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Lunch with the Clydesdale - What are My Plans for the Syndicate Crown · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome welcome to lunch
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  with the clydesdale we're
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  here on a memorial day um
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  yeah we're not working
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  today but we went ahead and
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  had a lunch hour so we
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  could spend some time with
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  you um after last night's
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  incredible show on sunday
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  night crossfit talk so
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  awesome to kind of get to
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  talk to everybody there um
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  it was really cool to have
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  justin cutler in the
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  comments as we were talking
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  about the alex kazan situation last night
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  His perspective on the whole
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  situation was really cool.
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  And if you miss that part,
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  I highly suggest you go
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  back and check that out and
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  see what Justin had to say
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  about all that.
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  Because while everything
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  seems to have turned out okay,
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  it might not have.
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  And he's definitely using
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  that as a teaching point
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  and a lesson learned with
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  Alex over this whole thing
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  and her story with the gummy.
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  so with that it's time for
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  the dart throw it's
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  memorial day maybe today is
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  the day I can drill this so
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  here we go damn it I'm
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  close it's not not too bad
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  I'm gonna go ahead and uh
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  show you where we landed and so
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  there's the picture.
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  I don't know if you can kind
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  of see it off there,
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  just off to the right,
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  a tiny bit from the bullseye,
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  but we are getting close.
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  Maybe I'll get one of these, uh,
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  sometime soon.
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  So, so yeah,
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  last night's show was awesome.
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  Um,
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  We played a game called Factor Fiction,
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  which really got Carolyn
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  fired up when we asked the last question.
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  And it was really about the
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  perceptions around the CrossFit space.
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  So if you did not see that, again,
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  last night was a really good episode.
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  Um,
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  we had some interesting people in the
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  chat.
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  We had, um, a really good time last night.
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  It's Memorial day weekend.
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  I think some people were
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  hanging out a little bit
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  longer last night as they
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  didn't have to get up for work.
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  Um,
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  but the first thing I did this morning
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  is I got up and I did my
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  Murph and I'm feeling it, feeling,
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  I'm feeling a little bit, um,
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  really feeling it in the legs.
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  And so what I decided to do
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  this year was to, um,
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  To scale it in a way that fit me best,
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  and so what I did is I did
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  an eight hundred meter run
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  not run eight hundred meter jog walk.
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  And I took Walter for a walk
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  on that eight hundred
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  meters came in and then did
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  the other half of the mile on a bike.
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  then I started to work on uh
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  the cindy version of ring
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  rows push-ups and air
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  squats and I got about
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  seventy push-ups in and
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  they they were starting to
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  go so I actually went to
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  knee push-ups from that
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  point on um so got through
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  all of that then I did a
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  half a mile on the bike
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  And then headed out, grabbed Walter.
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  We went on another eight
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  hundred meter walk, jog,
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  and I finished up.
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  And it took me about an hour,
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  to do everything this morning.
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  Um, but we got it in the books and, um,
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  I was able to honor, um,
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  the soldiers today on Memorial day,
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  which is what it's all about.
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  Um,
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  the people who have fought for our
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  freedoms in this country and, uh,
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  all the people that we have
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  lost in their effort to do so.
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  And, um,
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  Jason Ackerman posted this
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  this morning on his Instagram,
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  and I want to share that
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  because I love the sentiment behind this.
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  And it says, you can scale Murph,
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  you can partition, you can do half.
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  Just remember, it's not about the workout.
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  And I think that says it
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  pretty eloquently.
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  And that's kind of the
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  attitude I took to do it
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  this morning was I'm here
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  to honor the fallen soldiers.
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  Anybody who is a vet and who
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  is making that sacrifice
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  today or has already made that sacrifice,
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  they deserve me spending an
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  hour and twenty minutes
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  doing something that hurts a little bit.
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  And it'll probably hurt for
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  a couple of days,
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  but it can't hurt as bad as
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  some of the things that
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  they've been through.
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  and so um that was what we
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  did today so super pumped
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  for that I I did it last
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  year I think late after
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  memorial day because I'm
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  usually at an event on
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  memorial day weekend and
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  and so there was a lot of
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  years I didn't get it in
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  because of all of the traveling and um
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  standing around that we do
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  on cement but this year I
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  was able to kind of
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  schedule it figure out how
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  I was going to do it and I
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  got to do it with my my
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  little buddy walter today
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  and he was awesome through
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  the whole thing and uh yeah
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  we had a good time and it's
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  actually pretty nice today
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  it's in the sixties uh I
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  got to do that this morning
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  so not too hot um and got
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  through everything
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  pretty easily.
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  Um, but my,
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  the squats are going to be
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  hurting me soon and my
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  shoulders are going to hurt
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  from the pushups for sure.
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  Um,
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  But yeah, we got it in.
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  Hope you got yours in.
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  We talked about that last night.
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  Jamie and Carolyn did their
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  versions over the weekend.
