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Hattie Kanyo | Clydesdale Media - Thoughts going into the 2025 Season and all the Options · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  What is going on everybody welcome to
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  to the Clydesdale Medio interview series.
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  We're not naming this one,
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  but I have not done an
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  interview with an elite
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  athlete since the CrossFit Games.
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  And this is my first one.
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  And I figured I would ask my
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  friend to get me back on the horse.
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  She's always a ray of sunshine.
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  And I can't wait to talk to
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  her and catch up.
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  There's already a bunch of
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  people in the chat.
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  How are you doing, Hattie?
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  We've got people shouting you out.
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  Rashad Barksdale.
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  We've got Wad Zombie.
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  We've got Sarah Cooper.
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  We've got Big Pazley.
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  And Sarah wants to know,
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  she's part of Team Canada too.
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  Yay.
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  We love Canada.
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  So how have you been?
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  You know, I've been pretty good.
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  Just getting back into training.
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  uh I after the games I went
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  way too hard and so my body
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  was definitely feeling run
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  down for a little bit there
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  um but I'm starting to
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  slowly climb I mean we've
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  got wadapalooza so we'll
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  see how we feel there but
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  yeah um I want to start a
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  weird place just because
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  we're friends all these
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  wildfires are going nuts in california
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  You used to fight those pirates.
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  So when you see something like that,
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  does it put you back in
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  those situations when you
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  were out there fighting those things?
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  And is your boyfriend still doing that?
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  He is.
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  So he'll be going back up north in April.
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  Are you going up in April?
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  April first.
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  Yeah, he's going up April first.
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  So he's currently not on
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  right now they do have a
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  winter crew and actually my
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  friend who's up where Jake is going,
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  they are going to California,
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  which is crazy because
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  Alberta doesn't have a
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  contract with California so
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  they must have just made
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  one for this specific fire
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  because it's so
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  intense usually we go to
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  like montana or idaho um
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  but yeah they must really
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  need firefighters right now
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  so we're sending up I think
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  two unit crews which is
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  like twenty that would be
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  like forty people so yeah
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  so when you when you fight
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  these fires what are you
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  attacking it with what what
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  is the the what are you
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  trying to accomplish to get them to stop
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  Well, it's a lot different in the States.
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  I've I've fought fire in the
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  States before and they do a
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  lot of digging and hand
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  line because they don't
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  have a lot of water.
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  So where I work,
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  where I used to work in high level,
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  it's called.
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  So it's here in Alberta.
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  It's way up north where there's muskeg.
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  You're pretty much walking.
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  Sometimes you're walking in
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  muskeg up to your house.
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  belly button so no matter
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  what we usually have water
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  up there where you can kind
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  of dig a little bit and
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  then fill it up with your
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  hard hat and then we have
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  these things they're
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  backpacks we call them piss
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  packs um they're called way
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  jacks bags but you fill
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  them up with um with water
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  with your hard hat so you
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  just like push your hard
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  hat into the musk egg fill
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  it up with this dirty ass
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  water and then you throw it
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  into your your bag so you
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  just sit there fill up your bag and
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  And then by the time it's full,
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  it's like sixty, seventy pounds.
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  And then you're walking around.
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  So what happens is we get up
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  in a helicopter.
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  We go find this fire.
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  We're we're assessing the
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  fire in the helicopter,
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  figuring out where the heel
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  of the fire is and then
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  where the head of the fire is.
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  Obviously,
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  we don't want to get dropped off
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  anywhere close to the head of the fire.
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  So we find we assess,
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  we figure out where the
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  safety safest place is to.
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  Land and then so you'll land
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  at the heel of the fire and
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  then you'll walk in
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  sometimes it's a kilometer
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  Sometimes it's only you know,
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  it's not very far at all It
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  just kind of just depends
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  where you can get dropped
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  off So you walk into the
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  heel of the fire and then
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  usually so a helitack crew
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  goes in so that's only four
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  people Usually you'll have
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  two people go one way two
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  people go the other way And
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  so if the heel is or the
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  head is way up here,
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  then you'll have like your
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  two people going in
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  both ways just putting out
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  fire with your water right
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  and then I assume I mean I
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  haven't fought a ton of
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  like active fire in the
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  states but what they would
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  do a lot of the time is dig
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  line so same kind of idea
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  where you're just digging
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  line and you're just
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  working your your heel and
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  then your flanks and you're
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  just making your way up to the
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  the head of the fire, right?
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  And that's just so then it
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  doesn't go any further out
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  on the flanks or out on the heel.
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  So it doesn't grow that way, right?
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  So it only will grow where
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  the head is heading.
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  And that's kind of
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  essentially how you do it.
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  So yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's crazy because that all
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  sounds great until the wind
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  gets involved.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I was on one fire where the
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  head of the fire changed three times.
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  So we were working our way
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  and then all of a sudden,
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  so it was going this way.
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  And then all of a sudden the
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  winds changed and then the
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  head of the fire was that way.
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  So you have to be really mindful.
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  And then all of a sudden it
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  changed again and it was coming this way.
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  Right.
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  So it's just like,
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  it was good that it was
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  just in smaller brush where it,
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  you know,
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  you could kind of see what was going on.
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  So it wasn't in huge trees
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  where it's kind of,
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  it's a lot harder to see
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  where the fire is coming from, but yeah,
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  it can get intense for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, he put in his two cents over here.
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  So hooking up a bucket.
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  So it's not just us on the ground, right?
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  There's helicopters, there's planes.
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  So I don't know if you've
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  ever seen those planes.
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  I just posted a video where the scoopers,
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  they'll go on like the
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  ocean or lakes or something,
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  and they'll actually like
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  scoop water with their
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  bellies and then come up.
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  they'll drop water.
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  But the,
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  a really fun thing is hooking a
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  bucket up onto a helicopter.
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  So we actually have to do that.
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  Once he drops us off,
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  we get the bucket out and
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  then we hook it up to his
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  belly and then he'll fly
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  off and go dip that bucket
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  into a lake or the ocean or
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  whatever water source you can find.
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  And then he'll come and then
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  just drop it on like
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  certain parts of the fire.
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  That's super active.
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  So when you watch this stuff on the news,
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  can you empathize with the firefighters?
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  It's hard work,
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  and especially when it's so
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  hot and dry like that.
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  sometimes you just feel
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  useless because safety is
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  obviously number one, right?
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  So you're not going to go
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  put yourself into danger.
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  And when you can't do anything,
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  you're pretty much just
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  watching the helicopters
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  and the planes drop water.
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  And even that isn't doing a
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  ton because if it's super, super hot,
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  they can only really drop
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  down by the heel, which does some work,
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  but I mean,
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  it's still moving right with
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  the head of the fire.
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  So yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It sucks when you feel useless,
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  when it's just like, okay,
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  I'm just over here, you know,
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  putting out these tiny little fires.
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  Meanwhile, in the head is just raging.
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  Yeah.
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  So I,
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  I'm going to put it in the
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  description below.
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  There's a GoFundMe account,
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  a couple of CrossFit gyms
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  lost everything in the fire.
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  CrossFit LA.
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  I think it's Oak.
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  It's Oakmont, I think,
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  or Oakfront or something like that.
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  They also lost everything.
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  There's a GoFundMe account.
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  I'm going to put a link to
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  that in the description.
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  If you feel inclined to donate,
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  anyone out there, please do so,
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  as they're really
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  struggling to fight these fires.
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  Because there isn't a lot of
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  water in LA right now to fight them.
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  No, that's what I heard,
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  that they're pretty much out of water.
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  So that's...
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  Again,
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  it's going to be really hard because
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  even just digging line, it just,
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  it isn't enough unless
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  you're digging super wide line.
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  And with that, you almost need machinery,
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  you know, big dozers and stuff like that.
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  Because even when I was in
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  the States trying to dig line, I'm like,
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  is this going to do much of
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  a fire is just raging?
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  You know what I mean?
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  It can jump, it can jump miles.
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  Like they'll find spot fires
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  that are miles away.
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  So yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  We're getting a little bit
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  of feedback from when I talk.
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  Hopefully it's not too bad
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  for the audience.
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  Oh, is that from me?
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  It's what it is.
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  It's me talking and then my
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  voice coming back into your microphone.
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  So it's doubling up.
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  Okay.
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  Until it recognizes it, then it stops.
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  But at first it, it's a little bit of a,
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  but it's a headphones if it's better.
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  Um, if it doesn't want to take that long,
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  I think it will be better.
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  Okay.
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  Jake, can I use your headphones?
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  I'll just grab them real quick.
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  Okay.
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  Ooh, got the gaming headphones.
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  I miss those.
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  I miss those from the Bali episodes.
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  Yeah.
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  see here wad zombie says we
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  had tons of rain and our
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  wonderful leaders drained
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  most of our reservoirs yeah
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  that's what I heard okay
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  how's that uh it's way better
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  Way better.
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  So my one experience with
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  wildfires is I was living
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  in Florida and there were
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  wildfires there.
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  And one of the I was trying
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  to go get my parents from
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  the airport in Jacksonville.
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  And I lived in Tallahassee
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  driving down the road.
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  There's a wildfire on one
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  side of the road.
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  And as we were driving by it, it jumped.
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  It jumped from one side of
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  the road to the other side
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  and totally freaked me out.
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  And you got to witness that?
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  Yeah, as it happened.
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  And then when we got to Jacksonville,
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  we couldn't get back the
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  same route because they
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  closed that down until they
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  could get that contained.
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  Yeah, it's pretty wild.
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  I saw one jump when I was up
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  in the helicopter too.
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  It was one of the biggest fires up north.
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  And I was sent to it.
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  I was leading the fire.
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  And so we were up in the air
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  just trying to assess it,
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  figuring it out.
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  And I was just like, okay.
