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Fee Saghafi | The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:11
  In the kitchen
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the coffee
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  edition of gladsdale media
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  podcast where we're
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  featuring the athletes of
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  the 2024 crossfit game
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  semifinals and I'm so
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  pumped to have my dear
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  friend lisa goffy on the
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  show fee how you doing good
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  morning just like you said
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  coffee talk we're ready
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  we're ready the thing
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  that's gonna kick it off
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  right except mine says uh
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  this is one of my favorite
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  mugs it says tequila
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  hope you're not adding that
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  to the coffee before
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  training no definitely not
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  but I probably I will
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  probably be having some
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  hopefully hopefully some
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  celebratory tequila after
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  semi-finals is is uh done
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  very well and dusted but
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  we're here enjoying coffee
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  first so you like your
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  tequila straight up or
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  mixed with something I love honestly
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  If it's very good tequila,
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  I'll just enjoy it like
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  straight and actually enjoy,
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  like truly like sip on it.
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  You don't just kind of like,
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  like very good quality tequila.
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  My abuelo always had tequila
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  time around four o'clock
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  and he would just sit on
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  his chair and just like slowly sip,
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  like truly enjoying.
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  So yeah, so I could do that with good,
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  very good tequila, but then
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  Other ones where you're just
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  kind of like hoping it goes down smooth,
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  the salt, the lime,
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  or just like mixed in the
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  drinks is always nice.
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  But either way.
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  So Jake Chapman said, this is coffee talk.
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  That's clever.
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  Why haven't I thought of that?
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  Yes.
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  Yes, Jake.
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  I love that.
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  Corey Leonard says, tequila for breakfast.
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  I've been going about my
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  training all wrong.
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  There it is.
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  That's okay.
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  Do you know?
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  Tequila's a probiotic.
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  It's very good for you.
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  Very good for your gut.
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  Paper Street should do a limited edition.
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  Yes.
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  Like a Paloma coffee.
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  I love the way she says tequila.
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  Gracias.
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  Thank you very much.
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  It's the proper way to say it.
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  Everyone should say it like that.
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  Even like gringos.
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  Tequila.
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  Tequila.
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  you go but I gotta say I i
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  do have it with my what
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  like I'll sip on my coffee
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  not thinking sip my coffee
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  and then I have my water my
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  relay my salt water so I'm
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  like dehydrating hydrating
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  dehydrating there's a
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  method here way to do it
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  this way to do it yeah
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  especially when you're a
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  week out from semis yeah I
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  uh so I train at noon so I
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  the my morning is coffee
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  and water coffee and water
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  because I can't go train at noon and
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  be all dehydrated.
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  Oh yeah.
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  I've done that many,
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  like way too many times where, you know,
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  during breakfast, I'm drinking my coffee.
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  I'm taking the morning the way that I,
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  that I need to,
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  to get ready for training.
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  And then I'll get to the gym
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  and sometimes I'll be like, oh, my God,
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  I haven't had a sip of
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  water yet because I'm just
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  like enjoying my coffee so much.
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  And and then I get to the
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  gym and right now I'm in Jacksonville.
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  So it's like eighty seven degrees,
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  90 degrees every day.
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  And you're just like, I did.
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  I totally forgot what I
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  actually should be doing in the morning,
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  which is drinking water
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  first and then going into the day.
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  But it's OK.
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  So you've made the move
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  across the state of Florida
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  from Naples to Jacksonville
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  and way north.
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  Yeah, way north.
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  One day and then completely
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  opposite direction.
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  So I used to live in Tallahassee.
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  So in the armpit.
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  Yeah.
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  And then my cousin,
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  who is like a brother to me,
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  he was stationed in Navy in Jacksonville.
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  So I made that like I drive all the time.
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  I didn't realize how big Jacksonville was.
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  First of all,
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  just like the size of Jacksonville.
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  And no one knows how to drive.
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  Oh, no one.
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  No one.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Everyone's so mean.
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  Everyone's so awful.
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  I've seen many accidents,
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  like just like driving by
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  and you could tell it was
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  like just a dumb accident and very silly.
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  But everyone drives in a way
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  that's like almost an accident.
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  Like you're driving and you're like,
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  oh my God,
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  that could have been something insane.
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  And I've driven by many awful accidents.
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  There was one that I, the gym,
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  from my apartment to the gym,
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  it should take 10,
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  no more than 12 minutes to get there.
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  It's just like one smooth
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  exit off the highway.
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  And it took me 40 minutes to,
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  Because by the time I merged
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  onto this exit,
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  I'm only one exit off to get to the gym,
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  it was just backed up traffic.
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  And it was a car that was driving,
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  wasn't looking where they were driving.
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  They probably slammed on their brakes.
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  And there was a truck in front of them.
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  This car just slammed just
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  underneath this pickup truck.
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  This pickup truck flew up.
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  And it was almost at this 45-degree angle.
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  And I had just gotten to this accident.
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  Ambulance hadn't even gotten there.
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  Crazy.
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  Every time I was there,
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  there was some kind of accident,
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  some kind of backup.
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  Our favorite thing to do was to go to St.
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  Augustine.
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  I haven't gone yet.
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  That's one of my bucket lists.
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  It's on the to-do places
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  here in Jacksonville or around.
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  We're going to do that after.
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  For someone with Latin background,
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  I cannot believe you've not been to St.
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  Augustine.
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  No, I know.
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  It was a Spanish settlement and
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  I didn't know that.
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  No,
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  there's so much history that I need to
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  learn from there.
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  I've just heard how beautiful it is.
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  And how it's so close, like 40.
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  It's a 40 minute drive from here.
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  And I just haven't made it.
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  It's one of those things where when I go,
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  I want to spend the entire day there.
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  And where training has been since I mean,
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  we moved here in January.
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  And by the time we moved,
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  everyone immediately is like, you know,
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  with all you got to go here,
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  you got to go to St.
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  Augustine,
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  you got to try these restaurants,
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  you got to do this and that.
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  And you're just like, I just got here.
