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Arielle Loewen - Clydesdale Media Podcast | Reviewing an Incredible Off-Season · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now I didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how a winner's made.
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  Stick a fork in the
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the Clydesdale
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  media podcast I'm so pumped
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  I have missed my friend
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  Ariel for so long and
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  finally we're hooking up
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  again to have a nice little
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  discussion today how are
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  you good how are you doing
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  Scott it's been a minute it
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  has I'm doing well yeah I
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  can't even remember I don't
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  even remember what we last
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  when we last connected and
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  talked to be honest it
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  would have been early last summer
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  Okay, so kind of the same time-ish.
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  Yes.
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  So we have a lot to talk
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  about because you did a lot
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  this offseason.
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  And I want to talk about a
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  lot of it because there was
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  some interesting stuff and
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  new stuff that came out this offseason.
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  But before we get into all that,
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  I found a TV show that I
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  fell in love with.
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  Is it called Landman?
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  It is.
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  I've heard so many people
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  talk about it because it's
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  based in Midland, Texas, where we live.
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  We have yet to watch it, though,
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  but I hear great things.
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  Well, I,
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  so it is based in the oil industry.
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  And they,
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  they talk about this place called
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  the patch where like,
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  it's a lot of like just
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  mass open oil fields.
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  Yep.
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  And,
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  and that they have like a village
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  where the people who work
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  in those oil fields kind of live.
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  And it's like just rows of
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  itty bitty houses.
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  Yep.
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  Called man camps is what we call them.
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  That's what they call it on the show.
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  Yep.
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  A hundred percent.
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  Um, so where we live is, uh, an oil field,
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  like the oil field city of America.
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  So there's an oil rig.
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  We could throw a stone to it
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  from our house.
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  They're all around us.
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  It,
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  so it became one of my favorite shows
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  immediately,
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  but I thought of you and Dylan,
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  like the minute it came on
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  when they said they were in Midland.
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  Yeah, that's us.
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  So we'll have to watch it.
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  I've heard it's pretty accurate.
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  The stuff they talk about is
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  like what actually happens
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  on the rigs and stuff.
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  But man,
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  I can't tell you the last time I
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  sat down and watched a TV show.
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  So I'm so out of it with all
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  the good ones.
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  But that is on our list to watch.
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  so when I had a when I had a
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  daughter that was blakely's
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  age we didn't watch tv
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  either we didn't watch
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  movies we didn't watch like
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  all I saw was disney and
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  nickelodeon yeah if that if
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  there's time for that in
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  the evenings yeah
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  It was only with her like, oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  We have usually Sunday
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  nights we do family night
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  and we'll all sit down and
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  just sit down and watch a
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  movie and pick out like
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  this past week we watched holes.
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  Do you remember the classic holes?
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  Yeah.
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  Or like Sonic two,
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  we watched a few weeks ago.
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  It's her probably favorite
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  time of the week, but only once,
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  once a week,
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  do we have time to sit down
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  at what seven o'clock and watch a movie?
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  It's funny because my
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  daughter's biggest movie
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  when she was a kid was either Willy Wonka,
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  either the original Willy
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  Wonka or the Johnny Depp
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  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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  Funny.
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  And so she's now going to be
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  twenty four this summer.
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  She she came home at
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  Christmas and we actually
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  watched Wonka with Timothee Chalamet,
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  the brand new one.
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  You like it?
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  It was like family night all over again.
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  Twenty years later.
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  Yep.
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  No, when that came out,
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  we listened to that
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  soundtrack in the car for
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  probably a month or two straight.
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  There's some good songs on there.
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  It was a good movie.
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  My daughter teared up at the end,
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  and it was really kind of cool.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  So, yeah,
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  I just wanted to ask you if
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  Midland was really like that.
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  The only thing that doesn't
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  seem accurate is they drive
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  to Fort Worth a lot.
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  Man, I'll be honest.
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  People in the oil field,
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  they're on flights.
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  They're driving everywhere at all times.
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  Like, Joelle is always going to rigs.
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  I don't know if Fort Worth is the spot,
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  but basically wherever the rigs are,
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  they're driving to.
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  Could be New Mexico, could be Dallas,
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  could be Fort Worth.
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  But, I mean,
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  I'm not directly into the oil field.
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  Dylan's job is not directly
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  in the oil field.
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  So there's a lot I don't know that, like,
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  my neighbor would probably
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  know a lot more about.
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  I think they just made it
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  seem closer than it is in reality.
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  Yeah.
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  It's not close.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  And what was in Fort Worth
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  was the oil company's headquarters.
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  Got it.
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  So like the land man is the go between,
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  between the corporate
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  office and the guys in the fields.
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  Got it.
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  And he would drive back and forth.
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  Yeah.
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  At least five hours is what
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  you're looking at.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well,
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  the other thing I had a bone to pick
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  with you is you guys were
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  in Columbus and didn't stop
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  by and say hi.
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  I'm not going to lie, Scott.
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  I forgot you live there.
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  How far are you from Ohio?
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  I'm in downtown Columbus.
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  I mean, I'm not in downtown Columbus.
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  I'm in Columbus.
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  Man, we should have reached out.
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  Drive to the Arnold.
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  Dang it.
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  Yeah, I completely spaced and forgot.
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  So where my old office was
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  before I worked from home
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  was maybe a half a mile
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  from Rogue headquarters.
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  Wow.
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  Man.
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  Did you realize that when we were there?
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  When I saw your socials, I did,
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  but I'll be honest with you.
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  I used to work security for
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  the Arnold and I avoid that
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  place like the plague now
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  because there are just way
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  too many people.
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  yeah talk about like I've
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  seen vendor village before
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  I've been to like the
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  crossfit events it's
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  nothing compared to like
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  the expo at the arnold it
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  blew my mind how many
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  companies there are and
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  there's just like thousands so many
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  And you can,
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  you can barely get down the
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  aisles to see any of them.
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  Exactly.
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  And half of them look the exact same,
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  but they're in a different place.
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  You know,
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  it's like all anything you could
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  think of.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I,
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  but I thought it was cool that you got
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  brought up by rogue, right?
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  Oh, a hundred percent.
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  Oh, I thought that was so cool.
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  And it's the first vacation
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  I've taken where it's strictly,
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  I'm not competing.
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  So I don't have to worry about performance,
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  anything.
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  It was just, okay,
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  we're going to have fun.
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  That's it.
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  But you ended up competing with Dylan.
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  Yeah, but all in good fun,
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  all in good fun.
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  What's nice.
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  Like that's one thing I love
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  about our relationship is,
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  we're not just gonna go
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  there and stand around it's
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  like oh here's red bull
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  cans like we we keep a
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  little fire on it he's like
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  I want to hold it for this
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  long see if you can hold it
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  longer so that was natural
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  and it was like hey let's
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  just see who's stronger
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  some things I knew who's
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  gonna win like the grip and
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  that stuff but you know
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  just having fun because we
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  can only look at so many
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  vendors for so many hours
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  we're like now we're gonna
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  now we're gonna try the vendors
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  when I was working security,
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  they would let us in like
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  an hour before the doors
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  open to go see all the vendors.
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  And we would just like,
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  run and we would sample
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  everything oh yeah by the
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  time I was done in that
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  hour I could have jumped to
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  the roof I had so much like
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  caffeine in me and fake
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  stuff synthetics all of the
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  yeah but the funniest the
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  funniest thing was you
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  would expect protein
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  companies galore
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  pre-workout galore um belts
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  knee sleeve the funniest
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  vendor was for leaf guard for gutters
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  we're like what the heck is
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  this at the arnold but
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  dylan did gutters in his
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  past his past career so he
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  was just like this is great
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  tell me about your leaf
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  guard I don't think the
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  line for the leaf gutters
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  uh leaf guards were as long
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  as some of the others yeah
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  no there was there was no
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  line believe it or not
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  nobody nobody was looking at it
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  Did you get any kind of
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  preferential seats for like
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  the Strongman or any of the events?
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  No,
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  that was the hard part because there's
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  so many people.
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  So like the bodybuilding,
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  like what everybody's there
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  for was kind of hard to see
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  because if you weren't
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  there seated in the front,
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  it wasn't raised properly.
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  you couldn't see but what
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  was on the screen the
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  strongman man they brought
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  in a crowd so we just kind
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  of like sat where we could
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  but no there was no vip
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  special treatment not that
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  I need it but it's just
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  wild to see just like the
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  mix of athletes of
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  different calibers um did
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  you do like the picture
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  taking autograph signing at
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  the rogue booth
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  I did.
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  That was definitely a bucket
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  list experience.
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  Because I was like, man,
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  who's going to show up?
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  And then I saw they
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  partnered me with Sam Briggs,
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  Matt Frazier, Justin Medeiros.
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  And I'm like, oh,
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  there's going to be a line.
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  And the whole hour, of course,
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  people were there.
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  But the funny thing was, like,
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  I'm a realist.
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  They're there to see Matt
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  Frazier and Justin Medeiros.
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  Some for Briggs-y.
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  But I'm like...
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  I'm not expecting that many
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  people to be like, I came for you.
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  But I did see quite a few,
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  I'd say at least four to
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  five women standing in line
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  wearing my Pretty Strong for a Mom shirt.
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  So to me, that was really cool.
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  And I was like, hey,
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  I know you're in line with all four of us,
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  but can I get a picture
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  with just you guys?
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  It was really cool.
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  That is awesome.
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  It was.
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  so when I again when I back
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  in the day when I would
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  work that like rich and
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  matt and then would all be
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  there the line was no
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  matter who was in the booth
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  the line was always like
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  wrapped around the booth
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  and down the which is crazy
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  yeah it was a bit like that
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  you feel like a rock star for an hour
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  You do.