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  if it just doesn't jump the
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  highway then we're good and
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  sure enough three minutes
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  later it just jumps the
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  highway and the guy that
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  was he was a higher up he
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  was up there with me trying
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  because this was one of my
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  first really big fires like
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  leading it and so he was up
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  there helping me out a
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  little bit and we both just
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  looked at each other oh my
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  gosh why did I have to say
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  that it heard me and then
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  it just jumped across
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  Yeah.
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  It is crazy what nature can do.
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  For sure it is.
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  It can be beautiful and it
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  can be devastating in a snap.
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  It's insane.
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  Yeah.
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  So I want to go into the CrossFit year.
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  Last we talked and last we hung out,
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  you were having...
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  one of the most amazing
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  seasons that you have
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  definitely ever had.
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  Yeah.
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  You had made your first CrossFit Games.
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  We talked right before that started.
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  And I could not have been
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  more excited for you.
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  Like this lifelong dream,
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  you get there and then
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  event one happens and
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  there's a big tragic event.
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  Yeah.
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  How does, how do you,
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  that you have this dream and you're there,
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  yet this other thing happened.
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  And I've wrestled with this for six months,
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  so I'm sure there's no easy answer.
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  Yet how do you be graceful
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  and understand that we lost
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  somebody and all of that
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  stuff and still go on?
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  What was that Friday like for you?
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  It was definitely tough.
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  Like we all got into that.
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  I wanted to say gymnasium.
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  We got into the Coliseum and
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  had that meeting at night.
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  You know what I mean?
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  And it was kind of just like the unknown.
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  We just didn't really know.
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  And then when Dave said that
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  it was going to keep going
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  on and people storming out, it was just,
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  there's so many emotions going on.
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  And I am just already an empathetic,
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  emotional kind of person.
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  So I was just like, holy crap,
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  this feels insane.
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  I didn't really know what to do,
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  but I also was just like, okay,
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  step back and figure out what you want,
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  not what other people are doing.
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  Cause I feel like a couple
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  people kind of saw what
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  other people did and then
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  they instantly reacted
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  rather than just like,
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  let's just sit here, talk it out,
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  figure it out instead of
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  you know acting on emotion
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  almost um so I just I for
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  me I thought I need to do
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  that for myself and not act
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  you know abruptly and just
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  kind of figure out what I
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  want out of it um again it
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  was definitely hard but
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  being I think being a
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  rookie it was even harder in the sense of
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  you know, you want it,
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  we want it to be there so bad.
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  And that was our lifelong dream.
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  And so it was just like, okay, well,
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  I still want to compete.
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  So, you know, after a while I was like, no,
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  I still do want to compete.
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  I just want to figure out
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  how I can do it in the most
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  respectful way, I guess, and still,
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  you know, fulfill my,
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  my dream of being here kind of thing.
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  I
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  Um, how much did, who,
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  who was in your corner that night?
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  And you have your coach, Tristan,
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  you have Jake, you,
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  you have a friend with CBG, uh, Amanda,
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  right?
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  Yeah.
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  Um, so were, were those,
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  those the people you,
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  you kind of bedded down
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  with and talked to and
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  tried to figure out what's next?
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  Yeah.
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  And that's what I was going
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  to bring up too, is it, it,
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  it definitely helped having my
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  my team there, my people,
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  you know what I mean?
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  To kind of calm me down and
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  tell me their opinions and just like,
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  tell that,
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  tell me how proud they are of me,
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  no matter what kind of thing, you know?
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  And yeah, we had like, I think there was,
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  so my mom, my manager, Rashad,
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  who said hi earlier, Tristan, his wife,
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  um, our,
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  our best friends that we
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  haven't seen in a while um
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  brandon nicola were there
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  we had this big airbnb so
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  there was all of us in
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  there amanda um there was a
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  ton of us in there and it
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  was just nice to have
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  everybody when I got back
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  to you know be there for me
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  and they said we're here
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  for you no matter what no
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  matter what you decide and
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  stuff so yeah it was just
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  really nice to have everybody at that
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  Um, uh, at the Coliseum that night,
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  Tristan was there.
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  Um, so it was just me and Tristan,
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  but it was really good to
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  have him there as well,
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  because he again said that as well.
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  He's like, whatever you decide,
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  like I'm here for you.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Um, so yeah.
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  Once you made the decision
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  that you were going to go on, um,
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  How did you take the next
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  steps to get yourself ready
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  for Friday morning?
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  Right.
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  Uh, or was it Saturday morning?
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  Saturday.
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  Yeah.
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  Friday.
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  Yeah.
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  Started Thursday.
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  Yeah.
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  Like, it felt like so long ago.
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  We're already on to new things.
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  But yeah, I think I just told myself, hey,
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  we just need to take this
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  one event at a time and
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  just figure it out as we go kind of thing,
• 17:13
  not have these big expectations.
• 17:15
  I think the one thing that
• 17:16
  went through my mind was,
• 17:17
  I don't know if I should be
• 17:19
  celebrating or not,
• 17:20
  because I don't know if that's
• 17:22
  know disrespectful or I
• 17:23
  don't know I didn't really
• 17:25
  know what to do in that
• 17:26
  sense and I thought that I
• 17:27
  was going to be okay on
• 17:28
  that first event but
• 17:31
  as soon as they called my name.
• 17:33
  So we were all in a line
• 17:34
  right in the back and
• 17:35
  there's this big curtain
• 17:36
  and then there's a little
• 17:37
  slit in the curtain so you
• 17:38
  can kind of see out there.
• 17:41
  And you can see someone in
• 17:42
  there or out there telling you, okay,
• 17:44
  now come, right?
• 17:45
  So we were all lined up over here.
• 17:47
  The slit was right here.
• 17:48
  So one person,
• 17:49
  you'd go right here and
• 17:50
  you'd be in front of the
• 17:51
  slit and then the person
• 17:52
  would go and then the next
• 17:53
  person would come out and
• 17:54
  then you would go.
• 17:55
  so I was still over here and
• 17:56
  I was like okay I think I'm
• 17:57
  okay I think I'm okay and
• 17:59
  then as soon as I walked
• 18:00
  right here and I could just
• 18:01
  see the people there was no
• 18:03
  music you could kind of
• 18:04
  hear out there too how it
• 18:05
  was just like very eerie um
• 18:09
  I just started crying I was
• 18:10
  like oh my gosh what this
• 18:12
  is our first year and it's
• 18:14
  just so intense I didn't know what to do
• 18:19
  you know and then I didn't
• 18:20
  really know what to do when
• 18:22
  I went out there it was
• 18:22
  hilarious because Maggie
• 18:24
  you know Maggie one of the
• 18:26
  head judges yeah so she was
• 18:28
  out there and she was
• 18:29
  telling me come on come
• 18:30
  over here but I thought she
• 18:31
  was like trying to give me
• 18:32
  a high five so I was like
• 18:33
  yeah and I didn't really
• 18:35
  know what to do I was just
• 18:36
  so flustered when I went
• 18:37
  out there again there was
• 18:38
  just no music the people
• 18:40
  everyone was quiet um but
• 18:43
  again I was like you just
• 18:45
  got to take it event at
• 18:47
  by one event at a time
• 18:49
  because that's just all you could do.
• 18:52
  You know,
• 18:52
  you can't think about the weekend.
• 18:55
  You just got to take it one
• 18:56
  event at a time and figure
• 18:59
  it out as you go.
• 19:02
  So Sarah asked this question.
• 19:03
  I think you kind of addressed it.
• 19:04
  Do you think it was easier
• 19:05
  on the rookie since they
• 19:07
  didn't know Lazar?
• 19:08
  I'm not saying it wasn't difficult,
• 19:10
  but curious.
• 19:11
  And you actually said it was
• 19:11
  harder because it's your
• 19:13
  dream and you're there and
• 19:15
  there's a lot on that.
• 19:17
  Yeah,
• 19:18
  I think it's different between every
• 19:21
  individual.
• 19:22
  I'm also not great with deaths,
• 19:24
  even if I don't know people
• 19:26
  like it still hit me,
• 19:27
  but I can't even imagine
• 19:29
  the people that actually knew him.
• 19:31
  Um,
• 19:32
  yeah, I had a dream.
• 19:34
  This might be a little TMI,
• 19:36
  but I had a dream that
• 19:37
  night after it happened
• 19:39
  that I was like swimming
• 19:40
  and then he was below me
• 19:42
  and like reaching out for help.
• 19:44
  And even that was like, what?
• 19:46
  Like, I don't even know him.
• 19:47
  I don't, I didn't even see him.
• 19:48
  You know what I mean?
• 19:49
  And it was just like, holy crap.
• 19:52
  So it still hit me.
• 19:54
  You know what I mean?
• 19:55
  But
• 19:56
  I don't know.
• 19:57
  I don't, I wouldn't say it was easier.
• 19:59
  It might've been easier for
• 20:01
  us to kind of go on in the sense of, yeah,
• 20:03
  this was our dream and we wanted to,
• 20:07
  you know, fulfill our dream.
• 20:09
  But at the same time I felt like,
• 20:12
  I don't know, it was just a weird,
• 20:14
  a weird situation because
• 20:16
  people didn't really talk
• 20:17
  and I didn't really know
• 20:18
  too many people either.
• 20:19
  So it was kind of hard to
• 20:20
  like have conversations
• 20:21
  with people as well.
• 20:25
  So yeah.
• 20:27
  I think Jeremy Eats World
• 20:28
  says it for all of us.
• 20:31
  Yeah.
• 20:32
  That's got to be tough as hell to process.
• 20:36
  And on a lighter note,
• 20:38
  did Hattie get that headset
• 20:40
  from the helicopter she rides?
• 20:41
  It does look like one of those, eh?
• 20:44
  Nah, Jake's a gamer,
• 20:45
  so I stole his gaming headset.
