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The Clydesdale Media Roundtable - The Semifinals are Done! What next? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
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We're back for another week.
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Semifinals are done and dusted.
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And moving on to the CrossFit Games.
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And you just got back.
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Just got back to these.
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Ooh.
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Brand new stickers.
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Yeah.
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you're interested just dm me
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I've already got a bunch
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packaged up ready to head
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out the door to people
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wanted them so got the
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yellow square it's kind of
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there you go yeah you can
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see them better on the ig
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um but blue are blue with
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the uh round one new logos
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I throw in the old stickers
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too when you do it so you
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get a bunch but there you go
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So just DM me and if you
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want them and they're yours for free,
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people keep asking how much they're free.
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I just want our name out there.
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So there we go.
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There you go.
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So how was your experience at syndicate?
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So I,
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I want to make sure I say this huge
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shout out to the event organizers,
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the night and day
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difference from 22 when
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they had the semifinals
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there to this year,
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like light years better.
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Light years better.
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And really cool.
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They weren't so back-to-back, right?
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Like where they had two
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events so close together.
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We're not at Miss Puffy Pants, Lex.
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But the venue and, oh my gosh,
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Wilson Pack and his crew,
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the 12 Layers crew, put on a great show.
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Last time we were there,
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the media was in the hockey locker room.
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And this year,
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I'll bring in our other host.
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This year,
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we were actually in a main
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concourse as the media room,
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way much more breathing
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room than we had in years past.
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But it was upstairs.
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So we had to go down the
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stairs to the floor,
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upstairs to the media room,
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downstairs to the floor, which was fine.
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It was cool.
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Because we had way more room.
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And the signage they put up,
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They put a sign over the
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whole back wall that was
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that skull crown logo,
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crown covering up all the
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ugliness that was back there.
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It looked freaking awesome.
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And the stands were packed.
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If you look at the thumbnail,
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that was Friday afternoon.
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During a work day, those were the stands.
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And it got bigger and bigger
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as the weekend went on.
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So do you think it was because,
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why do you think it was
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more filled with spectators
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versus West Coast Classic?
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Do you think it was location
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or do you think it was the
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strength of the field?
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Because we were there.
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I don't know.
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But I talked to so many
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people who said now that
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they've experienced semifinals,
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they're not going to the games.
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They're going to go to semis instead.
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They had so much more fun at semifinals.
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And I've been preaching that.
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It is so much more fun to go
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to semis than the games.
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Yeah,
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I would imagine Knoxville's a lot
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more affordable than L.A.
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For sure.
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I was totally thinking that, too,
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and easier to get to.
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Yeah,
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and more centralized than something
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on the East Coast.
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Like people from the Midwest
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could get there.
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People from, you know,
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all over could get there more easily,
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I think.
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And mayhem's an hour away.
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Yep.
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Proven's right there.
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Yeah, Proven's an hour, two hours away.
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TTT is three or four hours away.
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So you're four hours from Atlanta.
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It's five and a half hours
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from Columbus to Knoxville.
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Yeah.
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That's not a bad drive.
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Right.
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It's so centrally located.
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You can get from anywhere.
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And all the major camps in
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the Midwest kind of are in
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driving distance.
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Mm-hmm.
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And there were so many
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mayhem athletes there.
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So many mayhem athletes.
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And they're an hour down the road.
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That had to help, of course.
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Because they could go home
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and sleep in their own beds.
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If they wanted, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, Rich was there all three days.
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Yeah.
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He competed in the community event.
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Cool.
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And I think the community event helped,
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too.
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Because Vendor Village was packed.
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Every time I walked through it,
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it was packed.
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Yeah.
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And Northern Spirit sold out
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of stuff on Friday.
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Hmm.
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Wow.
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So, yeah,
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it was a much better experience
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than the West, for sure.
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Hmm.
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But it was great.
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We got really good access.
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For the first time ever,
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they gave us finish line access.
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So in years past,
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they had the elevated
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finish line at Knoxville.
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They did not put that in this year.
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And then there was a gap
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between the finish line and
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the VIP family and friends section,
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which was the end.
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Yeah.
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And media could be there.
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There was just a red taped
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area you had to be in to
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stay out of the camera's view.
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Yes.
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I saw you several times.
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Oh, yeah.
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Last year, you had to jump up.
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Yeah, you had to be up in the stand.
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You were like a sniper up in the upper.
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Yeah, I remember that.
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That was the same menu then.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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Yeah,
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I remember when you were sitting in
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the locker.
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Didn't have to do that this year.
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I remember, though,
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I got some really cool
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shots of wall balls at the end,
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at the starting line.
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Because they have that
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balcony where you're right
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over and seeing.
