
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  because of the way they have to eat
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  on a competition weekend,
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  their symptoms are just destroyed.
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  It's Jack dude.
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  It's Jack.
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  I, I, I, I,
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  any multi-day competition by
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  day two like your stomach
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  it's just because you're
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  just you're eating whatever
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  you can whenever you can um
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  trying not whatever you can
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  but you're eating whenever
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  you can forcing yourself
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  whenever you don't want to
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  because you know you need
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  it and your stomach doesn't
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  always agree with that so
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  yeah it becomes a problem
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  and then it's making sure
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  you get your protein in
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  making sure you get your
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  carbs in whatever kind of way so like
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  At Monster Games,
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  Nick from Holy Balls
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  stopped me to ask me about
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  something while I was on my
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  way to the bathroom.
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  And he's sitting there
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  trying to have a conversation with me.
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  And I finally had to stop.
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  And I was like, hey, man,
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  I will gladly talk to you
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  in about ten minutes.
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  And I'm about to poop my pants.
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  And he started laughing.
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  And he was like, oh, my bad.
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  I was like, no, no, no.
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  Cause I don't want to be rude to the dude.
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  It's literally the first
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  time I ever stopped to talk to him.
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  But like, also I'm kind of in a bind.
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  Like I will,
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  I'll promise you I will come back,
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  but if I don't go right now,
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  we're going to have a
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  problem right here on this
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  floor in front of your booth.
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  And I'll say, that's a great idea.
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  Andrew Stenson, same for volunteers.
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  Everyone's schedule is jacked up.
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  Yeah.
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  I can believe that.
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  I can believe that.
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  So I wanted to get from you,
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  what were your impressions
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  of this year's CrossFit
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  Games as a spectator?
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  I have been watching.
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  So a little back story.
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  So I started CrossFit May eighth,
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  twenty eighteen, my very first day.
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  I watched every game since then.
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  Right.
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  From twenty eighteen all the
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  way up to here.
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  Pretty much.
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  You say I watch almost every
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  heat of every athlete
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  that's come through.
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  This year was the best race
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  I ever saw on the men's side.
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  I mean,
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  Tia was just out there doing Tia things.
• 18:59
  There's not really a whole
• 19:00
  lot anybody can do about that.
• 19:02
  But one of the best races I've ever seen,
• 19:05
  just because from day one,
• 19:07
  even all the way up until
• 19:09
  pretty much the final event,
• 19:11
  it was still anybody's game
• 19:13
  at that point.
• 19:15
  that was outstanding and
• 19:16
  with ten events over three
• 19:18
  days not sixteen not
• 19:21
  fourteen not twelve not any
• 19:23
  other stuff ten events over
• 19:25
  three days and one of the
• 19:27
  best races we've ever seen
• 19:29
  nothing like no crazy stuff
• 19:31
  going on you know what I
• 19:32
  mean there's no ring
• 19:34
  handstand push-ups or uh
• 19:35
  you know no kind of
• 19:38
  wildness like that like just straight up
• 19:42
  Line everybody up.
• 19:43
  Here's the workout.
• 19:44
  Let's see who can do it the best.
• 19:45
  Let's see who can go the fastest.
• 19:47
  Um, what the lap saying to no cuts.
• 19:50
  Love it.
• 19:51
  Big fan of no cuts.
• 19:52
  Let everybody play.
• 19:53
  Let everybody play.
• 19:54
  Why?
• 19:55
  Because you don't know if
• 19:55
  somebody in the first seat
• 19:57
  is going to do something
• 19:58
  that's going to affect what
• 19:59
  goes on in the last seat or
• 20:02
  in the middle heat or
• 20:03
  something along those lines.
• 20:04
  Like there was still a
• 20:05
  chance for people to shake
• 20:06
  up the leaderboard.
• 20:08
  Um,
• 20:09
  I enjoyed it thoroughly.
• 20:12
  Now,
• 20:12
  I will agree with some of the stuff
• 20:13
  that y'all were talking about.
• 20:16
  Sunday night, you know,
• 20:19
  same old problems with the camera angles,
• 20:21
  you know,
• 20:21
  following stuff on the floor
• 20:22
  that maybe wasn't super
• 20:24
  important at the time.
• 20:25
  Like,
• 20:25
  I don't need to see somebody standing
• 20:26
  there waiting to do another
• 20:27
  handstand push-up.
• 20:30
  We can cut out from that.
• 20:31
  And, like,
• 20:32
  I don't need to see Tia standing
• 20:33
  there doing this or whoever, you know,
• 20:35
  trying to get their
• 20:36
  forearms right before they
• 20:37
  go up to do a pegboard.
• 20:39
  That was kind of silly as
• 20:41
  far as I'm concerned.
• 20:41
  But they've been doing that
• 20:44
  at least as long as I've been watching.
• 20:45
  Yep.
• 20:47
  Ain't changed yet,
• 20:47
  like you were talking about
• 20:48
  the other day.
• 20:49
  Like, it hadn't stopped.
• 20:51
  But as far as that goes, and I did, again,
• 20:55
  even on the women's side, dude, yes,
• 20:58
  it was more or less a foregone conclusion,
• 21:00
  even though she lost the
• 21:01
  leader jersey for one
• 21:02
  workout that Tia was going to win.
• 21:04
  But the rest of the races underneath that,
• 21:07
  were still good, fun stuff to watch.
• 21:12
  I did not realize until the
• 21:15
  very end that Danielle
• 21:16
  Brandon was doing as well as she did.
• 21:21
  Dave said it yesterday that
• 21:23
  she basically did nine
• 21:24
  events and still placed fourth.
• 21:27
  That is bananas crazy.
