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Lunch with the Clydesdale & Cowboy - Thursday Show! Special Guest Bailey Meraviglia · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  What is going on, everybody?
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  We have a special guest today.
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  Bailey Maraviglia will be with us in just
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  a minute.
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  From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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  we cover it all.
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  Midday motivation every time you press
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  call.
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  Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  Cowboy bring the heat.
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  Crossfit, boobies, music on repeat.
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  Half hour hustle, yeah,
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  we building that brand.
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  Grab a plate, tune in now,
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  you part of the fam.
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  it's lunch time what's going on everybody
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  welcome to lunch with the clydesdale we
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  have a special guest today special show
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  bailey maraviglia is with us thank you so
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  much for joining us bailey thank you so
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  much for having me so i i became
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  acutely aware of you watching american
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  gladiator this year
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  And they showed your profile.
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  And I was like, oh my gosh,
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  I know her.
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  I've watched her.
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  Why do I know her?
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  And then it took research into my own
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  cobwebbed brain to figure out.
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  And then they showed you competing at
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  Syndicate.
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  And I was like, there we go.
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  Now the clues are starting to come in.
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  And I've covered every year of the
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  Syndicate.
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  Oh, wow.
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  Yeah,
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  that's actually how they found me for the
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  show.
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  One of the casting directors was watching
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  on YouTube and was like,
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  um i don't know how they like they
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  do their casting reach but like he was
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  watching it and was like we think you
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  would be a great fit um i saw
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  you competing in knoxville and i was like
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  oh there we go so yeah they like
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  like basically whatever footage i got from
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  that they recycled it i was like isn't
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  that funny i came full circle like they
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  just watched me at at syndicate and then
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  they're like you we think you'd be on
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  a you'd be great for this tv show
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  So I had to research everything to figure
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  out how exactly I knew who you were.
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  And then at that point I was like,
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  man,
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  I have enough stuff here that I should
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  have her on as a guest.
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  Because she has a very interesting past.
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  And then as I was kind of following
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  along,
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  I saw you did a xenon.
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  I saw it like you were competing in
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  the game season.
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  All of these things is like,
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  it just keeps piling up.
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  And I was like, she would be awesome.
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  And I,
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  I used to do so many interviews and
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  I've kind of taken a break from it,
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  but like,
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  you're really kind of my first one back.
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  That's exciting.
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  It's funny because I remember watching a
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  lot of your interviews and I have a
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  friend who's like very obsessed with your
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  show.
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  So like, I feel like it's,
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  it was like one of those like six
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  degrees of like knowing you guys and
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  everything.
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  So when you said like,
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  do you want to be on the show?
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  I was like, absolutely.
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  I want to be on the show.
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  Like, this would be so cool.
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  I just want to know though, who's,
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  who is the Clydesdale and who's the
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  cowboy?
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  Clydesdale.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  And he's not really a cowboy.
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  By process of elimination, no, not at all.
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  But he's from Louisiana with a weird
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  accent.
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  And Siobhan kept calling him the cowboy
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  because you could just picture him tying
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  up his horse out front.
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  He thinks I should have a cowboy hat.
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  He thinks I have a horse tied up
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  outside.
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  I'm at my office at work right now.
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  I definitely do not have a horse.
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  i don't i don't think of cowboys when
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  i think of louisiana is that like none
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  of us do either but here's the thing
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  here's the thing sebi doesn't leave his
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  house so he also has no idea where
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  cowboys actually live and he just kind of
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  figured he kind of pointed that pointed me
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  in that direction so it's it's pretty
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  precious like you're from the south you
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  must be a cowboy
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  Clearly it was a nice alliteration.
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  It goes with the show and yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I can see that.
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  I can see that.
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  That's funny though.
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  I mean, you know, if it sticks,
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  it sticks.
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  Yeah.
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  So we're kind of known for going off
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  the rails.
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  We don't really have a format to the
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  show.
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  We just kind of go wherever the wind
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  takes us.
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  And so I,
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  I watch a lot of sports and I
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  watch Rich Eisen and he does this thing
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  at the beginning during a show called
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  celebrity true or false.
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  That's cool.
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  And so what I'm going to do is
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  things that I found out I figure are
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  interesting to me.
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  I'm going to ask you,
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  are they true or false?
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  I found them on the internet.
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  Let's find out if they're real.
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  Let's do it.
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  So the first thing is, Bailey,
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  are you a second degree black belt?
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  And did you in fact teach karate classes
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  early in your professional career?
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  Yes, I am.
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  And it's really funny that you say that
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  because technically like I can be asked
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  that,
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  but I'm not technically allowed to be
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  like,
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  I'm a second degree black belt because I
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  think at a certain point,
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  from what I was told at a certain
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  degree,
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  you're technically a registered weapon.
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  So like, you can't point it out.
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  I don't know if that's true or not.
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  That might be a truthful thing.
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  But I don't go around saying it all
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  that often.
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  But I am Yes,
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  I'm a second degree black belt.
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  And I used to teach karate for a
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  long time.
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  My follow up question is,
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  are you a registered weapon?
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  feel like at this point in my life
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  i i do feel like a registered weapon
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  like you saw me on american i know
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  this much you're toting around guns right
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  now so if which weapon or not you
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  definitely uh armed and armed and
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  dangerous for certain i get a lot about
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  that and i just go like this is
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  just genetics like i have worked hard but
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  it's just it's genetics too
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  so when you get like a second degree
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  black belt does it ever expire can they
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  ever take it away from you i don't
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  think it i don't think it will ever
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  expire and i don't think they could take
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  i don't think i can strip you of
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  a rank um if that was the case
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  there would be a lot of really old
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  men out there who are not in the
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  degrees like the martial arts world is
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  Icky.
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  So I would have to probably have done
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  something really,
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  really bad to get my rank strip.
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  I don't think you can necessarily,
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  I know that you can't you can't rank
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  up unless there is somebody higher than
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  you in your in your style.
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  And like, sometimes like,
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  because it takes like, let's just say,
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  for example, in myself, karate,
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  there's nine there's nine ranks of black
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  belt.