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  And then when the line's gone,
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  you kind of go back to
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  reality and not too many people know.
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  So it's like normal walking the crowds,
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  nobody stopping or anything.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's that's cool.
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  I was thinking as I was like
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  prepping for this, I met you at the
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  And I know like in my mind,
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  I never saw you exploding
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  into what happened the next four years.
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  Oh, not at all.
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  To be a rogue athlete,
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  like never in a million years.
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  Stop and reflect and say, and just look,
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  or are you waiting to do
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  that till it's all over?
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  No,
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  I stop and reflect a lot because I'm
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  joyful in seasons,
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  but in other seasons I get
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  overwhelmed and it's a lot
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  every day trying to improve
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  and the comparison game.
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  But I mean,
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  as soon as I look back and be like, wow.
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  I've stood on the podium.
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  I've qualified for the games this amount.
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  So it just helps me keep my
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  mind in perspective when I'm like, oh,
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  I don't really want to work out today.
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  It's like, no, look how far you've come.
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  This is amazing.
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  You don't have to hit it a hundred percent,
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  but just go in the gym and do something.
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  Yeah, definitely.
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  I have to reflect a lot on the hard days.
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  So I don't know if you,
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  you probably remember one
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  of the first interviews we
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  ever did together.
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  You were in your father-in-law's house.
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  Yeah.
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  Which is funny.
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  I would love to pull that footage.
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  Cause you know, there were no doors.
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  There was no closet doors,
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  like ranky dank.
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  I think the first interview
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  you were moving from room to room,
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  trying to get a better internet signal.
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  Yep.
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  Like it was, it was crazy.
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  And, um, and now you you're in this big,
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  beautiful house that Dylan built.
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  Right.
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  Even just even personally,
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  like where you've come from
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  four years ago,
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  got something being built in
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  your backyard that I don't
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  think you could have ever
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  imagined no even having the
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  backyard to build you know
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  yeah something like that
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  yeah it's fun because I
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  mean we and dylan know I
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  don't want to say we
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  struggled because people
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  struggle a lot worse than
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  we did but like we've
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  worked hard he worked hard
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  to build this house we
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  worked hard saving money to
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  afford it and it's like you appreciate it
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  because you know what it's
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  like to live with your
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  father-in-law for three
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  years hoping you get a
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  house you know so it's fun
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  to sit back and reflect
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  when I think that first
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  year I kept asking you are
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  you is the house ready and
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  you're like it's getting
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  close it's getting like we
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  were saying it's getting
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  close for like a good year and a half
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  Yeah.
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  And that is how the gym is.
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  So Dylan is very consistent
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  at what he's consistent at.
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  And that's just things are perfect,
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  but they take a little bit to get done.
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  So same with the gym in the back.
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  It's getting close.
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  But I would still probably
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  put it like six months, I think,
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  realistically in my head.
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  But what's nice about that is we own it.
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  We're not paying a loan.
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  We're not paying a...
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  a rent on it like if it
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  takes two years that's a
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  long time but we're kind of
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  in no rush at the same time
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  it's funny because I don't
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  I can't even imagine that
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  because after my work day
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  and doing the podcast stuff
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  and right getting dinner
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  ready or or whatever and my
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  wife just had like total
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  knee replacement surgery so
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  I've had to do like all the
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  cooking and all this by the
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  time all that's done like
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  I still need to build the
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  back steps on my on the
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  back of my house right now
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  and it's just a set of
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  steps right and that's
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  where I give him props I
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  mean our most recent fights
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  have been because he stayed
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  in the back till twelve a.m
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  and I'm like hey I'd love
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  to fall asleep next to you
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  at ten p.m instead of you
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  rolling into him so I'll
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  give him that like he's
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  good at what he does and
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  he's not afraid to work
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  hard but I mean he's
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  working until seven p.m his
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  full-time job and then from about
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  nine PM to midnight.
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  I'm not forcing him to go in the back,
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  but he just wants to get it done.
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  And he's enjoying it.
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  Who am I to say,
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  hire somebody like I would
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  love the joy of like
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  building it with my own hands.
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  That's his gift.
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  That's what he's good at.
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  So we started this piece
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  about you being brought up
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  by rogue for the Arnold.
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  And I know you've got to
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  spend some time at rogue headquarters,
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  right?
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  Yeah.
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  Have you ever been?
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  You've been.
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  Oh yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's where I got my L one.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  And then the first ever
• 15:19
  Rogue Invitational was held there.
• 15:21
  That's right.
• 15:23
  And so we, of course,
• 15:24
  it was right down the street.
• 15:25
  We went to that.
• 15:27
  And I've been there for an
• 15:29
  open announcement and a
• 15:30
  couple other things.
• 15:32
  And then when I work there,
• 15:34
  I would go daily and mark
• 15:35
  down my wish list.
• 15:37
  But when you go in that display room,
• 15:40
  and I know you guys had a
• 15:41
  custom rig built for your gym.
• 15:43
  Right.
• 15:44
  And you go in and see like
• 15:45
  all the possibilities.
• 15:49
  Oh, yeah.
• 15:49
  We... It's amazing, just the showroom,
• 15:51
  if people have never been,
• 15:52
  just to go and see that
• 15:54
  anybody can walk around
• 15:55
  there and just kind of, like,
• 15:56
  ogle at all the cool stuff they have.
• 15:59
  It's fun, but, man,
• 16:01
  some of the stuff in there
• 16:02
  is so high-quality made.
• 16:05
  We're just like, man,
• 16:05
  this stuff is top-notch.
• 16:07
  But we are... So we have the rig up.
• 16:09
  We did get to see, like,
• 16:11
  the storage for dumbbells
• 16:13
  and kettlebells and wall balls,
• 16:14
  and it was nice.
• 16:15
  We were like, hey...
• 16:17
  this is the dimensions we want it.
• 16:18
  We want this exact thing.
• 16:19
  We were able to see a lot.
• 16:21
  And at the end of the rogue weekend,
• 16:22
  we basically put in a huge
• 16:23
  order and was like, okay,
• 16:25
  we need this for the gym.
• 16:26
  Please give us a quote.
• 16:27
  And then we were able to go on our way,
• 16:29
  but we got to see it in person,
• 16:30
  which is really cool.
• 16:32
  Yeah.
• 16:33
  Yeah.
• 16:33
  They do a really nice job
• 16:34
  with that showroom.
• 16:35
  Yeah.
• 16:36
  And it's clean, immaculate.
• 16:38
  You know how you go into
• 16:38
  some gyms and it's like, oh, it's clean.
• 16:41
  But if you go in the corners,
• 16:42
  you see all the gross stuff.
• 16:43
  It's like,
• 16:44
  there's nothing hiding in any corner.
• 16:46
  Yeah.
• 16:47
  They take really good care of it.
• 16:51
  And so I saw Dylan,
• 16:54
  you had the video of Dylan
• 16:55
  building the rig out, which looked like
• 17:00
  like a typical man job where
• 17:02
  you get it put together and
• 17:03
  realize you put it on
• 17:04
  backwards and then have to
• 17:05
  take it off and redo it and all the,
• 17:07
  all the stuff.
• 17:08
  Right.
• 17:08
  Yeah.
• 17:08
  We had our friend Jody over
• 17:10
  two weekends ago and she
• 17:12
  actually was looking at one
• 17:13
  of our pull up bars and she's like,
• 17:15
  is the rogue supposed to be backwards?
• 17:17
  So like,
• 17:17
  there's a few things he put up
• 17:19
  that look good,
• 17:20
  but like it's facing the
• 17:22
  wall instead of being
• 17:23
  flipped around and facing this way.
• 17:25
  So there's a few little tweaks it needs.
• 17:28
  Yeah.
• 17:28
  Yeah.
• 17:29
  Every guy does it.
• 17:30
  Yeah.
• 17:30
  You get in the middle and
• 17:31
  put it together and you're like, Oh,
• 17:32
  finally the,
• 17:33
  like the screw went in the
• 17:34
  hole and I can do all the stuff.
• 17:36
  And,
• 17:36
  and then you realize I put it on the
• 17:38
  wrong way.
• 17:39
  Yeah,
• 17:39
  which is funny because we had done
• 17:42
  the insulation, and then Christmas Eve,
• 17:45
  he's like, I'm going to put up the rig.
• 17:47
  And I'm like,
• 17:48
  there's nothing else going on.
• 17:49
  Why wouldn't you do this wall first,
• 17:51
  this wall, this, this, this?
• 17:52
  Gave him a list of things I
• 17:54
  thought needed to be done first.
• 17:56
  And he was like, well,
• 17:56
  I don't think you understand.
• 17:58
  If the rig goes up,
• 18:00
  I'm going to be a hundred
• 18:01
  times more motivated to do
• 18:02
  everything else.
• 18:03
  And so I'm like, okay, do your process.
• 18:05
  And as soon as that rig went up,
• 18:07
  I mean, the past three months,
• 18:09
  he's gotten done a ton in the gym.
• 18:12
  That's funny.
• 18:13
  My wife and I go through the same thing.
• 18:14
  I'll be,
• 18:15
  I'll have a list of things and
• 18:17
  she'll be like, why isn't this done?
• 18:18
  I'm like, well,
• 18:19
  that's number four on the list.
• 18:20
  And I want to finish one, two,
• 18:21
  and three first.
• 18:22
  And she's like, what?
• 18:24
  And then we get into a fight
• 18:26
  and then it's like, oh, okay.
