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Lunch With the Clydesdale - Finally, the Weekend!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to lunchtime it's
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  friday we're almost through
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  the work week one more
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  little lunch with the
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  clydesdale till we get into
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  the weekend and then uh a
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  little relaxation we come
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  back with our show on
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  sunday night and then into
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  the week next week so
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  I can't wait to get through the week.
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  This one's been a long one, man.
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  Felt like a Monday on a Friday.
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  But just got to get through
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  today and then going home
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  to Pennsylvania to see my
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  mama and see how she's doing.
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  Still recovering from her
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  visit in the hospital.
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  So yeah, I'm going to go see her,
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  spend the day with her tomorrow,
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  get there tonight,
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  and then come back on Sunday.
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  Just in time for Sunday
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  Night CrossFit Talk with
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  Carolyn and Jamie.
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  What is going on, James, Jody?
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  Good you could be with us already today.
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  It has been a wild morning of content.
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  If you are looking for CrossFit content,
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  today was your day.
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  Hiller put out a video,
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  kind of another behind the
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  scenes at twenty five point three.
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  But it started with kind of
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  the offseason life of a
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  backup quarterback in the NFL.
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  And as most of you know,
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  I am a massive Chicago Bears fan.
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  So anytime he has Tyson Bajan on,
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  I am definitely in for that.
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  it was really cool to kind
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  of go see that he is
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  working as an assistant
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  quarterbacks coach at his alma mater,
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  where his brother is now a quarterback.
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  And, um,
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  that bond that they have and
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  that he wants to surround
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  his brother and make sure
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  that he knows all the
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  things to be successful.
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  Um,
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  but what was cool is that with all the
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  stuff he's learned for
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  after two seasons in the NFL,
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  he was excited to share all
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  of that knowledge with his,
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  with his coaches as well, uh,
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  to kind of go back and,
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  and show them what he's learned.
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  And then we got a little
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  clip of him and Hiller
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  going head to head on
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  twenty five point two.
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  And then then we move forward into Albany,
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  New York,
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  where twenty five point three
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  took place and kind of like
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  him get on his way there.
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  And then we bring in James
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  Dallin and Jason and get a
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  little more behind the scenes with them.
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  which was really, really interesting, uh,
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  and really, really fascinating.
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  Um,
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  trying to think of all the great points
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  I loved, but, um, it was, um,
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  it was a really good video.
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  And then, um, it appears,
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  it appears that one of the next like,
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  forty eight hours with
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  Hiller is going to be Jason Hopper.
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  Um,
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  As Jason was asking Grace
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  Ann if it was okay if
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  Hiller came and spent some
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  time with them in their home.
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  And she was like, sure.
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  The funny part of that is
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  that Hopper then asked Hiller, like,
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  once you come to my house,
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  will you still trash me
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  online if I do things?
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  And Hiller was like, absolutely.
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  Which I thought was really, really good.
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  Um, but,
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  but the video for the most part
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  really kind of backed what
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  Corey and I were talking
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  about on Wednesday.
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  And that is that Hiller has
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  become an Hiller.
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  Hopper has become the,
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  the heel of that new group.
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  And,
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  and Hiller was referring to them as
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  like the new era and the up and,
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  and we talked about them
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  being the golden era.
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  And is that really what,
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  what's happening now?
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  And the one thing they have
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  is Hopper is a heel.
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  He is the antagonist that's
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  going to push things forward.
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  And I think that that is a good thing.
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  I think they,
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  though that group is a new
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  era moving forward, plus Colton.
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  uh where they trash talk and
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  they go back and forth with
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  each other for sure um I
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  wish I wish we had a
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  women's side to this like
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  back in the golden era of
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  crossfit when it was bailey
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  and kalipa and froning and
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  chan and bridges and all of
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  them we also had annie and
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  fouché and kristen clever and
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  Um,
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  the women were just as good as the men
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  and they were very,
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  very competitive where I
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  think today the women aren't as, um,
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  they aren't as inclined to
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  go forward with these
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  rivalries or with these, Hey,
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  I'm going against my friend
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  and I'm going to beat her
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  type storylines.