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  And all I need to focus on
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  is just training.
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  Because by that time, it was like,
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  Wadapalooza.
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  And then a month later, it's the open.
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  And then a month later,
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  it's quarterfinals.
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  And you're just like,
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  I don't even have an entire,
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  the days that we do get to ourselves,
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  you just kind of want to chill and
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  so after semifinals I'm
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  hoping to just like take a
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  week off and explore and do
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  all the fun stuff so are
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  you are you living in
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  jacksonville full-time or
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  just there for training
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  yeah I'm here full-time I
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  since I went full-time in
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  the sport with training and
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  just you know living here
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  in florida since last year
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  so I moved to naples last
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  was it last november last
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  november yes last november no
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  Two Novembers ago.
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  Gosh, I can't even keep track.
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  But yeah,
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  and then was there with my coach
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  and the whole training camp.
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  That's when Matt Torres had
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  five of us go to the games that year.
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  That was that year that I
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  decided to move and made it happen.
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  And then literally a year later,
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  we didn't see this coming, right?
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  Like this was something that, you know,
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  was in the works like maybe
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  well over half of that year
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  and then all of a sudden an
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  opportunity came up and
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  matt was like hey this is
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  my vision this is my plan
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  for the camp and the
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  business and you know what
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  do you guys think um and we
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  pretty much were just like
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  okay wherever you go we go
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  and sure enough the
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  decision from to
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  jacksonville happened and
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  we're just like okay we're doing it
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  Yeah, and Jacksonville is a little,
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  it was like an old OG
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  hotbed for CrossFit.
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  Like there's a lot of
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  athletes in Jacksonville.
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  Who are the OGs out of this area?
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  So she goes by Jen Smash on Instagram.
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  Jen Dieter.
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  Jen Dieter.
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  Okay.
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  You had to put me on the spot, didn't you?
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  I know.
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  I was waiting for you to just be like, one,
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  two.
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  I'm sure there's plenty more.
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  There actually really are a ton.
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  There are a lot of CrossFit
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  affiliates in Jacksonville, though.
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  I feel like within a couple mile radius,
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  there's another one.
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  I mean, there's two.
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  I think there's one downtown
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  in Jack's Beach or around Jack's Beach.
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  called Total Control that we've been to,
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  great community there.
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  And that affiliate has another location,
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  like two separate locations
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  within literally the same city,
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  the same zip code, I feel like.
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  And then where we're at,
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  we're at CrossFit Tailwinds.
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  But maybe, you know, two, three,
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  four miles down the road,
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  there's another affiliate.
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  So they're pretty like,
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  they're right next to each other.
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  I think Sean Woodland
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  actually came from there as well.
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  He was a sportscaster on the
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  local TV station, got into CrossFit,
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  and that's how he... Wow.
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  Well, not surprising with like...
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  sports being so big here, you know,
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  it's a beautiful, I mean,
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  it's an area where a ton of people come,
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  um, just in general, I think to vacation,
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  to watch the Jags, you know,
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  they got the NFL team here.
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  And I mean, it's a few, I heard,
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  I think there's a running
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  joke that someone told me
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  that it takes him.
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  I think it was about
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  Jacksonville that you could
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  like drive an hour and
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  still be in Jacksonville, the whole,
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  the whole city.
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  I can see that.
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  Yeah.
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  We can move on from Jackson.
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  We haven't even touched
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  anything I had planned,
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  which is the way I deal with you, Fi.
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  Yes.
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  It's okay.
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  It's a good problem.
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  But there are some comments.
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  I'm almost afraid to put
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  this in because it's in Spanish,
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  and I got a D in high school Spanish,
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  so here we go.
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  I think that's... I think wasabi...
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  Uh, Google translated, see,
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  is that a question mark?
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  Maybe is that a question?
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  Tequila para desayuno.
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  He goes, uh,
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  is fee drunk and tequila for breakfast.
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  But that was a good, that was a good, uh,
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  maybe that was a good statement.
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  That's a good try on the grammar.
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  Yeah.
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  no we are not drunk effort
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  effort was there so it's
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  been been a long time since
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  you've been on the show if
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  we're truly friends like
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  we've let it go too long
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  honestly I can't I really
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  can't our last interview
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  was last for last semis I
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  think right it was right
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  before the games it was
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  right before the games okay
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  yeah still either way way
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  too long that was almost a
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  year ago then I know
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  Unacceptable.
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  Because we didn't get to talk about this.
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  Oh, gosh.
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  A lot of things.
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  Yes.
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  A ton of things happened.
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  Not just like the games,
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  like after the games.
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  Yeah.
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  You got married.
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  You're not two anymore.
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  We got married.
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  You know what?
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  I've been meaning to change my last name.
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  Fee Sagafi legally still is my name.
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  And I'm just like, I need to change.
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  I want to change my last name.
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  I'm going to.
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  I'm a Ferrara.
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  I'm a Ferrara.
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  And I have yet to get to it
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  because then it's just a lot of, you know,
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  I just didn't get to it.
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  And now I'm just a week out from semis.
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  And I'm like,
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  can I change my last name before semis?
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  So when they call my name,
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  it's Fee Ferrara.
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  And today I will make it a
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  point to start the documentation.
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  So hopefully by next week, at least,
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  could legally say in some
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  way I'm a ferrara because I
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  am that's my husband alex
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  ferrer I'll tell you this
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  you may be able to do it
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  legally in the united
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  states to do that but
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  crossfit it's like an act
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  of god to change your name
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  in their documentation is
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  it is it so does it annoy them
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  Well, I mean,
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  a lot of people have gotten
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  married and tried to change their names.
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  And it's always taken longer
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  than they thought.
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  I know, like,
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  Bethany Flores wanted that changed.
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  And, like, at semis,
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  she was still Shadburn.
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  Yeah.
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  Because that's what it's...
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  When you acknowledge someone or, you know,
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  say someone, an athlete's name,
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  you know them by, like, their full name,
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  right?
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  And first and last name.
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  But I feel like for me,
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  maybe that's an exception.
