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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Final Thoughts Going into the Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to a hotel room in
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the middle of albany new
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york it's lunchtime let's
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get it on all right
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lunchtime at the games
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amanda has it right whoops
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there you go lunchtime at the games
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Yes, Barry, I made it.
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I made it last, yesterday afternoon,
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a little bit.
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But it was a crazy drive up here, man.
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Like the first day went great.
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The second day, not so much.
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Thriving metropolis of Albany, New York.
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Yeah, I don't even,
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I was trying to figure out
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like what I could compare it to.
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It's definitely smaller than Columbus,
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Ohio.
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It's... I don't know.
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It's got a nice, healthy piece of downtown,
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I guess.
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I don't know how I would describe it.
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It's really weird.
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What happened second day?
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I don't know, Judy,
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like it felt like time was
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standing still as I was driving here.
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It just, for some reason,
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never got quicker.
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It just,
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we were rolling along and every
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time I looked at the clock,
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every time I looked at the mileage,
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it didn't seem to move.
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I don't know if it was just
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my excitement of trying to
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get here and trying to
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figure all that out, but man,
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just took forever.
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Then I got here.
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I'm a Bonvoy member of Marriott.
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So I had checked in on my phone,
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brought my phone up to open the door.
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Couldn't it wouldn't open the door.
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So I'm sitting there with a
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cart full of equipment and
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my luggage and no way to get in the door.
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Had to call front desk for help.
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I don't know.
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Just crazy.
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uh I appreciate the daily
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updates no breaks anything
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for the fans you know it I
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just want to hang out with
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you guys man just because
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I'm on the road doesn't
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mean I don't want to hang
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out so yeah good news is
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the drive back is always
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shorter yeah I don't think
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so I'm gonna be really
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tired by the end of this weekend
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So I'm working on a couple projects.
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Going to try to get some
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content out in the next day or so.
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Last night I hung out with
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Hattie over dinner.
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Got to talk to her about a lot of stuff.
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So that's got off to a good start.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's going pretty well.
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As Bruce said,
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it is pouring down rain up here.
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Like, it's not just raining.
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It is coming down in sheets.
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Got to the arena today.
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Got the press credential.
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Got the sparkly enhanced band.
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And then the arena was
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closed for everybody.
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So wasn't even able to get
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inside to see anything.
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Sorry,
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just got back to the room a little
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bit ago.
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wasn't able to see inside
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much uh if you go outside
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the arena one of the
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streets pearl street
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completely shut down vendor
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village it looks like is
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being built there looks
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pretty massive um I hope
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there's more I hope there's
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more so jody lynn that
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cough yeah um what's funny
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is since I've been here
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it's actually gone away completely
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until I tried to talk into a
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microphone um I had the
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best night of sleep I've
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had gosh in months last
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night um weather
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weather.com has a forecast
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of five percent chance of
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rain tomorrow they are
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outside the rowers could
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get affected by weather I'm
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hoping that they can get
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that one in in the morning um
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I haven't seen any announcements.
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I know that the athletes
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were taken out to Jennings
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Landing this morning where
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they got to see where they
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were going to line up,
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where all the stuff would be.
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They did that in the rain.
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So I'm assuming if they're
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going to do that in the rain,
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they might as well do the
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event in the rain.
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I just don't know what
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effect that would have on
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the on the rowers.
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And would the rowers even be
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usable after that?
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And those fan blades would
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just be spraying the
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athlete nonstop for those
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three thousand meters.
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See,
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I have no idea if there's going to be
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contingency or not.
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Not a clue.
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Will there be anything going
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on after dinner to walk around and see?
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I don't think so.
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I think today they've pretty
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much shut everything down.
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They're just letting people
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get set up in that vendor village area.
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I think from a CrossFit perspective,
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there's really just not much going on.
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Kevin Doyle making jokes.
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They may not need the ice baths after all.
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It is not warm here right now.
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uh sixties maybe sixties
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with pouring down rain um
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if this is what they're
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running in they're not
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gonna they're not gonna
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have to worry about
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overheating at all lido
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full of optimism they just
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need to cover the pms
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screens and it'll be fine
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it'll be fine it's all fine yeah um
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yeah so got to the arena got
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my passes got shown kind of
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where I'm allowed to be how
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to get to the sidelines
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during an event how to get
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back to the back um it
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looks like there's an area
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we have to be escorted
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through to get from
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sideline to the back area
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so that's going to be
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interesting um we'll see how that goes
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I did today get my first selfie request,
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but I don't think it was
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for being a podcaster.