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  And so
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  let's say you're an eighth degree black
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  belt, you're probably pretty old.
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  You have to find somebody who's a ninth
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  degree black belt to promote you.
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  And then a lot of those people just
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  die.
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  So you have to go around and be
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  like,
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  I have to train with or under someone
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  who is of this rank in order for
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  them to decide to promote me.
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  And that gets really hard.
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  So it's like,
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  think about it as like a maybe like
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  a season ticket holder like you kind of
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  have to look but the opposite we're like
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  you get the season ticket especially for
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  like um around here like the Giants
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  because if you have season tickets uh for
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  like going to MetLife you're really you're
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  probably really old because the wait list
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  is so long so like somebody has to
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  die for you to go in but this
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  is the opposite where you're like someone
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  needs to stay alive in order to be
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  promoted
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  So like there's one ninth degree black
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  belt in the jungles of Taiwan and you
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  have to go
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  pretty much to get the okay we can
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  make a movie out of that yeah it
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  is like that it's very much like that
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  so like some people will like just be
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  stuck at a certain like rank and usually
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  it will take like a year to get
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  your year to get your first degree black
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  belt two years to get your second degree
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  black belt three years for your third and
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  so it kind of follows like a structure
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  like i know a lot of people think
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  about it like is jiu jitsu like it
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  takes a really long time to build up
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  in the rank so like once you are
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  past your color belts and you are in
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  your black belt then
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  you're pretty much sitting at your,
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  whatever rank you are for a long,
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  long time.
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  And like,
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  you don't actually end up being like a
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  teacher until like,
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  technically like I could teach karate,
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  right?
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  And like,
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  I can host like classes of ranks that
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  are under me, but I can't,
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  host classes of like other black belts
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  unless i was like a third degree black
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  belt and then i could be like a
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  teacher's teacher at a fourth degree black
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  belt so there's like rules and regulations
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  when surrounding that kind of stuff it's
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  pretty fluid now it used to be a
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  lot more strict but um yeah now i'm
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  thinking about it it's like a weird it's
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  a weird world martial arts really rip
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  world do you still practice
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  i don't no i don't and i i
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  had thought about like going into jujitsu
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  and i was like you know i'm like
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  i just i just don't want to be
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  like underneath like a person sweating on
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  top of me for like five six minutes
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  at a time like i really i really
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  don't have the patience for all that
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  especially like a toddler i'm like i
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  constantly have someone touching me and
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  i'm like i just don't need someone trying
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  to physically hurt me and sweat on me
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  that you know i don't need to go
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  pay for things like that anymore
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  It's useful to know, but I'm like,
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  I'm just not into this right now.
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  So check.
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  Bailey doesn't pay for sweaty men anymore.
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  I don't pay for men to come over
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  and sweat on me and put me in
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  a headlock.
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  I don't need that.
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  A lot of people do pay for that
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  privilege.
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  They do.
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  They do.
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  I have lots of friends who are in
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  jiu-jitsu,
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  and I remind them every day of just
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  the decisions they make.
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  Yeah.
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  So my co-host on this on my Sunday
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  night show is Carolyn Prevost.
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  And she is a, she dabbles in Taekwondo.
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  Actually, she was really,
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  really good at one point.
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  Um,
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  her letting out of aggression is like
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  beating up Bob, the dummy.
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  Do you ever do anything like that just
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  to like relieve stress?
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  Um, I have a,
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  I have a heavy bag in my garage,
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  um, that I will occasionally use, but, um,
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  I don't,
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  I don't go like out of my way
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  sometimes to use it.
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  Sometimes like I'll,
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  I'll start to like mess around with it
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  and I'm like, Oh, this feels pretty good.
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  But, um,
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  it's interesting that she's got that going
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  on with Taekwondo.
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  Taekwondo is such a beautiful form of
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  martial arts.
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  Like
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  We always used to make fun of that,
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  but it's like really sexy and really
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  finesse.
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  So especially someone like with her
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  background,
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  isn't she like a hockey player?
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  She is.
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  Yeah,
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  I feel like that's a really like Taekwondo
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  is kind of like the ballet of the
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  martial arts world.
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  Like it's really like lots of flexibility,
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  lots of like airtime.
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  It's really that's really cool.
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  If you go watch her videos on Instagram
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  of her beating up Bob,
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  there's nothing beautiful about it.
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  It is one hundred percent aggression.
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  Yeah, I'll go check that out.
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  I really I'll connect with her because I'm
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  friends with her fiance, wife, wife.
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  Wife.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was I'll check that out because
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  I it's nice to like have those
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  commonalities like when we're all like,
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  oh,
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  we're all crossfitters and stuff like
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  that.
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  And then you kind of get into like
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  someone's past or like a hobby they picked
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  up and you realize like, oh,
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  I have more in common than just we
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  throw around barbells.
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  It's fun to figure out that CrossFitters
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  do stuff besides CrossFit.
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  It's kind of part of the methodology.
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  Play other sports.
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  That's true.
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  Yes.
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  I actually went back to a sport that
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  I was...
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  I don't want to take a true or
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  false question away from you,
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  but I went back to a sport that
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  I was doing in high school because I
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  had gotten the opportunity to coach at one
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  of our local high schools.
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  I used to pole vault
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  And one of my coaches was saying that
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  the high school that's here was looking
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  for a pole vaulting coach.
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  And I was like, oh man,
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  it'd be so cool to get back into
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  that.
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  It's so fun.
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  And I was like, but I'm so rusty.
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  I would love to just get...
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  involved again.
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  And I started picking it back up for
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  a couple months.
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  And I was like, whoa, I'm, I'm,
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  I'm thirty five years old.
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  I'm pole vaulting with like sixteen,
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  seventeen, eighteen year olds.
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  Their bodies don't feel like my body.
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  My body is toast.
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  Like I'd be there for like two hours
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  in this like pole vault gym and I
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  would come home and I'd be like,
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  there are muscles on my body that I
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  did not even realize I had.
