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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Where Have all the Personalities Gone? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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college football and the CrossFit Games.
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They are screwing things up the exact same
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way.
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Let's talk about it next.
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It's lunch time.
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What's going on, everybody?
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You want me to record it for you?
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I can.
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No, no, I'll do it.
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I have some ideas,
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so I want to combine it together with
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something else.
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I just like giving you shit about it
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because you do it every single day and
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then every day you go,
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I really need to record that.
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So all my recording stuff is in my
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basement.
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I live my life upstairs, right?
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Like, so it's,
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it's not something that I think about.
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And when I think about it and I'm
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at my laptop,
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I don't have my mic to be able
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to do, you know, like, it's just,
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it's just inconvenient.
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But anyway.
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So,
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Phil the Pooper wants to know where your
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plaid is.
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So, like I told you earlier,
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Scott and I were texting back and forth
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after Savant just fucking laid into me,
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which was hilarious, by the way.
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I actually probably do own about six
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different flannel shirts or flannel print
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shirts.
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They're not actual flannel shirts,
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but it's not cold enough down here to
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warrant actual flannel.
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It's just not.
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Trish doesn't like rap.
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That's fine.
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That's our theme song.
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Sorry.
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Yeah, you don't have to.
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Mute us for thirty seconds.
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Be fine.
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That beat goes hard.
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Whatever that song is,
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I love how it starts off.
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It's awesome.
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I have a little riff to start today.
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So, I'm watching Siobhan.
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And because I do a daily show,
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like I can empathize with the man and
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doing a daily show.
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Mine is forty five minutes to an hour.
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His is two hours.
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How the hell how the hell he goes?
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And I'm just giving an average, right?
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Because sometimes it's our forty five.
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Sometimes it's two thirty.
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Sometimes, you know, whatever.
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Right.
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He's going three plus before.
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Right,
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but that's more the exception than the
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rule.
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But regardless,
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it has nothing to do with this story.
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Yeah.
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So I know going into today's show,
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his plan was to do the Dave Castro
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Week in Review interview.
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And when he opened it up and saw
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it was only five minutes long,
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he was shitting his pants because like now
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all the content that he had kind of
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like drummed up for the day to do
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his show is now down to nothing.
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And how does he make it stretch?
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Right.
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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
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Yep.
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And in no way am I comparing myself
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to him, but like,
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I know what it's like to do a
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daily show now.
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the chat people are like he's trying to
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stretch something and people are like
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let's move on let's move on and i'm
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thinking like shut the hell up man is
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trying to stretch this out he's trying to
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stretch this out and and then by the
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end of the show he's like well that's
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all i got for today and people are
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like don't go don't go can you make
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up your damn minds
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it's a bunch of four-year-olds it's
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ridiculous everybody is in the chat
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directing the man that's been doing this
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every day for four years or five years
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or whatever it is right telling him when
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to to move on when to go to
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the next subject when not to leave when
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to like what the hell i love the
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move on stuff because everybody's like
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move on move on to what
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What do you want me to move on
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to?
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I don't have anything to move on to.
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That's why we're still talking about this.
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Right.
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There's only so much to talk about, right?
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And we try to fill whatever little piece
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we can.
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And let's talk about the fact that he's
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not even home.
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No, he's on vacation.
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Still doing his show.
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Right.
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Y'all, leave the man alone.
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Jesus Christ.
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Jenny's got it.
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Spoiled children.
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One hundred percent.
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One hundred percent.
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Not even close.
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This is probably the piece that's going to
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piss people off, right?
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He had the balls to start a show
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and do this, right?
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That gives him like the advantage to do
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it the way he wants to do it.
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He put this together.
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Now,
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do you take constructive criticism at
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times?
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Sure you do.
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But nobody else started a freaking show.
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And not only has he started his own
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show,
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he's allowed other people to start shows
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on his channel with an existing audience.
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Gave them the keys.
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And then you sit in the chat and
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tell him what to do.
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The audacity.
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It is mind-boggling to me.
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That you can sit there and you didn't
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take the initiative to start your own
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show.
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He did.
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And then you tell him how to do
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it.
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I don't get that.
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I mean, I have gotten that here,
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but I don't get it as much as
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he does because I only go forty five
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minutes.
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Right.
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He goes two hours and it was I
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just sit there like.
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exactly spoiled children who have a show
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and a place to hang out and chat
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with their friends every day.
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And,
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and you're going to tell him how to
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run his show.
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And an entertaining show.
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It's not like he's just getting on there
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and just,
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he says whatever comes across his brain,
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like nine times out of ten.
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It doesn't matter if it runs across the
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front of his mind.
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He's just going to throw it out,
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throw it out there.
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Like he didn't much give a shit.
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Go Tigers.
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Oh, Yash.
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Yes, indeed.
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I haven't seen Yash in forever.
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No, sir.
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Meredith.
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Yeah, but Scott,
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you're doing this in addition to your
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regular nine to five.
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So give yourself some credit.
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This is your lunch break and you're
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dealing with technical difficulties,
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et cetera.
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Yeah,
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but I signed up for it and I'm
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cool with that.
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And you guys generally this chat that we
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have at lunch.
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This do not tell me how to run
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my show.
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But, man,
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the people in the Savant Chat feel like
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they're entitled to tell him how to run
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his show,
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and it absolutely boggles my mind.
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So we don't need to – those Tulane
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versus no-lane shirts are gold.
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I have not seen those.
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Oh, that is – that's crazy.
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That's outstanding.
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I am –
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I'm not a Tulane fan,
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even though they're right there in New
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Orleans.
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But if I'm pulling for a team,
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I'm definitely pulling for Tulane to pull
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the upset over Ole Miss.
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That's going to be a fantastic game to
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watch.
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Yeah.
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Dents,
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a couple of them have obvious mental
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illness.
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And now Trish is telling me what to
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do.
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Move on, Scott.
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So I started this off with like college
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football and CrossFit.
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are both making the same mistake.
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We've heard this whole debate all week,
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if you follow sports at all,
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that the college football playoff did not
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get the twelve best teams into the college
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football playoff.
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And the reason that is,
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is because they had to make a deal
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to get everybody to sign off on a
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college football playoff and go away from
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the bowl system that existed.
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And to do that,
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you had to get the sign-off from the
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smaller,
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they call them like group of five schools
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or something like that.
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Group four.
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I don't even know what that means.
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No, there's a power four.
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Yeah.
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And then you have the group of five,
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which are like the Sunbelt Conference and
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the ones that aren't.
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The AAC, the SWAG, yeah, whatever.
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Yeah.
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Well,
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because of that and the deal they made,
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we have James Madison and Tulane in the
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college football playoff,
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and they're not one of the twelve best
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schools in the country.
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Right.