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  I don't know.
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  I hope it's an exception
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  because there's no other Fi.
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  So maybe it's just Fi.
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  Or Fi Ferreira.
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  I don't know.
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  Although Fi Ferreira sounds
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  freaking awesome.
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  It sounds fast.
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  Like it sounds like I should be like, well,
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  it works because I'm in the
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  sport of being fast, right?
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  Fi Ferreira.
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  It feels like I'm just like zooming.
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  Ferrari.
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  Fi Ferrari.
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  Yeah.
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  More like it because you are so fast.
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  Yes.
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  My husband, in college,
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  he played football for Mount Union.
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  I don't know if anyone else
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  is out there that knows Mount Union,
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  but Mount Union is a very
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  recognized Division III football program.
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  Oh, my God.
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  Yes.
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  Wait, have you told me that before?
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  Well, I mean, I live here in Ohio.
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  Yeah, but, like, not everyone knows.
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  I don't know.
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  They didn't lose for, like,
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  five years in a row.
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  That's true.
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  Well, I don't want to assume,
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  but that's awesome that you know that.
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  Then, yes.
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  So, anyways, so they called him Rari,
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  like his nickname within his teammates,
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  Rari for Ferrari.
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  But, yeah, I like it.
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  Just don't do the dash last name, please.
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  No.
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  Too much.
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  That's too much.
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  Yeah,
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  I feel like people would get way too
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  confused.
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  And also, that's a lot of name.
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  You know, like Sagafi, Ferrara.
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  There's like so much.
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  I mean, it's beautiful.
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  I think it's beautiful to
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  keep my culture in there, my last name.
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  But I'm deciding for just
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  personal reasons to change my last name.
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  Just think of the logistics
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  on the jersey when you get to the games.
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  Gosh.
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  Like sitting it all on there.
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  Yeah.
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  That's got,
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  I'm actually thinking of
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  everyone that does that job.
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  So I'm just trying to be my phone number.
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  See, if you just go one name, Fee.
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  I know.
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  Done.
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  That's it.
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  Honestly,
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  it's probably nice for
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  commentators and MCs to
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  just have to say Fee.
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  I remember at my first regionals in 2018.
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  20 Yeah, 2018.
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  Someone can't I can't even
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  remember someone came up to me.
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  Um, and someone's like,
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  How do you want us to
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  pronounce your name?
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  Do you have a nickname?
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  I'm like, Yes, just say fee, say fee.
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  And then like, ever since then,
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  they were like, Oh, thank God.
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  That's easy.
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  They scratched out like the rest,
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  like the rest of my name are OZH.
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  I just like I physically saw
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  them like be like, perfect.
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  Circle Fe.
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  Does your family still call
• 16:15
  you by your full name?
• 16:16
  Oh yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  If you do say is like,
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  I've never heard my family
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  call me fee other than like text.
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  They'll shoot me a quick text, um,
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  you know, fee.
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  But other than that,
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  when they're addressing me in person,
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  it's fee to say every time.
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  And I love my name, if you will say.
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  When I was younger,
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  I did it just because I always got,
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  I didn't get made fun of,
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  but teachers would butcher
• 16:41
  it and it would just sound so ugly.
• 16:43
  Like when you mispronounce a beautiful,
• 16:45
  like a name, you're mispronouncing it,
• 16:49
  your mispronunciation is
• 16:51
  probably so bad that you're just like,
• 16:53
  just don't say it.
• 16:54
  Yeah, yeah, it's,
• 16:58
  thank goodness Scott is very easy,
• 17:00
  but my last name,
• 17:01
  he's never gotten it right.
• 17:03
  You pronounce it.
• 17:05
  It's Switzer.
• 17:07
  Switzer.
• 17:08
  What do people typically say?
• 17:09
  Switzer.
• 17:10
  Switzer.
• 17:11
  Yeah, Switzer.
• 17:13
  Is it with just an I or E-I or I?
• 17:16
  Just an I. Oh, yeah.
• 17:19
  When my ancestors came to the country,
• 17:20
  it was S-C-H-W-E-I.
• 17:23
  Mm, S-C-H-W-E-I.
• 17:26
  Yeah.
• 17:27
  Yeah, so very German.
• 17:29
  Well, you it's funny.
• 17:31
  It's Fidu says a Persian, you know,
• 17:33
  Iranian name, 100 percent.
• 17:37
  But most actually the
• 17:38
  typical spelling or a very
• 17:40
  common spelling is F.I.R.U.
• 17:46
  Z.E.H.
• 17:46
  F.I.R.U.
• 17:47
  Z.E.H.
• 17:48
  And the older that I got,
• 17:50
  the more I realized I think
• 17:52
  my parents gave me a phonetic spelling.
• 17:54
  Like truly like the phonetic
• 17:56
  spelling of Fiduze.
• 17:59
  It's F-E-E-F-I-R-U-Z-E.
• 18:02
  And it's like the phonetic spelling.
• 18:06
  Because when people break it down,
• 18:08
  it's like, oh, that makes sense.
• 18:09
  Yeah.
• 18:11
  When I see the names that kids have today,
• 18:13
  I would kill to have a
• 18:15
  phonetic spelling of anything.
• 18:18
  Yes.
• 18:19
  You got letters in them that
• 18:21
  don't make sense, but...
• 18:22
  So was the wedding
• 18:24
  everything you dreamed to be?
• 18:27
  It was the most magical, beautiful,
• 18:30
  everything,
• 18:31
  like everything that I wanted
• 18:33
  to happen happened.
• 18:36
  when it came to the weather
• 18:37
  when it came to you know
• 18:39
  how it all came together
• 18:40
  from the ceremony to the
• 18:42
  party to the you know our
• 18:43
  friends coming in a couple
• 18:44
  days prior to being able to
• 18:47
  enjoy even days after the
• 18:49
  wedding like it truly felt
• 18:50
  not just like a wedding day
• 18:52
  it felt like it was it was
• 18:53
  a wedding week it was just
• 18:55
  pure celebration of
• 18:57
  love and friends and friends
• 18:59
  that we haven't seen in such a long time.
