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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Wednesday Show! - Are 4 Events Too Many for One Weekend? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I don't know if you heard,
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  but I got the second best wingman in
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  the business.
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  We're number two.
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  We're number two.
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  We're number two.
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  Let's go.
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  from the gym to the screen yeah we
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  cover it all midday motivation every time
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  you press call lunch with the Clydesdale
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  cowboy bring the heat what is going on
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  everybody welcome to lunch with the
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  Clydesdale
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  The second best podcast in the space.
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  Number two tries harder.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  One of the rental car companies had a
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  commercial way back in the day.
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  We're number two,
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  so that means we try harder.
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  Was it that?
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  It might have been.
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  That has stuck with me.
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  That part of that has stuck with me.
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  I just can't remember who it was.
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  Number two tries harder.
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  I'm not going to Google it.
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  Yeah, I think it's Avis.
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  Hertz was number one.
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  Avis was number two, but they try harder.
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  I'm looking at a hold on.
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  Mark Phillips, since it's a current topic,
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  I have to ask MSG.
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  I just found out they did not.
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  No, they did not.
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  Yeah,
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  I got it confirmed by some people there.
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  uh one of my real good friends qualified
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  he won the whole he won our division
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  no he did not get tested he left
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  before uh uh podium ceremony because he
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  had to drive home so definitely didn't get
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  tested but either way no um the person
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  that told me confirmed it with me was
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  like well it wouldn't be fair
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  for them to be tested and then the
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  online people not being tested and all
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  that goes into my like there's sometimes
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  like i just go back to and i'm
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  like my mom always told me life ain't
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  fair hundred percent right this whole
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  fairness thing and and i'm probably going
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  to go off on a tangent and a
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  riff here today on this but
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  Like I've had people in the comments
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  telling me this season's fun.
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  This season's fun because it's all this
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  chaos and all this drama.
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  And,
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  and I've made all the arguments about
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  that.
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  The drama is good.
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  The real drama is gone.
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  Yeah.
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  The we're making up drama for this.
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  And all that keeps popping in my head
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  is we have become a participation trophy
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  sport.
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  I think Jay,
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  Jay Birch and I were on the exact
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  same wavelength.
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  We have become a participation trophy
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  sport.
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  We had the argument about what is right
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  for masters in person and love Shelly
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  young, love Larry young, but they're like,
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  well,
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  we got to come and participate and we
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  had a really good time.
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  Is that what you want your sport to
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  become?
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  And I've probably pissed off half the
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  people listening or whatever.
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  They'll be all right.
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  They'll get over it.
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  They're young yet.
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  That's what I feel about what this season
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  has become.
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  We want to guard against our best athletes
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  making it to the games,
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  about not getting to the games.
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  So we're going to give them ample
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  opportunities to make up for a bad
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  performance.
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  Yeah.
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  And like, what the hell is that?
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  That, that just in my head, it didn't,
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  it doesn't compute to me that that is
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  a sport.
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  Now you are now an exhibition.
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  Here's your favorite football team,
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  and they made the playoffs,
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  but they lost their first playoff game,
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  but it's okay because next week they can
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  play a different playoff game.
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  It's fine.
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  Still got an opportunity.
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  Yeah.
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  And if you want to go like individual
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  sports,
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  you lose in the third round of Wimbledon,
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  you don't get to go to the loser's
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  bracket and try to earn your way back
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  in.
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  Double elimination.
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  Double elimination.
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  triple elimination however many
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  eliminations you need until you get there
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  or we run out of events last chance
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  qualifier being the absolute last one
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  that's actually a really good analogy i
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  like that um uh larry young what's funny
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  is that's what i was saying about the
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  open
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  i don't think larry you and i are
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  ever going to agree on what the open
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  should be but in in one way i
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  do see what you're saying we're making the
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  open so so doable for so many people
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  you can say watered down it's fine it
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  is becoming but it's not just it's not
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  just weight it's high skilled gymnastics
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  So it's on both.
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  It's not just Larry's weight thing.
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  It's also high-skilled gymnastics are not
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  present anymore.
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  And I think... You know what I'm saying.
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  I do.
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  And even quarterfinals.
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  Quarterfinals did not ramp up to the level
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  that I would deem necessary.
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  Quarterfinals would have been a good open
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  in twenty eighteen.
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  Maybe it's the best of seven series.
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  At this point, he's not wrong.
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  At this point, he is not wrong.
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  But that does not happen in individual
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  sports.
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  No.
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  No.
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  My daughter's softball tournament this
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  weekend is double elimination.
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  She's eight.
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  Right.
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  So.
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  to counter argument cows and CrossFit is
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  the bracket.
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  The playoff bracket is a one and done.
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  How you determine that bracket matchup is,
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  is up to the sport.
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  But in that bracket, if you lose,
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  you are out of the playoffs.
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  That's it.
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  Full stop.
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  Um,
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  Watered down,
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  I think the Open is going to fall
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  into this style.
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  The quarterfinals has to be harder than it
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  was this year.
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  And I do understand where CrossFit is.
