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Lunch with the Clydesdale - NFL is King of Sports! CrossFit is at a Cross Roads · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:33
  what is going on everybody
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  welcome and good afternoon
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  to lunch with the
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  Clydesdale it's a monday uh
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  of daylight savings time
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  week uh feeling the effects
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  of that every single minute
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  this morning uh but we are
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  back at work we are
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  cruising we are doing uh
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  our thing and uh what's up
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  cat what's up cory um
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  Doing our thing here on a Monday,
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  getting a little break from
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  the work schedule.
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  And then we got a meeting
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  right after this.
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  So today's lunch has got to be quick,
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  but we'll get through that.
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  And we're going to talk a
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  little bit of the NFL
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  landscape and free agency,
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  the money that they are
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  throwing around and the
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  health of that sport and how, in contrast,
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  it looks for the fitness world, CrossFit,
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  whatever we're doing.
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  And then we will move into
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  taking a peek at where we
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  are on the leaderboard.
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  On one side,
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  last week's champ seems to
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  have posted up a score that
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  will make her a two-time
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  champ in the open.
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  And then we'll look at the men's side,
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  see where we're at.
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  Last week's champ has not
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  posted yet on that side.
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  So we'll see how that kind
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  of plays out as we move
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  through today's show.
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  What's going on, Andrew?
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  Did we save the daylight?
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  We sure did.
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  It was almost eight o'clock
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  here when the sun went down
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  last night and it, man,
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  it messes with me trying to fall asleep.
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  So Aaron Frazier says, no,
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  the daylight is lost forever.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  cat has a first date tonight
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  hiking state park should I
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  bring a firearm uh depends
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  on how much you know the
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  person and did you stick to
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  your rule that you had to
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  meet them in person to get
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  the date or you back on the
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  apps that's my question um
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  corey says stay strapped or
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  get clapped cat uh aaron
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  fraser always bring the firearm
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  So she's back on the apps.
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  Already breaking her own promises.
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  Always already breaking her own promises.
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  I'm looking at some breaking
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  news here from the NFL.
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  Sorry, guys.
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  The Chicago Bears just signed the center.
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  There we go.
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  We are revamping the
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  offensive line in a hurry
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  this year with two trades
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  last week and a brand new center today.
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  Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
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  So I woke up today and do
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  you ever get that song like
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  stuck in your head and you
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  don't know why it's that song and why
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  What's crazy is it's not a
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  song I even listen to very often,
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  but the song that's stuck
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  in my head is Whistle by Flo Rida.
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  Flo Rida.
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  Why would that song be stuck in my head?
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  And the biggest problem for
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  me is I don't even know the
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  words to the song except for whistle baby,
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  whistle baby.
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  And so that, so it keeps going through,
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  keeps going through my head
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  and I can't get it finished
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  cause I don't know the ride,
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  the words to get to the end of the song.
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  Um,
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  And so maybe I just need to
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  play the song fully out and
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  get it out of my head.
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  Do you, is that how you get a word,
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  an earworm out of your head?
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  Or if I play it,
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  will it then just get more
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  ingrained into my head and
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  I won't be able to get rid of it.
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  Uh, Kenneth,
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  I got pink pony club on
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  repeating my brain.
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  Oh, that's bad.
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  Uh,
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  Aaron says I need to get that whistle
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  blown.
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  Uh,
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  maybe maybe maybe that's
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  that's the answer to it all
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  uh yeah just put your lips
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  together thanks kat uh just
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  playing it all right I'm
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  gonna try after this show
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  I'm just gonna go jam do do
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  a dance in my dining room
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  to a little whistle and
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  then hopefully it's gone
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  from my head and I'll
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  update you guys tomorrow on how that is
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  I just got done watching.
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  I didn't get done with it.
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  I was in the middle of
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  watching the Fronk podcast.
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  Did you see that the barn roof of the barn,
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  the gym barn, got ripped off?
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  Half of it got ripped off
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  and sent across his field.
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  And they had standing water
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  inside the gym.
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  All that gym equipment
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  sitting in standing water.
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  That is...
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  that is insane to me so much,
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  so much expense.