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Arguably,
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I would put Tulane over James Madison,
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but...
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But Tulane lost to Ole Miss by thirty-five
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points already this year,
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and now they've got to play them again?
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Like, come on.
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Mm-hmm.
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James Madison, so this is,
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I know way more about James Madison than
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I probably should because the last wedding
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I was a part of,
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I was the best man for one of
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my best friends.
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The day he got married,
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we're up in the hotel room getting ready
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and whatnot.
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And the only football game on TV was
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whatever conference championship was going
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on at the time James Madison was playing
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in and was winning.
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And they have a winning program.
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Like, for whatever division they're in,
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whatever, Division II or whatever.
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I don't remember.
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I just remember that it was on.
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So, like,
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we've been keeping up with them ever since
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because it was on Tony's wedding day that
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we happened to see it.
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And so, like,
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when I saw that they were possibly going
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to make it into the college football
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playoffs, I'm like, this is amazing.
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This is James Madison that we've been
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following forever.
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No, I understand that.
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I know what you're saying.
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I'm not disagreeing with you on that
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particular fact.
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I'm just saying that I know way more
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about them than I should.
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My team sucked this year.
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I have no rooting interest on anybody.
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So what I want to see is the
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best twelve go at it for the national
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championship.
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The best games possible.
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Because I don't care about any of these
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teams, right?
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What we do in CrossFit is the same
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damn thing.
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There's this thing where we don't have the
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forty best or thirty best now going to
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the CrossFit Games because we want to
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include Africa and we want to include
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South America and we want to include Asia.
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Now,
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Asia is starting to develop where their
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women are actually competitive with the
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rest of the world.
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And then that is the way it should
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work out.
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You should strive to be something better,
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right?
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But because we were trying to appease the
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world and the globalness of CrossFit,
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we want to be inclusive and let everybody
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into the games.
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And when you do that,
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just like in the college football playoff,
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you don't get the best athletes at the
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venue at the same time, right?
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So we have thirty people coming to the
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games,
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but they're not the thirty best athletes
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in the world.
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They're not necessarily the third best
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athletes in the world.
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No, you're absolutely right.
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As long as you are not the third
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best athletes.
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As long as you are forcing the hand
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from places like, sorry to say it,
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South Africa, some places in Brazil,
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South America,
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whatever you want to call it, then yeah.
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As long as you keep forcing those guys
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in there, then no,
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you're not getting the top,
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the top three guys on the,
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on the top three females on the planet.
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You're just not.
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You're getting the top people from those
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competitions,
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like from those particular semifinals,
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but that doesn't mean they're the top
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thirty in the world.
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No, absolutely not.
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So I'm going to extrapolate that to what
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Dave said in his week in review,
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which was super, super short.
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is that the Masters and the Teens and
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the Adaptive are going to be at the
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CrossFit Games,
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and it's probably not going to be that
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way going forward.
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It's probably just for the twentieth
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anniversary.
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Again,
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I think that there is this thing in
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CrossFit that they want to go global with
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the games,
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and because to go global they have to
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be smaller and move,
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I think they are missing out on getting
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the best event possible with a festival
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feel every year at the games.
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They are foregoing the best event to be
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able to go global.
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I think that's a myth.
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I think you're right,
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and I think that's a myth.
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Why not just put on the best event
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you possibly can?
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Let people that are going to bitch,
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bitch because they're going to bitch no
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matter what happens, right?
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And what is the effect of them bitching?
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What's the net event or net sum,
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whatever you want to call it,
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of them bitching?
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Just that they're mad about it on social
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media?
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Okay, who cares?
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Move on.
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If you know you're putting out the
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absolute best product and the best show
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that you possibly could on where
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Maybe not every race matters because not
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everyone's going to just because of how
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they're laid out.
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But as long as the vast majority of
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them where every heat matters,
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God help me,
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I'm going to go ahead and quote it,
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every second counts,
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then that's going to take – the other
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parts are going to take care of
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themselves.
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You know what I mean?
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If you put out the best product you
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possibly can,
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people are going to come to it no
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matter what it is.
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And the haters are going to hate,
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and they're going to fall off,
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and nobody's going to care.
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So let's go back to let's go back
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to the two thousand nine games when we
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first went to the Home Depot Center,
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StubHub Center, whatever, you know,
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looking back,
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the people CrossFit have said they tried
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to expand.
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They expanded too soon.
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Right.
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They got too big because something
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probably had to do with Reebok money.
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They had the money to do it.
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They grew.
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And then and then it did actually start
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taking off.
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But I think that that's what we're doing
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again with this global thought of going
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over to Europe or going to Australia for
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the CrossFit Games is we're not ready.
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We haven't figured it out yet.
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Why are we pushing to move overseas until
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we get it right?
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We had low attendance at the CrossFit
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Games last year.
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There are a million factors why that could
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have been.
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The vibes were cool.
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Everybody had a good time.
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But truth be told, tons of empty seats.
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Right.
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Shouldn't we figure that shit out first
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before we worry about going overseas?
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And I think the first solution to that
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is having four hundred Masters athletes
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come in with their families for the same
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week and are probably going to be bored
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and buy tickets.
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I am super curious.
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I can't wait to have tickets go on
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sale and to see what that ends up
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looking like from the reason you just
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said,
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just because we're all going to be in
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the same place.
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Masters, teens, adaptive, elite,
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everybody's in the same spot.
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So let's see what that does for ticket
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sales for the main show, right?
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I have no illusions.
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People are going there for the main show.
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But the people like me who could
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potentially be there,
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to compete if I make the games and
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they're all in the same week I'm staying
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and watching the games I've never been so
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like what better time for me to stay
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and watch the rest of them is if
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I happen to be right there already why
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wouldn't I stay like it goes from being
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a five day I gotta what I gotta
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do add four days to my Airbnb or
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three days to my Airbnb it's really not
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that that much and just change a change
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of flight gotta pay for some more food
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Truth be told,
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I booked my hotel for Wednesday through
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Monday.
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I only have to really go a day
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or two more.
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That's what I'm saying.
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That's a week vacation.
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That's a vacation time I would take
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anyway.
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Um,
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there's a lot of people who disagree with
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me.
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Uh, so, uh, Kevin Doyle,
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they want to maintain all the, um,
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affiliates in Asia.
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If no Asian athletes make it to the
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games,
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could that affect the amount of affiliates
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in those regions?
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I don't think they have a problem with
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Asia.
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I think the Asian women are getting strong
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enough where they can compete with the
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European women and the Australian women.
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And I think that they're going to make
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it regardless.
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Um, Sean Young Choi and John Young, um,
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are, um,
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getting as good as anybody in Europe.
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And if it's going anywhere qualified out
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of Europe last year, not Asia.