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It was actually Jethro,
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owner of Chief Nation CrossFit.
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We were both wearing Mets hats,
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so he wanted to get a
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selfie of the two of us
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wearing a Mets hat.
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Rain shouldn't affect anything.
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They did the run, swim, run in the rain.
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Rowers will be fine.
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I think the only thing is
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the fan will probably spit
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water at the athletes.
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That's about it.
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Just watch the Hiller video.
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Clearly the town is very up
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to speed and jazzed about
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the games being in their town.
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Yeah.
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Those who know about it.
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I actually,
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my Uber ride back from the venue was,
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My Uber driver wanted to
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know everything about CrossFit.
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And everything was like, that's cool, bro.
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That's cool, bro.
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Bro, you're kidding me, bro.
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I'm like, yeah.
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So he actually, after I told him about it,
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I think wants to buy
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tickets and come see it.
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But everything was a bro at the end.
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But it made for a quick Uber
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ride back from the venue.
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Take lots of photos, please.
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I'm having FOMO.
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You need to live vicariously
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through your posts.
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Well,
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I have actually kind of two
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photographers going this weekend.
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And then myself,
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we're all going to be
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equipped with cameras.
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So we should have lots of
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stuff coming out through the channel.
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If you followed any of the
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events this year,
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eCaptures has been shooting
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for me all year.
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And he's going to be
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shooting for me this weekend.
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So he does a great job
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giving an artistic flair to the photos.
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So I'm jazzed about that.
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He's jazzed, bruh.
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You should have matched his
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bro with your jazzed.
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I should have, I should have,
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should have been thinking
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could have promoted the show.
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Could have promoted the show.
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Uh,
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Albany seems to have more of a
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Woodstock vibe than an NYC vibe.
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Yeah.
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I'm not sure we're all the
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way to Woodstock.
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Uh,
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tell you it it almost feels
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like jersey and I know
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that's probably like a big
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big slap in the face to the
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people in albany uh jose
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reina uh just watched the
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kalipa podcast topic is
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anyone watching the
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crossfit games I am not
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concerned about everybody
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else uh but I'm watching for sure
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Crystal, thank you for the updates.
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Are you covering the Masters
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too later this month?
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Yes.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Masters are my people.
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I'm not ever going to leave them behind.
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I'm doing a full behind the
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scenes of the Masters CrossFit Games.
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So that is still happening.
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Jamie is competing.
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Carolyn is competing.
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They are both ranked very
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high going into this games.
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So it's going to be fun to
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watch the leaderboard and
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see how they do.
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My guy,
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Brett Owsley is going to be at the
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games as well.
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He was one of the stars last year.
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Yeah, buddy.
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So jazzed.
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So yeah,
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do you really think there's a
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problem that people won't
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be watching the games?
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I mean,
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if we're to believe what the WFP said,
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they had a half a million
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people watch the WFP online.
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Now you have the option to
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watch on the Zone,
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an app where it's super easy to watch.
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You have YouTube.
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I know Barbell Spin put out
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something this morning
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about all the ways you can watch.
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There's actually four
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different ways you can
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watch the CrossFit Games.
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They're not blacking out
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anything for anybody.
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Everything is going to be covered.
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All the events will be covered.
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Crystal, awesome.
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My husband is competing too,
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and I hope to meet you.
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Love to meet everybody.
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The road to the games they
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have posted seem to have
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gotten a good amount of views.
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Yeah, I looked at the numbers.
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Like the Danielle Brandon,
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Annika Greer one was over a
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hundred K. All of them were
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pretty much over fifty K,
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somewhere at eighty.
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So they're doing pretty good, I would say.
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And those aren't even like
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the competition.
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Those are just the stories.
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Oh, yeah.
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Denise Moore is going to be
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at the Masters CrossFit Games.
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Can't forget about her.
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Benita's so obsessed that
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she takes vacation days to watch.