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  And like,
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  I know my gym is super tiny
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  compared to his.
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  I know what I invested in my
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  gym and if it had standing water in it,
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  I would, I would be crying.
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  Um,
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  I just wonder what the insurance claim
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  is going to look like.
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  And if the insurance
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  adjuster is even going to
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  understand what the hell, uh,
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  those items are on the list
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  of things that were damaged in the storm.
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  I know when I go to the
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  doctor they don't even know
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  what crossfit is or any of
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  the stuff we do can you
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  imagine an insurance
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  adjuster coming out and
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  trying to figure out uh
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  what the hell an echo bike
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  is or um this an ohio bar
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  or all these things I think
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  that would be a funny
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  conversation to have with
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  an insurance broker so
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  I know the thumbnail said
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  NFL free agency frenzy.
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  That's already gone on.
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  I cannot believe the money
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  that the NFL is throwing around.
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  Before free agency even started yesterday,
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  teams were signing their
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  own players or trading their players.
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  Yesterday alone...
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  Josh Allen got three hundred
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  and thirty million.
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  Miles Garrett got one
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  hundred and thirty million.
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  DK Metcalf got one hundred
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  and fifty million.
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  And I know I'm missing another one.
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  Oh,
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  Devante Adams got like twenty million a
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  year.
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  What a crazy, crazy day it was.
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  And then free agency,
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  the negotiating period
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  opened at noon today.
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  By like twelve or five,
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  there were already four signings.
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  The Bears made Jeff Dahlman
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  the second highest paid
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  center in the league.
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  Hassan Redick went to the Buccaneers.
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  Three hundred and thirty
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  million to play a game.
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  I have this argument with
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  people all the time.
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  The only reason he gets
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  three hundred and thirty
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  million to play a game
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  because millions and
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  millions of people watch every Sunday.
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  And the TV networks can sell
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  ads for those games that people watch,
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  and they can make a fortune.
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  So they are paying that
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  league billions and
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  billions of dollars to be
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  able to air those games.
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  And because of those TV contracts,
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  and to be competitive,
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  the players get their share
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  of it because they are an
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  attraction to the game.
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  That's why they get this money.
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  If people came to watch me
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  do my job and they paid so
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  much money to do that,
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  then my value would go up
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  and therefore I should make more money.
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  But that's why.
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  I ain't mad at him.
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  I just think it's wild.
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  Yeah, I'm not mad.
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  If someone's going to pay you the money,
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  you sign on a dotted line, right?
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  And maybe that's...
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  that's the attitude we
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  should take with this WFP thing.
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  They came in and offered twenty athletes,
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  forty athletes a chunk of
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  money to come and play a game,
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  play a sport,
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  whatever you want to call it.
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  Do fitness fast.
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  And they jumped at that opportunity,
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  right?
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  Which I would, most people would, um,
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  there were a Tia didn't maybe.
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  Um,
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  I don't know if anybody else had turned
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  them down.
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  Uh,
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  but if someone's going to offer you the
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  money to do it, you're going to do it.
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  But I think what,
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  what makes it tough right now is,
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  is that here we sit,
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  we're coming off of games that wasn't,
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  um,
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  that had a tragic event,
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  and we knew there was going
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  to be a dip in support for the sport.
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  Then we have this second
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  league come on who's
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  offering everybody money,
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  and now we have these two
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  competing seasons.
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  In a year where we need the
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  sport to come back,
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  we have a lot of things going against us.
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  And I don't hate on the WFP.
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  They can do whatever they want to do.
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  It's a free market.
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  And if they can make it work
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  with the way they do things,
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  that'll be interesting.
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  And maybe it helps grow the sport.
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  But right now, it just seems like
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  CrossFit is actually putting
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  on open announcements that are fun again,
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  that are emphasizing the community.
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  They're making the right steps.
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  I heard on Rich's podcast,
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  the Safety Advisory Council
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  had a meeting where they
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  talked about things.
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  especially like should
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  athletes know movements?
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  Should they not?
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  What does that do with the games?
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  Sounds like they're actually
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  doing things that need to be done.