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That was kind of cool.
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You still had that balcony
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access for the rig.
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But on the opposite end, the finish line,
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we had access now on the
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floor to get finish line shots.
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Very cool.
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Um, so yeah, it was such a hard, I mean, I,
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I was glued to the screen
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this whole weekend, like,
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cause I was available, you know,
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I was literally glued and there was,
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it was so exciting and so
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heartbreaking on so many, you know,
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different levels,
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but you're excited for everybody,
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but also you have,
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you have to be disappointed
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for somebody too, you know, like it's,
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More we become friends with people,
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the harder it is to be at
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these events because like I
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am emotionally invested.
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Carolyn has become such a good friend.
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Yeah.
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She had a bad weekend and it just was like,
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there was nothing consoling
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her right in that moment.
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And other than Lex sent her
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a blizzard and some cheese
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curds and we love that.
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So yeah,
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Um, but she just was,
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she just had a bad start to the weekend.
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She got dizzy on the run.
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She doesn't know why.
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And then it, it just,
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then it's an uphill climb from there.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Annika has the same bad
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first event makes the climb
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and then has that Tyler Christoffel end.
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I didn't realize that she
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wasn't going to make it either.
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Like, I didn't realize it was that close.
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I thought after that event,
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even despite what happened,
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that she was still safe.
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only because Sean Woodland said, you know,
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she sounds like she's still safe.
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So I believe that.
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And I wasn't thinking anything.
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And then when they showed
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her split screen at the end, I was like,
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oh no, you can't,
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this cannot be happening.
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And that was the only time
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that weekend that I visibly
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like yelled at the TV.
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That and two weeks prior was
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when Colton Mertens touched and go,
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did his touching.
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I was like, let's go.
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But that was, yeah,
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that was heartbreaking.
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Yeah.
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The Anika thing is heartbreaking.
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When Chloe Gavon David made it in,
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that's when I started to worry.
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Right.
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She thought she was going to be number 10.
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Right.
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When she was number eight,
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then it was like, oh, shit.
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Yeah,
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like she made such a large leap in
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that last event.
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Or nine, maybe it was.
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She came from like 15.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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She wasn't,
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we weren't even talking about
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her in that last event really.
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Yeah.
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And she's in a fun,
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a phenomenal athlete who's
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always gone team and
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nobody's seen what she had and she showed,
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she showed she's a really good athlete.
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Yeah.
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But on the, on the bright side,
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I fell in love with Joey Piero.
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I cannot get enough of that guy.
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He's charismatic for sure.
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was interviewing marquand
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jones in the back and we
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were walking out and um
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marquand went up to him and
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said how'd that go for you
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joe and he's like well I
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was I was bound and
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determined to get dead last
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I got a little bit of a
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lead but then thank god I
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got a no rep and then I
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fell to dead last so I
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solidified my position and
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then he went touch and go
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on the last bar of the
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snatch complex and uh
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And he said,
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I knew just to salvage my weekend,
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I had to pull that off.
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Yeah.
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And he made it look easy.
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He didn't have the Colton
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sideways shuffle.
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Yeah.
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But he is such a cool guy.
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I want to hang out with him all the time.
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He's Jersey boy too, right?
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Yeah.
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His Instagram is JerseyJP.
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yeah he was one of the first
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guys that I interviewed two
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years two three years ago
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when we started doing these
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yeah I i watched it back
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because I interviewed him
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this year just to get what
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you guys had talked about
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and he was funny on that
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one yes personality for
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sure so I wanted to bring
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this up because we had this
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conversation at my house so
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I was talking about paige
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cementa and how every time
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like she is a very consistent athlete
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at a high level and she just
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never gets the attention.
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Right.
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It's like invisible.
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Right.
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And then, then it'll be like, Oh,
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where'd you come from?
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And it's like, she's,
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she's always been there.
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Right.
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And so I'm,
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I'm bringing that up to my
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family and here's their perspective.
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And so I'm curious what you
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guys think they were like,
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she's not this flashy kind
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of athlete though.
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I think it's her temperament that she's
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not a flashy athlete, but at the same time,
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which I could hear that
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like and see that like she
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is kind of a more of a
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reserved kind of person.
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But why aren't they talking about her?
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Okay, you got anything?
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Because I'll go if you want me to,
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but she have an agent.
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No, she gets no media exposure.
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No other than from us.
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And I think she's freaking awesome.
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Here's the thing.
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She doesn't have any home runs.
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Right?
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Like,
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she's going to finish higher than
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Danny Spiegel,
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but Danny Spiegel is going
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to do something in that
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weekend you're going to remember.
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Paige is just going to be solid.