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  Jamie did it on partition
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  this year with a vest just
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  because she is a complete
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  savage and is able to do so.
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  And she killed it.
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  She PR it.
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  If I tried to do it on
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  partition that you'd need a calendar to,
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  to,
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  time me because the,
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  the pushups would just re
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  two hundred straight
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  pushups would kill me.
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  Uh,
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  just a lot of mass for me to be lifting
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  up that many times.
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  Um, so the partition thing works for me.
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  It helps me get some things loosened up.
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  I can swing my arms around
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  on the air squats a little
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  bit to get those loosened up and, uh,
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  get back to doing pushups.
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  So hope you have a great one.
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  Hope you have a great Memorial day today.
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  Uh, and, uh, yeah.
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  So the other thing I wanted to do today,
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  um,
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  I haven't been doing a lot of top fives.
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  I did one last week.
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  Um, but I,
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  I wanted to do one for picnic
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  foods because one of the
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  best things to do on
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  Memorial day is to spend time with family,
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  um, and have some picnic foods.
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  Oh,
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  Kenneth says a volume and me don't get
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  along much anymore.
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  Yeah, I can, like, I'm actually,
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  for a big guy,
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  I like long workouts that I
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  can just get to a steady pace.
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  The sprint workouts get me
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  much harder these days than that.
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  And maybe, I don't know how old you are,
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  Kenneth, but like at fifty-five,
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  like just a good, nice,
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  long-paced workout is not bad for me.
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  I actually really enjoy it.
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  It's the it's the ten to
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  fifteen minute where I've
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  got to go a lot harder that
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  gets me real quick.
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  So today was actually kind of enjoyable.
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  Like I really did kind of
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  enjoy just kind of hanging
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  out with my earbuds in doing my thing,
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  walking the dog.
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  It was really, really cool.
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  So anyway, top five, top five,
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  top five picnic foods that
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  I've got to have at my
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  Memorial Day picnic today.
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  Honorable mention.
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  I love a good baked bean.
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  But it's got to be my baked beans.
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  I love the way I cook my baked beans.
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  And I actually put sausage
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  into my baked beans when I cook them.
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  So I chop up sausage pretty fine.
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  I'm usually in a casing,
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  that kind of sausage.
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  And I chop it up into the baked beans.
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  A little bit of ketchup,
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  a little bit of mustard,
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  a little bit of brown sugar.
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  And I...
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  do all that up and then I
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  bake them for a good ninety
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  minutes to get it kind of
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  caramelized and stuff in
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  there and that is my honor
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  honorable mention picnic
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  food so you see where we're going here
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  Now we're going to go to the top five.
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  Top five, number five,
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  all-time picnic food is the hot dog.
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  Got to have a hot dog.
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  Grilled hot dogs are so much better.
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  Actually,
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  over an open flame is even better
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  than that.
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  If you can get an
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  over-the-open-flame hot dog,
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  and we have a fire pit in my backyard.
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  Get a stick, get a hot dog,
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  get it over there.
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  Perfect hot dog, throw that in a bun.
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  I am not a mustard guy.
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  I am an onion ketchup guy
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  with some cheese.
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  That's my favorite.
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  Or if you have a good chili sauce,
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  I don't mind a really good
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  chili coney dog.
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  That's good too.
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  So number five on my list is the hot dog.
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  Number four is the veggie pizza.
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  If you've ever seen it with
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  the crescent dough,
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  you have like a dill...
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  creamy sauce over it and
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  then you put chopped up
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  fresh vegetables over the
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  top um that is the veggie
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  pizza that is that would be
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  my dessert for my my picnic
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  that is sweet enough for me
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  I don't need anything
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  sweeter than that um that
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  would be my dessert on my
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  picnic um yeah the broccoli
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  ones sometimes there's
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  broccoli on it sometimes
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  there's like shredded
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  carrot sometimes there's cauliflower um
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  Yeah, just fresh vegetables,
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  sometimes tomato.
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  You can put whatever you want on it.
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  That's kind of the cool
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  thing about the veggie pizza.
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  It's whatever fresh veggies you have,
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  the fresher the better.
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  So that is number four.
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  Number three is macaroni salad.
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  Um,
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  my mama Switzer's macaroni salad is so
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  freaking good.
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  Um, every time she has it, I, it is,
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  I am uncontrollable around it.
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  Um,
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  my wife has almost perfected the recipe.
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  Actually,
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  she has kind of perfected the recipe.
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  Um, and she makes it just as good,
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  but I cannot have it in the house.
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  So it is a,
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  like we make it and then we get
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  rid of it.
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  But it is Mama Switzer's
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  recipe for macaroni salad.
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  I don't know why it's
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  different than other ones,
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  but it's just creamier.
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  And it doesn't have as much
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  of that like mustard flavor to it.
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  But I really,
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  really love it and her macaroni salad.