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  And I think that the
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  community is starved for that.
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  I think we're looking for
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  those female stars to back
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  in those endeavors.
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  But it just,
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  everything is really close to
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  the vest when they do their
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  open scores and their semifinal scores.
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  So we don't really get to
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  see a peek into that
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  competition on the women's side.
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  And a big example I have for
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  that is the WFP qualifier
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  started Wednesday night.
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  The workouts were released.
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  They have until Monday to get that done.
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  There are some scores posted
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  to the leaderboard.
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  And this is a prime example
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  of what I'm talking about.
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  So if we look at the leaderboard,
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  this is the women's side of
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  the leaderboard.
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  The only person to post a score is Fi.
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  Fi is the only woman who has
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  posted any scores on the
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  qualifier leaderboard.
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  If you switch over to the men,
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  there are several men.
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  We have thirteen men who
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  have posted some score
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  already or where they're at.
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  And I think that that is the
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  big difference between why
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  we have this golden age
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  type thing happening on the
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  men's side and we don't
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  have it happening on the women's side.
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  Curious about your thoughts
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  because it's harder to
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  follow when we don't know
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  how the weekend is turning
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  out for everybody.
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  So, um,
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  So yeah just an interesting
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  observation I took now
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  really there's no big names
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  that have posted scores,
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  yet on the men's side.
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  And I was trying to go
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  through quick they're not
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  really sorted in any kind
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  of like ranking there it's
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  just alphabetical um.
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  I was trying to see if any
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  anybody knew had signed up
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  in the last couple days
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  because they can sign up
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  all the way until monday as
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  long as all their scores
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  are posted uh what's cool
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  about that is everybody got
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  to kind of look at the
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  workouts and decide if they
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  wanted to or not um before they jumped in
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  So yeah,
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  not seeing anything at this point
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  that's brand new.
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  Kind of the same names that
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  were there going into the weekend.
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  They did get a pretty good turnout,
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  though.
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  It'll just be interesting to
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  see how many of the athletes then,
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  once they qualify for the
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  Challenger or for the Pro
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  Division as a Challenger or
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  the Challenger Division,
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  actually make the trip to Indianapolis.
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  But yeah,
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  there's a really good turnout for this.
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  Just not seeing much in the
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  way of the traditional
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  elite athlete names.
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  Yeah,
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  I don't know how close we are to the
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  bottom, but damn.
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  Okay.
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  Last couple...
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  Tudor Magda, we saw him.
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  He was a little late signing up,
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  but he was in a couple days ago.
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  Yeah, nothing new.
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  Nothing new on the men's side, so...
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  I do want to take a quick
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  look at the workouts that
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  they have for their
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  qualifier they are very
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  open like so this is um
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  this is the best way to
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  kind of get them because
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  it's a video on instagram
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  but the first workout of
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  the qualifier is a twenty
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  minute amrap of twenty or
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  fifteen calorie row uh
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  twenty lateral burpees over
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  the rower and then forty
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  shuttle runs uh one rep
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  equals twenty five feet
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  Scores,
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  total completed reps at the time cap,
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  tiebreaker time after
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  completing round three.
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  So that is workout number one.
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  Very much similar to some of
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  the open workouts we've seen in the past.
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  Workout number two,
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  this one is a little bit more confusing,
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  but it's very similar to
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  workout number two of this year's Open.
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  It's a hundred and fifty double unders,
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  a hundred foot double
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  dumbbell farmers carry walking lunges,
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  forty five pull ups.
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  Then you reduce to one
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  twenty on the double unders,
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  then a hundred feet of
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  double dumbbell front rack
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  walking lunges.
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  And then, thirty chest-to-bar pull-ups.
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  Then,
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  we reduce down to ninety
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  double-unders and do a
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  hundred feet of double
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  dumbbell overhead walking
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  lunges with fifteen bar
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  muscle-ups to finish up.