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Hiller's video from today
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reminds us that the public
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at large is undefeated.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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What I saw today was a lot
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of what you've seen in Hiller's videos.
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I'll say that.
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Um,
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the highlight of my day is I was
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checking in,
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I went to check in and there
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was Amanda Hari, uh,
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one of my best friends in the,
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in the media space.
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It was awesome to catch up with her.
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Um, hoping to do dinner with her tonight.
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And one of my first features
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coming out is going to be a
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profile on her.
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Um,
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because she does things very
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differently than most of us
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in this space.
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And I want to give you a
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glimpse at how she sets it up,
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where she goes to do it,
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how she records those updates,
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because it's wild, man.
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If you saw how she sets
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those up and talks into the camera,
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it's pretty wild.
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So I think one of my first
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features coming out, vignettes,
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will be a short little
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profile on Amanda Hari.
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So we'll do that.
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I have some other ideas.
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I need to catch up with Allison today.
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Lots on the to-do list today.
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Lots on the to-do list today.
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Because tomorrow we crank it up, man.
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Did she have her doggy?
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Leave her doggy?
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She left her doggy for sure.
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And that is always a tough thing for her.
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Amanda's great.
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I've been watching her for a
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couple of years.
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That'll be great.
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Isn't she an actual
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journalist or reporter?
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She is.
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She was actually telling me
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today that because of an
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earthquake in Russia,
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she was actually sent to
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the coast because they were
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under a tsunami warning to
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do some reporting on a
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tsunami in Northern California.
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And it turned out that nothing happened.
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So yeah.
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I've requested enhanced access.
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When will they let me know if I got it?
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Joseph, I think you're SOL.
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I will say,
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while I was getting my enhanced
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access and talking to Amanda,
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one Miss Lauren Khalil walked in.
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I don't think she saw me.
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Okay.
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She didn't say hi or anything.
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I am kind of small and tiny.
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Tiny Clydesdale over there
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in the corner probably
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didn't even see me.
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But she's here.
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So I did get to see her today.
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I got to see the fittest photographer.
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He's one of my favorite
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people in the media space.
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And got to talk to him.
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Interesting story from him.
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Maybe at some point I'll share that.
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Maybe another time.
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I won't.
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I don't know.
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But, man,
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it is really pounding home some
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of the things I've been
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talking about over the last
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couple weeks about the WFP.
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And he filled me in on some stuff.
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Corey says, yeah,
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you're pretty easy to miss, Scott.
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I know.
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I know.
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I'm just this twig of a
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human over there in the corner.
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Meredith,
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I really enjoy Amanda's
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level-headed approach to
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covering the sport.
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She's awesome.
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And I really want to, you know, she...
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She gets great numbers.
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She does really well.
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She doesn't need me to promote her.
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I just want people to know
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like all the work she puts
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in and works a full-time
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job on top of it.
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And because of her full-time job,
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She there's things she can
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and cannot do while
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reporting on CrossFit.
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And so she has to ride this
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balance line between the whole thing.
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And I want I want people to
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see like she has a true
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love and passion for this,
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because if she didn't,
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she wouldn't have to do it.
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And the hurdle she has to
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overcome to do that, make it even harder.
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um what did you think about
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the uniforms I thought the
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fits look pretty good I
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think if you look like
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those men do the fits were
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perfect if you look like me
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you'd look like a beanbag
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sack on the floor
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Fergie says,
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Lauren has been poisoned by
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Tommy and Sean.
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She used to be so straight news,
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and now she buys into the
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woke CrossFit nonsense.
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I can't go down that road.
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Sean and Tommy have been
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nothing but kind to me in
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my career in the space.
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Tommy had my back early on
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when nobody else did.
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So I am not going to put her
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in that and lump her in with that.
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I think it's other things.
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And her and I have had this conversation.
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She reached out to me last week.
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We DM'd back and forth several times.
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We had a very brutally
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honest conversation about my thoughts,
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about her thoughts.
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And hopefully that it ends
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whatever beef there may or
19:17
may not have been.
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But she's not the only bad
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person in this space either.
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There's a lot of people who
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get away with a lot.
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And it looks like all of
19:30
that is changing under this
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regime of media people.
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And that's the karma I was talking about.
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She is one of them.
