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Clydesdale Media Roundtable - Less than 48 Hours Away from the Start of the Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:29
  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clizomedy Roundtable.
• 0:33
  It's lunchtime with the ladies today.
• 0:37
  Yeah.
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  Yep.
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  All right, guys.
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  Not much.
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  Nothing.
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  The temperature.
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  The temperature's true.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I took Walter for a walk
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  today because I was like,
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  I'm going to be in the heat all week.
• 0:54
  Let's go do this.
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  And got halfway down the
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  street and Walter's like, nope, I'm done.
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  Plopped down in the grass
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  and couldn't even tug him
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  up to walk again.
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  Sounded like me this morning
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  at the 515 class.
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  I mean, seriously, I've been like not,
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  I've been doing a lot of my
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  workouts this week from home.
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  Well, last week and part of this week.
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  And it's been nice to like
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  not race the clock with
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  this heat just because I'm
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  already working harder with the,
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  with the heat that it's nice to just like,
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  I'm still getting the work in,
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  but take my intensity down
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  and it's been nice,
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  but I'm still drained the
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  rest of the day.
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  Well,
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  at least you're it's summer for you
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  and you get lots of naps.
• 1:42
  Yep, I do.
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  And I'm going to have to
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  start easing off my nap
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  schedule because I'm going
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  back to school.
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  You're in training now.
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  Yep, yep.
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  Back to school training.
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  Yep, ease out.
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  Quick, quick follow up.
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  Amy, how are the eyes?
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  Eyes?
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  Perfect.
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  That's awesome.
• 2:00
  Yeah,
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  it is amazing to wake up and not have
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  to stab myself in the eye
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  to start my day every day.
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  And still no readers, right?
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  Like you're fine up close.
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  Had you always been fine up close?
• 2:11
  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Every once in a while,
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  like there's something that I'll,
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  I'll need a little bit of a reader,
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  but like if I'm reading a
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  book or just looking at my phone, no,
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  if there's like something
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  small print on my phone,
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  I might need them, but.
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  Or just do a little one of these.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  But so far it must be nice.
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  Yeah.
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  That's awesome.
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  What sucks for me is when I'm in an arena,
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  I can't wear my glasses.
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  I get really sick and
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  lightheaded because of the
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  transition part of the lens.
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  When I look down,
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  then it goes into that
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  reader part and everything gets wobbly.
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  At Syndicate Crown,
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  I had to take my glasses
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  off because I was getting sick.
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  Hopefully,
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  we can figure something out in
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  Fort Worth.
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  It's hard when you're taking pictures too.
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  Cause I know like if I have
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  my contacts in and I'm
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  trying to take a picture,
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  I'm using my short vision,
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  like my nearsightedness,
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  which I don't own any.
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  And so I would,
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  you know, would be blurry.
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  And I'm thinking,
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  I'm hoping that it's correct.
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  It's why I started wearing
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  one contact for correct for near or far.
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  And then I take,
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  I leave this eye just naked.
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  And so I use this side,
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  but this is the eye I have
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  to look in the camera at.
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  And I'm like right-handed.
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  So it's weird.
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  I have to like look on the
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  other side to make sure
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  that I'm getting the shot.
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  It's yeah.
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  It's a hassle.
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  I'd much rather just wear glasses,
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  but then you're like on and off,
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  on and off, on and off.
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  Yeah.
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  It's, it's hell getting old.
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  I know the beauty of it.
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  It's amazing.
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  It's better than the alternative.
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  True.
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  I don't know if you guys have heard the,
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  the interviews I've been
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  doing with these masters athletes.
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  I am in just drop jaw awe of these people.
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  How about the guy that the
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  60 to 65 guy you did just
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  recently who looks like not
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  a day over 40.
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  What the heck?
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  And strings, 10 ring muscle ups.
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  I mean, he's going to win, right?
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  Jerk.
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  Well,
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  I think he has some other limitations.
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  His goal is just top 10,
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  but he's a former green
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  beret special forces guy too.
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  This is his first time at the games.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  I'm excited to see him.
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  Yeah.
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  He looks like he's going to crush it.
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  We had Denise more on over the weekend.
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  She was practicing her
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  handstand walks at 65.
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  Like they're,
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  they're flipping what it means to be old.
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  Yeah.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Yeah.
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  And one of my coaches, Mark Peters,
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  he's going.
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  He's going to be there.
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  Very excited.
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  I had to take him off the
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  schedule for the rest of the month,
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  which I'm very sad about
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  because now I have to coach
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  three to four mornings a
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  week instead of three.
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  But I'm glad to do it for the time being.
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  What division?
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  I think he's either 60, 65, or 65 plus.
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  He's right on the cusp there.
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  He'll be mad at me for not knowing,
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  but he's in that grouping.
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  And his gymnastics is great.
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  Like he, that's his strength.
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  His top line strength is,
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  is not his strength.
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  And he'll joke around that
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  he can't do double unders,
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  which he can do double unders,
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  but it's one of those
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  things where it's like,
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  are you having a good day or a bad day?
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  Yeah.
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  Just you're getting by.
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  I'm not consistent.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  But I'm excited for him.
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  If this will be his second games,
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  he was there last year and
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  I'm glad that he got to do
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  the whole Madison, you know, thing.
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  And now he gets to
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  experience it a little bit differently.
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  So that'd be cool to,
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  to see the contrast there.
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  Yeah,
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  the cool thing with them or the
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  interesting thing with them
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  is it's hard to research
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  these people because they
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  don't use social media.
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  They don't have LinkedIn accounts.
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  They don't.
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  So like it's a lot of like
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  an exploratory interview,
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  which is very different
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  style that I'm used to.
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  And it's it's keeping me on
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  my toes because it's really
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  like asking a question, hearing clues.
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  Yeah.
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  Diving deeper.
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  And I didn't know that Mike
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  was a green beret until he said it.
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  And then it was, it's like dive into this.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Let's let's touch on that.
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  Yeah, that's cool.
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  The biggest surprise.
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  If you guys remember a
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  couple of years ago at the games,
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  when I interviewed the,
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  the female athlete coming off the floor,
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  And we talked about,
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  I had this question
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  prepared about lifting heavy things.
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  And she's like, yeah, well, you know,
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  my son died last year.
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  That was the heaviest thing
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  I ever had to lift.
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  And I was like, oh,
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  like jaw dropping question.
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  I was like, oh shit.
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  Like that was like a Barbara
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  Walters moment that I
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  didn't even know was happening.
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  Donna Bruce is her name.
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  And I think she's still in the game.
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  I don't know if she's
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  qualified for the game,
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  but she's still very much into CrossFit.
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  So that was cool.
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  Yeah, when you don't know the details,
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  sometimes it's a little
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  more exciting to interview
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  versus these people that we
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  know so much about already.