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  Number two on the all-time
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  picnic list is coleslaw.
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  I am a coleslaw fanatic.
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  I don't care if it's the
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  vinegar-based or the
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  cream-based or whatever.
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  Whenever I am at a
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  restaurant and that is an
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  option for my side, I get coleslaw.
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  Coleslaw is just one of my
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  favorite things in the world,
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  so of course I'm going to
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  want coleslaw at my picnic.
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  That would be number two on
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  the list of all-time picnic foods.
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  Then number one, without a doubt,
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  is the hamburger.
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  I could eat hamburgers every
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  single day of my life.
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  I love hamburgers.
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  I can eat them without a bun.
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  I can eat them with a bun.
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  I can eat them just plain.
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  Um, and I am that guy.
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  I think I've said it on this
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  show that if it is a really,
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  really good burger,
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  I don't even need condiments.
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  I just want it to taste the
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  flavor of the meat.
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  And, um,
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  And that is by far my number
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  one picnic food of all time.
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  And
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  and and that's it yeah and
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  if it's a good burger I
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  don't need much on it but
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  if I'm gonna do just a
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  standard I want I want a
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  little bit of american
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  cheese and I want a little
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  bit of miracle whip and
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  some pickles and a tomato
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  fresh garden ripe tomato
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  that is the ultimate um
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  that is the ultimate burger
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  for me pickles garden ripe tomato
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  and uh and some miracle whip
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  maybe a little bit of
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  ketchup that's about it and
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  and again if it is really
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  good I don't need the
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  miracle whip and ketchup
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  the pickles tomato I'm good
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  um kenneth the lab didn't
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  realize how much I like
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  picnic foods dang all this
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  all sounds good jay birch
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  coleslaw banana pudding
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  brisket or sausage waldorf
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  salad sausage waldorf salad
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  I don't think I've ever
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  heard of though that combination
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  Brisket, it's weird.
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  I love brisket.
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  For some reason in my head,
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  I think of picnic as
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  different than barbecue.
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  I don't know why.
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  I don't know why I think that,
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  because I love a good brisket.
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  If it's a really good, moist,
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  juicy brisket,
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  there's nothing better in this world.
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  But in my head, I'm thinking barbecue,
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  not picnic.
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  And I will admit I'm
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  probably wrong on that.
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  Anyway, getting all choked up about that.
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  And I, and I said, like,
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  I'm probably wrong on that.
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  And brisket would be a picnic food.
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  I just, uh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Thoughts on deviled eggs.
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  I love a good deviled egg.
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  That's probably right there in my... Yeah,
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  that's inside, outside my top five.
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  I just, for some reason,
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  didn't think of it.
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  I love deviled eggs.
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  My daughter and I joke that
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  if my wife makes them,
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  nobody else will get any.
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  Um...
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  Kenneth loves a good brisket,
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  don't we all?
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  Mama Switzer's in the chat,
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  bread pudding for dessert.
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  And I love my mom's bread pudding,
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  but I don't think of it as a picnic food.
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  Again, if you missed it, mom,
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  I am using the veggie pizza
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  as my dessert for my picnic.
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  That is as sweet as I really
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  need to get for a picnic.
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  I don't need something super sweet.
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  So I'm going to use the
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  veggie pizza for my dessert.
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  And my mom calls deviled eggs in liners,
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  and that means that they're
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  the food you can eat while
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  waiting in line for the rest of the food.
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  You just grab a couple
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  deviled eggs and pop them
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  in your mouth while you're
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  waiting to get through the
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  rest of the line.
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  so uh if you guys have any
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  other thoughts on what are
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  good picnic foods uh that's
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  that um if I were going to
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  pick barbecue maybe I'll do
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  a barbecue list at some
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  point um but yeah I I like
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  banana pudding my wife does
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  not like bananas at all
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  anything banana she is out
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  on um and I know jay birch
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  said banana pudding I know
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  that's a big southern thing too
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  And so my best friend loves
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  banana pudding.
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  It's one of his,
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  his like favorite things in the world.
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  Um, and I, and I love it,
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  but my wife just is not,
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  I'm never going to have it at my house.
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  If my wife doesn't like the food,
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  we never get to see it on
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  the shopping list.
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  And my mom can attest to that.
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  I haven't got to eat a pea in like years.
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  Jell-O used to be picnic food, right?
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  See, it's so weird.
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  Like I correlate things to
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  different things.
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  Jell-O or the generic Knox blocks.
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  When I was a kid was a swimming food.