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  And that has been a
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  criticism in the past that
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  the councils that have been formed have
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  uh don't necessarily do what
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  they were designed to do it
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  sounds like the safety
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  council is actually talking
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  about important things for
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  the upcoming season the
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  athlete council is putting
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  out statements and their
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  surveys and they're
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  answering the surveys and
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  they're doing things that
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  other councils have not
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  done in the past like we're
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  making headway
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  So it's just going to be interesting.
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  It's something I think
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  that's going to be fun to
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  watch how the season plays out.
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  I watched dense updates this morning.
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  And her theory is that, you know,
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  some of the athletes are
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  sandbagging the CrossFit
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  game season while doing the WFP.
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  I'm not sure I would go that
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  far in my conspiracy theory.
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  I think that, that athletes know that,
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  There was a lot of unknown
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  going into the open.
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  We didn't know what the
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  signups were going to be.
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  We don't know what the prize
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  payout's going to be.
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  We don't know all this stuff.
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  And so they were kind of
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  reserving the way to
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  examine what their options
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  were and kind of slow play it.
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  just like Justin Fields in the NFL, right?
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  He has offers from the Steelers.
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  He couldn't get other offers
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  from other teams till noon today.
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  He slow played it rather
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  than re-signing with them
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  to see whether or not other
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  teams would offer him more money.
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  And so...
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  So yeah.
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  So he is waiting to see what
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  kind of money he would make.
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  And, um, and so, yeah,
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  I think that's what the
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  athletes are doing now.
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  They don't know what the WFP
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  season is going to be like.
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  Um,
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  And so they're just slow
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  playing it to see they're
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  getting some guaranteed money.
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  They can slow play it,
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  see what it's going to look like,
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  how much effort they put
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  forth in any of these things,
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  whether BWFP or CrossFit is
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  anybody's guess.
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  And we'll have to wait and
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  see when they come up.
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  Jody Lynn says.
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  Who cares?
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  The CrossFit competition is
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  going to be awesome no
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  matter who it is in it.
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  I don't disagree with you on this.
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  And I think the unknown fact
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  of who's going to win even
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  makes it more interesting.
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  What I kind of disagree with
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  is I care to see how it plays out.
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  That's why we have these shows, right?
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  I care to see how I want to
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  see how both play out.
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  I want to see how they both
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  attack things to be different,
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  how they look at revenue streams.
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  That's something I kind of
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  wanted to talk about last
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  night on the show,
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  but we ran out of time is I
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  don't think CrossFit over
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  the years has capitalized
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  on revenue streams that
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  they could access to help
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  make more money and to make
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  the sport more profitable.
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  I think they rely on the
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  stuff that has been done
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  before and they're not
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  being innovative about how
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  to bring in additional money.
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  And I think part of that is
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  that they don't look
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  outside their own house as
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  to how other people are
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  doing some things that are
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  actually really good ideas.
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  And so what's going to be
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  interesting to me is if the
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  WFP does something that is
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  of value and brings value to the sport,
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  Will CrossFit be humble enough to say, hey,
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  that was a good idea,
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  we should implement it?
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  Because none of that stuff
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  can be trademarked or
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  copyrighted other than CrossFit the name.
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  I guess WFP could be copyrighted as a name,
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  but you can't copyright revenue streams,
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  things of that nature through the sport.
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  So that's what I want to see.
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  This is the exact example.
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  I was thinking of Kenneth DeLapp.
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  Doing a tailgate stream like
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  Rogue did is such an easy
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  way to make some dough.
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  I completely agree.
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  When you do it as well as Rogue did it,
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  people are willing to pay
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  twenty five bucks for a
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  full weekend of getting
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  different camera angles,
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  getting a different studio show,
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  getting different stuff like that.
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  That is a way to make money
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  that CrossFit is not taking advantage of.
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  I also think that another
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  one that I've brought up is
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  CrossFit has never done
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  Jersey sales well.
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  They've never delivered on time.
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  They've never delivered in a good way.
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  If you go to any other sporting event,
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  there are T-shirts or
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  jerseys or whatever
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  polluting the audience.
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  I went to the Olympic swimming trials.
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  T-shirts for different
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  swimmers were being worn by
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  tons of people in the
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  audience or in the crowd.
