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Live from the road to the 2025 CrossFitGames · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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it's lunchtime you guys
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didn't think I'd be here
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did you you guys didn't
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think I'd make it I am a
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little bit over an hour
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outside of albany I'm
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headed there now um it's
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been a pretty good drive
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last night was pretty crazy um
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Yeah,
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I drove until about one in the
0:54
morning last night.
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Got to Rochester, New York.
0:59
Tried to find hotels.
1:00
Man, it was tough.
1:03
Tough finding a decent hotel
1:05
with a decent rating along
1:08
I-Ninety going through New York.
1:11
But I did find one in Rochester.
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So we stopped.
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We slept a little while.
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Had a nice breakfast and now
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I am just about an hour
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outside of Albany right now.
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Uh, Judy Reed.
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Ooh,
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I went to school in Rochester and for
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some reason it's not showing me.
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There it is.
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Okay.
1:43
Working on the iPad instead
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of the laptop today.
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So it's a little bit glitchy.
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Jody Lynn's asking if she went to RIT.
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I saw that as I passed through there.
2:00
The exit I actually got off of,
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there was an RIT hotel or a
2:05
conference center,
2:05
business conference center,
2:07
something like that.
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I actually got really good reviews,
2:09
but I decided to go to a
2:12
courtyard instead.
2:17
Judy says, yep, that is it.
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So what's going on, Meredith, Terry,
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of course, Jody and Judy, Craig.
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You guys all excited for the
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CrossFit Games?
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We're only two days away.
2:34
Two days away.
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I tried to watch as much or
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listen to as much coverage
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as I could last night to
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kind of keep me awake.
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I really enjoyed a lot of the coverage.
2:49
But I got a couple bones to pick, man.
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And they're friends.
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I hate doing this, but...
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Oh my gosh,
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like the homers are coming out.
3:02
The homers are coming out.
3:05
Last night,
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I listened to John Young on the
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WOD Prep podcast.
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And oh my God,
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if I hear Austin Hatfield's
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name one more time,
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I think I'm going to throw up.
3:20
I know John is a big fan of Austin.
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I know he has some biases there,
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but I don't know what he
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has seen to think he is
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going to be the next legend of the sport.
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He finished, what,
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tenth at the games last year?
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He beat Colton at Mayhem.
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Colton has not yet finished
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in the top ten at the games,
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so I don't know what that proves yet.
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I know Colton's better.
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I still think there's way
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too many questions around
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Austin Hatfield and the
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competition he's been
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around to annoy him the
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next Rich and Matt.
4:01
That just seems bizarre a world to me.
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um judy reed says I saw you
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comment that why aren't you
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a fan I'm it's not that I'm
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not a fan of of of austin
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I'm just tired of hearing
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john talk about him I
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actually think austin's a a
4:22
great athlete um I think
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he's fine I just I think
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john has elevated him to
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this status that he's yet to earn
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That's it.
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That's it.
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Then I'm going to go to my other friend,
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Grant Kipping It Real,
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who can't stop talking about Ty Jenkins.
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Ty was great in the team division.
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Great.
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But what does that mean?
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Ty has the talent to be a
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major player in the sport.
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But there...
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there are so many athletes that are, are,
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are so good right now.
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I can't remember who said it,
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but it's like, it'll probably be,
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it was in the Hiller video
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and it was Bill Leahy.
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This year's top ten, from top to bottom,
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will be the deepest we've ever seen.
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And so many young and
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talented athletes who are
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not even at the peak of
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their ability yet.
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So to say anybody is going
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to be legendary is just
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bizarre a world to me.
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If Austin can beat Team Brute and Jeff,
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then maybe Austin is the next one.
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It's still one competition, Craig.
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It's one competition.
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He's only been doing this
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for like two years.
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Katie is getting brutal with us.
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Hatfield's head is so big,
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he won't even fit through a door.
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Possibly.
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Possibly.
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I just,
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I don't see the resume yet to go to
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the declaration that has been happening.
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And the same with Ty.
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Ty is, what, twenty years old?
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Give the kid some time.
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Give the kid some time.
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People are excited for new
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names and faces.
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We have new names and faces
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all over the top ten.
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Dallin's only been here three years.
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Hopper's only been here three years.
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Now we have Hadfield here twice.
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We have James Sprague here.
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This will be his, what, third year.
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We have a lot of people that
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are new to the sport.
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I just...
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I just find it, again,
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baffling that you would put
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somebody into this
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dominating status at this point already.
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There's just not been enough
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resume built for that to happen.
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And Simi Rowling says it right.