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And if she was in the West,
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maybe she hits a home run.
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But in this region,
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there's just too much talent.
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for her to like stand out
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and hit that home run.
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But I mean, but same thing.
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Like if you look at Scott Pancheck, I mean,
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he was pretty similar in that sense.
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Right.
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Where he was,
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he's just like Mr. Consistent.
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Yeah.
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I think that was a different era.
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Yeah.
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I think until page, you know,
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is consistently top five.
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I don't think people are
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going to pay attention.
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or it doesn't seem like they
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have up to this point.
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And Lex and Carolyn talk
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about this all the time.
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Paige is just an athlete.
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You can throw anything you
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want at her and she's going
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to be able to do it because
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she's an athlete.
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It doesn't mean that she's
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going to hit a home run with it,
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but it's not going to throw
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her off her game.
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When she was at Rogue,
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when they threw the log
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over under thing at her,
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she made that look like child's play.
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And that was a home run for her.
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It just was, it was at Rogue, right?
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Not at the games or not at whatever, but.
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And I think she's better this year,
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like way better.
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It would not surprise me if
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she doesn't approach the
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top 10 at the games.
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I think it's going to be
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tough to get top 10,
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but like approach in that
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Emily Rolfe era or area.
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And is she, is she with a training camp?
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No, Misfit.
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Sorry.
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With Misfit.
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Yeah.
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Which doesn't have a location, right?
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They're more, I mean, they might,
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but they're all kind of spread across.
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So their location is like Maine.
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Right.
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She's not there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think, you know,
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when you think about the
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people that we know and cover, they are,
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they have agents they're with.
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camps that are you know
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really well known they are
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putting themselves out
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there on social media or
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they're half naked in their
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posts or you know whatever
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unfortunately that's she's
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just she flies under their
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radar for sure and and she
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might that might be her
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preference too that might
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be how she you know puts
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her head down and does work because
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I would imagine if she
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wanted to stand out more,
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she could talk to some
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folks to figure out how to do that,
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whether it's getting an agent or
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One thing I've kind of
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learned with Misfit is
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they're kind of a self-contained entity.
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Like they support their
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athletes through product sales,
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through like they're almost
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like an agent.
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So they own an apparel company,
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they own a supplement company,
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they own all this stuff.
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And their athletes all pitch
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that stuff too.
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Right.
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Right.
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So it's kind of this
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self-contained thing that
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probably limits how big she can be.
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Right.
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Or you need someone like
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Hiller or somebody like Dawad for time,
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you know,
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somebody who's making parodies
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or doing something to sort
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of highlight her in that way.
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And then that will start to
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rally people around her.
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It's almost like you have to
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manufacture that sometimes.
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Well,
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I'm just throwing it out there
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because it bothers me that
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she doesn't get what she earned.
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No, that's a good topic for sure.
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yeah and she looked great
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this weekend yeah just
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great um so super happy
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with her but I do have a
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one o'clock meeting so
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there's one thing I do want
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to touch on and that is
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judging yes and and I know
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a lot of judges and there
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were there were a lot of
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judges out there that I did
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not know I didn't of the
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the crew that I used to be with
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They were not making these calls.
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So I'm going to say that outright.
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So understand doesn't like
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jump down my throat.
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Okay.
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I don't know.
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He was there.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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A lot of my old judging
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friends were there and we
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talked during the entire event,
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but there was so much
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inconsistency on the judging.
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And I know Hiller did some
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stuff on it and it was really good.
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But during the team event, this is,
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this is the epitome of it all.
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They switched from male to female on,
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and it was a,
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I think it was overhead squats,
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overhead squats in the workout.
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They had to do like a
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hundred of them between the two of them.
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I might be off on numbers,
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but it was a lot.
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Yeah.
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So the one judge is in
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between the two looking
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male looking female.
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Yeah.
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The judge is looking male.
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The female goes, she turns,
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the female is already gone.
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She calls a no rep on the
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rep and never saw it.
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Is she calling a no rep
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because she didn't see it?
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So I think there's an
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assumption with some judges
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that when you do the squat
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snatch to start the overhead squat,
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you're not getting deep enough.
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And they were calling it on
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every first rep.
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So I remember a very
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well-known judge person in
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the space once out loud said,
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you always no rep the first rep,
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no matter what, just to set the tone.
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But this was the first rep
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on every attempt.
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When I saw that,
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when she wasn't even
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looking at the athlete and
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called the no rep, I almost lost my mind.
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Yeah.
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Um,
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but it was happening all weekend on
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depth on hip extension that I,
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I felt like,
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and whether the call was right or wrong,
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it wasn't the same across the lanes.