• 18:27
  I understand.
• 18:29
  And then we move forward.
• 18:30
  Yeah, so I mean,
• 18:31
  I can't talk because I'm
• 18:32
  not doing any of the work.
• 18:33
  But for him,
• 18:34
  I think putting the rig up
• 18:35
  brought it to life.
• 18:36
  And then he's like,
• 18:37
  I want to keep bringing it to life.
• 18:39
  Whereas in my head, I'm like,
• 18:40
  it's going to get dirty.
• 18:41
  It's going to get dusty, sandy,
• 18:43
  put it up last.
• 18:44
  So it's perfect.
• 18:45
  But that's just a simple clean.
• 18:48
  So you have some of the
• 18:49
  highest end recovery
• 18:51
  equipment already in the barn, whatever.
• 18:55
  We're going to call it,
• 18:55
  I think the goat zone,
• 18:57
  but it's a beautiful chili goat, cold tub,
• 19:00
  like immaculate,
• 19:01
  and then a beautiful sweaty goat sauna.
• 19:05
  Ridiculous.
• 19:06
  Like I never in a million
• 19:07
  years would have thought we
• 19:08
  would have had such a nice recovery room,
• 19:10
  but the same thing,
• 19:11
  just like the blessings of
• 19:12
  more sponsors and more opportunities.
• 19:16
  So I heard you say you'll
• 19:18
  always work out in your garage.
• 19:19
  That is your spot.
• 19:21
  Yeah.
• 19:22
  With that recovery stuff,
• 19:23
  you will go recover out there, right?
• 19:25
  I mean, I need to,
• 19:26
  but here's the hard part, Scott.
• 19:27
  It's like I would almost
• 19:30
  need to hire a babysitter
• 19:32
  to use my recovery stuff back there.
• 19:36
  I don't know.
• 19:37
  It's hard for me because I'm
• 19:39
  already investing a lot of
• 19:40
  time and working out in the gym.
• 19:42
  Last thing I want to be like is like, hey,
• 19:44
  Blakely,
• 19:45
  you wait inside with dad.
• 19:47
  I need an hour to myself again,
• 19:49
  after I already took two hours,
• 19:52
  I need to use it more than I do,
• 19:53
  but it's hard to find the right time.
• 19:57
  I can see that.
• 19:58
  Yeah.
• 19:59
  I don't,
• 20:00
  but one thing I've noticed like
• 20:02
  training camps and stuff, like I've,
• 20:04
  I've been to a few and like
• 20:05
  seeing the other athlete lifestyle,
• 20:07
  but they'll train, go home, read a book,
• 20:10
  train, go home, take a shower,
• 20:11
  do all this.
• 20:12
  And I'm like, man,
• 20:12
  I don't have the free time to just
• 20:15
  cold plunge sauna cold
• 20:17
  plunge sauna for an hour
• 20:22
  okay that so now you're
• 20:23
  taking me down another road
• 20:24
  yeah sorry would you and
• 20:27
  would you enjoy that life
• 20:28
  right you're so like this
• 20:30
  is your thing and you've
• 20:32
  kind of perfected the
• 20:34
  methodology that works for
• 20:35
  you right would you be an
• 20:37
  athlete that would love
• 20:38
  just working out all day like
• 20:41
  I can't see that in you.
• 20:42
  No.
• 20:42
  And I think for me, less is better.
• 20:45
  So even if I had all the time in the day,
• 20:46
  I don't think it would
• 20:47
  equate to a higher
• 20:48
  performance or higher recovery.
• 20:52
  Yeah.
• 20:52
  So I do a show with Carolyn
• 20:54
  Prevost every Sunday night and, and,
• 20:57
  and she works full time as a teacher,
• 20:58
  right?
• 20:59
  So she,
• 21:00
  she has to really plan out her
• 21:03
  schedule and,
• 21:05
  And, and she says like,
• 21:08
  I have to get everything
• 21:09
  done and I have to be
• 21:10
  efficient in that time
• 21:12
  because I don't have more time.
• 21:14
  Like it is get that done and
• 21:15
  then get back to class or
• 21:17
  get back to grading papers
• 21:18
  or whatever it is.
• 21:20
  And,
• 21:21
  and I think that she has admitted to me,
• 21:23
  like that's the only way
• 21:24
  she would know how to do life.
• 21:26
  Right.
• 21:26
  Right.
• 21:28
  She would be bored if all
• 21:29
  she did was worked out.
• 21:30
  Yeah.
• 21:31
  Boring.
• 21:32
  And I think you'd get over
• 21:33
  it really quick.
• 21:34
  But she's also said that
• 21:36
  with this new kind of
• 21:38
  season with a lot of
• 21:40
  different opportunities now, right?
• 21:43
  We've added Waterpalooza
• 21:44
  SoCal to the off season.
• 21:46
  Fit Fest is now in its second season.
• 21:49
  We add the WFP opportunities out there.
• 21:53
  She's like,
• 21:54
  it's better to do it the way I
• 21:56
  do it because I can stay
• 21:57
  fit all year round.
• 21:59
  I'm not doing like a mass
• 22:01
  like build up for one event.
• 22:05
  Right.
• 22:05
  Right.
• 22:05
  Because I can't afford to,
• 22:06
  I just have to stay as fit
• 22:08
  as possible throughout the year.
• 22:10
  Have you thought about that?
• 22:12
  And do you think that the
• 22:13
  way you do it now fits that mold?
• 22:16
  think so I I enjoy fitness
• 22:18
  so I even if I don't have a
• 22:20
  competition coming up I
• 22:21
  want to work out because I
• 22:23
  enjoy it so for me I I
• 22:24
  would say I follow prevo I
• 22:26
  just stay fit year round
• 22:28
  but like looking at my may
• 22:30
  april I'm starting to like
• 22:32
  amp it up a little bit more
• 22:34
  because oh my gosh may is
• 22:36
  going to be ridiculous
• 22:39
  online semi-final for the games
• 22:42
  World Fitness Project the next weekend,
• 22:44
  the following weekend,
• 22:45
  my in-person semifinal if I
• 22:47
  don't make it from the online semifinal.
• 22:50
  And I think people
• 22:51
  misconceive it and they say like, oh,
• 22:53
  you athletes want more
• 22:54
  opportunities to compete.
• 22:55
  But it's like,
• 22:56
  I've never heard an athlete
• 22:57
  say that to where it's like
• 22:58
  now we have to, I mean,
• 23:01
  you can't peak for all three of those.
• 23:02
  So it's just being smart.
• 23:04
  What do I invest more of my fitness into?
• 23:09
  Yeah,
• 23:09
  I think it gets confused with more
• 23:11
  opportunities to make money
• 23:13
  and sustain themselves and
• 23:16
  more opportunities to
• 23:17
  compete are two different things.
• 23:19
  Right.
• 23:19
  But I think being fit all
• 23:23
  year round makes a month
• 23:25
  like that look less
• 23:26
  daunting because it's like,
• 23:27
  it's just working out.
• 23:28
  I'll be fine.
• 23:29
  It's not like I'm not fit right now.
• 23:33
  It's like,
• 23:33
  I'll just trust the fitness I have.
• 23:36
  Yeah.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  So along those lines, you have like,
• 23:42
  I don't know,
• 23:42
  like a premium channel on
• 23:43
  Instagram where you show
• 23:45
  like your workout sometimes
• 23:47
  during the day.
• 23:48
  Yeah.
• 23:49
  Yeah.
• 23:49
  Do you video every day or
• 23:51
  just chosen days?
• 23:53
  I show every day.
• 23:54
  So like if you subscribe,
• 23:56
  what I did today at eleven
• 23:59
  after I finished the workout,
• 24:00
  I post it at twelve to my subscribers.
• 24:04
  Does that make you more
• 24:05
  accountable to getting the work done?
• 24:08
  Or are you already in that
• 24:11
  zone where that's not a problem?
• 24:13
  Yeah, I would say it's not a problem.
• 24:15
  But the thing,
• 24:16
  I thought there would be
• 24:17
  more of a market for it,
• 24:18
  which is why I opened up my subscription.
• 24:20
  Like, hey,
• 24:21
  if you want to see what I'm
• 24:22
  doing to stay at the level
• 24:23
  I am subscribed,
• 24:25
  there hasn't been a huge market for it,
• 24:27
  which is fine.
• 24:28
  Now it's just kind of fun.
• 24:29
  Like, hey, I started it.
• 24:31
  I'll still post my workout
• 24:32
  if anybody wants to see.
• 24:33
  But do you want to know the
• 24:34
  biggest flex that I think I
• 24:36
  have from that?
• 24:38
  That I subscribe?
• 24:40
  You and one other person.
• 24:51
  Rich Froning.
• 24:52
  No, Daniel Brandon.
• 24:54
  Oh.
• 24:55
  So to me, I'm like,
• 24:56
  I'm still going to post what I do.
• 24:58
  I don't really do scores.
• 25:00
  But to me, I'm like, man,
• 25:01
  somebody else finds value
• 25:03
  in it to see it every day.
• 25:05
  So I think that's a huge compliment.
• 25:09
  She's just trying to get some intel.
• 25:11
  She can.
• 25:12
  I have no secrets.
• 25:13
  I won't share my strength
• 25:14
  stuff because that's my
• 25:16
  strength programmer who's
• 25:17
  made it specifically for me.
• 25:19
  But what comes up from my brain,
• 25:21
  I've got nothing
• 25:22
  proprietary other than it's
• 25:23
  helped me do what I've done.
• 25:26
  Yeah, I love that.
• 25:28
  And at the end of the day,
• 25:29
  it's like I'll post it,
• 25:31
  but the secret sauce is the effort.