• 21:30
  She literally took a zero in
• 21:32
  one event and still came out fourth.
• 21:37
  that's a piece of
• 21:37
  information you don't even
• 21:38
  know what to do with once
• 21:40
  it's digested like how good
• 21:41
  she actually was especially
• 21:43
  with everything that she
• 21:44
  was I say she was dealing
• 21:45
  with we can pretty much
• 21:47
  agree that it was
• 21:47
  self-inflicted at that
• 21:48
  point but somebody just
• 21:51
  basically just kind of
• 21:52
  there shepherding her
• 21:54
  because they don't you
• 21:55
  ain't got really time to
• 21:56
  call yourself somebody
• 21:57
  else's coach whenever
• 21:58
  you're only there for one
• 21:59
  weekend that was that was
• 22:02
  impressive that was super
• 22:03
  super impressive
• 22:06
  Kenneth DeLapp with,
• 22:07
  thirty no cuts is greater
• 22:09
  than forty with cuts.
• 22:11
  Absolutely.
• 22:12
  Absolutely.
• 22:13
  I still want the best thirty.
• 22:16
  Yeah.
• 22:19
  There were five on each side
• 22:21
  that had no impact in the
• 22:23
  outcome of the games.
• 22:24
  Yeah, I'd agree with that.
• 22:27
  Because of the way we did it this year.
• 22:33
  I think it would be cool if
• 22:34
  all thirty people at the
• 22:36
  games had an impact on the overall score.
• 22:41
  You'd see even better races at that point.
• 22:45
  right right yeah there's
• 22:48
  just a greater chance of
• 22:49
  middling right in doing
• 22:51
  those types of things that
• 22:52
  would affect the final
• 22:53
  score yeah taking a twelfth
• 22:56
  where it took a step I mean
• 22:58
  I've been screaming that
• 23:00
  from the mountaintop since
• 23:01
  I started a podcast six
• 23:02
  years ago and it it hasn't
• 23:06
  changed so agreed
• 23:14
  I like what Lito's saying right there, too,
• 23:15
  as far as that, you know, I mean,
• 23:18
  everybody's agreeing more
• 23:19
  or less that no cuts is
• 23:20
  definitely better.
• 23:21
  But when you make cuts,
• 23:21
  now all of a sudden certain
• 23:23
  events have more weight
• 23:25
  than others because now
• 23:27
  people aren't there anymore.
• 23:28
  And I don't like that at all.
• 23:29
  Like that's I think that's
• 23:31
  unfair to the entire field at that point.
• 23:35
  is that, oh, wait, well,
• 23:36
  now we're going down to a twenty people.
• 23:38
  Well, holy shit.
• 23:39
  Now the scores matter or
• 23:41
  mean a whole lot more one
• 23:42
  way or the other.
• 23:42
  And people that you just got
• 23:43
  cut might have done better
• 23:45
  on said event and gave me a
• 23:46
  little bit more of a buffer.
• 23:48
  Yeah, I don't like that at all.
• 23:52
  Meredith Jones asks, in your opinion,
• 23:54
  which five for men and
• 23:56
  women were missing?
• 23:57
  I don't think I could do
• 23:58
  that off the top of my head.
• 24:01
  Dave yesterday on Savan gave
• 24:02
  a great example.
• 24:04
  Nate Ackerman,
• 24:05
  when he was demoing the
• 24:07
  snatch run workout,
• 24:10
  his time in the demo
• 24:12
  setting his own bar would
• 24:13
  have finished fourth.
• 24:14
  Yeah.
• 24:16
  That's insane, by the way.
• 24:20
  That means that at minimum,
• 24:22
  he should have been in the field, right?
• 24:25
  Correct.
• 24:25
  I will tell you,
• 24:26
  Caroline Stanley should
• 24:27
  have been in the field.
• 24:28
  Kyra Milligan should have
• 24:29
  been in the field.
• 24:30
  And that's just from the demo team.
• 24:36
  So there's two on the women,
• 24:39
  one on the men.
• 24:40
  And I'm sure I could come up
• 24:41
  with them if I had just a
• 24:43
  little bit of time.
• 24:44
  I'd be more...
• 24:50
  I guess curious you could say as, as the,
• 24:52
  who shouldn't be there as far as that.
• 24:54
  I mean, let me Sydney Wells.
• 24:57
  There were no,
• 24:57
  there were no ring muscle-ups this year.
• 25:01
  How well does she do at the
• 25:02
  games with no ring muscle-ups?
• 25:05
  Probably, probably not terrible.
• 25:07
  Right.
• 25:08
  Probably not terrible.
• 25:09
  I will say this too.
• 25:10
  And I wanted to get this out
• 25:12
  while I'm still thinking about it is,
• 25:14
  and I know nobody cares about teams.
• 25:17
  I care about teams because
• 25:19
  four of my friends finished
• 25:21
  fifth in the world.
• 25:23
  And I want to give a big
• 25:24
  shout out to them because in,
• 25:26
  in our little Imam Kotex group,
• 25:30
  the day before it started,
• 25:32
  like the spin rankings come out,
• 25:34
  you know,
• 25:35
  where he thinks people are gonna finish,
• 25:36
  blah, blah, blah,
• 25:37
  where teams are gonna finish.
• 25:39
  They had him at seventeenth.
• 25:42
  And to the surprise of nobody that we knew,
• 25:45
  because we knew what kind
• 25:46
  of work they had put in,
• 25:47
  we knew what they were
• 25:48
  capable of and whatnot,
• 25:49
  they finished fifth,
• 25:51
  and that was outstanding.
• 25:54
  I have not yelled at my TV
• 25:55
  that much in quite some
• 25:57
  time when it wasn't LSU
• 25:59
  football season going on.