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That's the key.
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Yeah.
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It's like you have, you know,
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20 home plate umpires
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calling balls and strikes and
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It's like, how is it?
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It's never going to be fair.
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That's the thing.
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Like when you have humans.
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Impossibly fair, non-fair.
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That's true.
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I see, like I said,
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there's a lot of suspect squat snatches.
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On this particular case that
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I'm talking about,
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this athlete's butt was
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almost on the floor.
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Yeah, you're talking about the team ones.
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This was team.
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You might have been talking
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about the individual.
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But it was the one instance
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where I saw the lady,
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the judge was not even
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looking at the athlete.
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Yeah.
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And she called the no rep.
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Yeah.
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Now, when I was texting you guys about the,
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my question, it really was a question.
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Like I just didn't know.
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So we were talking offline about, um,
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the box get overs or jump overs.
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They were jump offers.
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Right.
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And,
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I understand the way to
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making it more efficient.
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Kat,
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you were saying it's a short person's
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way to kind of go across it,
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but how the trailing leg
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was not crossing over the
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center of the box.
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So I really was like,
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what is the standard?
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Is that a standard?
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And Scott was saying it
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apparently was not a standard.
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Is that correct?
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Or just they weren't calling?
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I did talk to a judge who
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was standing beside me.
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Okay.
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That judge and Jamie
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actually got into a
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shouting match during that event.
19:42
Okay.
19:43
And they weren't hearing each other,
19:48
so it just kept going back and forth.
19:50
But from what I'm told,
19:56
they were told the trailing
19:57
leg didn't matter.
19:58
Okay.
19:59
Okay.
20:01
And then he,
20:04
this judge was saying very
20:06
specifically that it was, you had to jump,
20:09
you had to stay between the
20:10
lines the whole time.
20:12
Right.
20:12
Until you had to go out and
20:13
around the box to run to the finish line.
20:16
Right.
20:16
Or to go back to whatever.
20:18
So they were really concerned.
20:20
It didn't matter if you went
20:20
over the side or the middle
20:22
or the top or whatever,
20:23
as long as you stayed
20:24
between the lines on the box over.
20:27
Okay.
20:29
Okay.
20:31
I'm just going from my
20:32
perspective of if I was
20:34
coaching that movement,
20:35
I would never allow that or
20:38
I would coach it to go over the center.
20:40
And Jamie said that she felt
20:42
the lead legs were actually
20:43
not even getting they were
20:45
kind of going around the
20:46
side and up onto the box.
20:49
And she's probably right in
20:50
some in some cases.
20:52
I mean,
20:53
at least they didn't like turn it
20:54
like on its side, like a diamond.
20:56
Like I do.
20:57
I do stuff.
20:58
Yeah.
20:58
That's what I was just about to say.
21:01
That's a way that we, we,
21:02
I don't want to say cheat it, but we,
21:04
we take that extra step of over, right.
21:06
Because we're the shorter athletes,
21:08
but they have changed that standard.
21:10
Yeah.
21:11
That you can't do that because of.
21:13
Well,
21:14
these are wide rogue soft boxes that like,
21:18
it's much harder to like
21:20
clear the top of if you're
21:21
a shorter athlete.
21:22
Yeah.
21:24
Hiller actually made an
21:25
argument that that's maybe
21:27
why the step down actually
21:29
is why Bill Leahy tore his
21:31
Achilles because of the
21:33
spin and the twist on the
21:35
Achilles every time.
21:38
As opposed to the rebounding.
21:40
Correct.
21:41
He said, if you don't want the rebound,
21:43
put a burpee on each side of the box.
21:45
Yeah.
21:45
Or just like let the
21:46
athletes choose how they
21:47
want to most efficiently do the movement,
21:48
you know?
21:49
And if you're short and you
21:50
have to step down, like step down.
21:51
But yeah.
21:53
To me,
21:53
if you're doing it to level the
21:57
playing field for shorter athletes,
21:59
then let's talk about wall
22:00
balls and rowing.
22:02
You know what I mean?
22:04
And I'm not saying that's the reason why,
22:05
but if you're doing it for
22:06
that reason because some
22:07
people can't do it,
22:08
then there's other things
22:10
we could talk about.
22:11
Yeah.
22:13
Yeah.
22:15
I'm all for safety of athletes,
22:17
but at some point, just –
22:20
running is dangerous right
22:21
like you can't and it's
22:23
your own responsibility to
22:24
be safe like you shouldn't
22:29
be stupid with it but yeah
22:34
uh oh cory's getting fired up
22:37
How dare you suggest we
22:38
leave it up to the athlete's cat?
22:40
You know,
22:40
we don't know what's best for us.