• 25:34
  And I know everybody puts in a hard effort,
• 25:36
  but there's no secret programming.
• 25:39
  It's hard.
• 25:40
  how hard are you going to
• 25:40
  die and work on your
• 25:41
  weakness and all that fun stuff.
• 25:44
  It's funny.
• 25:45
  We talked about like taking
• 25:47
  a step back and smelling the roses.
• 25:49
  And like one of my fondest
• 25:51
  memories of you is your
• 25:53
  first games when it was the, I think,
• 25:57
  four hundred meter run into the clean.
• 26:00
  And then you go back out in the next one.
• 26:02
  You had every time you hit a clean,
• 26:05
  it was like you had done
• 26:06
  something you didn't
• 26:07
  believe you could do.
• 26:07
  And you did it and you had
• 26:09
  the biggest smile on your
• 26:10
  face and you hopped and
• 26:11
  then went out for the next run.
• 26:14
  right this day you still
• 26:15
  treat all of this stuff
• 26:18
  like that woman who was
• 26:20
  enjoying every bit of that
• 26:22
  race you have to I mean
• 26:25
  with the with the burnout
• 26:27
  we're seeing and the
• 26:27
  turnover if you lose the
• 26:30
  joy and the mundane what
• 26:31
  can look mundane it's over
• 26:37
  so in it and I watched your
• 26:40
  relight video today
• 26:42
  Oh yeah.
• 26:43
  Well, didn't they do a good job?
• 26:44
  They did.
• 26:45
  Yeah.
• 26:45
  I'm going to,
• 26:46
  I'm going to go down this
• 26:47
  Avenue where Blakely has
• 26:49
  been coming to more
• 26:50
  competitions this year.
• 26:51
  Yeah.
• 26:52
  After what happened in August,
• 26:55
  I just had a big reality check of like,
• 26:58
  let's just go on more
• 26:59
  family trips and like,
• 27:01
  Like,
• 27:01
  I'm no longer peaking for a
• 27:04
  competition that has
• 27:05
  nothing to do with anything.
• 27:07
  Like, let's just enjoy these moments.
• 27:09
  Let's bring Blakely and just
• 27:10
  go to the beach and compete at SoCal.
• 27:13
  Go to London and, you know,
• 27:15
  just soaking up family stuff more.
• 27:18
  Well, and what's cool about it is like,
• 27:20
  she's becoming part of your content.
• 27:22
  Like Dylan became a star
• 27:23
  through your content.
• 27:25
  Right.
• 27:25
  And now Blakely is doing the same thing.
• 27:27
  Right.
• 27:28
  And it,
• 27:28
  and it's making it like a whole
• 27:30
  family thing.
• 27:32
  Right.
• 27:33
  Yeah.
• 27:33
  Which is really cool for,
• 27:35
  for lack of better term, your brand.
• 27:37
  Oh yeah.
• 27:38
  It's on brand, you know?
• 27:40
  Right.
• 27:40
  Yeah.
• 27:40
  And it's like, this is what we do at home.
• 27:42
  Now you get to see a little
• 27:43
  piece of it in California.
• 27:45
  Yeah.
• 27:47
  So my favorite part of that
• 27:48
  Relight video is you would
• 27:50
  always talk to me.
• 27:51
  You've talked with me about
• 27:52
  this where Dylan knows that
• 27:55
  you need encouraged in a workout,
• 27:57
  not yelled at.
• 27:59
  And that like he would yell,
• 28:01
  I believe in you.
• 28:01
  You're great.
• 28:02
  You're beautiful.
• 28:03
  And he would yell those
• 28:04
  things from the sidelines.
• 28:06
  And the first time you took
• 28:07
  Blakely to a competition
• 28:09
  where you could hear her,
• 28:12
  it's cool what happens when
• 28:14
  kids emulate their parents.
• 28:16
  Right.
• 28:17
  And it's so pure for those
• 28:19
  who haven't seen it.
• 28:20
  Blakely's cheering is believe in yourself.
• 28:23
  And I didn't take her to
• 28:24
  competitions to even know
• 28:25
  how she would cheer, how she would react.
• 28:27
  So like from the pureness of her heart,
• 28:30
  she thinks if all I do or
• 28:33
  all my mom does is believe in herself,
• 28:34
  she can lift five hundred
• 28:36
  pounds on that bar.
• 28:37
  If she believes in herself, she can.
• 28:38
  You know,
• 28:39
  it's just like the pureness of belief.
• 28:42
  you're great and all that
• 28:43
  comes with it yeah that's
• 28:44
  that video made me tear up
• 28:46
  quite a bit because it's
• 28:47
  just so pure it's not
• 28:49
  taught we didn't tell her
• 28:50
  to scream that it's just
• 28:51
  like came from her heart
• 28:53
  yeah and I think that's
• 28:54
  awesome yeah it's beautiful
• 28:56
  so now like my marketing
• 28:58
  brain is like I need a jump
• 29:00
  rope or something that says
• 29:01
  believe in yourself like
• 29:02
  just a little reminder of
• 29:04
  like all you gotta do is
• 29:06
  believe in yourself
• 29:07
  So speaking of the jump rope,
• 29:10
  you became famous for a
• 29:12
  hair clip because you made
• 29:14
  the hair clip a character
• 29:16
  in your social media and it
• 29:18
  took off like a shot.
• 29:20
  Yeah.
• 29:22
  And then you started making them.
• 29:24
  Right.
• 29:26
  So can you tell me what that
• 29:27
  process is like and why?
• 29:30
  yeah so I mean it all
• 29:31
  happened at rogue I
• 29:32
  competed I usually work out
• 29:34
  with a hair clip because in
• 29:35
  the summer I started doing
• 29:37
  that I sweat a ton my hair
• 29:40
  was getting all sweaty back
• 29:41
  here so at the games I kind
• 29:43
  of wore it up for a few and
• 29:44
  then I've just been wearing
• 29:45
  it up so whenever I was at
• 29:47
  rogue I was like I'm just
• 29:48
  gonna do what I always do
• 29:50
  in training and if the
• 29:51
  event will allow it I'll
• 29:52
  put it in a hair clip and
• 29:54
  like the first day I
• 29:55
  probably got ten tagged stories of like
• 29:58
  look at this hair clip.
• 29:59
  And then the next day, ridiculous,
• 30:01
  because I wore it again.
• 30:02
  And then once the competition was over,
• 30:04
  I kind of tag-blind.
• 30:06
  I work hard,
• 30:06
  but my hair clip works harder.
• 30:08
  And people just loved it.
• 30:09
  And the amount of people
• 30:10
  that would just work out
• 30:11
  and then wear a hair clip
• 30:12
  and tag me was insane.
• 30:15
  And so I had all these people messaging me,
• 30:17
  where do I get this hair clip,
• 30:19
  this magic hair clip that
• 30:20
  holds your hair?
• 30:21
  And I was like,
• 30:22
  why would I refer them to a
• 30:23
  different company?
• 30:24
  I would love to just make it my own thing.
• 30:27
  So I originally outsourced them.
• 30:30
  And like my whole thing is I
• 30:32
  have the free time to
• 30:33
  please the customer.
• 30:34
  I don't want to wait a month
• 30:35
  for orders to get shipped out.
• 30:36
  So I started taking over that process,
• 30:39
  found the hair clips I love,
• 30:41
  bought a laser engraver machine,
• 30:43
  figured out how it worked.
• 30:44
  So now like every order that comes in,
• 30:47
  I print it off on my computer,
• 30:49
  I laser engrave it, I package it,
• 30:52
  I ship it, take it to the post office.
• 30:54
  And it's become like my
• 30:55
  little side hustle.
• 30:56
  And it's so fun.
• 31:00
  And it's like, I have the free,
• 31:03
  I don't have all the free
• 31:03
  time in the world,
• 31:04
  but I have the time to package them,
• 31:07
  brand them.
• 31:08
  And it's so fun to see.
• 31:12
  So do you actually print the
• 31:14
  clips out on like a three D printer or no,
• 31:17
  the clips I outsource,
• 31:19
  like I buy from a company,
• 31:21
  but the branding I do in house myself.
• 31:24
  Okay.
• 31:24
  So like in reality,
• 31:25
  you can go out on where I'm
• 31:27
  buying mine and buy your own,
• 31:28
  but what makes mine fun is
• 31:30
  I put the little tame the
• 31:31
  main on it and then I package it,
• 31:33
  write a little thank you
• 31:34
  note and ship it a little personal touch.
• 31:38
  That's so cool.
• 31:39
  And then you came up with
• 31:41
  Pretty Strong for a Mom.
• 31:43
  Yeah.
• 31:44
  And this past off-season has
• 31:46
  honestly been a blessing.
• 31:48
  And I've just been trying to
• 31:49
  grow the brand more to find
• 31:50
  value in myself,
• 31:52
  not value in who sponsors say I am.
• 31:55
  Because one day that will
• 31:56
  leave and I'll have nothing.