• 20:48
  Sarah said,
• 20:50
  easier isn't the right word for
• 20:51
  my question.
• 20:52
  Hopefully you knew what I meant.
• 20:53
  Yeah.
• 20:54
  Yeah, and I think we do.
• 20:56
  Yeah, there's no judgment on this show.
• 20:59
  We're just trying to walk
• 21:00
  through this process.
• 21:03
  I was there live,
• 21:04
  and when you walked into
• 21:05
  the stadium that morning,
• 21:08
  it was the weirdest thing I
• 21:11
  ever encountered in sport.
• 21:15
  The stadium was full,
• 21:17
  but there was no sound.
• 21:18
  yeah no sound and yeah it
• 21:20
  was just three two one go
• 21:22
  and you're just like okay
• 21:23
  like this is weird we're
• 21:24
  doing some deadlifts and
• 21:26
  then we're doing some rope
• 21:28
  climbs like is this how the
• 21:29
  weekend is gonna go you
• 21:30
  know and I get it the first one
• 21:33
  Maybe that was more of a tribute, like,
• 21:35
  let's have some silence or whatever.
• 21:37
  But then we were like,
• 21:37
  if we're going to keep this
• 21:39
  weekend going and we're
• 21:41
  doing this for the fans,
• 21:43
  but also ourselves and also
• 21:45
  him and also all these things,
• 21:47
  and we want to still...
• 21:49
  kind of do our best in a way
• 21:51
  then we need at least like
• 21:52
  maybe some music to just
• 21:54
  try to lighten it up a
• 21:55
  little bit we're not trying
• 21:56
  to lighten it up in the
• 21:57
  sense of oh yeah that
• 21:58
  happened we're done with
• 21:59
  that we still wanted to
• 22:01
  remember him but like let's
• 22:03
  you know lighten it up just
• 22:04
  a little bit with some
• 22:05
  music or something because
• 22:07
  that was just it was like
• 22:10
  yeah well on saturday
• 22:11
  morning when they played
• 22:12
  the music for chad I think
• 22:14
  that gave the fans then
• 22:15
  permission to cheer like
• 22:18
  But then that was another thing.
• 22:19
  I had people being like,
• 22:21
  why are they cheering?
• 22:21
  Why are they happy?
• 22:23
  It's like, oh, you can't win.
• 22:27
  I came to the resolution
• 22:30
  that people are going to be
• 22:31
  pissed off no matter what
• 22:32
  happened that weekend.
• 22:34
  It was a no-win situation
• 22:36
  that everybody was trying
• 22:38
  to tread through and...
• 22:41
  there were moments that
• 22:42
  things were going to happen
• 22:43
  and half the community was
• 22:45
  going to be pissed and half
• 22:47
  the community was going to
• 22:48
  be okay with it.
• 22:49
  And you just had to live
• 22:50
  with that and move on.
• 22:52
  Yeah.
• 22:52
  It's not the people were
• 22:55
  just forgetting what happened and,
• 22:57
  or laughing about it or
• 22:58
  anything like that.
• 22:59
  It's like, they still, you know,
• 23:01
  people process things in different ways.
• 23:03
  And I mean,
• 23:04
  people still did come there
• 23:06
  from all around, you know,
• 23:08
  the world even.
• 23:09
  And it's just like, okay, well,
• 23:11
  if this is still going to go on, then like,
• 23:14
  let's at least let people, you know,
• 23:17
  have a semi good time.
• 23:20
  Was there a moment on the
• 23:21
  weekend where you just had
• 23:22
  to shut down the outside noise?
• 23:27
  Were you ever able to do that?
• 23:31
  It was hard.
• 23:33
  Um, I think just in each workout,
• 23:36
  that was just my time to be like, okay,
• 23:40
  I'm going to go out and try to enjoy.
• 23:43
  This is what I love to do is work out.
• 23:45
  And so, you know,
• 23:47
  I tried to take things from
• 23:49
  each event and just like be
• 23:50
  grateful for certain things and, you know,
• 23:54
  just try to enjoy the
• 23:57
  moment when I was there.
• 23:59
  And so that kind of was the
• 24:00
  time that I was able to do that, I guess.
• 24:02
  But then when I would go home,
• 24:03
  all of a sudden it would
• 24:04
  just be a flood of emotions again.
• 24:06
  And it would just be like,
• 24:08
  push and pull of, Oh no,
• 24:10
  am I doing the right thing?
• 24:11
  Kind of thing, you know, should I,
• 24:14
  should I stop?
• 24:15
  Should I, you know, I don't know.
• 24:16
  It was just such a weird feeling.
• 24:21
  So as the weekend on from
• 24:22
  being in the crowd,
• 24:23
  it seemed to get easier to
• 24:27
  move on as the weekend went on.
• 24:30
  Like by Sunday,
• 24:31
  it was as close to normal as we ever got.
• 24:34
  And it still was not normal.
• 24:39
  Yeah.
• 24:39
  But it moved closer in that direction.
• 24:42
  You said, first of all, after it was over,
• 24:47
  were you proud of yourself for, one,
• 24:51
  completing the weekend
• 24:52
  under the circumstances in
• 24:54
  which you were presented
• 24:56
  and being able to endure that tough,
• 24:59
  hard time?
• 25:00
  Let's just start with that one.
• 25:01
  I mean...
• 25:04
  I think there wasn't any
• 25:06
  feeling of that at first.
• 25:08
  I was kind of just like, okay,
• 25:09
  I just did the thing.
• 25:10
  It was weird and that's it.
• 25:12
  But then, you know,
• 25:13
  a lot of people were like, Hey,
• 25:14
  I'm super proud of you for going,
• 25:17
  for doing what you did
• 25:18
  under those circumstances.
• 25:19
  And then that kind of made me realize,
• 25:22
  Oh yeah, I'm proud of myself too,
• 25:24
  because that was hard.
• 25:25
  Like,
• 25:25
  especially that first workout in the
• 25:26
  Coliseum, I was like,
• 25:28
  this is my first workout.
• 25:29
  time stepping in the
• 25:30
  coliseum as a crossfit
• 25:32
  games athlete I should not
• 25:34
  be feeling like this but I
• 25:35
  get that you know in these
• 25:38
  circumstances I am and it
• 25:39
  literally felt like I had
• 25:41
  already done that workout
• 25:42
  twice that's how depleted I
• 25:44
  was so I was just sitting
• 25:45
  there like how are we gonna
• 25:47
  do a huge chipper right now
• 25:49
  just feeling this depleted you know but
• 25:53
  we got through it and yeah I
• 25:55
  am proud and I was proud of
• 25:56
  myself especially as people
• 25:58
  were kind of telling me
• 25:59
  that it opened up my eyes
• 26:00
  of like hey you do need to
• 26:01
  be proud of yourself no
• 26:02
  matter what so you
• 26:04
  mentioned earlier in the
• 26:05
  show after the games you
• 26:07
  went hard um in training
• 26:11
  what was that a response to
• 26:14
  what you had just been
• 26:14
  through or did you did you
• 26:18
  have other plans to try to
• 26:22
  get in volume where you could.
• 26:24
  No, definitely not the second one.
• 26:26
  It was like,
• 26:28
  I laid on this couch right
• 26:30
  here for a week straight
• 26:32
  and ate Wendy's every single night.
• 26:35
  I would have a waffle in the
• 26:36
  morning and Wendy's at night.
• 26:37
  And that's all I would eat
• 26:38
  for a week straight.
• 26:39
  And I would just lay on this couch,
• 26:40
  just scrolling or watching
• 26:42
  TV or whatever.
• 26:42
  And I was just a little bit
• 26:44
  depressed of like the whole thing.
• 26:46
  trying to figure out what
• 26:48
  just happened um and so my
• 26:51
  reaction to that was like
• 26:52
  okay stop being like stop
• 26:55
  being like this you need to
• 26:57
  move and so in hindsight I
• 26:59
  should have gone to the
• 27:00
  mountains I should have you
• 27:01
  know still maybe gone to
• 27:02
  the gym and got on a bike
• 27:04
  or something you know moved
• 27:05
  went on walks or whatever
• 27:06
  it was but I was just like
• 27:08
  I went to what I knew my body you know
• 27:13
  could do and so I was just
• 27:14
  like okay I'm back and I
• 27:15
  was back for at four hours
• 27:17
  a day like every day the
• 27:19
  next week so it's just like
• 27:21
  I only took one week off
• 27:23
  after the games and that I
• 27:24
  should have I shouldn't
• 27:27
  have done that but I just
• 27:28
  didn't know what else to do
• 27:30
  so and my body surprisingly
• 27:32
  felt good but I think I
• 27:33
  honestly think I was just
• 27:34
  still riding like that
• 27:35
  adrenaline or something
• 27:37
  uh because then I did rogue
• 27:40
  I think three weeks after
• 27:42
  the games it was or
• 27:43
  something crazy like that
• 27:45
  and my body was just like
• 27:47
  just hit the wall I was
• 27:49
  like oh my gosh this is not
• 27:52
  ideal but and that was the
• 27:53
  rogue qualifier yeah um so
• 27:57
  what is what is hattie's
• 27:59
  go-to wendy's order oh
• 28:01
  number six the spicy chicken burger
• 28:06
  frosty on the side sometimes
• 28:09
  I did maybe twice of that
• 28:11
  week or else I'll just get
• 28:13
  a pop some kind of pop okay
• 28:17
  just had to know I think
• 28:19
  they've so Wendy's is
• 28:21
  actually based here in
• 28:22
  Columbus and I and I'm mad
• 28:24
  at them because I think
• 28:25
  they changed the chicken in
• 28:26
  their spicy chicken and
• 28:28
  No, you can't.
• 28:29
  It's so good.
• 28:31
  And the original spicy
• 28:33
  chicken was one of my
• 28:34
  favorite things in the world.
• 28:34
  What's different?