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  They're trying to get as many people to
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  sign up as possible,
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  but you only burn the house down to
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  make yourself better when you've failed.
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  When I did the Open,
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  there was no scale division.
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  There were many times I recorded a three
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  because I couldn't do the second movement.
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  But doggone it,
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  I worked my ass off on that movement
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  over the next year.
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  It's a different mentality now.
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  And I don't want to be the old
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  grouchy man in the front yard yelling at
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  the clouds,
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  but that's my role and that's what I'm
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  playing.
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  It makes sense.
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  It's a legitimate argument, I think.
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  Cousin CrossFit, I feel that way too.
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  I'm not the fittest,
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  but I'm confident that I can finish the
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  semifinal workouts.
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  And I'm assuming he's saying in the
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  Masters division.
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  Yeah.
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  He might not be the fittest,
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  but his mustache is on point.
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  Shana, one and done for semis for me.
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  Online, if I don't make it,
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  I don't make it.
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  Same, Shana.
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  I was in person.
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  I was seven team spots out.
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  Okay, I'm not doing online this weekend.
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  I'm just not.
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  I don't know if I would do online
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  this weekend,
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  even if I didn't have my daughter's
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  softball tournament.
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  Blair says,
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  I only point out the heavyweight because
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  so many athletes don't want to max,
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  but a ton of good people didn't make
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  it.
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  Now when it's a participation sport,
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  because they didn't test harder in the
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  open.
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  Because super cardio people got through.
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  And they need to test cardio.
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  You need to test cardio.
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  But if you're going to test weight,
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  you need to test high-skilled gymnastics.
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  Handstand push-ups.
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  The Open has had...
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  When was the last time we did a
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  handstand push-up in an Open?
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  It's all wall walks now.
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  Don't get me started.
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  so it we have truly truly become the
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  participation sport every nobody can get
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  their feelings hurt nobody can it
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  literally this is like my worst nightmare
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  of sport oh you can't do the rx
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  okay well here's the the scaled version oh
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  you can't do the scaled version here's the
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  foundations version
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  So I would get it if CrossFit said,
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  hey, we're going to do the open.
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  To post a score,
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  you need to be RX.
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  But if you're going to use it as
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  a class workout, here's some alternatives.
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  Correct.
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  The foundations versions this year on the
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  score sheet was basically just make up
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  your own workout to be able to put
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  a score in.
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  Here's some options.
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  It's exactly what you just said.
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  Here's some options that you can do so
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  that everybody can participate,
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  moving right along,
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  make sure you get these people to sign
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  up so we can get some money pumping
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  through this thing.
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  We feel like Adam Sandler on the intercom
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  in Happy Gilmore.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Don't get me started on the getting
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  feelings hurt part thing.
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  That applies to more than just
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  competition.
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  There's a societal issue across the board.
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  Yeah.
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  I completely agree with you, Vicki.
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  But I just want to solve the CrossFit
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  problem with it.
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  But the societal issue is probably causing
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  the CrossFit thing.
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  I don't know.
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  It all kind of bleeds over.
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  Lito's doing the online and French
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  showdown, but in her defense,
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  the system is so messed up that when
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  I go to France,
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  I think I won't know whether I've
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  qualified online or not due to the video
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  review.
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  I get that.
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  Get out of my life, then.
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  I didn't mean that, baby.
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  I didn't mean to, baby.
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  That reminds me of the old SNL skit
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  when Tim Meadows played Ike Turner and
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  Kevin Nealon was like a version of Tina
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  Turner.
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  And Ike would go nuts and Kevin Nealon's
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  like all bashful and Ike's like,
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  I didn't mean that.
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  I'm so sorry, baby.
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  I didn't mean that.
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  No.
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  I'm sorry.
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  Come on.
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  Come on.
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  Wheels keep on turning.
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  Anyway, before we dive into other stuff,
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  I have to ask you a question.
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  If you don't want to answer it,
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  you don't have to.
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  Hit me with it.
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  So,
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  Hiller's been doing this thing about this
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  Masters athlete, Justin King.
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  And in the video,
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  it says he was a workout partner with
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  Brandon Luckett.
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  His gym was in Walker,
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  which is maybe thirty minutes,
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  thirty-five minutes,
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  maybe a little bit longer than that,
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  from Brandon's gym.
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  Yes, they did work out together.
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  Yes, I do know Justin King.
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  My issue with all of this is it's
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  not an...
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  I don't want to take away complete blame
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  from Justin King.
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  Sure.
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  But this is a CrossFit issue.
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  Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
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  And probably even bigger.
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  It's more of a sports issue.
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  Yeah.
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  The rules for TRT in the Masters
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  division...
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  are ridiculous oh i have no idea so
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  so i had a guy on who popped
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  for testosterone served his band came back
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  competed there is acceptable levels and
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  they are really high oh
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  So I would never know as a master's
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  male,
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  you can test on the higher end for
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  TRT and there's no way to know if
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  it's, you made it yourself or if it,
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  you, it, the testosterone,
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  there's no way to know if you made
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  it yourself or if you synthetically put it
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  in your body.
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  That's one of the things Halo was talking
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  about.