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She isn't all of them.
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And so we'll...
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We'll see how it goes.
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Again, her and I had a conversation.
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We talked it out.
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I don't know if we came to
19:55
an agreement on anything,
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but she knows how I feel.
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I know how she feels.
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My hubby and I appreciate
20:11
all you do for the media
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space along with Seve Hiller and gang.
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We aren't able to attend the games,
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but are beyond stoked to watch.
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Did Carolyn get her sorted out,
20:26
her uniform?
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I don't know.
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She's been so busy,
20:31
and I've been embedded with
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Hattie for so much,
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I have not seen Carolyn yet in person.
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Just when I get into tech strings,
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and she's been MIA because
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of other things there,
20:44
they've really kept them busy.
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Hattie kind of described it to me as...
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sensory overload um they get
20:53
here they're kind of moved
20:55
around a lot in and out of
20:57
different temperatures um
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and then like it was
21:01
inducing headaches and
21:03
things like that and so
21:06
hopefully today they all
21:07
get to kind of take a
21:08
breath reset before it ramps up tomorrow
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We saw Carolyn in her tank.
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Definitely not enough physique.
21:22
She hates wearing those tanks, man.
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I know she has requested full shirts.
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I don't know what's happening there.
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Belites also selling a three
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hundred seventy five pound backpack.
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We thought Noble was expensive.
21:46
Have you seen the backpack?
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It's got magnets that hold
21:50
everything in place.
21:51
It is completely waterproof.
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I love my Vindicate backpack,
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and I love it to death.
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But if I was doing
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photography stuff all the time,
22:05
I would get one of those
22:06
waterproof backpacks to
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protect my equipment.
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That would be why I would want that.
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Now, do I need it for my Metcons and...
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uh my wrist straps I don't
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know uh trade olive carolyn
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showed off the guns yeah I
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don't know did you see the
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footage of her going up the
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pegboard she went up that
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like it was nothing
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Brandon Lecoq, that backpack is dope,
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totally worth it.
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Yeah,
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Hattie Hatter's in the room last night.
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It's pretty damn sweet.
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How jazzed would Carolyn be
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if they fitted her for
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skates for one of the events?
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I think jazzed is a great word,
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and I embrace it,
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but she would be more than jazzed.
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Um,
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they can only produce a limited number
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of them too.
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That's why they're so expensive.
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That's what the owner said
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on Pedro's interview a while ago.
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There you go.
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Kevin Doyle,
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I ordered a skipping rope and
23:49
lifting belt from the
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Community Cup gift card.
23:52
The belt was too small and
23:53
the return process couldn't
23:55
have been easier.
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That's awesome.
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Customer service is hard to find, man.
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Especially with the shots of
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the athletes sitting out in
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the pouring rain,
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I bet that backpack was coming in handy.
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There you go.
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What I find interesting is
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they have to wear their
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uniforms all the time now.
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Whenever they're on site or
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whenever they're at a briefing,
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they only get so many uniforms.
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And then you take them out
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to Jennings Landing this morning.
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In the pouring down rain,
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they're getting soaked.
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And that's one of their uniforms.
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So I guess you go back to
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your hotel or Airbnb and
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you hang it in the shower
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and hope it dries for one of the events.
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I know like Hattie was
25:15
trying to figure out,
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she got nine outfits.
25:20
There's ten events.
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One is a double,
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so she can wear the same for those two.
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And the back squat probably
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doesn't make her sweat very much.
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So she's sitting there, like,
25:31
trying to figure out how
25:32
she's going to work this
25:33
out so that she can wear a dry outfit,
25:37
a dry, clean outfit for every event.
25:43
Joseph Ramirez,
25:43
it is not two hundred different pieces.
25:46
It is, I think, nine...