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And if you're going anywhere,
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you're going to Europe before you go into
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Asia.
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I mean,
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attendance is going to be higher
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internationally, but I think that,
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you know,
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with all due respect and I get it
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that there isn't as many big events in
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Europe.
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So if you take it over there for
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the,
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Immediate return,
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there will be a higher attendance,
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I believe.
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You're right.
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But is it disguising the problem that we
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have about attracting people all of the
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time?
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And I think that is the biggest issue.
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We have not figured out how to put
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this thing together to attract the most
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people at the same time.
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No.
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And that has to be figured out.
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I do think you're right.
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But Rogue Year One sold way more tickets
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than Rogue Year Two.
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Because it was the first time a major
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competition went to Europe.
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The first year it sold out quickly.
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Second year,
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there were still seats available right up
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until game time.
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The novelty wears off after the first
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year.
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European and Australian events are very
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well attended because the games are not
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there.
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Because the European semifinals are their
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big event.
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The Australian semifinal is the big event.
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That's why they draw.
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Yeah, that's what makes it a big deal.
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And Frida, who's European as well,
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logistics would be a nightmare.
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And then you're talking the overhead of
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that logistical nightmare on top of
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everything else.
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I mean,
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you saw that interview with Katie just
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talking about the stuff that they have
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to...
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They can pull from their warehouse over
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there,
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but they also have to ship across the
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freaking ocean.
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It's a lot.
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And they have to make sure it gets
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there.
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Correct.
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Which is also a logistical nightmare.
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Ships to dock.
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Yeah.
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It's not a team of wheelers driving on...
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You know,
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public highways in America is a ship at
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sea getting across the freaking ocean.
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Customs.
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I mean, the list goes on and on.
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Did the games ever have a problem with
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attendance before twenty twenty four?
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They really didn't.
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They they sold out every year until twenty
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twenty four.
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And twenty twenty four was pretty packed,
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even with what happened.
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I would say people were excited.
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I say excited,
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probably mixed bag as far as emotions are
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concerned, but moving from Madison,
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going to Texas.
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But it was still, like you said,
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tickets were very hard to come by right
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up until the first event.
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The biggest indicator about Texas is the
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night in the football stadium had like
20:58
sixteen thousand people.
21:00
That is the biggest crowd to watch a
21:02
CrossFit event ever.
21:04
And they were running.
21:06
Right.
21:11
But it was a very cool event and
21:12
it was free to the public.
21:15
So you got people to come in,
21:17
but there were sixteen thousand people
21:18
there that wanted to see it.
21:19
It's a lot.
21:24
Mark Phillips is adding in local laws,
21:26
et cetera.
21:26
It's not an easy thing, right?
21:29
And I'm not saying never go to Europe.
21:32
I'm saying get your damn ducks in a
21:34
row before you do it.
21:36
It's almost as if you wanted to put
21:38
the horse in front of the court and
21:40
not the other way around.
21:43
I don't disagree whatsoever.
21:45
Like get your shit together and make sure
21:47
that what you have is what you actually
21:49
want to have,
21:50
which you need to know what you want
21:51
to have before you can do that.
21:53
Look at it, have it, have every,
21:57
you know, all the pieces in place.
21:59
And this year is probably not going to
22:00
be a good indicator because this year is
22:02
a twenty year anniversary and they're
22:03
going back to California.
22:04
And, you know,
22:06
I'm saying and we're doing the festival
22:07
feel like all these people are going to
22:09
be back in the same in the same
22:10
spot.
22:11
And this is going to be an outlier
22:12
year as far as attendance from what I
22:15
can see or from, you know,
22:17
from what they're talking about just
22:19
because of that.
22:20
because everything's going to be in the
22:22
same place.
22:22
Everybody's going to be in the same place,
22:24
right?
22:24
That novelty.
22:26
I made the,
22:27
I went to the year anniversary of the
22:29
games.
22:29
It was awesome.
22:31
The year after that is really going to
22:34
be a litmus test to see like,
22:36
especially if they're putting us all back,
22:38
you know,
22:38
putting Pitt at the Pitt,
22:40
putting us back in Columbus or wherever
22:42
they're going to put us at.
22:44
That's really going to be your test.
22:46
Period.
22:47
Of people having to choose,
22:49
am I going to Pitt?
22:51
Am I going to Columbus?
22:53
Am I going to Vegas?
22:56
Or am I going to the games?
22:58
Because people aren't going to go to all
23:00
of them.
23:01
No.
23:02
But when you put them all together,
23:04
everybody convenes in one area.
23:07
And then you have this big festival feel
23:09
with a much better attendance.
23:12
That has to be figured out.
23:14
And I think it's short-sighted to say it's
23:16
not going to happen again.
23:18
You can still let the other,
23:19
and if just do it in the same
23:21
city,
23:22
it doesn't need to be in the same
23:24
arena.
23:25
Just do it in the same city in
23:27
the same week.
23:28
And you're just drawing everybody to the
23:30
same area to do things.
23:33
Well, that's the other thing,
23:34
and it just don't annoy me about the
23:35
people that, you know, not complain,
23:38
but just point out the fact that a
23:40
lot of these events are very well
23:41
attended.
23:41
Well, there's a shit ton of them.
23:45
This year alone,
23:46
there's going to be in the U.S.,
23:47
there's going to be Legends,
23:48
there's going to be Mayhem,
23:49
there's going to be Knoxville.
23:56
Syndicate Crown.
23:57
Syndicate Crown, right?
24:00
Northern California Classic.
24:02
That's just semifinals.
24:04
That's not also PFX and Waterpalooza and
24:08
whatnot that people are going to go to
24:11
compete at, go to watch.
24:14
And then there's the games.
24:15
And then there's all these other mid to
24:19
higher tier events that people can go and
24:21
either compete at or the Heart of America,
24:26
the Monster Games, MFC,
24:30
like
24:32
Yeah,
24:33
you wonder why people don't – their
24:35
attendance is down is because everybody's
24:37
not made of money.
24:38
Like I can't go to all of these
24:39
things.
24:40
I would love to be able to,
24:42
but it's hard to attend when there's forty
24:45
different things going on and you have to
24:46
kind of pick and choose.
24:49
I would love to be able to give
24:50
the games my money every single year,
24:52
but if I'm also going to compete and
24:53
get a competition experience to go
24:55
somewhere else,
24:56
then what's going to end up suffering is
24:58
me being able to go to the games
24:59
in person.
25:01
Lito, selfishly,
25:02
I'm hoping it doesn't sell out immediately
25:04
because if I qualify in May and go
25:06
all the way to Cali but can't get
25:08
into the arena to watch the elites,
25:10
I'll be very upset.