• 31:58
  But if I can bring value to
• 32:00
  myself and a brand,
• 32:01
  so I really tried to do
• 32:02
  that this off-season,
• 32:03
  posted an Instagram caption,
• 32:05
  a lady commented,
• 32:07
  love this make it a t-shirt
• 32:09
  so of course the first
• 32:10
  t-shirts I make I send her
• 32:12
  a couple for free like hey
• 32:13
  this was your idea thank
• 32:15
  you for giving me the
• 32:16
  thought and just started
• 32:18
  making pretty strong for a
• 32:19
  mom and phenomenal the
• 32:21
  amount of dms I've only
• 32:24
  gotten two negative about a
• 32:25
  hundred positive of like
• 32:28
  what the brand means to
• 32:29
  them how they found their
• 32:30
  strength as a mom all the
• 32:31
  hard stuff they go through
• 32:32
  mentally physically
• 32:34
  it's been fun to see a
• 32:35
  little community so now
• 32:38
  I've I don't want to say
• 32:39
  I've built a community but
• 32:40
  there's this awesome
• 32:41
  community of moms so now
• 32:42
  I'm kind of tapping into
• 32:44
  like I want to help moms
• 32:46
  get back out on the floor
• 32:47
  so I'm sponsoring teams
• 32:49
  that'll wear like the
• 32:51
  pretty strong for a mom or
• 32:52
  use pretty strong for a mom
• 32:53
  as their team name just to
• 32:55
  get moms out there give
• 32:57
  back a bit because like
• 32:59
  moms never get stuff bought
• 33:00
  for them kids all the time
• 33:03
  so it's like here's a
• 33:03
  little good job keep
• 33:05
  working hard I love local
• 33:07
  competitions like that's
• 33:08
  how I fell in love with the
• 33:09
  sport so like if I can get
• 33:11
  people out there doing that it's great
• 33:13
  And what I love is in your YouTube content,
• 33:16
  like if you see a shirt in the wild,
• 33:19
  you get all excited and
• 33:20
  then you run over and want
• 33:21
  to get a picture.
• 33:22
  Yeah.
• 33:23
  And I probably have given
• 33:24
  away... I give away so many
• 33:26
  t-shirts because I'm a
• 33:27
  sucker for like a...
• 33:29
  You tell me your story of strength.
• 33:31
  I'm like, take a shirt.
• 33:32
  You're great.
• 33:33
  So not only like that in the wild,
• 33:35
  but like I'm constantly
• 33:37
  giving away just to like
• 33:39
  give back everything.
• 33:41
  We kind of talked about it
• 33:42
  before we went on air.
• 33:43
  Everything on social media
• 33:45
  right now is so dark and dividing.
• 33:47
  I'm just trying to find the
• 33:48
  little pockets of light and
• 33:50
  just try and let them grow.
• 33:53
  Yeah.
• 33:54
  It's, it's a really cool thing.
• 33:56
  And it's funny because when
• 33:58
  you took third at the games,
• 34:00
  everybody's like fittest mom, you know?
• 34:02
  And I was like, fittest mom,
• 34:04
  she's just fit.
• 34:05
  Like stop giving it.
• 34:07
  But now I see like you're
• 34:09
  embracing the mom part of
• 34:10
  it and it's becoming your brand.
• 34:13
  And you're just like,
• 34:14
  let's lean in and let's
• 34:15
  make this thing go.
• 34:16
  Yeah.
• 34:17
  And it's fun because it's
• 34:18
  organic and natural.
• 34:19
  Like I'm listening to the
• 34:20
  crowd in the comments and,
• 34:22
  And if they think it's good
• 34:24
  and I see people posting about it,
• 34:26
  I'm going to try and make it happen.
• 34:27
  So it's been fun that I've
• 34:28
  been able to bring that to
• 34:30
  life and people find value in it.
• 34:32
  Like one day,
• 34:34
  everybody's going to have a
• 34:35
  hair clip and I'm not going
• 34:36
  to sell anymore.
• 34:37
  But until then,
• 34:38
  I'm going to enjoy it while I can.
• 34:41
  Yeah.
• 34:41
  Everybody loses hair clips.
• 34:43
  I mean, my wife keeps buying them.
• 34:44
  So I know that like there
• 34:46
  has to be an infinite supply somewhere.
• 34:48
  yeah and I see him in the
• 34:49
  wild all the time you know
• 34:51
  I go to atb and there's
• 34:52
  hair clips everywhere I'm
• 34:53
  like mine is not
• 34:55
  proprietary so I can't
• 34:56
  expect to take over the
• 34:57
  market but you know
• 34:59
  crossfitters have been
• 35:00
  embracing it and have fun
• 35:03
  while you can exactly my
• 35:05
  goal my secret goal is to
• 35:07
  retire dylan at forty so
• 35:09
  I'm doing all I can to retire him
• 35:14
  So that he can fall asleep
• 35:15
  beside you at ten p.m.
• 35:17
  Exactly.
• 35:17
  It's the little things in life.
• 35:22
  So the next thing I have
• 35:23
  that I want to talk about
• 35:24
  was Tierwater Palooza SoCal.
• 35:26
  Completely different format
• 35:28
  than you've probably ever done before.
• 35:30
  It was U.S.
• 35:31
  versus the world or North
• 35:34
  America versus the world.
• 35:37
  You go to that.
• 35:39
  Tear actually did an amazing
• 35:40
  behind the scenes for it.
• 35:43
  It came out like six months after the fact,
• 35:45
  but it was fun to kind of
• 35:46
  relive and see what you
• 35:47
  guys did behind the scenes
• 35:49
  and the strategies and the
• 35:51
  smack talking and all of that stuff.
• 35:55
  How much did that help your
• 35:58
  grieving process after the games?
• 36:01
  Because it looked like a fun thing to do.
• 36:04
  Yeah,
• 36:05
  it was very healing because they
• 36:06
  definitely honored Lazar, I felt,
• 36:09
  all weekend.
• 36:10
  And it was healing for all
• 36:11
  of us to come together and
• 36:13
  just be on each other's team,
• 36:16
  supporting each other,
• 36:17
  trying to find ways we can
• 36:19
  all succeed so we can all win together.
• 36:21
  So even though there was trash talk,
• 36:23
  it was very healing to be
• 36:26
  in the same room as people and be like,
• 36:28
  okay, we're doing this together.
• 36:29
  How do we succeed?
• 36:30
  How do we win?
• 36:31
  What are your weaknesses?
• 36:32
  And almost be a little bit vulnerable.
• 36:34
  So we don't, and then the crowd there too,
• 36:36
  it almost felt like a warm
• 36:37
  hug tear treated us with such respect.
• 36:40
  Every meal was, um,
• 36:42
  brought in and catered and it was like,
• 36:45
  they went above and beyond
• 36:46
  just to make us feel loved
• 36:47
  and appreciated.
• 36:49
  Not that we need people to bow down.
• 36:50
  Cause I feel like people
• 36:51
  take that out of context,
• 36:53
  but it's just nice.
• 36:54
  It's nice to feel cool and special.
• 36:56
  And they definitely made us
• 36:57
  feel like that.
• 36:59
  How excited are you that
• 37:00
  they're doing it again this year?
• 37:02
  I'm excited,
• 37:03
  but part of me doesn't think
• 37:05
  I'll make the cut this year
• 37:06
  and I won't be there.
• 37:08
  So it's like, Oh, I'm excited,
• 37:09
  but we'll see if I get invited.
• 37:13
  Cause we're not like,
• 37:15
  not just to be humble, but like,
• 37:17
  I think athletes saw how much fun it was.
• 37:19
  People are going to be
• 37:20
  fighting for those spots.
• 37:23
  Yeah.
• 37:25
  But I think you're one of
• 37:25
  the best in the world.
• 37:26
  So I think that you have a
• 37:27
  legit claim to one of those spots.
• 37:30
  Thank you.
• 37:32
  There's a lot of great people.
• 37:33
  That's where I'm like, if I get invited,
• 37:35
  I'll be excited.
• 37:36
  If I don't, it's okay.
• 37:38
  I've already prepared for
• 37:39
  the worst and I'll be fine.
• 37:41
  What was your highlight from that weekend?
• 37:44
  There were a couple of highlights.
• 37:46
  That was the first
• 37:47
  competition I really brought Blakely on.
• 37:49
  So it was really,
• 37:51
  really fun to have a family vacation,
• 37:54
  sit at the beach, hear her cheer for me.
• 37:56
  Like the whole family aspect
• 37:58
  was really fun.
• 37:58
  And the hotel had free s'mores.
• 38:01
  So every night,
• 38:02
  like the team would go get s'mores,
• 38:03
  Blakely would get s'mores.
• 38:04
  And then a huge highlight was my PR clean,
• 38:07
  PR snatch, because I had worked
• 38:10
  like the hardest I've ever
• 38:12
  worked on a strength cycle
• 38:13
  throughout the summer this
• 38:15
  past year and it was just
• 38:17
  really cool to see like my
• 38:18
  strength guy is really good
• 38:19
  at what he does granted I
• 38:21
  had taken a month off from
• 38:22
  lifting and could hit two
• 38:23
  fifty and a two hundred
• 38:24
  pound snatch and I'm like
• 38:26
  man brian is phenomenal and
• 38:28
  did exactly what I needed
• 38:30
  to in the summer but I also
• 38:31
  feel like he prepared me
• 38:33
  for rogue without even
• 38:34
  knowing it because I went
• 38:35
  into rogue stronger than ever
• 38:37
  So it was cool to see I have
• 38:40
  the right people on my team.
• 38:42
  And I'm pretty strong for a mom.
• 38:44
  There you go.
• 38:49
  When you went up against Tia
• 38:51
  and you tied her in the
• 38:52
  clean and just lost... Tied
• 38:55
  her in the snatch.
• 38:56
  She got me in the clean.
• 38:58
  She got you by five pounds in the clean.
• 39:00
  Yeah.
• 39:02
  I think it was West Coast.
• 39:05
  So I was in bed watching.
• 39:08
  Cause that was three hours
• 39:09
  difference for us.
• 39:10
  I jumped out of bed when you
• 39:12
  hit those lifts.