• 19:02
  And, you know,
• 19:03
  families coming together for
• 19:04
  the first time.
• 19:05
  Oh, it was beautiful.
• 19:06
  It was everything I could
• 19:07
  have ever asked for after the games.
• 19:10
  And the games definitely
• 19:12
  didn't finish the way that
• 19:14
  I was hoping to finish.
• 19:15
  But it was nice to have that
• 19:17
  the week afterwards.
• 19:18
  Like I have something that's
• 19:21
  way more valuable to me in my life,
• 19:24
  which is obviously my wedding day.
• 19:28
  Is it important to find that
• 19:30
  prioritization in life?
• 19:32
  Like as an athlete,
• 19:34
  it's really easy to get
• 19:35
  wrapped up into your
• 19:36
  identity as an athlete,
• 19:38
  but you're so much more than that.
• 19:40
  And now you,
• 19:41
  you have a husband and you had
• 19:43
  this amazing wedding and
• 19:44
  you have this life you get
• 19:45
  to build together.
• 19:47
  Did it help you kind of
• 19:48
  reset those priorities?
• 19:50
  Oh yeah.
• 19:51
  I think that year was, it was,
• 19:55
  the start of that season, you know,
• 19:57
  was the start of, for me,
• 19:59
  it was having taking the risk,
• 20:02
  going from Cleveland to moving all my,
• 20:04
  you know, my life to Naples.
• 20:07
  And it
• 20:08
  My world just revolved
• 20:09
  around the sport and making
• 20:11
  it back and doing
• 20:12
  everything I could and
• 20:13
  sacrificing home and
• 20:16
  bringing my husband along this ride.
• 20:19
  He took a risk on moving
• 20:22
  from Cleveland to Naples
• 20:23
  because he works for a firm in Cleveland.
• 20:26
  And taking that risk and for
• 20:27
  them to keep him within the firm,
• 20:30
  like that was like everything.
• 20:32
  So everything revolved
• 20:33
  around CrossFit during that time.
• 20:35
  And then, you know,
• 20:37
  the year started to unravel
• 20:39
  and I continued hard in the sport.
• 20:41
  But then you have your
• 20:42
  family and now you're
• 20:45
  my family is him right my
• 20:46
  family is what we're you
• 20:48
  know our new chapter and so
• 20:50
  it it started to not just
• 20:51
  become about me and the
• 20:52
  sport it started to become
• 20:54
  about us and being a team
• 20:56
  and working together for
• 20:57
  each other and pulling each
• 20:58
  other along and so you you
• 21:01
  have you start to live that
• 21:02
  chapter and everything
• 21:04
  starts to be filled with
• 21:05
  much more purpose and much more intention
• 21:08
  And so when things do get hard,
• 21:11
  you don't just have yourself to rely on,
• 21:14
  right?
• 21:14
  Or just the one thing that
• 21:15
  you love in the moment,
• 21:17
  which is your sport,
• 21:18
  which is the thing that
• 21:19
  puts food on the table for me.
• 21:20
  But now I have, you know,
• 21:22
  that fire under me because
• 21:24
  my purpose revolves around being
• 21:27
  a better wife, being, you know,
• 21:29
  a better family member, a sister,
• 21:31
  you know, now that I'm away from home,
• 21:33
  I still need to make it a
• 21:35
  point to keep building on
• 21:36
  those relationships.
• 21:37
  And those are the relationships that,
• 21:39
  you know,
• 21:39
  continue to support me whether I
• 21:40
  do CrossFit or not.
• 21:42
  But I definitely have way
• 21:43
  more feeling of purpose and drive.
• 21:47
  And that purpose doesn't come from sport,
• 21:49
  it comes from the
• 21:50
  relationships in my life,
• 21:52
  which is the most meaningful.
• 21:55
  That is so well said.
• 21:58
  So then you're in your sport,
• 22:01
  and like from 2019,
• 22:02
  it was this drive to get
• 22:04
  back to the games, right?
• 22:06
  And last year, that happened, right?
• 22:08
  Get back to the games.
• 22:10
  Now the goals shift, probably,
• 22:13
  I'm assuming,
• 22:14
  to more games-related goals.
• 22:17
  Yep.
• 22:18
  But you've got all this
• 22:18
  amazing stuff happening
• 22:19
  around you in life.
• 22:21
  what are the conversations
• 22:23
  with Matt now about what are,
• 22:26
  what are the CrossFit goals
• 22:28
  and how does it fit into
• 22:30
  everything you have going on in life?
• 22:32
  Yeah.
• 22:33
  So the goal of, you know,
• 22:35
  it's not just getting back to the games.
• 22:38
  It's, you know, going into semifinals,
• 22:41
  like our semifinals and a
• 22:44
  lot of these semifinals, right.
• 22:45
  You,
• 22:46
  The field has been cut.
• 22:47
  The quality of competition
• 22:49
  is even harder than last year.
• 22:51
  Every year it's hard, right?
• 22:53
  But also every year it gets harder.
• 22:55
  So it's not that just
• 22:56
  because you've made it back
• 22:59
  or you've been more
• 22:59
  consistent throughout the
• 23:00
  season or your fitness
• 23:03
  obviously continues to
• 23:04
  progress and your holes
• 23:05
  continue to close doesn't
• 23:07
  mean that it's going to be
• 23:08
  that much easier to make it
• 23:10
  back to the game.
• 23:11
  So number one goal is to execute and
• 23:15
  That's something that we've
• 23:16
  been working on a lot this past,
• 23:18
  like the entire year is
• 23:20
  truly closing in on my holes,
• 23:22
  which mainly is like strength and power.
• 23:24
  But also when it comes to game time,
• 23:27
  really honing in on working
• 23:28
  on our strategy and taking
• 23:31
  and practicing moments
• 23:32
  where we have good
• 23:33
  execution or poor execution, right,
• 23:35
  in practice.