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  When I would go to swim meets, I would eat
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  like the square knox blocks
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  or jello all day long
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  that's what I that's what
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  sustained my energy when I
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  was swimming and I would
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  eat them non-stop all day
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  long so I don't ever think
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  of it as a picnic thing and
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  if there's a jello type
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  dessert or jello something
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  at the picnic I avoid it
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  because it's a reminder of
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  my swimming days and I and I would
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  would over eat the knox
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  blocks on swimming days to
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  the point where I really
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  didn't want them any other
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  time of the year uh kenneth
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  says boiled peanuts never
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  had them both but the south
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  loves them I've had boiled
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  peanuts when I lived in the
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  panhandle of florida for
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  four years not a fan not a
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  fan at all it there who
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  wants a soggy peanut i
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  The reason I eat a peanut is
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  to get the crunch,
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  and when you boil the peanut,
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  it's not crunchy anymore.
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  Now, you're supposed to slurp the water,
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  and it's supposed to give
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  you this salty something or other.
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  Yeah, not a fan.
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  But if you travel I-ten from
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  Jacksonville to New Orleans,
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  you'll see boiled peanut
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  stands about every couple
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  miles on the side of the road.
• 19:23
  I'm with jay birch they're
• 19:23
  gross they're slimy uh that
• 19:26
  and you'll see fried okra
• 19:27
  everywhere too on that same
• 19:29
  trip every gas station has
• 19:32
  fried okra and talk about
• 19:34
  slimy okra is about as
• 19:37
  slimy as the boiled peanut
• 19:40
  so yeah travel i-ten you'll
• 19:43
  get all of that stuff
• 19:47
  so the last thing I want to
• 19:48
  talk about today um and
• 19:50
  then I'm I'll take any of
• 19:52
  the questions you guys have
• 19:53
  for me any about anything
• 19:54
  in the world we have a
• 19:55
  little bit of extra time
• 19:56
  today any question you have
• 19:59
  throw me a question in the
• 20:00
  chat and I'll answer it but
• 20:02
  before we before I get to
• 20:03
  that part I just want to
• 20:05
  give you a little heads up
• 20:07
  uh I'm going to talk about
• 20:08
  the syndicate crown
• 20:10
  Because it was my plan to be
• 20:11
  at the Syndicate Crown,
• 20:13
  and I just want to give you
• 20:14
  a little peek into my life
• 20:15
  and why I probably am not
• 20:17
  going to make it to the
• 20:18
  Syndicate Crown this weekend.
• 20:22
  It was my plan to do that.
• 20:24
  As you all know,
• 20:25
  my wife went through total
• 20:26
  knee replacement surgery on May sixth.
• 20:29
  The plan was that she could
• 20:32
  possibly be recovered by
• 20:35
  the time that I had to go
• 20:37
  to the Syndicate Crown.
• 20:39
  She was going to come down
• 20:40
  with me in the car because
• 20:43
  this is the operation is on
• 20:45
  her right knee.
• 20:47
  And it means that she cannot drive.
• 20:51
  While her flexion is almost at goal,
• 20:54
  which she's supposed to get
• 20:55
  to a hundred degrees of flexion to,
• 20:58
  and then to zero, zero to one twenty.
• 21:00
  She is at zero and she's at
• 21:03
  like one sixteen degrees.
• 21:06
  So she's only like four
• 21:07
  degrees away from full
• 21:08
  flexion and her knee already.
• 21:10
  And we're not tomorrow.
• 21:11
  We'll mark three weeks post-op.
• 21:16
  She doesn't have the acumen
• 21:18
  yet to be able to go from break to gas,
• 21:22
  that flick of the ankle left to right.
• 21:26
  While she can go straight
• 21:27
  ahead with the flexion, she's good.
• 21:30
  But that twist of the ankle
• 21:32
  she doesn't have yet.
• 21:34
  So I cannot leave her for
• 21:35
  days without the ability to drive.
• 21:42
  In addition,
• 21:43
  she's still having some pain
• 21:44
  in the knee where she has
• 21:45
  to get it elevated.
• 21:47
  So six hours in a car from
• 21:49
  here to Knoxville doesn't
• 21:52
  seem to make sense at this moment.
• 21:55
  Now, if things change this week,
• 21:58
  we can hop in the car.
• 21:59
  We can get to Knoxville for
• 22:01
  at least a couple days this weekend.
• 22:05
  because she's off of work.
• 22:07
  So she doesn't even have to take time off.
• 22:08
  It would only be me.
• 22:09
  And I have plenty of
• 22:10
  vacation time to do that.
• 22:12
  Um,
• 22:13
  but it's looking like just with this
• 22:16
  season of life.
• 22:17
  And I knew that coming into
• 22:18
  this season that I probably
• 22:20
  would not be traveling as
• 22:21
  much because of everything
• 22:23
  that she had to go through.
• 22:25
  We've been fighting for
• 22:27
  years for her to get these surgeries.
• 22:29
  And when we finally got approved,
• 22:31
  that became the priority.
• 22:33
  Not me getting to semifinal events,
• 22:36
  not me getting to
• 22:37
  qualifying events as much as I would love,
• 22:40
  love, love to be there.