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  It's kind of hard to, like,
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  what do you talk about?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm finding them fascinating,
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  and it's given me, like,
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  a new sense of excitement
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  meeting all of these people.
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  And the fact that we're
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  going to get to do a behind
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  the scenes with them in
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  Birmingham is going to be
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  freaking awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  So excited.
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  Yeah.
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  So,
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  but before we get to all that master
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  stuff, we have, it's games week.
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  Just packed my camera bag.
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  So those who have been able
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  to make it to Dallas have made it.
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  Others have had their
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  flights canceled repeatedly.
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  I guess there's like a
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  little hurricane going on in Florida.
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  Yeah.
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  Causing some flights to be delayed.
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  I Danny Spiegel's on her
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  third shot at making it out of San Diego.
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  Oh, so stressful.
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  So,
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  but it's exciting to see like
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  everybody's Instagrams of
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  this is Fort Worth.
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  This is what Tiki's arena looks like.
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  This is, you know,
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  and then following Dave's Instagram of,
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  Hey, the demo team here,
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  they're at the lake here.
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  They're running the track.
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  So how, how excited is,
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  are you guys for this?
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  I can't wait.
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  I like am so excited now
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  about this new venue and
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  excited just to see what
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  it's going to look like.
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  And, you know,
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  I think it'll be interesting
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  for us to compare notes
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  since you guys will be there.
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  And then just for, you know,
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  me and Charlie can, you know,
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  be watching it on the
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  stream and then kind of
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  compare notes what it looks
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  like from both points of view.
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  For me,
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  it's been two years since I've been
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  to any event, I think.
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  It's been a while.
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  I'm out of practice,
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  so I cannot wait to just
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  see all my friends and just
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  be in that atmosphere.
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  I'm really looking forward to it.
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  I'm anxious to see what it's like because,
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  you know,
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  a lot of our friends came from
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  the volunteer world, but it's,
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  it's going to be way less of a crew.
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  There's only teams.
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  You didn't,
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  you don't need the staff you
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  need for like the big festival.
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  So it's going to be
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  interesting to see who even
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  made it there.
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  Yeah.
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  And they're going to be busy, you know,
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  even though it's, it's, it's fewer,
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  fewer judges, but fewer events.
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  I think they're going to,
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  they're going to be taxed for sure.
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  I'm already following like a
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  bunch of them on Instagram
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  and they've already gone
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  out to dinner a few times
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  and are going shopping.
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  And I did hear the humidity is no joke.
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  So like get a,
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  get a good look at this
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  pretty hairstyle because
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  anything happened.
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  Nope.
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  I don't know what I'll be
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  wearing a baseball hat or something.
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  Yeah, the humidity.
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  So the best, best poster.
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  So is Emily Rolfe posting
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  her out in the sun?
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  Yes.
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  Doing the heat and Kyle and
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  complete misery in the shade.
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  And she's like, one of us likes the heat.
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  Yes.
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  So I think that's going to
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  be interesting as well.
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  A couple of big things that happened.
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  Zeus was erected into the arena yesterday,
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  which I know that the
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  ceilings are high and I
• 10:24
  know it's possible,
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  but this is this big
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  outdoor rig with the big
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  tall rope climbs and all that.
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  And here it's going to be indoors.
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  So cool.
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  That's insane to me.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, they, their demo team were trying, uh,
• 10:43
  clean ladders.
• 10:45
  Yes.
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  It's all that.
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  They went out to the lake.
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  It looked like they tested
• 10:51
  the team paddleboard event,
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  which actually had paddles.
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  Uh, they did it for people on the big,
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  massive paddleboard, uh,
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  knees and paddling.
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  Hmm.
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  That looked fun.
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  I don't know if you saw that.
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  Wait, it's Kat that's supposed to sneeze,
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  not you.
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  Sorry.
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  You went off script.
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  I said no, sorry.
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  Dave did the swim run with
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  the run swim with the demo team.
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  And did you hear the humble brag?
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  No, no.
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  Yeah.
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  And Chase did it too.
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  But yeah, I heard it.
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  Yeah.
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  He was like, yeah, the fastest was 42.
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  Slowest was 51.
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  I went 49.
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  So just telling everybody that he was not.
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  Yeah.
• 11:54
  How about this comment?
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  I'm curious about the demo
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  team wearing anything, but go rec.
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  I bet you once we get there
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  and it becomes the production,
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  they're wearing GORUCK.
• 12:07
  Yeah,
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  they're probably in their own stuff
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  right now.
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  They're probably still doing
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  posts for their sponsors
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  and everything else.
• 12:15
  The other thing is the
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  athletes are just checking in now,
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  and GORUCK probably doesn't
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  want to release what all
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  the uniforms look like
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  until the athletes get to
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  go through that process.
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  Yeah, that's a good point.
• 12:26
  That's a good point.
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  One of these, one of these years, Scott,
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  we need to go early and be
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  there for athlete check-in.
• 12:31
  I think that would be really cool.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm just not,
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  I'm not confident we would
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  have had access.
• 12:37
  Oh yeah.
• 12:38
  Well maybe as we, you know, gain fortune,
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  we could, you know,
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  stay in the good graces and
• 12:47
  maybe get that sometime.
• 12:48
  I, you know,
• 12:49
  one day when I don't have to
• 12:50
  cover gym hours, I want to, you know,
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  spend like a whole week at
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  the games and do like the whole thing.
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  And not, cause as it stands right now,
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  I'm not getting there until
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  like Thursday afternoon and
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  it's totally stressing me out.
• 13:01
  Cause I'm like missing two events,
• 13:03
  maybe three.
• 13:04
  Yeah.
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  I, my guess is,
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  so I'm getting there tomorrow afternoon.
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  I think I get in at like one,
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  one 30 like that, uh, in Dallas.
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  And then I have to go out to Fort worth.
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  Um,
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  I'll get my media stuff and then I
• 13:19
  don't think I'm going to
• 13:20
  get go unless we can get
• 13:22
  finish line access to the run swim.
• 13:26
  I think it's pointless to go
• 13:27
  just sit on the run course
• 13:29
  and see three seconds of
• 13:31
  prevent whizzing by.
• 13:33
  Yeah, I agree.
• 13:34
  Um,
• 13:36
  but if I can get like finish line access,
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  I'll go check that out.
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  Cause you would be able to
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  see them swim in finish and all that.
• 13:46
  So, yeah,
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  I'm thinking I'll get to see the
• 13:49
  last event on Thursday and that's it.
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  Assuming I can even get my
• 13:51
  credentials that late.
• 13:54
  Yeah.
• 13:56
  They put the schedule out, right?
• 13:59
  Yes.
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  There's nothing wrong.