• 39:13
  I was so excited for you.
• 39:16
  Cause I knew like that was something.
• 39:20
  Yeah, it was cool.
• 39:21
  It didn't matter.
• 39:22
  Like in hindsight,
• 39:24
  Guy is so strong that we
• 39:25
  lost that event anyways,
• 39:27
  but it was fun to go into a
• 39:28
  lifting event with no pressure.
• 39:30
  And it's like, Hey, take big jumps.
• 39:32
  Who cares?
• 39:33
  You might surprise yourself.
• 39:34
  That was fun.
• 39:35
  Yeah.
• 39:36
  Yeah.
• 39:37
  And speaking of your strength coach, Brian,
• 39:40
  he had made a special bar for you.
• 39:42
  And I saw that you got to a
• 39:44
  prototype from Rogue to try out.
• 39:49
  And you said that it needed some tweaks.
• 39:52
  Did I see that right on your
• 39:53
  Instagram or did you?
• 39:56
  No,
• 39:56
  I would say there are a few things that
• 39:59
  are different,
• 40:00
  but I wouldn't say it needs any tweaks.
• 40:02
  Okay.
• 40:04
  Yeah.
• 40:04
  So they did pretty good first time out.
• 40:06
  yeah they did awesome so we
• 40:09
  went to rogue for the
• 40:11
  arnold and dylan was
• 40:13
  talking to katie the owner
• 40:14
  of rogue about how great
• 40:16
  this desk is because rogue
• 40:18
  makes an industrial looking
• 40:19
  beautiful desk
• 40:21
  we could put in the back gym
• 40:23
  and so I get a notification
• 40:24
  like hey you have a package
• 40:25
  coming from rogue in a
• 40:27
  two-part shipment and
• 40:28
  dylan's like I bet you
• 40:29
  katie ordered this desk for
• 40:31
  me and is sending it to our
• 40:32
  house like don't thinking
• 40:34
  this is all about him so
• 40:36
  rogue delivers to our front
• 40:37
  porch and I'm like man this
• 40:39
  does not look like a desk
• 40:41
  and then I open it and it's
• 40:42
  the barbell and it was the
• 40:43
  coolest thing ever because
• 40:44
  I didn't even know they had
• 40:45
  made it they had sent it
• 40:47
  I basically shipped them the
• 40:48
  barbell Brian had made over a year ago.
• 40:52
  Haven't really heard anything,
• 40:53
  so I didn't know if they liked it.
• 40:55
  And then like a custom Rogue,
• 40:57
  it has Ohio on the end, shows up.
• 41:00
  And it was just the coolest moment ever.
• 41:02
  I called my strength coach and was like,
• 41:04
  be here in five minutes.
• 41:05
  I've got the coolest surprise.
• 41:06
  And then we probably sat in
• 41:07
  the home gym at least thirty minutes,
• 41:10
  just like looking at the differences,
• 41:12
  feeling it, messing with it.
• 41:13
  It was a super cool moment.
• 41:18
  how he must have felt to see
• 41:21
  this thing that he created
• 41:23
  produced by like a leading
• 41:26
  fitness equipment provider in the world.
• 41:28
  Right.
• 41:29
  That had to be like the
• 41:30
  coolest feeling ever.
• 41:33
  I know.
• 41:34
  So he, he's in there and he's all humble.
• 41:35
  Like, this is great.
• 41:36
  And I'm like, Brian,
• 41:38
  you created something so
• 41:39
  great that like we sent it
• 41:41
  to rogue and they liked it
• 41:43
  enough to make a prototype.
• 41:44
  And he's just like, well,
• 41:46
  If you didn't know Rogo,
• 41:47
  it would have never happened.
• 41:48
  And I'm like, no, Brian, like,
• 41:50
  this is you be proud of
• 41:51
  yourself and like own it.
• 41:53
  Cause this is awesome.
• 41:56
  So now my,
• 41:58
  my hope is that everybody else
• 42:00
  can try the barbell.
• 42:01
  Cause for me,
• 42:02
  I have like an elbow with
• 42:03
  tendonitis that flares up.
• 42:05
  If I do too much of like the front rack.
• 42:07
  but this keeps me in a neutral grip.
• 42:09
  So it doesn't aggravate anything.
• 42:11
  My PT loves it because it
• 42:13
  keeps everything stacked in place.
• 42:14
  So I'm like, from an athlete standpoint,
• 42:16
  from a PT standpoint,
• 42:18
  I think it's game changing.
• 42:21
  That's so cool.
• 42:22
  I know.
• 42:23
  So we'll see what happens with it.
• 42:24
  But the fact that I have one
• 42:26
  in my garage is just the
• 42:28
  coolest thing ever.
• 42:30
  Well, I mean,
• 42:31
  I don't think they'd make a
• 42:31
  prototype without thinking
• 42:33
  that they might make more.
• 42:35
  Right.
• 42:35
  And I don't see them going
• 42:36
  through the headache of making a mold,
• 42:39
  putting it together for just a one-off.
• 42:42
  Right.
• 42:44
  So speaking of Rogue,
• 42:47
  then Rogue is overseas for
• 42:48
  the first time ever.
• 42:50
  It's in Aberdeen, Scotland.
• 42:52
  You travel over there.
• 42:54
  Again,
• 42:56
  you have become one of the best
• 42:57
  content producers in the space.
• 42:59
  You and Rebecca Fusile are
• 43:01
  competing for top honors there.
• 43:03
  She's, well, she gave me,
• 43:06
  I told you like two years ago,
• 43:07
  I had a meet,
• 43:08
  I talked with her at
• 43:08
  Wadapalooza and I'm just like,
• 43:11
  how do you do what you do?
• 43:12
  Because at this point I was
• 43:14
  doing a lot of cool edits
• 43:15
  and very like selfish focus.
• 43:17
  And she's like,
• 43:17
  the more you can make
• 43:19
  relatable stuff that people
• 43:21
  can send to their friends,
• 43:22
  to their friends.
• 43:23
  So she changed my
• 43:24
  perspective and helped me a lot.
• 43:26
  So she's number one.
• 43:27
  That's cool.
• 43:29
  Yeah, it is cool.
• 43:31
  So you go over there and
• 43:32
  then you and Danny do like
• 43:34
  the Hogwarts tour in Scotland.
• 43:37
  It was awesome.
• 43:40
  But you,
• 43:41
  you get into the weekend and you
• 43:43
  end up podiuming.
• 43:47
  When did you know that was
• 43:48
  going to be one of those weekends?
• 43:53
  Oh man, you're going to laugh at me,
• 43:54
  Scott.
• 43:54
  I didn't know until it was over.
• 43:56
  So I went into the final day
• 43:59
  thinking it was going to go
• 44:01
  really well for me.
• 44:02
  I had practiced the sideways
• 44:04
  pegboard a lot and I was
• 44:05
  really good at it.
• 44:07
  and then three two one go I
• 44:08
  got out there on the floor
• 44:10
  and it's the first time I
• 44:11
  ever felt like my brain was
• 44:13
  just a blank piece of paper
• 44:15
  and it was just like I have
• 44:16
  no idea how to do this
• 44:17
  pegboard I have no idea
• 44:18
  what to do but I keep
• 44:19
  failing and failing and
• 44:20
  failing so after that event
• 44:23
  I was like okay there was a
• 44:24
  shot to podium but now
• 44:26
  there's no way because I
• 44:27
  just bombed this event that
• 44:29
  I selfishly went into it
• 44:30
  thinking I was going to win
• 44:31
  that event so I had a
• 44:32
  humble check really quick
• 44:34
  and then the next event went
• 44:35
  fine and going into the
• 44:36
  last event please stop
• 44:38
  going into the last event
• 44:40
  gazan was up on me by like
• 44:42
  fifteen points and on paper
• 44:45
  gazan is better at me than
• 44:47
  this event heavy odd object
• 44:49
  sandbag cleans she is
• 44:50
  stronger than me and like
• 44:52
  she can throw around stuff
• 44:54
  so I had just kind of
• 44:55
  accepted fourth place at
• 44:57
  rogue is phenomenal I don't really care
• 45:01
  But I'm going to go out
• 45:02
  there and just lift the
• 45:03
  sandbags as fast as I can.
• 45:05
  And I'll tell you a God thing.
• 45:07
  I've never felt so good lifting a sandbag.
• 45:10
  And like all the sandbags went good.
• 45:12
  And I remember on the final sandbag,
• 45:14
  Spiegel screaming at me
• 45:16
  because she finished, you know,
• 45:17
  miles ahead of anybody else.
• 45:19
  She says, pick up the bag right now.
• 45:21
  And I remember thinking in my head.
• 45:23
  I don't care.
• 45:24
  I'm out of breath.
• 45:25
  My muscles are on fire.
• 45:26
  I'm just going to listen to
• 45:27
  her and lift it, take a chance,
• 45:28
  see what happens.
• 45:30
  I get it up there.
• 45:31
  I run across the finish line.
• 45:33
  Half a second later,
• 45:34
  Laura Horvath runs across.
• 45:36
  Half a second later, Brooke Wells.
• 45:37
  Half a second later, Alex Kazan.
• 45:39
  So if in that moment,
• 45:41
  I didn't trust my fitness
• 45:42
  and just like shut my brain off and say,
• 45:44
  yes, I will.
• 45:46
  two people would have passed
• 45:47
  me and then it would have
• 45:48
  been fourth place.
• 45:49
  So just such a fun way to
• 45:51
  end a competition,
• 45:52
  being really proud of myself,
• 45:53
  pushing my limits,
• 45:55
  and then just hugging
• 45:56
  Spiegel at the end of it.
