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Clydesdale Media Roundtable - It the Master's and Teen's Turn This Week! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody
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welcome to the cloud show
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media roundtable where we
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have amy cat and myself
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here just to hang out with
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you for about 30 to 40
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minutes today uh beautiful
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hot day here in ohio and uh
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uh we've got some exciting
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stuff happening this week
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at least for me I'm super
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excited about and uh
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Super stoked that we get to
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move on to a new
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competition and hopefully
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help us move forward as a community.
1:03
So what's going on with you guys?
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Well,
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I've been dipping my toe back into work.
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As you can see,
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I'm here in my lovely
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kitchen right now at work.
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This is my prep week to prep
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for teacher prep week to
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prep for the kids prep.
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So that's my meeting to prep
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for the meeting for the meeting.
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Yep.
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I mean, it's, and it's funny,
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like I'll knock off three
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things on my list and then
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three more things like I've
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like added to the list.
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So it's like,
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my mind is going so many
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different places.
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So it's nice to take a break
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and talk about something else.
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Yeah.
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I hate the meetings for the
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meeting for the meeting.
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Yeah.
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I hate meetings, period.
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Me too.
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And I also hate email.
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So I get when people are like,
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this should have been an email.
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But nobody reads emails
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anymore because we're
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inundated with emails.
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Yeah.
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It's so funny.
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And this is no knock on.
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So I've been communicating
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with the people at Legends
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who are running the
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CrossFit Masters games.
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And all I want to know is, like,
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when check-in starts tomorrow.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I've sent emails and I
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get answers back with a lot of details,
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but not the detail I asked about.
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So I have like a lot of
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information that they keep
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coming back to.
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But I also know like it's
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got to be like pure hell
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right now trying to set this up,
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trying to get everything
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ready for tomorrow,
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all that kind of stuff.
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And so I understand.
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But really,
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I just I just want to know like
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when check in starts.
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Could you ask an athlete?
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Do they know?
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So I finally did.
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I reached out to an athlete and said,
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when are you guys told it's going on?
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And they're like,
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we can come anytime between 10 a.m.
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and 8 p.m.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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That's a long time.
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That's a long day.
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That's a big window.
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So I hate to be the
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volunteer running that sign-in desk.
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But yeah, but super excited to be there.
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It's just,
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there's a lot of like questions
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I have about what's going to happen.
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And because it's three floors,
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one with a professional rig,
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one with an A-frame rig and
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one with no rig.
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and they're going to be running events.
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And so depending on your age group,
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you will run in a different
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order than maybe another
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age group because you're
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just rotating the three floors.
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So like 39 may start on floor one,
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40 to 44 may start on floor two.
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Fascinating.
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That's a logistical
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nightmare to think about.
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Corey called out where I got
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the information from.
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He said, I was going to say,
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I bet Rudy knows.
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Well, I bet Lynette knows.
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Lynette filled me in.
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Yeah.
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That's always a struggle
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having multiple floors on a competition,
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you know, for a competition.
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Scott,
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we know all too well what that's
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like at MFC when we tried to do that.
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And the only person I know
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that does it really well,
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aside from the CrossFit Games,
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would be the MAAC.
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So that team has always had two floors.
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That was sort of a novel
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idea back in the day when some smaller,
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you know,
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some larger local competition
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started to get bigger.
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They always had two floors
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and they managed to make it work better.
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And TFX always had multiple
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floors as well and does a
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pretty good job with that.
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But if it's your first time doing it,
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it's definitely a challenge.
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I forgot you brought your
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phone voice with you today.
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Oh, yeah, this is right.
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Guys, this is day one, two, three.
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This is day five of this phenomenon.
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And on Saturday,
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I was lucky enough to
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attend a CrossFit
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competition where luckily
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all I had to do was scoring
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because if I had to judge
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or compete or anything else.
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I mean, I literally had a post-it note.
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They set me up in the office
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of the gym and I literally
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had a post-it note that said,
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I have laryngitis.
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Because people were asking me questions,
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you know, and I was like, like this.
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And then the other post-it note I had was,
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I don't know, I don't work here.
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Because I don't know how
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many times people wanted,
5:28
they needed to let me know
5:28
that there wasn't toilet
5:29
paper in the bathroom.
5:31
Somebody from the power
5:32
company had shown up and
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needed to talk to the owner.
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Where is, how much are these protein bars?
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Where can I pay for, you know,
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my fit aid and all this stuff?
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And I'm thinking, oh my God, stop.
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And this is a thousand times
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better than it was on Sunday.
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I mean,
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literally I had like one octave and
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it was way,
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way low and anything higher
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than that just came out as a speak.
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But yeah, Corey,
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I like this version of my voice.
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I really do like,
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but Saturday was ridiculous.
