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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Cookin up Cajun with Cory - What is Metfix doing? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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We're live now.
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Hey, all right.
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We don't have an open,
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but StreamYard is having
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some difficulties today.
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So we're just going to go with it.
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No open today.
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We're cold open.
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How y'all are?
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It's Cajun Wednesday.
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I'm with the legend, Corey Leonard.
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What is going on, everybody?
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It's just another Wednesday, Scott.
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Just another Wednesday.
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Just another Wednesday.
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I'll say that.
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My, uh...
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My son's last ever band concerts tonight.
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And so my wife is all up in her feelings,
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has been for quite some time.
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He's in the, like whatever the highest,
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like they've got three
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different levels of band at the school.
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And he's a senior,
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he's been there forever.
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He's in the highest level.
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So he didn't actually even
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play until about probably six,
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thirty-seven o'clock.
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And she's planning on
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getting there at five so
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she can sit in the front.
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I don't get off work till five.
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See you there.
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Yeah.
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I told her, I said, all right, she said,
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getting Jameson and we're
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going to do this and then
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we're going to get, uh,
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get some food and I'm
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getting there for like five
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thirty at the latest.
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And I was like, okay,
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it's going to be all right, babe.
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So yeah, my Corey did all the band things.
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So he's got that.
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And then we got his
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girlfriend's graduation party Sunday.
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His graduation,
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they're both graduating next Friday.
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It's just all the things in
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the next two weeks.
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Sweet baby.
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Trying to keep her sane as
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much as possible.
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Yeah.
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My daughter did the marching
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band and they do this thing
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called Friday Night Live
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where they take all the
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songs they did on the field
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and they do it in the auditorium.
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Yeah.
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And they do it for like four shows.
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My wife had to go to all four.
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Senior year.
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Now, junior, sophomore,
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we went for one show.
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Senior year, we went all four.
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Yeah,
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when he was playing with two of the
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three bands,
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we would stay for whichever
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ones he was playing with,
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and then we'd deuce out as
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soon as it was done.
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And then this year, like what I'm saying,
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I mean, they're good.
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Don't get me wrong.
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They are awesome.
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But we have seen a whole lot
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of band performance.
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many as we can make because
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we have absolutely no idea
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what's going on jay birch
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um we gotta throw a dart oh
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yeah but because of ken
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walters because of ken
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walters questioning me we
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have dart cam there it is
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love it and we are going to
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throw the dart let's see where it lands
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Oh, bad.
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Bad.
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I don't even know if you can see that.
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I'm going to remove Corey for one second.
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I'll blow this up.
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I'll remove myself.
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I don't know if you can see it.
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It's bad.
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It's upper, upper right.
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I'll have to fix the camera
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so that we can blow that up
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a little bit more next time.
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You hit the board.
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I did hit the board, but weak throw, man,
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weak throw.
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Really disappointed.
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I was getting closer and
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closer to that bullseye,
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and now I put the cam up,
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and I totally – pressure got to me.
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Never fair.
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I was trying to make the games.
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Never fair.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Pressure was on.
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Under the bright lights.
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Bam.
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Terrible.
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Can't handle it, man.
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KLA all day.
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Yeah.
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KLA-man.
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Yep.
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Open scores are invalid.
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I'm going to stop picking on that dude,
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man.
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All right, man.
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So that's out of the way.
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I've been talking a lot about this,
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how everybody's going after WFP,
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saying that they're not going to compete,
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but then they are competing
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against CrossFit.
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But nobody's going after Metfix,
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who says they're not
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competing against CrossFit.
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It's a natural fit for both of them.
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Yet, they're competing against CrossFit.
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And I'm cool with them competing.
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I just wish they'd say we're competing.
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So I think the difference is,
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is that at no point did
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they say that they weren't.
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That is a lot.
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Well, I understand that.
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But I know all they said was
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that we're going to be complimentary.
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They never expressly said, oh, no, no, no,
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no.
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We're not competing.
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I'm seeing Aaron Kaplan on
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the Chris Cooper podcast
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said they weren't competing.
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I missed that.
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Aaron says Greg spoke to it this morning.
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Yeah, I didn't get to hear all.
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I every Wednesday I have a ten a.m.
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meeting,
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which is when someone goes live
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with Greg.
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So I always miss it live.
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I have to go back and watch it after.
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I had it on but I was I
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wasn't really paying a
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whole lot of attention this
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morning um I was in and out
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of that work stuff going on
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so I didn't uh but jeff I I
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truly I truly don't care
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about the competition I
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actually think competition
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is good oh I'd agree totally
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I and I want to point
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something out because I've
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I've pulled up the broken
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science website and the
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metfix stuff and and you
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know they do a daily
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workout of the day just
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like crossfit right but
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it's more than that and
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it's and it's actually
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better and I want to
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illustrate that where
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competition can be a good
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thing so this is their
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workout of the day section
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They actually call it the daily fix.