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  And so, um, I just wanted to know,
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  you know, the guy, um,
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  is he a guy that would like just
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  throw caution to the wind and go all
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  in on this i'll put it to you
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  like this um people that know him would
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  probably that he is
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  Tendent to go in one direction in the
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  past couple of years.
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  And it's closer to the guys with the
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  butterfly nets and the jackets that zip up
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  in the back.
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  Okay.
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  Full transparency, please.
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  I mean, the video he made,
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  he was flat out saying that he's been
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  on testosterone for the past two seasons.
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  So it's kind of hard to...
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  take it anything less than his word when
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  that's what he's flat out telling
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  everybody and then the whole i mean i
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  got off before i went to the games
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  that doesn't make a difference you know
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  that's like i've been working on this
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  ferrari last ten years and just modifying
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  it but i stopped two weeks before the
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  race you know i mean it's still fast
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  and it's way faster than what it should
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  be because i've been taking the past ten
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  years but i stopped working on it right
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  before the race like kind of silly
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  You can test for exogenous.
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  Exogenous.
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  Double the dose, hope for the most.
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  No idea.
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  No idea.
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  So I just had to ask you because
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  I know you're tight with Brandon.
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  And, you know,
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  there's a picture of them working out
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  together.
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  That doesn't mean they were like all-in
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  training partners either.
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  No, that's an old-ass picture.
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  Right.
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  If you're taking TRT,
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  your epi test is low.
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  That's generally how they detect it.
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  Naturally,
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  they are about even if the body makes
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  it.
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  okay uh is it whoops not not the
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  right one yeah is it bad i'm kind
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  of jealous but getting stronger wouldn't
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  help my fitness larry young's a mountain
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  of a man fyi he is twice as
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  wide as i am and i am built
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  like a square it is absolutely insane um
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  let me let me do this right quickly
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  Luckin has a few athletes around him that
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  have popped or been banned.
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  I would love to know who you're talking
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  about.
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  I would really love to know who you're
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  talking about.
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  I mean,
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  plenty of Invictus athletes got popped
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  over the years.
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  Yeah, you can... And most...
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  And that can stick with a camp.
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  I know early on when the CrossFit New
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  England team got popped,
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  like that stuck to Bergeron for a while.
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  Justin also likes selling stuff.
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  He's digging clicks.
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  He's been doing that for a while.
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  It seemed to us at some point that
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  anybody that would give him some money to
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  do stuff, he was all in on.
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  Which, no power to him.
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  That's what you're doing.
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  Go for it.
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  Doesn't really bother me one way or
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  another.
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  He lives in his part of the state.
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  I live in my part of the state.
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  I don't wish bad stuff on anybody,
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  so there's that.
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  Um, it's too late,
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  but CrossFit needs to step in and take
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  away some of this guy's titles.
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  The problem is Daniel is he has no
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  titles.
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  Yeah.
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  He finished sixth at the games.
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  I think it was his highest.
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  Yeah.
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  And I think it was a year.
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  There was only ten.
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  That sounds right.
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  So, uh,
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  is it partially the economy of the Masters
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  division?
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  was just texting with mark moss earlier um
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  because mark knows him as well like we're
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  all everybody knows everybody down here
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  and mark was asking me about you know
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  he's like i mean you take a lot
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  of people's on that kind of stuff like
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  you know mark's gonna age up and be
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  a master next year i said i don't
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  necessarily think that the majority or but
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  i could definitely point some fingers in
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  some directions if i needed to
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  not hard to do all you have to
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  do all you have to do honestly was
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  come this weekend and look around do stuff
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  watch people warm up or not get out
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  there and just absolutely destroy stuff
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  and like i said dude i don't i
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  stay in my lane i do my thing
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  And every day I pray that I am
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  fit enough that somebody accuses me of
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  being on something or another so I can
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  go and test for them and show them
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  that most you're going to find is
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  caffeine, creatine.
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  It's about only two teens I even know
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  of.
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  I'll put it like this.
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  When you just told me what the TRT
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  guidelines are or whatnot,
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  that was news to me because I don't
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  even look into that shit.
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  All of it scares the ever-living shit out
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  of me.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you want to address the name that
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  popped up?
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  Uh, I would love to know what, what,
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  uh, what Joey did.
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  Joey doesn't actually compete anymore.
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  As far as I know,
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  he was writing a part of the,
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  some of the workouts, but I mean,
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  you said associates with like,
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  as we have a whole bunch of people,
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  we do not.
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  Um,
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  uh so the justin king was uh crossfit
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  stinks try my method turns out that's trt
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  Yeah.
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  He was one of the ones that he's,
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  he's one of the, the, uh, uh,
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  trained cross future.
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  And, um,
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  basically one of the guys that got burnout
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  because he was training six,
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  eight hours a day or whatnot.
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  And it was like, try my method.
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  It's way better after he stopped going,
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  you know, making it,
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  making runs at a lot of them.
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  I do not wish them any ill will.
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  I think they are.
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  absolutely wrong because you weren't doing
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  CrossFit.
• 22:45
  You were training for the games.
• 22:46
  There's two different things.