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  You go to a baseball game, a football game,
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  a basketball game,
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  jerseys are being worn everywhere.
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  The only thing that CrossFit
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  sells in their store
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  typically are things that say CrossFit.
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  You have that copyright.
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  You're the only one that can
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  do a CrossFit Games jersey
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  because it has CrossFit in it.
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  They could do jersey sales
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  and give a percentage to
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  the athlete just like they
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  do in the other sports.
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  And that is a way to make
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  money for those athletes and for you,
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  the big entity.
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  But it takes too long for them to do it.
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  And maybe if this B-to-CrossFit,
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  whatever it is,
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  over near buys them and has
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  an apparel company,
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  they can be more equipped
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  to do things like this,
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  capitalize on a different revenue stream.
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  And that's one thing I don't
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  think the WFP is doing awesome with.
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  Their merchandise right now is just WFP.
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  They've known who their
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  signed athletes are for a while.
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  They could have done Jersey sales,
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  things like that for the
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  people to do that.
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  That could have been written
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  into their contracts.
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  And all that you see are WFP merchandise.
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  They could have put the WFP
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  logo on a Jersey with Emily
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  Rolfe or with James Sprague
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  or whoever their signed athletes are.
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  And it would be easy because
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  you know who they are so
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  far in advance and you
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  already have a contract with them.
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  Craig says,
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  really good quality replica jerseys,
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  top-bottom compression shorts,
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  and socks would be cool.
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  Yes, so much so.
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  I completely agree.
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  And people would buy those.
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  When Christy owned our gym
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  and she made her shirts for a competition,
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  she would sell the hell out of them.
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  And everybody wore Christy
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  jerseys throughout the gym.
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  So, yeah.
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  Emily Rolfe is a boss.
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  She sure is.
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  Emily Rolfe is really cool.
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  Did you guys see the Emily Rolfe?
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  She only drinks in the off season, but,
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  and then her chugging, what,
• 19:25
  what is that called?
• 19:26
  Smirnoff ice after the
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  twenty two point two twenty
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  five point two announcement in the middle,
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  like in a lunge in the
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  middle of the comp floor.
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  It was freaking awesome.
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  yeah I have a jamie shirt
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  too they came out well that
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  was thick boy thick boy did
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  that um made a really nice
• 19:50
  replica-ish uh type jersey
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  it was really cool uh yeah
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  she probably got iced she
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  did it was cool and she
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  chugged it like a boss too so
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  I will buy Jamie's t-shirt
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  this season to Fofford.
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  Well, you'll hear it here first, Craig,
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  you're always here.
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  You'll know if we offer another one.
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  If she goes to the games, I am sure that,
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  that we will do another shirt for her.
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  But I do know that her
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  priorities this year are
• 20:32
  more about her son's senior
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  year in high school.
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  So she's got to get through
• 20:35
  that and get him into college.
• 20:38
  And,
• 20:39
  But hopefully she is able to
• 20:40
  do both this season.
• 20:42
  But her priority is really
• 20:44
  her son this year.
• 20:45
  And she said that on our show,
• 20:46
  I think a couple weeks ago.
• 20:49
  But she took sixth in the
• 20:50
  first open workout in our division.
• 20:52
  I'm sure she's going to do fine this week.
• 20:56
  She'll make it to the next
• 20:57
  round where she will do better.
• 20:59
  um and hopefully she
• 21:01
  qualifies and we'll see her
• 21:03
  here in columbus if not
• 21:04
  hopefully she comes to
• 21:05
  columbus and hangs out with
• 21:06
  me and we do our coverage
• 21:08
  down here when all that's
• 21:09
  going on so so I just think
• 21:17
  that that everything's kind
• 21:19
  of at a crossroads and it
• 21:20
  and crossroads means not
• 21:22
  that it's going to be bad
• 21:23
  from here on out
• 21:25
  It could be good.
• 21:26
  We could have an uptick of
• 21:28
  things with everything going on this year,
• 21:30
  or we could have a downturn.
• 21:31
  I think it's the time.