• 26:02
  Frickin' Josh and Jordan.
• 26:05
  Jordan,
• 26:06
  frickin' back squat in five-fifteen
• 26:08
  as a PR for him, by the way.
• 26:09
  Like, that hadn't happened before.
• 26:11
  Them just steady on doing
• 26:14
  what they're doing,
• 26:15
  sniping people off and
• 26:17
  getting people to work out, you know,
• 26:18
  coming out of basically nowhere.
• 26:20
  Like, super proud of those guys.
• 26:25
  You can't have both
• 26:26
  international
• 26:26
  representation and the
• 26:28
  strongest field possible at
• 26:30
  the same time.
• 26:31
  I think you can.
• 26:33
  Now,
• 26:33
  can it be an all-inclusive
• 26:35
  international field?
• 26:37
  Sure, not.
• 26:39
  But Xiong Yong Choi is one
• 26:41
  of the thirty best athletes in the world.
• 26:43
  She's international.
• 26:45
  There are a handful of
• 26:46
  European athletes that are
• 26:47
  the best in the world.
• 26:50
  Like Lucy Campbell, Amy Kringle,
• 26:54
  Elisa Fuliano, if she would participate,
• 26:57
  are in the top thirty in the world.
• 27:01
  emma tall if laura horvat
• 27:04
  decides to participate
• 27:06
  they're in the top thirty
• 27:08
  in the world but it but
• 27:12
  when you're holding an
• 27:13
  event and you make it where
• 27:15
  just the people from your
• 27:18
  continent get to come like
• 27:20
  africa or south america
• 27:22
  you're actually cheating
• 27:23
  the fans from seeing the
• 27:24
  best in the world
• 27:30
  You preach to the choir right there,
• 27:31
  homeboy.
• 27:35
  You preach to the choir right there.
• 27:37
  I get the why behind it
• 27:39
  because you want to try to
• 27:40
  get as many people involved
• 27:42
  as humanly possible,
• 27:43
  get eyes on the sport.
• 27:44
  I understand that part of it.
• 27:47
  But at the same time,
• 27:50
  you're going to get some people that,
• 27:54
  I hate to say it because it
• 27:55
  sounds horrible, just don't belong there.
• 27:59
  I don't know.
• 28:06
  It's definitely a longer
• 28:07
  debate than what we have time for today.
• 28:17
  Anyway.
• 28:20
  I don't look bad.
• 28:22
  Scott, your face is red.
• 28:25
  just gets stuck man it just
• 28:27
  gets stuck and I have to
• 28:28
  get it up anyway what I
• 28:35
  what I what I do want to
• 28:38
  talk about today while
• 28:39
  corey's here is one of the
• 28:42
  one of the monologues I
• 28:42
  wanted to do is talk about
• 28:48
  why crossfit can't be
• 28:49
  killed this is something that like
• 28:54
  I was thinking about on my long drive home,
• 28:57
  and you have all these
• 28:59
  people trying to come after CrossFit.
• 29:01
  You have your Metfixes.
• 29:03
  You have your WFPs.
• 29:05
  And I was just thinking about, like,
• 29:07
  I went back to the games this year,
• 29:10
  and it felt so good.
• 29:13
  And why did it feel so good?
• 29:16
  Because CrossFit has
• 29:17
  something that those other two do not.
• 29:21
  And that is...
• 29:23
  They define who they are.
• 29:28
  When you ask someone what CrossFit is,
• 29:32
  we all know it's constantly varied,
• 29:35
  functional movement
• 29:37
  executed at high intensity.
• 29:42
  We have a hierarchy pyramid
• 29:46
  that explains to us how you
• 29:49
  build that up.
• 29:51
  And we have a sickness, wellness,
• 29:55
  fitness continuum that
• 29:57
  explains like how you can
• 29:59
  stay healthy using the
• 30:03
  CrossFit methodology.
• 30:06
  And because of that,
• 30:07
  CrossFit has a North Star.
• 30:10
  They have a foundation.
• 30:13
  They have fundamentals.
• 30:17
  And whenever someone loses their way,
• 30:20
  Like, especially in sports,
• 30:21
  you always hear,
• 30:22
  when someone loses their way,
• 30:24
  what do you do next?
• 30:26
  You go back to the fundamentals.
• 30:30
  It's another thing Greg Glassman said,
• 30:32
  right?
• 30:33
  Right.
• 30:34
  And that's the MCI, mechanics, consistency,
• 30:39
  intensity.
• 30:40
  When you lose it,
• 30:42
  you go back and do the mechanics again,
• 30:44
  then they become consistent again,
• 30:46
  and then you do the intensity.
• 30:49
  Or when you get to a point
• 30:50
  where you think you can't get any better,
• 30:52
  then you break it down.
• 30:54
  You go back to the mechanics,
• 30:55
  you go back to the basics
• 30:57
  and you refine those until
• 31:00
  even those basics,
• 31:01
  because you can always get better.
• 31:03
  It's always something to work on.
• 31:05
  It's my favorite thing about CrossFit.
• 31:07
  It's always something to do.
• 31:08
  It's always something to get better at.
• 31:10
  So we have a horrible event
• 31:12
  that happens last year.
• 31:14
  We come back to the games this year.
• 31:18
  And we're back to a CrossFit
• 31:21
  Games that is programmed
• 31:23
  classic CrossFit.
• 31:25
  What did Dave do?
• 31:27
  Go back to the fundamentals.
• 31:31
  Go back to the North Star.
• 31:35
  Right?
• 31:37
  The community.
• 31:39
  Celebrate the community.
• 31:41
  That's what CrossFit's about, right?