• 22:47
  It's not the same.
• 22:51
  And if you get burnt out on it,
• 22:52
  cool.
• 22:53
  That's on you.
• 22:54
  Don't put that out there like it's
• 22:56
  happening widespread to everybody because
• 22:59
  it's not.
• 23:01
  For Lucky,
• 23:02
  you'd have to stretch back to the old
• 23:03
  ShooFly team to really start connecting
• 23:07
  dots, I guess.
• 23:08
  But I mean, come on.
• 23:11
  Let's reach in.
• 23:14
  Freeze-dried reindeer and bison organs and
• 23:17
  blood.
• 23:20
  The old deer antler spray, the old... Oh,
• 23:23
  yeah.
• 23:24
  Yeah.
• 23:24
  I got this deer velvet.
• 23:27
  You know,
• 23:27
  I got some horny goat weed and whatever
• 23:29
  else.
• 23:30
  And I feel fantastic.
• 23:31
  Yeah, I bet you do.
• 23:32
  I bet you do.
• 23:34
  I take a combination of bear urine and...
• 23:41
  Bear urine.
• 23:42
  I got reindeer toenails and a couple of
• 23:48
  rabbit's feet.
• 23:49
  It's fine.
• 23:50
  Not a big deal.
• 23:54
  I think Ray Lewis said deer antler to
• 23:56
  cover for something when he got popped.
• 24:00
  Did Ray Lewis ever pop?
• 24:03
  It depends on what kind of pop we're
• 24:04
  talking about.
• 24:06
  Because I don't think he ever popped,
• 24:10
  drug-wise.
• 24:12
  He came back from a horrific injury and
• 24:16
  said deer antler spray is what brought him
• 24:18
  back.
• 24:21
  But I don't think anybody ever caught him.
• 24:24
  Would you want to?
• 24:25
  I'm not trying to get around Ray Lewis
• 24:27
  and be like, accuse him of stuff.
• 24:28
  That dude is insane.
• 24:33
  And he is large, fast, strong, and scary.
• 24:37
  Like all the things.
• 24:39
  No thanks.
• 24:41
  No, Ray.
• 24:42
  You keep your antler spray.
• 24:44
  You're doing fantastic.
• 24:47
  Larry Young,
• 24:47
  I'll be waiting on the cardio antler to
• 24:49
  come out.
• 24:51
  Yeah.
• 24:52
  I don't know how many times a day
• 24:53
  Larry says cardio.
• 24:55
  I really, really do.
• 24:56
  Yeah.
• 24:59
  Larry wakes up at three o'clock in the
• 25:01
  morning going, cardio, cardio.
• 25:05
  Oh, cardio.
• 25:05
  Hey, you know what?
• 25:08
  He wouldn't wake up at three o'clock in
• 25:10
  the morning if he had some thirdsy.
• 25:13
  He'd be able to sleep all the way
• 25:14
  through that.
• 25:16
  He would.
• 25:16
  I'm just saying.
• 25:18
  And you can get thirdsy for fifteen
• 25:20
  percent off.
• 25:21
  Use code Jazzy at checkout,
• 25:24
  get fifteen percent off.
• 25:26
  And you can go to thirdsy.com backslash
• 25:30
  Jazzy and get it that way as well.
• 25:32
  You caught me so off guard with that
• 25:35
  that I had to scramble.
• 25:38
  I'm king of the Segway.
• 25:39
  I got I got out Segway, man.
• 25:41
  Oh, man.
• 25:43
  When it when it when when it hits,
• 25:45
  you got to hit.
• 25:48
  His friend popped someone with a knife,
• 25:50
  allegedly.
• 25:51
  Now, that is true.
• 25:52
  Yeah, so that's what I said.
• 25:53
  It depends on what you're talking about,
• 25:54
  about popped.
• 25:56
  That is popped.
• 25:58
  Yeah.
• 25:59
  Yeah.
• 25:59
  He had to go on trial because in
• 26:03
  Georgia, the crime is if you know it,
• 26:06
  witness it, and let it go,
• 26:10
  you're just as responsible.
• 26:13
  Ray Lewis had plenty enough money to let
• 26:15
  that dude accidentally kill somebody for
• 26:19
  him.
• 26:28
  Speaking of things that won't ruin your
• 26:29
  body after ten years of CrossFit,
• 26:31
  it's better sleep.
• 26:33
  It can only help.
• 26:38
  So there's all that.
• 26:41
  The one topic I did want to talk
• 26:43
  about today that we just never seem to
• 26:45
  get into is we had four events last
• 26:51
  weekend.
• 26:52
  Yeah, we did.
• 26:55
  Is that too much?
• 26:57
  And I say it in a way like,
• 27:00
  should there be better coordination not to
• 27:02
  like... Because I am...
• 27:05
  I am an avid fan of CrossFit,
• 27:09
  and I try to take in as much
• 27:11
  as I can.
• 27:12
  Sure.
• 27:13
  That was too big a dose for me.
• 27:15
  I would imagine so.
• 27:18
  And if it's too big of a dose
• 27:19
  for me, what are other people thinking of?