25:49
nine shorts nine shirts uh
26:04
have a safe trip brandon
26:07
yeah I don't know of
26:08
anything going on tonight
26:11
what I'm trying to do is
26:12
meet up with alice and
26:14
scuds meet up with ishmael
26:17
my photographer
26:19
meet up with amanda to start
26:20
her profile those are
26:22
things I have on my uh on
26:26
my agenda fiona yeah yeah
26:35
that's stupid the outfit
26:37
should be for the events
26:38
only yeah it is in the the
26:41
agreement that once on site
26:44
you have to wear your
26:44
uniforms to every briefing every event
26:49
everything that goes on
26:59
Carolyn did say they gave
27:00
her a twenty percent
27:01
discount code if she needed
27:02
more gear I know she did
27:05
make a request for four
27:06
t-shirts I do know that she
27:08
did that I don't know where
27:10
we stand with that but I'm
27:12
interested to see what happens
27:21
Yeah, Lito, sadly,
27:22
it's a lot more than what
27:23
you get for Masters,
27:25
and you guys have four days
27:26
of competition.
27:33
What event are you looking
27:34
forward to the most?
27:35
For me, it's the back squat.
27:37
That is my home run.
27:38
That is my jam.
27:39
That is something that I
27:40
could maybe compete with.
27:43
It's probably the only thing
27:45
in my arsenal that I could
27:46
actually compete with.
27:48
And so I'm anxious to see
27:49
what the numbers these guys put up are.
27:58
Any reason they shortened
27:59
the games this year?
28:00
It used to be a five-day party.
28:02
I mean, sports event.
28:05
I think just with everything
28:06
that happened last year,
28:08
probably signing the contracts,
28:10
getting the venues just
28:12
happened a lot later.
28:15
than anticipated which
28:17
limited options so I don't
28:22
know I don't know what's
28:30
the time here it is twelve
28:32
forty five I think twelve forty three
28:43
Pretty sure that has been
28:44
the case for years.
28:44
I recall seeing athletes in
28:45
uniforms at briefings.
28:47
It has been the case for years, Andrew.
28:49
I think they got a lot more
28:50
uniforms in the past, though.
28:52
I think Reebok and Noble
28:54
really went overboard with options.
28:58
And there was stuff.
29:00
I know when Christy came
29:02
home from the games at our gym,
29:04
there was stuff she never
29:05
even took the tags off of.
29:07
They got so much stuff.
29:11
she would actually take that
29:12
stuff and donate it to gym
29:13
members uh her jerseys and
29:16
shorts and stuff like that
29:18
that she didn't use belites
29:30
has games t-shirts for sale
29:31
but won't ship until
29:32
december that's freaking insane
29:37
There is a revenue stream
29:40
that CrossFit has been
29:41
missing out on for years,
29:45
and that is jersey sales.
29:48
If you're coming to these events,
29:50
you have a favorite athlete,
29:52
you want to support your favorite athlete,
29:54
go to any other sporting event,
29:56
look in the stands,
29:57
and people are wearing the
29:58
jersey of their favorite
29:59
team and their favorite player.
30:01
And we don't even give the
30:03
option to do that in CrossFit.
30:06
which is asinine.
30:09
They are screen printed t-shirts.
30:12
How hard is it to run a
30:14
bunch of those for people who want them?
30:19
And now you can't even get a
30:20
generic game shirt until December.
30:23
Who wants to celebrate that
30:25
they went to the games five months later?
30:39
uh thoughts on the back
30:41
squat format my hope is
30:44
that they have like they
30:46
did with the sandbag clean
30:48
that they have four lines
30:51
people come up they make
30:52
their attempt within thirty
30:54
seconds and then they go
30:56
back the next person comes
30:57
up and then as people are
30:59
eliminated you do a tie
31:01
breaker to see who wins the
31:03
tie breaker and then you
31:05
just keep it moving as you
31:06
get to less and less people
31:08
Then you move the racks down
31:10
to two or one or whatever it needs to be.
31:25
The five days was including age groups.
31:27
Take those out.
31:28
It cuts it to two days.
31:30
Yeah,
31:30
I don't know if we're down to that much,
31:32
but...
31:49
I like three-day events.
31:50
The athletes might go harder
31:52
knowing they only have
31:52
three days competition and not five.
32:00
Doesn't Noble still owe people jerseys?
32:02
How does it take them so
32:04
long to print a jersey?
32:05
It's a screen-printed T-shirt.
32:08
Do you have the blank shirts?
32:10
You just screen-print it on
32:11
there and you're done.
32:14
Mind-boggling.
32:24
Yeah, same with me, Trey Olive.