• 31:44
  And then you go to Vendor
• 31:45
  Village and you see the
• 31:46
  CrossFit store with Forging Elite Fitness,
• 31:50
  with... Pukie.
• 31:56
  With Pukie.
• 31:59
  Routine is the enemy.
• 32:01
  Routine is the enemy.
• 32:03
  all of the catchphrases that
• 32:06
  take us back to that North Star.
• 32:09
  You see the pyramid on the shirts again.
• 32:12
  You see all these things.
• 32:15
  And whenever CrossFit loses its way,
• 32:19
  which happened in twenty twenty,
• 32:21
  probably happened before twenty twenty.
• 32:23
  Yeah.
• 32:25
  But whenever it loses its way,
• 32:27
  it always has that North Star or that
• 32:32
  that foundation and that
• 32:33
  fundamental to go back to.
• 32:36
  If you ask MedFix, who are they?
• 32:39
  They can't tell you.
• 32:43
  They can't tell you.
• 32:44
  When you ask WFP who they are,
• 32:47
  they're for athletes by athletes.
• 32:50
  That's a freaking marketing slogan.
• 32:52
  It's not a foundation.
• 32:55
  It's not a North Star.
• 32:57
  It's an all-star game.
• 32:59
  And if that's what you're
• 33:00
  hanging your hat on, you're in trouble.
• 33:04
  Big time.
• 33:06
  Right?
• 33:07
  You ask someone in the
• 33:08
  CrossFit space who they are,
• 33:12
  they've got constantly
• 33:14
  varied functional movement
• 33:16
  executed at high intensity.
• 33:19
  And they have a pyramid.
• 33:21
  And they have a continuum.
• 33:22
  And they will talk to you
• 33:24
  about it until your ears bleed.
• 33:27
  Because we love it so much.
• 33:31
  You go to these other two,
• 33:34
  MedFix over here will tell
• 33:36
  you every big word that
• 33:37
  you're going to have to
• 33:38
  look up after it's all over
• 33:40
  to figure out what the hell
• 33:41
  they just said.
• 33:43
  And you're still not going
• 33:44
  to understand who they are
• 33:46
  or what they're trying to do.
• 33:49
  WFP or the athletes by the athletes.
• 33:56
  Where's the community?
• 33:57
  Where's the foundation?
• 33:59
  Where's the fundamental?
• 34:03
  It doesn't exist.
• 34:05
  And that was the beauty of
• 34:07
  this year's CrossFit Games.
• 34:09
  It was all about the North Star again.
• 34:13
  And that's why the vibes
• 34:14
  were so freaking good.
• 34:18
  Speaking about that,
• 34:19
  so going back to the broadcast,
• 34:21
  I know you get to see a
• 34:22
  whole lot of the actual broadcast,
• 34:23
  but Chase and Adrian,
• 34:26
  who I knew were going to do a good job,
• 34:28
  heard them over before,
• 34:31
  Adrian, especially, was accentuating,
• 34:40
  cementing, saying things like, hey,
• 34:43
  during this right now,
• 34:44
  you are going from that
• 34:45
  core to extremity.
• 34:46
  It's like he's giving a
• 34:48
  class about what's going on on the floor.
• 34:54
  Yes, Chase was fantastic.
• 34:55
  But listening to Adrian tie
• 34:57
  it back to the fundamentals
• 34:59
  of what we do and just
• 35:02
  watching these people do it
• 35:04
  at the highest possible level.
• 35:07
  Like that for me,
• 35:08
  because every time I'd hear
• 35:09
  him say something and he
• 35:10
  would tie it back to stuff
• 35:12
  that I remember from my L-I.
• 35:14
  to stuff that I might say
• 35:15
  during the course of a
• 35:16
  class that I'm coaching.
• 35:20
  That was phenomenal.
• 35:21
  That was outstanding to, again,
• 35:25
  like you were just saying,
• 35:26
  to bring it back down to a
• 35:28
  community level,
• 35:29
  to stuff that people can identify with,
• 35:32
  not just, oh, yeah,
• 35:36
  Ricky ran a
• 35:38
  five-forty-seven on his last mile.
• 35:40
  Ninety-nine percent of
• 35:41
  people that go to CrossFit
• 35:42
  class cannot identify that.
• 35:44
  But what they can identify with is that,
• 35:45
  oh,
• 35:45
  he picked up his pace to try to finish
• 35:48
  strong.
• 35:48
  Well, I tell people that every day.
• 35:50
  I tell people that this
• 35:51
  morning when I coach class.
• 35:53
  For me,
• 35:54
  that part in and of itself was
• 35:56
  outstanding.
• 35:58
  And then Chase doing what Chase does,
• 36:00
  and he's gotten from every
• 36:04
  time I've ever heard him,
• 36:05
  he just gets better every
• 36:06
  time he gets an opportunity to.
• 36:09
  to get out there and, and,
• 36:11
  and paint the picture.
• 36:13
  It was, it was that they were,
• 36:14
  they were awesome all weekend.
• 36:18
  And here's kind of the sum up of this,
• 36:19
  right?
• 36:20
  Because there's a North star,
• 36:23
  because there's a foundation,
• 36:25
  because there are these
• 36:27
  fundamentals and tools
• 36:28
  provided to illustrate those.
• 36:32
  Dave, Boz, Heather Lawrence, Chase, Adrian,
• 36:40
  all of those people can be
• 36:41
  on the same page.
• 36:43
  Yep.
• 36:45
  Singing out of the same hymnal,
• 36:48
  singing the same tune.
• 36:52
  And when that happens,
• 36:54
  it's beautiful again.
• 36:58
  These other people coming
• 36:59
  after CrossFit can't do that.