• 27:24
  And now this weekend all we have is
• 27:26
  online and no viewing capabilities at all.
• 27:30
  Whatsoever.
• 27:32
  Unless you go to somebody's gym and just
• 27:33
  watch them do it on their own.
• 27:37
  Just call up Jamie and be like, hey,
• 27:38
  what are you doing?
• 27:39
  When are you starting?
• 27:40
  I'll be there in a little bit.
• 27:42
  Just going to hang out.
• 27:43
  Four in the weekend is a lot.
• 27:46
  It's a lot,
• 27:47
  especially when they're spread out like
• 27:48
  they are, right?
• 27:49
  One of them's in South America.
• 27:52
  One of them's in South Korea.
• 27:55
  One of them's in South Birmingham.
• 27:58
  I don't even know if it was in
• 27:58
  South Birmingham.
• 27:59
  I just know it was in Birmingham.
• 28:01
  And the other one's in...
• 28:03
  the other ones in let's say south london
• 28:05
  just for just for our guests it was
• 28:07
  actually in north london but we can say
• 28:09
  whatever we want we can say whatever we
• 28:11
  want we're going to make it in south
• 28:12
  london it's south london to me i wasn't
• 28:15
  there i know somebody who was but that's
• 28:17
  fine uh so you're looking at different
• 28:20
  time zones
• 28:24
  you know, different start times, blah,
• 28:26
  blah, different variations.
• 28:28
  Cause like they're all not,
• 28:29
  everybody's not doing the same workouts by
• 28:30
  any stretch of the imagination.
• 28:33
  Not all, not everything was broadcast,
• 28:35
  right?
• 28:36
  Not everything was broadcast equally by
• 28:38
  any stretch of the imagination.
• 28:40
  So you can look at it either as
• 28:42
  being spoiled for choice,
• 28:45
  or you can look at it as being,
• 28:47
  Holy crap.
• 28:48
  This is the pilot mode.
• 28:51
  CrossFit says not one event screamed,
• 28:53
  watch me.
• 28:55
  And I want to address that because,
• 28:57
  and here I am,
• 29:01
  old man on the front lawn again,
• 29:02
  screaming at the clouds.
• 29:05
  During regionals,
• 29:06
  CrossFit took a proactive approach to mix
• 29:10
  the regionals together on a weekend that
• 29:13
  you had that like central east with over
• 29:19
  in Asia.
• 29:21
  right so you had like one top tier
• 29:26
  along with a couple of the others that
• 29:28
  may maybe weren't the big sell sure but
• 29:32
  you didn't run central east and west at
• 29:35
  the same time or california whatever right
• 29:40
  because those were two of the epic battles
• 29:43
  you didn't run europe with any of either
• 29:45
  of those two no because europe was his
• 29:47
  own thing at that point
• 29:49
  right because so you had like every
• 29:53
  weekend of the regional season you had one
• 29:56
  flagship event that was must see and then
• 30:01
  you kind of picked up the rest of
• 30:02
  it and it made for a very pleasant
• 30:07
  viewing weekend and it was done in three
• 30:11
  weeks this is not going to be done
• 30:14
  in three weeks
• 30:18
  This is barely going to be done in
• 30:20
  three months, much less three weeks.
• 30:22
  If you look at it from when we
• 30:23
  started with Mayhem all the way through
• 30:26
  the last chance qualifier,
• 30:29
  let's go with that, or the last,
• 30:32
  I mean, hell,
• 30:35
  the last Masters only event is in, what,
• 30:37
  July?
• 30:40
  I think it's end of June, but.
• 30:42
  just soon be in july as far as
• 30:43
  i'm concerned like i mean that's still a
• 30:45
  long time from now like because i think
• 30:46
  it's at the end of june yeah end
• 30:49
  of june that's a whole bunch it is
• 30:51
  the last event i believe yeah as far
• 30:55
  as i as far as i can remember
• 30:56
  it is uh and two to four different
• 31:00
  streaming locations march madness works
• 31:02
  because of the channels and the apps again
• 31:05
  i've said this on the show i think
• 31:07
  flow elite as an idea works better if
• 31:10
  it has everything
• 31:12
  And it's the one location you go to
• 31:14
  for everything.
• 31:15
  But we need one governing body over this
• 31:19
  as a sport.
• 31:22
  Whether CrossFit wants to license that out
• 31:26
  to a governing body to do it or
• 31:30
  do it themselves,
• 31:33
  letting eighteen different people run the
• 31:36
  season is not working.
• 31:41
  For the casual or less than casual fan,
• 31:46
  it's definitely not working.
• 31:48
  If you're trying to actually keep up and
• 31:50
  see what's going on and invested in a
• 31:52
  season,
• 31:52
  you are picking and choosing because
• 31:55
  nobody's got that much time on the
• 31:56
  weekend.
• 31:57
  Unless you have no life and you're like,
• 31:59
  I'm not doing anything this weekend but
• 32:01
  watching CrossFit the entire time.