• 45:57
  It was definitely one of the
• 46:00
  highlights of my career,
• 46:02
  like being proud of myself
• 46:03
  and finishing an event strong.
• 46:07
  Kenneth DeLapp,
• 46:08
  Hogwarts wasn't in Scotland.
• 46:10
  well technically Hogwarts
• 46:15
  but they were pretending
• 46:17
  with the castles and all
• 46:18
  the stuff and right like
• 46:21
  you just were in the moment
• 46:22
  that's all yeah and a lot
• 46:24
  of like the Harry Potter
• 46:25
  was written in Scotland
• 46:27
  Edinburgh so we got to see
• 46:28
  a lot of the places for
• 46:30
  inspiration that the writer wrote it
• 46:34
  What I realized is I can't
• 46:36
  podium at competitions
• 46:37
  because Dylan can't handle it.
• 46:39
  He'll go out and celebrate
• 46:41
  like he's never celebrated before.
• 46:43
  So like the trip of
• 46:44
  Edinburgh the next day with Spiegel,
• 46:46
  Dylan was in bed hungover.
• 46:49
  So for the betterment of our vacations,
• 46:52
  like I can't keep doing that to him.
• 46:53
  Well,
• 46:56
  I know that when I've been at events
• 46:58
  with Dylan, he yells so loud.
• 47:00
  Yeah.
• 47:01
  There's no way he can talk by Monday.
• 47:04
  No, no.
• 47:06
  And then you add alcohol and
• 47:07
  hangover to that.
• 47:08
  I'm sure like he is a total disaster.
• 47:11
  Yeah, he is.
• 47:13
  But I mean, I do it to him.
• 47:15
  If I didn't get third place,
• 47:16
  he would have never celebrated.
• 47:17
  That's awesome.
• 47:20
  Yeah.
• 47:20
  So I know like you have a
• 47:22
  special place for like the
• 47:23
  things that you've like won
• 47:24
  and podium that where does
• 47:26
  the rogue metal go with all that?
• 47:28
  right now it's on the dining
• 47:30
  table my special belts are
• 47:32
  displayed on the dining
• 47:33
  table that's cool yeah it
• 47:37
  is cool and now I'm getting
• 47:39
  blessed enough that I have
• 47:41
  so many cool things at
• 47:42
  first it was just a shelf
• 47:44
  now I have to keep some
• 47:45
  stuff like hidden in the
• 47:46
  safe because I just don't
• 47:48
  you know it's it's classy
• 47:49
  if you put a little bit up
• 47:51
  but if you just like
• 47:52
  overload it it doesn't look
• 47:53
  as good so I'm blessed to
• 47:55
  say like I can't display it all perfectly
• 48:00
  That's awesome.
• 48:01
  Yeah.
• 48:01
  And I see like you on social media,
• 48:03
  when you went to the granite games,
• 48:04
  the story is you wanted one
• 48:05
  sign to hang in your garage
• 48:07
  with your name on it.
• 48:08
  And now like it's the
• 48:10
  wallpaper of the one side
• 48:11
  of your garage for sure.
• 48:13
  And I think even more than that.
• 48:15
  Right now,
• 48:16
  like Dylan cuts me off and he says,
• 48:18
  I'm not handing,
• 48:19
  hanging up any more signs.
• 48:20
  And I'm just like, stay humble.
• 48:23
  This is what I'm in it for.
• 48:24
  Yeah.
• 48:27
  CrossFat, we did it, babe.
• 48:29
  We earned this party.
• 48:31
  That's right.
• 48:32
  That was exactly him.
• 48:36
  So you podium at Rogue and
• 48:39
  then you do FitFest.
• 48:41
  Oh, go ahead.
• 48:41
  Oh, podium at Rogue.
• 48:43
  So the way up to Rogue,
• 48:45
  the airline messed up our flights,
• 48:47
  canceled it a day before,
• 48:48
  sold our tickets,
• 48:49
  and then because of all that deal,
• 48:52
  upgraded us to first class
• 48:53
  to make up for it.
• 48:54
  So flying overseas,
• 48:56
  me and Dylan had the best
• 48:58
  experience ever.
• 49:00
  first class right flying
• 49:02
  back um our train breaks
• 49:05
  down so we don't make our
• 49:07
  flight on time and we miss
• 49:09
  our flight and the airline
• 49:10
  will not refund us so going
• 49:12
  home we had to buy all new
• 49:15
  flights to get back to
• 49:16
  midland so thank goodness
• 49:19
  um we made a little bit of
• 49:20
  money at rogue because in
• 49:21
  one day we had to drop six
• 49:23
  grand on flights to get
• 49:24
  home so that one hurt a little bit
• 49:27
  But I learned if your train
• 49:29
  breaks down and you miss your flight,
• 49:31
  you have to call the
• 49:32
  airline and correct it
• 49:34
  before the flight takes off.
• 49:36
  My ignorance,
• 49:37
  I had no idea if the flight takes off.
• 49:39
  I guess any warranty is void.
• 49:42
  So we show up at the airport and man,
• 49:44
  that was a hard morning.
• 49:48
  Map Lady says,
• 49:49
  I'm still laughing at him
• 49:51
  getting mad at the tiles on the paint.
• 49:54
  Him ripping them off to prove a point.
• 49:56
  Oh yeah, we have holes in our walls.
• 50:01
  Cause I hung up something
• 50:03
  once and it wasn't straight.
• 50:05
  So he's like, um,
• 50:07
  because it's not straight,
• 50:08
  I can't handle this.
• 50:09
  I'm just going to rip it off.
• 50:10
  And he ripped it off and
• 50:11
  then there were holes in our wall.
• 50:13
  So now we have holes in our wall,
• 50:14
  but he proved a point.
• 50:18
  That's funny.
• 50:19
  Yeah.
• 50:19
  Then you go from rogue to
• 50:22
  fit fest in this busy off
• 50:23
  season of yours.
• 50:25
  no so get this scott there
• 50:27
  was rogue right yeah then
• 50:30
  when we got back from rogue
• 50:32
  I flew for reps ahead oh
• 50:35
  that's right colorado and
• 50:36
  then the next weekend I
• 50:37
  hosted thanksgiving the
• 50:39
  next weekend we went to
• 50:40
  london the next weekend
• 50:42
  dylan's mother-in-law came
• 50:43
  for christmas so it was a
• 50:45
  or my mother-in-law dylan's
• 50:46
  mom came for christmas it
• 50:47
  was a busy busy off season
• 50:50
  and I started homeschooling
• 50:52
  in august so throw that in
• 50:53
  the midst of all of it
• 50:56
  So you smoked reps ahead.
• 50:59
  It was hard.
• 51:00
  I will like,
• 51:01
  that's the most in pain I've
• 51:03
  been in a competition in a long time.
• 51:07
  Wow.
• 51:07
  I would have thought
• 51:07
  differently because of, of it being, well,
• 51:10
  you did a two day version of it.
• 51:12
  Yeah.
• 51:13
  So you had to do one workout
• 51:14
  one day and one workout the next day.
• 51:17
  I,
• 51:18
  I would think that it's a cool way to
• 51:20
  get exposure without beating your body up,
• 51:22
  but you're saying just the opposite.
• 51:25
  On the second matchup against Trista,
• 51:28
  I personally hate sprints.
• 51:30
  And that workout was just a
• 51:32
  hundred percent sprint max effort.
• 51:34
  And those just like hurt my soul so bad.
• 51:37
  I do a one hour long workout any day.
• 51:40
  A four minute sprint, count me out.
• 51:45
  Yeah,
• 51:46
  I really am starting to love those
• 51:48
  Reps Ahead events just
• 51:50
  because they're quick.
• 51:51
  It's easy to show your
• 51:52
  friend what our fitness
• 51:54
  world is like without
• 51:56
  having them sit through a whole weekend.
• 51:57
  Right.
• 51:57
  And it's easy to understand.
• 52:01
  They do a great job with the
• 52:03
  screens and the counters
• 52:04
  and you know where each
• 52:05
  person stands at all times.
• 52:07
  Right.
• 52:10
  I think the longer they go,
• 52:12
  the better it's getting.
• 52:14
  Yeah, but I feel like it's no more.
• 52:18
  Just from all the news I've heard,
• 52:20
  I think Reps Ahead,
• 52:21
  whoever was funding it,
• 52:22
  is no longer funding it.
• 52:24
  So, like, I don't know.
• 52:26
  We'll see if it lasts in the future.
• 52:29
  Yeah, I've seen the new stuff, too.
• 52:31
  I don't know the
• 52:31
  behind-the-scenes enough to know, like,
• 52:34
  where the funding is and all of that.
• 52:36
  Patrick Clark's in the comments,
• 52:37
  and he's part of Reps Ahead,
• 52:39
  so I'm sure he'll let us
• 52:41
  know very quickly.
• 52:42
  I know.
• 52:45
  We'll see.
• 52:45
  Um, so then you, um, he says, nope,
• 52:50
  it'll be back sooner than you think.
• 52:52
  That's good.
• 52:54
  Yeah, that's good.
• 52:56
  Yeah.
• 52:56
  Um, so then you go to the fit fest,
• 53:00
  which just seems to be a blast.
• 53:03
  Oh, it's the best.
• 53:04
  It's the best.
• 53:06
  Not the best, like, I mean,
• 53:08
  it's great competing,
• 53:09
  but the best community and people there.
• 53:12
  Like, the fans and the volunteers,
• 53:16
  the athletes competing that
• 53:17
  are there all weekend.
• 53:19
  Like, the best conversations.