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  So,
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  very similar to workout number two in
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  the Open this year,
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  where the increasing gymnastics,
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  the increasing difficulty on the lunges,
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  and then a reduction on the
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  double-unders as you go.
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  then part three of the
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  qualifier is actually a
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  two-parter so there's a
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  three a and a three b um
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  three a is uh five rounds
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  for time seven minute cap
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  fifty foot handstand walk
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  unbroken sections of twenty
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  five feet ten dead lifts at
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  three fifteen and two twenty five
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  I think that is a Carolyn Prevo workout,
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  if I've ever seen one.
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  Definitely getting a little
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  bit heavier on the deadlift
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  than we've seen in the open.
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  And then we have the
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  unbroken handstand walk,
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  which it's been a while
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  since we've seen that in
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  the open as well.
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  And then immediately into three B,
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  which is...
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  On a continuing running clock from part A,
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  part B is an AMRAP of five
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  minutes with fifteen wall walk complexes,
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  which is one wall walk,
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  one wall facing handstand push up.
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  So fifteen of those and in
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  the remaining time,
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  max cleans at two twenty
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  five or one fifty five.
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  So again,
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  one of the complaints that
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  Carolyn and Jamie had
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  during the open is that
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  multiple barbells in the same workout,
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  you have the same thing here.
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  You have the two hundred
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  twenty five pound barbell
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  for the cleans and then the
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  three fifteen barbell for deadlifts.
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  And then the women have the
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  two twenty five and the one
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  fifty five that they have
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  to switch to for this.
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  And you immediately go from
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  the seven-minute AMRAP
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  right into the five-minute AMRAP.
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  So, yeah.
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  So, interesting workouts.
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  I think that is the first
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  one that's not as much
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  open-like compared to some
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  of the other ones we've seen.
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  But,
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  I think it is a little more
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  heavy on the deadlift side for sure.
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  And the unbroken handstand
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  walks are raising the skill
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  level a little bit on that qualifier.
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  So these close out on Monday evening,
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  I think eight o'clock central time.
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  And then we'll see who is
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  moving on into the pro
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  division and who has
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  qualified in the qualifier division.
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  larry young it's really nice
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  to see some moderate weight
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  compared to the ultralight in the open
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  Yeah, I mean, it is.
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  I know that people like
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  Carolyn really appreciate that.
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  I mean, she is a deadlift phenom,
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  and to actually be able to
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  showcase that with some
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  weight on the bar is good for her.
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  But we'll see.
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  I think she's still deciding
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  if she's doing this or not,
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  but she is signed up.
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  She is on the leaderboard,
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  and we'll find out maybe
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  Sunday night if she's done
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  the workouts or if she's
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  decided to go for it or not.
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  But we'll see.
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  And then we got our... I
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  know Kat got approved.
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  I got approved.
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  And then our videographer,
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  photographer got approved to...
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  to go to Indianapolis to cover the event.
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  So we got those early, early this morning,
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  sometime in the middle of the night,
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  actually, we got the approval for that.
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  So we're trying to make plans on that.
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  So we'll be at the first
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  ever WFP tour event and be
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  able to report back what we saw,
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  what it looked like,
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  what the community events
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  were like and all of that stuff.
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  So that'll be exciting.
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  Suck on these nuts, but no squatting.
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  That is correct.
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  I've heard that as a
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  complaint already on some other shows.
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  There isn't a lot of
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  squatting in this workout,
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  in these workouts for the qualifier.
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  Yeah,
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  I think you just get in danger when
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  you only have three workouts.
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  And this one actually has four,
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  like a part A and a part B,
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  where you're going to miss something.
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  I was a coach when we did
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  the five week open and that was a lot on,
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  I know myself as a coach
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  and I was the head judge at our gym.
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  Um,
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  I know it was a lot on our ownership
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  and a lot like that,
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  but so the three week open
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  is very much refreshing compared to that,
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  uh, from an affiliate standpoint.
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  And then.
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  But I do, as a sport watcher,
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  like the idea of having
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  five scores to determine
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  who's going to move forward.