• 37:02
  So all these people that say,
• 37:04
  is CrossFit dying?
• 37:05
  No, it's not dying.
• 37:08
  We've stumbled.
• 37:09
  We've stumbled because we
• 37:12
  lost the North Star.
• 37:14
  We lost the fundamentals.
• 37:18
  But they never were gone.
• 37:19
  They just were hidden.
• 37:22
  And the minute we reset on
• 37:24
  those fundamentals and
• 37:26
  those foundation and that North Star,
• 37:30
  this thing's a beautiful thing.
• 37:33
  And we sing together as a
• 37:35
  community out of the same hymnal,
• 37:38
  out of the same playbook,
• 37:40
  and we become this big communal team.
• 37:48
  Would you say the games were
• 37:49
  good advertisement for
• 37:50
  affiliates once again?
• 37:52
  I do.
• 37:54
  And they advertised
• 37:55
  affiliates during the broadcast.
• 38:00
  That's what I was fixing to say.
• 38:01
  Like, I mean,
• 38:02
  granted it was the same two or three ads,
• 38:05
  uh, the entire weekend,
• 38:06
  but it's showing what goes
• 38:08
  on inside of affiliates.
• 38:10
  which is a sharp contrast to
• 38:12
  what's going on at the game.
• 38:13
  At the same time, though,
• 38:15
  ninety percent of what went
• 38:17
  on at the games,
• 38:19
  you can do inside of an affiliate.
• 38:23
  Running the running Isabel,
• 38:25
  that would be real easy to
• 38:26
  do as a class workout.
• 38:29
  Every workout they did at
• 38:30
  the games this year,
• 38:33
  you could do inside the affiliate.
• 38:35
  Yeah.
• 38:36
  I'm going to scale it down.
• 38:38
  But, hey, that's kind of what we do.
• 38:43
  Hey, if you can't do this,
• 38:44
  let me go and let's do this instead.
• 38:47
  Oh, you can't do that.
• 38:47
  That's fine.
• 38:48
  We'll just work on this instead.
• 38:50
  And that way we'll maintain the stimulus.
• 38:53
  Look,
• 38:54
  our EMOM company program and Brandon
• 38:56
  programmed at least three,
• 38:58
  because I haven't looked at all week,
• 38:59
  but at least three of the
• 39:00
  workouts from the games this weekend.
• 39:03
  for this week now there's
• 39:06
  levels to it right so you
• 39:08
  might not want to run four
• 39:09
  miles row three k and then
• 39:11
  run two and run and run two
• 39:13
  so he kind of pulled it
• 39:14
  back so that you could um
• 39:18
  and I know a couple other
• 39:18
  people that have done the
• 39:19
  same the same type thing
• 39:22
  yeah there you go well
• 39:24
  sentinel posted their
• 39:27
  first day of the games with
• 39:29
  modifications all three
• 39:31
  workouts online somewhere I
• 39:33
  saw today and it it was
• 39:35
  awesome yeah we got the
• 39:37
  same thing so this this
• 39:39
  little short or this reel
• 39:41
  came out in march of this
• 39:42
  year you know we we dog
• 39:45
  crossfit sometimes but
• 39:47
  they've been working hard
• 39:47
  this year this came out earlier this year
• 39:53
  And it just tells the whole story.
• 39:55
  Six-word phrase that we say,
• 39:57
  what is CrossFit?
• 39:59
  CrossFit is constantly
• 40:00
  varied functional movements
• 40:01
  that are executed at high intensity.
• 40:04
  It's a strength and
• 40:05
  conditioning program that
• 40:06
  mixes weightlifting, calisthenics,
• 40:09
  powerlifting, running, rowing, biking,
• 40:12
  and a whole bunch of different ways.
• 40:14
  It's family, it's community,
• 40:16
  it's a no BS approach to
• 40:19
  bettering your life,
• 40:20
  not only inside the walls of the gym,
• 40:21
  but also outside the walls of the gym.
• 40:27
  If I looked at each
• 40:28
  individual person that
• 40:29
  walks in every single day here,
• 40:31
  it's like everybody's
• 40:32
  absolutely different.
• 40:33
  look like my eight-year-old dad.
• 40:35
  It could look like my kids.
• 40:37
  I can honestly say hand on
• 40:38
  heart that it will change their life.
• 40:40
  Not because it's just a fitness program,
• 40:43
  not because of the community,
• 40:44
  but because the greatest
• 40:46
  adaptation that occurs in
• 40:47
  CrossFit happens right here.
• 40:53
  I've watched that no less
• 40:53
  than twenty-five times.
• 40:56
  Isn't that awesome?
• 40:58
  That is the North Star.
• 41:00
  Whenever we lose our way, we've got that.
• 41:05
  Every video I see that has
• 41:07
  Chuck Carswell on it,
• 41:08
  I stop whatever I'm doing
• 41:09
  and I watch however long it takes.
• 41:11
  Like if it's five seconds,
• 41:12
  if it's thirty seconds,
• 41:13
  if it's two minutes, whatever,
• 41:15
  because that dude is on point.
• 41:18
  Like there's nothing that
• 41:19
  he's I've never heard Chuck
• 41:20
  say something.
• 41:21
  I was like, well,
• 41:21
  that sounded stupid or whatever.
• 41:23
  Like that dude has always got it together.
• 41:27
  But yeah, I legitimately watch that video.
• 41:29
  You just put up at least
• 41:31
  twenty five times.
• 41:32
  Every time I see it,
• 41:33
  I sit there and I just
• 41:33
  watch the whole thing.
• 41:35
  Mark Phillips, Chuck is the best.
• 41:39
  The video Sevan made with
• 41:41
  Hobart were so good.