• 21:33
  It's a crucial time where
• 21:37
  CrossFit has to take
• 21:38
  advantage of what's out
• 21:39
  there and make those
• 21:41
  changes to get that uptick for the sport.
• 21:47
  And it's going to be fun to watch.
• 21:49
  Fun to watch for sure.
• 21:52
  So let's take a look at the
• 21:55
  leaderboard and where we
• 21:57
  stand at the current moment
• 22:00
  with twenty five point two.
• 22:08
  On a side note, Scott,
• 22:09
  my wife was hit by the
• 22:10
  return to office policy in Texas,
• 22:12
  so it looks like we are
• 22:13
  moving back to Austin.
• 22:15
  That sucks, dude.
• 22:18
  Do you still have your house there?
• 22:21
  I hope so.
• 22:24
  And how much longer does she
• 22:25
  have till retirement age?
• 22:29
  I'll tell you what it's done
• 22:30
  for me has made me really
• 22:32
  kind of look at all the
• 22:33
  retirement options I have.
• 22:35
  And you don't have the house.
• 22:37
  Oh man.
• 22:39
  What it's made me do is
• 22:40
  really look at retirement options.
• 22:42
  What are my options?
• 22:44
  When can I make, when can I make the jump?
• 22:49
  Fifteen years.
• 22:50
  Oh, that's brutal.
• 22:52
  See, I know like in the state of Ohio,
• 22:55
  as long as I'm working from home,
• 22:57
  I just have to be within
• 22:58
  the border of the state to
• 23:00
  continue to work my job.
• 23:02
  I could move anywhere in the
• 23:03
  state of Ohio.
• 23:04
  But if I return to the office,
• 23:06
  it has to be here in Columbus.
• 23:08
  And I'm assuming that that's
• 23:09
  the same for your wife.
• 23:10
  And that is just, that's just brutal.
• 23:15
  tell her I feel her pain so much.
• 23:17
  Cause I know like I made it
• 23:18
  through this phase of the, the,
• 23:21
  the problem, but it is going to,
• 23:25
  it's going to come back and
• 23:26
  bite me at some point.
• 23:27
  I know that I'm going back at some point,
• 23:30
  um,
• 23:31
  because the momentum is just too great
• 23:33
  at this point.
• 23:34
  Uh, and it kind of,
• 23:38
  Cause my daughter lives in Pennsylvania.
• 23:40
  My, my mom lives in Pennsylvania.
• 23:42
  We thought about moving back
• 23:43
  there since I worked from home, but it,
• 23:46
  I'm not allowed to be
• 23:47
  outside the Ohio border and
• 23:49
  they have actually busted
• 23:51
  people here for doing that.
• 23:53
  Um,
• 23:54
  because they can tell from your IP
• 23:56
  address,
• 23:57
  if you are in the state or out of
• 23:58
  the state.
• 23:59
  And, uh, yeah,
• 24:02
  we had some people move out of state,
• 24:03
  try to work,
• 24:04
  continue for the state and
• 24:06
  they were promptly fired.
• 24:12
  So I hope you find a good solution,
• 24:16
  Jay Birch, man.
• 24:17
  So on the women's side,
• 24:19
  I'm going to refresh this
• 24:20
  since we are on the final day.
• 24:26
  Um, Heidi says to Jay Birch,
• 24:27
  wouldn't it be better just
• 24:28
  to get a new job?
• 24:30
  Um, yeah,
• 24:32
  it depends on how many years you
• 24:33
  have and how close you are to retirement.
• 24:35
  Those are the things that I
• 24:36
  had to look for.
• 24:38
  Uh,
• 24:41
  uh denise my husband had
• 24:42
  back surgery february tenth
• 24:44
  and I've been working from
• 24:45
  home to be his caregiver
• 24:47
  yeah we're not even in for
• 24:49
  my job if they find out
• 24:50
  you're a caregiver you are
• 24:53
  not allowed to work from
• 24:54
  home you actually have to
• 24:55
  take fmla or be off for
• 24:58
  that um thank goodness when
• 25:01
  my wife had knee surgery my
• 25:03
  boss was like listen
• 25:06
  You're not going to need to
• 25:07
  take care of her twenty four seven.