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  They're so sore,
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  like just so incredibly sore.
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  Mark Phillips pole vaulting is so insane.
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  It is.
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  And like when you watch somebody who is
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  so good at it and like,
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  especially like if you're watching like
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  people going for like state champs or
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  world, not world records because it's,
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  they're pretty hard to break at this
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  point,
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  but they're like teenagers who are in like
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  college or obviously like the Olympics,
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  like watching those guys and girls is
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  incredible.
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  Just so incredible.
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  Pole vaulting is one of those things where
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  people say, you know, people talk about,
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  man, you know,
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  professionals make it look so easy.
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  The professionals did not make that look
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  easy.
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  That still looks incredibly difficult.
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  It looks really hard, right?
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  You're going to take off running with this
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  long ass stick,
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  jamming into the ground and use it to
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  level yourself up over this bar.
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  That's fourteen, fifteen,
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  however many feet is in there.
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  Oh, it's nothing about that looks easy.
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  No, no.
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  And it's happening so fast, too,
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  that you're just like.
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  You don't even realize how you got there
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  at a certain point.
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  It's like a snatch where you're like,
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  all of a sudden you're under the bar
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  and you're like, everything came together.
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  Hopefully I don't mess this up.
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  It's amazing the handful of games athletes
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  that were pole vaulters.
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  i know right i think like daniel brannon
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  that's actually how her and i became
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  friends we were sitting on a bus waiting
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  uh to go up to i don't know
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  like rich's woods one day and we just
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  were sitting on the bus for a half
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  hour talking about stuff and i we found
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  out that we were both pole vaulters i
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  was like you're a bull this is crazy
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  and then um the the guy who won
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  american gladiators was also a pole
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  vaulter and i was like
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  There we go.
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  And you just have this certain thing in
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  common with those people.
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  It's a very niche thing.
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  So when you see or meet another pole
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  vaulter, you're like, yeah, yeah,
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  you're crazy.
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  I'm crazy.
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  We're a little psycho.
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  And I didn't even know what it was
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  when I first got into high school.
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  And my brother was like,
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  you should try pole vaulting.
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  I was like, sure.
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  I have no idea what it was.
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  And I just showed up at that area
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  for practice.
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  And I was like,
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  we're going to go with it.
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  We're going to try it out.
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  And then
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  Ended up trying it out.
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  Absolutely loved it.
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  Became MVP.
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  Went on to like States and it was
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  it was so cool.
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  I mean,
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  I just love and I could always probably
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  go back.
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  But, you know,
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  like to the gym that's near me.
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  But, oh, man,
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  like talk about talk about just like body
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  awareness and stuff.
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  Like it's like when you're an adult and
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  you're like,
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  I want to do gymnastics and you're like,
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  this is gonna be a great idea.
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  But then you're like forty and you're
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  like, this was a terrible idea.
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  every year i tell myself i'm gonna teach
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  myself how to do a back flip and
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  then every year i'm like what if i
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  land on my neck wait right i literally
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  front flipped into my parents pool
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  yesterday and i was like please don't
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  break my neck yeah the pool the pool
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  and like the trampoline park is the only
• 15:40
  place i let myself do it because i'm
• 15:41
  like i can land on this airbag or
• 15:43
  this this you know this foam pit not
• 15:45
  a big deal yeah flat ground
• 15:48
  I don't know.
• 15:51
  Right?
• 15:51
  I know.
• 15:52
  You only get to land on the mat
• 15:54
  if you get over the bar.
• 15:55
  I would definitely die before I learned to
• 15:57
  get over the bar.
• 15:58
  There have been a couple of times where
• 15:59
  like, there's a re-bend in your pole,
• 16:04
  right?
• 16:04
  So it's fiberglass.
• 16:06
  And they go off of your weight.
• 16:09
  So obviously like there's length and then
• 16:11
  there's your weight.
• 16:14
  So technically you should be on a pole
• 16:16
  that's at your weight.
• 16:17
  Like you need to be like if I'm
• 16:19
  one forty five,
• 16:20
  I need to be on a one forty
• 16:21
  five pole technically to like compete.
• 16:24
  But like I will train on like a
• 16:26
  one twenty pole because it will give me
• 16:28
  more rebound.
• 16:30
  um there was a time where it must
• 16:32
  have been like a one i mean and
• 16:34
  this was back in high school so i
• 16:35
  was much lighter but i was on a
• 16:36
  much lighter pole and i i don't know
• 16:40
  what happened i must have stuck it and
• 16:42
  just like missed time my jump it re-bent
• 16:45
  or it re-bent so much that the recoil
• 16:49
  just happened in the ground and it
• 16:52
  slap me all the way from my elbow,
• 16:54
  all the way down to my hip.
• 16:56
  And I have never had a bruise that
• 16:58
  big in my life.
• 16:59
  Like I didn't even get off the ground.
• 17:00
  It just basically rubber banded me and
• 17:04
  gave me the worst whip of my life.
• 17:05
  And I've also seen people who have stuck
• 17:09
  it's a, it's called like a,
• 17:10
  there's a box, right?
• 17:11
  So they've stuck the pole into the box.
• 17:13
  They went to go bend the bar and
• 17:15
  then it just snapped right in half.
• 17:17
  And yeah,
• 17:18
  they just backflip right on like,
• 17:21
  tech usually it's like um like mats like
• 17:24
  for the like a gym like a regular
• 17:25
  cool mat kind of um but sometimes like
• 17:28
  you're gonna run on concrete too so it
• 17:30
  depends like yeah i've seen people not to
• 17:33
  be able to take off and i've seen
• 17:34
  people not get over i've seen a lot
• 17:38
  of gruesome injuries come out of it so
• 17:41
  that's always in your mind too we're like
• 17:43
  don't don't this one up don't it up
• 17:44
  yeah i i
• 17:46
  You keep saying things that are, again,
• 17:49
  taking me off the rails, which is fine.
• 17:51
  I'm that person.
• 17:53
  We won't even have a topic if you
• 17:55
  have me on this show.
• 17:56
  We don't have topics.