• 22:43
  From two thousand twenty to
• 22:45
  two to this year,
• 22:47
  I've been to every North
• 22:49
  American semifinal except
• 22:50
  for the West Coast Classic last year.
• 22:54
  It just doesn't look like
• 22:55
  it's going to be in the cards for me.
• 22:57
  I missed mayhem.
• 22:59
  I'm most likely going to miss syndicate.
• 23:03
  And that's just where we are.
• 23:04
  That's where we are with our lives.
• 23:06
  And for her to get back to
• 23:09
  fully functioning with two great legs.
• 23:16
  So, again,
• 23:19
  I can't leave her with the
• 23:21
  inability to drive,
• 23:22
  and she can't come with me
• 23:24
  if she can't elevate the
• 23:25
  leg for six hours straight.
• 23:30
  And then to be in a hotel
• 23:32
  room without all of the
• 23:34
  equipment and stuff that we
• 23:35
  have for her would be really,
• 23:38
  really difficult.
• 23:40
  And the ability to ice and
• 23:42
  do all of those things.
• 23:44
  So unless there's a dramatic
• 23:48
  change in her recovery this week,
• 23:52
  it looks like I'm going to
• 23:56
  miss being there in person.
• 24:00
  and I'm really going to miss
• 24:01
  it this is but again I know
• 24:04
  that this is more important
• 24:05
  my wife's health is more
• 24:06
  important than me getting
• 24:08
  to syndicate but that what
• 24:10
  that means is I'm going to
• 24:13
  be at I'm going to be at
• 24:14
  the games I'm going to be
• 24:16
  at the age group games for
• 24:19
  sure and then the fall will
• 24:21
  try to do some more stuff
• 24:24
  Uh, like masters fitness collective,
• 24:26
  maybe we'll try to get to
• 24:27
  like water Palooza, SoCal, um,
• 24:29
  some of those things,
• 24:30
  and maybe we'll just start
• 24:31
  picking up more in the fall as opposed to,
• 24:35
  uh, doing the semifinal season this year.
• 24:39
  so I'll just be watching all
• 24:40
  the streams from four
• 24:41
  different locations um and
• 24:45
  covering everything from
• 24:46
  that perspective and again
• 24:50
  I have yusef is going to be
• 24:51
  at syndicate taking
• 24:52
  pictures and doing video so
• 24:55
  you'll see some
• 24:55
  collaborations with him and
• 24:57
  I this weekend on all of
• 24:59
  that stuff so we will have
• 25:01
  a presence there
• 25:04
  But other than that,
• 25:05
  it looks like I'm out for this weekend,
• 25:08
  and then we'll just pick
• 25:09
  things up in the fall.
• 25:09
  And thank you so much, Kenneth.
• 25:11
  And ain't no thang,
• 25:13
  just hang in the chat with
• 25:14
  the rest of us.
• 25:17
  And Jay Birch says family first,
• 25:19
  of course.
• 25:21
  Yeah,
• 25:21
  and I knew that coming into the season.
• 25:23
  It doesn't mean I don't have FOMO,
• 25:26
  because I do,
• 25:29
  but my wife comes first for sure.
• 25:36
  And Kenneth says, hang in the chat.
• 25:38
  You know, when I watch events, live events,
• 25:42
  podcast, I'll be in the chat.
• 25:44
  Live events, I cannot look at the chat.
• 25:51
  I'm truly watching to get to
• 25:53
  analyze what's happening.
• 25:55
  And so I can talk about it
• 25:56
  with Jamie and Carolyn on Sunday night.
• 26:00
  And it's really hard for me to get,
• 26:02
  if we're in between events,
• 26:03
  I may dive into the chat a
• 26:04
  little bit to see kind of
• 26:05
  what everybody's talking about.
• 26:07
  But for the most part on the streams,
• 26:11
  I'm just watching the event itself.
• 26:17
  so I'll be watching
• 26:19
  everything that I can watch
• 26:20
  this weekend I will be
• 26:21
  talking about it with jamie
• 26:22
  and carolyn on sunday night
• 26:24
  of course and we'll break
• 26:25
  down everything we saw who
• 26:27
  got their tickets who
• 26:28
  didn't um and we'll uh and
• 26:35
  we'll see what's happening
• 26:38
  uh jody lynn every party
• 26:39
  needs a breather I'm sure
• 26:40
  you'll look and get new a
• 26:42
  new perspective yeah I and
• 26:45
  I'm so excited like
• 26:48
  I'm so excited to see where
• 26:50
  this takes my wife back to
• 26:52
  being fully healthy again and,
• 26:56
  and her to be able to come
• 26:57
  with me to events and to
• 26:59
  help me do some different things,
• 27:02
  have different angles of with the camera,
• 27:04
  things like that.
• 27:05
  Um, I can't wait till that happens again.
• 27:10
  So,
• 27:11
  so there's my announcement for
• 27:12
  syndicate crown.