• 53:23
  Um, like here's a perfect example.
• 53:25
  Dylan was wearing like a
• 53:27
  hustle made jacket and he
• 53:28
  left it backstage in fit fest, lost it.
• 53:32
  We couldn't find it.
• 53:33
  One of the volunteers found it,
• 53:35
  flew it with them back to
• 53:37
  Wadapalooza and gave it
• 53:38
  back to Dylan at Wadapalooza.
• 53:40
  Just like people who are so
• 53:42
  nice and sweet that it
• 53:44
  would just blow your mind.
• 53:45
  Well,
• 53:47
  and where else can you do an American
• 53:49
  Ninja Warrior course?
• 53:51
  Yeah, that was pretty fun.
• 53:54
  Do you enjoy doing those
• 53:58
  out-of-the-gym types things?
• 54:00
  Oh, I love it.
• 54:00
  I love it.
• 54:01
  I love the odd, like,
• 54:03
  did you play on the jungle gym as a kid?
• 54:05
  We're about to find out.
• 54:06
  Can you adapt on the fly?
• 54:07
  Like, I thrive in chaos.
• 54:09
  Yeah.
• 54:09
  It was really fun.
• 54:14
  Kenneth asks, how is Colton as a teammate?
• 54:17
  He seems more of like a lone wolf type.
• 54:20
  He is more of a lone wolf type,
• 54:21
  but I don't think it's a bad thing.
• 54:23
  We had a lot of
• 54:24
  personalities on that team.
• 54:26
  Colton was fun.
• 54:27
  I was the team captain.
• 54:28
  So when the workouts came out,
• 54:30
  I tried to help organize the team.
• 54:32
  Colton was awesome because we'd be like,
• 54:34
  what do you want to do?
• 54:35
  What are you bad at?
• 54:36
  He's like, don't put me in this,
• 54:37
  put me in this, put me in this,
• 54:38
  put me in this, and I'll win it.
• 54:39
  And I'm like, thank you.
• 54:41
  Complete transparency,
• 54:42
  knows exactly what he's good at,
• 54:43
  what he's not good at,
• 54:45
  and just gets the job done.
• 54:46
  So like him and Dylan became
• 54:47
  good friends because we
• 54:49
  talked to him a lot, but like,
• 54:50
  there's a lot of
• 54:51
  personalities in CrossFit.
• 54:53
  It's kind of refreshing to
• 54:54
  have somebody who's just like stone cold.
• 54:56
  Yeah.
• 54:59
  No drama.
• 55:00
  Yeah.
• 55:00
  No drama.
• 55:02
  If he sucks,
• 55:02
  he'll tell you he sucks at it.
• 55:04
  If he's great,
• 55:05
  he'll tell you he's great at it.
• 55:07
  Yeah.
• 55:08
  Yeah.
• 55:09
  I, I wish they would find a way to,
• 55:11
  I know Patrick tried to stream it,
• 55:12
  but the internet was really choppy.
• 55:15
  It would have been cool to
• 55:16
  see more of that.
• 55:16
  Cause I think,
• 55:19
  I think it's a cool event if
• 55:21
  people could see it.
• 55:22
  Yeah.
• 55:22
  And the points were close.
• 55:24
  It's not like one team was
• 55:26
  miles ahead of the other.
• 55:27
  It was a fun race all weekend.
• 55:31
  Yeah.
• 55:31
  Yeah.
• 55:32
  and you got and when when
• 55:34
  the athletes are having fun
• 55:35
  it comes across in the
• 55:37
  broadcast right for the
• 55:38
  spectator right and that's
• 55:40
  we need more of that so
• 55:43
  then to finish up your off
• 55:44
  season and then we'll let
• 55:46
  you get out of here is you
• 55:47
  went to wadapalooza yeah
• 55:50
  and I from all of your your
• 55:52
  youtube stuff I don't think
• 55:54
  it went as you had planned
• 55:56
  no I said yes to a lot this
• 55:59
  past year I should have
• 56:01
  said no to wadapalooza but
• 56:04
  hindsight's yeah and so so
• 56:09
  looking back with all of
• 56:11
  the choices you had from
• 56:13
  socal to reps ahead to
• 56:15
  rogue to you're never going
• 56:17
  to say no to rogue nobody's
• 56:18
  going to say no to rogue no exactly um
• 56:23
  Do you look back and say, man,
• 56:25
  I should have cut this and
• 56:26
  this or... And you don't
• 56:27
  have to tell me which ones,
• 56:29
  but just like in retrospect, you're like,
• 56:31
  man,
• 56:32
  I could have scheduled this out better.
• 56:34
  I would have just cut Guadalupalooza.
• 56:37
  Everything else,
• 56:39
  like a ten out of ten amazing experience.
• 56:43
  I just... I think I'm
• 56:44
  invincible and I think I'm
• 56:45
  better than I am.
• 56:46
  And at Guadalupalooza,
• 56:47
  I just was not good.
• 56:48
  So it's humbling to be like, man, even...
• 56:51
  like there's levels.
• 56:52
  And if you don't show up
• 56:53
  ready and prepared,
• 56:55
  I did on the first time
• 56:56
  ever had a few judging
• 56:58
  things that happened that
• 56:59
  never happened to me before.
• 57:00
  So that was kind of
• 57:02
  eyeopening and humbling to
• 57:03
  see as an athlete, like, man,
• 57:04
  there's things out of my control,
• 57:07
  but how am I going to respond to it?
• 57:08
  Am I going to yell on the floor?
• 57:09
  Am I just going to be like, who cares?
• 57:11
  It's CrossFit, like go about my day.
• 57:14
  So I grew a lot as an athlete.
• 57:16
  Um,
• 57:18
  Yeah.
• 57:18
  I don't want to talk about the bad,
• 57:19
  but yeah,
• 57:20
  I should have known my limits
• 57:21
  and said like, no, we need to stay home.
• 57:24
  And you did a team with Emily and Abigail.
• 57:28
  Yeah.
• 57:28
  That was a lot of fun.
• 57:31
  That was a lot of fun.
• 57:32
  Very different athletes.
• 57:33
  So like they're both very tall,
• 57:35
  endurancy and I'm shorter,
• 57:37
  not going to be great at running,
• 57:38
  but I'll do the gymnastics.
• 57:40
  So I felt like we evened
• 57:40
  each other out a lot.
• 57:43
  Do you like the team aspect
• 57:44
  of water Palooza?
• 57:46
  I do.
• 57:47
  It's definitely,
• 57:48
  I think if I do Wadapalooza in the future,
• 57:49
  I need to just do team.
• 57:51
  It's fun.
• 57:52
  I think it's fun to come
• 57:53
  together and like use our
• 57:55
  strengths and weaknesses to
• 57:57
  try and beat other people.
• 58:00
  Yeah.
• 58:01
  It's funny because you work
• 58:02
  out in your garage alone all the time,
• 58:03
  but like you talk about how
• 58:05
  fun it was to be on a team
• 58:06
  at SoCal at Wadapalooza.
• 58:12
  Is that just the change of
• 58:13
  pace you need throughout the season to,
• 58:14
  to,
• 58:17
  Yeah.
• 58:18
  Team stuff is more lighthearted.
• 58:20
  So it's more lighthearted.
• 58:21
  It's more smiling at the crowd.
• 58:23
  It's more throwing hair clips,
• 58:25
  do your best contribute to the team,
• 58:27
  but there's not as much
• 58:28
  individual pressure.
• 58:31
  I am the exact opposite.
• 58:34
  Like if I'm on a team, I,
• 58:36
  I end up throwing up behind the gym.
• 58:38
  I end up because I'm so nervous.
• 58:41
  And like,
• 58:41
  I give more than I'm probably capable of.
• 58:44
  And then my body can't handle it.
• 58:45
  And it,
• 58:46
  You're a good teammate then.
• 58:49
  Yeah.
• 58:49
  But the pressure I put on
• 58:50
  myself in a team is so much.
• 58:53
  And I, you know,
• 58:54
  I'm nowhere near an elite
• 58:55
  athlete like you guys, but man, yeah.
• 58:59
  And individually,
• 59:00
  like I can let myself down
• 59:01
  and be okay with it at the
• 59:02
  end of the day.
• 59:03
  Right.
• 59:03
  Right.
• 59:05
  While that hurts, I'm going to stop.
• 59:08
  I'll go home to my wife and
• 59:10
  my dog and be happy in my house.
• 59:12
  Right.
• 59:12
  That's all you need.
• 59:16
  so um this has been awesome
• 59:18
  it's been awesome catching
• 59:19
  up yeah thanks for having
• 59:21
  me back on it's been great
• 59:23
  we're hitting that hour and
• 59:24
  that's how we like to end
• 59:26
  it thank you so much and
• 59:27
  everybody in the chat sorry
• 59:29
  I couldn't get to a lot of
• 59:30
  the comments um you guys
• 59:32
  they were flying in so fast
• 59:33
  I couldn't keep up
• 59:35
  but thank you for being here
• 59:37
  and everybody tune in.
• 59:39
  Cat has her new show tonight at eight PM.
• 59:42
  And then we have lunch with
• 59:43
  the Clydesdale the rest of
• 59:44
  the week and Sunday night
• 59:45
  cross or CrossFit talk this week,
• 59:48
  where we're going to try to
• 59:48
  stay live until the age
• 59:50
  group semifinals are
• 59:52
  leaderboards are locked and
• 59:54
  we can see who possibly
• 59:56
  made it to the games and who didn't.
• 59:58
  So with that, see everybody next time.
• 1:00:00
  Bye guys.
• 1:00:00
  Bye.