• 17:57
  You are our topic today.
• 17:58
  Don't worry about that.
• 18:01
  You made the statement that you were on
• 18:03
  a bus with Daniel Brandon and Rich's
• 18:05
  Woods.
• 18:06
  Yes.
• 18:08
  That statement alone stops me in my
• 18:11
  tracks.
• 18:11
  There's a lot to unpack there.
• 18:14
  I'm assuming it's one of those retreats
• 18:17
  Rich did with like...
• 18:20
  This was First Mayhem Classic.
• 18:23
  I was at that too.
• 18:25
  Yeah.
• 18:26
  My God,
• 18:26
  I've probably run into you a hundred
• 18:28
  times.
• 18:29
  I've been everywhere.
• 18:30
  Like I'm the person who's like
• 18:32
  perennially,
• 18:33
  like I'm just at all these events,
• 18:34
  but I like never make it to the
• 18:36
  games,
• 18:36
  which sidebar we'll get into that topic in
• 18:38
  a second.
• 18:39
  But I'm like at all of these things.
• 18:42
  And I do try to make friends with
• 18:43
  everybody because like I live in,
• 18:47
  i live in like nowhere and so like
• 18:49
  anytime i can get out to like a
• 18:50
  big event like i want to talk to
• 18:52
  everybody and be friends with all the
• 18:54
  people and connect with them throughout
• 18:55
  the years so yeah first mayhem classic it
• 18:58
  was in like did we what happened it
• 19:03
  was it was just before the world shut
• 19:05
  down
• 19:05
  exactly because i remember months before
• 19:07
  the world shut down yeah right yeah
• 19:09
  because i did that and then got my
• 19:11
  ass kicked and then brought that energy
• 19:14
  with me to norway like the next month
• 19:16
  so like but everybody at that that
• 19:18
  competition was so talented right so like
• 19:21
  obviously um
• 19:24
  Yeah,
• 19:24
  I love to be in a place where
• 19:25
  I get my ass handed to me.
• 19:26
  I don't like to necessarily get beat all
• 19:28
  the time, but like I like to learn.
• 19:29
  So, yeah,
• 19:30
  we're it's like we're on a bus.
• 19:33
  The first event is miserable, right?
• 19:36
  It's we're going to do a five mile
• 19:38
  run.
• 19:39
  up Pfeiffer mountain,
• 19:40
  starting at the firehouse that Rich worked
• 19:43
  at all the way up to Rich's dad's
• 19:44
  house.
• 19:45
  And so it's like the,
• 19:47
  the mountain is kind of the same as
• 19:49
  where I live.
• 19:49
  Like my, my parents live on a mountain.
• 19:51
  So I'm pretty used to like running up
• 19:53
  and down it, but on a road,
• 19:54
  this was like trail through the woods.
• 19:56
  It's raining.
• 19:57
  It's January.
• 19:58
  We have a
• 20:03
  whoever makes it up there first wins,
• 20:04
  you know?
• 20:05
  And so it's like,
• 20:06
  we had these assigned seats on the bus
• 20:08
  and it was the first time like I
• 20:09
  met Daniel Brandon and she was like,
• 20:11
  obviously she was Daniel Brandon,
• 20:12
  but she wasn't as like well known as
• 20:15
  she is now.
• 20:17
  Um,
• 20:17
  it was kind of her coming out party.
• 20:19
  right i think like that year like she
• 20:21
  really like she she made it to the
• 20:23
  games at the classic like she's so good
• 20:25
  and i remember um talking to my friends
• 20:28
  like just about how talented she was and
• 20:30
  just how like insanely savage she was on
• 20:32
  the floor because she's such a nice person
• 20:35
  and like her and i just again like
• 20:37
  just yapped about everything for like the
• 20:39
  half hour we were sitting on the bus
• 20:40
  and the bus ride over and everything so
• 20:43
  yeah it's one of those things where you're
• 20:45
  like it always pays to be nice to
• 20:47
  people too because a lot of people are
• 20:49
  so intense and especially they're like
• 20:51
  really intense and focused going into an
• 20:53
  event but like if you can kind of
• 20:55
  just be like we're all humans and we're
• 20:56
  here to like just have fun and do
• 20:59
  the thing we love and kind of like
• 21:01
  just be
• 21:03
  nice to each other,
• 21:04
  you're going to have a good time and
• 21:05
  everything.
• 21:06
  So I really appreciated that about her.
• 21:08
  And every time we run into each other
• 21:11
  at an event,
• 21:11
  we always say hi and catch up.
• 21:13
  So yeah, we talked a lot,
• 21:16
  found out we were both pole vaulters.
• 21:18
  She obviously did it when she was in
• 21:20
  college too.
• 21:21
  I didn't do it when I was in
• 21:22
  college, but you still just have the same,
• 21:24
  you know exactly what it's all about and
• 21:27
  all that.
• 21:27
  So it's cool to connect on those things.
• 21:31
  So now we're to question two.
• 21:34
  That's how we're in.
• 21:35
  We're into question two.
• 21:36
  All right.
• 21:39
  True or false,
• 21:40
  you occasionally work out with Clydesdale
• 21:43
  listener Dan Church.
• 21:45
  Yes.
• 21:48
  Clydesdale listener slash Corey's unpaid
• 21:50
  weightlifting coach.
• 21:52
  That's what I was going to say.
• 21:54
  That's my friend who I was like,
• 21:56
  he's big into the podcast.
• 21:58
  That's Dan Church.
• 22:00
  Dan and I go way, way back.
• 22:03
  He was like,
• 22:05
  He,
• 22:05
  I was the first competition I ever did
• 22:09
  was on a team with him.
• 22:11
  And two people at his gym,
• 22:12
  they were hosting like an in-house or like
• 22:15
  whatever gym was closest, like throw down.
• 22:18
  And like, I had just started CrossFit.
• 22:19
  I was probably like two and a half
• 22:20
  months into it.
• 22:21
  And they're like,
• 22:22
  do you want to do this competition?
• 22:23
  Like you are from the area.