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They did this with Hopper too.
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He was the second coming.
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You know, he was the next big thing.
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And it's taken him years to, like,
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figure out where he fits.
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Anishup says, I think the men's race now,
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you can't afford to make any mistakes.
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That is it in a nutshell.
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There's no room for error anymore.
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There are too many good athletes.
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And that's what happens when
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a sport develops and it becomes older.
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More people start playing the sport.
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You get deeper fields.
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And now we're probably not
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ever going to see another
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rich or matte domination.
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There's just too many good
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people that are too good at
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certain things.
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And some of these athletes
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are really working their
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weaknesses and becoming
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more and more well-rounded, right?
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I mean, we've said it all season long.
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There are nine athletes, in my opinion,
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that could win the CrossFit
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Games this weekend.
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Nine.
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That's insane.
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And because of that, as Omar said,
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let's get jazzed, man.
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Let's get jazzed.
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Because it's going to be a
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fun competition.
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It's going to be fun to
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watch because anybody can pull it off.
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Devesh with the bold statement,
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peak Rich or peak Matt
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would still dominate this field.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I mean, I am the biggest Rich fan.
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I think I am one of the
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biggest Rich fans out there.
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And I think that if you look
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back at his career,
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it was less dominant than Matt.
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He won when he needed to.
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We don't know how much he
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left in the tank during events.
10:04
Yeah.
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So, yeah, that's a tough one for me.
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I think Matt would compete for sure.
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Would he dominate?
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I don't know.
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Wow,
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comments are going faster than I can
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hit them.
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Katie Schaefer,
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I want to see Ricky have a
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clean run and do well.
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That is the key for Ricky.
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Ricky just has not had a
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clean run in a very long time.
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Aaron Frazier,
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hopefully with the top ten
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males being so close,
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there can be some shuffling
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and middling to be a good race.
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I think we're going to see a
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great race all weekend long.
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And that's why I think like
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when they released event
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nine yesterday and
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everybody was kind of ripping it.
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I think it's going to be a great race.
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I think when we look back at the weekend,
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that is going to be an
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event that we look at and go, whoa,
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that was great.
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That is going to be so much
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fun to watch just because
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of the way it plays out on the floor.
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You're going to be able to
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see who has the lead in the run,
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who gets to the barbell first,
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who cycles that barbell the fastest and
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It's going to be fun to watch.
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I know people are dogging it,
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but I really think at the
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end of the weekend,
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we're going to look at that and say,
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that was pretty damn good.
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Katie says, Rich was dominant on Sundays.
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He was because that's when he had to be.
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Craig, that is mistaken.
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IE-O-Nine is the last event.
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It is not.
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There are ten events,
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so there is one more event
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after Event Nine.
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So, all right.
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Craig, there are nine slots.
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There is a two-part workout
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on Saturday night that will
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take the Saturday night time slot,
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but it's a two-parter with
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two separate scores.
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And then there is eight, nine,
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and ten on Sunday.
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Okay.
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And so I watched the Hiller
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kind of behind the scenes
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with Bill Leahy and then
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just overall behind the scenes.
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Really good video.
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Got to see the floor.
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It looks awesome.
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He talks to Dave a little bit,
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which was really cool.
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And.
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My favorite part was when he
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talked to Kristen Holta who
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coming out of retirement is
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going team and, uh,
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trying to take their team to victory.
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That would be freaking
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awesome to see her up on the podium, uh,
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after retiring and do doing that.
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So that's, uh, that was pretty awesome.
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It looks like if you like
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tight shirts on men,
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it looks like you're going
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to get your wish this year
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in the uniforms that are
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being handed out.
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I don't know.
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And then...
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It just was a really good video.
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You've got to check it out.
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Lots of stuff in there.
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Vindicate says the blocking
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banners in the arena look
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awesome in the video.
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You know what's awesome?
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I don't say this enough.
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I have one of the Vindicate backpacks.
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It carries so much of my
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equipment on these weekends.
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It is so sturdy.
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It is so...
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it is built so well and it is,
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it is tough.
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It is durable.
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It is roomy.
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I can get a whole lot of
15:02
stuff in that backpack.
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And it's my favorite one
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that I've ever owned in the
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CrossFit space.
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So if you need a backpack,
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I know vindicate is known
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for shirts and his clothing apparel,
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but man,
15:21
his backpacks are the freaking bomb.
15:24
So go check those out
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because they are amazing.
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You will see it on my back
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all weekend long.
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EU sizing is different than US.
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The clothing looks so small.
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It really looks small.
15:42
I know Carolyn was not happy
15:44
that everything was a crop top.