• 14:02
  I had to send a note to
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  Chris to ask him when I
• 14:05
  could get my credentials or
• 14:05
  if you could get them for
• 14:06
  me because I'm not going to
• 14:07
  be there until Thursday afternoon.
• 14:09
  He just said just reach out
• 14:10
  to him or Laura and they'd
• 14:11
  figure something out.
• 14:13
  Okay.
• 14:16
  What else has happened this week?
• 14:19
  Just before we went on air,
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  we saw Dave Castro.
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  Sewing.
• 14:23
  Sewing machine to fix Brookwell's top.
• 14:30
  So he's working hard.
• 14:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 14:34
  with that um they did flip
• 14:37
  the friday night farrington
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  field event instead of it
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  being sprint rest run 1600
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  it's 1600 rest sprint yeah
• 14:51
  I called that actually and
• 14:53
  they they gave more details
• 14:56
  of the sprint it's sprint
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  then sprint with bag then
• 15:00
  sprint then sprint with bag
• 15:04
  Yeah, and it's, I mean,
• 15:05
  I think that changes the whole event too,
• 15:07
  right?
• 15:07
  Because you can't really,
• 15:09
  you can't try to PR your mile.
• 15:12
  I mean, you could, but you don't want to.
• 15:15
  But I think it's cool that
• 15:16
  we do get to see fresh legs on the mile.
• 15:18
  Yeah, oh yeah.
• 15:21
  I'm happy about it.
• 15:23
  Sydney, if the times are correct,
• 15:25
  running a 536 is pretty freaking awesome.
• 15:29
  Mm-hmm.
• 15:30
  now she I bet you that time
• 15:32
  if that truly was her time
• 15:34
  I bet you that stands with
• 15:37
  her track experience I
• 15:40
  would agree yeah um but I
• 15:45
  think it's going to be
• 15:45
  exciting I think the mile
• 15:47
  is going to be kind of an
• 15:48
  exciting thing and it does
• 15:49
  look like it's a group
• 15:50
  start so uh which will be
• 15:55
  which will be pretty fun um
• 16:00
  So I think that's really
• 16:01
  like all the news that's kind of broke.
• 16:04
  They didn't announce that
• 16:05
  one workout with the 50 deadlifts,
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  or the five rope climbs, 50 skier.
• 16:14
  GHD.
• 16:15
  Yeah.
• 16:16
  And then back.
• 16:18
  And it's 25 rope climbs.
• 16:20
  That's a big workout.
• 16:21
  Yeah.
• 16:22
  Yeah.
• 16:27
  Because if it's new set,
• 16:28
  it could be over 15 feet.
• 16:30
  That means, right?
• 16:34
  Because they're like 20 feet.
• 16:35
  That could be nasty.
• 16:36
  Yeah.
• 16:38
  Do we know from what vantage point we,
• 16:41
  with media access,
• 16:42
  will be able to watch inside?
• 16:45
  So if you look at the media guide,
• 16:48
  there's a row,
• 16:49
  like a front row on this side,
• 16:53
  that those are for media.
• 16:54
  Okay.
• 16:55
  Okay.
• 16:56
  So there's no pit this year.
• 16:58
  There's just like a row of seats.
• 17:02
  And I'm hoping that we don't
• 17:02
  have to sit in line and
• 17:03
  wait and get a sub and have
• 17:06
  to go to the seat.
• 17:08
  Like hopefully someone will just be there.
• 17:12
  What would be really cool is
• 17:13
  if we got an assigned seat
• 17:14
  for the weekend.
• 17:16
  Yeah, that would be nice too.
• 17:18
  If they've reduced down the
• 17:20
  media team to this,
• 17:22
  then you all get a seat.
• 17:23
  Yeah, there you go.
• 17:25
  yeah maybe maybe that will
• 17:27
  happen yeah maybe we'll do
• 17:29
  that when we check in that
• 17:30
  would be really cool I know
• 17:32
  that the crew that um like
• 17:34
  my boyfriend's coming with
• 17:34
  me his first crossfit thing
• 17:38
  is he excited yeah I'm
• 17:40
  trying to get him to wear
• 17:41
  like cool clothes though
• 17:42
  because like he's not he
• 17:43
  doesn't wear um crossfit
• 17:45
  stuff you know he just
• 17:46
  wears like cargo shorts and
• 17:48
  he's a big under armor guy
• 17:49
  so I he does have two pair
• 17:51
  of lululemon shorts so I'm
• 17:52
  hoping that he'll bring those
• 17:54
  I told him we're going to
• 17:55
  get him a pair of CrossFit
• 17:55
  shoes because the Skechers
• 17:57
  are probably are not going
• 17:58
  to cut it for the weekend.
• 18:00
  But he's sitting with my
• 18:01
  friends from CrossFit Equity,
• 18:03
  Paul Palmer.
• 18:03
  Remember Paul, the guy I was coaching,
• 18:05
  the 60 to 65 athlete that
• 18:07
  went to NFC or Legends rather.
• 18:12
  He got a bunch of tickets for everybody.
• 18:13
  He had an extra one.
• 18:14
  So Mike will be able to go
• 18:15
  with them and they're like
• 18:17
  fourth row finish line.
• 18:19
  seats probably better seats
• 18:20
  than than me but he'll be
• 18:22
  with that crew I think
• 18:22
  there's like eight of them
• 18:24
  um which is cool because we
• 18:25
  can hang out outside
• 18:26
  together and then when we
• 18:26
  go in he'll have a place to
• 18:27
  go I'll have a place to go
• 18:29
  and we can meet up later
• 18:29
  but I'm excited uh if you
• 18:35
  shave your head and appear
• 18:37
  bald you'll be given all
• 18:38
  the credentials well I
• 18:40
  heard that sean woodland
• 18:41
  didn't get any really did
• 18:45
  he try to get some
• 18:48
  Oh.
• 18:49
  Drama right there.
• 18:50
  Oh,
• 18:50
  he's not announcing the games for the
• 18:52
  first time since 20... Yeah, I know.
• 18:55
  That's why I'm saying if he
• 18:56
  had tried to get access, though.
• 18:58
  Because, I mean,
• 18:58
  they still have Talking
• 18:59
  Elite Fitness is still their podcast,
• 19:00
  right?
• 19:01
  Yeah.
• 19:03
  Do we know who's calling the games?
• 19:06
  Yeah.
• 19:06
  Yeah.
• 19:08
  Chase and Adrian.
• 19:11
  Okay.
• 19:12
  And...
• 19:13
  That's it?
• 19:14
  Who's on the floor?
• 19:16
  Mike Arsenault is the on the field guy.
• 19:18
  Okay.
• 19:22
  He's awful.
• 19:24
  He's great.
• 19:25
  Yep.