• 23:37
  But coming full circle to that question is
• 23:41
  know the things that we've
• 23:42
  been working on matt and I
• 23:43
  is um not just getting to
• 23:46
  the games but once we get
• 23:48
  to the games like truly
• 23:50
  executing our strengths and
• 23:52
  managing you know the
• 23:53
  things that we continue to
• 23:55
  work on and I mean my
• 23:56
  biggest goal is get to the
• 23:58
  games and get there for the
• 23:59
  whole weekend like I work
• 24:01
  so everyone works so hard
• 24:03
  that you're just fighting
• 24:04
  to be there for throughout
• 24:05
  the weekend and the la my last you know
• 24:08
  Games, two games appearances,
• 24:10
  I've always been cut early.
• 24:11
  So my next goal, you know,
• 24:13
  something that's manageable, tangible,
• 24:15
  and I believe my fitness is there.
• 24:17
  I just need to execute.
• 24:18
  And I think my execution at the games,
• 24:23
  I had poor moments of execution.
• 24:25
  They weren't moments of my
• 24:27
  fitness couldn't earn me that weekend.
• 24:30
  It was just couldn't execute.
• 24:32
  So that I think is what's
• 24:34
  been holding me back and
• 24:36
  what held me back last games.
• 24:39
  So I have to share some of these comments.
• 24:43
  Rebecca Wood.
• 24:44
  Oh, my gosh.
• 24:45
  Hi, Fi.
• 24:45
  Opened up YouTube and saw you were live.
• 24:48
  Oh, Rebecca.
• 24:49
  What a great.
• 24:50
  She's such a great friend of mine.
• 24:51
  She's back in Naples.
• 24:54
  Love you, Rebecca.
• 24:55
  Wad Zombie.
• 24:56
  Fi is the most genuinely
• 24:57
  nice person I've ever seen.
• 24:59
  Thank you, Wad Zombie.
• 25:00
  And echoed by Corey.
• 25:02
  You can feel the positivity
• 25:03
  coming off of her.
• 25:04
  And I've told this story on
• 25:05
  the show before.
• 25:07
  Thank you.
• 25:08
  You are such a positive person.
• 25:10
  I told you, like,
• 25:11
  you were on the demo team one year.
• 25:12
  I had imposter syndrome
• 25:15
  underneath the Coliseum.
• 25:17
  Do I really belong here?
• 25:19
  And you came over and gave me a hug,
• 25:20
  and it was like, oh, my gosh.
• 25:23
  I do.
• 25:23
  Like,
• 25:24
  you just completely set me at ease
• 25:26
  because you're just a
• 25:27
  wonderful person and so genuine.
• 25:31
  And it's always good to see you.
• 25:33
  Oh, I love seeing you.
• 25:34
  Oh, my gosh.
• 25:35
  I didn't realize you had
• 25:36
  imposter syndrome.
• 25:36
  Well,
• 25:36
  you should never have imposter
• 25:38
  syndrome anywhere you go
• 25:39
  because you're great at
• 25:40
  what you do and you bring
• 25:43
  light out of people.
• 25:44
  So it's always enjoyable to see you.
• 25:47
  And it was great.
• 25:48
  It was one of those years where,
• 25:49
  you know what, I'm just like, okay,
• 25:51
  I'm not in it over there,
• 25:53
  but I could still be in it
• 25:54
  from this side.
• 25:55
  And you kind of enjoy the
• 25:57
  ride that you're on.
• 25:58
  You got to.
• 25:59
  Yeah, yeah.
• 26:01
  So my next question to you,
• 26:03
  And thank you for those compliments.
• 26:05
  I do appreciate them very
• 26:06
  much is you've been working
• 26:09
  on strength so long.
• 26:11
  Does it ever feel tedious?
• 26:13
  Like, because on the other hand,
• 26:16
  you do have home runs, right?
• 26:18
  If you can,
• 26:19
  if you can just get to them in
• 26:20
  the weekend, like at the games,
• 26:22
  some of your best events
• 26:23
  were just around the corner.
• 26:25
  Yep.
• 26:26
  I know.
• 26:27
  You just need the key to
• 26:29
  unlock the door to get to
• 26:30
  that next piece.
• 26:32
  Yeah.
• 26:33
  And I mean,
• 26:33
  that's it's part of the game now.
• 26:35
  It's everyone, everyone,
• 26:38
  every single athlete in our
• 26:39
  sport has like their own home runs.
• 26:43
  And that's, you know, I'm no different.
• 26:45
  It's just earning that, right?
• 26:47
  You've got to earn your way.
• 26:48
  And for some people,
• 26:49
  it's earning it through the
• 26:51
  conditioning and the aerobic work that,
• 26:53
  I mean, this entire sport is aerobic.
• 26:55
  For me,
• 26:56
  I'm a very aerobic athlete because
• 26:59
  I started CrossFit, like, doing, like,
• 27:02
  true, true CrossFit for a very,
• 27:04
  very long time.
• 27:05
  And my biggest holes are the strength.
• 27:07
  So for me to get to the fun
• 27:09
  part of the weekend,
• 27:09
  which is now clearly –
• 27:12
  after the second or like the
• 27:13
  second after the second day.
• 27:14
  Right.
• 27:14
  It's on Saturday.
• 27:16
  If you've done the work or, you know,
• 27:18
  you get to have your fun now.
• 27:20
  Right.
• 27:20
  That's when the crossfit
• 27:21
  starts to come out.
• 27:23
  And yeah, that's it.
• 27:25
  Strength has been taking me
• 27:27
  so like so long to develop
• 27:29
  because that's just part of, you know,
• 27:31
  developing strength.
• 27:32
  It definitely doesn't
• 27:33
  develop as quick as
• 27:34
  conditioning or maybe
• 27:36
  developing like more of the, you know,
• 27:40
  skills even.
• 27:41
  For me,
• 27:42
  strength is something that takes
• 27:43
  years and years to build.