25:11
Well, I hope that that's not true, Lito,
25:14
because if it sells out,
25:16
it only means good things for you as
25:18
an athlete, as a master's athlete.
25:21
It's going to trickle down.
25:23
The success of that is going to trickle
25:25
down.
25:26
You want that to happen.
25:30
I think what she's saying is that she's
25:32
not buying tickets for the games until she
25:35
knows that she's qualifying.
25:37
And if it doesn't sell out, then...
25:38
I'm just telling you.
25:42
It may sell out,
25:42
but people sell tickets right up in the
25:45
games.
25:45
You can get it.
25:49
And Jenny says, Lito, no.
25:54
Denise,
25:55
even if I don't qualify for the games,
25:57
I believe I will be attending to spectate.
26:01
Uh, Shanna Lito in the past,
26:02
they've held back tickets for athletes to
26:04
buy.
26:05
That is a great point as well.
26:07
And that's cool, right?
26:09
That that's awesome for them to be that
26:12
thoughtful or aware of it and say, Hey,
26:14
we're going to hold off,
26:16
keep some of these tickets back just for
26:17
in case people, you know, other athletes,
26:19
masters, athletes, teams,
26:20
whoever want to buy them.
26:22
That's fantastic.
26:25
Frida,
26:25
that should be a part of your registration
26:26
as a master.
26:27
I do believe they do hold back tickets
26:29
for you to purchase.
26:32
Jenny, Dickie sold out in like two hours.
26:34
I don't think SAP will sell out,
26:36
but I hope it does with all the
26:38
OG California CrossFitters.
26:40
I hope it does too.
26:42
I think just with everybody there,
26:44
people are going to plan for that week.
26:45
And I think you're going to see a
26:48
much more significant purchase of tickets
26:52
than you did in Albany, New York.
26:55
Yeah, I would agree to that.
26:59
George says SAP holds seventeen plus.
27:03
It ain't selling out.
27:04
Oh,
27:04
you don't know what the configuration of
27:05
the seats are.
27:08
So we'll have to wait and see exactly
27:09
what the number is.
27:10
But you know what?
27:12
I hope it does.
27:14
If they sell out seventeen thousand
27:15
tickets, we're getting into a good place.
27:19
They sell seventeen thousand tickets.
27:21
They don't look to get it again next
27:22
year because that to them,
27:23
that's going to say this is the spot
27:25
to have it.
27:26
Right.
27:27
If it's that plus everything runs smoothly
27:29
and the events look nice.
27:31
I think as long as you put it
27:33
in a place where there's stuff to do,
27:37
Albany had nothing to do.
27:39
Right.
27:40
Nothing to do in Albany.
27:42
So if you were going,
27:43
you were just going there for the games.
27:45
I have talked to my wife about if
27:47
we go out to California,
27:48
maybe we go to Sonoma or we go
27:51
to wine country or whatever and do some
27:53
things a little bit that week.
27:55
I think that would be super cool.
27:57
And so we're planning it as if I
27:59
go or when I go this year,
28:02
it'd be more of a vacation for us
28:04
than just me doing the media thing.
28:06
Absolutely.
28:09
I mean,
28:09
you could go talk to homeless people in
28:11
Albany.
28:13
Hiller did.
28:14
There's homeless people everywhere, dude.
28:16
I know,
28:16
but Hiller actually stopped and
28:18
interviewed him.
28:18
That was fantastic.
28:22
Shannon,
28:23
it would be fun if we could buy
28:24
out a Clydesdale section and sit together.
28:26
That would be awesome.
28:30
Madison was fifteen and sold out.
28:36
Yeah.
28:40
Yeah, Ken, Madison, twenty-two sold out,
28:42
too, when we went.
28:43
Madison was always, like,
28:45
the stands were full.
28:48
All the years I was there,
28:50
it was full in the arena.
28:53
Even twenty-one, right after COVID,
28:56
it was packed.
28:58
It may not have sold out,
29:00
but it was pretty damn full.
29:02
Twenty-two,
29:03
it was all the way to the ceiling.
29:05
Gotta love it.
29:10
I love it.
29:11
I want to go eventually,
29:12
but the priorities first.
29:19
If they sell nine K they'll configure to
29:21
sell more.
29:22
I hope it sells out based on my
29:23
Jim's interest.
29:24
I'm not seeing it.
29:26
Yeah.
29:27
That's a micro look at things.
29:33
We need to see the macro.
29:36
Yeah, because based on my gyms as well,
29:39
like, I can think of three people,
29:41
four people that would want to go from
29:43
my gym.
29:43
Maybe more than that,
29:45
if you actually ask them, like,
29:46
talk to them about, hey,
29:47
we're all going to the games,
29:48
and y'all want to come, like,
29:49
make it a group trip.
29:50
Oh, yeah, fuck yeah.
29:52
But as of, like,
29:53
if I just went in there today,
29:54
right now at lunchtime, be like,
29:56
who wants to go to the CrossFit Games?
29:58
And people would be like, the what?
30:00
Never mind.
30:01
If you qualified for the games,
30:04
that interest would go up.
30:06
Yeah, a hundred percent.
30:07
And we don't even know that yet.
30:08
We don't know who's going.
30:11
That's the part that you have to wait
30:13
and kind of see to judge.
30:16
If I qualified, I can think of one,
30:20
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
30:22
nine,
30:23
probably fifteen people off the top of my
30:24
head that would go from my gym.
30:27
Just to come watch me.
30:30
And that's the piece you don't know.
30:34
Yeah.
30:34
I'm going to share my screen.
30:36
We talked about this...
30:39
Gosh, two weeks ago and into this week,
30:44
Ethan Bernard went to Mayhem,
30:48
did a CrossFit workout.
30:49
CrossFit was there to tape it,
30:53
and they put it out yesterday.
30:55
I watched it right after the show
30:56
yesterday.
30:58
I will say, for me,
31:02
it was very emotional for me to watch
31:03
this.
31:05
As someone who walked into a CrossFit gym
31:06
over five hundred pounds and the care and
31:10
the love and the support that my affiliate
31:12
gave me to watch what they did with
31:14
this guy was amazing.
31:19
I sobbed like a baby at the beginning
31:21
of this video.
31:22
I'm not going to show any of it
31:23
and do that on the air today.
31:27
it was like looking in a mirror for
31:29
me at very much what happened in for
31:32
me you got except you got way better
31:35
hair god bless that kid he needs a
31:37
brush um
31:41
And then there was a part in here
31:44
that really hit me that I didn't even
31:46
know was coming.
31:47
And that is they asked him about,
31:49
you know,
31:49
he's done this very publicly and he's
31:51
gained a ton of followers on Instagram and
31:55
YouTube.
31:56
And they asked him what it was like
31:58
being an influencer going through all this
32:00
thing.