32:26
Waterpalooza,
32:26
I ordered two jerseys to have
32:29
signed and put in my backdrop.
32:33
They took forever to get here.
32:35
It was well after
32:36
Waterpalooza when I got them.
32:38
Maybe, like,
32:39
that was when it was in January.
32:40
Maybe got them in March.
32:43
It was ridiculous.
32:46
Sotir couldn't keep up.
32:47
Noble couldn't keep up.
32:53
Yes, Andrew.
32:55
It's not difficult to do
32:56
custom shirts in an event.
32:57
Rogue does it.
33:00
At the Rogue Invitational,
33:02
they do custom shirts all weekend long.
33:29
Did you all see holy balls discount?
33:31
Twenty five percent.
33:32
I did not.
33:34
My wife has been making holy
33:35
balls forever.
33:38
I think it's just peanut butter,
33:40
protein powder, a little bit of honey.
33:45
Maybe some chia seeds.
33:49
And then she either puts and
33:50
I think some raisins.
34:00
At the twenty three games,
34:01
Noble sold out athlete jerseys,
34:03
but they sold out quick.
34:04
Yeah, because there's a demand.
34:08
A demand.
34:08
Wow.
34:09
Can you imagine that?
34:21
Most businesses look at the
34:22
demand and then they try to
34:23
meet that demand.
34:25
Apparently not in the apparel of CrossFit.
34:32
Is that a Hattie shirt?
34:34
It is.
34:36
Howdy, can you Wow.
34:49
Agree, Scott,
34:50
they're missing on huge
34:51
opportunity with shirts so much.
34:55
They've known who the Games
34:56
athletes were going to be
34:58
for a while now.
35:00
They could have had template
35:01
design and ready months ago
35:03
and just produced them once
35:04
they had the names.
35:08
Yeah.
35:10
Honestly, like,
35:11
go watch Rogue at one of
35:14
the Rogue events.
35:16
And they have the screen
35:18
print on the paper that
35:20
they use or whatever.
35:22
And they grab the blank shirt.
35:23
They grab the template.
35:25
They put the iron press on it right there.
35:31
And it's done.
35:32
So you're not overprinting shirts.
35:34
You're just meeting the
35:35
demand in a customized way.
35:42
Vindicate to the rescue.
35:44
I think Travis would want
35:45
more than just that as an opportunity.
35:48
He'd want some other assurances probably.
35:54
Where is Kill Taylor happening?
35:56
I don't know.
35:58
I don't know.
35:58
I didn't get to see anybody today.
36:00
I got to see Amanda.
36:02
As I said, I saw Lauren walk by me.
36:06
But the venue was closed to us today.
36:10
We couldn't even get in and see anything.
36:17
Brandon says, Lupe,
36:19
I think it's at their
36:19
Airbnb if they can't get
36:20
equipment at the venue.
36:29
Ryan Aldrich says,
36:30
the Holy Balls ones hit a bit different.
36:32
The ratios are perfect.
36:34
Well,
36:34
hopefully they're here this week and
36:35
I'll try one.
36:36
I've never had one.
36:43
Do you need to get
36:43
permission of some sort to
36:45
put athletes on shirts?
36:47
Maybe that's what the issue is.
36:51
The only permission you
36:52
would need to do is to get
36:55
the CrossFit Games logo on
36:57
to make it look like a real jersey,
36:59
you'd have to get
37:00
permission from CrossFit.
37:01
So they would get a cut.
37:03
And then lately,
37:04
they've been giving
37:05
athletes a cut of the profits.
37:07
And that's how you get them
37:08
to agree to do it.
37:11
It's not overly complicated.
37:14
And in other sports,
37:15
they're not cheap because
37:18
the cuts go to the league.
37:19
The cut goes to the athlete.
37:21
So they're not cheap.
37:22
But, my gosh, at the twenty-three games,
37:24
I think, or twenty-two,
37:26
people were fighting over
37:28
Justin Medeiros jerseys.
37:30
It was insane when they did that.
37:32
That's how big the demand was.
37:37
Heidi, it was a Kleenex,
37:38
not a dryer sheet.
37:52
think it is a vendor issue
37:53
for sure oh no they're not
38:06
here hopefully next year
38:11
kill Taylor was moved to five p.m.