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We talked about that last
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week in her getting an F from Hiller.
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Um,
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she does not like to show anything
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being a school teacher.
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Um, she likes the full t-shirt.
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What the funny, the funniest thing though,
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is I noticed she is number.
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That was my football number,
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my high school career.
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Uh,
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I haven't got a chance to tell her that,
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but, um,
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I thought that was really cool that, um,
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That she's going to wear the
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number I wore most of my
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CrossFit or not my CrossFit
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football career.
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Judy Reed.
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Maddie used her own
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babysitting money to buy her own.
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She loves it at Vindicate.
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It is really...
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It is really an awesome backpack guys.
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So many pockets.
16:42
The big key for me is I
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carry a big water bottle.
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It has a nice pouch on the
16:46
outside for that.
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And it has so many pockets
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inside for like my pens, my markers,
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my memory cards, all that kind of stuff.
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Do they have required shoes
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in the uniform?
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They do not.
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But on the back squat event,
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if you wear shoes,
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you get five hundred
17:10
dollars just for wearing them.
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And if you win that event,
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you get another three grand.
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That Hiller actually asked
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Bill Leahy if he's going to
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wear the shoes to get the
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five hundred bucks.
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And he said with his
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partnership with Adidas,
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he's not going to chase the short coin.
17:36
And I thought that was a
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cool way to put that.
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Five hundred bucks is not
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anywhere near what he would
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be giving up with his Adidas deal.
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Do you think we'll see
17:50
another longer event other
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than event one?
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I think we will not see an
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event longer than event one for sure.
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But I would not be surprised.
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We have some good sprints.
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I mean, the back squat's going to be fast.
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That event nine is going to be super fast.
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But there's a couple
18:13
chippers already in there.
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I don't know.
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I think I'd like to see one
18:20
longer-ish event added to the mix.
18:25
But whether we will or not, I don't know.
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Linda, Bill is smart and humble.
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Very likable.
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He is.
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Devesh says,
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is that five hundred per event?
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It is just for the back squat event.
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John Walker, dude, I love the games,
18:49
but this year feels muted
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or off or something.
18:52
I don't know.
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I don't feel that way at all.
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I actually,
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I am as excited this year for
18:59
the games as I've been in a long time.
19:04
And I think I just,
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last year was such a bad taste.
19:08
Being in Fort Worth during all of that,
19:11
it was...
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not an easy games to consume live.
19:16
And I think I just want to
19:17
go get that taste out of my mouth and,
19:22
and move into a new direction.
19:26
You know, we have a sale pending.
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We have,
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there's so much coming for the
19:32
future of CrossFit.
19:34
If all the chips fall where they need to,
19:37
we could be looking at
19:40
great things coming and,
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And I feel like the games is
19:44
the perfect place to kick that off.
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We had a rough season.
19:48
CrossFit did things I didn't
19:50
agree with during this season.
19:52
The last couple months, man,
19:55
they've really tightened up the ship.
19:57
They've started doing some
19:59
things that we've been
19:59
begging them to do for years.
20:02
And if the sale goes the way
20:05
we think it will and may go,
20:08
I think that there is an exciting future,
20:12
and this could be the
20:12
kickoff to all of that.
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Katie, I'm so excited for the games.
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I am too.
20:30
Okay.
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Devesh, I feel this year is better,
20:36
if anything, less fluff and noise,
20:38
just pure CrossFit,
20:40
athletes that really love CrossFit,
20:42
and real fans.
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I don't disagree.
20:48
I think that if you were to
20:50
get a true lie detector
20:52
test poll of athletes that
20:55
skipped this season,
20:57
I think some of them would
20:58
say they wish they hadn't.
21:06
Just because of some of the
21:07
changes that CrossFit, in fact,
21:09
actually did make and
21:11
uphold on their end.
21:24
But we'll never know that because,
21:27
you know,
21:27
we can't take lie detector poll questions,
21:31
so.
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Yeah,
21:34
there's this date that's floating around.
21:38
Barbell Spin put it in our
21:39
chat yesterday or the day before.
21:42
It keeps floating around.
21:45
There's a lot of speculation
21:46
that that will be when the sale is final.
21:56
Some of them would be
21:57
irrelevant this season regardless.
22:01
I think some of them would have made...
22:05
Would have made some noise for sure,
22:07
though.
22:08
Some of them would qualify for the games,
22:10
and if you get into a field of thirty,
22:12
nobody is... Well... Nobody
22:20
from the big three regions
22:22
of the world is irrelevant.
22:31
So exactly one week after the games...