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All right.
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Every day it comes with a
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recipe under belly.
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And here is a recipe and you
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can go down and there's the preparation,
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the ingredients,
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everything to make this
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recipe for the day.
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That's awesome, right?
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Yeah.
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Then you click on body and
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there is your twelve minute AMRAP.
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Complete as many rounds as possible,
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five strict muscle-ups,
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twenty walking lunges.
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Then practice slips for
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twenty-five minutes.
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Planks and stretching.
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Slips is scales, L-sits, inversions,
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handstands.
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Planks and stretching.
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And then you go to brain,
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and this is reading for you to do
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about health and science.
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How freaking cool is that?
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Oh, that is outstanding.
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I would say yeah,
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I mean that you're offering
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at that point.
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alternative stuff,
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then CrossFit is daily because I mean,
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I still get emails daily
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can CrossFit with all kinds
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of stuff about that.
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But
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Okay.
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I ain't mad at that at all.
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Like good stuff.
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All of this is offered on
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the CrossFit website.
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So feed your body neatly as this.
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Yeah.
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Feed your, feed your body, move your body,
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feed your brain.
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Right.
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And, and you can go back,
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like I'll hit belly here,
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go back to yesterday.
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There's yesterday's recipe.
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Yes, indeed.
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And there's yesterday's workout of the day,
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which was rest and the
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yesterday's reading.
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And you can keep going back
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just like the old workout
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of the day on CrossFit.
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There's cancer watchers, diabetes watchers,
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stroke watchers, body seven rounds a time,
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seven or ten push jerks, ten pull-ups,
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belly, Cajun chicken skewers,
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just right up your alley.
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The only problem I have with
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this is Cajun is Wednesday, not Monday.
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Yeah.
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We do Cajun Wednesdays, not Monday.
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Here we do, for sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm with you on that one.
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So Greg said just before his
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NDA was up that if anyone
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wanted to create something
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with him to take on the games he would,
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this could possibly be the
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beginnings of that.
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I think this is competing
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against CrossFit.
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I don't think he has any, and they said it,
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Jay Burch,
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he has no desire to compete
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against the games.
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The games were never Greg's bag of tricks.
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That was Dave's creation
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that he let Dave go and
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used it as evidence and
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proof of his concept.
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Then when it got so big,
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that was never Greg's thing.
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Well, no,
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it's that whole look around at
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what it has become as
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opposed to what it started
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as when it was literally a
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backyard barbecue.
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People were drinking beers
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in between events and stuff like that.
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And then it just snowballed
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into this thing, which, hey, I'm a fan of,
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but I'm also a fan of the
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beginning part of that,
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what leads to that.
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Like when I started at Virtus,
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it's because I wanted to
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see what was happening and
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wanted to get into shape.
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And then once I found out
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you could compete,
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Well, cool,
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because now I can do all this
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other stuff.
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But when I first I was still
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playing soccer two nights a
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week and I was a heck of a
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lot better than when I
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first started because I
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could go faster and I was
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stronger than everybody
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that was out there.
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You know,
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anything that we did outside of the gym,
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like and still am,
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I'm up for whatever because I can.
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Like you want to say it's a
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five K this week.
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You want to come running with me?
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Sure.
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Why not?
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just wanted to show that as
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I've been saying
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competition breeds growth
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we have before wfp ever
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existed before metfix went
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public um we have been
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dogging crossfit because
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they're dropping the ball
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in different aspects right
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there was no competition
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for them there was nothing
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pushing them to be better yeah
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Yesterday we illustrated
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their two new partnerships,
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partnering with Mayhem to
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do the Everyday Heroes
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occupational games as one thing,
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partnering with Ruck Race
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USA to do their final event
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at the CrossFit Games.
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That's going to be something to see.
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Those are good strategic
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partnerships that CrossFit
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never would have done in the past.
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They would have let Google
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get in the way and they would have said,
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hey, we can do it better.
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We'll do our own version.
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Definitely not since
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sometime around twenty, twenty, twenty,
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twenty one.
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I would even argue before
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that it wasn't all peaches
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and cream before the sale.
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No, you're right.
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I complacency, I think is a,
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is the word I would, I would use, right?
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Like you said,
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when you're on top and
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there's nothing else around,
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there's nothing else that's better.
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Everybody's talking about it.
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You got three hundred and four, you know,
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almost four thousand people
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signing up for the open every year.
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Then it's easy to just kind of let it,
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just let it be, let it go.
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See what happens.
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Instead of growing up,
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the media team happened on Greg's watch.
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And if you didn't like what
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it was focusing on,
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he could have redirected
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them into more the affiliate story.
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I definitely think he
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overcorrected on that part,
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like getting rid of the entire ones.
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And then let's bring out the
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couch and the water jugs.
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Like that was a, I get the idea behind it,
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but man, like it's a, we went from on the,
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in the lane to off the road
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to overcorrect it.