• 28:38
  It's just not as good.
• 28:39
  I think the quality of
• 28:40
  chicken has gone down.
• 28:41
  Oh, that makes me mad.
• 28:43
  Because I love that order so much.
• 28:48
  Yeah.
• 28:48
  I don't go there very often, but when I do,
• 28:50
  that's what I would get.
• 28:51
  And I can't even order it anymore.
• 28:53
  Ugh.
• 28:55
  You better riot or something.
• 28:58
  Back to the normal chicken.
• 29:00
  This must be a Canadian thing.
• 29:02
  Wendy's has pretty good poutine.
• 29:04
  Oh,
• 29:05
  I actually haven't tried their poutine.
• 29:08
  I that's a Canadian thing, right?
• 29:09
  That's cheese curds and
• 29:12
  gravy on fries or something.
• 29:13
  Oh yeah.
• 29:14
  It's so good.
• 29:15
  There was this one place I
• 29:17
  went to in Vancouver after
• 29:19
  some country concert that I went to, uh,
• 29:22
  we got poutine and this poutinery,
• 29:24
  you could get anything.
• 29:25
  I think I got the pierogi, uh,
• 29:27
  poutine or something,
• 29:28
  but they had all of these crazy poutines.
• 29:31
  It was so good.
• 29:34
  Now, pierogies,
• 29:34
  you're talking my language.
• 29:35
  That's a Pittsburgh Polish thing that,
• 29:39
  man.
• 29:39
  Yeah, they're good.
• 29:41
  I miss those so much.
• 29:42
  They have pierogi pizzas in Pittsburgh.
• 29:45
  Oh, yeah.
• 29:46
  Our best pizza place here
• 29:48
  has a pierogi pizza,
• 29:48
  and it's really good.
• 29:50
  We actually just made a
• 29:50
  pierogi casserole the other day.
• 29:52
  We were having Friendsgiving,
• 29:54
  and we just thought, okay,
• 29:55
  what should we bring?
• 29:57
  We had pierogies in the freezer,
• 29:58
  so we looked up recipes and
• 30:00
  found this pierogi casserole.
• 30:03
  it was bomb wow okay um so
• 30:12
  then so then you get to the
• 30:14
  off season you don't
• 30:15
  qualify for rogue right
• 30:16
  because your body has hit
• 30:18
  the wall oh those were some
• 30:21
  crazy workouts um one more
• 30:24
  poutine that is breakfast
• 30:26
  poutine with poached egg is
• 30:27
  life okay that actually
• 30:29
  sounds money sounds bomb
• 30:32
  Yeah, I love poached eggs.
• 30:36
  So then you sign up for
• 30:38
  Desert City Classic,
• 30:42
  where you go and you take second place.
• 30:46
  And I think you actually,
• 30:47
  in your stories on Instagram,
• 30:49
  if I'm remembering correctly,
• 30:50
  you weren't feeling well that weekend.
• 30:52
  I was sick as a dog.
• 30:56
  And so you're fighting
• 30:57
  through this illness.
• 30:59
  And you still come in second place.
• 31:01
  So is the theme of the year now becoming,
• 31:04
  hey,
• 31:04
  I'm proud of myself for fighting
• 31:06
  through whatever it is I
• 31:07
  had to fight through that weekend.
• 31:09
  It still came out okay on the other end.
• 31:12
  Oh, yeah.
• 31:12
  Because then I did another
• 31:14
  competition here in Calgary.
• 31:16
  And I was like, oh, yeah.
• 31:19
  So a day before that.
• 31:21
  I thought okay I'm feeling
• 31:23
  pretty good and then the
• 31:24
  day of a sickness hit me
• 31:27
  and I'm just like am I just
• 31:29
  not supposed to be
• 31:30
  competing right now I mean
• 31:32
  I think I was putting my
• 31:34
  body through the ringer so
• 31:36
  my body probably was just
• 31:38
  like what are you doing to
• 31:39
  me right now so you're
• 31:42
  speaking of battle of the
• 31:43
  barracks yep where you won
• 31:47
  sick and that belt
• 31:50
  If you have followed this podcast, uh,
• 31:55
  we interview all the semifinal athletes.
• 31:57
  So these are my peeps on this,
• 31:59
  on this podium here.
• 32:01
  Um,
• 32:02
  and it was so cool seeing you and Gabby
• 32:05
  and, uh, Amy, is it Amy?
• 32:07
  Yeah.
• 32:08
  Uh, and in the top three, uh,
• 32:10
  because I've talked to you
• 32:11
  guys every year for like three years.
• 32:12
  Yeah.
• 32:12
  They're pretty awesome.
• 32:16
  Um, so I love, I love the sweep.
• 32:19
  but I've got to ask about the belt.
• 32:22
  It's awesome.
• 32:24
  I've wanted it for years.
• 32:26
  And so finally this year I was like, okay,
• 32:28
  I I'm actually here.
• 32:29
  I'm not in Bali.
• 32:30
  So I just went thinking I
• 32:32
  got to get that belt.
• 32:35
  So heavy duty too.
• 32:37
  So it's a real like championship belt.
• 32:40
  Oh yeah.
• 32:42
  She got them custom made.
• 32:46
  Is that the coolest trophy
• 32:47
  you've ever won?
• 32:49
  Yeah, I'd probably say so.
• 32:51
  It's pretty up there for sure.
• 32:53
  Yeah, because usually it's just medals.
• 32:54
  I mean,
• 32:55
  Desert City Classic gave us some
• 32:56
  really cool wooden plaques.
• 32:58
  Those were really nice.
• 33:01
  But that belt is pretty sick.
• 33:05
  Yeah, in all of sports,
• 33:07
  like a championship ring
• 33:10
  would be number one.
• 33:11
  Oh, yeah.
• 33:12
  That'd be cool.
• 33:12
  And then for me,
• 33:13
  number two would be the belt.
• 33:15
  It's pretty kick-ass.
• 33:16
  Okay.
• 33:18
  Now, do you have it displayed?
• 33:21
  Yeah, I do.
• 33:21
  I have like this little area
• 33:24
  in my room that has my
• 33:25
  vision board and then a
• 33:27
  bunch of medals and that is in there too.
• 33:32
  Have you,
• 33:32
  have you worn it around the house
• 33:34
  and just been like, Jake,
• 33:38
  I actually wore it to the
• 33:39
  gym two days later when I
• 33:40
  was coaching and just
• 33:42
  didn't say anything.
• 33:44
  It's like, okay guys,
• 33:45
  we're getting ready to do
• 33:46
  the warmup or whatever.
• 33:47
  And everyone's just looking at me.
• 33:49
  What are you doing?
• 33:51
  Oh, yo.
• 33:52
  Oh, this, this little thing.
• 33:56
  Yeah.
• 33:57
  Established dominance
• 33:59
  wearing that belt in.
• 34:00
  That's awesome.
• 34:03
  Um, so when you did those two, you were,
• 34:06
  you were sick through those two.
• 34:08
  What was your favorite part
• 34:10
  of the two weekends?
• 34:14
  I mean, both of them,
• 34:15
  I got to see friends.
• 34:16
  So I think that was awesome.
• 34:18
  I knew I was going to see
• 34:19
  Gabby and Amy and a bunch
• 34:22
  of other people that I
• 34:23
  haven't seen in a while.
• 34:26
  And then Desert City,
• 34:27
  I got to compete with
• 34:29
  actually the two girls that
• 34:30
  I'm going on a team to Waterpalooza with.
• 34:32
  Tristan came.
• 34:33
  So, yeah,
• 34:34
  it was just awesome being with
• 34:35
  people there.
• 34:38
  um that I love and was it
• 34:40
  your first normal
• 34:41
  competition since the games
• 34:44
  and did it feel normal yeah
• 34:47
  yeah it did it felt pretty
• 34:48
  normal I thought the desert
• 34:50
  city was really well done
• 34:52
  uh well well run and then
• 34:55
  the venue that they were in
• 34:56
  was really cool too so
• 34:59
  Yeah, the one in Arizona,
• 35:01
  that's where they hold Legends as well.
• 35:05
  That Arizona State campus is gorgeous.
• 35:08
  Yeah, it's super cool.
• 35:09
  And the pool right off of
• 35:10
  the two main floors, amazing.
• 35:14
  Yeah, it's the perfect venue.
• 35:15
  That's all you want.
• 35:17
  You got a pool,
• 35:17
  you got two different stages.
• 35:19
  And it has that balcony
• 35:23
  where you can get some
• 35:24
  awesome shots with the camera.
• 35:27
  yeah yeah it's cool and then
• 35:31
  the the calgary one has
• 35:32
  always been a really cool
• 35:34
  competition they're just
• 35:36
  super small and intimate
• 35:37
  they're actually moving to
• 35:38
  a bigger gym which is sad
• 35:40
  in a way I'm so excited for
• 35:41
  them but just how intimate
• 35:43
  this competition has been
• 35:45
  always it's just yeah I I'm
• 35:47
  glad that I got to compete
• 35:49
  there one more time in that
• 35:50
  venue but I am excited for
• 35:53
  them to be in a bigger
• 35:53
  venue it'll be really cool
• 35:56
  CrossFat says you should cut
• 35:57
  some promos and call out
• 35:59
  other Canadian CrossFitters
• 36:00
  with the belt.
• 36:01
  Nice, yeah.
• 36:05
  And then I think he's
• 36:06
  talking about something different than us,
• 36:07
  but he said there's plenty
• 36:08
  of things on ASU campus
• 36:10
  that are gorgeous.
• 36:10
  But I think he's talking
• 36:11
  about something else.
• 36:17
  Yeah.
• 36:19
  So you go to these two events.
• 36:21
  You kind of get back a sense of normalcy.
• 36:24
  You podium at both.
• 36:26
  Kind of get on a roll.