• 25:09
  Just kind of tell me when
• 25:10
  you need to do stuff and
• 25:13
  take leave just on the
• 25:14
  times you need to do that.
• 25:16
  And he was super cool with
• 25:17
  me and kind of like under
• 25:18
  the table allowed me to to
• 25:20
  get away with that.
• 25:21
  So.
• 25:23
  Yeah.
• 25:25
  They're really strict here
• 25:26
  about that stuff, and I don't know.
• 25:28
  I don't know why.
• 25:30
  They're so not friendly, so.
• 25:33
  We look at the leaderboard
• 25:36
  as it stands right now.
• 25:38
  Miriam Von Rohrer, as predicted,
• 25:42
  is sitting in first already with a .
• 25:48
  So she won the first week.
• 25:50
  There's a lot predicted that
• 25:50
  she would pull the double.
• 25:53
  Right now,
• 25:53
  she's sitting at four eighteen
• 25:54
  with a gosh,
• 25:56
  what a twelve second lead
• 25:57
  over Anika Greer at four twenty nine.
• 26:01
  Fisa Goffey, four thirty.
• 26:03
  Daniel Brandon, four thirty five.
• 26:05
  Maddie Sturt, four thirty six.
• 26:07
  Claudia Gluck, four thirty seven.
• 26:09
  And those are tight.
• 26:10
  Alex Kazan, four forty one.
• 26:14
  Andrea Solberg, four forty two.
• 26:17
  And then you can see Lucy
• 26:17
  McGonigal and Rebecca Fuseli,
• 26:20
  Lucy Campbell, Marissa Flowers,
• 26:23
  Ariel Lowen, Alexis Raptus.
• 26:31
  Spiegel, Wells, Kristen Holta,
• 26:35
  Kyra Milligan,
• 26:36
  Sarah Sigmundsdottir having
• 26:39
  a pretty good performance
• 26:40
  this year in the open.
• 26:44
  Elena Caratalla, Trista Smith,
• 26:49
  Sydney Wells, Olivia Kerstetter,
• 26:52
  Christine Best, Emily Rolfe,
• 26:53
  Alison Scuds.
• 26:56
  Shelby Neal, Caitlin Sanders, Amy Kringle.
• 27:01
  So that is your top fifty
• 27:06
  with highlighting some of
• 27:07
  the women on the women on
• 27:12
  twenty five point two.
• 27:14
  So then we look at the men
• 27:15
  and this is where things
• 27:16
  get a little bit.
• 27:19
  Oh, they've already they've removed them.
• 27:21
  So there was a two minutes
• 27:24
  and eighteen second person.
• 27:26
  And in the time since we've
• 27:27
  started the show, that has been removed.
• 27:31
  So Austin Hatfield now sits
• 27:33
  in first with a four sixteen.
• 27:36
  Jace Peck with a four
• 27:37
  eighteen and Colin Bossard
• 27:39
  with a four nineteen.
• 27:41
  Then it's a jump to Jeff
• 27:42
  Adler at four twenty six.
• 27:44
  Tied with William Rios at four twenty six.
• 27:47
  Kale Lehman, Peter Ellis, Dallin Pepper.
• 27:51
  Fabian Benito, Jay Crouch, Jonah Koski,
• 27:55
  Justin Medeiros, Jason Hopper,
• 28:00
  Ricky Garrard, Harry Lightfoot,
• 28:03
  Caden Hogan, nineteen-year-old, uh,
• 28:05
  really having a good open, um,
• 28:10
  Bruno Marins, uh, Leonel Franco,
• 28:14
  Sam Cornway, a oldest Supanix,
• 28:19
  Scott Pancheck,
• 28:20
  the old man sitting in
• 28:21
  there with a sub five, a Nola Kai,
• 28:26
  Seth Stovall, Roman Krennikoff,
• 28:29
  George Sterner, uh,
• 28:32
  no MMA guy in the video this week.
• 28:34
  Such a disappointment.
• 28:37
  Uh, Ben Fowler, uh,
• 28:39
  Jack Rosema, Tanner Balazs,
• 28:43
  William Leahy IV,
• 28:46
  and Enrico Zanoni round up
• 28:48
  your top fifty.