• 41:46
  I'll tell you,
• 41:46
  Sevan doing the affiliate
• 41:49
  videos was just masterful.
• 41:56
  They were fantastic.
• 41:58
  I don't see any of them that
• 41:59
  I thought were, yeah,
• 42:01
  they were all super good.
• 42:06
  Yeah, every box has a story.
• 42:10
  Absolutely.
• 42:10
  At least one story.
• 42:12
  Probably ten stories.
• 42:17
  Bill Grundler put out a
• 42:18
  video today about a guy who
• 42:19
  came into his gym and the
• 42:22
  joy he got doing this
• 42:23
  modified workout that just
• 42:26
  told him he had the rest of
• 42:27
  his life still.
• 42:30
  Like, that made me cry, dude.
• 42:33
  Well, and then especially bill,
• 42:34
  like making it relatable with bills,
• 42:36
  like dude, like the dude's my age.
• 42:39
  And like,
• 42:39
  I don't feel like I'm past my prime or,
• 42:44
  you know, whatever.
• 42:44
  Like I got a lot of life
• 42:46
  left to live and I wanted
• 42:46
  to live it in a quality manner.
• 42:51
  So like for bill, that that's personal.
• 42:53
  Somebody comes in there and that's,
• 42:54
  that's his age.
• 42:54
  Like, Oh no, no, no, we don't, we don't,
• 42:56
  we don't make this right.
• 42:58
  Yeah, dude,
• 42:58
  that I saw that this morning too.
• 43:00
  That was fantastic.
• 43:02
  What they didn't advertise
• 43:03
  at all during the games was
• 43:05
  the age group and adaptive games.
• 43:07
  And that is sad.
• 43:09
  And we're going to get into
• 43:10
  that a little bit because
• 43:15
  this bugs me and I know it
• 43:17
  bugs Jamie and I'm sure
• 43:18
  she's going to talk about it this week.
• 43:24
  But all of the Masters Games
• 43:27
  workouts are coming out on
• 43:30
  the Legends Instagram.
• 43:33
  Yep.
• 43:36
  And so Jamie's like, is it for the games?
• 43:39
  Is it for the legends in December?
• 43:42
  Is it, which one is it?
• 43:51
  It makes no sense.
• 43:53
  I had only seen the one.
• 43:54
  I didn't realize they had
• 43:54
  released more than one.
• 43:57
  Yep.
• 43:58
  I saw the heavy cleaning
• 43:59
  jerk and I immediately said
• 44:00
  to Jamie and she was like, hate it.
• 44:02
  And I said, I knew you would.
• 44:05
  Well,
• 44:05
  even this one and the legends are
• 44:07
  known for going heavy.
• 44:09
  Right.
• 44:09
  So the axle bar deadlifts,
• 44:12
  eighty foot sled push.
• 44:18
  And then they're doing this
• 44:19
  movement thing where.
• 44:21
  Yeah.
• 44:22
  Cross them off as they go.
• 44:31
  so yeah and the I think we
• 44:35
  have bigger fish to fry
• 44:36
  than the graphics but I get
• 44:38
  what you're saying it's
• 44:40
  like they stole jim
• 44:42
  reaper's like format and
• 44:45
  made it for everything and
• 44:54
  I get that they've handed
• 44:55
  it off I understand that
• 44:58
  I'm actually a fan of that because
• 45:02
  Now, you know, to a degree,
• 45:04
  I wanted to be able to make
• 45:05
  the games and be at the games,
• 45:07
  not at the Masters games,
• 45:09
  like at the games where the
• 45:10
  Masters games are also going on.
• 45:12
  But I understand the
• 45:14
  shifting as far as that's concerned.
• 45:16
  But the fact that there's
• 45:18
  not one piece of thing I've
• 45:21
  seen from CrossFit at all
• 45:25
  Saying that, hey, in two and a half weeks,
• 45:27
  we're having these Masters
• 45:29
  CrossFit games in Columbus.
• 45:31
  And where's the pit?
• 45:33
  The teams are that same weekend, are they?
• 45:35
  Yeah, and they're all in the same place.
• 45:38
  And they're all in the same place, okay,
• 45:39
  yeah.
• 45:39
  So I haven't seen a thing
• 45:41
  from CrossFit as far as
• 45:42
  that is concerned.
• 45:43
  I saw they announced who was
• 45:46
  announcing them.
• 45:48
  And I don't even remember if
• 45:49
  that was Legends or if that
• 45:50
  was from CrossFit.
• 45:55
  Say it again?
• 45:55
  It was Legends.
• 45:57
  Okay.
• 45:59
  Yeah.
• 46:01
  Yeah,
• 46:01
  I don't even have... I've not
• 46:03
  received a page of media stuff yet.
• 46:08
  So I may just be there as a
• 46:09
  spectator meeting everybody.
• 46:15
  Vicky asks,
• 46:15
  should they bring back age
• 46:16
  groups and adapt it to the
• 46:18
  regular CrossFit games?
• 46:21
  I'm a little conflicted.
• 46:29
  don't know I really don't
• 46:30
  know I liked the masters
• 46:33
  being by themselves last
• 46:34
  year I'm okay with the
• 46:36
  teens coming in and making
• 46:37
  it the age group but
• 46:41
  there's got to be some kind
• 46:42
  of connection yeah through
• 46:45
  the games I think it should
• 46:48
  be before the games and
• 46:50
  then highlights shown at
• 46:51
  the games if they're going
• 46:52
  to separate them like in between events
• 46:58
  I don't disagree with that take,
• 47:00
  but that's never going to happen.
• 47:01
  And you know it.
• 47:05
  They're not even advertising
• 47:07
  the fact that our games are happening.