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It was, well, and I,
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Didn't know if I was sick or not.
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I mean,
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I obviously have like a cold or
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something.
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You know,
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I wasn't sure if I had something
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more serious.
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And every time I had to talk to someone,
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I had to get in their ear
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and talk to them.
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It felt awful.
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Let me give you my germs.
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You know, I don't know what's happening.
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So luckily.
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I've taken 18 million, you know,
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what tests and they're all negative.
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So I just have a bad cold or
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maybe I have allergies.
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Maybe I need to start taking
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the Scott Switzer route.
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You know,
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Natalie had this respiratory
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thing for like a month,
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actually two months.
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And she had like walking pneumonia.
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And she has walking pneumonia.
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Yeah.
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That's crazy.
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I mean, I should,
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I should go to the doctor and, you know,
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Mike's been telling me like, Hey,
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just do like a telehealth or whatever.
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you know,
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between getting Eliana ready for
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her first day of school
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today and dealing with a dying dog.
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And it's just crazy.
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So I saw Dashie today.
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I saw him, I went and visited him.
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Chris sent me a text this
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morning and said he collapsed again.
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So I went to the house after
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the gym and took a look at
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him and he's still eating
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chicken and wagging his tail and acting,
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you know, slow,
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but not unhappy or in pain.
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So,
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he's kind of still hanging
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out doing his thing.
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I just,
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it's a roller coaster and I can't
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keep getting these texts like, Hey,
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he collapsed.
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I'm like, Oh my God.
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Okay.
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Is today the day?
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Well, no, he's still wagging his tail.
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You know, what should we do?
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And I'm like, Oh,
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you're going to put them up there.
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No, thank you.
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It's actually this one.
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There we go.
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Yeah.
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It's funny you talk about dogs.
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I found out,
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we haven't talked publicly
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since I found out last
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Wednesday that I am fully
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allergic to my dog.
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Good grief.
8:00
I finally went to an
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allergist who did the skin
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test and then followed it
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up with like an injection
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test where they go deeper into the body.
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And then they did a rhino
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nose test with everything.
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And that's where I found out
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finally that I'm allergic
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officially to the dog and
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to just about everything outside.
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I know everything, all the things.
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So I started immunotherapy in two weeks.
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I think Charlie did that too.
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I did a lot of injection tests.
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Yeah.
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But I mean, didn't you do immunotherapy?
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Didn't you get out?
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No.
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Oh.
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I didn't get shots.
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Forget that.
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It's fine.
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You're going to get shots eventually,
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right?
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The immunotherapy is sort of like a,
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like a hyper boost.
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Of what the shots would be.
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And then, and then you'll.
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Is the shots.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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But it's like three weeks of
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shots in a day or something, right?
9:00
Well, you can,
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you can do it every week for a year,
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or you can elect to do the
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rush where you do three
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months of shots in five hours.
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And that's what you're doing, right?
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That's I'm electing to do that.
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Because you don't see relief
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until three months.
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I've been dealing with this way too long.
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Like I need some relief from this.
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So, yeah,
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I'm just going to go in there
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every 20 minutes for five hours.
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You get a shot.
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And then and then you do
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weekly for the rest of the year.
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What would have been the year?
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And then you move to
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biweekly and then you'll
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move to monthly and then
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then you should be done.
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But it is a long process.
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I actually did start that.
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That's what I'm saying.
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I know.
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I did that five-hour thing.
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I remember it now.
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Did it help?
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You're in the middle of it now?
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No, I did it years ago.
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It's kind of like day one.
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He does the first part and
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then he just doesn't make it.
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I did the five hours and then I was out.
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He did the tough part and
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then when it got easy, nah.
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He didn't do the follow-through.
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Weird.
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I decided to try something else.
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yeah oh why cat just leave
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oh she's coming um so
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charlie let's talk about
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what happened to your back
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listen when you don't do
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mobility and you don't have
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a core everything seems to
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just tighten up when you do
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things was it during the
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kettlebell swings I'm
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guessing it's probably
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during the uh cleaning
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jerks oh I forgot that part
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What do you mean you don't have a core?
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Are you like the scarecrow?
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Or you don't have?
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Basically.
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He thinks you got a core.
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I think you just maybe
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aren't engaging your core.
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There you go.
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There's nothing to engage.
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Charlie's on the free trial
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for allergy tests.
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What I want you guys to hear about, though,
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first,
11:04
is what happened this morning when
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you were supposed to be in my class?
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What happened there?
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See, what happened was...
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The bus has skid outside, see?
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And then, oh,
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my watch died in the middle of the night,
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which has my alarm.
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Isn't it weird?
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With all the technology that we have,
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that Charlie's alarms,
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he still misses it.
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I'm not letting a man know where I'm at.
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You guys have your newfangled stuff.
11:37
I got an old school, that little brown.