• 32:04
  cool enjoy that when brandon texted me
• 32:09
  saturday to say hey um you know when
• 32:13
  you call me one of you when you
• 32:15
  get a chance so we can recap what
• 32:16
  happened i said what time is it there
• 32:18
  he's like eight a.m and it was five
• 32:20
  p.m here or something close to that like
• 32:24
  four thirty five o'clock and i was like
• 32:26
  holy smokes okay i had no idea right
• 32:30
  so like they're not even getting started
• 32:32
  till late afternoon for us
• 32:35
  And then it's,
• 32:37
  which heat are you watching,
• 32:38
  if you're going to watch any of that.
• 32:40
  London had already taken place at WFP
• 32:42
  because they are six hours ahead of where
• 32:45
  I am, for sure.
• 32:47
  And then you got us,
• 32:48
  and then I have absolutely no idea how
• 32:50
  anybody would have watched Brazil because
• 32:52
  I didn't know that was happening,
• 32:54
  if I'm being completely honest.
• 32:56
  We lost the window of going to YouTube
• 32:59
  or a game site and finding it by
• 33:00
  accident.
• 33:02
  I don't disagree with going to a
• 33:05
  third-party platform that has other sports
• 33:09
  on it to maybe gain more casual fans.
• 33:13
  But I get the concept.
• 33:15
  I think YouTube and the game site is
• 33:18
  specific for people who already love
• 33:20
  CrossFit.
• 33:24
  Yeah, that would make sense.
• 33:25
  Vicky has no life.
• 33:27
  Oh, and watches a lot of content.
• 33:31
  She was even burnt out.
• 33:36
  Sorry.
• 33:37
  Slow on the read there.
• 33:38
  Vicky just catching strays.
• 33:44
  It's a whole thing, man.
• 33:46
  Scott,
• 33:46
  it's only a few thousand people that even
• 33:48
  consume this amount of CrossFit.
• 33:49
  Most don't even know about half of it.
• 33:54
  But they did.
• 33:55
  There was a time when you went to
• 33:59
  the Central Regional in Nashville,
• 34:03
  there was like three thousand people in
• 34:05
  the stands and the streaming numbers were
• 34:09
  higher.
• 34:11
  We have lost viewers.
• 34:14
  If you are losing viewership and ticket
• 34:17
  sales,
• 34:18
  that is a trend you don't want to
• 34:19
  happen.
• 34:21
  So all these people fighting that this
• 34:23
  game season is better, look at the views,
• 34:26
  look at the ticket sales,
• 34:28
  and see that the trend is not in
• 34:30
  the right direction.
• 34:32
  Meaning,
• 34:33
  if event organizers can't make the money,
• 34:35
  we ain't gonna have it.
• 34:46
  Larry, views used to be insanely higher.
• 34:56
  I think the lack of one chance high
• 34:57
  stakes also hurts it.
• 34:59
  Had to watch regionals because it was a
• 35:00
  win in and in or go home.
• 35:05
  And I made this argument yesterday.
• 35:08
  The Sam Briggs saga of twenty fourteen,
• 35:11
  the games champion not making it back the
• 35:14
  following year did not detract from the
• 35:18
  games that season.
• 35:20
  If nothing else, it adds to the drama.
• 35:24
  It gave Camille LeBlanc-Bazinet her only
• 35:26
  shot at winning the CrossFit Games.
• 35:29
  Which she took, by the way.
• 35:31
  Right.
• 35:34
  Which she absolutely nailed, by the way.
• 35:36
  But the drama that it ensued when she
• 35:40
  didn't make it was all the talk for
• 35:43
  a week.
• 35:46
  Because it was an epic collapse that
• 35:50
  none...
• 35:51
  We're still talking about it twelve years
• 35:54
  later.
• 35:58
  There's still clips of, again,
• 36:00
  we talked about yesterday, of Katrin...
• 36:04
  at regionals failing and not making it.
• 36:07
  Like there's still,
• 36:08
  you can still watch that today and still
• 36:10
  feel something from it for,
• 36:11
  for her because she's just sitting there
• 36:14
  crying.
• 36:14
  She knows she's not,
• 36:15
  she's not going to make it or didn't
• 36:17
  make it.
• 36:19
  There's a lot of,
• 36:20
  they do a lot of those old clips
• 36:22
  for the old documentaries about people who
• 36:25
  didn't make it the year before and then
• 36:27
  made it.
• 36:28
  What's his name?
• 36:31
  Boy athlete.
• 36:36
  Finished second or third behind Matt in
• 36:41
  sixteen.
• 36:42
  Gosh, darn it.
• 36:44
  Lucas Hoberg.
• 36:45
  Lucas Hoberg.
• 36:47
  He had not made the games the year
• 36:48
  before.
• 36:49
  Beat him out.
• 36:51
  Like, it was a whole thing.
• 36:55
  He comes to the games the following year
• 36:57
  and smashes it.
• 37:00
  Yeah, it's all that.
• 37:03
  Duke was a basketball,
• 37:04
  Duke basketball was a juggernaut the last
• 37:07
  two years and lost and everybody watched
• 37:10
  it.
• 37:13
  Katrin had the rope climb fail,
• 37:15
  came back and won two championships.
• 37:17
  Back to back.