• 27:44
  And that's one thing that
• 27:45
  when I first talked to Matt
• 27:47
  before even having him as my coach,
• 27:49
  he was pretty much like,
• 27:50
  this will take a very long
• 27:52
  time and we'll get to the
• 27:53
  end of the year of training
• 27:54
  and you still won't be
• 27:55
  where you want to be.
• 27:57
  Just know that the progress is happening.
• 27:59
  Even on the days that you're
• 28:01
  not hitting what in your
• 28:03
  head you should be hitting
• 28:04
  or want to be hitting,
• 28:05
  that doesn't mean you're regressing.
• 28:07
  It's just part of the process.
• 28:10
  I just know that when my
• 28:11
  execution is there and when
• 28:13
  all the pieces come together,
• 28:16
  people could see that the
• 28:18
  strength has been progressing.
• 28:20
  And a good example of that
• 28:21
  was last year at Semis.
• 28:24
  I PR'd my snatch after a
• 28:26
  couple events already in the weekend,
• 28:28
  and I hit my 185,
• 28:29
  something I've never done before.
• 28:32
  But that was like my ticket to the game.
• 28:33
  So when things truly come
• 28:35
  together in my active and
• 28:37
  it wasn't like it was never there before.
• 28:40
  It just came together in that moment.
• 28:42
  And it could have not come
• 28:44
  together in that moment either.
• 28:45
  So does that mean that I'm
• 28:46
  not getting stronger?
• 28:48
  Absolutely not.
• 28:49
  So I definitely
• 28:51
  I've had many moments during
• 28:53
  competition weekends where
• 28:55
  when the execution is there,
• 28:57
  the results aren't there.
• 28:58
  But when my execution is there,
• 29:00
  I've proven that things
• 29:01
  continue to progress.
• 29:03
  And it's just a long, long process.
• 29:05
  But I wouldn't be in it this
• 29:07
  far as long as I have if I
• 29:09
  didn't love that process.
• 29:12
  So I talked to Saxon now,
• 29:14
  it seems like forever ago,
• 29:16
  probably a week ago.
• 29:18
  And he described the weekend
• 29:20
  after the workouts came out
• 29:21
  as fitness first three days
• 29:24
  or first three events.
• 29:26
  Final day is all execution.
• 29:28
  Yep.
• 29:30
  Very well said.
• 29:31
  Yeah.
• 29:31
  Is that how you see the
• 29:32
  weekend playing out?
• 29:34
  Yeah, that's exactly it.
• 29:35
  I mean, you get the big day one.
• 29:38
  It's just, where's your conditioning?
• 29:40
  Where's like,
• 29:41
  have you been working on your
• 29:42
  conditioning and your, you know,
• 29:45
  battery work on that barbell, you know,
• 29:47
  10 clean and jerks for
• 29:48
  every round and to get back
• 29:49
  to that run and just be consistent.
• 29:52
  um have you been working on
• 29:54
  those elements in your own
• 29:55
  training and you know then
• 29:57
  the next couple days you
• 29:58
  got uh what's the you got
• 30:00
  the um what's the second
• 30:03
  event the front squat front
• 30:04
  squat toes to bar just kind
• 30:06
  of your volume work um your
• 30:09
  endurance the squat
• 30:10
  endurance that's something
• 30:11
  that wasn't tested at all
• 30:13
  in quarterfinals right we
• 30:14
  saw very specific tests in
• 30:16
  quarterfinals and the
• 30:17
  things that you don't see
• 30:18
  you could have assumed that
• 30:19
  they were coming and that
• 30:20
  was like squat endurance and
• 30:22
  you know, rowing endurance,
• 30:23
  handstand walking under a long, you know,
• 30:26
  sort of long aerobic work.
• 30:28
  And you get all those.
• 30:29
  And then on the very last day,
• 30:31
  You get, you know,
• 30:32
  the events that are all
• 30:35
  about execution because
• 30:36
  those events can't have
• 30:38
  anything to do with anything else.
• 30:40
  Your best execution will
• 30:42
  show your best fitness.
• 30:44
  Whether if someone else is
• 30:45
  holding on to all, you know,
• 30:47
  15 ring muscle ups doesn't at the,
• 30:49
  you know,
• 30:50
  the last event does not mean
• 30:52
  that that's going to be
• 30:52
  your best execution.
• 30:54
  strategy to showcase your
• 30:55
  best finish towards the end
• 30:57
  of the weekend.
• 30:58
  So yeah, I really love that.
• 31:00
  And it kind of shows the
• 31:01
  people that come out at the top at the,
• 31:04
  you know, at the end of semis,
• 31:06
  who's been truly not just working on,
• 31:09
  you know, all those elements,
• 31:10
  but who's also been honing
• 31:12
  in on strategy and
• 31:13
  execution work throughout their training,
• 31:15
  because all of that stuff takes practice.
• 31:18
  You can't just practice that on game day.
• 31:21
  So
• 31:22
  We'll see how things go.
• 31:23
  But I mean, it's been so cool to watch,
• 31:25
  you know,
• 31:26
  Europe go and now West is about
• 31:28
  to go and Torian is about to go.
• 31:30
  So we're learning.
• 31:32
  I'm learning a lot.
• 31:33
  I continue to learn a lot by
• 31:34
  watching everyone go.
• 31:36
  Do you watch full workouts of the others?
• 31:40
  Yep.
• 31:40
  I've been watching all of them.
• 31:42
  Actually,
• 31:42
  I didn't get a chance to watch
• 31:44
  them all live, but I've been going back.
• 31:47
  I mean, I have my notebook right on.
• 31:49
  my coffee table right now.
• 31:51
  My husband and I the other day, we're like,
• 31:52
  okay,
• 31:53
  we're going to rewatch everything
• 31:54
  and we're going to watch, you know,
• 31:56
  the best, the best heaps do it.
• 31:57
  But it was really cool to
• 31:59
  also have moments of like,
• 32:00
  let's watch some of the
• 32:02
  individuals that just
• 32:03
  didn't get it right.
• 32:03
  And learn a little bit from that.
• 32:05
  Learn obviously from the
• 32:06
  people that came up on top and I'm,
• 32:08
  I'm over there.