22:42
This is true.
22:43
I mean, we wouldn't be doing any of this,
22:44
right?
22:48
So they were not allowed to
22:49
like flip their boxes, right?
22:50
They had to literally pick
22:51
them up and carry them to the next spot,
22:53
right?
22:54
Correct.
22:55
Because they were 30 and 24.
22:57
So the thirties had the
22:59
extra piece on top.
23:01
So you could, yeah.
23:02
Okay.
23:03
Got it.
23:06
Um,
23:08
So other things from this weekend.
23:11
Anybody ever going to beat Tia?
23:15
I mean, he's just a force, man.
23:19
Yeah.
23:19
You know, baby, it doesn't matter.
23:21
She could be pregnant right now.
23:22
Probably wouldn't matter.
23:24
Nope.
23:27
Yeah,
23:27
I think it was keeping for real
23:30
posted a thing where they
23:32
put the Terminator skin on
23:33
her like half off half Terminator.
23:36
Yeah.
23:38
She's I mean,
23:39
she took first in how many events?
23:41
I mean,
23:41
the first three I know she took
23:43
third and the fourth event.
23:45
Which was like a career low for her.
23:47
Right?
23:48
In a semi final.
23:49
She tied her third.
23:52
Look at what Corey just said.
23:54
Tia was a lot more fun to
23:55
watch when she was still humble.
23:59
Well, I did request an interview with her.
24:01
And she did deny you or what?
24:03
She did deny me.
24:06
If she said yes,
24:07
you probably would have
24:08
seen it somewhere.
24:12
No.
24:12
Did she deny everybody or just you?
24:15
Lauren has one out there with her.
24:20
Okay.
24:21
Good to know.
24:23
Thanks.
24:24
yeah um who else so haley
24:30
haley yeah sorry yeah she
24:32
looked she just looked
24:34
happy I know um and that
24:37
was awesome and she even
24:39
though she took dead last
24:41
in that one heat I mean she
24:46
did not take dead last in
24:47
the snatch ladder no
24:51
I will say I was worried
24:53
after event two as to how
24:55
that would affect her.
24:55
It was definitely a test for
25:00
her to see how she was
25:01
going to come back from that.
25:03
She did.
25:04
Yeah, she did great.
25:05
She passed the test.
25:07
It was the most loose I saw
25:08
her before an event was
25:09
before that event too.
25:12
Almost like she knew I'm
25:14
just here to have fun on
25:15
this one because these
25:17
front squats are going to get heavy.
25:19
Although,
25:19
did I forward you guys the TikTok,
25:22
the video that I took from
25:25
the Syndicate Crown,
25:27
the year Jason Hopper won?
25:28
So two years ago,
25:30
back when it was like a
25:31
sanctional or something,
25:32
and it was Hailey and Fi
25:34
Sagafi coming into the talk
25:36
dance behind the scenes,
25:38
like before one of the events.
25:41
I thought that was cute.
25:44
Corey says, Haley was awesome.
25:45
And can we talk about my girl?
25:48
I love it.
25:51
I love it that she came in
25:52
there and was proved that she's not just,
25:55
you know, a one hit wonder that she,
26:00
she's there.
26:03
Yeah.
26:03
And we,
26:03
we actually got an interview with her,
26:05
but the audio did not work.
26:08
uh so bummed we actually
26:09
lost interview with her and
26:12
uh taylor self and one
26:16
other person where the
26:17
audio just did just clunked
26:19
out on us you know I've
26:22
been thinking about how
26:23
much better we've been
26:24
since I was thinking about
26:25
our ben smith interview and
26:27
how he did this whole
26:28
interview and have three
26:29
minutes I was like man we
26:30
haven't really had any blunders lately
26:34
Yeah.
26:36
Yeah.
26:37
Jamie tried a new mic system.
26:39
And yeah, we've got to figure that out.
26:43
Yeah.
26:45
So the other people, Sam corn,
26:49
why a had an amazing love it.
26:53
That was when he got his sword.
26:54
Yes, Corey, in case you're asking.
26:56
Yeah.
26:57
Sorry.
26:58
Sam Cornway had a great weekend.
27:01
He looked all fired up.
27:04
That was awesome.
27:06
Who else had really good weekends?
27:09
Dal and pepper.
27:10
Yeah.
27:13
Yeah.
27:14
There's going to be a moment
27:15
where he took the sport.
27:17
Right.
27:18
Where he, what did he become?
27:20
He came in second place.
27:21
He did.
27:22
Yeah.
27:24
Here's the best part about
27:26
Dallin and the lunge workout.
27:29
We're watching it live.
27:30
And I literally,
27:32
who was ahead of him about to cross?