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That's what I need,
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that brown clock with red digits on it.
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I have one of those next to my bed.
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It doesn't have an alarm,
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but it tells me what time
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it is because I can't stand
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having to look at a phone
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or a watch to see.
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Amy, are you still using your Whoop?
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No, I quit that about a year ago.
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Is anybody?
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Am I the only one?
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My whoop is my alarm clock.
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Like if I don't have this, I don't,
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it's basically the only
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reason I wear it anymore is
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to tell me how many hours I
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didn't sleep and to wake me
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up in the morning.
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I just pay a different app
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to tell me that.
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Okay.
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What's going on with Kat's voice?
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Did I miss that part?
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Yep.
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You did.
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I got, I got the boogie woogie flu.
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Oh, yeah.
12:27
Well, that's what I said.
12:27
I didn't realize she was
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bringing her phone voice to the podcast.
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Corey says Charlie has that
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brown clock that plays
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yacht rock when it goes off.
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It's easing me right back into my dreams.
12:42
Yeah.
12:43
So were you able to do any of the workout?
12:46
Yeah, I did all.
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Oh, you said the last round.
12:50
Okay.
12:51
The kettlebell swings.
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I was like, is it worth it?
12:57
No.
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Well, you were missed in the back corner.
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Which I'm not allowed to be in anymore.
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He's not allowed to be.
13:04
Yeah.
13:04
Did you guys hear this?
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You didn't hear it.
13:05
We didn't talk about it.
13:06
What happened?
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Well,
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I'm one of Charlie's accountability
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coaches, as you all know,
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because that's why I share
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his dirty laundry on there.
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Which he quits doing as much as I quit.
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I do it and then I just get tired of.
13:23
See?
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The accountability partner is it.
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I get tired of the lack of response.
13:30
So anyways, he is not a lot.
13:33
So there's this back corner
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that he likes to go in and work out in,
13:37
work out in.
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And I've told him he's no
13:40
longer allowed to go back
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there because I think he
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doesn't push as hard when
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he goes back there.
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And so he needs to be a part
13:47
of the main area,
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unless there is somebody
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back there who will push
13:52
him like one of the other
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coaches that might come in and work out.
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And he has agreed upon the right.
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You agreed that that was correct.
14:00
Okay.
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Well, today was me and Marcus.
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So, okay.
14:05
That wasn't fun.
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Nope.
14:11
Well, um, yeah.
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Wow.
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You have some news at your gym.
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Yeah.
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I talked about it a little
14:20
bit Sunday night,
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but the O'Connells have
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sold CrossFit Polaris,
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what was now known as IBEX headquarters.
14:28
They're going back to CrossFit Polaris.
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Two family members from the gym bought
14:34
um bought it um and the
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o'connell said that they
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will now just be members
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starting september 1st they
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will shift from being
14:44
owners to being members and
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still want to be a part of
14:47
the community and that's
14:48
why they sold it to
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somebody in-house so it
14:51
could stay kind of in the
14:52
family um for those who don't know
14:57
christy's mom and dad owned
14:58
the gym first uh tony and
15:01
donna and they've owned it
15:02
for a very long time then
15:04
when christy and pat came
15:05
back to columbus they
15:07
bought into the gym and uh
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and I think they all just
15:12
decided it was a new time
15:14
in their life and they
15:15
wanted to focus on other
15:16
things so they went ahead
15:17
and sold the gym but um
15:20
what's that gonna do for programming
15:23
so according to my inside
15:25
source who goes to a class
15:27
with the one of the new
15:28
owners um they are shifting
15:30
over to a new programming
15:32
and they're promoting one
15:33
of the coaches to head
15:34
coach and head programmer
15:37
um to do programming I'm
15:39
trying to find out if pat
15:40
is still going to do ibex
15:41
training online right um or
15:45
I pay for it like they're
15:47
still going to sell ibex training for
15:49
why that wasn't part of our
15:52
email to the community or, I mean,
15:55
they've given us no
15:56
indication that that's going away.
15:58
Well, they just started a free trial,
16:02
which care sign up for a
16:07
new block starting next week.
16:10
So stuff, you mean Charlie for IBEX?
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Yeah.
16:17
Okay.
16:17
Well, that's good to know.
16:19
Yeah.
16:19
I mean,
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I would hope we'd get some notice
16:20
if they weren't doing that anymore.
16:22
A lot more questions about
16:24
that than I have about the gym itself.
16:27
Um, cause there's, and I've noticed,
16:28
I've noticed lately too,
16:29
that the Ibex stuff has
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gotten really sloppy.
16:32
Like there's, there's a lot of, um,
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you know, like in the description,
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it'll talk about cleaning
16:38
jerks and in the, in an actual workout,
16:40
it'll say snatches or, you know,
16:42
some other movement.