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That's how it appears.
22:37
Craig pointing out that Rich
22:39
has been MIA lately.
22:51
The only reason I don't
22:52
totally agree with Shiz is
22:55
I think if Laura Horvat did the game,
22:57
she would be relevant.
22:58
Emma Tall would be relevant.
23:04
I think that... Oh, my Italian girl.
23:11
What's her name?
23:14
She podiumed twice in Europe this year.
23:19
Elisa Fuliano.
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She would be relevant.
23:29
CK Kevin, they would be irrelevant to us.
23:33
Elisa Fuliano.
23:36
Elisa Fuliano is one of the nicest,
23:38
kindest people I've ever met in my life.
23:41
I actually do miss the fact
23:42
that she's not going to be
23:43
here this year.
23:50
So.
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Did you see Laura's post today?
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This is the best summer in a long time.
23:58
What's weird is I thought I
23:59
would miss Laura this
24:00
season and I really don't.
24:03
I find that odd.
24:04
I've always been kind of a Laura fan,
24:07
but I just don't miss the
24:09
angst this year.
24:17
Do we think any of the
24:18
daughters will be in New
24:19
York for brands or company activations?
24:22
I don't think any will be here for sure.
24:28
I don't, I mean,
24:30
Sarah always drops in to
24:32
the games every year.
24:34
Sarah is still beloved.
24:36
Sarah tried to do the season.
24:38
Her body just can't anymore,
24:40
but she's still an awesome person.
24:42
She didn't dog CrossFit.
24:44
So I would love for Sarah to
24:46
drop in whenever she does.
24:48
The line is around the
24:51
building to see her.
24:58
so uh aaron says sarah is in
25:04
iceland still quick plane
25:06
trip if you boycotted the
25:12
games you better not be
25:12
showing up for activations
25:16
you probably will not be
25:17
very popular if you do but
25:21
sarah has never never said
25:23
a bad word about crossfit
25:30
And I don't even think like
25:32
Katrin has said much bad about CrossFit.
25:39
She just retired.
25:41
And I think she was going to
25:42
do that regardless.
25:44
I mean, she's pregnant, right?
25:50
So it's really just been
25:51
Annie who's been standing
25:54
out there with the pitchfork and the
26:03
uh-huh says I miss Laura
26:05
Elisa Emma Lawson Gabby
26:07
Emmett all I miss Gabby I
26:11
miss Emma Lawson for sure
26:12
and I miss Elisa Emmett all
26:15
was hurt she's been hurt
26:17
for a while but I miss Kazan um
26:30
Even though it got my
26:31
co-host into the games,
26:34
Alex Kazan is going to be
26:36
something special.
26:39
That is for sure.
26:45
So,
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I don't want to take up too much of
26:49
your time today.
26:52
I'm only an hour out of Albany.
26:55
So trying to get there today.
26:57
Going to start the
26:59
collecting some video with
27:01
Hattie as quickly as I can.
27:04
I've got a couple things
27:05
lined up to do some side
27:07
projects to get out over the weekend.
27:10
Hoping to line up some more.
27:13
Working with... Yeah, man,
27:19
I need some sleep.
27:21
Working with...
27:24
You know, the tester.
27:27
Allison Scuds.
27:28
Working with Allison Scuds
27:30
to get some more content.
27:32
We'll be putting that out
27:34
over this weekend.
27:35
Again, if you're a member,
27:36
you'll get it in the next
27:37
couple of weeks.
27:38
And then we'll release it to
27:39
the public after that.
27:43
And yeah,
27:44
so I've got a couple of things
27:45
already lined up.
27:47
I've got one grand idea that
27:49
I hope I can pull off and
27:51
then we'll see how all that goes.
27:54
But the Hattie thing will
27:56
come out after the games.
27:58
It's going to be a full like
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embedded behind the scenes
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with Hattie for the entire
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CrossFit Games and her coach Tristan.
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And then we'll put that
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together with some editing
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and it'll come out after the games.
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With that, guys,
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I'm going to head back on the road.
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I'll be in Albany soon.
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I'll try to jump on again
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tomorrow before we get
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involved in too much stuff.
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Because when I do a lunch show,
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then I remember to eat lunch.
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So then I can do that.
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So tomorrow will probably be
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the last lunch with the
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Clydesdale this week.
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And then it'll be full games
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nonstop after that.
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Hopefully getting out some
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vignettes as we go.
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And I will see you tomorrow too, Travis.
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We'll see everybody then.
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You knuckleheads get back to work.
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I'm going to hit the road.
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We'll see everybody soon.
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Bye, guys.