• 19:27
  So I think that's the team.
• 19:30
  I don't know if there's like
• 19:31
  a B team because there is no, you know,
• 19:35
  it's a reduced.
• 19:35
  Oh, right.
• 19:36
  Yeah.
• 19:37
  Yeah.
• 19:37
  There's no age group or teens to break to.
• 19:41
  Mm-hmm.
• 19:42
  So, yeah.
• 19:43
  And there are built-in
• 19:44
  breaks if you didn't see the schedule.
• 19:46
  Barbell's been doing an
• 19:47
  awesome job making it a
• 19:49
  one-sheeter that's just
• 19:51
  like start times of every
• 19:52
  event and break times.
• 19:54
  Yes.
• 19:55
  And I'm going to print that off, I think,
• 19:57
  and laminate it to take with me.
• 19:58
  Great idea.
• 20:00
  Because you know what it's
• 20:03
  like being there, guys.
• 20:05
  Yeah.
• 20:06
  Caught up in the chaos.
• 20:07
  You're like, when's the next event?
• 20:08
  When's the first event?
• 20:09
  And you're just like scrambling.
• 20:15
  Corey said he's on the
• 20:17
  standby list for play-by-play.
• 20:20
  Fair enough.
• 20:21
  He's doing the foreign
• 20:22
  language broadcast for the Cajuns.
• 20:25
  Oh, that's great.
• 20:29
  So, yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaking of spin, if you have not done it,
• 20:39
  he did a really cool post
• 20:41
  of athletes' first
• 20:42
  appearance at the games
• 20:44
  side by side with their
• 20:45
  most recent photo.
• 20:48
  Cute.
• 20:51
  It is amazing how young some
• 20:54
  of those athletes look.
• 20:55
  Vellner and Cole Sager is
• 20:58
  almost unrecognizable.
• 21:00
  Yeah.
• 21:00
  I mean, yeah, it cracks me up every time.
• 21:04
  When I think about baby...
• 21:06
  Baby Velner.
• 21:08
  And I think about him on a
• 21:09
  cargo net in 2017.
• 21:13
  Do you guys remember?
• 21:14
  I was at the regional when
• 21:15
  Pat Velner tore his bicep.
• 21:18
  And he's still finished and qualified for,
• 21:20
  I think that was,
• 21:21
  that may have even been his second games.
• 21:22
  I don't know if it was second or his first,
• 21:24
  but he was sitting,
• 21:25
  him and his girlfriend and
• 21:26
  his parents were sitting
• 21:26
  behind us at a restaurant and we met him,
• 21:29
  you know, while he was all, you know,
• 21:31
  recovering or whatever from his injury.
• 21:33
  And I remember I didn't even, this,
• 21:35
  the funny story is,
• 21:36
  and I've told this before,
• 21:37
  we thought his name was
• 21:38
  Matt Belner because we were,
• 21:40
  we were live.
• 21:41
  So we weren't like watching
• 21:42
  the feed or like seeing it
• 21:43
  on any kind of media because
• 21:45
  and you know it's like yeah
• 21:48
  and we thought his name was
• 21:49
  matt belner so we were
• 21:51
  calling him matt belner the
• 21:52
  whole time we went to the
• 21:54
  restaurant and I'm like
• 21:55
  guys guys it's matt belner
• 22:00
  because every time I see
• 22:02
  patrick I remind him of
• 22:03
  that I'm like remember when
• 22:04
  I thought you were matt
• 22:05
  belner he's like yeah yeah
• 22:06
  that's a good one he's like
• 22:08
  you're crazy stop talking
• 22:09
  like whatever yeah yeah I
• 22:12
  had to fess up to kenzie
• 22:13
  riley the other night on
• 22:15
  when I interviewed her
• 22:16
  because I thought she was
• 22:17
  jen dancer oh really okay
• 22:21
  she was pushing a stroller
• 22:23
  Oh, okay.
• 22:23
  And she had her hair up in
• 22:25
  the bun and I was running
• 22:27
  up behind her and I thought
• 22:28
  we had just interviewed Sam and Jen.
• 22:30
  Yeah.
• 22:30
  So I was running up to say hi and I'm like,
• 22:32
  Hey Jen.
• 22:33
  And she turned and goes, I'm Kenzie Riley.
• 22:36
  And I was like, yes, you are.
• 22:37
  I think I was with you.
• 22:39
  I think I remember that.
• 22:41
  Yeah.
• 22:41
  Yeah.
• 22:41
  Yeah.
• 22:41
  Okay.
• 22:43
  Yeah.
• 22:44
  So I had to fess up to that
• 22:45
  when I interviewed her the other night,
• 22:47
  but yeah, I'm getting,
• 22:49
  I'm getting really excited.
• 22:51
  So Scott,
• 22:52
  we'll be your chauffeur for the
• 22:53
  week once we get there
• 22:55
  because we got a car.
• 22:56
  Yeah.
• 22:57
  And I think you're on the
• 22:58
  way to the venue from us
• 23:00
  like by a half a mile.
• 23:01
  So we're really close.
• 23:03
  Yeah,
• 23:04
  it seems like there's a lot of people
• 23:05
  staying out where we're staying.
• 23:07
  It's like 10 minutes away
• 23:08
  and not in a pretty decent area.
• 23:12
  But the hotels were like half the price.
• 23:14
  Nice.
• 23:15
  Yeah.
• 23:16
  So, well, I got to ask you guys,
• 23:20
  who's your top three?
• 23:21
  Let's start with the women,
• 23:23
  top three women.
• 23:24
  That's probably the easiest one to do.
• 23:26
  At least the first two.
• 23:28
  Tia, Laura, Emma.
• 23:31
  Emma Carey.
• 23:32
  I'm just kidding.
• 23:35
  Emma Tall.
• 23:36
  I'm going to go Tia, Emma, Alex.
• 23:44
  I have Alex as number four.
• 23:47
  Mine is Laura Tia Alexis.
• 23:52
  Ooh.
• 23:54
  I like, look at you.
• 23:56
  I like, I like where Alexis's head is.
• 23:57
  Um,
• 23:58
  and watching what some of the stuff
• 24:01
  from TTT.
• 24:02
  Um, I just,
• 24:04
  she wore the leader's Jersey
• 24:05
  last year and everybody
• 24:06
  kind of forgets that.
• 24:07
  Yeah.
• 24:08
  If she could have lifted a sandbag,
• 24:11
  she would have been podium last year.
• 24:14
  So,
• 24:18
  What about on the men's side?
• 24:21
  Roman, Ricky, Adler.
• 24:26
  What?
• 24:28
  I got Ricky, Roman, Adler.
• 24:32
  No, sorry.
• 24:34
  Ricky, Roman.
• 24:38
  Bellner?