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And now we're facing the other direction.
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Yeah.
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This whole MedFit fixed WFP
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competition thing came to
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my mind because I, over the weekend,
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I know other people were
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diving into this.
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Now,
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I didn't know that at the time that it
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came into my head.
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All I heard was the Sivan clip about, hey,
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CrossFit sent out these
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letters about competition.
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You work for us.
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They're a competitor.
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You have a no compete.
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Right.
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And then all that kind of
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stirred all this in my brain.
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And since then,
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Jenny from dense updates
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has put some stuff out.
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So Vaughn's gone deeper into this.
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Um, and I'm,
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I'm anxious to hear what Greg
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had to say this morning.
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I'll probably listen to that
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this afternoon.
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I want to catch that part of it.
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And, um, right before we went on, uh,
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someone was talking about
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or had with parts of the froning podcast,
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uh,
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Where, like Will Morad and them,
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Will Morad and,
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is it Saxon that's working with him?
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Yeah, I watched that this morning.
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Yeah,
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I didn't get a chance to get into that,
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but I really wanted to see
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what all that was going on
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because they decided they
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went over there to go visit
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and hang out and talk to him about it,
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but wouldn't do it on camera.
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And I thought that was kind
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of interesting.
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And I actually have some notes from that.
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So that's a perfect segue.
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Okay.
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This is what I do.
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And so that is what Rich said.
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They invited them out.
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They had a good talk.
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They wanted to do a podcast
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so that people would know
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what the WFP is all about.
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And there seemed to be a
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fear that they would be bullied on air,
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so they decided not to do that.
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And I am quoting Rich.
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Yeah, no, I understand.
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I just think that's kind of silly.
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if you were the leader of an
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organization and you were
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afraid to be bullied on air
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you need to get a new
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leader correct um and then
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I I just I that is a very a
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highly watched podcast that
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by going on there the
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publicity you could have gotten
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And convinced Rich on air
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that what you're doing is good.
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And it does seem like Rich
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believes for what they're
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doing for the athletes and
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the sports side is a good thing.
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Now,
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Rich is not a believer on what they're
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doing on the affiliate side.
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Well, and why would you be when they said,
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give us money and then tell
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us what you want and we'll
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see if we can do it.
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And there was a little bit
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of back and forth that like
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CrossFit would not
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communicate with the WFP.
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Yeah.
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but I'm not sure there were
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attempts made to
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communicate from the WFP first.
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And that never got cleared
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up in this back and forth.
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Right.
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Because then they kind of like,
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they were talking about it,
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and then they dove into
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what they think a solution
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may be for the CrossFit game season.
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And so you lost kind of like
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what this meeting with WFP was all about.
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But I think when you say to them,
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I'm afraid to come on air,
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they're not willing to then
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now promote what you're
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doing or try to explain
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what you explained to them
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when you don't have the
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cojones to go on yourself
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and talk about it.
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Yeah.
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If you're not going to come
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on and talk about it,
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I am certainly not going to
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tell people what you said
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about it because then it's
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coming from my mouth and not yours.
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Right.
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And it'd be so easy for them to say, well,
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that's not exactly what we meant.
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Well,
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we don't know what you meant because
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you didn't actually come on
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and go live with us or, you know,
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be recorded, whatever,
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where it could be put out
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there and you could say it
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in your own words.
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So I'm not going to tell people.
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I'm going to tell people we
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had a conversation and I
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understand it a little bit better,
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but I'm not getting into
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specifics because it's not what you,
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you're not having a chance.
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It'd be like, if you were,
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it's guilty until proven
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innocent type situation
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where you just say whatever.
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No, dude, why not go on with them?
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That blows my mind completely.
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I also think that it was
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said by Vandersloot that
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they're afraid to make mistakes.
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Bro.
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You can't be afraid to make mistakes.
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No.
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Now we're at a point where
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your first event is a week
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and a half away,
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and we don't know anything about it.
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And it's like they're
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banking on the names
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drawing in the people alone
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without understanding the
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concept of what it is.
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I would love to know what
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their ticket sales look
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like because when they first announced it,
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it was going to be a thing.
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Having five thousand spectators,
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which is insane, by the way,
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especially with you got this going on.
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You got.
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Yes, yes.
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Pull up Lito's comment, please.
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It feels like they're just
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trying to be liked by everybody.
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Yeah.
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I think that's exactly what
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Scott VanderSloot said that
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they're trying to,
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they're trying not to piss
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anybody off and you cannot
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it to be a leader of, of an organization.
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You cannot have those fears.
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No,
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you can't walk on eggshells around
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every single person and
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expect to succeed.
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That's not going to work.
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Because no matter what you say,
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you are going to piss somebody off.
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Yeah.
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At some point,
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and you have to be okay with that.
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You have to be able to say, oh,
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you don't like that?