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  But in the open for CrossFit,
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  right now it doesn't matter.
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  And I think that Carolyn has
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  made the point several
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  times on the Sunday night show that...
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  make the open workouts carry
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  forward and add them to the next level,
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  so that it actually counts more,
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  and you get a more complete
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  test that makes more sense.
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  And I'm really buying into
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  that suggestion by her.
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  Um, second, these nuts,
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  two scored workouts that
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  required being upside down
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  and heavy barbells.
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  Yeah.
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  Heavy quotes.
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  Um, Larry young.
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  I got a really great coffee mug.
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  Thanks.
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  Glad you got it.
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  I'm sorry.
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  It took me so long to get it out.
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  Larry was the winner of a
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  Clydesdale media coffee mug.
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  Um, and, uh,
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  we got that out to him finally.
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  Uh, so I'm glad he got it.
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  That's awesome.
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  Uh, what's going on Jeffrey Birchfield.
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  So second,
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  these nuts is cat going to do
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  the dating show.
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  Um, I'm leaving that ball in her court.
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  Uh, she has a platform.
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  I, she can use our channel, our equipment,
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  our stuff to do that.
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  I've given her the ability to do that.
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  I put out a poll today on my
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  Instagram story to see if.
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  if people would be interested in it.
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  I think that texting with
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  her over the last twenty
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  four to forty eight hours,
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  I do think she is going to
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  do it for sure.
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  I'm not for sure.
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  I do think she is going to do it.
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  She just kind of wants to
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  see the feedback on it
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  before she jumps in.
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  But I would
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  if you want her to do it I
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  would go to the poll and
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  hit yes on that that you
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  want her to do it if you
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  don't want her to do it go
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  hit no and uh so she knows
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  that vote as well but she
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  just wants to see uh the
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  community input and at this
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  point I think we're over
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  eighty percent yes uh for
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  doing it so I think I think she will um
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  But we definitely want your input on that.
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  And she's looking for a name on the show.
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  We got one suggestion today
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  for Cat on the Prowl.
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  Don't know if we're going to use that one.
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  And so I think that I definitely,
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  I think she's going to do it,
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  but it's her show.
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  It'll be just her.
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  None of the rest of us will
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  be on that show.
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  She's just, and she has,
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  she actually sent me like
• 19:31
  an idea of kind of a format
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  of the things she would
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  talk about throughout a show.
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  So I,
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  I do think she's seriously
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  considering it and probably will do it.
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  We'll probably have an
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  announcement by early next week for sure.
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  I know that it has become a
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  popular segment with some
• 19:54
  during our roundtables and
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  some of the stuff you guys
• 19:58
  have not even seen that she has sent us.
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  She has talked about with me
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  in the last forty eight
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  hours that she would show
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  on she would show on an
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  independent show some of
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  the stuff she gets back
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  from people that she is
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  matching with on these dating apps.
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  So it is wild what she gets on those apps.
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  And so most of the stuff
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  she's sharing on the
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  roundtable is like the tame stuff.
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  So I think the dating show
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  would go a little bit
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  higher level of transparency,
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  might you say.
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  again um I guarantee caleb
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  and I would watch I'm
• 20:46
  eighty some percent are
• 20:47
  saying yes right now uh so
• 20:49
  I think that that is
• 20:50
  winning at the current time
• 20:52
  being so yeah you guys have
• 20:57
  any plans for the weekend
• 21:03
  I'm going to pennsylvania to
• 21:04
  be with mom uh gonna hang
• 21:06
  out with her for a couple
• 21:07
  days and then my wife's
• 21:09
  gonna drive over to her
• 21:10
  parents house they live
• 21:10
  about forty five minutes
• 21:11
  apart um and we're gonna
• 21:15
  spend the weekend there one
• 21:18
  of the other things I
• 21:19
  watched this morning was
• 21:19
  chris cooper on savant I
• 21:21
  did not get to the end I'm
• 21:23
  probably eighty eighty five
• 21:25
  percent through that um I
• 21:28
  find that fascinating and
• 21:30
  one thing that kind of
• 21:31
  resonates with me is
• 21:34
  I made my way to a CrossFit
• 21:36
  gym without knowing the sport part of it.