• 27:13
  Um,
• 27:15
  And then we'll be hitting
• 27:17
  the circuit next year again for sure.
• 27:20
  And probably this fall a
• 27:22
  little bit here and there.
• 27:23
  So there's that.
• 27:29
  Um, I'm, I'm the last couple of minutes.
• 27:32
  I'm going to open it up.
• 27:33
  You guys can ask me a question, uh,
• 27:35
  anything that you want
• 27:36
  about what's going on in
• 27:37
  space about my personal life,
• 27:39
  about anything like that.
• 27:41
  I'm here to answer questions today.
• 27:43
  Um,
• 27:44
  just have a little bit of fun before we
• 27:45
  check out.
• 27:47
  Um, but while, if you have some,
• 27:48
  I'll wait for you guys to
• 27:49
  come up with some in the chat.
• 27:52
  But until then,
• 27:54
  my wife and I started
• 27:55
  watching Yellowstone again
• 27:58
  to finish off the fifth season,
• 28:00
  which is the last season
• 28:01
  that's out there.
• 28:02
  And it's a really different
• 28:03
  perspective having a
• 28:05
  daughter living in Montana
• 28:06
  and watching that show now.
• 28:09
  And actually having been in Montana myself,
• 28:12
  and it was really...
• 28:17
  It's been really fun kind of
• 28:19
  watching that show with that perspective,
• 28:22
  now seeing Montana and
• 28:25
  knowing that my daughter lives there,
• 28:29
  who I actually got to talk
• 28:30
  to right before I came down here today.
• 28:32
  And she's going on another
• 28:34
  hike today to some waterfalls.
• 28:36
  And so excited to get the
• 28:38
  pictures back from all this
• 28:40
  stuff she's doing,
• 28:42
  but really excited for her
• 28:43
  and really happy for her.
• 28:49
  uh Kenneth says you guys hit
• 28:50
  everything last night it
• 28:51
  doesn't have to be about
• 28:52
  CrossFit it can be about
• 28:53
  anything anything in the
• 28:56
  world um last night when I
• 29:02
  was done with the show I
• 29:03
  went up to I have to upload
• 29:04
  the audio version to um
• 29:11
  to get it out there on like
• 29:12
  Spotify and iTunes and all of that stuff.
• 29:15
  And so I have to like make
• 29:17
  another thumbnail.
• 29:18
  I have to get the audio up.
• 29:20
  I have to do some finishing
• 29:22
  touches on everything.
• 29:23
  And I put the Knicks Pacers
• 29:24
  game on last night.
• 29:26
  And that is the most
• 29:27
  basketball I've watched all
• 29:29
  season on the men's side.
• 29:32
  and what a game man carl
• 29:35
  anthony towns was on fire
• 29:37
  at the end of that game
• 29:38
  really fun to watch um I
• 29:41
  just love when when
• 29:43
  athletes elevate to that to
• 29:45
  that level of of dominance
• 29:47
  in a moment and um it was
• 29:52
  really fun to watch really
• 29:54
  fun to watch and the knicks
• 29:55
  needed it or they were
• 29:56
  going to be out of the
• 29:57
  playoffs soon for sure
• 30:00
  Kenneth says,
• 30:01
  you think Sprague can repeat?
• 30:03
  I do.
• 30:05
  I do.
• 30:05
  I think he has improved
• 30:06
  immensely where he had holes,
• 30:10
  and he does have events
• 30:11
  that he can be dominant at.
• 30:15
  Like, he's a really good runner.
• 30:16
  He's a really good swimmer.
• 30:18
  If those things ever come back into play,
• 30:23
  I think that...
• 30:26
  He will dominate those
• 30:27
  events because the people
• 30:29
  that have dominated him in the past,
• 30:30
  like Fikowski and Koski,
• 30:33
  are no longer in the field.
• 30:35
  And I really think that I think he could.
• 30:40
  I think he's getting good
• 30:41
  enough at the other stuff
• 30:43
  that he will contend for
• 30:44
  the title for a few years now.
• 30:47
  I think the only thing that
• 30:49
  will stop James Sprague is
• 30:50
  James Sprague himself.
• 30:52
  I think he gets bored easily.
• 30:55
  And so he tries so many different things.
• 30:58
  And like the example this
• 30:59
  year is him and his,
• 31:01
  his coach has had to talk
• 31:02
  him down from doing a triathlon.
• 31:08
  Instead of training for the games,
• 31:10
  he wants to go do a triathlon,
• 31:11
  and I think his coach has
• 31:13
  convinced him that that is
• 31:15
  not what's best for this season.
• 31:18
  So it's those types of
• 31:19
  things I think will prevent
• 31:21
  James Sprague from competing,
• 31:23
  not his CrossFit ability,
• 31:26
  but his wanting to go try other things.
• 31:29
  The guy qualified for world
• 31:31
  championships in high rocks.