• 28:58
  Um,
• 28:59
  same for me just doing the kin care
• 29:01
  hours for when I need to help him.
• 29:03
  Yeah.
• 29:04
  I'm glad they're letting you do that.
• 29:05
  A good two, isn't physically possible.
• 29:08
  I don't give a damn how fit you are.
• 29:10
  Yeah.
• 29:11
  Denise,
• 29:11
  I'm glad they are looking at those
• 29:13
  odds scores.
• 29:14
  Me too.
• 29:14
  And they're quickly removing them.
• 29:16
  Like that has never been a thing, uh,
• 29:20
  in the past that I remember
• 29:22
  where it went up and down
• 29:24
  within an hour or two.
• 29:26
  Um,
• 29:29
  Denise says the top score in
• 29:30
  sixty five to sixty nine
• 29:31
  seems implausible.
• 29:33
  Well, let's look at that.
• 29:37
  So if I go age group.
• 29:43
  Sixty five to sixty nine women.
• 29:48
  A six oh five.
• 29:50
  And the next score is ten fourteen.
• 29:53
  And there sits our Denise
• 29:54
  and fourth at ten twenty one.
• 29:57
  Yeah, that that doesn't seem plausible.
• 30:02
  That there's someone four
• 30:03
  minutes faster than everybody else.
• 30:08
  They'd have to be a really, really fit.
• 30:14
  Really, really fit.
• 30:15
  Sixty five year old to whip
• 30:18
  out a six or five.
• 30:20
  That actually beats Jamie's score.
• 30:22
  I know if you haven't seen it,
• 30:24
  it's out on YouTube.
• 30:25
  You can check it out.
• 30:26
  I don't see a sixty five
• 30:27
  year old being as fit as
• 30:28
  Jamie in a workout like this.
• 30:33
  But congratulations, Denise,
• 30:34
  that's a great score.
• 30:42
  I'm thinking it was their tie break time.
• 30:44
  That is entirely possible.
• 30:48
  that's way better than my tie break time.
• 30:50
  So, so yeah,
• 30:55
  so that is the leaderboard
• 30:56
  where we stand today.
• 30:58
  Um,
• 31:00
  It's going to be interesting
• 31:01
  to see how it all plays out.
• 31:02
  I know everybody's waiting
• 31:03
  for the Colton Merton score
• 31:05
  to come in and see if he
• 31:07
  wins two weeks in a row.
• 31:09
  I think that is completely possible.
• 31:12
  But I also think it's just
• 31:13
  as possible that someone is
• 31:16
  going to have a hell of a
• 31:17
  weekend and be able to beat it.
• 31:20
  There's just too many fit
• 31:21
  people in the world.
• 31:23
  um and that's what makes um
• 31:24
  mirham von rohr so
• 31:26
  impressive that right now
• 31:27
  she's sitting in position
• 31:29
  to win two in a row um I
• 31:32
  think that is insane and if
• 31:35
  she pulls it off if colton
• 31:37
  pulls it off wow that's
• 31:40
  something then I think the
• 31:42
  question becomes later in the week
• 31:45
  Is programming diverse
• 31:46
  enough to find the fittest to move on?
• 31:50
  If the same people are
• 31:51
  winning the workout week after week,
• 31:54
  have we programmed it right
• 31:56
  to find the fittest to move forward?
• 32:00
  And that has been the crux
• 32:02
  and the issue with the Open for a while.
• 32:04
  So I will wait and see what
• 32:06
  happens tonight.
• 32:08
  But after that,
• 32:09
  we can talk about are we
• 32:11
  doing the best to find the
• 32:13
  right people to move
• 32:15
  forward on to semifinals?
• 32:17
  Because taking that
• 32:18
  quarterfinal step away from the season,
• 32:24
  I think the Open is more
• 32:25
  important on who gets to semis.
• 32:29
  So that is going to be fascinating to see.
• 32:35
  Well, with that,
• 32:37
  I do have a one o'clock meeting today.
• 32:40
  So you hooligans get back to work.
• 32:44
  This has been lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 32:46
  We will see you tomorrow.
• 32:49
  Bye guys.