27:36
Someone was ahead of him.
27:37
And I was like, this is Dallas.
27:39
This is Dallas.
27:40
And finally,
27:41
I got respect for my family
27:43
that I know what I'm talking about.
27:47
Isn't that fun when you're
27:48
watching and you make a statement,
27:49
you say something smart and
27:51
then like Sean or somebody
27:53
on the broadcast says like
27:54
the same thing or something
27:55
else and you're like, see,
27:56
I knew what you were talking about.
27:58
Mm-hmm.
28:00
Well,
28:01
my smart call was Jack Rosema is the
28:02
dark horse to make the games.
28:05
He freaking killed it.
28:10
With all those big guys.
28:12
Yeah.
28:14
And I love that guy.
28:15
And I can't believe Amy's
28:17
not all over him.
28:18
He was an OSU wrestler.
28:19
I'll give him some Buckeye props.
28:27
Yeah, he's going to the games.
28:29
He called top five at the
28:30
games on our interview.
28:32
He called it?
28:34
He called it.
28:36
We've had that happen before,
28:38
and it's worked out.
28:39
He said he just wants a free
28:40
trip to Scotland to get to Rogue.
28:44
Whatever it takes.
28:47
Yeah.
28:49
Perfect time for Rogue to
28:50
announce they're doing a
28:50
new qualifying system to
28:53
get people to their invitational event.
28:56
Right in the middle of the
28:57
end of semifinals when
28:58
nobody's paying attention.
29:00
Right.
29:04
And then I love it.
29:04
They're like,
29:05
this is the system we're going to use.
29:06
But just know we reserve the
29:07
right to invite anybody who we want.
29:10
We can do whatever we want
29:11
to because we're rogue.
29:13
Right.
29:15
And we are in charge here.
29:16
So all these formulas and
29:17
stuff we've thrown out here.
29:19
Yeah,
29:19
that's how we're going to kind of
29:20
start the process.
29:21
But at the end of the day,
29:22
we're going to pick who we pick.
29:24
We're going to pick our favorites.
29:28
um gosh austin hatfield had
29:31
a great weekend he is he is
29:35
a slightly taller version
29:37
than colton colton mertens
29:40
of that style athlete yeah
29:42
but I but like that 30 inch
29:44
box didn't affect him as
29:46
much because of those
29:47
couple inches yeah agreed I
29:52
forget did travis make it
29:54
Mm-hmm.
29:54
Okay.
29:56
I thought so,
29:56
but all of a sudden... Barely.
29:58
Hard to remember.
29:59
Right, you're right.
30:00
Was he number 11?
30:02
Yeah.
30:04
10 or 11.
30:04
Yeah, he was 10.
30:06
Okay.
30:07
11 was Luke Parker.
30:08
Oh, yeah, that's right.
30:10
You're right.
30:10
Yeah, it was between Luke and... Seth.
30:15
Seth.
30:16
I wanted Seth to make it so bad.
30:20
Seth was fun to talk to all weekend, too.
30:23
Him and Dre were like the
30:27
fun couple in the back.
30:30
Thank you, Dre and Garty.
30:36
Caron.
30:36
It was Caron.
30:38
I was like,
30:38
who was it that had to put the
30:40
dumbbells down?
30:42
And he made a fight too.
30:43
Mm-hmm.
30:44
I think Caron was a big surprise.
30:47
He's had that pec tear for the last year.
30:51
And he had to withdraw from
30:54
last year's semis,
30:55
last year's Waterpalooza.
30:57
And to get through that last
30:59
event with the 15
31:01
muscle-ups and still do okay.
31:04
Yeah.
31:05
Were we surprised that Alex
31:08
Vigneault didn't make it?
31:09
Or is he on his way out?
31:12
I feel like with that field,
31:13
if he would have been – I
31:15
feel like that field was too stacked.
31:19
And there's a lot of people
31:20
right on the cusp, like Seth, Dre,
31:24
if Dre keeps going.
31:26
I feel like if I had to
31:27
choose Alex or Caron from
31:31
the very beginning,
31:32
I would have picked Alex
31:33
Vigneault to make it if one
31:34
of them were going to make it.
31:35
So it was just surprising to me.
31:37
And Vigneault had a great
31:38
start to the weekend.
31:39
It just –
31:40
And sad because he's adorable.
31:42
I know.
31:42
He is.
31:43
He's real easy on the eyes.
31:45
He reminds me of Old Blue Eyes.
31:47
Who's our friend?
31:48
Paul Tremblay.
31:51
Yeah.
31:52
Those damn Canadians.
31:55
You can have the Canadians.
31:56
I'll take the Australian.