• 31:35
  And he had to make the
• 31:37
  decision not to do that and
• 31:38
  to focus on his training
• 31:39
  for the CrossFit Games.
• 31:42
  It's those things that I
• 31:43
  think could get in his way
• 31:45
  because he's so talented in
• 31:47
  certain areas that he's
• 31:48
  going to have other
• 31:49
  opportunities to do things.
• 31:54
  And he has to make the
• 31:55
  decision if this is his
• 31:57
  sole focus and if he wants
• 31:59
  to keep doing this over and over again.
• 32:07
  Jody Lynn,
• 32:08
  would you like to do any
• 32:09
  swimming for supplemental exercise?
• 32:16
  I can't wait to swim laps in my pool,
• 32:18
  but it's grueling.
• 32:22
  I would.
• 32:23
  I would like to.
• 32:28
  Finding a pool to be able to
• 32:30
  do that is the difficult
• 32:33
  part for me here.
• 32:36
  there aren't a lot of pools
• 32:38
  available for that,
• 32:41
  but I have noticed that the
• 32:43
  rehab center where I go get
• 32:45
  my allergy shots every
• 32:46
  Wednesday has like a two lane lap pool.
• 32:52
  And I may look into how much
• 32:55
  it would cost to get a
• 32:57
  membership to that because
• 32:59
  they do sell memberships to that gym,
• 33:01
  which is the,
• 33:03
  it's a hospital system here
• 33:04
  in Columbus and,
• 33:06
  but it's their rehab center
• 33:11
  and they have the pool and
• 33:12
  they have a lot of like the
• 33:13
  machine type equipment
• 33:15
  around um treadmills and
• 33:21
  ellipticals and all of that
• 33:22
  stuff plus the lifting
• 33:24
  machines I'm definitely not
• 33:26
  a crossfit gym but it does
• 33:28
  have the pool availability
• 33:30
  and I need to look into
• 33:33
  whether that's something
• 33:33
  that I can fit into my budget or not
• 33:37
  But the fact that now in
• 33:39
  Ohio you can use your
• 33:41
  health savings account to
• 33:43
  be able to pay for that
• 33:44
  stuff may make that a
• 33:51
  better opportunity for me.
• 33:56
  So, yeah.
• 33:58
  It is grueling.
• 34:03
  But eventually your body gets used to it.
• 34:07
  problem with swimming is it
• 34:08
  uses muscles that you don't
• 34:10
  really use in a lot of
• 34:11
  other ways and so those
• 34:14
  muscles hurt a lot in the
• 34:16
  first few weeks that you're
• 34:17
  swimming if you stay
• 34:19
  consistent with that that
• 34:20
  all goes away and it
• 34:24
  becomes less grueling um
• 34:28
  and I know that's hard to
• 34:29
  trust in but it does happen
• 34:32
  There's a lot of small
• 34:34
  muscles that come into play
• 34:36
  when you're doing just
• 34:37
  basic swimming that you
• 34:39
  don't use in like a typical
• 34:41
  CrossFit gym or CrossFit workout.
• 34:47
  And so you just have to use
• 34:48
  them for a few weeks to get
• 34:50
  them kind of back into
• 34:52
  shape and back into play.
• 34:54
  And then the gruelingness
• 34:55
  kind of goes away.
• 34:59
  And then the real big key
• 35:00
  with swimming is you have
• 35:02
  to figure out how to breathe.
• 35:04
  Once you learn to breathe
• 35:05
  where you don't have to turn so much,
• 35:08
  it takes away a lot of the
• 35:10
  grueling part of the stroke.
• 35:12
  And that's a conversation I
• 35:14
  had with like Hattie Cano
• 35:17
  is that like she was
• 35:19
  breathing way too high,
• 35:21
  like turning her head
• 35:22
  really high to get a breath.
• 35:26
  You have to learn to breathe
• 35:27
  in the bow wave.
• 35:29
  And what that is,
• 35:31
  is if you ever see a boat
• 35:33
  go across the water,
• 35:34
  there's a bow wave that happens.
• 35:38
  And in that,
• 35:39
  it's a small little wave that
• 35:41
  actually creates a divot in
• 35:43
  the water where the boat is.
• 35:45
  When you're swimming,
• 35:46
  when you're swimming fast enough,
• 35:49
  your head is the point of
• 35:52
  the bow of the boat.
• 35:54
  And you actually create a
• 35:55
  mini bow wave that comes
• 35:56
  back the body as you're swimming.
• 35:59
  And when that divot then
• 36:00
  occurs in the water,
• 36:01
  you just have to turn a
• 36:02
  little bit to get free air to breathe in.
• 36:06
  And the less you turn your head,
• 36:10
  the more streamlined your
• 36:12
  body stays throughout the stroke.
• 36:14
  And then you actually become
• 36:15
  more efficient in the water
• 36:17
  and it becomes less grueling.
• 36:21
  And that is the major
• 36:23
  mistake that most CrossFit
• 36:26
  athletes have when I watch them swim.