• 24:39
  No, who's the cute young blonde guy?
• 24:42
  What's his name?
• 24:42
  Dallin.
• 24:43
  Dallin?
• 24:44
  Dallin, Pepper, yeah.
• 24:45
  Pepper.
• 24:46
  Pepper.
• 24:49
  so gerard so jeff adler wins
• 24:52
  the games and everybody
• 24:53
  says he can't do it again
• 24:54
  I'm not I just yeah the
• 24:58
  most well-rounded athlete
• 24:59
  out there he can run he can
• 25:01
  lift he can do all the
• 25:03
  stuff so adler is my number
• 25:05
  one okay ricky number two
• 25:07
  pat velner number three I
• 25:09
  would like I hope you're
• 25:10
  right I would love that yes
• 25:14
  I really would
• 25:17
  I just, he just always is like, what?
• 25:21
  Yeah.
• 25:23
  Spot.
• 25:24
  Like, so I don't know.
• 25:29
  It's exciting.
• 25:29
  I mean, it really is anybody's game.
• 25:33
  And I hope that we see a lot of shuffling,
• 25:36
  you know, top 10,
• 25:37
  top five throughout the weekend.
• 25:39
  It's I'm just super excited.
• 25:42
  i I truly think the men's
• 25:43
  side is the deepest great
• 25:48
  field we've ever seen at
• 25:49
  the games yeah I mean it
• 25:50
  could go so many ways I
• 25:52
  feel like the winner it's
• 25:54
  gonna it's gonna come one
• 25:55
  day yeah it's gonna come
• 25:57
  down to like mistakes made
• 26:00
  or injuries happening I
• 26:01
  feel like yeah
• 26:03
  unfortunately because
• 26:05
  that's not fun to watch so
• 26:06
  we have we have some from
• 26:08
  the audience here uh
• 26:12
  Kenneth DeLapp, low and lost in Gazan.
• 26:15
  I think that's a hard pick.
• 26:16
  I like it.
• 26:18
  Kenneth with the men, Dallin, Ricky,
• 26:21
  Justin.
• 26:22
  Dallin's not ready.
• 26:23
  Yeah.
• 26:25
  Maybe that's the other way.
• 26:26
  Third, second, first.
• 26:29
  I have Justin in fourth.
• 26:31
  And then Corey goes Ricky, Ricky,
• 26:33
  and then Ricky.
• 26:36
  No, I was going to make a joke.
• 26:37
  I'm not going to make the joke.
• 26:39
  Okay.
• 26:43
  So, okay.
• 26:45
  Um, and then the teams,
• 26:47
  the teams are stacked.
• 26:48
  They are.
• 26:49
  I know nothing about the teams.
• 26:50
  Yeah.
• 26:51
  You have peak three 60 with no Olson,
• 26:53
  Mathilde Garness, um, Lana,
• 26:57
  how Frick is that right?
• 27:00
  No.
• 27:01
  And Chandler.
• 27:02
  Is it Ricky?
• 27:03
  No.
• 27:03
  Oh, Tola.
• 27:05
  Okay.
• 27:07
  And then Chandler has his
• 27:08
  team with Mrs. Smith, Lauren Fisher,
• 27:13
  and Joshua El Chama.
• 27:18
  Okay.
• 27:19
  Let's not forget the Down Under team.
• 27:22
  Oh, is Khan going to be there?
• 27:24
  Yeah.
• 27:25
  Khan, Nubre, Kara, and Emily DeRoy.
• 27:30
  Yeah.
• 27:31
  Oh, okay.
• 27:33
  I'm liking that.
• 27:34
  And then there's Jamie Stevens.
• 27:35
  Yeah.
• 27:36
  amy james james simmons yeah
• 27:39
  eliot simmons uh
• 27:41
  christopher and somebody uh
• 27:47
  uh mia hesketh I mean how
• 27:50
  adorable are a couple
• 27:52
  crossfit people teams yeah
• 27:55
  like holy moly that is the
• 27:57
  cutest I love it I think
• 27:59
  it's cute I think it's adorable
• 28:04
  uh denise moore ricky roman
• 28:07
  justin lena richter lena
• 28:13
  richter that's the one I
• 28:14
  always forget on uh peak
• 28:16
  360. who was blue the last
• 28:20
  two years got it nice
• 28:25
  I used to be the biggest
• 28:26
  Noah hater in the world.
• 28:28
  And then I met him and then
• 28:30
  I've been friends with him.
• 28:32
  I want him to get a gold so bad.
• 28:33
  And I can't believe I
• 28:35
  flipped this far to the other side.
• 28:38
  Hey,
• 28:38
  how about the new announcement about
• 28:39
  the fan favorite award?
• 28:42
  Yeah, that's exciting.
• 28:44
  Is it?
• 28:45
  popularity contest yes what
• 28:47
  it is that's exactly what
• 28:48
  it is somebody called like
• 28:51
  homecoming queen and king
• 28:52
  or something like that but
• 28:53
  yeah yeah I just I don't
• 28:55
  like how they're doing it
• 28:56
  like from now until
• 28:57
  Thursday you vote and then
• 28:58
  they whittle it down to the
• 28:59
  top 50 and then from Friday
• 29:02
  to Sunday you vote I think
• 29:03
  the voting should only
• 29:04
  happen like on Sunday I
• 29:05
  think the games need to
• 29:06
  happen first for us to have
• 29:09
  like a favorite like who's
• 29:11
  who's voting on Friday night like unless
• 29:14
  know there's some dramatic
• 29:16
  you know like the capital
• 29:17
  type scene right and
• 29:19
  rebecca fusile you know
• 29:20
  does her thing which she
• 29:22
  won't because she's not in
• 29:23
  it but you know what I mean
• 29:25
  like I don't know I would
• 29:27
  have engineered it a little
• 29:28
  bit differently and that's
• 29:29
  all but I'm an overthinker
• 29:30
  so that's my job that has
• 29:34
  taken the place of spirit
• 29:36
  of the games as the my
• 29:38
  least interested award ever yes
• 29:42
  it's not like I like the
• 29:43
  concept of spirit of the
• 29:44
  games yeah I just think in
• 29:46
  the last few years it's
• 29:47
  become a joke about who
• 29:48
  they pick but I do that's
• 29:50
  what I like that's what I
• 29:51
  liked though about that at
• 29:53
  least there was more input
• 29:54
  being considered for that
• 29:58
  yeah favorite you know I
• 29:59
  mean like because because
• 30:01
  of that it's like we we
• 30:01
  would be like why did they
• 30:02
  get it just because they
• 30:03
  got injured you know like
• 30:07
  now we get to, it's,
• 30:08
  it's just going to be
• 30:09
  whoever has the most
• 30:10
  followers or whatever.