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Okay, that's cool.
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And keep moving forward.
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Because if you keep doing that and just,
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well, I'm not sure.
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You're setting yourself up for failure.
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Well,
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and that debate can be good if you
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explain why you're doing
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what you're doing to the
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negative reaction.
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Yeah.
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Why it's going this way.
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Why you made that choice.
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And be firm.
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Be resolute.
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Hey, yeah,
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I understand that that's what happened.
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This is why.
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And it's okay to let people go, well,
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I'm like that.
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Okay, well, you don't have to.
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Aaron says, as an athlete,
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he should know you cannot
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compete and be afraid of making mistakes.
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And then he says,
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Rich on the Born Primitive podcast said,
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if fifty percent love you
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and fifty percent hate you,
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you're probably doing something right.
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Yeah, you're attracting the right people.
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And the fifty percent that
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don't like you don't matter.
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Concepts are great.
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Ideas are awesome.
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But you have to implement
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them and you have to
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I was hopeful that they
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could push the boundaries
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of what the sport looked
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like so that overall, in the end,
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we could learn something
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from it and either CrossFit
19:51
learn from what they see
19:53
and make changes or
19:55
CrossFit doesn't and they
19:57
die off and you have this other option.
20:01
But I have no confidence now
20:03
after hearing that.
20:03
No.
20:04
How are you going to...
20:09
CrossFit is notorious for saying,
20:11
as far as the methodology is concerned,
20:14
like if we see something that works,
20:16
we'll start doing it.
20:18
So same thing for the games
20:20
and whatever else.
20:21
We evolved from having a
20:21
softball throw to the stuff
20:23
that we do now at the game.
20:25
So why wouldn't you see if
20:26
somebody is doing, like you said, oh,
20:28
this is working.
20:30
Cool.
20:31
Let's do that.
20:33
Seems like they're there.
20:38
Seems like there are a shell.
20:39
Dang it.
20:40
Take a deep breath, Kyle.
20:46
Why don't you take this while I go?
20:47
Seems like they are a shell
20:49
of an organization.
20:50
Looks good on the outside,
20:51
but not much on the inside.
20:55
Oh, it's just me.
20:57
How's it going?
20:59
Yes, they are.
21:00
We got you, David.
21:01
Um, I would,
21:02
one hundred percent agree with that,
21:03
David.
21:03
Um,
21:03
it reminds me a little bit of when
21:06
Noble first started and
21:07
nobody knew what it actually was.
21:09
Like we have an idea, we have concepts,
21:11
we have thoughts that we're
21:12
going to just put out there
21:14
for everybody.
21:14
And then we'll kind of see
21:15
what happens after that.
21:18
That seems like an insane concept to me.
21:21
It's worked for Noble,
21:22
at least for a while.
21:23
I don't know anybody that
21:24
actually wears their shoes anymore.
21:27
Uh,
21:28
or any of their apparel for that matter.
21:30
they got all the way up to
21:31
sponsoring the games at one
21:32
point and then kind of died
21:34
off so my apologies the
21:40
dart cam started echoing
21:42
everything so I had to shut
21:43
it off not a problem um you
21:46
have to believe in what
21:46
you're doing if you're
21:47
scared to actually say what
21:48
you were doing maybe you
21:50
should be doing something
21:51
else a hundred percent that
21:54
is a confidence thing right
21:55
there right and
21:59
I think that's what Rich was
22:00
trying to get at.
22:02
If you want to compete against CrossFit,
22:04
just say it.
22:07
Yeah.
22:07
Just say it.
22:09
Do it.
22:09
You'll get more respect just saying, yeah,
22:12
I'm competing with CrossFit.
22:14
We think we can do it better.
22:16
This is our plan.
22:18
The dude,
22:18
I don't know what his actual title is,
22:22
with High Rocks, he was like,
22:24
we're trying to find a
22:24
fitness athlete on Earth.
22:27
He said that live on camera
22:29
for everybody to hear.
22:31
Is it true?
22:32
Maybe in his mind it is,
22:34
but he was bold enough to
22:35
actually go ahead and say
22:36
it and try to be a direct
22:39
competitor as far as that
22:41
title is concerned.
22:43
Us as CrossFit athletes don't believe it,
22:45
but kudos for him for
22:47
actually saying it
22:48
somewhere where people could hear.
22:51
Alito,
22:51
definitely not scared of making
22:53
mistakes when that you
22:55
program running in the semis.
22:59
We got video of Brandon
23:01
running behind the email
23:03
company team with a camera.
23:07
It's hilarious.
23:09
You see them four run across
23:11
and then there's Brandon
23:12
running behind them with the camera.
23:13
It's going to make sure that
23:15
somebody asks for the video.
23:16
We got a good video.
23:18
That was a topic on Rich's
23:20
podcast as well.
23:21
They did ask for the maps and the video.
23:26
But they're like, what does that prove?