• 47:12
  Asking them to show a clip
• 47:14
  of Lito freaking clean
• 47:16
  jerking whatever she's
• 47:19
  going to do at the actual
• 47:22
  games is slim to none.
• 47:26
  I just don't see it.
• 47:27
  What bugs me is last year
• 47:28
  was ten workouts.
• 47:30
  This year is seven plus
• 47:32
  final for half the field.
• 47:34
  Well,
• 47:36
  the ten last year was half the field
• 47:38
  for the tenth.
• 47:40
  That's the same.
• 47:43
  And two of the seven so far
• 47:44
  are heavy and less than three minutes.
• 47:50
  That's Legends stuff, dude.
• 47:53
  Legends likes their heavy stuff.
• 47:55
  That's just what they're releasing early.
• 48:00
  I mean,
• 48:02
  I don't remember exactly where I
• 48:04
  was at the games last year,
• 48:05
  but I do know that for the Legends,
• 48:10
  like the December one,
• 48:11
  like all of our events were pretty quick,
• 48:14
  relatively speaking.
• 48:17
  The heavy events were relatively heavy.
• 48:19
  Like we had a hundred and
• 48:19
  fifty pound sad bag.
• 48:20
  We had a clean, uh, complex, uh,
• 48:26
  hundred and fifteen pound hang snatches.
• 48:29
  That was, and that was three minutes long.
• 48:30
  That was the first event
• 48:32
  that we had was literally three minutes,
• 48:35
  uh, three minutes long,
• 48:36
  like just rip the bandaid
• 48:37
  off and hit it hard,
• 48:39
  which I enjoyed because
• 48:40
  that's kind of stuff I'm
• 48:41
  built for like quick, fast,
• 48:43
  get in there and get it done, uh,
• 48:45
  type stuff.
• 48:45
  But.
• 48:48
  We weren't on total time
• 48:49
  over the entire weekend.
• 48:51
  We weren't on the floor super long.
• 48:54
  Uh, Jay Birch,
• 48:54
  what sucks is the majority
• 48:55
  of open participants are
• 48:57
  probably age group people.
• 48:59
  Not probably.
• 49:01
  Fifty percent of open
• 49:03
  participants are thirty
• 49:04
  five to forty nine years old.
• 49:09
  This guy right here.
• 49:12
  Yes, Amanda.
• 49:13
  The uh, we did have a swim.
• 49:18
  That was pretty cool.
• 49:19
  The legends winter event is
• 49:21
  held at a facility that
• 49:23
  makes a swim really easy.
• 49:25
  Yeah.
• 49:26
  You literally walk outside
• 49:27
  the booth right there.
• 49:27
  Yeah.
• 49:30
  Part of the venue.
• 49:31
  Yeah.
• 49:34
  For a lot of these venues,
• 49:36
  they would have to secure
• 49:37
  another venue for that.
• 49:41
  Talking about legends in December.
• 49:42
  Um,
• 49:44
  being programmed by Boulder Athlete.
• 49:45
  So being programmed by Jason
• 49:47
  Grubb this year, who's not participating.
• 49:50
  Supposedly, or not supposedly,
• 49:53
  they said him and whoever else, Joe,
• 49:55
  I guess, possibly Jason Ansley,
• 49:57
  were going,
• 49:58
  doing some site visits to
• 50:00
  better utilize the space
• 50:02
  that we have to compete over there.
• 50:04
  So I don't know exactly what that means.
• 50:05
  And they're talking about
• 50:06
  like in terms of workouts.
• 50:08
  If we're going to get
• 50:09
  another outside event,
• 50:10
  if we're going to have a different event,
• 50:12
  like a different thing,
• 50:14
  Because, I mean,
• 50:14
  last year the swim was
• 50:15
  literally just as far as
• 50:16
  you can go in eight minutes
• 50:19
  or ten minutes, whatever it was.
• 50:22
  So they're going to add, you know,
• 50:24
  and implement.
• 50:24
  They're going to add something different.
• 50:28
  That was the official word was that.
• 50:30
  Well,
• 50:30
  two years ago it was a dumbbell and
• 50:33
  you would do one hundreds
• 50:35
  and then dumbbell work,
• 50:37
  hundred dumbbell work.
• 50:40
  Yep.
• 50:42
  But.
• 50:43
  All right.
• 50:44
  We are probably past the top of the hour.
• 50:49
  I don't think the separation
• 50:50
  of the age group in Indies
• 50:51
  matters as much.
• 50:53
  Rather, the athlete experience does,
• 50:55
  and that has dramatically
• 50:56
  changed since it separated.
• 50:57
  I think every athlete will
• 50:59
  agree with that.
• 51:01
  One hundred percent.
• 51:06
  So they contributed fifty
• 51:08
  percent of the prize purse
• 51:09
  for the elites.
• 51:10
  Well,
• 51:11
  the the Masters Prize money comes out
• 51:13
  of that, too.
• 51:16
  Out of the yeah,
• 51:17
  out of the open registrations,
• 51:19
  so they're contributing to
• 51:21
  their own as well,
• 51:22
  but it is much smaller than the elites.
• 51:28
  Which.
• 51:31
  The majority of the elites
• 51:32
  are going to say they're
• 51:32
  not there for the money.
• 51:36
  But they are.
• 51:40
  Justin Medeiros out touching
• 51:43
  James Sprague cost him
• 51:44
  eleven thousand dollars.
• 51:47
  Or elites.
• 51:50
  The Masters elites.
• 51:51
  The Masters elites.
• 51:54
  We get a lot smaller share
• 51:57
  of the prize money as far
• 51:59
  as the game is concerned.