• 36:29
  But then it's time to take a
• 36:30
  break until Wadapalooza.
• 36:32
  Yeah.
• 36:34
  So what then... And while
• 36:37
  you're kind of taking this break,
• 36:39
  news is breaking about a
• 36:41
  new CrossFit game season,
• 36:43
  about a new league that's forming, and...
• 36:48
  And you still have a lot of
• 36:48
  clues on the horizon.
• 36:50
  Like,
• 36:50
  what is your thinking as all this is
• 36:52
  coming out?
• 36:53
  Are you someone that wants
• 36:54
  to take advantage of every
• 36:56
  opportunity if you can?
• 36:58
  Or are you just saying,
• 37:00
  I need to pick my path?
• 37:05
  A bit of both.
• 37:06
  Like, obviously...
• 37:09
  I say yes too many times.
• 37:10
  So I think that's kind of
• 37:12
  what happened with like
• 37:13
  Desert City and then Battle
• 37:16
  in the Barracks as well.
• 37:17
  But I really am glad that I
• 37:19
  went to those two.
• 37:21
  But lately, yeah,
• 37:23
  I haven't even really been
• 37:24
  excited for Waterpalooza.
• 37:25
  I hope it turns around in
• 37:27
  the next week because it's
• 37:28
  literally next week.
• 37:29
  But yeah.
• 37:32
  I think I was just saying
• 37:34
  yes to too many things.
• 37:35
  So for me, with everything coming out,
• 37:38
  I've been trying to be
• 37:39
  smarter in the sense of being like, okay,
• 37:41
  let's just figure out what we need to do.
• 37:45
  Um, rather than just trying to do too much,
• 37:48
  you know what I mean?
• 37:49
  And even with world fitness project,
• 37:50
  it would be cool to do it,
• 37:52
  but I think I might just, you know,
• 37:54
  sit back and see how it goes this,
• 37:56
  this year and then figure
• 37:58
  it out from there.
• 37:59
  Um,
• 37:59
  just because there is so much and I
• 38:01
  still do want to compete at
• 38:03
  the CrossFit games.
• 38:04
  So, um, I don't know,
• 38:07
  it's just a little bit up
• 38:08
  in the air right now.
• 38:09
  So I feel like I'd rather
• 38:11
  focus on what I've always
• 38:13
  tried to focus on.
• 38:15
  which is the games.
• 38:18
  Yeah.
• 38:18
  I, I've, we did a show last,
• 38:21
  my did my Sunday night show
• 38:22
  last night with Carolyn Prevo.
• 38:24
  And we talked about how with
• 38:26
  all this coming out and the,
• 38:28
  and the season becoming
• 38:29
  more jam packed with events
• 38:32
  that as an athlete,
• 38:34
  athletes have been
• 38:35
  clamoring for more
• 38:36
  opportunity and more ways
• 38:38
  to make money and more ways
• 38:40
  to get their name out there.
• 38:43
  But to do that, now that it's here,
• 38:45
  you're going to have to
• 38:46
  change the way you train.
• 38:48
  Because training is going to
• 38:49
  be about who can stay as
• 38:51
  consistently on top for a
• 38:54
  longer part of the year
• 38:56
  than just going into a
• 38:58
  whole training and peaking
• 38:59
  for one opportunity.
• 39:02
  Yeah.
• 39:03
  Which I don't love just
• 39:06
  because I think lately I've
• 39:08
  just been traveling too much.
• 39:10
  So for me, the thought of traveling,
• 39:12
  traveling,
• 39:12
  traveling for all these competitions,
• 39:14
  I just, I'm over it.
• 39:16
  Maybe my, my, you know,
• 39:20
  perspective will change
• 39:21
  later on when I'm not so
• 39:23
  burnt out from just
• 39:24
  traveling and trying to do
• 39:25
  all these things.
• 39:26
  Um, but I love the feeling of, you know,
• 39:30
  training hard for that one thing,
• 39:32
  you know, all year.
• 39:34
  So I don't know,
• 39:36
  it will be different for sure,
• 39:38
  but I don't know if I
• 39:39
  really love the thought of that,
• 39:41
  to be honest.
• 39:42
  Yeah.
• 39:43
  It is a complete mind shift
• 39:45
  for most CrossFit athletes.
• 39:49
  Like other sports,
• 39:50
  that's the way they live, right?
• 39:53
  The NFL plays every single
• 39:55
  week and nobody's a hundred
• 39:56
  percent going into every game.
• 39:59
  Um,
• 40:00
  but also I feel like they probably get
• 40:02
  paid to travel and everything.
• 40:04
  That's the other thing is just,
• 40:06
  it's such a, yeah,
• 40:09
  it's so much to have to travel,
• 40:11
  find accommodation, you know,
• 40:14
  go find your groceries, go find this,
• 40:16
  do all like every, all of that, you know,
• 40:19
  it's a lot.
• 40:21
  And if you're paying out of pocket, I mean,
• 40:23
  I'm grateful for some of my
• 40:25
  sponsors who have
• 40:25
  definitely helped me with these.
• 40:28
  If I didn't have that,
• 40:29
  then I don't know what I would do.
• 40:31
  So it is nice, but it's a lot.
• 40:37
  Yeah,
• 40:38
  I guess until you win a pro card with
• 40:41
  the WFP and you have a
• 40:43
  contract that would pay for
• 40:45
  all of your travel,
• 40:47
  you are kind of on the
• 40:48
  outside trying to get in there.
• 40:50
  I think that makes a great
• 40:51
  storyline of the underdogs
• 40:54
  trying to get to that point.
• 40:57
  So as a media person, I kind of love that.
• 40:59
  Right.
• 41:01
  But I do get...
• 41:04
  and I'm going to pop up this
• 41:05
  question because I think it
• 41:06
  fits in what we've been talking about.
• 41:10
  Have the games lost any luster as a goal?
• 41:14
  Also,
• 41:14
  how does Canada fix its world juniors
• 41:16
  hockey team?
• 41:19
  So for you,
• 41:21
  the games is still your main
• 41:22
  goal right now.
• 41:26
  Yeah.
• 41:26
  Do you think that that is,
• 41:28
  do you think that that is
• 41:30
  the same sentiment for a lot of athletes?
• 41:33
  Honestly, I don't know.
• 41:35
  It's hard to say because you think,
• 41:39
  I feel like the people that
• 41:41
  are signing with the World
• 41:42
  Fitness Project,
• 41:43
  you'd think that maybe
• 41:45
  that's not their goal,
• 41:46
  but then I keep on hearing, oh no,
• 41:48
  you can do both.
• 41:48
  You can do both.
• 41:49
  People will be doing both.
• 41:50
  So I have no idea.
• 41:52
  For me,
• 41:52
  I don't want to lose hope in
• 41:54
  CrossFit just yet.
• 41:56
  It's kind of,
• 41:57
  You know,
• 41:57
  I think I'm so new and maybe I'm naive.
• 42:00
  I don't know.
• 42:00
  But I also just, you know,
• 42:03
  they're still young and
• 42:04
  they're just trying to
• 42:05
  figure themselves out.
• 42:06
  And I get that they have made mistakes,
• 42:08
  but we all make mistakes.
• 42:10
  And I just don't know if we
• 42:11
  need to be throwing them
• 42:13
  into the trash just yet.
• 42:14
  You know what I mean?
• 42:17
  So for me,
• 42:18
  I just still want to strive for
• 42:20
  something that I kind of
• 42:22
  have always wanted.
• 42:24
  strived for and I mean again
• 42:27
  I'm just gonna see how this
• 42:29
  world fitness project goes
• 42:30
  as well and maybe I will
• 42:32
  push for it as well I just
• 42:34
  you know I need to stop
• 42:35
  putting too much on my
• 42:36
  plate though at this point
• 42:39
  yeah I um I'll give you my
• 42:41
  two cents I think that
• 42:42
  there is a a silent
• 42:44
  majority who still think
• 42:45
  the games is the the big
• 42:48
  thing the big deal yeah
• 42:51
  They're just not talking.
• 42:52
  They're not,
• 42:53
  they're just not out there saying it.
• 42:54
  The people that are out
• 42:56
  there talking have like
• 42:58
  maybe a different point of view.
• 43:01
  But I do think that the
• 43:02
  majority of the athletes
• 43:03
  think the games is the, is the peak.
• 43:05
  Yeah.
• 43:07
  What I love about the world
• 43:08
  fitness project is it's
• 43:09
  going to push the
• 43:11
  creativity for CrossFit.
• 43:13
  Because there is going to be
• 43:15
  competition and CrossFit
• 43:16
  won't be the only game in town now.
• 43:18
  They're going to have to
• 43:19
  look at their season and
• 43:20
  maybe streamline it so it
• 43:22
  makes more sense.
• 43:23
  Do you think that they will say, hey,
• 43:27
  you can only do one or the other?
• 43:30
  I don't think we're big
• 43:31
  enough for either side to
• 43:32
  be able to say that at this point.
• 43:36
  I think it has to be both.
• 43:38
  I think it's going to be
• 43:38
  difficult to do both with
• 43:40
  the first tour event being in May,
• 43:42
  right on the same weekend
• 43:43
  as the French throwdown.
• 43:45
  All those European athletes
• 43:46
  lose a qualifying event
• 43:49
  because they have to come
• 43:50
  all the way to Indianapolis to compete.
• 43:53
  Yeah.
• 43:53
  Yeah.