16:43
So, um,
16:44
Welcome to mayhem.
16:47
Is it like that too?
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I mean,
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it doesn't take much guys to just
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like proofread that stuff,
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especially if they're
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selling it for a fee.
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Oh, and let me tell you this too.
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I'm going to go there
16:58
because I have given the feedback.
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So I'm not saying anything
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behind anybody's back.
17:02
I have given upfront feedback,
17:04
but Darren Hunsucker makes
17:07
the videos for the coaches and
17:10
It is the biggest amateur
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hour videos I've ever seen.
17:13
He messes up about three or
17:16
four times at the beginning where I think,
17:18
Hey dude,
17:18
could you just edit your videos
17:21
before you send it out?
17:22
Like, and he'll give like,
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it's not just a random little thing.
17:26
It'll be like a totally
17:27
different number or a
17:28
totally different round
17:29
that completely changes the
17:30
whole stimulus of whatever
17:32
the workout is supposed to be.
17:33
Yeah.
17:34
Yeah.
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I don't, it's not that difficult.
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I don't understand it to be
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honest with you.
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I feel like a lot of times too, it's,
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if that's the case,
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like they're dealing with a
17:43
year cycle and they're kind
17:44
of just maybe cutting and pasting,
17:47
regurgitating it and
17:48
cutting and pasting or whatnot.
17:49
But I mean, it's hard.
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I get it.
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But if you're, if you're selling it,
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it should be a professional product.
17:56
And I feel like it's not.
17:57
Oh boy.
17:58
Yeah.
17:58
Oh, here we go.
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Exactly.
18:00
People just follow the leader, right?
18:02
Yeah.
18:04
What is this?
18:06
So if you look in the description and this,
18:11
they're two different workouts.
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Back squat, max back squat,
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but yet up here, workout of the day,
18:18
seven rounds per time.
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So which one is it?
18:22
Yeah.
18:23
Both.
18:24
Here's your strength.
18:25
Here's your Metcon.
18:28
Well,
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it's bad when you're in first class
18:29
and then you're like, wait,
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this is not supposed to be this.
18:32
It's supposed to be this.
18:34
Poor 5 AMers.
18:35
They're just the rest of the day.
18:37
Two rounds.
18:39
Oh, okay.
18:41
Yeah.
18:42
It's not 400 meters.
18:44
It was 400 feet.
18:46
My dad.
18:48
Whoops.
18:51
Yeah.
18:52
I didn't want to,
18:53
I didn't want to talk about this,
18:54
but it's here.
18:55
And so I'm going to go ahead
18:56
and pull it up.
18:57
Oh boy.
18:58
But, um,
19:00
What I'm hating ever since
19:02
the games happened and the
19:03
tragedy that was,
19:06
the internet is just stupid.
19:07
I can't even be on it.
19:08
It's a dumpster fire.
19:10
I was hoping to dive into
19:12
CrossFit instead of, you know,
19:14
what's it called?
19:15
Political drama on the internet.
19:17
And now I don't want to be a
19:18
part of any of it.
19:20
So the buttery rose put out
19:21
a documentary yesterday,
19:22
kind of behind the scenes
19:24
and maybe two days ago, really, really,
19:26
really well done, really well done.
19:29
And they made an
19:29
announcement that all
19:30
AdSense will be donated to
19:32
the GoFundMe for Lazar's family.
19:38
The AdSense is Google's way
19:39
of paying YouTubers for what,
19:44
for what monetization comes through.
19:47
And the comment is,
19:48
are you guys going to write
19:49
off the donations on your tax return?
19:52
We can skip the Heller part.
19:54
He realized that receiving
19:55
any monetary compensation,
19:56
even if it is then donated,
19:59
that is earned primarily
20:00
due to a person's death is
20:02
just a really bad look.
20:04
So here's a group of people
20:06
trying to do a good thing
20:10
by donating the money that
20:11
they get from this because
20:12
they are content creators.
20:13
That's what they do.
20:15
And not taking any money for themselves,
20:17
but to do it and give the money away.
20:20
And we've got to have people
20:21
like this attacking them.
20:24
I find it stupid.
20:30
Yeah, they took that comment down too.
20:32
But people just have like
20:36
itchy trigger fingers right
20:38
now on the internet.
20:38
I feel like you can't do anything right.
20:42
The training Think Tank
20:44
podcast that you mentioned
20:46
to us to listen to, it was really good.
20:48
And I thought Travis Mayer
20:50
and the other guys did a
20:53
great job of talking about,
20:54
you guys from home have no
20:56
idea what it felt like to be there.
20:58
And Sky,
21:00
I know you and Katz both said that too,
21:02
which was a really good
21:03
perspective because the
21:04
only thing we had to go on
21:06
was social media, basically.