• 36:30
  is they breathe really high
• 36:33
  and that means their back
• 36:34
  shoulder dips down in the water.
• 36:36
  You become way less streamlined.
• 36:38
  That means you're pulling
• 36:40
  against the water instead
• 36:41
  of trying to stay symmetrical and smooth.
• 36:45
  And then it becomes really
• 36:47
  grueling and physically
• 36:48
  demanding because you're
• 36:50
  not staying on top of the
• 36:52
  water in a very streamlined position.
• 36:55
  I would love to get back to
• 36:57
  doing that again.
• 36:59
  Um,
• 36:59
  I just have to find the right
• 37:00
  opportunity to be able to do that.
• 37:07
  So is that all the questions for me?
• 37:11
  And I'm sorry if I went into
• 37:13
  way too much detail on the
• 37:14
  swimming thing.
• 37:15
  That's just the life I lived
• 37:17
  for so many years.
• 37:18
  Um,
• 37:21
  eating my jello Knox blocks
• 37:23
  and swimming for hours a day.
• 37:33
  I kind of understand the
• 37:34
  James break thing and I'll
• 37:36
  finish with this.
• 37:37
  When I was a swimmer, you swam,
• 37:40
  I swam high school and I swam YMCA.
• 37:43
  So the high school meets
• 37:44
  would be like on Mondays and Thursdays,
• 37:46
  I think.
• 37:47
  And the YMCA swimming meets
• 37:49
  would be on Saturday.
• 37:52
  And then periodically you'd
• 37:53
  have an invitational where
• 37:56
  you could go to like a meet
• 37:59
  and you signed up and you
• 38:00
  paid to enter multiple different events.
• 38:05
  So when you swam high school, when I swam,
• 38:07
  there was a rule.
• 38:08
  You could swim two individual events,
• 38:11
  one relay.
• 38:14
  And if you're a decent swimmer,
• 38:16
  you swam two individual
• 38:17
  events and a relay.
• 38:22
  On the typical YMCA meet,
• 38:24
  when you're going against another team,
• 38:26
  the same rule applied.
• 38:28
  You could swim two
• 38:29
  individual events and one relay.
• 38:32
  When you went to an invitational,
• 38:34
  you could sign up for
• 38:35
  whatever you wanted to sign up for.
• 38:39
  So I would go to an invitational,
• 38:42
  and I didn't want to be bored.
• 38:45
  Especially in later years in my freshman,
• 38:49
  sophomore, junior year of high school,
• 38:51
  I swam freestyle for
• 38:52
  everything and it was all
• 38:53
  distance and I'd be so bored with it.
• 38:56
  So when I go to an invitational,
• 38:58
  I would sign up for
• 38:59
  everything and I would swim
• 39:01
  every single event to see
• 39:03
  how I could do in the
• 39:06
  events I didn't get to swim
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  so much during the year.
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  I would sign up for the
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  breaststroke event I would
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  sign up for the butterfly
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  event I would sign up for
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  the backstroke event I
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  would do the im um and then
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  I would do all the
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  freestyles and uh and
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  that's how I really those
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  are the events I really enjoyed
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  But those are the events
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  that I would house the
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  jello nox blocks because I
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  am swimming so much during
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  the day at such a high
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  intensity that I needed to
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  get calories into my system
• 39:40
  as quickly as I could.
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  And I would get an upset
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  stomach if I ate normal
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  food because my nerves
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  would just be like churning all day.
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  so that's why I would eat
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  knox blocks all day long
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  and basically just jello
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  square jello square after
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  jello square after jello
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  square and that would keep
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  me going uh through those
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  long invitational days but
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  that's the most fun I ever
• 40:06
  had swimming is when I
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  would just sign up for
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  everything and try to win
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  as many medals and plaques
• 40:13
  or ribbons or whatever as I
• 40:15
  could throughout the day um
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  But that's how it worked.
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  And I did that because I was bored.
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  And that's why I kind of
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  translate that to James Sprague.
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  It seems to me like he gets
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  bored with things and he
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  just wants to sign up for
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  something different to get
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  his mind in a different
• 40:34
  direction for a period of time.
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  And I think that's the only
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  thing stopping him from
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  repeating is that
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  perception of boredom that
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  could come over time.
• 40:53
  Well, thank you for the fun questions.
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  I hope you all have an
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  amazing Memorial Day.
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  I hope you have an amazing
• 41:02
  picnic with really good food.
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  And with that, guys,
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  I'm not going to send you
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  back to work today because
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  you have the day off.
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  It's Memorial Day if you're
• 41:12
  here in the States.
• 41:13
  If you're in another country
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  and you have to go back to work,
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  my apologies.
• 41:18
  With that,
• 41:19
  We will see everybody next
• 41:21
  time on Lunch with Clydesdale.
• 41:24
  Bye, guys.