• 52:00
  I say we like I've made it already,
• 52:02
  but I have not yet.
• 52:03
  But.
• 52:04
  When I do make it,
• 52:05
  I'm not going there to try to win money.
• 52:06
  I'm going there to be a games athlete.
• 52:17
  Go back to the North star
• 52:19
  elite age group and
• 52:20
  adaptive all in the same week in Madison.
• 52:23
  There are problems with that too, George.
• 52:25
  And it's,
• 52:27
  The Adaptive only got five
• 52:28
  of their divisions to go to Madison.
• 52:32
  And they have sixteen different divisions.
• 52:35
  Because they can't change
• 52:36
  the floor as quickly in
• 52:40
  Madison for the wheelchair
• 52:42
  athletes and things like that.
• 52:45
  So there are benefits to
• 52:51
  separating it out.
• 52:54
  But they need to...
• 52:58
  They need to make the experience the same,
• 53:01
  the kits the same.
• 53:04
  That's what sucks for the
• 53:06
  Masters athletes is they
• 53:08
  don't even have enough
• 53:09
  clothes to get them to the
• 53:12
  week and they're required
• 53:13
  to wear nothing but those
• 53:15
  clothes at the event.
• 53:20
  That last year, who was it?
• 53:24
  Northern Spirit last year?
• 53:27
  Yeah.
• 53:27
  For the, uh, for the,
• 53:28
  for the master's groups.
• 53:31
  And I remember texting my, my buddy,
• 53:33
  Brandon,
• 53:33
  if I know that I made it and he was like,
• 53:36
  and he's so laid back, dude, he was like,
• 53:38
  I don't even care.
• 53:40
  He said, I'm just,
• 53:41
  cause he was just happy to be there,
• 53:42
  you know, happy to get his stuff.
• 53:44
  And I would be too, but at the same time,
• 53:47
  like now I'm having to do laundry.
• 53:52
  At some point,
• 53:53
  either that or I'm warming up in no shirt,
• 53:55
  taking the floor with a shirt,
• 53:57
  taking my shirt off before
• 53:57
  I get out there so that I
• 53:58
  can wear it again sometime
• 53:59
  later without having to go
• 54:00
  back and spend money at the laundromat.
• 54:10
  Andrew said the last year, Madison,
• 54:11
  wasn't the Masters only ten
• 54:12
  per age group?
• 54:13
  It was.
• 54:15
  Yep, it was ten.
• 54:17
  The payouts just aren't there for Masters,
• 54:19
  which is one of the reasons
• 54:20
  I'm one hundred percent in favor.
• 54:24
  of in-person semis.
• 54:28
  It would just add to the
• 54:28
  cost of the season in the same goal.
• 54:32
  So, David, I don't know if you remember,
• 54:34
  but Castro was asked about
• 54:38
  that earlier this year,
• 54:40
  and he said that it's a
• 54:41
  strong possibility that we
• 54:42
  are going to have in-person
• 54:44
  events that will be
• 54:45
  qualifiers for the Masters
• 54:46
  CrossFit Games.
• 54:50
  Yeah, he meant not in favor.
• 54:52
  Well...
• 54:53
  Either way.
• 54:57
  Yeah,
• 54:57
  I think they're going to be included
• 54:58
  as part of the other semifinals.
• 55:01
  I think so, too.
• 55:03
  It had Masters divisions anyway.
• 55:06
  You're still going to, and look,
• 55:07
  and I've been thinking about that too,
• 55:09
  is that you're still going
• 55:09
  to have to do the online
• 55:10
  qualifier to get to that in-person event.
• 55:14
  So it's not like they're
• 55:14
  going away anytime soon,
• 55:16
  but at least it gives
• 55:17
  people a better chance,
• 55:19
  people who are better in
• 55:20
  person than they are online, you know,
• 55:22
  where you don't get thirty
• 55:23
  seven tries at it.
• 55:24
  Like you will do it right now.
• 55:25
  We'll call it good.
• 55:28
  more legitimate shot at
• 55:29
  actually making it if you
• 55:30
  can make it you know
• 55:32
  through the qualifier get
• 55:33
  to the thing and then do
• 55:34
  what you got to do to get
• 55:35
  yourself in the qualifying
• 55:36
  spot well that guys we are
• 55:40
  way over I have a meeting
• 55:42
  coming up and I need to uh
• 55:45
  sorry um with that thank
• 55:49
  you all for being here
• 55:50
  tomorrow we're going to talk about
• 55:53
  why Dave Castro isn't dumb.
• 55:57
  And people that say he
• 56:00
  doesn't know what he's talking about are.
• 56:03
  So for that, tune into that tomorrow.
• 56:06
  We'll talk about that.
• 56:07
  And then I will have Sunday
• 56:09
  Night CrossFit talk this Sunday.
• 56:12
  And if you didn't get the
• 56:13
  Amanda Hari clip interview,
• 56:16
  it's a few minutes long.
• 56:18
  Go check that out.
• 56:19
  And I have one more media
• 56:20
  person that I have to edit
• 56:21
  and get out there.
• 56:24
  And it's really different.
• 56:25
  These people do extreme
• 56:26
  sports and decided to jump
• 56:28
  into the CrossFit space and record.
• 56:32
  But in their other business,
• 56:33
  they do shark videos.
• 56:37
  They do MMA.
• 56:40
  They do a bunch of stuff like that.
• 56:42
  So I did a little feature on them.
• 56:45
  That'll be coming out later
• 56:46
  this week as well.
• 56:47
  That sounds cool as shit.
• 56:49
  With that,
• 56:49
  we'll see everybody next time on
• 56:51
  Lunch with Clydesdale.
• 56:54
  Peace.