• 32:09
  I'm taking notes.
• 32:10
  We're going event by event.
• 32:12
  The other night I could not
• 32:13
  fall asleep because I think
• 32:14
  we watched events way too late.
• 32:16
  And I was just,
• 32:17
  I dream about these events now.
• 32:19
  But I watch them all,
• 32:20
  and I learn from the best.
• 32:22
  And I have incredible
• 32:24
  friends in the sport that
• 32:26
  have already done these
• 32:27
  events at the last semis,
• 32:29
  and they're giving me notes.
• 32:30
  They're giving me takeaways.
• 32:31
  So I'm taking it all in.
• 32:34
  So the other thing about the
• 32:37
  execution being on Sunday
• 32:38
  is that's when the pressure is there.
• 32:41
  So not only is it execution,
• 32:42
  it's execution under pressure.
• 32:45
  Mm-hmm.
• 32:46
  which being a veteran of the
• 32:48
  sport should give you an
• 32:50
  advantage in that stage.
• 32:56
  It's so funny how different
• 32:57
  people react to it.
• 32:59
  I talked to Sam Quant.
• 33:00
  He does not watch full workouts.
• 33:02
  He said all it does is make
• 33:03
  him more nervous.
• 33:05
  He'll watch elements to see
• 33:07
  how people handle things
• 33:09
  and then he'll shut it off.
• 33:11
  Oh, yeah.
• 33:12
  That's different.
• 33:13
  Is it
• 33:15
  Is it a disadvantage or an
• 33:16
  advantage going last?
• 33:18
  It's a little bit of,
• 33:21
  it's kind of like a little bit of both.
• 33:23
  Like it's an advantage when it comes to,
• 33:25
  um, just gives you more time to prepare.
• 33:29
  Right.
• 33:31
  But also everyone,
• 33:32
  everyone gets more time.
• 33:33
  Everyone that you're
• 33:34
  competing against gets more time.
• 33:36
  So it could be an advantage
• 33:37
  to someone that needs that time.
• 33:39
  Right.
• 33:41
  It could be a disadvantage
• 33:42
  to some that you kind of
• 33:44
  just get burnt out and it
• 33:47
  could be a huge
• 33:48
  disadvantage to go last
• 33:49
  because you have a
• 33:51
  you're just grinding through
• 33:53
  so many different
• 33:54
  variations that maybe it's
• 33:56
  almost too long of a period
• 33:58
  where you're overthinking,
• 34:00
  you're burnt out doing the events.
• 34:01
  So by the time you get to your semis,
• 34:03
  maybe you've hit all your
• 34:05
  turbo buttons in training.
• 34:07
  And as much as you want to
• 34:08
  have them on game day,
• 34:09
  if you hit them all way too early,
• 34:12
  you're just not going to have them.
• 34:14
  And that's kind of the
• 34:15
  reality of the sport.
• 34:16
  And that's why, I mean,
• 34:17
  just comes to show that's
• 34:18
  why a lot of athletes burnt out, you know,
• 34:21
  throughout the year in the offseason,
• 34:22
  they burn out,
• 34:23
  they make that decision to step away.
• 34:25
  Or by the game's time,
• 34:28
  you see incredible athletes
• 34:30
  that have a history of
• 34:31
  incredible performances.
• 34:33
  And you don't even see them, you know,
• 34:35
  where they're projected to
• 34:37
  be not because they can't,
• 34:38
  it's because they've burnt
• 34:39
  themselves out way too early,
• 34:42
  too many times.
• 34:43
  So
• 34:43
  kind of a game that you kind
• 34:45
  of play a little bit of
• 34:46
  both um and you the only
• 34:48
  way to really know what's
• 34:50
  appropriate and what's not
• 34:51
  is just to be mindful and
• 34:52
  to talk to your coach and
• 34:53
  to like when you start to
• 34:55
  feel um those sensations of
• 34:58
  almost like not having fun
• 34:59
  with them that's when you
• 35:01
  need to start to reel it
• 35:02
  back and maybe just turn
• 35:03
  the dv off not watch too
• 35:05
  many events or just do
• 35:07
  something completely
• 35:08
  different other than the events
• 35:11
  So we're already 35 minutes in.
• 35:13
  I have not even looked at my notes.
• 35:15
  And that's what happens
• 35:16
  every time I talk to you.
• 35:17
  Oh, my God.
• 35:18
  I wish workouts went that fast, Scott.
• 35:21
  Dang.
• 35:22
  I want that one to just go this fast.
• 35:25
  Just blink of an eye.
• 35:28
  So I wasn't sure I was going
• 35:30
  to make it to Knoxville.
• 35:32
  I'm still like, ugh.
• 35:35
  I have a hotel reservation, though,
• 35:37
  so I'm hoping to get there.
• 35:39
  And hopefully we'll see you there.
• 35:41
  Gosh, I hope I see you there.
• 35:42
  I feel like there's going to
• 35:43
  be some good stories coming
• 35:44
  out of that weekend.
• 35:46
  I do, too,
• 35:47
  and I want to be there to capture it.
• 35:49
  If not,
• 35:50
  I will definitely see you at the games.
• 35:52
  Yes.
• 35:53
  Well,
• 35:53
  thank you so much for taking time out, Fi,
• 35:55
  as always.
• 35:56
  And we're not going to let
• 35:57
  it take a year before you're back on.
• 35:59
  Yes.
• 36:00
  No, that's on you.
• 36:01
  You just invite me.
• 36:02
  Just shoot me a message.
• 36:03
  I always get to you.
• 36:03
  We can still fill an hour
• 36:04
  without even talking about CrossFit.
• 36:06
  We really can.
• 36:07
  And you know what?
• 36:08
  I love that because I love
• 36:10
  talking about other things
• 36:12
  that aren't involved around CrossFit.
• 36:14
  I didn't even get to you
• 36:16
  doing quarterfinals live on
• 36:17
  a YouTube stream.
• 36:18
  Oh, yeah.
• 36:19
  You've got to save that for another day.