23:28
You have a video of a guy
23:29
with a wheel going out to
23:31
eight or four hundred
23:32
meters and then turning
23:33
around and four hundred meters back.
23:36
And you have a GPS map.
23:37
Yeah.
23:37
What?
23:40
But it doesn't prove that
23:41
they actually they still doesn't ask.
23:44
Yeah.
23:45
And I think that's why, like,
23:47
for the EMOM team anyway, that's why,
23:49
like, Brandon went out.
23:50
Tell you, camera on a stick.
23:52
When he took off for the run,
23:53
he was running right there with him.
23:57
So at least... Mayhem filmed
23:59
their whole run, too, just in case.
24:01
Oh, I'm sure they did.
24:02
I'm sure they did.
24:03
I think anybody who could probably did,
24:06
and I think that's probably a smart idea.
24:08
And if you look at the top-twenty,
24:10
they're all, like, teams that...
24:13
been around there's nothing
24:15
um out of whack in who
24:18
qualified for the games no
24:20
that wasn't like bob's
24:21
crossfit team out of you
24:22
know yeah with four
24:26
athletes you've never heard
24:27
of before correct four
24:28
athletes you've heard of
24:29
never heard of before from
24:30
uh out from uh uh an
24:31
affiliate you don't
24:33
nobody's ever heard of like
24:34
there's none of that uh in
24:35
in the top twenty so
24:38
Kudos,
24:39
kudos to boss for putting credit or
24:41
putting faith in,
24:42
in people to do the right thing.
24:43
And extra kudos for
24:45
everybody who actually did
24:46
the right thing.
24:47
Good.
24:48
Good on that.
24:49
Vander Sloot said he actually,
24:51
he sorted it by the run
24:52
event to see if he saw any
24:54
names that were out of, yeah.
24:58
And even just in the run event alone.
25:01
Right.
25:02
No, that makes sense.
25:03
Why wouldn't you do it that way?
25:04
Like that's, yeah, that was a smart thing.
25:05
If I was trying to find out
25:07
who was cheating,
25:08
that's what I would have done too.
25:10
That's the easiest thing to do.
25:12
It's like going back and look from,
25:14
in our age group,
25:15
from the guys who did
25:18
amazing in the open and did
25:20
not sign up for semifinals.
25:21
Like, oh, and have no videos.
25:24
Oh, okay.
25:25
Yeah.
25:25
I got you.
25:26
Not a big deal.
25:28
So I wanted to finish up
25:29
with you and get your ideas on this.
25:30
We talked about the
25:31
competition with Metfix and
25:34
CrossFit and WFP and CrossFit.
25:38
Then I watched Sousa's show yesterday.
25:40
The TMZ show.
25:43
So he's talking about how
25:46
kind of the guy that
25:47
everybody thought was going
25:48
to buy CrossFit did put a
25:49
bid in on CrossFit.
25:52
And then they've held out.
25:56
They brought in this
25:58
another third party to help
26:00
with the sale um and
26:03
they're holding the bid
26:04
open trying to get a bigger
26:06
bid and that is evidence
26:09
that they are trying to
26:10
make as much money as they
26:11
can on this sale right
26:15
There is a chance that someone comes in,
26:17
buys it for a higher price
26:20
than the person we thought
26:21
of who won't have the
26:23
idealistic view of what
26:25
CrossFit is or can be.
26:26
Right.
26:27
And we don't have control.
26:29
We as people in the
26:31
community have no control
26:32
over who's going to buy this thing.
26:36
If...
26:38
If someone comes in and buys
26:39
CrossFit who is another
26:41
private equity company or
26:43
something like that,
26:45
do you think there will be
26:47
a mass exodus to these alternatives?
26:51
Now that they're sitting
26:52
there and that they will be
26:53
established when the sale is done?
26:59
Now, if the right person buys it,
27:00
all this is moot.
27:01
But if the wrong person buys
27:03
it... I wouldn't be shocked.
27:08
How about that?
27:10
I wouldn't be shocked.
27:12
I mean, we've had staff meetings where
27:16
our head coach slash owner
27:18
as like when they jacked up
27:20
everybody's affiliate fees
27:22
like is it worth us still
27:23
being an affiliate and for
27:25
the time being it is
27:27
absolutely um just for the
27:29
brand name as far as like
27:30
as far as that goes
27:31
everybody you know whether
27:32
you do it or not most
27:34
people know what crossfit
27:35
or have heard of it I mean
27:36
I say know what it is but
27:37
definitely have heard of it
27:38
recognize the name
27:41
whatever the case may be.
27:42
But as soon as that starts
27:43
losing enough brand value
27:44
where people will start going, Oh,
27:46
those people, then yeah.
27:49
Why wouldn't you start
27:49
looking at doing something
27:50
else or unbranding
27:53
completely and just being, Hey,
27:54
we are a fitness gym.