21:08
And it was so negative and so hateful.
21:13
And so it was hard to even
21:17
pull up anything on your
21:20
phone over that weekend
21:21
because it was so negative.
21:23
When people on the internet
21:24
were saying everything
21:25
looked like it was back to
21:26
normal was the biggest
21:29
irritant for me the whole
21:31
weekend because in no way, shape,
21:33
or form was that weekend
21:34
normal for us there.
21:36
Right.
21:36
Right.
21:39
No, and even hearing, you know,
21:40
Travis's perspective, too,
21:42
of the athletes and sort of
21:43
what happened behind the scenes and how,
21:47
you know,
21:47
the warm-up areas were and the
21:50
corralling and all of that.
21:51
Like,
21:51
we didn't have insight into that either.
21:53
Scott and I didn't.
21:54
But you can only imagine, like,
21:55
that was so different as well.
21:56
It's like the whole thing was just crazy.
22:00
I mean, and even I felt like I even –
22:03
was at odds sometimes with my own friends,
22:05
like even Scott and I
22:06
during the weekend had
22:08
differing opinions and we're like,
22:10
wait a minute.
22:11
No, you know, no, no, not, I mean, it just,
22:13
everybody was on edge and rightfully so,
22:16
but yeah,
22:17
that shit makes you do weird stuff.
22:20
And the whole part I kept
22:21
thinking about when we're
22:22
thinking about the,
22:23
the community so divided right now,
22:25
like with,
22:26
with what was the right thing
22:27
to do or how people grieved.
22:28
And
22:30
what I like kept going back
22:31
to and thinking is no matter what though,
22:33
all of those athletes that
22:34
were there are trauma bonded now.
22:37
Like they,
22:38
nobody else knows what that
22:39
experience was like.
22:40
And,
22:41
and my hope is that someday that that
22:43
will kind of bring them
22:44
closer to being together,
22:46
even if in the moment they
22:47
needed to respond and react
22:49
in a different, in a different way.
22:53
Yeah.
22:54
Yeah.
22:54
You're right about that.
22:55
Yeah.
22:57
one thing I know we said we
22:58
were going to try to do is
22:59
share a memory every week
23:02
and as I was watching the
23:03
buttery bros uh thing which
23:06
the last 10 minutes was
23:09
like that should have been
23:10
the memorial yeah it was
23:12
great um you're about to
23:20
get ice in the veins from
23:21
those immunotherapies
23:24
I wish I would have started them, but no.
23:26
Yeah.
23:31
So if you haven't watched
23:33
the Buttery Burrows,
23:34
it was just a pretty long episode.
23:37
It was like an hour and 45 minutes.
23:39
Yeah.
23:40
I napped in the middle of it, but yeah,
23:42
it was good.
23:42
It was, the end was really good.
23:44
But I just thought they did,
23:45
they did overall,
23:46
like they did a really good
23:47
job of storytelling,
23:50
but also I think being respectful,
23:52
respectful storytelling.
23:54
Yeah, for sure.
23:58
I liked how they let the
23:59
athletes speak about their time,
24:02
like we've been doing on this show.
24:05
And so one memory that kind
24:07
of came up to me was I'd
24:10
gone to Rogue in 21?
24:11
Maybe?
24:13
Yeah.
24:13
And
24:23
Worked as a PA for the documentary.
24:28
And part of that was really
24:30
just equipping the camera
24:31
people with their batteries.
24:34
So it was stationed in the
24:34
third base dugout where all
24:36
the athletes would come
24:36
wait to be announced out
24:38
onto the grounds.
24:41
So I'm just sitting there
24:42
with a couple of volunteers.
24:44
And every time Lazar would
24:46
come into the dugout,
24:48
he would fist bump me.
24:52
And the volunteers are like,
24:53
do you know him?
24:54
And before I could say anything,
24:57
Lazarus was like,
24:58
he's my good luck charm.
25:02
And, uh,
25:03
and like that memory came back
25:06
because of what the buttery
25:07
brush showed and like was
25:09
so much like every
25:11
experience I had with Lazarus.
25:13
So I don't know.
25:15
I just wanted to share that one today.
25:18
I love how honest everybody was too.
25:20
Like how they were talking
25:21
about how fun he was to be around,
25:22
but how they were like, yeah,
25:23
he was the biggest shit talker.
25:27
And I, but I love that,
25:28
that they weren't like, Oh, you know,
25:30
like it's true.
25:32
He was.
25:33
Yeah.
25:35
And I think it was Brent
25:36
that was saying something about like,
25:38
he was really sad at the
25:40
award ceremony because usually they,
25:42
you know,
25:42
they all get pizza and sit down
25:43
and he's like,
25:44
and I'd look for Lazar
25:45
because he's just fun to hang out with.