• 30:11
  And that, you know,
• 30:11
  that's assuming that people
• 30:13
  are campaigning for themselves,
• 30:14
  which I don't see that happening.
• 30:16
  But if you haven't seen
• 30:17
  Andrew Hiller is
• 30:19
  campaigning for Dwan Young.
• 30:22
  Yeah.
• 30:24
  And wants to see her win it.
• 30:27
  That would be awesome.
• 30:28
  It's just a joke then, right?
• 30:30
  Yeah.
• 30:31
  It's like American Idol.
• 30:33
  You pick someone way longer
• 30:35
  than you thought, right?
• 30:37
  Yeah.
• 30:38
  Yeah.
• 30:38
  But I think that's his point.
• 30:40
  He's trying to make a point
• 30:41
  that it's stupid.
• 30:43
  Probably.
• 30:45
  If they do just go by Instagram followers,
• 30:47
  it's going to be Danny Spiegel.
• 30:49
  Danny Spiegel, yeah.
• 30:50
  I think Tia has more.
• 30:52
  Oh, okay.
• 30:54
  But with followers,
• 30:55
  you don't even know what's
• 30:56
  real and what's not.
• 31:03
  So now we got Denise Moore
• 31:05
  coming in with Tia, Laura, Alexis.
• 31:09
  Kind of similar to mine.
• 31:11
  And then Corey, actually,
• 31:13
  my heart really wants Shelby Neal,
• 31:17
  Ariel Loewen, Alex Kazan.
• 31:18
  Mm-hmm.
• 31:20
  And on the men's side,
• 31:21
  his heart is picking Brandon Luckett,
• 31:23
  Travis Mayer, James Sprague.
• 31:26
  No way.
• 31:27
  No way.
• 31:28
  I know, but he's awesome.
• 31:31
  Yes, 100%.
• 31:35
  Yeah, I was just talking to Kyle Ruth,
• 31:38
  who was saying that, you know,
• 31:39
  TTC moved locations and
• 31:42
  they closed United Performance and,
• 31:45
  or not closed, TTC bought it.
• 31:47
  So now the gym and the
• 31:49
  training camp are one.
• 31:51
  And,
• 31:52
  but Travis was moving the whole weekend,
• 31:56
  like exhausted.
• 31:56
  He's the one that put the flooring down,
• 31:58
  the rig up, all that stuff.
• 32:01
  And now he's going to the games.
• 32:04
  It's his version of a deload.
• 32:05
  CJ says,
• 32:10
  the whole games this year has a
• 32:12
  real Dunder Mifflin company
• 32:13
  sports day vibe with
• 32:15
  Castro's Michael Scott.
• 32:18
  I kind of love it.
• 32:19
  That's amazing.
• 32:20
  I kind of love it.
• 32:22
  That's my pick for the fan
• 32:24
  vote comment of the week.
• 32:26
  Yeah.
• 32:26
  Yeah.
• 32:27
  Fun fact,
• 32:28
  I coach a guy named Michael Scott.
• 32:30
  Do you really?
• 32:31
  Yeah, he prefers to be called Mike,
• 32:33
  and I'm like, never.
• 32:36
  Michael Scott it is.
• 32:38
  That's what she said.
• 32:39
  Yep.
• 32:39
  That's great.
• 32:41
  And speaking of like fan votes of the week,
• 32:44
  I have talked to some
• 32:45
  athletes and I've printed
• 32:46
  off some pictures that
• 32:47
  we've gotten over the last
• 32:48
  couple of years.
• 32:49
  And I'm going to get them
• 32:51
  signed when we're at the
• 32:53
  games so that we can give
• 32:55
  them away on the show as prizes.
• 32:58
  I also have some mint trading cards,
• 33:01
  extra ones that are going to,
• 33:03
  I'm going to get those signed as well.
• 33:05
  And then those will be just
• 33:06
  giveaways that we do throughout the year.
• 33:10
  So I have like a really cool
• 33:11
  picture of Ariel like
• 33:13
  wrapped in the American flag.
• 33:14
  Yeah.
• 33:15
  Her podium last year.
• 33:16
  She's agreed to sign some of those.
• 33:18
  Oh, cool.
• 33:19
  And so then we'll give those
• 33:20
  away as prizes.
• 33:24
  No,
• 33:24
  I do not get to coach the assistant to
• 33:26
  the assistant regional manager.
• 33:28
  I don't.
• 33:31
  That's a good idea, Scott.
• 33:32
  Maybe I can take some of my
• 33:33
  favorite photos that I've
• 33:34
  taken and like get them,
• 33:38
  get them printed.
• 33:39
  before I leave on Thursday.
• 33:40
  That's a really good idea.
• 33:41
  I like that.
• 33:42
  It's also a way to get to
• 33:44
  talk to some of the athletes too,
• 33:45
  you know?
• 33:46
  Yeah.
• 33:48
  So I've talked to all of
• 33:49
  these ahead of time and
• 33:52
  there's no guarantee I'm
• 33:52
  going to see them,
• 33:54
  but I know like they're with,
• 33:56
  and so I've like envelopes
• 33:57
  ready with a pen, pictures, the cards,
• 34:01
  and then I'll just hand the
• 34:02
  envelope to the person they have there.
• 34:04
  And that way when they go back to the room,
• 34:07
  they can just hang out and
• 34:09
  do it in the evening.
• 34:11
  Are you putting like a
• 34:12
  self-addressed stamped
• 34:13
  envelope on the outside so
• 34:14
  that you get it back or?
• 34:15
  They've all told me that
• 34:16
  they are going to get it back to me.
• 34:18
  Okay.
• 34:19
  I mean,
• 34:20
  cause we're in the media room or in
• 34:21
  the media area on.
• 34:23
  And so I'm sure people.
• 34:26
  Yeah.
• 34:26
  That's a good idea.
• 34:27
  I'm going to,
• 34:27
  I think I'm going to do that.
• 34:28
  but I'm going to keep the idea.
• 34:30
  I gave you the aerial one,
• 34:30
  but there's a lot that are a surprise.
• 34:32
  And so I'll keep those.
• 34:34
  Yeah.
• 34:35
  I won't be,
• 34:35
  I won't be auctioning mine off
• 34:37
  or I'll be keeping them for myself,
• 34:38
  but it's a really good idea.
• 34:40
  Maybe if I get,
• 34:42
  maybe I'll get to one of each, you know,
• 34:43
  two of each and I'll share them.
• 34:46
  I have some that I can think about.
• 34:47
  And like Danny Spiegel is
• 34:48
  actually one of my favorite
• 34:49
  pictures of hers,
• 34:50
  her back with like her
• 34:51
  tattoo that she's got on the back,
• 34:53
  like the flowers.