27:57
We will make you better.
27:58
Not necessarily having a
28:00
affiliation one way or another.
28:03
Well,
28:04
I look at this Metfix website and I'm
28:07
like,
28:10
I know Greg's going to fight lawsuits.
28:15
His work,
28:15
his daily fix is pretty freaking awesome.
28:21
That's the first time I saw that.
28:22
I need to go look at it.
28:22
That's fantastic.
28:24
This is more than the
28:25
CrossFit daily workout gets me.
28:27
Right.
28:28
This gives me a workout, a recipe,
28:30
and a reading assignment for the day.
28:35
If I'm a gym owner and it's
28:37
five hundred bucks to do
28:38
Metfix as an affiliate, sign me up.
28:42
Yeah.
28:43
Hey,
28:43
we're still going to be doing
28:45
constantly varied
28:48
functional movements
28:48
executed at high intensity,
28:50
except now we're going to
28:52
have a little bit more
28:52
access to stuff that maybe
28:54
is going to be more
28:56
meaningful in the long run.
28:58
Like you said,
28:59
Greg's already proved that
29:00
he will take on whoever
29:02
if they're putting out false
29:03
information that is hurting
29:05
or helping to kill people.
29:10
Yeah.
29:10
And Jenny even pointed out
29:11
like this non-compete thing
29:14
is done with Greg now.
29:15
Cause like you go to their
29:16
daily workout and if you go back through,
29:18
there are named workouts,
29:21
CrossFit workouts in, in their daily fix.
29:24
Um,
29:28
David Johnson says,
29:28
I think the wrong person
29:29
would have to buy it and
29:30
then continue doing a bad job.
29:32
If they show that they are
29:33
capable immediately, then probably not.
29:36
The affiliation doesn't happen overnight.
29:39
I learned that
29:39
de-affiliation is very hard.
29:41
Most people just let their
29:43
affiliation expire.
29:48
So depending on when you signed up,
29:52
you may have a month,
29:53
you may have eleven months
29:55
to make that decision.
30:00
I think what David's saying
30:02
is makes a lot of sense.
30:03
Like,
30:03
like it doesn't happen overnight and
30:05
you're going to have to
30:06
prove to me that you're the wrong person.
30:08
You also have to prove that
30:09
you're the right person.
30:10
Like you can, it's easy to come in.
30:11
It's like after an election,
30:12
it's easy to come in and say,
30:14
promise all these great things.
30:16
But like,
30:17
if you don't show me stuff in the
30:18
first hundred days, six months,
30:21
whatever the case may be, then,
30:23
then we're going to start
30:24
having a problem.
30:24
Yeah.
30:27
Yeah.
30:29
But I think it is really
30:31
interesting that you could actually say,
30:34
hey, we're going to be a Metfix gym.
30:38
If you want to compete,
30:39
you go to WFP or you stay in CrossFit.
30:43
And we don't care about the
30:44
competition side.
30:47
I mean, for somebody like me, who is very,
30:54
very interested in making
30:55
the CrossFit Games...
30:58
And Jamie will say the same thing, like,
31:00
because she already goes to the gym,
31:02
that's not affiliated, right?
31:03
It is.
31:04
She's got to jump through
31:05
all kinds of hoops to be
31:06
able to try to get to the
31:07
stage where she can prove
31:08
herself as being one of the
31:09
fittest people on earth.
31:11
So if we did the affiliate,
31:14
it's going to be a problem for me,
31:16
not for everybody else there.
31:18
You know,
31:19
for the couple of us that are
31:20
actually actively trying to
31:23
get to the CrossFit Games.
31:25
Then it becomes a problem.
31:27
Everybody else there, I say everybody else,
31:29
nine percent of people there,
31:30
they just want to get fit.
31:32
They want to come in, get their sweat on.
31:34
They don't give a shit
31:34
what's written on the
31:35
outside at this point.
31:37
Now, potentially getting in new people.
31:41
If we can't,
31:42
if we're not CrossFit Virtus
31:44
anymore and we are MedFix
31:46
Virtus or whatever,
31:48
whatever the case may be,
31:49
and nobody knows what that is right now.
31:52
then that could be a future
31:54
issue as far as that kind
31:56
of stuff is concerned.
32:00
That's where my head goes.
32:02
I am the vast minority.
32:04
It does not really matter to
32:06
everybody else because it's just me.
32:10
Aaron Fraser,
32:10
I thought all affiliates paid
32:12
a monthly fee now.
32:13
And actually,
32:14
David answers that you can do either.
32:16
You have the choice to
32:17
either make the one lump sum payment,
32:19
but then they added the
32:20
monthly payment as an
32:23
option when they increased fees.
32:29
Jay Burch says you just call
32:30
yourself Virtus Fit.
32:32
Then you can be a Hyrox gym, a Metfix gym.
32:35
You've never met my owner.