32:01
And he was talking about the added stress
32:03
that that adds.
32:04
Yeah.
32:05
A lot of people have asked me why
32:06
I don't do the weight loss show anymore
32:08
because
32:08
And that's really a big reason why.
32:11
The additional stress it gave me was not
32:13
the accountability I needed to be
32:15
successful.
32:18
And it got to a point where it
32:21
was more than I could handle in the
32:23
state that I was in.
32:26
And so when he talks about that,
32:30
I'm rooting for him and I hope that
32:31
he can get through this and that that
32:34
doesn't bring him down at any point.
32:37
But the internet can be cruel.
32:40
And but his story is awesome.
32:43
He's already lost two hundred pounds.
32:46
He started at six sixty.
32:47
He's at four fifty seven, I believe.
32:54
it's a really cool story and i loved
32:56
the way they showed how josh malone from
33:01
mayhem he how he doesn't like to use
33:05
the word scaled because it means less than
33:07
that he modifies the workout for him to
33:11
um do the same stimulus and they showed
33:13
how they did that
33:15
And what was freaky is the same techniques
33:19
that were used with me on my first
33:21
workout were used with him in this
33:23
workout.
33:24
And it was really cool to kind of
33:26
see that.
33:27
It was eerie to see the squats on
33:31
a box, the pushups on a barbell,
33:35
on the rack,
33:36
all the same stuff that was done with
33:38
me.
33:38
It was really, really crazy.
33:41
I love it.
33:43
Absolutely.
33:43
It's almost as if
33:45
CrossFit is infinitely modifiable,
33:49
scalable to your ability level.
33:53
Such a weird concept.
33:57
Lito asks,
33:57
do we think he continues to do CrossFit?
34:01
He has a personal trainer that he is
34:04
being successful with.
34:06
Do I think that this experience gives him
34:11
more tools in the tool belt?
34:13
Maybe.
34:15
Do I think he ends up joining an
34:16
affiliate?
34:19
I don't see that happening.
34:22
I would have to go watch the whole
34:23
thing.
34:23
I just saw a clip yesterday.
34:24
I didn't watch the video on CrossFit's
34:27
YouTube.
34:28
When he talks about how he works with
34:30
his personal trainer and they do circuits,
34:33
none of them were as intense as what
34:34
he experienced in this hour in the gym.
34:36
Never going to be.
34:40
But like when you have a relationship with
34:42
a personal coach and you've been
34:45
successful,
34:47
I don't see him just like ditching that
34:50
to all of a sudden jump to CrossFit.
34:53
But I could be wrong.
34:59
I hope I'll put it to you like
35:01
this.
35:02
If it's working for him,
35:05
then whatever it is, I hope,
35:06
I just hope he sticks to it because
35:08
his life is worth saving.
35:10
And if it's worth taking, you know,
35:11
taking his life into his own hands to
35:13
save, to save his own life,
35:14
because that's what he's doing.
35:16
Same thing you do.
35:17
And who am I, you know,
35:19
as long as he's moving and doing,
35:21
moving well and doing,
35:24
and doing it in a,
35:25
in a way that is successful, why,
35:27
why would we want him to change?
35:30
but I do believe that like going into
35:33
a CrossFit and,
35:34
and the learning tools that he got from
35:37
that experience,
35:38
he may take back to his personal trainer.
35:40
They may talk about things about how it
35:42
was different in these ways.
35:43
And maybe they incorporate that into what
35:46
he's doing.
35:47
And maybe that does lead down the road
35:49
into something in,
35:51
into CrossFit as a maintenance piece or
35:53
whatever, but.
35:54
Even just one day, dude, one,
35:56
and I know you,
35:58
I'm preaching to the choir here,
36:00
but if you just take one class with
36:05
a good coach,
36:07
it doesn't matter what the workout is.
36:09
One class with a good coach,
36:11
especially if you're somewhere like Mayhem
36:13
that's got a good environment around you,
36:15
not just a bunch of people who are
36:16
just going to look at you sideways and
36:17
wonder why you're in here,
36:20
and you decide never to go again,
36:22
you're never going to forget it.
36:25
Right.
36:25
If you get it,
36:26
you go in there with good intentions and
36:28
whatnot, you're never going to forget it.
36:29
You're going to take something away from
36:30
it, no matter what it is.
36:32
You got to take something away like,
36:33
holy shit, that was hard.
36:35
Or man, that was awesome.
36:36
I want to do that again.
36:38
Or I learned, you know, Hey,
36:40
I am more capable than I thought I
36:42
was.
36:42
I just, you know, at what you said,
36:45
he lost two hundred twenty.
36:46
So he's at like four eighty right now,
36:47
something like that.
36:48
Just just to just over two hundred.
36:51
He's like at four fifty seven.
36:52
Yeah.
36:54
Even at four hundred and fifty seven
36:56
pounds or whatever,
36:56
I could do a CrossFit class.
36:59
Right.
37:00
No matter what kind of craziness I've
37:02
heard about here, there or yonder,
37:04
all that's going to stick with you for
37:06
the long run.
37:08
So even if he doesn't come back to
37:10
CrossFit,
37:10
if he just stays working as a personal
37:11
trainer, good for him.
37:13
That's amazing.
37:15
Lito, that's what I thought too, Scott.
37:17
Great video though.
37:19
Ken Walters,
37:20
they shouldn't be saying scaled is less
37:21
than,
37:21
but what Corey just said is how they
37:23
should promote what he's doing.
37:25
This was Josh off to the side talking
37:27
to the documentary people saying that he
37:30
doesn't like to use the word scaled.
37:32
He likes to use modified because some
37:35
people feel scaled is less than.
37:37
It wasn't like he was saying being scaled
37:40
is less than.
37:41
explaining why his word choice is the way
37:44
it is.
37:46
And, and it's, it's,
37:48
you have to be careful with word choices
37:51
when you're talking to someone who is
37:53
going through the emotional rollercoaster
37:56
of a massive weight loss.
37:58
So I'm going to tell you from experience
38:00
and just coaching a good coach,
38:03
which I think of myself as a pretty
38:04
good coach.
38:06
You learn how to talk to people.
38:08
And by how to talk to people,
38:09
I mean I know how to talk to
38:11
Scott versus how to talk to Kat.
38:14
What motivates Kat versus what's going to
38:16
get Scott moving.
38:18
How to approach – like I got people
38:20
that I know I have to –
38:23
Treat with kid gloves for all intents and
38:25
purposes.
38:26
I know the people that I can tell,
38:27
hey, quit being a pussy and let's go.
38:30
And that comes with experience, obviously,
38:31
and being able to read people a little
38:33
bit.
38:33
But I know people that would get offended
38:36
if I tell them,
38:37
let's scale it to this as opposed to,
38:39
okay, if you can't do this,
38:40
let's modify it to this.