• 37:18
  And then Tia happened.
• 37:23
  Fikowski is literally like Gonzaga,
• 37:25
  never making it to a final four.
• 37:28
  And then he did.
• 37:31
  And now everybody knows who he is.
• 37:33
  And then he won like three events at
• 37:35
  the games that year.
• 37:36
  Yeah.
• 37:37
  It's a Canadian invasion because him
• 37:39
  and... Vellner.
• 37:41
  And Vellner were just wrecking, just most,
• 37:45
  I mean, wrecking shop.
• 37:47
  It was absolutely insane to watch.
• 37:54
  BCS qualifier has handstand walking now.
• 37:57
  Good, good for them.
• 38:07
  Obscure Pacific Northwest pasty white
• 38:10
  dude, shockingly likable.
• 38:11
  Literally Gonzaga.
• 38:15
  My favorite ever quote about Fikowski was
• 38:21
  when, what's his name,
• 38:25
  called him an odd duck.
• 38:26
  He said, he is an odd duck.
• 38:31
  And I was like,
• 38:32
  that makes so much sense.
• 38:35
  That is one hundred percent.
• 38:36
  Fikowski is an odd duck.
• 38:43
  Random.
• 38:44
  We need an elite athlete named Ralph so
• 38:47
  we can score Wreck-It Ralph.
• 38:50
  Or we can make Ralph Wiggum shirts.
• 38:52
  You're a Simpsons fan.
• 38:53
  You understand that reference.
• 38:56
  He bit my Wookie.
• 38:57
  Yeah.
• 38:59
  Fikowski.
• 39:00
  He's an accountant.
• 39:01
  Nuff said.
• 39:01
  They're odd people.
• 39:05
  He has so many thoughts.
• 39:08
  So many thoughts.
• 39:11
  i have to share this funny brent fukowski
• 39:13
  story please so i'm at wadapalooza i'm on
• 39:19
  my way to meet tommy marquez at his
• 39:22
  hotel because he has a gift for me
• 39:26
  i'm going past the front of whole foods
• 39:31
  and brent fukowski is walking down the
• 39:33
  sidewalk with his luggage
• 39:36
  I'm like, okay.
• 39:38
  And I said, hey, Brent, how's it going?
• 39:40
  He goes, oh, hey,
• 39:44
  I got to catch a flight real fast.
• 39:46
  And they gave us these CBD bath bombs.
• 39:51
  And I don't want to get arrested trying
• 39:52
  to get it on a plane.
• 39:53
  You want it?
• 40:02
  You know what, Brent?
• 40:03
  Yeah, I kind of do.
• 40:05
  I'm taking it for the story.
• 40:06
  Yeah, for no other reason.
• 40:09
  For no other reason,
• 40:11
  I am taking it for the story.
• 40:14
  That is outstanding.
• 40:17
  I was just like, holy crap.
• 40:20
  I wouldn't have even thought that a CBD
• 40:23
  bath bomb would get me busted at the
• 40:24
  airport.
• 40:25
  would not have that would not have crossed
• 40:27
  your mind wouldn't cross my mind at all
• 40:29
  either and at the very worst i'd have
• 40:31
  been when you got into security and be
• 40:32
  like hey you can't have these i'm like
• 40:33
  cool that's fine yeah throw them away oh
• 40:40
  ever since that day i just love the
• 40:42
  dude man just love the dude he just
• 40:48
  his mind is always going four hundred
• 40:50
  miles an hour
• 40:53
  They ain't calling the professor for no
• 40:55
  good reason.
• 40:55
  That is for certain.
• 40:59
  Yeah.
• 40:59
  All right, man.
• 41:00
  So.
• 41:04
  So yeah,
• 41:04
  the one thing I do want to say,
• 41:06
  I want to thank you.
• 41:07
  So Vaughn coming on a show at the
• 41:08
  end, every time saying, Hey,
• 41:11
  go over to Clydesdale and give him crack
• 41:13
  crap.
• 41:14
  Cause I love watching Scott fight with the
• 41:17
  chat when he's trying to like espouse
• 41:21
  logic and everybody's giving him shit.
• 41:25
  One thing I want to tell Siobhan is
• 41:27
  when he's done dealing with that,
• 41:29
  he gets to go play with his kids.
• 41:31
  Yeah, you get to go back to work.
• 41:33
  I have to go back to work.
• 41:35
  I have to be professional.
• 41:39
  There's a difference there.
• 41:45
  Big time.
• 41:46
  So, like,
• 41:48
  I appreciate that today has been more
• 41:49
  relaxed and more fun.
• 41:53
  And with that,
• 41:55
  I am going to head back to work.
• 41:58
  any thoughts on the syndicate crown team
• 42:00
  events couldn't tell you what they are not
• 42:03
  a one no i got i uh they
• 42:05
  just popped up i am starting to pay
• 42:07
  more attention to all that because i am
• 42:10
  going yeah you probably got my approval
• 42:13
  last night i haven't looked at these yet
• 42:18
  but the one thing about the team events
• 42:20
  is it usually gives you a peek into
• 42:23
  what the individual events will be like
• 42:28
  Generally.