25:48
And I think that was a big
25:50
piece that was missed this weekend too.
25:52
You know,
25:52
I understand why it couldn't
25:53
happen or didn't happen the way it did,
25:55
but, you know, bringing Mike,
25:58
there for the first time and
25:59
trying to explain to him what it's like.
26:02
I mean, that kid,
26:03
he has no idea what the
26:04
CrossFit Games is like.
26:06
And the award ceremony, I'm like, no,
26:09
you don't understand.
26:10
People take off their shoes
26:11
and they announce the
26:12
winners of the events.
26:13
And they're all ribbing and
26:14
joshing and eating pizza, drinking beer.
26:17
And it's just the coolest thing ever.
26:20
And that's just a big piece
26:22
of it where the athletes
26:23
can relax and be themselves.
26:25
And it's when they probably
26:26
do most of their bonding
26:28
over the weekend because, you know,
26:30
competition's over and
26:31
their guard is down and all that.
26:33
So just suck that that
26:35
didn't get to happen, you know,
26:37
with or without him.
26:39
And the other true thing is
26:41
you learn about the fire of
26:43
Lazar and Brent saying that
26:46
there was never a
26:47
competition where Lazar
26:49
didn't find the bad ref or the bad judge.
26:52
Yeah.
26:52
Yeah.
26:53
Those are the stories.
26:54
I mean,
26:54
like people didn't shy away from
26:55
sharing those stories.
26:57
That was great.
26:57
It's true.
26:58
Yeah.
26:58
Yeah.
27:00
And we've seen firsthand up
27:02
close him yelling at a judge.
27:05
Going crazy.
27:05
Yeah.
27:07
Yeah.
27:08
Which is awesome.
27:09
That's passion.
27:10
Yeah.
27:11
It comes both ways.
27:13
Here's competitor.
27:16
Well,
27:16
we only have a couple of minutes left.
27:17
And one thing I talked about
27:20
Sunday night that I just
27:20
wanted to kind of reiterate
27:22
and maybe try to say clear this,
27:25
this week is I'm having
27:26
some issues with the PFAA in its concept.
27:31
I like what it is.
27:32
And I think that the
27:32
athletes need a voice and
27:34
they need a unified voice and
27:37
But I don't know that where
27:39
the PFA is today is that voice.
27:44
I've been a member of a
27:45
professional organization
27:47
like my entire time with the state.
27:49
We have a professional
27:50
organization that covers
27:51
the work that we do day to day.
27:55
Hi, Sprinkles.
27:57
And so with that
27:58
professional organization
28:00
are elected officials that represent you.
28:03
And whenever there's a
28:06
change to the bylaws or
28:07
anything like that,
28:09
there is a vote that
28:10
happens and you as members
28:12
pay dues to have a voting right to then
28:16
vote on those changes or to
28:19
vote on something that's done.
28:21
The PFA puts out a statement
28:23
with three demands saying
28:25
that they represent the
28:27
interest of those who
28:29
competed in the CrossFit Games season.
28:32
I have never,
28:33
ever seen a roster of
28:35
athletes that are members of the PFAA.
28:38
I don't know who they represent.
28:41
I don't know,
28:42
are there dues paying members?
28:44
They have a board of directors,
28:45
were they self-appointed or
28:47
were they elected?
28:48
Like these are things that
28:50
the PFAA demands
28:51
transparency from CrossFit.
28:54
And those are all things
28:55
that we don't know about
28:57
their organization.
28:59
I want them to have a voice.
29:01
I want them to be able to
29:04
speak freely about what
29:05
they think needs to be
29:07
safer or what they need to
29:09
be more fair competition.
29:11
But doggone it,
29:12
like figure your own shit out.
29:15
And tell me who your members
29:17
are and do it in a way that
29:19
makes sense so that you are
29:21
representing a group of
29:23
athletes who have a say
29:25
either by voting rights or
29:27
through internal meetings,
29:29
not just a club of self-appointed people.
29:35
Yeah, I agree.
29:37
I think that athletes need
29:38
to take a stand whether
29:41
they're part of it or not.
29:42
And I think before when
29:46
maybe some of these
29:46
decisions weren't so
29:48
critical or so divisive.
29:52
I think it was easy for them to just say,
29:55
we represent the athletes, right?
29:57
The best interest of the athletes.
29:58
And, you know,
29:59
certainly anybody that's
30:00
going to compete in a
30:01
semifinal or in at the CrossFit games,
30:04
you know,
30:04
would have something to gain by
30:05
being aligned by the PFAA
30:07
because they're looking out
30:07
for their safety when it comes to,
30:10
you know, box height and rope length and,
30:13
you know, is this a fair standard,
30:14
that kind of thing.
30:15
But when, but when it comes to,
30:17
when they're putting their
30:17
foot down and saying like,
30:18
we have demands, I agree.