• 21:42
  I started CrossFit in two thousand eleven.
• 21:45
  That would have been Rich's
• 21:46
  first championship year.
• 21:47
  Not many people were
• 21:48
  watching CrossFit the sport
• 21:50
  at that point.
• 21:51
  And it's a niche sports and
• 21:54
  there's still not a ton
• 21:55
  watching it today.
• 21:56
  But man,
• 21:57
  really small back in two thousand eleven.
• 21:59
  CrossFit came to me because
• 22:03
  My next door neighbor owned an affiliate.
• 22:06
  I was struggling with
• 22:09
  depression and my weight
• 22:11
  and where I was in life and
• 22:13
  feeling like there were,
• 22:14
  I was trapped in nowhere to
• 22:16
  find an answer.
• 22:18
  And I prayed about it and, uh,
• 22:25
  God talked to me in weird
• 22:26
  ways and it made me ask my
• 22:29
  neighbor for help.
• 22:31
  So that's a long story, very short.
• 22:34
  I asked for help and he said, hey,
• 22:37
  let me come over and sit
• 22:38
  down with you this Sunday
• 22:40
  and we'll talk about it.
• 22:42
  We sat at my dining room table.
• 22:44
  He wrote out a nutrition plan for me.
• 22:48
  We started working out in my
• 22:51
  garage and then like taking
• 22:54
  walks around my neighborhood and
• 22:56
  And then a few months later,
• 22:57
  he took me into an
• 22:58
  affiliate where the legend
• 23:02
  is my first CrossFit workout was Murph.
• 23:06
  Very, very modified Murph.
• 23:09
  But the first day there,
• 23:12
  as I was going through it,
• 23:14
  this very scaled version of Murph,
• 23:16
  I felt like the athlete in
• 23:21
  me was coming out again and
• 23:22
  I was starting to live again.
• 23:25
  And in that moment, it just,
• 23:27
  those endorphins hit me and
• 23:29
  I immediately was hooked
• 23:31
  and I signed up and never looked back.
• 23:35
  So from two thousand eleven
• 23:39
  to two thousand twenty five,
• 23:41
  I have been a member of a CrossFit gym.
• 23:44
  I've had some ups and downs
• 23:45
  in the last few years,
• 23:47
  feel like I'm on a big up
• 23:49
  after this year's open.
• 23:50
  But Chris Cooper talks about like
• 23:53
  that the sport isn't what
• 23:54
  brings people in.
• 23:57
  It's what the affiliate has
• 23:58
  to offer and that we need
• 23:59
  to focus on that.
• 24:01
  And I have conflicting
• 24:03
  thoughts about that because
• 24:07
  I want everybody to know
• 24:08
  about what it did for me.
• 24:09
  And I want people to know
• 24:10
  that there's answers out
• 24:11
  there for them to get their life back.
• 24:14
  And so I totally get that,
• 24:16
  but I love the sport as well.
• 24:20
  I love the sport as a
• 24:22
  celebration of what the
• 24:23
  best of the best in the
• 24:24
  world can do with the thing
• 24:26
  that saved my life.
• 24:30
  I don't have any aspirations
• 24:31
  of being at that level.
• 24:33
  I just enjoy watching people
• 24:35
  do what I do at a level
• 24:38
  that makes it beautiful and
• 24:45
  it's just artistry at the
• 24:47
  highest level of the thing
• 24:49
  that saved my life.
• 24:54
  um I went from blood markers
• 24:57
  that were horrible um to
• 25:00
  off all of my prescriptions
• 25:02
  in a matter of like a year
• 25:04
  of starting crossfit and I
• 25:10
  mean I lost over two hundred pounds i
• 25:17
  I don't know what to say.
• 25:18
  It just, it, it saved my life.