• 34:54
  And it's like a closeup and there's,
• 34:56
  Even like Ellie Turner.
• 34:57
  I have a really good one.
• 34:58
  Ellie Turner.
• 34:58
  I know she'll be there not competing,
• 35:00
  but she's got like all
• 35:01
  these beads of sweat on her face.
• 35:02
  It's like a close-up super
• 35:03
  detailed and it's just like
• 35:04
  the coolest picture.
• 35:06
  I'm going to do that.
• 35:09
  Yeah,
• 35:09
  a lot of mine are from either
• 35:11
  eCapture who worked for us
• 35:14
  at West Coast Classic this
• 35:15
  year or Rosie View
• 35:17
  Photography who worked for
• 35:19
  us last year at the Games.
• 35:22
  So better than anything I could take.
• 35:26
  Maybe.
• 35:27
  I like the idea.
• 35:28
  I think it takes some good pictures too.
• 35:31
  So any last question for you
• 35:34
  guys and then we'll get
• 35:35
  going is any predictions on
• 35:37
  a workout announcement that
• 35:40
  we haven't already seen?
• 35:41
  No.
• 35:48
  I'm waiting for the what's
• 35:49
  the weird movement upside down this year.
• 35:54
  Yeah.
• 35:54
  That's what I'm waiting for.
• 35:57
  Did you see Royce Dunn
• 35:58
  posted a video from Mayhem
• 35:59
  and he was doing,
• 36:00
  he had those little like
• 36:02
  hurdle hop things and he was stepping,
• 36:06
  they were sort of staggered
• 36:08
  in a line and he had to
• 36:09
  step over them doing the
• 36:10
  handstand walking.
• 36:11
  And I thought that was interesting.
• 36:15
  And yeah, I don't know.
• 36:18
  What will the, what will the weird.
• 36:20
  movement be and and it will
• 36:22
  be you know it'll be prime
• 36:23
  time because and then we'll
• 36:26
  be like oh god so is the
• 36:30
  weird movement a boss thing
• 36:31
  or is it a dave thing
• 36:33
  because dave's done all the
• 36:34
  individual programming well
• 36:37
  I mean there's been weird
• 36:38
  stuff in the past and there
• 36:40
  was only one year that dave
• 36:41
  wasn't doing it so I i
• 36:43
  imagine that he still has
• 36:44
  some influence on
• 36:46
  And maybe not weird.
• 36:46
  Maybe weird's not the right word,
• 36:47
  but sort of the... When
• 36:49
  they would do the handstand push-up.
• 36:51
  Walk, handstand.
• 36:55
  Kettlebell pierce post from Tori Leonard.
• 36:59
  Got to be a max lift, right?
• 37:02
  I don't think... This clean ladder.
• 37:06
  That's going to be the fun one, I think.
• 37:08
  Amanda variations.
• 37:09
  I mean,
• 37:13
  maybe they're going to do some
• 37:14
  weird ring tricks.
• 37:15
  tricks on the rings remember
• 37:17
  handstand push-ups on the
• 37:18
  rings if they bring back a
• 37:19
  handstand push-up yeah yeah
• 37:23
  that was uh especially
• 37:25
  after the olympics being on
• 37:26
  we don't want to we don't
• 37:27
  want to highlight that no
• 37:29
  that not on espn please
• 37:32
  yeah that's what I'm saying
• 37:34
  we'll get laughed off the
• 37:35
  yeah we will off the camera
• 37:39
  amanda with burpee ring
• 37:40
  muscle-ups heavy amanda
• 37:47
  Speaking of bring muscle ups, Amy,
• 37:48
  what's your progress?
• 37:50
  Nope.
• 37:51
  Still don't have one.
• 37:52
  Still working on them.
• 37:56
  Okay.
• 37:56
  But we did.
• 37:57
  I was just going to say,
• 37:59
  most of the time when I
• 38:00
  work on them on Sundays,
• 38:01
  we are not even attempting muscle ups.
• 38:04
  We're mostly doing holds
• 38:07
  like here to build up just
• 38:08
  that last piece.
• 38:10
  Mm-hmm.
• 38:11
  You know how we started this
• 38:12
  show with the former Green
• 38:13
  Beret who does sets of 10
• 38:16
  ring muscle-ups?
• 38:18
  He got his first muscle-up
• 38:20
  by getting a pulley system
• 38:22
  where he hooked rings to the pulley.
• 38:25
  And he just kept adding
• 38:27
  kettlebells to the other end of the rope.
• 38:30
  And he would just do the
• 38:31
  movement and build the strength.
• 38:33
  That's interesting.
• 38:34
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:34
  I love it.
• 38:35
  So his first ring muscle-up was strict.
• 38:38
  Okay.
• 38:39
  That probably will be mine.
• 38:41
  And so we got to go to power,
• 38:43
  power monkey.
• 38:43
  I have one.
• 38:44
  I have that.
• 38:45
  No.
• 38:46
  And we have to go to the thing.
• 38:48
  Yeah.
• 38:48
  We could go save our money or,
• 38:50
  or have someone sponsor us to go.
• 38:54
  Corey really wants to Amanda.
• 38:58
  Yeah.
• 38:59
  That interview with the, with the guy.
• 39:00
  And he was like, I'm 47.
• 39:02
  I can't even string 10
• 39:04
  muscle ups together.
• 39:05
  Yeah.
• 39:05
  That's crazy.
• 39:08
  So, yeah.
• 39:09
  All right.
• 39:09
  Are we going to talk about
• 39:10
  my level one or are we going to do that?
• 39:11
  No, go, go, go.
• 39:13
  Level one.
• 39:14
  So, so I took my level one this weekend.
• 39:17
  Um, uh, no, I didn't need to take it, but,
• 39:20
  um,
• 39:20
  it's part of the CEU process to renew
• 39:22
  your level three.
• 39:23
  So I'm on my coming up on my
• 39:24
  second three-year renewal
• 39:26
  of my level three.
• 39:27
  I actually had my level three since 2018.
• 39:28
  That's awesome.
• 39:29
  It's like a long time.
• 39:31
  Yeah.
• 39:31
  Um, but anyway, so I needed the CEUs and,
• 39:34
  um, I called in a favor for some from,
• 39:36
  from some friends at HQ, um,
• 39:38
  And I got hooked up with the seminar.
• 39:42
  So I went last weekend.
• 39:43
  It was the hottest.
• 39:45
  So when I took my level one,
• 39:46
  it was in December.
• 39:47
  And when I took my level two,
• 39:48
  it was probably October.
• 39:50
  I don't actually recommend
• 39:52
  taking level one in an
• 39:54
  on-air conditioned gym in
• 39:55
  the summer because it is
• 39:56
  not pleasant for anyone.