30:21
I think,
30:21
I think we need to know who
30:24
exactly are they
30:25
representing because it's,
30:27
it can't just be this sort
30:28
of blanket statement of, you know,
30:30
we represent the interests
30:31
of the athletes.
30:33
It's like, okay, but you know,
30:35
you're asking for some serious shit.
30:37
Well, I mean,
30:38
I hear what you guys are saying.
30:39
I'm not totally disagreeing.
30:41
But I think the other
30:42
perspective that I see is
30:44
that they're also trying to
30:47
throw some leadership with
30:48
some confidence in there, too.
30:49
And I think that they're trying to say,
30:53
like,
30:54
we don't want to be pushed over anymore.
30:55
Like,
30:56
they need to have an important part
30:58
or they need to be a part
30:58
of some of these conversations.
31:00
And so I think that's where
31:01
the language of the demands come from.
31:04
I hear what you guys I hear
31:05
what you're saying.
31:05
Mm hmm.
31:07
I'm just saying I,
31:07
whenever I see things just
31:09
because of the nature of who I am,
31:11
I like to look at like, okay, what is,
31:14
what's behind the behavior
31:15
of what's making this happen?
31:16
What, what is the behavior?
31:18
What's encouraging this response?
31:21
And I think it's something
31:22
that they started four
31:23
years ago and they're
31:24
feeling it's incredibly
31:28
like it's so important
31:29
right now to make sure that
31:30
they're heard loudly.
31:32
They started it, though,
31:34
and they haven't been inclusive,
31:37
in my opinion.
31:38
There are eight people
31:39
signed to those demands.
31:41
If it's a demand of eight
31:42
people or a demand of 200 athletes,
31:46
that's a very different demand.
31:49
Or 2,000.
31:50
Right.
31:51
I've asked semifinal athletes.
31:53
None of them have asked to
31:54
be a member of the PFAA.
31:56
I've asked Masters athletes.
31:58
None of them have been asked
32:00
to be members of the PFAA.
32:02
Now the PFAA is stepping in
32:04
to work with things like
32:06
Wadapalooza SoCal.
32:08
They're moving in to work
32:09
with NorCal Classic.
32:12
Now you're representing all
32:13
the athletes in that field.
32:15
Those are...
32:16
community events those are
32:18
semi-final level athletes
32:19
those are masters athletes
32:21
those are teen athletes how
32:24
can you say you represent
32:25
all those athletes when
32:26
you're not letting any of
32:27
them be members of your
32:29
association well I think we
32:33
need to get more
32:33
information about it
32:34
ourselves I think they need
32:36
to give us more information
32:38
like they're demanding of crossfit
32:43
Sure.
32:43
I'm just saying,
32:44
just as you've been saying,
32:46
we need to wait until we
32:47
have all the information.
32:48
Hey,
32:48
maybe we also need to make sure that
32:50
we have all the information.
32:54
Right.
32:54
I'm not arguing with Amy
32:56
that I think that the
32:58
athletes need a voice.
33:00
I do think they need a voice.
33:02
I do.
33:03
And maybe the statements
33:04
that were made are valid
33:06
across more people than we think.
33:08
I'm asking just for the
33:09
transparency that they're
33:10
asking for in what athletes
33:12
are making this statement.
33:16
And that becomes really
33:17
difficult now that Dave's
33:19
head's on a platter.
33:22
I think that doing that is
33:23
going to make it very
33:24
difficult for some athletes
33:26
to come out and say they're a part of it.
33:32
Yeah.
33:33
Regardless.
33:34
Because, because it's so, you know,
33:37
what's that?
33:38
Put it out there for them to,
33:40
to be allowed to be a part
33:41
of it and to have a voting
33:43
right into what the demands are.
33:45
Yeah.
33:50
And then if you say like,
33:51
we have a membership base
33:53
of a thousand people and
33:54
73% voted that we want Dave on a platter,
33:59
that, that means something.
34:01
Right.
34:05
I'm not saying I'm not, well,
34:08
I may or may not agree with this.
34:10
The, the request made,
34:12
they have the entitlement to make them.
34:14
I just want to know what
34:15
impact it truly has by how
34:18
many athletes are involved.
34:24
And I think it was premature
34:26
and I think it became very
34:27
divisive in the community.
34:29
Yeah,
34:29
and I don't necessarily agree with
34:31
the last demand either.
34:33
But I just am trying to look at it as,
34:36
yeah,
34:37
I think we don't have all the
34:38
information about the PFAA.
34:40
And I hear what you're saying, you know,
34:41
they haven't given us all
34:42
the information or any information.
34:48
Yeah.
34:49
Well,
34:50
we all just sit back and scroll
34:51
Instagram and wait for
34:52
someone to make a post, unfortunately,
34:54
is how we get all of our information,
34:56
which also sucks.