• 43:55
  so I think that that is
• 43:57
  that's really hard um but
• 44:00
  if you you wanted a pro
• 44:03
  event and you wanted all
• 44:04
  these opportunities you're
• 44:06
  gonna have to make a
• 44:06
  sacrifice somewhere to get
• 44:08
  it right um but even if
• 44:13
  world fitness project
• 44:14
  doesn't make it right the
• 44:16
  xfl didn't make it when it
• 44:18
  tried to compete with the
• 44:18
  nfl but they took bits and
• 44:20
  pieces of it that were
• 44:21
  innovative and creative and
• 44:23
  the nfl adopted them
• 44:25
  Yeah,
• 44:26
  and hopefully that's what CrossFit
• 44:27
  would do because, you know,
• 44:29
  you hear all the talks of, oh,
• 44:30
  they don't listen, they don't do this,
• 44:32
  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 44:33
  But I feel like they've made
• 44:34
  little changes, you know,
• 44:37
  maybe trying to listen here and there.
• 44:38
  Maybe not big ones where you
• 44:40
  can... I think it's all a
• 44:42
  vacuum because they've had
• 44:43
  nobody competing against them.
• 44:45
  Yeah.
• 44:46
  Yeah, that's true.
• 44:50
  But maybe we get that finally.
• 44:51
  Yeah.
• 44:52
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  That's just me.
• 44:54
  So I want to talk about the game season.
• 44:57
  So now you have to do the
• 44:59
  open and you have to finish in the top.
• 45:01
  One percent should not be a
• 45:04
  problem for how to can you
• 45:06
  should not be a problem.
• 45:08
  Hopefully let's cross the fingers.
• 45:09
  I don't know.
• 45:11
  You just never know when
• 45:12
  things get squirrely.
• 45:14
  Yeah.
• 45:14
  There are two different ways
• 45:15
  you can qualify.
• 45:17
  You can either do the online semifinal.
• 45:22
  Add an affiliate and that if
• 45:24
  you finish in the top twelve in the world,
• 45:27
  you get a spot to the games.
• 45:29
  Is it twelve or fourteen?
• 45:32
  They just added another in person,
• 45:33
  so it got reduced to twelve.
• 45:35
  Oh, see, I'm so out of it.
• 45:37
  I'm just asking Tristan to
• 45:38
  do all of this for me
• 45:39
  because it's so there's so much.
• 45:43
  I just need to train over
• 45:44
  here and you tell me what to do.
• 45:46
  And then you have the choice
• 45:48
  of going to a handful of
• 45:50
  different in-person events
• 45:54
  where you can compete where
• 45:55
  you'll have to finish in
• 45:56
  the top two to get your
• 45:58
  spot to the games.
• 46:01
  As someone who struggled to
• 46:03
  make it to their first games,
• 46:05
  and they've changed this so wildly,
• 46:09
  what are your thoughts on...
• 46:12
  top two at in-person events
• 46:15
  and top twelve worldwide in
• 46:17
  the online semi?
• 46:20
  I mean, if I don't shit the bed,
• 46:24
  then top two could be attainable.
• 46:27
  Like I did at semifinals.
• 46:31
  No, it is going to be rough, though.
• 46:32
  It's going to be tough
• 46:34
  because online qualifiers, I'm okay,
• 46:38
  but I don't love them.
• 46:40
  So yeah, it's just going to be harder,
• 46:41
  I feel like.
• 46:43
  When you don't know who's
• 46:44
  signing up for each event, right?
• 46:45
  So you don't know what the competition is.
• 46:48
  It's like this wild unknown.
• 46:50
  Yeah.
• 46:51
  And it does.
• 46:52
  Yeah.
• 46:52
  You have to take an account.
• 46:55
  Cause it's like,
• 46:55
  I know a couple of people
• 46:56
  who are going to the one
• 46:57
  that I'm trying for right now.
• 46:59
  And it's just like, okay,
• 47:01
  maybe I could beat them.
• 47:03
  But at the same time, I just,
• 47:05
  I don't know at the same, you know,
• 47:07
  I don't know.
• 47:08
  It's hard,
• 47:08
  but you still got to go and try.
• 47:11
  So I feel like,
• 47:14
  you can do both so I feel
• 47:16
  like I'll probably try to
• 47:17
  do an in-person one and
• 47:19
  online yeah well since you
• 47:22
  say yes to everything you
• 47:23
  can do like five of the
• 47:24
  in-persons uh let's not do
• 47:28
  that my body would just be
• 47:30
  so broken uh your coach is
• 47:34
  here saying wasn't she in
• 47:35
  first till the last event at semis
• 47:39
  If you listen to our year-end show,
• 47:42
  I actually picked her as
• 47:44
  the surprise performance of
• 47:45
  the year for that semifinal
• 47:48
  performance because you
• 47:50
  were unstoppable until you weren't.
• 47:55
  Oh, do you guys got to bring it up?
• 47:57
  Like what is with this?
• 47:59
  Everyone just shut your mouth.
• 48:01
  No, just kidding.
• 48:02
  It was truly one of the most
• 48:04
  amazing performances I've ever seen.
• 48:07
  And my friend was out there killing it.
• 48:10
  It was pretty electric.
• 48:12
  Until the freaking last event.
• 48:16
  Now that last event was
• 48:17
  picked as the most
• 48:19
  brilliantly programmed event of the year.
• 48:22
  Was it?
• 48:23
  Because the length of that
• 48:25
  lunge was such that it
• 48:28
  destroyed some people.
• 48:30
  Yeah.
• 48:31
  And if you messed up once,
• 48:33
  it seemed to compound.
• 48:35
  And that's what happened.
• 48:36
  I got a costly no rep,
• 48:37
  which shouldn't have been a no rep.
• 48:39
  Judge, whoever my judge was, thanks a lot.
• 48:42
  No.
• 48:43
  Yeah.
• 48:46
  Tristan says he's just being a turd.
• 48:47
  I know.
• 48:52
  Canadians in those last events.
• 48:58
  It's funny because you
• 49:00
  finished in a tie for third.
• 49:02
  Even shitting the bed on the last event,
• 49:05
  you finished in a tie for
• 49:06
  third with Ariel Lowen.
• 49:08
  It's true.
• 49:09
  I'm pretty proud of it that
• 49:10
  weekend for sure.
• 49:12
  It was such a weird feeling
• 49:15
  when you know that you're
• 49:15
  going to be making it for sure.
• 49:19
  And then all of a sudden,
• 49:20
  so all I wanted to do was make the games.
• 49:21
  And then when I knew that I
• 49:23
  had a shot at podium, that just changed.
• 49:26
  It was just, I don't know.
• 49:29
  And then I didn't make it onto the podium,
• 49:32
  technically, whatever.
• 49:35
  It was just such a weird feeling.
• 49:37
  I wasn't proud of myself at first,
• 49:39
  but then obviously in
• 49:41
  thinking about it afterwards, it was,
• 49:44
  yeah, I'm proud of myself.
• 49:46
  And you didn't know where
• 49:47
  you stood until someone
• 49:48
  told you right before that last event.
• 49:52
  Yeah.
• 49:52
  Hey, you made it to the games.
• 49:54
  Oh, now my body just relaxed.
• 49:56
  And that's why I didn't
• 49:57
  really go very hard on that last one.
• 50:00
  You were the only person to
• 50:02
  lock up a game spot before
• 50:03
  the last event.
• 50:05
  Yeah, it was pretty cool.
• 50:07
  I just didn't need to know
• 50:08
  it before the last event.
• 50:09
  Yeah.
• 50:11
  That's okay, though.
• 50:15
  Um,
• 50:16
  CrossFit says Brent made a career
• 50:17
  punting final events into the stands.
• 50:20
  He did before he made it.
• 50:23
  He,
• 50:23
  he blew up a couple of times at the end.
• 50:26
  Oh yeah.
• 50:27
  Okay.
• 50:29
  feel like we all have to
• 50:30
  experience it just to know
• 50:31
  what it feels like and then
• 50:33
  that kind of pushes you
• 50:34
  harder and again I needed
• 50:35
  to be a little bit more
• 50:37
  mentally strong in the
• 50:38
  sense of I heard that news
• 50:41
  okay that's amazing I'm so
• 50:43
  proud that I made it but we
• 50:44
  still need to go out there
• 50:45
  and perform you know what I
• 50:46
  mean it wasn't just all of
• 50:48
  a sudden okay rainbows
• 50:50
  lollipops my body is like a
• 50:51
  little rag doll over here
• 50:53
  doesn't know what it's doing
• 50:55
  Well, and thankfully for you,
• 50:56
  you got to learn that
• 50:57
  lesson when it didn't cost
• 50:59
  you a game spot.
• 51:00
  Yeah, for sure.
• 51:02
  You still got to go.
• 51:03
  You still finished third.
• 51:06
  You still got all those things.
• 51:09
  Yeah.
• 51:11
  I, I just was,
• 51:11
  I was riding the high watching you.
• 51:13
  And,
• 51:15
  and then when I saw you fall back on
• 51:18
  that final event,
• 51:19
  like I'm yelling at my TV, Patty,
• 51:22
  pick them up.
• 51:25
  It's funny because when I
• 51:26
  first picked them up, it wasn't that bad.
• 51:29
  I was like, okay, this is the last.
• 51:31
  This is all you got to do.
• 51:33
  It's just it started getting
• 51:34
  hard at that last line,
• 51:35
  and that's why I took the big lunge.
• 51:38
  And then he just called it a no rep.
• 51:41
  But there's video proof that
• 51:43
  I did get past that line.
• 51:47
  So you shouldn't have gotten a rep.
• 51:50
  So another thing that I
• 51:51
  learned as well is that I
• 51:53
  should appeal on,
• 51:54
  because obviously we
• 51:56
  weren't allowed to leave.
• 51:57
  So I should have appealed
• 51:58
  right then and there too.
• 52:00
  And I didn't,
• 52:01
  I didn't ever have experience
• 52:02
  of doing that.
• 52:03
  So I didn't really think about it,
• 52:05
  that you could do that.
• 52:07
  So really I should have just been like,
• 52:08
  Hey, actually that was a rep.
• 52:11
  So now you got to give me my
• 52:12
  time back or whatever.
• 52:13
  Right.