• 39:59
  Here's my takeaways.
• 40:03
  It was small.
• 40:04
  There was only about 30 of us.
• 40:07
  my first level one,
• 40:07
  there were 60 of us easily six,
• 40:10
  five or six seminar staff.
• 40:11
  This was just three, one flow master, two,
• 40:13
  two other staff.
• 40:14
  And the other staff were pretty junior.
• 40:16
  You know,
• 40:17
  the one guy was pretty much the
• 40:18
  demonstrator person.
• 40:20
  And, and then the other, the other gal was,
• 40:23
  that was like her third seminar.
• 40:25
  So it was like a kind of an
• 40:26
  immature group.
• 40:29
  I was telling Amy before,
• 40:30
  I remember when I first,
• 40:31
  when I took my first level one,
• 40:33
  I wanted to be on seminar staff.
• 40:35
  Like I left,
• 40:36
  that weekend being like, I want their job.
• 40:39
  They are so cool and like
• 40:42
  energetic and you know, whatever.
• 40:44
  And I didn't get that
• 40:46
  feeling this time around.
• 40:47
  I don't know.
• 40:48
  Maybe it's because I've just
• 40:48
  been around the space for
• 40:49
  so long and I'm sure there
• 40:50
  were other people that were just excited.
• 40:52
  Um,
• 40:53
  I felt like an asshole because I was
• 40:55
  the only one not taking
• 40:56
  notes the whole time.
• 40:58
  Like everyone's like,
• 40:59
  every time they write
• 40:59
  something on the whiteboard,
• 41:00
  everyone's like on their
• 41:01
  notebooks and I'm just kind of like,
• 41:03
  did you have to take the test?
• 41:05
  Yeah, I took the test.
• 41:07
  The test wasn't easy.
• 41:08
  I got a couple of questions wrong.
• 41:12
  I hate to say that, but it was very much,
• 41:15
  I give credit to anyone that passes it,
• 41:19
  right?
• 41:19
  Because it reminded me,
• 41:21
  it gave me a little bit of
• 41:21
  PTSD from the level three,
• 41:23
  like those questions,
• 41:23
  the way they're worded and
• 41:26
  some of the specificity
• 41:27
  that they ask about.
• 41:28
  And a lot of it,
• 41:29
  some of it wasn't
• 41:30
  completely covered in lecture, right?
• 41:31
  You had to read that manual.
• 41:34
  um, to get, to get it.
• 41:35
  So yeah, it was, it was fun though.
• 41:37
  I'm sore, so sore.
• 41:40
  I mean,
• 41:40
  your girl has not been fitnessing lately.
• 41:42
  And so those breakout
• 41:43
  sessions of front squats
• 41:44
  and overhead squats and
• 41:45
  medicine ball cleans and all that were,
• 41:47
  uh, were a challenge.
• 41:49
  And the,
• 41:50
  the cat was not out of the bag
• 41:51
  until like the second half
• 41:53
  of the second day that I was a
• 41:59
  six people coming around me at lunch,
• 42:01
  asking me all these questions like,
• 42:02
  you know, Oh, you know,
• 42:03
  how did you do that?
• 42:04
  And where's your gym?
• 42:05
  And I felt like a real jerk saying that,
• 42:07
  you know,
• 42:07
  I had to unaffiliate the gym
• 42:10
  that wasn't actually affiliated anymore.
• 42:12
  And that kind of sucked.
• 42:13
  Um, but it was, you know, it was,
• 42:16
  I'm definitely reinvigorated.
• 42:17
  I came back Monday morning
• 42:18
  and I coached my ass off, you know,
• 42:21
  more so than I had,
• 42:22
  which I really needed.
• 42:23
  So I think that was good, but it was,
• 42:25
  you know, it was a good week.
• 42:26
  I'm super hot.
• 42:27
  Just, well,
• 42:30
  it's a really badly written test.
• 42:31
  It's just, um, CJ, it's very specific,
• 42:34
  right?
• 42:35
  Um, you have to really,
• 42:37
  you can't just kind of
• 42:38
  browse the question and pick your answer.
• 42:40
  You have to read the
• 42:41
  question and understand the question, um,
• 42:44
  what they're asking.
• 42:45
  Cause a lot of times it's
• 42:46
  like all the answers are right.
• 42:48
  Um, but there was like a best answer.
• 42:50
  Yeah.
• 42:50
  And some people, I know if I go quickly,
• 42:52
  I just see the question.
• 42:53
  I see the first thing is like, Oh, yep,
• 42:55
  that's it.
• 42:55
  And it's like, Oh no, wait, slow down.
• 42:58
  Um, do that.
• 42:59
  So,
• 43:00
  Yeah, it was good.
• 43:00
  It was a good experience.
• 43:02
  Awesome.
• 43:02
  I was happy to take it again.
• 43:03
  Yeah, the first time I took the L1,
• 43:06
  there was like 80 people there,
• 43:09
  it felt like.
• 43:09
  Yeah, it used to be huge.
• 43:11
  But it felt like 160 because
• 43:13
  the person beside me was so nervous,
• 43:15
  she was shaking all the chairs.
• 43:17
  Because Julie Fouché was there.
• 43:18
  That's so cool.
• 43:21
  Real quick too, guys,
• 43:22
  and then I have to run.
• 43:24
  I looked up,
• 43:24
  I had to look up my CFID
• 43:26
  online to register for the test, you know,
• 43:28
  and I just went on my phone
• 43:29
  and looked and I pulled up
• 43:31
  my athlete dashboard and it said,
• 43:33
  you know,
• 43:33
  that I was in the open last year
• 43:35
  under the affiliate of CrossFit Clarity.
• 43:37
  And then in parentheses next to it,
• 43:39
  it says departed.
• 43:41
  Weird.
• 43:45
  Weird.
• 43:47
  yeah I started to cry a
• 43:48
  little bit I was like I
• 43:49
  have to renew I have to
• 43:50
  earn forty five hundred
• 43:51
  dollars and I have to get
• 43:52
  my affiliate back because
• 43:53
  that made me really sad
• 43:54
  when I saw that crossfit
• 43:55
  clarity departed like two
• 43:59
  two things to finish this
• 44:00
  show corey where's your
• 44:02
  affiliate oh yeah funny
• 44:03
  story about that and then
• 44:05
  kenneth the lap the cat's
• 44:06
  out of the bag should be
• 44:08
  the name of a weekly
• 44:09
  segment hey let's do it
• 44:12
  yeah let's do it with that
• 44:14
  all right thank you for
• 44:15
  being here it's fun as
• 44:17
  always you guys in the chat
• 44:18
  make this show what it is
• 44:20
  we'll see everybody
• 44:22
  probably this weekend live
• 44:23
  from fort worth see you soon bye guys