38:43
You have to know that kind of stuff.
38:44
You have to know your members that way
38:48
because if not,
38:49
then they're either not going to come back
38:51
or they're just not going to attend your
38:52
class in general because they don't want
38:55
to have to deal with you as a
38:56
person.
38:59
Kudos to him for knowing that and saying
39:01
it out loud because I think a lot
39:03
of us coaches know that kind of stuff,
39:07
but we don't necessarily put it out there
39:08
unless we're talking to another coach.
39:11
And, and I kind of had, and again,
39:14
very similar experience, you know,
39:17
weight loss has been a struggle for me
39:19
my entire life after I retired from
39:21
swimming.
39:22
And that is that I started with my
39:25
trainer, my, he was a CrossFit trainer,
39:28
but I started with him independently at my
39:32
home first, almost what,
39:34
five months before I walked into a gym.
39:37
So we build a relationship before I walked
39:40
into the gym.
39:41
When you weigh what Ethan and I weigh,
39:47
you do have to be treated with kid
39:50
gloves in a way to make it so
39:53
you believe that you can be successful.
39:57
And that's what my coach, his coach,
40:01
have been doing.
40:01
In goodness.
40:05
Right.
40:06
And more choices are very,
40:07
very important in that.
40:09
Ken Welchers,
40:10
it took me two classes with a great
40:11
trainer.
40:12
Here we are nine years later.
40:13
Incredible what that decision has done.
40:17
Amen, brother.
40:18
Amen to that.
40:20
so last thing I wanted to talk about
40:22
and probably aren't going to have enough
40:23
time to, to dive into it too much,
40:26
but I was watching Monday night CrossFit
40:28
last night with and John,
40:32
and they did a thing where Claire assigned
40:37
wrestling personas to CJ and John and
40:41
herself.
40:44
And like John was the oval teen overlord
40:47
and, um,
40:51
And his finishing move was the analyzer or
40:56
something like that,
40:57
which was similar to a Goldberg spear.
41:02
Gotcha.
41:03
I could definitely see John spearing
41:04
somebody.
41:06
And CJ was Dr. Durable and
41:11
and it was twofold because he's kind of
41:13
fragile and he is a movement doctor.
41:17
And, uh, and his was the,
41:19
the spine adjustment,
41:22
spine adjustment was his finishing move
41:24
with, uh,
41:25
and it was like a spine buster power
41:29
bomb type deal.
41:30
Uh, it, a spine buster is different.
41:33
It's they've outlawed the tombstone and,
41:36
uh, for obvious reasons and stuff, right.
41:39
Because of, uh,
41:40
But anyway,
41:42
the point of the story is that we
41:48
have all these people with these crazy
41:50
personalities in CrossFit.
41:53
And it goes back to what we talked
41:55
about with like the Hiller video.
41:56
There's nobody,
41:58
like you watch a boxing match or you
42:00
watch a UFC match.
42:02
There's almost like a PR campaign to
42:05
create the character of the fighter in the
42:09
match.
42:11
Well, there is.
42:12
There is.
42:13
There is.
42:13
There is.
42:13
There is.
42:13
There is.
42:14
There is.
42:15
There is.
42:20
But we don't have anybody,
42:23
anybody doing that for the athletes in
42:26
CrossFit unless it's their own agent or
42:29
themselves.
42:29
And I don't even think like the agents
42:31
even think in that direction,
42:33
like create the character that this person
42:35
is.
42:36
You have characters and every time we get
42:40
one,
42:41
like the whole community kind of like
42:43
gravitates to that person, right?
42:47
Yeah.
42:48
Why aren't we making a more concerted
42:50
effort to use some kind of PR to
42:57
get to know these athletes and create that
43:00
persona that can be used in promo videos
43:04
as they come out on the floor or
43:05
be used in social media as they're going
43:08
to compete in this event.
43:10
Here's a video of their persona.
43:15
I just think it's a big miss.
43:19
Oh yeah.
43:19
No, a hundred percent.
43:20
One of the reasons the NBA took off
43:22
in the eighties and nineties is they
43:24
started to promote their players instead
43:27
of promoting the teams or the league.
43:29
They promoted the magic Johnson's the
43:31
Larry birds, the Michael Jordan's,
43:33
and then they became the face of the
43:35
league and that then it just took off.
43:38
Yeah.
43:39
All of a sudden it's, it's magic Johnson.
43:44
It's air Jordan.
43:45
It's,
43:46
Charles Barkley,
43:47
the round mound of rebound.
43:49
It's Clyde, the glide Drexler.
43:51
Every single time they said his name down
43:53
there, you know,
43:55
and aside from the rest of all those
43:59
names and whatnot.
44:00
But, yeah, absolutely.
44:02
They went away from the Showtime Lakers
44:05
to, yes,
44:06
these are the Lakers who are part who
44:08
here's this guy and here's this guy and
44:10
here's this guy.
44:10
Yeah, absolutely.
44:14
It wouldn't be hard to do.
44:17
I really don't think it'd be that hard
44:18
to do.
44:19
Like,
44:19
to latch on to the few who are
44:21
showing their personality more than
44:23
others,
44:24
the Jason Hoppers and the Colton Mertens
44:26
of the world, right?
44:28
And the DBEs, right?
44:31
Because she's all personality at this
44:33
point.
44:34
Well,
44:35
I think she's the only one that doesn't
44:36
need help.
44:37
No, I would agree to that.
44:39
She already has a persona.
44:42
I mean,
44:43
from the flipping off of the crowd...
44:46
to her dropping an F bomb live on
44:48
ESPN.
44:49
Yeah.
44:52
And he is the ultimate CrossFit heel.
44:55
And in today's world in a wrestling heel
44:58
is half loved and half hated.
45:01
And she, she is that to the,
45:04
to the perfection.
45:06
Like she is loved and hated as much
45:09
on both sides of the fence.
45:11
Yeah.
45:14
And either you want her to win or
45:16
you're rooting for her to lose.
45:17
Yeah.
45:17
There's not,
45:17
there's not many people in the middle of
45:20
the road as far as Daniel Brandon is
45:21
concerned.
45:22
No, but you look at,
45:24
and then you look at her popularity on
45:27
all the socials, anything she touches.
45:30
I mean,
45:31
Jenny's updates probably went through the
45:33
roof when she was doing the updates of
45:36
Danielle's life.
45:37
Right.
45:37
You could probably,
45:40
you had to know what the next piece
45:42
of the story was.
45:44
Yeah.
45:45
But we got our own underwear line for
45:47
Christ's sake.
45:47
We have all these great athletes,
45:49
but like,
45:50
unless Hiller goes out and does twenty
45:52
four hours with them,
45:53
we don't know anything about them.