• 25:20
  And I know that there's a
• 25:21
  sale of CrossFit going on
• 25:23
  and I know that things are
• 25:25
  going to change and I just
• 25:28
  hope it changes for the better.
• 25:32
  I hope it changes in a way
• 25:33
  that someone buys the
• 25:35
  company and wants to invest
• 25:37
  time and wants to invest in
• 25:40
  the methodology and spread the
• 25:45
  the word of what this thing
• 25:47
  can do for people who need it.
• 25:53
  I also love talking about
• 25:54
  the sport and I want that to survive too.
• 25:57
  Now,
• 25:57
  whether that needs to survive in a
• 25:58
  different way or it needs
• 26:00
  to survive in a different silo,
• 26:07
  I don't know.
• 26:09
  But I want
• 26:12
  I want people to know about
• 26:13
  what's out there and I want
• 26:15
  people to be successful and
• 26:17
  I want people to get their
• 26:18
  life back like I did.
• 26:20
  And I hope that this sale
• 26:23
  can do it with an owner
• 26:25
  that hopefully is not just
• 26:27
  looking at the bottom line,
• 26:28
  but looking at how to make
• 26:31
  this thing the best version
• 26:35
  of itself that it can be.
• 26:39
  Because at the end of the day,
• 26:41
  I know Larry and I talk
• 26:42
  about heavier barbells in
• 26:43
  the open and things like that.
• 26:45
  But the fact that I got into
• 26:48
  a gym and started lifting
• 26:49
  barbells again was the real victory.
• 26:54
  The fact that I was doing
• 26:55
  burpees was a real victory.
• 27:02
  That I was able to run a
• 27:03
  mile without stopping was a real victory.
• 27:07
  And then I went on to do
• 27:09
  five Ks and five milers and
• 27:11
  quarter marathons and
• 27:14
  didn't need to stop along the way.
• 27:17
  Um,
• 27:20
  that's what CrossFit does and it gives
• 27:21
  you your life back and it
• 27:23
  makes it so that I could be
• 27:24
  a better father and a better husband, um,
• 27:29
  and a better friend.
• 27:31
  Um, yeah.
• 27:35
  So my thoughts and prayers
• 27:36
  are that CrossFit gets
• 27:38
  bought by someone who cares
• 27:41
  and who wants to invest in
• 27:44
  its future and not just
• 27:46
  come in for a quick
• 27:47
  turnaround for a couple bucks.
• 27:50
  But if you did not watch that this morning,
• 27:53
  Chris was great on there.
• 27:55
  And I know Chris has put out...
• 27:58
  um three videos over the
• 27:59
  last week or so uh
• 28:02
  explaining his thoughts on
• 28:04
  what needs to happen uh for
• 28:06
  crossfit to succeed with
• 28:09
  the new ownership and I'm
• 28:11
  gonna actually listen to
• 28:12
  those tonight on my way to
• 28:13
  pennsylvania on my drive
• 28:15
  and I can't wait to hear
• 28:16
  what he has to say one
• 28:18
  thing I learned today I did
• 28:19
  not know that chris cooper
• 28:20
  de-affiliated um
• 28:23
  So I found that fascinating.
• 28:25
  And he talked about what it
• 28:27
  would take to get him to re-affiliate.
• 28:31
  And he said, it's not much.
• 28:33
  It's just hope for the future.
• 28:35
  And I hope that that happens.
• 28:43
  Because like he said, I don't know.
• 28:54
  CrossFit's never going to die,
• 28:56
  but it could go out and
• 28:59
  just exist in a way that is
• 29:02
  not what it was meant to be.
• 29:08
  Jody says,
• 29:08
  the original CrossFit can't be replicated,
• 29:10
  but we can hope for a
• 29:11
  better leader than what's there now.
• 29:15
  I agree.
• 29:16
  When I think the leader
• 29:17
  cannot be a board of
• 29:19
  directors focused on profit.
• 29:26
  Larry says, I love CrossFit, but for me,
• 29:29
  the sport is what sets it apart.