38:22
Yeah, just like college and NFL,
38:24
player gets a percentage.
38:30
Any possible twists this weekend?
38:31
I don't think we're going to see much.
38:33
I think that Dave is just
38:37
enjoying going back to the
38:38
roots of straight-up CrossFit.
38:49
The old bait and switch.
38:51
Belites had an ad running
38:54
for thirty five percent off.
38:56
But the code is for ten percent off.
39:00
Isn't that something?
39:02
Just like used car dealerships.
39:04
The old bait and switch.
39:09
Weight vest predictions.
39:14
I'm not good at the programming stuff.
39:16
That's why I have Carolyn and Jamie.
39:19
I don't really understand it
39:21
as well as they do,
39:23
but I'm guessing it's in
39:24
that double workout that we
39:26
don't know yet.
39:34
Scott spells league, league.
39:37
Yep, I do.
39:49
going to be awesome straight
39:50
up crossfit this year they
39:52
just need one of those
39:53
machines to press athletes
39:55
names on shirts what am I
39:56
missing any travel sports
39:58
tournament has those yeah I
40:00
think they do have to get
40:01
permission if you want it
40:02
to look just like the
40:03
jerseys of the games
40:04
athletes you have to get
40:05
the crossfit logo you have
40:07
to so you probably have to
40:08
get permission from them
40:10
give them a percentage give
40:11
the athletes a percentage
40:12
to use their name and then
40:14
you're probably gold
40:20
trained all of things
40:21
gymnastics with the vest.
40:32
Joseph wants to turn this
40:33
into a radio contest here
40:35
at hot FM one Oh one.
40:38
People are gonna be wearing
40:39
a weight vest all day the
40:40
last to remove it wins.
40:43
Can you wear a weight vest
40:44
going to the can?
40:53
John George wants to know
40:54
what the app streaming the games.
40:55
It is DAZN.
41:00
D-A-Z-N.
41:01
DAZN.
41:04
It's been around for a few years.
41:07
It's really known as like a
41:09
fight app with a lot of
41:10
boxing and MMA type stuff.
41:14
But they're dabbling into other sports.
41:17
I really think...
41:22
I really think it's a good
41:22
partnership for CrossFit.
41:26
What am I most excited to
41:28
cover this weekend?
41:30
Well,
41:30
my biggest project is the Hattie project,
41:33
and that is being embedded
41:34
with her for the entire
41:36
weekend and making a full
41:38
documentary of what it's
41:39
like to be a games athlete
41:41
at the CrossFit Games.
41:45
Last night I filmed her
41:47
asking questions while she
41:49
was eating her pasta.
41:54
Here in a minute we're going
41:55
to go to her room when
41:57
she's getting body work done.
41:59
We're going to talk to her
41:59
body work guy and her during that time.
42:05
Going to get some stuff with
42:05
her coach Tristan.
42:08
And then it's going to be
42:09
full behind the scenes all
42:10
weekend with everything going on.
42:22
Any reason to use the app
42:23
instead of YouTube?
42:25
Well,
42:25
I think the reason the app is
42:26
important is it's available
42:27
in one hundred and fifty countries.
42:30
And there's no blacking out with it.
42:39
So.
43:12
sorry it's going to help out
43:15
that there's no app or
43:16
there's an app that's going
43:17
to help with global
43:18
expansion and um and in all
43:21
those other hundred and
43:22
fifty countries sorry as I
43:25
was talking my I hit the
43:27
button to shut off the mic
43:32
so am I hopefully I'm back
43:33
it looked it's showing that
43:34
my mic is on again no yes
43:41
So I think that's where DAZN comes in.
43:43
It really is gonna help
43:44
globally broadcasting in
43:47
all hundred and fifty countries.
43:50
Rewind two minutes.
43:54
So we were just talking
43:57
about DAZN and the importance of DAZN.
44:00
Why would you watch it and
44:01
not watch on YouTube?
44:03
And watching on it probably
44:06
for us in the United States
44:07
doesn't mean a lot.
44:10
You can still watch it on
44:11
YouTube just like anything else.
44:17
It's the zone is in a
44:18
hundred and fifty countries.
44:20
So that allows them to get
44:22
global expansion with a
44:24
partner without a lot of work.