• 42:29
  And I'm assuming since JR did this,
• 42:31
  there's a thread.
• 42:33
  I would imagine so.
• 42:37
  So mirror, mirror, team event,
• 42:38
  co-ed pairs for time.
• 42:43
  Fifty synchro GHG sit-ups,
• 42:46
  hundred echo ski calories.
• 42:50
  And then you go pair two, same thing.
• 42:53
  All team members,
• 42:54
  fifty synchro burpees over the worm.
• 42:58
  Then pair one does echo row calories,
• 43:02
  synchro box jump overs.
• 43:04
  Pair two does that and you're done.
• 43:10
  Heavy laden is cleans.
• 43:15
  For a ton of, sixty cleans,
• 43:17
  four intervals, two-thirty on,
• 43:19
  two-thirty off.
• 43:21
  At athlete one, sixty double-unders.
• 43:26
  Athlete two, rope climbs.
• 43:28
  Three of those.
• 43:29
  Switch.
• 43:30
  Then max cleans.
• 43:32
  Ten, eight, six, four, two.
• 43:35
  And there are the weights.
• 43:39
  And team event three, a one-mile run.
• 43:42
  Three rounds of fifty strict handstand
• 43:44
  push-ups.
• 43:45
  Two hundred meter litter carry.
• 43:48
  Hundred foot litter lunge.
• 43:51
  So they got to carry one.
• 43:56
  Did they get to pick who they carry?
• 44:00
  What's that?
• 44:01
  You said it's a litter carry or they
• 44:03
  pick or they carry in their own kick
• 44:05
  there.
• 44:05
  It's a litter carry.
• 44:08
  Like the old fashioned medics in the at
• 44:13
  war throwing people on the I'm saying so
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  they are they carrying one of their
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  teammates?
• 44:20
  Or is there like a rescue Randy type
• 44:22
  situation?
• 44:22
  I'm assuming that all those details will
• 44:25
  be in a bigger briefing.
• 44:28
  Oh, okay.
• 44:28
  Mark says it's saying the litter is two
• 44:30
  hundred or it's weighted.
• 44:32
  Yeah, Jason Bourne says it's weighted.
• 44:35
  So we'll do the first three.
• 44:36
  We'll do the other three later this week.
• 44:40
  Amanda says they did that at games in
• 44:41
  twenty seventeen.
• 44:42
  Yeah,
• 44:42
  that was it was Murph with the litter,
• 44:44
  right?
• 44:47
  I believe.
• 44:51
  Did you guys know CrossFit has asked for
• 44:53
  volunteers to stream their semifinal
• 44:56
  workout on their platform?
• 44:59
  No, I didn't know.
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  Are you saying in the Masters Division,
• 45:02
  Shanna?
• 45:05
  If so, that's cool.
• 45:10
  Amanda was the smallest on the team,
• 45:11
  so she was carried.
• 45:16
  Jay Bert says it's two hundred pounds of
• 45:17
  cat litter on the litter.
• 45:20
  So it's the litter litter.
• 45:21
  It's the litter litter.
• 45:24
  Littering.
• 45:25
  Shanna said yes to the Masters thing.
• 45:26
  Okay.
• 45:27
  Awesome.
• 45:29
  Yeah, that'll be great.
• 45:30
  Give us something to watch this weekend.
• 45:39
  Shanna just got an email from Sam for
• 45:41
  Friday.
• 45:43
  We get to watch Shanna live?
• 45:50
  All right.
• 45:50
  Larry wants to be carried.
• 45:52
  There's no team on this God's earth that
• 45:55
  would pick Larry to be on the litter.
• 45:57
  No.
• 45:58
  Nobody would in any sense anyway.
• 46:00
  No.
• 46:02
  Maybe Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• 46:05
  Stallone in their heyday.
• 46:07
  And we want to root you on.
• 46:20
  Just because you film it doesn't mean you
• 46:21
  can't redo it.
• 46:30
  Larry's legs would be dragging on the
• 46:32
  ground.
• 46:33
  Pretty much.
• 46:36
  That's a whole lot of dude, bro.
• 46:39
  It is.
• 46:42
  Like he is the definition of a Clydesdale.
• 46:44
  hundred percent he when you when people
• 46:47
  say you know they fired up watching
• 46:50
  whatever i'm like i'd run through a wall
• 46:51
  i'm like larry would actually run through
• 46:53
  a wall yeah i have no problem believing
• 46:56
  that like he probably was the kool-aid guy
• 47:00
  back in the day a hundred percent we
• 47:04
  just couldn't see him because of the the
• 47:06
  outfit
• 47:07
  And one of the nicest guys I've ever
• 47:09
  met.
• 47:10
  I enjoyed hanging out with him and Shelly
• 47:14
  and Mr. John Young over the weekend.
• 47:20
  Lots of people want Shanna to go live.
• 47:23
  Peer pressure will get you, Shanna.
• 47:25
  Just saying.
• 47:29
  Yeah.
• 47:31
  Awesome.
• 47:32
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• 47:45
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• 47:46
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• 47:52
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