32:36
We're not going to be a Hyrox anything.
32:42
We're not going to be I can
32:43
promise you that much.
32:47
Yeah.
32:49
Polaris has changed her name
32:50
so many times that one back
32:52
wall with the logo has been
32:54
painted about seven times
32:56
since I've been a member there.
32:59
We got one sign outside.
33:03
One,
33:03
we just replaced it last year sometime
33:07
because the other one was
33:08
getting so beat up,
33:08
it was starting to be hard to read.
33:10
But other than that,
33:12
If you miss the sign and nobody's outside,
33:14
the bay doors ain't open,
33:15
you can drive right past it
33:16
and never know where you're at.
33:19
It's one big long building.
33:21
Our half is a gym, other half is a church.
33:25
You get your Jesus and your
33:26
fitness all in all on the
33:27
same day if you really need to.
33:28
There you go.
33:31
Most times in the middle of a MetCon,
33:32
I'm talking to him,
33:33
so might as well have a church.
33:35
Lord, yeah.
33:36
Lord, yeah.
33:37
Yeah,
33:37
I saw Brandon had a program for us
33:38
yesterday.
33:39
I was definitely...
33:41
on speaking terms with Jesus
33:42
at one point towards the end there.
33:46
Yeah, it was funny.
33:47
CrossFit players has always been CFP.
33:50
They just changed what the
33:51
initials meant at times.
33:54
And then it went to IBEX,
33:56
which was the Aramo
33:59
O'Connell programming.
34:00
Right.
34:02
And then when they sold the, they,
34:05
when they sold, uh,
34:06
the new owners immediately
34:07
took it back to CrossFit players.
34:10
And changed the logo design.
34:14
But it's still CFP.
34:15
Everything has been CFP like
34:17
the whole time.
34:19
Except for the IBEX year.
34:22
Except for the one short
34:24
time we were IBEX for whatever reason.
34:26
I mean, that's smart.
34:29
If you don't have to change
34:31
your name or you don't have
34:32
to change the initials and
34:33
just like for printing
34:35
t-shirts and selling
34:37
merchandise and whatnot,
34:38
CFP all day long.
34:42
Aaron asked, why did Christie sell?
34:45
To be honest with you,
34:46
I do not know factually why,
34:48
but I can make a really
34:50
good assumption that they
34:52
did not want to be tied to
34:53
the gym anymore.
34:55
They wanted to be able to travel,
34:56
and I think they're trying
34:57
to start a family.
34:58
Good for them.
35:00
And so because of that,
35:03
they just didn't want to.
35:05
And their family has owned the gym.
35:07
Christie only owned it for
35:08
the last five years.
35:12
Maybe her parents actually
35:15
owned the gym like all the
35:17
years previous.
35:19
And her mother was a
35:20
CrossFit Games athlete.
35:23
Maybe even before Christy was.
35:29
Or around the same time.
35:31
But yeah, Donna,
35:32
Donna Aramo was a Masters
35:34
athlete at the Games.
35:37
How old is she?
35:38
Donna.
35:41
I kind of think,
35:44
was she at a MFC the year I went?
35:47
She's still competing?
35:49
She has not competed in a few years.
35:50
She, that's not her favorite thing to do.
35:53
In fact, if you work out with her,
35:55
she always like downplays
35:56
how good she is.
35:57
And then she kicks your ass.
35:59
Every, yeah.
36:00
Every high level athlete I know does that.
36:02
Yeah.
36:03
Well, I mean, I hate snatches.
36:05
I'm not very good at them.
36:07
And then she's done.
36:08
She's done.
36:08
She's done.
36:09
She's done.
36:09
She's done.
36:13
then oh oh that was bad
36:15
really was it because I'm
36:16
still going really I don't
36:18
know if you had noticed
36:19
that or not the stuff that
36:20
killed me is we we had this
36:23
it was they did a challenge
36:25
where it was a five k a day
36:28
and so christy would run to
36:29
the gym she would do the
36:32
workout and then run home
36:34
and it it had to be a five
36:35
k each way and she would
36:39
come in after running a five k
36:42
barely warm up, do the workout,
36:45
be done in a quarter of the
36:46
time that you're taking,
36:48
and then put in her earbuds
36:50
and then run home.
36:50
Those people annoy me.
36:57
Good naturedly.
36:59
Her husband was a seven-time
37:01
regional athlete.
37:05
She crushes him,
37:06
but there's so many levels, right?
37:09
Because he's killing
37:10
everybody else in the gym.
37:11
Yeah.
37:11
Yeah.
37:14
But, yeah.
37:16
There's one hundred percent
37:17
levels to this.
37:18
It is bananas crazy.
37:21
It's funny.
37:21
When I first joined my original gym,
37:24
Shred CrossFit,
37:25
still in existence here in Columbus,
37:29
we all thought we had a
37:30
shot at the games.
37:31
Oh, yeah.