45:55
Not much.
45:59
Colton's a great example.
46:01
Colton is a perfect example of how he
46:05
got attached to the Savon podcast.
46:08
He became the pig farmer that became the
46:11
iron hog that, you know,
46:14
and then took over the world by taking
46:17
on all comers and being the ultimate
46:19
underdog.
46:23
And that persona has catapulted him into
46:27
probably being the most popular male
46:29
athlete in the sport.
46:31
And the man has never finished top ten.
46:34
Everybody loves him.
46:36
Right.
46:37
I defy you to find somebody who actively
46:40
dislikes Colton Mertens.
46:42
There's always going to be somebody that
46:44
is like, yeah,
46:44
he gets too much press for not doing
46:46
enough and you know, blah, blah, blah.
46:49
There's always going to be those people,
46:50
but he is an awesome dude.
46:52
He is always cool.
46:55
He's always been cool to me.
46:57
Always giving me an interview whenever
46:58
I've asked all that kind of stuff.
47:01
And, uh,
47:03
I just think that that's the piece that
47:05
CrossFit is missing.
47:07
If you want to promote the games,
47:09
start promoting the athletes.
47:11
And I think Hiller said that in a
47:14
different way.
47:15
But go ahead and figure out personas for
47:22
these people.
47:24
Give them nicknames like the Iron Hog.
47:29
You know?
47:29
Promote them as people,
47:31
not just CrossFit athletes.
47:35
Like the road to the game stuff should
47:37
not just be them working out.
47:40
It shouldn't be just a bunch of workout
47:41
porn.
47:42
It should be way more like the twenty
47:44
four hours with them like that,
47:47
which is how they used to be.
47:49
FYI, the old road to the game stuff.
47:51
I got several of them.
47:53
I bought all for fricking prime and it's
47:55
interviews with them in their kitchen.
47:57
It was talking to, uh,
48:01
Sam Briggs while she was making breakfast
48:04
or something like that.
48:05
Like it's, it's shit like that.
48:08
That made you invest it.
48:09
Like knowing people, there you go.
48:11
And the email DBS,
48:12
fifty three thousand views.
48:14
Yeah.
48:17
Because she has a persona.
48:19
She has a persona.
48:22
And because of that persona,
48:24
people now are invested.
48:26
And because they're invested,
48:27
then they want the tea.
48:31
They want to know more.
48:35
People like her and Colton and...
48:42
I'm trying to think if there's anybody
48:43
else I can think of off the top
48:44
of my head before I put this other
48:46
part out there.
48:47
They're unapologetically them.
48:50
Danielle Brandon is who she is,
48:53
and she ain't give a fuck what anybody
48:55
else thinks, right?
48:57
Doesn't matter to her.
48:58
Colton Mertens is a pig farmer.
49:01
Runs around pigs all day long,
49:03
built his own equipment half the time,
49:06
built his own barn,
49:07
basically rebuilding his house by hand.
49:11
He doesn't care.
49:12
He doesn't care about what other people
49:13
have to say about any kind of stuff.
49:16
Katrin, love or hate her,
49:17
she was a sled dog.
49:19
You had a persona.
49:20
In the old days,
49:21
Rich Froning was Captain America.
49:23
I know that Chase has stolen that from
49:26
him.
49:27
And then you had Kalipa,
49:28
this guy that just went,
49:30
one hundred percent, balls to the wall,
49:34
out the gate,
49:34
was going to pass out in the middle
49:36
of the workout,
49:37
or he was going to win it.
49:40
you had characters back then,
49:42
but there weren't as many of them.
49:44
So we got to know them a little
49:45
bit better.
49:48
And I think the documentaries and the
49:49
behind the scenes did enough back then to
49:52
get us pictures of them off the floor.
49:57
They're not doing that anymore.
49:58
There's too many athletes.
49:59
There's too much media out there.
50:01
Chris Spieler with his, uh, with his ear,
50:04
with his headphones and his, uh, his iPod.
50:06
I mean, come on, bro.
50:12
I lost it.
50:15
Boys Interrupted are doing a great job
50:16
promoting themselves.
50:18
Need more athletes following their lead.
50:19
I think they're doing a great job,
50:21
but if they had the backing of CrossFit
50:23
to take it that one more step,
50:26
because you can't give yourself a
50:27
nickname.
50:28
You can't give yourself a persona.
50:30
It's got to be done externally or it's
50:32
not.
50:34
you know,
50:35
bro code is you never give yourself a
50:37
nickname.
50:38
No, never.
50:41
Right.
50:42
And it's got to be given to you.
50:45
And that, so I think that while they,
50:48
the four of them are doing a great
50:50
job promoting themselves,
50:52
if CrossFit backed something to give them
50:55
a persona and like a hype video or
50:58
something like that,
50:59
it takes it a step further.
51:07
Ken,
51:08
Danny Spiegel does not fall in the I
51:09
don't care category.
51:11
You may not care.
51:13
You may not care.
51:15
But there are a lot of people that
51:17
care about Danny Spiegel.
51:19
I think he means that Danny Spiegel
51:21
doesn't give a shit.
51:23
She doesn't care.
51:25
I don't buy that either.
51:27
I don't buy that.
51:28
I think she definitely cares about her
51:30
image.
51:30
About everything.
51:31
Yeah,
51:32
I think she cares about her image a
51:33
lot.
51:34
I do like this from Mark, though.
51:36
Dan Bailey was featured quite a bit.
51:37
Didn't really know a ton about him outside
51:39
of fitness, though.
51:40
If you want to learn about Dan Bailey,
51:41
go watch the twenty fifteen and the twenty
51:44
sixteen documentaries and a couple of the
51:48
behind the scenes from around that time as
51:50
well.
51:50
And you will learn a whole lot about
51:52
Dan Bailey because he was from when he
51:54
was living on a boat.
51:57
They don't really talk about his track
51:59
stuff too much like that,
52:00
but he tells some crazy stories about him
52:04
going camping up in Northern California
52:06
and whatnot.
52:07
There's some shit about that.
52:10
I know more about Dan Bailey than I
52:11
care to know about.
52:12
The Big Sky stuff with Dan Bailey and
52:15
Rich.
52:16
I have a video still saved on my
52:18
email from Beyond the Whiteboard of Dan
52:20
Bailey learning how to do a backflip in,
52:21
like,
52:22
thirty minutes because the place that him
52:25
and Rich were at when they were doing,
52:27
like,
52:27
I want to say it was the Big
52:28
Sky stuff,
52:29
they made up a workout for him, like,
52:31
whoever they were around,
52:32
and it had backflips in it.