34:59
Yeah.
34:59
That is such a bad,
35:01
bad precedence that the
35:02
entire CrossFit world is bad at.
35:06
Just this Masters thing this weekend,
35:10
Bob and Joe go on this
35:11
podcast and they release
35:12
this information.
35:14
They go on this podcast and
35:15
they release this information.
35:17
How do you get to all the
35:19
podcasts to make sure you
35:20
have everything you need as an athlete?
35:23
Hear me out.
35:25
What if they had a media?
35:29
Right.
35:29
I mean, it should be coming from their,
35:34
you know, official.
35:35
And even the fact that the
35:36
Instagram is the sort of
35:39
channel of delivery is
35:40
still kind of annoying to me, but.
35:43
Yeah.
35:43
We're talking,
35:44
you've added a 70 plus division.
35:48
Like in the master division,
35:50
are you guaranteed all
35:51
these people have Instagram?
35:53
Right.
35:54
I know.
35:55
Emails, something, you know, WhatsApp.
36:01
What, Charlie?
36:02
They're probably at MySpace.
36:06
You have to write them a
36:07
letter or mail it to them.
36:09
On their AOL accounts.
36:11
Yes.
36:12
Yeah.
36:12
Their dial-up connections.
36:15
Yeah.
36:16
Yeah, I know.
36:16
We need a lot more
36:17
information about a lot of
36:20
things still left unanswered.
36:22
You guys got my text this
36:23
morning about the medical
36:26
examiner's information that
36:28
it could take another six
36:29
to eight weeks before we
36:30
get information on
36:31
Lazar's cause of death,
36:33
which also just leaves things to churn.
36:36
Yeah.
36:38
Uh, so Brent McCarty, uh, Wu Tang clan fan,
36:41
uh,
36:42
I bet there have been athletes asked
36:43
to join and they are afraid
36:45
to say something.
36:47
I know for a fact that like
36:48
Carolyn Priva was asked to join,
36:52
but all that meant when she
36:54
joined is she got like the newsletter,
36:56
uh,
36:59
according to her.
37:01
And I don't know what that, like,
37:03
it didn't sound like she
37:04
had any voting rights on
37:06
what they said or who they,
37:09
what demands they were
37:10
making or anything like that.
37:13
So.
37:14
Yeah.
37:15
And you remember when we,
37:16
when we interviewed Brent, he even said,
37:18
maybe it was us or somebody did.
37:20
He was talking about this Brent.
37:22
He was talking about the
37:23
conversation around the responsibility of,
37:26
you know,
37:27
leading that organization and how,
37:29
you know,
37:29
they wanted to write bylaws and
37:30
do all these things.
37:31
And he's like, quite frankly, he's like,
37:32
I just don't have the time to do that.
37:34
I'm training to be a professional athlete.
37:37
And I remember even thinking to myself,
37:38
like, I wonder if, you know,
37:40
someone like you or I,
37:41
Scott could jump in, you know,
37:43
and be that part, like, you know,
37:45
play an administrative role in that,
37:47
in that area.
37:48
And, you know,
37:49
obviously nothing came of that,
37:50
but he himself admits that he's got,
37:54
he's like,
37:57
That's the problem.
37:58
That's the problem.
38:00
It's one man and one man's
38:01
opinion and one man writing,
38:02
not a unified athlete group.
38:07
If you get dues from people
38:09
like my professional association,
38:11
I think the dues yearly are 60 bucks,
38:14
right?
38:14
It's not anything that breaks the bank,
38:16
but what you can do with
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that money is then hire
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someone to write the bylaws.
38:19
Yeah.
38:21
Right.
38:22
And so that's where the,
38:25
I think they need to go.
38:28
Um,
38:28
but that's where I'm going to leave it
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today.
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Unless you guys have something else.
38:33
I have a one o'clock meeting
38:34
here in Eastern time.
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So real jobs.
38:37
Yeah.
38:38
So I just want to come get
38:41
everybody revved up and then walk out.
38:43
I don't even have any food in my kitchen.
38:47
And not even a can of tuna.
38:49
Nope.
38:50
Nope.
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All empty.
38:52
I'm going to have to go
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shopping before school starts.
38:57
All right, guys.
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Well, you guys don't have anything else.
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Thanks for being here.
39:03
We're here every week.
39:04
Next week,
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we'll kind of recap the weekend
39:07
from the Masters.
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Don't forget to support the teams, too.
39:10
They're going off in
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Michigan this weekend.
39:14
Everything's going to be streamed,
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so you can check those out
39:17
on games.crossfit.com or
39:20
their separate YouTube channels,
39:21
I believe, as well.
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So go ahead and check that out.
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We will see everybody next
39:26
time on the Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
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Bye, guys.