37:32
And I went to CrossFit
37:33
Polaris and I realized I
37:35
have no shot in hell of
37:37
ever making anything.
37:39
Dude,
37:39
my first ever Masters competition
37:43
when I did the Masters
37:45
division at Raging Games
37:46
and Lafayette is going to
37:49
be my second ever actual
37:50
individual competition, right?
37:52
And I remember going through
37:53
these warm-ups and thinking,
37:55
I'm pretty well.
37:57
I'm one of the
37:59
one of the better movers, even though I,
38:01
you know, just started, like I was,
38:03
I was at the, you know, I get that,
38:05
that beginner's bias or whatever.
38:07
Like you started just making
38:08
these huge jumps because
38:10
you didn't do anything before.
38:11
So it didn't click the fact that, well,
38:12
yeah,
38:13
you went from doing nothing to doing
38:14
something.
38:14
So of course it's going to
38:15
be a lot of job.
38:17
I got to,
38:19
I got to raising games and like
38:21
one of the,
38:22
one of the workouts that was a
38:23
two-parter and the second part was a max,
38:25
a max weight thruster.
38:27
And I had like,
38:29
I thought I was doing
38:30
pretty good with my little,
38:31
two hundred and thirty five
38:32
pound thruster.
38:33
And I could hear the
38:34
announcer two lanes over,
38:36
and this is our first attempt left,
38:38
right?
38:38
Get done.
38:39
I got two minutes to rest
38:40
and then four minutes or
38:42
whatever it was to find a one rep max.
38:44
And I was going to open at
38:45
two fifteen and like,
38:47
see if I could get that two
38:48
thirty five again.
38:49
And somebody two lanes over
38:51
hit two sixty five to open.
38:53
And I was like, oh,
38:55
okay maybe I'm not actually
38:58
nearly as strong as I think
39:00
I am and just watching
39:02
people just pass me by like
39:04
on the metcon part of it
39:05
it's humbling it's humbling
39:07
uh we I went to a comp
39:09
locally here it's um fall
39:13
jam they have it every year
39:15
um on the east side of town
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and the second year I went
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the first year I went I won
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a couple events right
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in the Masters Division.
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Second year I go,
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Andy Katzenmoyer shows up.
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And he is a former Ohio
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State and New England Patriot linebacker.
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The one workout was a snatch complex.
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So it was a snatch, hang snatch,
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overhead squat.
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They're like two minutes into the workout,
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and the announcer,
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you hear the announcer go,
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Katsa Moyer is out of weight.
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Somebody bring that man some
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fives or some tens or something.
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He's got everything loaded up on the bar.
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I was like, what?
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Yeah, I'm sorry.
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What did you just say?
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Because it sounded like you
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said he's out of weight,
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and there's no way that's possible.
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Oh yeah.
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That's good stuff, dude.
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I love stuff like that.
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We had a, uh,
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a dude who was borderline
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probably regionals, uh,
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athlete in most of the stuff.
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Like he couldn't run for
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anything or whatnot, but we.
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Calm down here called water girl.
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And, uh, they were going to be doing.
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Oh, a bear, one rep max,
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but a bear complex.
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So like, you know, all of the things.
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And Kevin's standing up
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there and he's probably six, two,
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one taller guy, bright red hair.
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And asking about, you know,
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guys going through the athlete briefing,
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talking about how much
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weight everybody's going to have.
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And he said,
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does anybody need any more weight?
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We had a bunch of us from
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our gym that was there.
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And we all turned around and
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looked at Kevin.
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And old boy said, what about you,
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Red Rocket?
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You need more than this, three sixty five?
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He's like.
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Maybe I watched him do the
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equivalent of a back thruster.
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At three hundred and thirty five pounds,
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just.
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What a girl, Jeff.
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W-O-D-I.
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Wadigraw.
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Wadigraw.
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So, like, think Mardi Gras, but Wadigraw.
41:33
Don't have it anymore.
41:33
The last time they had it,
41:34
it was a complete shit show,
41:35
and they did it in the rain.
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Not a good idea.
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So, just to finish up the Katzmoor thing,
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the shittiest movement I've
41:44
ever seen in my life.
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Everything was power.
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He had no mobility.
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and the overhead squat was good.
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The question every time.
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And,
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and then he would slowly go down and
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wait for the judge to say
41:59
he hit depth and then he would come up.
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But it was, it was the trying to get that,
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that mobility.
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We're talking like four hundred.
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Jesus Christ.
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It was just stupid.
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He used all the weight.
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That's all I know.
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Whatever they had on there,
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we got it all on the bar.
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That is it, Jay Birch.
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Watergraw.
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That is it.
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That is it.
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Well, cool.
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Well, that was a lot.
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And my lunch hour is just about over.
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So time for you knuckleheads
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to get back to work.
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We'll see everybody next time.
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Own!
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Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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Thanks, Corey.