• 22:25
  So do you want to like,
• 22:25
  we need another person.
• 22:26
  I was like, yeah, sure.
• 22:27
  Like I could do nothing at this place.
• 22:29
  Right.
• 22:30
  Like I didn't even have,
• 22:32
  I barely had any movement.
• 22:33
  Right.
• 22:34
  Just was like, all right,
• 22:35
  I'm here for fun.
• 22:35
  So yeah.
• 22:36
  yeah he um he helped me out a
• 22:37
  lot after that with like coaching some of
• 22:39
  my Olympic lifting and everything and um
• 22:41
  yeah we've been we've been friends for a
• 22:43
  long time he works out in his garage
• 22:46
  and then when he needs to like do
• 22:48
  any type of competition or the open or
• 22:50
  quarters or something he'll come up and
• 22:52
  then he it's always a good time it's
• 22:54
  always good to catch up with him yeah
• 22:57
  Yeah,
• 22:57
  he's the one that texted me last night,
• 23:00
  pronouncing your name,
• 23:01
  your last name phonetically.
• 23:05
  He's funny,
• 23:06
  he's adorable because he makes,
• 23:08
  he's definitely one of those people who
• 23:09
  like he makes sure like things are like
• 23:11
  in order like he's very organized when it
• 23:13
  comes to that kind of stuff and like,
• 23:14
  he's very good about helping people like.
• 23:17
  He's he's a nurse.
• 23:18
  So like his his job is to just
• 23:20
  be like caring and empathetic.
• 23:23
  He's funny.
• 23:24
  He technically works in the same or he
• 23:27
  did work in the same like hospital as
• 23:29
  my mom.
• 23:30
  And he'd be like, is your mom here?
• 23:31
  Like, you know,
• 23:32
  and like he'll just talk to her and
• 23:33
  everything.
• 23:34
  And, you know,
• 23:35
  it's just really funny to have that.
• 23:36
  But, yeah,
• 23:37
  it's it's it's just a small world,
• 23:40
  really small world.
• 23:42
  Yeah, he's a great guy.
• 23:44
  I met him because he identified as a
• 23:45
  Clydesdale.
• 23:46
  He is a Clydesdale.
• 23:52
  He is a large man.
• 23:55
  I went to watch him at the Masters
• 23:57
  Fitness Collective a couple years ago,
• 23:59
  and it was before she had knee surgery,
• 24:01
  and she almost fell down the stand steps,
• 24:05
  and Dan was there to catch her.
• 24:07
  Oh, that's sweet.
• 24:08
  That's nice.
• 24:09
  Yeah.
• 24:10
  So he's he's a great guy.
• 24:11
  He is.
• 24:12
  Yeah, he is.
• 24:16
  He's a Clydesdale that can fly on his
• 24:18
  hands.
• 24:18
  yes yeah he's got some he's got some
• 24:20
  really really good like he's got some big
• 24:23
  strengths and he'll always i feel bad he
• 24:26
  always talks like so much about himself
• 24:27
  he's like i haven't done this i'm so
• 24:29
  bad at this i'm like dude you don't
• 24:31
  even have the equipment to do this stuff
• 24:33
  in your house like you should like just
• 24:36
  take your wins like every time he comes
• 24:38
  over he's like i haven't had a muscle
• 24:40
  up since last year when i did a
• 24:41
  muscle up here and i'm like you're banging
• 24:43
  out like ten like okay like this is
• 24:46
  this awesome
• 24:47
  Jay Burch says,
• 24:48
  some of it is just pot-bellied Shetlands.
• 24:56
  So the next thing I have for you
• 24:58
  is, true or false,
• 25:00
  you are addicted to Tim Hortons coffee.
• 25:03
  Oh, I love Tim Hortons.
• 25:05
  Yes.
• 25:06
  I wouldn't say I'm addicted because that
• 25:09
  would entail that I would go crazy.
• 25:13
  If I am by a Tim Hortons,
• 25:17
  I go to Tim Hortons.
• 25:21
  There is like none around me, but okay.
• 25:25
  So my family,
• 25:27
  I have some family who live in Syracuse
• 25:29
  and some family who live in Buffalo.
• 25:30
  And when I went to go up to
• 25:32
  Buffalo, I was probably in like November,
• 25:38
  November,
• 25:40
  or October, they were everywhere.
• 25:42
  And I was like, this is amazing.
• 25:43
  And I like download the app and I
• 25:46
  was like,
• 25:46
  I'm going to get the free donuts.
• 25:47
  I'm going to get the free coffee.
• 25:48
  This is amazing.
• 25:49
  Like,
• 25:49
  and then when we do travel up there,
• 25:51
  there's like one,
• 25:52
  like really far into like Northern
• 25:54
  Pennsylvania that I always have to stop at
• 25:56
  no matter what, like, I don't care.
• 25:58
  It's like on the way up and on
• 25:59
  the way back,
• 25:59
  like I have to have it.
• 26:01
  It's so good.
• 26:01
  Like I'm so jealous of the, um,
• 26:05
  like northern like the upstate new yorkers
• 26:08
  and the canadians like i don't understand
• 26:10
  i don't understand like we why i don't
• 26:11
  have one like i'm really oh now that
• 26:14
  you got me you got me going on
• 26:15
  this i love i love tim horton so
• 26:18
  good
• 26:18
  So I live in Columbus, Ohio currently.
• 26:21
  Don't tell me you'd be like,
• 26:22
  I have one down the street.
• 26:23
  Oh, we have a billion of them.
• 26:26
  They used to be owned by Wendy's.
• 26:27
  Okay.
• 26:27
  And Wendy's corporate headquarters is here
• 26:30
  in Columbus.
• 26:32
  Oh.
• 26:32
  So they used to have the like duos.
• 26:35
  It was half a Wendy's,
• 26:36
  half of the Tim Hortons.
• 26:38
  Wow.
• 26:39
  Then Wendy's sold them off.
• 26:40
  And so all those have either...