• 52:14
  But it's okay.
• 52:17
  so we're coming to the end
• 52:18
  I'm going to ask you one
• 52:19
  question just overarching
• 52:20
  one of the big major rule
• 52:21
  changes this year for all
• 52:24
  the online portions of the
• 52:26
  game season are that you
• 52:28
  have to make your videos
• 52:29
  public yeah so they are out
• 52:33
  there for everybody in the
• 52:34
  world to see and if you are
• 52:38
  a qualified judge you can
• 52:39
  you actually get the
• 52:40
  opportunity to go in and
• 52:41
  judge the video and give it
• 52:43
  one of the four ratings like good to go
• 52:47
  Take a look.
• 52:49
  Oh, bad,
• 52:50
  but with penalty or something like that.
• 52:52
  And then invalid or one of the other ones,
• 52:57
  zero score.
• 53:00
  So you're going to be judged
• 53:02
  by a group of people doing that.
• 53:05
  And do you think that,
• 53:07
  that I've talked to other
• 53:08
  athletes that are excited about that.
• 53:10
  They feel like other people
• 53:11
  were getting away with
• 53:12
  things and this way it will
• 53:15
  stop that from happening.
• 53:17
  I am a hundred percent with them.
• 53:19
  I think that people do get
• 53:20
  away with things and, you know,
• 53:23
  even the stuff that happened last year,
• 53:25
  it's like, okay, cool, but move better.
• 53:27
  I'm sorry, but you know,
• 53:28
  I take pride in moving really well.
• 53:30
  And yeah, I get no reps too.
• 53:32
  I got a no rep on those box step ups.
• 53:34
  I got one.
• 53:35
  you know, one rep taken away,
• 53:37
  but I still try to move.
• 53:38
  I, I move so well.
• 53:41
  No, just kidding.
• 53:42
  I move pretty good that
• 53:44
  Tristan was screaming at me
• 53:46
  at the desert city classic
• 53:47
  because Amanda and I joke
• 53:49
  around that one of my best
• 53:51
  friends is the one that
• 53:52
  taught me CrossFit.
• 53:53
  And he taught us to move so
• 53:54
  well that we like pause at
• 53:56
  the top of our dumbbell
• 53:58
  snatch to make sure everyone look,
• 54:00
  I'm locking out.
• 54:01
  Okay, next.
• 54:03
  Look, I'm locking out.
• 54:04
  So at Desert City Classic,
• 54:06
  it was thrusters.
• 54:07
  And I do the same thing with
• 54:08
  my dumbbell thrusters where
• 54:09
  I pause and I go down.
• 54:11
  It's not just me like taking a breath.
• 54:13
  It's actually just me
• 54:14
  pausing at the top of every rep.
• 54:16
  And he was yelling at me.
• 54:19
  I just looked at him and I
• 54:20
  was just dying at that point.
• 54:22
  He's like, stop.
• 54:25
  Stop pausing at the top.
• 54:30
  He says,
• 54:30
  these thrusters from Desert City
• 54:31
  will be the death of me.
• 54:33
  So we've been working on them.
• 54:34
  Let's just say that.
• 54:35
  Just being a little bit
• 54:37
  faster with bringing those
• 54:38
  dumbbells down.
• 54:41
  Yeah.
• 54:42
  I had the same thing.
• 54:43
  The first coach I ever had
• 54:44
  in CrossFit was very,
• 54:47
  very hard on your movement.
• 54:50
  And if you didn't make three points of...
• 54:55
  in a line than it wasn't a
• 54:57
  rep and like you got you
• 54:58
  would get no repped in in
• 55:00
  just a class workout all
• 55:01
  the time I mean I would way
• 55:04
  rather that than just try
• 55:05
  to hurry through something
• 55:07
  and not you know and be
• 55:08
  doing quarter reps or
• 55:09
  whatever it is I just I've
• 55:12
  always been like that and
• 55:14
  I'm gonna hold the standard so
• 55:16
  But what I did notice as well,
• 55:18
  and this is where Tristan's coming from,
• 55:20
  my gym would go to local
• 55:21
  comps and we would get beat
• 55:24
  because we were hitting full extension.
• 55:27
  We were hitting.
• 55:29
  And other people weren't
• 55:30
  getting away with it.
• 55:31
  And they were getting away with it.
• 55:34
  Yeah, it is frustrating for sure.
• 55:37
  Sometimes you do have it in
• 55:39
  the back of your head on an online one.
• 55:41
  It's just like.
• 55:44
  should I just not no rep
• 55:45
  myself or you know what I
• 55:47
  mean or should I just go as
• 55:49
  fast as I can and it's okay
• 55:51
  if I'm not fully extending
• 55:52
  but in the end there's
• 55:54
  times on online ones where
• 55:56
  I get a no rep and I'll no
• 55:57
  rep myself and then I'll
• 55:58
  just keep on going you know
• 55:59
  what I mean and it's just
• 56:00
  like okay maybe I didn't
• 56:02
  need to do that if they
• 56:03
  want to take the penalty
• 56:04
  then cool but it's just
• 56:05
  ingrained in my head that
• 56:07
  that's just what I'm going
• 56:08
  to do so whatever
• 56:11
  But yes, I agree,
• 56:13
  and I'm happy that we're
• 56:15
  going to get judged from all the judges.
• 56:20
  So a couple quick hitting questions.
• 56:22
  First of all,
• 56:23
  have you solved the getting
• 56:26
  sick at competitions?
• 56:29
  Or do we have to wait for
• 56:30
  Wadapalooza to find out?
• 56:32
  We're probably going to have
• 56:33
  to wait for Wadapalooza.
• 56:34
  And there you are doing both
• 56:39
  individual and team.
• 56:41
  Yeah.
• 56:42
  If I would have known it was
• 56:43
  six workouts for both,
• 56:46
  I probably would have only
• 56:47
  done one to be honest.
• 56:50
  It's just a lot right now,
• 56:54
  but here we are.
• 56:58
  The good thing is the team,
• 56:59
  you don't have to do every
• 57:01
  aspect of the workout, right?
• 57:02
  Yeah.
• 57:03
  Yeah.
• 57:03
  You get a little more rest for sure.
• 57:07
  Although the first year they
• 57:08
  did this where you could do both,
• 57:11
  I talked to athletes who are like,
• 57:12
  I'm never doing that again.
• 57:13
  But then I saw them signed
• 57:14
  up for both the next year.
• 57:17
  And then they came out with six and six.
• 57:19
  That's wild.
• 57:20
  I feel like they didn't do that last year.
• 57:23
  I think it's been six.
• 57:24
  Well, last year with the weather,
• 57:25
  things got all caught up and everything.
• 57:28
  But I think the intention
• 57:29
  has always been six and six.
• 57:35
  I didn't know that.
• 57:37
  I just assumed they did that this year.
• 57:41
  Hopefully there's a couple sprints.
• 57:43
  Yeah.
• 57:45
  Whatever.
• 57:46
  We'll just get through it.
• 57:46
  We'll eat lots of food.
• 57:49
  Are you excited to work out
• 57:51
  in the sand again?
• 57:53
  Yeah.
• 57:54
  You got some experience with it.
• 57:56
  Oh yeah.
• 57:56
  I actually love it.
• 57:57
  I hope there's a sprint in the sand.
• 58:01
  Three of the events are
• 58:02
  supposed to be in the sand?
• 58:04
  Yes, I heard two or three.
• 58:06
  Two or three, okay.
• 58:09
  And then your team is
• 58:10
  Madison McElhaney and Alisa Shower?
• 58:15
  Alisa, yeah.
• 58:16
  Alisa Shower.
• 58:17
  Yeah.
• 58:18
  And are they both with Tristan?
• 58:21
  Yes, they are.
• 58:22
  Alisa just started with
• 58:24
  Tristan not too long ago.
• 58:27
  Okay.
• 58:27
  Yeah, I didn't recognize the name.
• 58:31
  Yeah, she's Madison's best friend.
• 58:34
  And we all competed at
• 58:36
  Desert City together.
• 58:37
  So it was super cool.
• 58:40
  Are you more excited for
• 58:41
  team or individual?
• 58:43
  I'd say team.
• 58:44
  It's just more fun.
• 58:48
  And I just don't need to be
• 58:50
  going that hard right now,
• 58:51
  but I'm going to have to.
• 58:52
  So we're just going to have
• 58:53
  to nut up and shut up and just do it.
• 58:56
  Did you say nut up and shut up?
• 59:00
  Yeah, I don't even know what that means,
• 59:01
  but I just heard it once.
• 59:06
  Oh my gosh, that caught me off guard.
• 59:09
  Wow, that's a great line.
• 59:12
  You've never heard that before?
• 59:14
  I've probably heard it before.
• 59:16
  I didn't expect it out of you.
• 59:17
  Yep.
• 59:20
  We're going to have to do.
• 59:23
  So you've been to Wadapalooza before.
• 59:25
  Have you competed on the
• 59:26
  elite level there?
• 59:27
  No, I competed RX,
• 59:30
  I think maybe three years ago.
• 59:33
  Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 59:34
  And so like,
• 59:36
  So you're getting all these
• 59:38
  new opportunities because
• 59:40
  you're a games athlete.
• 59:41
  Yeah.
• 59:42
  How has that been?
• 59:43
  It's been good.
• 59:45
  I kind of wish that... So I
• 59:47
  got asked to do the reps
• 59:48
  ahead that day on Thursday,
• 59:51
  but I'm doing elite.
• 59:52
  Or I'm doing individual.
• 59:54
  So I almost wish that I just
• 59:56
  didn't do an individual.
• 59:57
  I would way rather do reps ahead.
• 59:59
  It looks like so much fun.
• 1:00:00
  So I hope that they ask me
• 1:00:02
  to do it again someday.
• 1:00:03
  And they play well.
• 1:00:06
  Yeah.