• 29:31
  I know community, it gets thrown around,
• 29:34
  a hundred percent true, but running clubs,
• 29:37
  bike, biking clubs,
• 29:39
  really everything has that too.
• 29:40
  CrossFit has sport.
• 29:45
  Yeah, I'll get, I'll give you that.
• 29:47
  I think that standing side
• 29:49
  by side in a gym with
• 29:51
  barbells and pull up bars
• 29:53
  and you're suffering
• 29:55
  together more than running
• 29:57
  a trail where everybody
• 29:58
  kind of separates apart and
• 30:00
  then just kind of, um,
• 30:04
  gets together after.
• 30:06
  I think that's a little bit
• 30:07
  different than the other two,
• 30:09
  but I get what you're
• 30:10
  saying that there are other
• 30:11
  ways to get community.
• 30:13
  Um,
• 30:15
  But I think it's different
• 30:17
  when you're in a confined area,
• 30:20
  kind of sweating and suffering together.
• 30:23
  Now I know that like part of
• 30:25
  workouts can be out on a
• 30:26
  run and you separate a little bit there,
• 30:29
  but you always finish in
• 30:31
  the same place and yeah.
• 30:38
  And there's more opportunity
• 30:39
  for encouraging one another side by side.
• 30:45
  not that there aren't
• 30:46
  opportunities in the others.
• 30:51
  Uh,
• 30:52
  Larry says definitely not diminishing it.
• 30:54
  Yeah.
• 30:55
  And, and I do, I, I, like I said,
• 30:58
  the sport does kind of set
• 31:00
  it apart because you see
• 31:01
  these elite athletes doing
• 31:03
  what you do every day in a
• 31:05
  way that makes it beautiful and artistic.
• 31:08
  Um,
• 31:12
  And I love the sport as much as anybody.
• 31:14
  Like I do.
• 31:17
  If I didn't love the sport,
• 31:18
  I wouldn't be doing this podcast.
• 31:19
  I wouldn't be going to
• 31:20
  Indianapolis in a couple weeks.
• 31:22
  I wouldn't be going to the
• 31:23
  Syndicate Crown in a couple weeks.
• 31:29
  That's why I do what I do, right?
• 31:35
  exactly just like just think
• 31:37
  the sport makes it special
• 31:38
  but I'm a fan I one hundred
• 31:41
  percent agree with you
• 31:42
  larry I can't watch enough
• 31:47
  of the sport so um
• 32:01
  I have, uh, booked at least one guest, uh,
• 32:05
  to come on and we're going
• 32:06
  to get back into athlete interviews here.
• 32:09
  Uh, in the coming weeks,
• 32:10
  I've booked at least one, hopefully more.
• 32:13
  I'll announce who those are next week.
• 32:16
  Uh,
• 32:16
  cause I don't want to do it too far out
• 32:17
  in advance in case there are changes.
• 32:21
  Uh, but look for that.
• 32:22
  We're going to do start
• 32:23
  doing some athlete interviews.
• 32:25
  Um,
• 32:27
  throughout the afternoons, hopefully.
• 32:31
  We'll see how that goes.
• 32:33
  But it's been a while since
• 32:34
  I've gotten into a groove of that,
• 32:36
  and I got to do that as well.
• 32:42
  Larry just got my games tickets.
• 32:44
  It's my big vacation every year.
• 32:47
  It's awesome.
• 32:47
  Hopefully I'll get to see
• 32:48
  you again this year, Larry.
• 32:49
  Um, yeah, I've got,
• 32:51
  I booked the Airbnb the day
• 32:53
  that Albany was announced.
• 32:55
  Um, so that's my big thing.
• 32:58
  Uh,
• 32:58
  now I got to decide if I'm driving or
• 33:00
  flying and when you carry
• 33:05
  all the equipment that we do,
• 33:06
  driving is so much easier.
• 33:08
  Uh, but it is, it's quite a haul.
• 33:10
  It's about
• 33:21
  So, yeah,
• 33:22
  I got a three bedroom Airbnb so I
• 33:24
  could take the crew with me,
• 33:26
  whoever wants to go.