• 26:43
  been converted to just one of the two
• 26:46
  or just shut down,
• 26:47
  but we have a ton of Tim Hortons
• 26:49
  and I think it's,
• 26:52
  Don't hate me.
• 26:52
  I think it's the worst coffee ever.
• 26:55
  Whoa.
• 26:55
  Do you think it's the worst?
• 26:56
  I think Duncan is the worst coffee ever.
• 26:58
  I give so much shit to people about
• 27:02
  it because it's just as expensive as
• 27:05
  Starbucks.
• 27:05
  It doesn't taste nearly as good.
• 27:06
  It's super inconsistent.
• 27:08
  The employees are always really miserable.
• 27:10
  I'll give you the last two points.
• 27:13
  It's not consistent and the employees are
• 27:14
  miserable.
• 27:15
  Right.
• 27:15
  Like,
• 27:17
  I used to go to work at a
• 27:19
  camp when I was like, eighteen,
• 27:21
  nineteen years old,
• 27:22
  and there was a Dunkin on my way
• 27:24
  to work.
• 27:24
  So me and my coworker were neighbors.
• 27:27
  We would stop there and we would get
• 27:28
  a dollar iced coffee.
• 27:29
  I can live with shitty coffee for a
• 27:31
  dollar.
• 27:32
  I can't live with shitty coffee for five
• 27:34
  dollars, though.
• 27:35
  Like, that's that's where I draw the line.
• 27:37
  Like,
• 27:38
  I know what I'm getting into at seven
• 27:39
  eleven,
• 27:40
  but I'm paying like thirty nine cents for
• 27:41
  the coffee.
• 27:43
  That's, you know.
• 27:45
  oh you mean to tell me at one
• 27:46
  point you could get a baconator and a
• 27:48
  cup of coffee a cup of tim horton's
• 27:49
  coffee at the same place you could damn
• 27:52
  that's incredible right like yeah talk
• 27:54
  about living your best life right you know
• 27:56
  you know what the most consistent coffee
• 27:58
  is paper street paper street i've never
• 28:01
  had it i've never had it and i
• 28:02
  just i just met colin mertens in person
• 28:05
  the other day so
• 28:08
  his uh the hank his his blend whatever
• 28:13
  his roast over there i just i just
• 28:15
  emptied my last bag it is fantastic okay
• 28:18
  yeah like all the gabe stuff is i
• 28:20
  have not had a cup of coffee or
• 28:22
  one of his cool you can't be that
• 28:24
  far from like their main headquarters
• 28:27
  where is their main headquarters it's in
• 28:29
  new jersey it's in jersey oh
• 28:32
  Like just south of New York City.
• 28:33
  Their first brick and mortar store is in
• 28:35
  Jersey.
• 28:36
  Oh, I'm not.
• 28:39
  One at Proven.
• 28:41
  Yeah.
• 28:41
  I know they've got the one at Proven
• 28:43
  because they were talking about because we
• 28:44
  were going to Starbucks and they're like,
• 28:46
  Colton,
• 28:47
  we'll just write paper sheet on your
• 28:49
  coffee.
• 28:49
  Yeah.
• 28:51
  but um oh okay i'm gonna check that
• 28:53
  out because i'm only an hour fifteen
• 28:56
  outside of new york so like pretty much
• 28:57
  everywhere in like i'm right on the border
• 28:59
  of jersey like i could spit out my
• 29:00
  window and it'll be in in jersey but
• 29:04
  um yeah so it is true that you
• 29:06
  are from you are from the greatest state
• 29:08
  in the union new jersey pennsylvania oh
• 29:15
  I live in New Jersey.
• 29:18
  I like how she said it question and
• 29:22
  she went New Jersey.
• 29:23
  Is that what we're going with right now?
• 29:26
  Hey,
• 29:26
  you're either you either really love it,
• 29:28
  right?
• 29:29
  Or you really hate it because I was
• 29:30
  born in New Jersey.
• 29:31
  My family is from New Jersey and they
• 29:33
  relocated a lot of them relocated to
• 29:36
  Pennsylvania.
• 29:38
  So you were actually born in New Jersey?
• 29:40
  Yes.
• 29:41
  See, I was born in Pennsylvania.
• 29:42
  Where in Pennsylvania?
• 29:44
  So western side.
• 29:45
  Oh,
• 29:46
  like between Pittsburgh and Erie in the
• 29:49
  woods.
• 29:51
  And actually,
• 29:51
  I'm my wife and I've made the decision
• 29:53
  we're gonna move back there for
• 29:54
  retirement.
• 29:55
  So Oh, look at that.
• 29:58
  But yeah, love it there.
• 30:01
  But I have been to the Poconos a
• 30:03
  ton.
• 30:03
  And that is a beautiful place to live.
• 30:05
  It is very beautiful.
• 30:09
  I was giving some of my friends a
• 30:11
  really hard time about where they live in
• 30:13
  Long Island.
• 30:14
  And I was like,
• 30:14
  there's no way you could pay me to
• 30:16
  live in Long Island with how much it
• 30:17
  costs.
• 30:17
  Like my friend has a apartment that
• 30:20
  they're paying for that is probably more
• 30:23
  than my mortgage.
• 30:24
  And I was like,
• 30:25
  I know you guys have like your things
• 30:27
  there,
• 30:28
  but there's like way too many people.
• 30:32
  Yeah, there's just way too many people,
• 30:33
  way too much cost.
• 30:34
  Like I can't justify paying that much
• 30:39
  money just to be near a Trader Joe's.
• 30:41
  And like their distance to get into the
• 30:45
  city is like also the same as mine,
• 30:48
  but just like with a lot more headache.
• 30:49
  I don't know.
• 30:51
  There's like some places in the world that
• 30:52
  I'm like, why do you live here?
• 30:53
  Why do you even live here?
• 30:55
  My one of my roommates in college was
• 30:58
  from Long Island and we would go up
• 31:00
  there for weekends and just party like
• 31:04
  crazy.
• 31:07
  But yeah.
• 31:08
  So I,
• 31:09
  from Western PA all the way to Long
• 31:12
  Island, right.