44:28
And the zone needs content
44:30
as much as CrossFit needs a
44:34
broadcast partner.
44:35
And together they can work
44:37
together to fill each other's needs,
44:39
which is going to work way
44:40
better than being with a
44:41
behemoth like ESPN,
44:44
where you don't really matter.
44:46
You're just another thing on the schedule.
44:51
And I think that partnership
44:52
with DAZN may be one of the
44:54
biggest pieces of news that
44:55
have come out of this CrossFit Games.
45:02
Kevin Doyle, a new member.
45:03
Thank you so much, Kevin.
45:05
We truly, truly appreciate all that.
45:10
Scott's audio disappeared
45:11
just like the Epstein files.
45:17
So I think I covered
45:18
everything that I missed.
45:19
Did you guys missed?
45:24
Ukrainian billionaire owns DAZN money.
45:29
It may have money behind it,
45:30
and that's great.
45:32
but it doesn't have as much
45:34
content as it needs to run
45:36
nonstop with content.
45:39
So they need to make partnerships.
45:41
And hopefully they'll have
45:42
the CrossFit Games.
45:44
They'll have it available to stream after.
45:46
You can watch it over and
45:48
over again on it.
45:49
And again,
45:49
it reaches a hundred and fifty
45:51
countries with no blackouts.
45:59
Fiona hated ESPN.
46:02
Well,
46:02
the problem with ESPN is it would put
46:03
you on ESPN Plus,
46:05
forcing people to pay for it just to see.
46:08
And so this way you don't have to do that.
46:18
Clock just saw CrossFit
46:19
Games live stream for day one,
46:22
scheduled for twenty hours.
46:24
For now, six a.m.
46:26
for me.
46:26
OK, now I'm getting a little excited.
46:33
IMG was involved with the deal as well.
46:35
Yeah, IMG is one of the backers of DAZN.
46:39
And I only know that because
46:40
I'm a big fan of Pat McAfee.
46:42
Pat McAfee actually
46:43
broadcast on DAZN before he
46:45
was on CBS and the
46:51
DraftKings Network and then
46:53
eventually ASPN.
46:55
But he was on DAZN for a while.
47:00
Thank you, Brandon.
47:00
Smash that like button.
47:02
Subscribe to the channel.
47:04
We can use all of that.
47:08
I blame Disney for screwing up ESPN.
47:13
That's an easy thing to say,
47:16
but broadcasting has
47:17
changed so much over the
47:18
last ten to fifteen years.
47:24
So...
47:28
I think that's why it's
47:29
smarter to go with an app
47:31
than a broadcast company.
47:35
Streaming is taking over broadcast.
47:39
All right.
47:43
John George just downloaded the app.
47:45
Looks pretty clean.
47:46
I'll give it a shot.
47:48
Yeah.
47:49
And I've been encouraging people,
47:50
just download the app.
47:52
The more downloads of the
47:53
app happen during the
47:54
CrossFit Games season,
47:56
the more DAZN will see how
47:59
important it is to keep a
48:00
partnership with the CrossFit Games.
48:02
If you want to support the CrossFit Games,
48:04
download the app.
48:11
It's free.
48:12
Just download the app.
48:14
And then they'll see the
48:15
amount of downloads that
48:16
happen over the weekend
48:17
during the CrossFit Games.
48:21
There you go.
48:24
Katie Schaefer,
48:24
everyone have their Heat
48:26
One app picks in.
48:28
I have my top ten.
48:30
I have not started the shot caller yet.
48:37
I need to get on that tonight.
48:48
I'm the worst at the Heat One app.
48:53
I just can't get all my
48:54
picks in every year.
48:59
Something stops me for some reason.
49:01
But anyway, we've gone long today.
49:06
I've got to get over to
49:07
Hattie and do another piece with her.
49:11
Maybe we'll do a wrap-up show tonight.
49:13
I got to talk to my people
49:15
see who's available Or not
49:18
a wrap-up show but a preview show tonight,
49:20
and then we'll do wrap-up
49:21
shows the whole weekend So with that
49:38
Let you guys get back to work.
49:40
We'll be either back tonight
49:42
or sometime this weekend.
49:44
We'll talk to you all now.
49:46
Later, guys.