• 33:27
  So we'll see who that is.
• 33:28
  But yeah, should be fun.
• 33:36
  Before we get out of here today,
• 33:38
  I'm going to share my screen real quick.
• 33:41
  So we started our bracket challenge.
• 33:44
  A handful of people joined in.
• 33:48
  So right now, currently after day one,
• 33:51
  Brett Owsley,
• 33:52
  Masters CrossFit Games athlete,
• 33:54
  is in first place in our group.
• 33:56
  Blair Lettingham is in second.
• 33:59
  And then Alexis Detois,
• 34:00
  who always beats me in heat one.
• 34:03
  is tied with me at the
• 34:05
  current moment um and you
• 34:08
  can see the teams that
• 34:09
  we've picked to win the
• 34:10
  tournament a little fun
• 34:12
  little game we're playing
• 34:13
  just to talk some smack um
• 34:18
  but you can see jay birch
• 34:19
  is in there carolyn privo
• 34:20
  amanda harry jamie latimer
• 34:22
  holly dugan uh josh dorazenko um so yeah
• 34:30
  There's a bracket standings
• 34:31
  as we speak after day one
• 34:34
  of the men's tournament,
• 34:35
  and the women's tournament starts today.
• 34:41
  So that should be fun.
• 34:47
  Jody asks Larry where he's traveling from.
• 34:52
  Jody doesn't have to travel from far.
• 34:54
  I think she's hosting a
• 34:55
  barbecue or something.
• 34:56
  I think she said...
• 34:58
  I don't know.
• 34:59
  Maybe I'm committing her to
• 35:00
  something that she really didn't say.
• 35:04
  And maybe she doesn't even
• 35:05
  live that close.
• 35:06
  I know it is kind of close though.
• 35:10
  So yeah,
• 35:11
  that's going to be nice for Indianapolis.
• 35:13
  And the WFP is that it's
• 35:17
  only a two and a half hour drive for me.
• 35:20
  That may that until the
• 35:21
  CrossFit Games Masters
• 35:23
  division next year here in
• 35:24
  Columbus will be one of the
• 35:26
  shortest trips I take for the podcast.
• 35:29
  Two and a half hours is so
• 35:30
  nice compared to like all day travel.
• 35:35
  So that should be fun.
• 35:37
  Yeah,
• 35:37
  Jaybert says so many updates upsets
• 35:40
  yesterday.
• 35:40
  Yeah.
• 35:41
  Yeah.
• 35:42
  Holly's team that she picked
• 35:44
  to win is already out.
• 35:46
  The rest of us still have ours.
• 35:47
  So
• 35:51
  Jody says two hour drive to the games.
• 35:53
  That's not bad.
• 35:55
  Not bad at all.
• 36:00
  Compared to like driving to
• 36:01
  Tennessee for me or Alabama
• 36:04
  or any of those sites.
• 36:07
  And this is going to be a cakewalk.
• 36:14
  Well, that's about all I have for today.
• 36:17
  Sorry.
• 36:17
  I rambled a bit.
• 36:19
  Um,
• 36:22
  Just seemed to be like a
• 36:22
  mishmash of content out
• 36:24
  today and just trying to
• 36:26
  get to the weekend and get
• 36:27
  through my work day.
• 36:29
  But you guys help me do that
• 36:30
  every day with this lunch
• 36:31
  with the Clydesdale.
• 36:32
  It helps break up my day,
• 36:34
  helps me get refocused so I
• 36:36
  can kill my afternoon at work.
• 36:39
  And with that, get back to work,
• 36:41
  you hooligans.
• 36:44
  Time to go.
• 36:45
  See you guys Sunday night
• 36:47
  for Sunday Night CrossFit Talk,
• 36:49
  where Carolyn, Jamie,
• 36:50
  and I will talk about all the news events,
• 36:52
  and then we'll be back
• 36:53
  Monday with Lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 36:55
  See you guys then.