31:57
Paul qualified for the Masters Games.
32:01
Okay, good.
32:02
We'll see him.
32:04
Well, maybe we won't.
32:05
We'll see him in Birmingham.
32:07
Yeah.
32:08
One of my coaches made it to
32:10
the CrossFit Games, Mark Peters.
32:13
Cool.
32:13
For what division?
32:16
He's either 60 to 65 or 65 plus.
32:18
He was there last year too.
32:19
So he got to go to the
32:20
actual CrossFit Games in Madison,
32:23
which is really cool.
32:24
And now he'll go to Birmingham.
32:27
We're excited for him.
32:27
And then there was another
32:28
local guy too at the gym I
32:30
used to work at in Kennett Square,
32:31
55 to 59, Kevin McVay, who also made it.
32:40
Nice.
32:42
Two people I know.
32:43
One other guy who made the
32:44
Masters games but didn't
32:46
make it through the weekend
32:47
was Will Morad.
32:48
I know.
32:50
He looked jacked.
32:54
Like really jacked.
32:55
He is jacked.
32:56
Yeah.
33:02
That was sad.
33:03
Yeah.
33:08
I think I swallowed a bug.
33:11
Oh, great.
33:13
Oh, boy.
33:15
So the sad part about Will
33:18
was he had a great first event.
33:21
Second event fell apart in
33:23
an event I picked him to do really well.
33:26
I come off the floor, go around the corner,
33:27
and he's laying on the
33:28
floor with medical.
33:30
And I was like, well, that's why.
33:38
And then his lane was
33:39
completely empty the next event.
33:41
Yeah.
33:42
Oh, he ended up withdrawing.
33:43
Is that why we didn't see him again?
33:45
Oh, that stinks.
33:51
So I talked to him Sunday.
33:52
He had an MRI last night.
33:58
Don't know what the outcome of that was,
34:00
but that will be dependent
34:01
on whether he can compete
34:02
at the masters games or not.
34:04
Oh, okay.
34:05
Well, it was a hip issue.
34:08
Ah, okay.
34:09
Okay.
34:10
He's got an extra month, you know,
34:13
games versus Masters.
34:16
Yeah, he was with his wife and he's like,
34:19
you know, it's just, is it going to,
34:21
he goes,
34:22
it depends on what the prize money is.
34:23
If it's the same as last year,
34:26
it might be worth strapping it up again.
34:27
Because I think the 35 to 39
34:31
is 25 grand to win.
34:36
And if he wins that,
34:37
if that is a possibility,
34:39
it may be worth strapping
34:40
it up again to go.
34:42
If the prize money is not great,
34:44
then it may not be, is what he told us.
34:57
So my weekend did start off
35:00
rough just because it's me.
35:03
We're walking to the venue.
35:04
What did you forget?
35:07
In a giant hole.
35:08
Oh, you stepped in a hole?
35:11
And it just jarred
35:13
everything down my back.
35:17
And made it pretty awful
35:20
weekend with back pain.
35:23
But we made it through.
35:25
But why?
35:26
Why would there be a big hole there?
35:28
Why?
35:28
Why?
35:30
Did you forget anything?
35:31
Did you forget any cords or chargers?
35:34
No meds.
35:36
Nope.
35:36
Had all that stuff.
35:38
Okay.
35:39
All right.
35:39
We're making progress and
35:40
you didn't have to worry about sunscreen.
35:44
I was sunny there for the first two days.
35:48
Sunday was pouring down rain.
35:51
Um,
35:54
But it rained before the event.
35:56
Then it cleared up just
35:58
cloudy so the community
36:00
event could go on because
36:01
it was all outside.
36:04
And then when everything was over,
36:05
it started pouring again.
36:07
Perfect.
36:09
How is my back now?
36:11
It's still sore.
36:13
And it's on the good side of my back.
36:19
So I don't know.
36:21
Jamie said it looked horrible.
36:23
Like the way it jarred me.
36:30
Oh my gosh.
36:31
Draw your dagger.
36:34
That's pretty good.
36:35
It's probably sore from
36:36
putting CrossFit media scene on his back.
36:38
I don't know about all that,
36:39
but try your daggers.
36:41
Awesome.
36:42
He, uh,
36:43
and he takes all the pictures for misfit.
36:46
Oh, cool.
36:49
Good.
36:50
So he's pretty awesome.
36:53
Yeah,
36:53
my allergies are horrible in the hotel.
36:55
The hotel was just... Lex,
36:58
he needs to walk around in
37:00
a padded outfit pretty much.
37:05
Funny thing is I said that
37:06
to Lex about six months ago
37:08
because every time I looked
37:09
on her Instagram,
37:10
she was having another surgery.