• 1:00:07
  It's just fun because it's, yeah,
• 1:00:09
  I love the idea of it,
• 1:00:11
  the knockout and its interval stuff,
• 1:00:14
  which I love.
• 1:00:15
  So, yeah.
• 1:00:17
  They do a couple things
• 1:00:18
  better than anybody else.
• 1:00:21
  It's only two people on the floor,
• 1:00:22
  so it's easy to know the story.
• 1:00:25
  Right.
• 1:00:25
  Yeah.
• 1:00:26
  It's fast.
• 1:00:27
  It's like five minutes long.
• 1:00:28
  So if I want to introduce
• 1:00:29
  somebody to CrossFit,
• 1:00:31
  I can show them reps ahead
• 1:00:33
  and it makes sense to them
• 1:00:34
  in one sitting.
• 1:00:36
  Right.
• 1:00:37
  I like that.
• 1:00:38
  Yeah.
• 1:00:39
  And they have these big
• 1:00:40
  counters on screens behind the athletes.
• 1:00:43
  So, you know,
• 1:00:44
  exactly like who's ahead and
• 1:00:46
  who's behind.
• 1:00:46
  Yeah, they do it really well.
• 1:00:48
  they do that really well.
• 1:00:49
  And the fact that there's
• 1:00:50
  guaranteed pay for every
• 1:00:52
  athlete that comes and does it is they've,
• 1:00:55
  they've got something pretty cool there.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:00:59
  So hopefully someday I'll be
• 1:01:01
  able to do that, but yeah,
• 1:01:04
  they've got a lot,
• 1:01:05
  quite the lineup with
• 1:01:06
  hopper and pepper going, uh,
• 1:01:09
  on the men's side and Gazan
• 1:01:11
  and Lawson going on the women's side.
• 1:01:16
  They're having like a,
• 1:01:18
  another one go on because
• 1:01:21
  if I remember correctly,
• 1:01:22
  I was supposed to go
• 1:01:22
  against like Brittany Weiss or something.
• 1:01:26
  Okay.
• 1:01:26
  If I would have done it,
• 1:01:28
  but maybe there's one before,
• 1:01:32
  maybe they're like the pro
• 1:01:33
  lineup or something.
• 1:01:35
  Yeah,
• 1:01:35
  Patrick Clark said last night to
• 1:01:38
  Carolyn that he may be in touch with her.
• 1:01:41
  So that might be a cool Canadian,
• 1:01:43
  Carolyn Prevost and Hattie Canio.
• 1:01:45
  Yeah, that'd be sick.
• 1:01:47
  I'd throw down with Carolyn.
• 1:01:49
  Yeah.
• 1:01:50
  I think you guys would make
• 1:01:52
  a good matchup.
• 1:01:53
  I think so, too.
• 1:01:54
  That'd be good.
• 1:01:55
  You're about the same height.
• 1:01:59
  similar skills in some ways
• 1:02:01
  um uh just hope they don't
• 1:02:03
  put a deadlift in there
• 1:02:04
  because she just is a
• 1:02:05
  monster on that bro I had
• 1:02:07
  to do a qualifier today
• 1:02:08
  with deadlifts and yeah
• 1:02:10
  please don't put deadlifts
• 1:02:11
  in there are you doing the
• 1:02:14
  norcal yeah uh traveling
• 1:02:18
  double unders easy hard
• 1:02:20
  not too bad it's funny
• 1:02:21
  because I've done those so
• 1:02:23
  in um for coaching I will I
• 1:02:27
  will sometimes do that for
• 1:02:29
  uh teaching people double
• 1:02:31
  unders and even single
• 1:02:32
  under so I'll get two line
• 1:02:33
  up and then I'll say okay
• 1:02:35
  let's go down the line just
• 1:02:37
  teaching people you know
• 1:02:38
  technique and um tempo and
• 1:02:42
  whatever it is so I'll have
• 1:02:43
  them go single unders and
• 1:02:45
  then we'll play around with like cross
• 1:02:49
  I'll have people try to go
• 1:02:50
  in a circle single-unders,
• 1:02:52
  and that is really hard.
• 1:02:54
  And then obviously try some
• 1:02:55
  double-unders and stuff like that.
• 1:02:56
  But, yeah,
• 1:02:57
  it's all about timing and stuff.
• 1:03:00
  Rashad wants me to ask about
• 1:03:01
  your pregame warm-up dances.
• 1:03:03
  I know all about those.
• 1:03:04
  Yeah, he knows.
• 1:03:06
  He knows.
• 1:03:07
  Everybody knows that knows Hattie.
• 1:03:09
  A little bit of Disney,
• 1:03:10
  a little bit of G-Eazy.
• 1:03:11
  That's all you need.
• 1:03:12
  And then enough chalk on
• 1:03:15
  your hand to leave a
• 1:03:16
  handprint on your ass
• 1:03:17
  before every lifting event.
• 1:03:19
  Yep.
• 1:03:19
  A hundred percent.
• 1:03:22
  It was funny yesterday.
• 1:03:23
  I was on Thursday.
• 1:03:24
  I was coaching and one of the guys said,
• 1:03:28
  Hey, were you cleaning earlier?
• 1:03:30
  And I was like, Oh yeah, I was.
• 1:03:33
  He's like, yeah,
• 1:03:33
  I know because you have
• 1:03:34
  slap marks on your butt.
• 1:03:38
  Oh, okay.
• 1:03:39
  It's like, how did you know that?
• 1:03:46
  Make me laugh.
• 1:03:46
  And then I cough.
• 1:03:48
  Sometimes you just got to
• 1:03:49
  slap your own butt, you know?
• 1:03:51
  Sometimes.
• 1:03:52
  That's just what it takes to
• 1:03:53
  get through a day.
• 1:03:54
  Yeah.
• 1:03:55
  And do a little dance, of course.
• 1:03:57
  Yeah.
• 1:03:58
  I did that this morning at ten a.m.
• 1:03:59
  just to get through a meeting.
• 1:04:01
  Did a little dance or slapped your butt?
• 1:04:02
  Butt.
• 1:04:02
  Oh, perfect.
• 1:04:04
  Yeah.
• 1:04:06
  It just gave me enough
• 1:04:07
  energy to get through that.
• 1:04:08
  It really does.
• 1:04:09
  It just shocks the system all of a sudden.
• 1:04:11
  Whoa, hello.
• 1:04:12
  Okay.
• 1:04:15
  Try it out, everybody.
• 1:04:16
  But, you know.
• 1:04:18
  sorry it's better when I
• 1:04:19
  have my wife do it oh of
• 1:04:21
  course um when is hattie
• 1:04:25
  upgrading her phone I don't
• 1:04:27
  think it's her phone I
• 1:04:28
  think it's just no he's
• 1:04:30
  talking about when I was on
• 1:04:32
  um kill taylor I think are
• 1:04:35
  you talking about that
• 1:04:36
  jeremy because I have an
• 1:04:37
  android I get it all my
• 1:04:39
  family hates me because I
• 1:04:40
  have an android but I'm not
• 1:04:42
  switching so give it a rest
• 1:04:47
  I forgot you tried to kill Taylor.
• 1:04:49
  Did you have fun?
• 1:04:51
  Yeah, it was fun.
• 1:04:52
  I knew it was going to be a really,
• 1:04:53
  really hard one to beat him
• 1:04:55
  because there was ring muscle-ups.
• 1:04:56
  Like, I am good at ring muscle-ups,
• 1:04:57
  just not under that much fatigue.
• 1:04:59
  So, yeah, it was fine.
• 1:05:03
  I wish I would have done the
• 1:05:04
  Toast of our Snatch one
• 1:05:06
  that he had a few weeks prior,
• 1:05:08
  the Ariel Lowen one,
• 1:05:09
  because that one would have
• 1:05:10
  been a lot of fun.
• 1:05:11
  But I'll try it again sometime.
• 1:05:13
  It's a cool concept.
• 1:05:14
  I love that they do that.
• 1:05:16
  was watching and I saw you
• 1:05:17
  pop on and I immediately
• 1:05:19
  texted tristan and him and
• 1:05:20
  I were texting back and
• 1:05:21
  forth um like we have a
• 1:05:23
  shot can she do it and he's
• 1:05:24
  like it's gonna have to be
• 1:05:27
  like a perfect day for her
• 1:05:28
  to pull it off yeah and it
• 1:05:31
  was not those ring
• 1:05:32
  muscle-ups got hard real
• 1:05:34
  quick yeah that happened to
• 1:05:37
  not just you a lot of
• 1:05:38
  people yeah taylor's just
• 1:05:40
  really good at muscle-ups oh he's insane
• 1:05:44
  And just someone in your corner, T-Bird,
• 1:05:46
  Android is the way.
• 1:05:47
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:48
  That's what I'm talking about.
• 1:05:51
  Well, Hattie,
• 1:05:52
  I've kept you for an hour and
• 1:05:54
  we like to not do that more than an hour.
• 1:05:57
  I'm going to let you go,
• 1:05:58
  but thank you so much for
• 1:06:00
  helping me get back on the horse,
• 1:06:02
  interviewing athletes.
• 1:06:03
  This was awesome.
• 1:06:05
  And as always, I learned so much from you.
• 1:06:08
  I appreciate you so much.
• 1:06:09
  And I'm glad that you asked
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  me because I've been waiting,
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  but I haven't wanted to
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  push or anything either.
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  So I'm just really happy
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  that we got to chat.
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  Um, yeah.
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  So with that,
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  thank you so much for being here.
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  We'll stay in touch of course.
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  And I'm sure you'll be back
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  on the show in no time.
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  Um, with that, everybody,
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  thank you for being here
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  and being so participatory in the chat.
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  It was awesome having you
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  guys here tonight and we'll
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  see everybody next time on
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  Clydesdale interviews.
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  Bye guys.