• 31:13
  Oh my God.
• 31:14
  Well,
• 31:14
  I have a friend who he owned a
• 31:15
  gym out in Long Island and he has
• 31:18
  a girlfriend who was in Pittsburgh and he
• 31:19
  would drive through all,
• 31:22
  all through there.
• 31:22
  And like, he'd,
• 31:23
  he'd pit stop here and stuff.
• 31:25
  And I'd be like,
• 31:26
  I don't know how you're doing that.
• 31:27
  He's like, the drive is not that bad.
• 31:28
  It's only like seven hours.
• 31:30
  I'm like, seven hours?
• 31:32
  Like, no way.
• 31:33
  No way.
• 31:35
  I haven't even been out to Western PA
• 31:37
  because I'm like,
• 31:37
  that's a five-hour drive for me.
• 31:39
  Like, that's going to be crazy.
• 31:40
  I drive from my house to the office
• 31:45
  and then twenty minutes to the gym and
• 31:47
  then ten minutes, not even,
• 31:49
  eight minutes back to my house.
• 31:50
  That's about as far as I ever want
• 31:51
  to drive if I can help it.
• 31:53
  Right, right.
• 31:53
  Yeah, I used to commute for work.
• 31:55
  And I would just be like,
• 31:56
  I am miserable.
• 31:57
  I not want to do this anymore.
• 31:58
  Like, I don't know how people manage this.
• 32:00
  And then just be like, you know,
• 32:02
  I'm gonna go out.
• 32:03
  I'm gonna drive all the way across this
• 32:06
  giant state, two states away.
• 32:08
  Oh,
• 32:09
  No, I'm not like a good,
• 32:12
  I could probably drive with like,
• 32:14
  by myself,
• 32:14
  but I'm not a good like passenger princess
• 32:16
  at a certain point.
• 32:17
  Like I gotta be like,
• 32:18
  we got like tops like an hour and
• 32:20
  a half and I gotta like,
• 32:21
  I gotta go get a coffee.
• 32:22
  I gotta go pee.
• 32:23
  I gotta walk around like.
• 32:25
  Are you saying you're a control freak?
• 32:27
  No, I have to.
• 32:29
  No, no, no.
• 32:29
  I like I either need to.
• 32:31
  Well, yeah,
• 32:31
  I need to drive or we need to
• 32:33
  be driving an RV and I need to
• 32:34
  be able to get up because like I
• 32:36
  can't just sit there.
• 32:37
  Yeah, no, I want to represent.
• 32:40
  I get that.
• 32:41
  Like, yeah,
• 32:42
  we'll drive to Houston from here.
• 32:44
  And it's about four and a half,
• 32:45
  five hours,
• 32:46
  but we'll make three stops on the way.
• 32:48
  yeah right like you have to have like
• 32:49
  your designated places where you're like i
• 32:51
  know i i'm gonna look forward to doing
• 32:53
  this and like i'm going to know i
• 32:55
  know i'm gonna get out and like that's
• 32:57
  gonna make this trip more digestible for
• 33:00
  me yeah yeah i don't mind driving i
• 33:02
  will i will ride out but we gonna
• 33:04
  stop i have no problem doing that you
• 33:08
  ever stop at like a bucky's like oh
• 33:10
  dude
• 33:12
  Who hasn't?
• 33:13
  I'm actually contractually obligated to
• 33:14
  stop at every Buc-ee's I run across.
• 33:16
  I was going to say,
• 33:19
  if someone's just driving by,
• 33:20
  they're like, no,
• 33:21
  that doesn't look like it's for me.
• 33:22
  I'm like,
• 33:22
  you don't look like you're for me.
• 33:23
  We're not friends.
• 33:27
  If you can physically drive by a Buc-ee's
• 33:29
  and not stop,
• 33:30
  I don't need you in my life.
• 33:32
  No, you have to be a sociopath.
• 33:35
  My only beef with Buc-ee's is there's as
• 33:37
  many people in a Buc-ee's as there are
• 33:39
  in Long Island.
• 33:40
  That's it.
• 33:41
  Generally speaking.
• 33:43
  Generally speaking.
• 33:44
  You're so right.
• 33:45
  It's so crowded.
• 33:49
  There's one three hours from me going
• 33:52
  east, basically in Biloxi.
• 33:54
  The closest one in Texas to me is
• 33:57
  in Baytown,
• 33:58
  but they're building one in Lafayette,
• 34:00
  which is about an hour and fifteen minutes
• 34:02
  away, and that's a fucking problem.
• 34:04
  I was going to say, you're like,
• 34:06
  I can handle an hour and fifteen for
• 34:07
  a buck.
• 34:08
  You know how many friends I have in
• 34:09
  Lafayette?
• 34:11
  I'm going to see Robbie today.
• 34:13
  Oh, are you?
• 34:14
  I was like, yeah, breakfast.
• 34:17
  I'm going to bring home ten brisket
• 34:19
  sandwiches.
• 34:20
  Breakfast brisket tacos.
• 34:23
  Oh, my God.
• 34:25
  Yeah, it's a problem.
• 34:26
  How can a gas station make barbecue that
• 34:28
  good?
• 34:31
  They have a centrally located smokehouse.
• 34:33
  So I looked this up.
• 34:34
  They have a centrally located smokehouse
• 34:37
  where they make all their brisket.
• 34:38
  That's how they achieve the consistency.
• 34:41
  They'll vacuum seal them.
• 34:42
  And then when you see them,
• 34:44
  brisket's coming out on the board.
• 34:45
  everybody yells it whenever it happens
• 34:47
  it's because they've whatever process they
• 34:49
  have to warm it back up is finished
• 34:51
  and they'll bring fresh brisket out on the
• 34:53
  board and it's because it's been vacuum
• 34:55
  sealed and whatnot i do we looked it
• 34:57
  up uh my last trip to actually to
• 34:59
  houston to figure out because i was like
• 35:00
  this makes no sense they're not they're
• 35:02
  not there's not a big smoker at every
• 35:05
  single bucky's you run across but that
• 35:07
  would be really cool though someday they
• 35:11
  got the money
• 35:13
  Yeah, a hundred percent.