• 36:22
  If it's still relevant.
• 36:23
  That is the coolest thing ever.
• 36:25
  And did it work for you?
• 36:28
  on the like the savant like
• 36:31
  having savan offer that
• 36:33
  opportunity and crossfit
• 36:34
  crash you know jr howell
• 36:36
  out there like bringing us
• 36:38
  in that was already chaos
• 36:39
  like quarterfinals is
• 36:40
  already chaos to begin with
• 36:41
  right him taking care of
• 36:42
  his members and the members
• 36:44
  there that are also kind of
• 36:46
  trying to punch their
• 36:46
  ticket to semis um they
• 36:48
  were just incredible just
• 36:50
  truly taking us on just
• 36:52
  like we're family of their
• 36:53
  own the opportunity was
• 36:54
  amazing and I loved it because
• 36:56
  I want to believe that I'm
• 36:58
  more of a game time athlete.
• 36:59
  Like when I'm put in game time situations,
• 37:03
  I just, I turn my brain off and I,
• 37:05
  I shine more there than in
• 37:07
  training where I'm just
• 37:08
  overthinking or if I'm by
• 37:09
  myself doing these events.
• 37:11
  And when I get to be in an
• 37:13
  environment where I just
• 37:14
  kind of turn it on and just
• 37:16
  go and put myself in that position,
• 37:18
  I always, I always do what I need to do.
• 37:22
  And I loved it.
• 37:23
  So it was a good kind of
• 37:24
  like game time practice experience.
• 37:25
  after, you know,
• 37:26
  not being on the floor for a while.
• 37:28
  My hope is that you were the
• 37:29
  catalyst to move that forward.
• 37:31
  Cause there's so,
• 37:32
  so many of us out there and
• 37:33
  have the ability to broadcast that.
• 37:35
  And, um,
• 37:37
  but I've talked to a lot of female
• 37:39
  athletes who like to keep
• 37:40
  everything so tight to the
• 37:41
  vest on those weekends, um,
• 37:44
  where the guys just,
• 37:45
  they want to talk smack and,
• 37:47
  and they don't care.
• 37:48
  Right.
• 37:49
  Yeah.
• 37:49
  And I think it's more like
• 37:50
  of a confidence thing.
• 37:52
  I think
• 37:53
  not confidence, not in a cocky way,
• 37:55
  but my confidence came from like,
• 37:59
  I had full confidence that
• 38:00
  the way that I executed quarterfinals,
• 38:02
  like, there,
• 38:03
  there actually weren't a lot
• 38:04
  of moments that I would
• 38:05
  have completely changed.
• 38:06
  I'm like, you know what,
• 38:07
  that was my best fitness,
• 38:08
  I would not have done anything.
• 38:10
  So come and get it and beat it.
• 38:12
  And if you beat it, gosh,
• 38:14
  you're really fit too.
• 38:15
  And if you know, and if it's,
• 38:18
  if my best fitness doesn't
• 38:20
  earn me to semis, then
• 38:21
  At that point,
• 38:22
  there's not much that I could do, right?
• 38:24
  So it's that confidence of like,
• 38:27
  I know what I've been doing in training.
• 38:29
  I'm confident in my execution.
• 38:31
  Come and get it.
• 38:32
  And I think that was just
• 38:33
  like a cool moment to have
• 38:35
  because I've never done that before.
• 38:36
  It worked out.
• 38:39
  I truly think it's the way
• 38:41
  to grow the sport.
• 38:42
  Yes, absolutely.
• 38:43
  Because it gives a much more
• 38:44
  intimate look to the
• 38:46
  athlete and what they go
• 38:47
  through during those
• 38:48
  weekends and how hard it is
• 38:51
  and blind leaderboards and
• 38:53
  all of those things that we
• 38:54
  as fans don't always get a peek at.
• 38:57
  Yeah,
• 38:57
  and everyone loves the behind the scenes.
• 38:59
  Everyone loves the inside
• 39:01
  look because most people...
• 39:03
  only see the open, I mean,
• 39:05
  you only see the open announcement,
• 39:07
  you don't even see the
• 39:07
  craziness that goes on
• 39:08
  behind an open announcement,
• 39:10
  which I would love to see,
• 39:11
  because I've never been on
• 39:12
  the open announcements.
• 39:14
  But then that and then you just see semis,
• 39:17
  the amazing performances live.
• 39:19
  And then you see the amazing
• 39:20
  games performances live,
• 39:22
  you don't see the
• 39:22
  background and the chaos.
• 39:25
  And everyone loves that,
• 39:26
  because that creates, you know,
• 39:28
  emotion and story.
• 39:29
  And CrossFit keeps removing
• 39:31
  aspects of even the
• 39:32
  semifinals that are getting broadcast.
• 39:35
  And so it's going to be up
• 39:37
  to us third-party media
• 39:38
  people to add and
• 39:40
  supplement that with other
• 39:42
  aspects of the season to
• 39:44
  make it watchable and to grow the sport.
• 39:46
  Yeah.
• 39:47
  I really hope that next year,
• 39:49
  if I have the opportunity
• 39:50
  to do quarterfinals live again,
• 39:52
  It's an easy, it's a great yes.
• 39:54
  Easy yes for me.
• 39:56
  Great opportunity, I think.
• 39:57
  Yeah,
• 39:57
  I'm going to try to put them together
• 40:00
  and we'll see what happens.
• 40:01
  But I know someone will do
• 40:03
  it again as well.
• 40:04
  Like it was a success for them.
• 40:06
  It was great.
• 40:07
  Yeah.
• 40:08
  Well, Fi, again, awesome having you on.
• 40:10
  Thank you, Scott.
• 40:13
  After you punch your ticket to the games,
• 40:14
  we'll have some conversations.
• 40:16
  And then thank you to
• 40:17
  everybody in the chat for being here.
• 40:19
  You guys always make this awesome.
• 40:21
  With that,
• 40:21
  we'll see everybody next time on
• 40:23
  the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 40:25
  Bye, guys.
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