37:12
And now it's me.
37:14
We're going to, you know what?
37:15
The duct tape that you use
37:17
to duct tape your car back together.
37:19
I think we're going to start
37:20
doing that to you.
37:21
We're going to duct tape you
37:22
back together.
37:23
It's probably a solid choice.
37:25
I think it is.
37:26
Gorilla tape.
37:27
Yeah.
37:29
Yeah.
37:33
I couldn't believe it though.
37:34
Literally walking in the first day.
37:36
I can.
37:37
I've been, I've traveled with you enough.
37:40
He's waiting to hear something.
37:41
So yeah.
37:43
So you can totally believe it.
37:45
Yeah.
37:46
What did you guys think of the run,
37:47
the run up that ramp to start?
37:52
Well, I don't like, yeah,
37:54
I didn't have to do it.
37:55
So the cool thing was we
38:00
didn't go down to the floor
38:02
for that event because where the media,
38:06
where the media, uh,
38:08
place was where like we
38:10
could chill the media room
38:12
was all glass windows to
38:14
the outside and the running
38:15
path went right by it and
38:18
so the right around the
38:21
corner was the ramp so you
38:23
could run out the door
38:25
catch them coming up the
38:26
ramp go around and then run
38:29
back into the arena and
38:31
then catch them coming in
38:32
watch them do the clean
38:33
jerks run back out catch
38:35
them coming up the ramp and out
38:40
And it was because of where
38:41
the media access was or our
38:44
little area was,
38:45
it made it really easy to
38:46
run in and out super fast
38:48
and get more of the action
38:51
than just the clean and jerks.
38:55
But so many people look so
38:57
labored coming up that ramp
38:58
on the later rounds.
39:00
Yeah.
39:00
Yeah.
39:01
On the teams,
39:02
you saw like people with
39:03
their arms or hands in the
39:05
back of their teammates,
39:07
like trying to help them up the,
39:09
like Noah was doing that to
39:10
Matilde up the ramp.
39:13
Then he was doing it to Tola.
39:15
Oh, man.
39:16
I've been loving the memes
39:17
with Tola's face.
39:19
I'm here for it.
39:23
Got to meet Matilde for the first time.
39:26
Did you braid her hair?
39:28
I did not braid her hair,
39:29
but I did get a hug.
39:33
She seems so happy.
39:34
The pressure of the black,
39:38
less pressure being on a
39:39
team than the individual stuff, I think.
39:42
And she seemed to be having a blast.
39:45
Yeah.
39:45
Speaking of braided hair,
39:47
did you see Dave Castro?
39:49
I did.
39:49
He actually approached me,
39:51
which blew my mind.
39:52
Very nice.
39:53
Did he say hi, Scott?
39:55
Did he ask about me?
39:55
He did not call me by name.
39:56
He did not ask about you, Kat.
39:59
He just said, hey,
39:59
are you getting everything
40:00
you need to get?
40:01
Is there anything we can do for you?
40:04
Blah, blah, blah.
40:08
I was watching Weekend
40:09
Review and he was saying
40:11
something about he had to
40:12
go get a drink of water or something.
40:13
He's like,
40:15
now if I had someone editing this for me,
40:17
I would probably edit out
40:19
that part.
40:19
But since I don't have
40:20
anyone doing that for me,
40:22
I'm just going to,
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I'm going to leave it in.
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And I'm thinking how many
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times has he asked me to
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edit stuff out of that weekend review?
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Because he didn't like the
40:31
way it turned out.
40:33
I thought it was funny.
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Yeah.
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And that's the first time in
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my life he's ever approached me.
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I was really, I was flattered really.
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And he was very nice and very cordial.
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Shook my hand.
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Yeah.
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It always reminds me of that time.
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We did those stupid
40:47
questions with him at the,
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Yeah.
40:49
Talk to him.
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Yeah.
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He did make comments to like
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Amy and I at the press
40:56
conference last year that
40:57
we were like the only media
40:59
entity that were at all the
41:01
press conferences.
41:04
Maybe I think that's where
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he remembered it from.
41:06
Yeah, I think so too.
41:07
Because that's pretty small.
41:08
And we were like, right up there.
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Yeah, asking stuff.
41:12
Yeah.
41:12
Carrying the conference.
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Yeah.
41:15
Scott, you got your thing.
41:17
I know.
41:17
So I got to jump off.
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I have a meeting in one.
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So we will see you all next time.
41:24
Thanks for being here.
41:25
Thanks to everybody in the
41:26
chat for being here.
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We'll see you all next week
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on the Clydesdale media round table.
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Bye guys.
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See ya.