52:33
And Rich, of course,
52:36
knew how to do a backflip,
52:39
and Dan did not,
52:40
and they taught him how to do one
52:41
in about thirty minutes,
52:42
and he did a workout with backflips in
52:44
it.
52:46
I remember when I learned Dan Bailey lived
52:49
on a boat and he would lift on
52:50
the boat.
52:51
That was awesome.
52:54
But again,
52:54
the behind the scenes back then did a
52:56
really good job of it.
52:57
I don't do that anymore.
53:00
They've gotten into a template that
53:03
doesn't really tell us a lot about the
53:05
athlete and it just kind of shows
53:07
highlight videos of them working out.
53:10
So Jenny asks,
53:10
we know Cowboy Scott is one of yours.
53:14
Well, I mean,
53:14
the obvious would be the Clydesdale,
53:16
but I have a gym nickname,
53:22
but I don't know.
53:25
My tattoo is all about my gym nickname.
53:28
And I don't know.
53:31
Maybe I'll reveal it sometime.
53:36
The only other nickname I've ever had
53:38
besides
53:39
The one that someone threw on me two
53:42
months ago, whenever that was, uh,
53:44
was one of the guys used to work
53:44
with called me bulldog.
53:47
And then when I was a kid,
53:48
my mom called me frog.
53:50
That's about it.
53:52
Never happened.
53:55
So our captain Steve Rogers got it right.
53:57
My, my gym nickname is spooky.
53:59
All right.
54:01
So here's the story and it's so my
54:04
gym nickname was Thor.
54:08
And it's not for like what anybody thinks.
54:10
It's not like I was the strongest in
54:12
the gym.
54:12
I mean,
54:13
that was kind of my thing that I
54:15
did better than most.
54:17
But they called me Thor because we used
54:21
to have picnics all the time as a
54:23
gym.
54:24
And we would play bocce.
54:27
And I would always chuck the pin in.
54:32
cause we played like redneck bocce where
54:34
you just play in a backyard,
54:35
you'd throw the pin and then you'd chuck
54:37
the balls.
54:38
Well,
54:39
I would launch the balls and they're like,
54:42
son of a bitch Thor.
54:46
So it was really about my bocce ball
54:47
playing more than anything.
54:49
Um, so they've always,
54:51
they always called me Thor, but I,
54:53
I haven't gone by that name in a
54:55
while.
54:55
And, um,
54:58
I don't know.
54:58
I'm not feeling Thor-ish these days.
55:01
I just need to get healthy first.
55:03
I would imagine, Pete,
55:05
if any of those guys saw you from
55:06
that time,
55:06
they would probably still refer to you as
55:08
Thor.
55:10
I feel like once you get a gym
55:11
nickname,
55:12
it's very well- That's what they would
55:14
call me.
55:18
A hundred percent.
55:20
Big Daddy.
55:21
It was not Big Daddy.
55:25
Oh, winter.
55:28
yeah but we would have that's what i
55:30
love about crossfit in its community and
55:33
it is cultish like and i know you
55:35
know jenny's talked about it on her show
55:37
and like we would have cookouts all the
55:40
time like all summer long we would do
55:43
a saturday workout and go to somebody's
55:45
house with a cookout and we would always
55:47
play redneck bocce ball up until i mean
55:52
members come and go change you know you
55:54
get like a core group that stays around
55:56
for a long time but like
55:58
even the makeup at our place right now
55:59
is way different than it was a year
56:02
and a half ago,
56:03
but also a year and a half ago,
56:04
like same thing.
56:05
Like we would get done with Murph and
56:08
then we'd all go to somebody's house and
56:10
go and like my buddy David had a
56:13
brand new pool put in.
56:14
So like there's plenty of pictures of us.
56:17
And by us, I mean like,
56:18
it's like some of the twenty-year-olds,
56:22
some of the thirty-year-olds,
56:23
a bunch of the forty-year-olds,
56:25
And Miss Claudia,
56:26
who was like seventy eight at the time
56:28
or or eighty, whatever,
56:29
drinking her red stripe with us.
56:32
And it's everybody over there, you know,
56:34
all hanging out,
56:35
all having a couple of drinks, eating,
56:38
you know, grilling, whatever.
56:40
We would go to my buddy Jeff's house.
56:41
We still had a gym.
56:42
He's actually a coach now.
56:43
A whole bunch,
56:44
even though his house was thirty minutes
56:46
from the gym.
56:47
Damn near like we're going to have some.
56:49
We had Thanksgiving over there a couple of
56:51
times, Friendsgiving,
56:51
whatever you want to call it.
56:55
Less of that now, just kind of,
56:57
you know, seasons of life type stuff.
56:59
But like,
56:59
I don't see it going away completely.
57:02
Like we still have,
57:03
we don't have as big of groups,
57:07
but like we did poker nights at the
57:08
gym before, which was fantastic.
57:12
Christmas party.
57:13
We're not having a Christmas party this
57:14
year, but we are doing,
57:16
still doing a white elephant.
57:20
we call it the annual versus bourbon
57:22
exchange,
57:23
but we split everybody off into teams of
57:25
two, write a couple workouts,
57:27
like three workouts or whatever that
57:29
everybody can do legitimately.
57:33
Randomly pick teams,
57:35
even though the last two years I've
57:36
randomly got picked with some of the other
57:38
fittest people in the gym,
57:39
which is pretty awesome.
57:42
Like last year,
57:43
me and Blair had it sewed up before
57:44
the last workout even started.
57:47
But...
57:49
Ken Walters.
57:50
We had a nickname for a spot in
57:51
our old box.
57:52
A few of us labeled cut rep corner.
57:55
They were always top whiteboard.
57:56
Then when open or in-house comps,
57:59
they never entered.
58:00
Yeah, we,
58:01
I think every gym has cut rep corner
58:04
at some point,
58:05
but
58:06
We're heading up against the hour.
58:08
I have got to get back to work.
58:11
Breaking news,
58:13
Phillip Rivers has been signed out of
58:15
retirement to play for the Colts since
58:17
they are out of quarterbacks.
58:19
At forty-four years old and a grandfather,
58:24
he will be the first grandfather to play
58:25
in the NFL since Brett Favre.
58:28
Wow.
58:32
Okay.
58:33
Crazy.
58:34
Phillip Rivers is a good quarterback,
58:35
isn't he?
58:37
Well,
58:37
he was when he was in his thirties.
58:39
That's what I said.
58:39
It was a good quarterback.
58:41
I have no idea what he's going to
58:42
look like when he gets out there for
58:43
a coach, but I mean,
58:45
I think I heard a really good defense
58:47
this week.
58:48
He could die.
58:50
And, uh, Hey,
58:52
what a way to go doing a thing
58:53
you love.
58:54
All right.
58:56
I mean, he's already four dude.
58:57
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59:06
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