• 35:15
  It could happen.
• 35:15
  They pay their employees an absurd amount,
• 35:19
  absurd amount of money for what they do.
• 35:20
  Oh, I'm sure.
• 35:22
  Oh, I'm sure.
• 35:24
  AccuBlackDragon, I feel bad for you.
• 35:26
  A UK person doesn't have buckies.
• 35:30
  No.
• 35:30
  Oh, no.
• 35:31
  They don't have anything out there.
• 35:33
  Well,
• 35:33
  I should say that they do have things.
• 35:35
  I've never been to the UK.
• 35:38
  They do have things.
• 35:40
  They got like buildings and stuff and
• 35:41
  roads.
• 35:42
  It's fantastic.
• 35:43
  A big clock, I think.
• 35:45
  There's a giant clock somewhere.
• 35:46
  There used to be a bridge,
• 35:48
  but now it's in...
• 35:50
  So last true or false.
• 35:51
  Okay.
• 35:53
  You started your professional career as a
• 35:55
  graphic designer.
• 35:57
  Yes, that's true.
• 35:58
  Yes.
• 35:59
  I'm waiting for some, a fault,
• 36:00
  like a false thing.
• 36:02
  Like I'm waiting for you to come out
• 36:04
  of like left field with something.
• 36:06
  You're standby.
• 36:08
  Well,
• 36:08
  the reason I had to ask that is,
• 36:11
  so I was so excited about the,
• 36:12
  are you looking for a designer?
• 36:17
  If anyone's hiring, I'd like a job.
• 36:22
  Well, don't you own an affiliate?
• 36:24
  I do.
• 36:26
  Don't I pay me?
• 36:28
  If I own an affiliate,
• 36:33
  me would be the first person that would
• 36:34
  pay.
• 36:34
  I'm just throwing that out there.
• 36:35
  Oh, like me,
• 36:37
  me is like the last person that gets
• 36:39
  paid.
• 36:40
  I know that's,
• 36:40
  I know that's actually how it works.
• 36:42
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:43
  my the reason i asked that question about
• 36:45
  the graphic design is i was all proud
• 36:47
  of my thumbnail and i sent it to
• 36:48
  you last night and i'm like and then
• 36:50
  afterwards i was like oh my god she
• 36:51
  was a graphic designer she probably
• 36:53
  thought well if you just move this here
• 36:54
  and move that over here no i thought
• 36:57
  it was so cool i loved it and
• 36:58
  i might put up on my story my
• 37:00
  so my best friend and i have a
• 37:02
  obviously a best friend relationship and
• 37:04
  she'll be like that doesn't look like you
• 37:06
  and like i know she's gonna say something
• 37:08
  like i know she's gonna say something like
• 37:10
  like kind of witty.
• 37:13
  And I have to get ahead of her.
• 37:15
  And I'm like, yeah, it's much less ugly.
• 37:17
  And then she hits me with a, no,
• 37:18
  you actually look more beautiful in
• 37:20
  person.
• 37:20
  And I'm like,
• 37:22
  that was not where I thought you were
• 37:23
  going with it.
• 37:24
  Because usually she'll just be like, yeah,
• 37:27
  you ugly bitch.
• 37:28
  i thought we were roasting each other what
• 37:30
  is happening right now i know there are
• 37:32
  some times where like i get really caught
• 37:34
  off guard and like i i will get
• 37:36
  roasted when i don't think i'm going to
• 37:38
  and then or she'll compliment me when i'm
• 37:39
  like i have to like be on edge
• 37:41
  like what are you trying to do here
• 37:43
  but i thought it was really cool i
• 37:44
  loved it i really did
• 37:46
  So I,
• 37:47
  everything on our show that advertises our
• 37:49
  show is in a comic book style.
• 37:51
  And so people like,
• 37:53
  like their comic book version of
• 37:54
  themselves and some people do not.
• 37:57
  And so it's always this like trepidation.
• 38:00
  Do I, do I share it?
• 38:02
  Are they going to like it?
• 38:04
  I've had people like say,
• 38:06
  can you change that please?
• 38:09
  I did have someone be like,
• 38:10
  look at that dunk.
• 38:11
  And I was like,
• 38:12
  it's pretty accurate though.
• 38:14
  Yeah.
• 38:17
  No, no, no, that's the scale.
• 38:23
  They got it right.
• 38:24
  The artist got it right.
• 38:27
  Do you want to talk CrossFit Games season?
• 38:29
  Yeah, we can do that.
• 38:30
  Or American Gladiator first?
• 38:35
  Let's start off with the bad stuff first.
• 38:38
  Let's start off with the CrossFit Games
• 38:39
  season.
• 38:40
  Okay, CrossFit Games.
• 38:40
  First, I want people to know,
• 38:42
  you were a podium winner at the CrossFit
• 38:44
  Games.
• 38:46
  CrossFit Milford.
• 38:48
  You came in second, two thousand fifteen.
• 38:53
  I have to know because Rich's team was
• 38:56
  not in the lead going into the final
• 38:58
  event.
• 39:01
  What are and I'm an old school nerd,
• 39:04
  so it's just me like having watched that
• 39:08
  in person,
• 39:08
  like what was going through your head?
• 39:11
  Because I'm hoping you're over it ten
• 39:13
  years later.
• 39:14
  oh yeah i mean i'm are you though
• 39:18
  um that was a that was a very
• 39:21
  interesting year right that was the first
• 39:23
  year that i ever got to compete at
• 39:26
  regionals and never got to compete at the
• 39:28
  game so i was like really spoiled going
• 39:30
  into my next couple years because i was
• 39:32
  like
• 39:33
  well the first time I I competed I
• 39:36
  went right to regionals and the first time
• 39:37
  I went to regionals I went right to
• 39:38
  the games and the first time I went
• 39:40
  to the games I was still on the
• 39:40
  podium so like there's only up from here
• 39:43
  and the only up is first place so
• 39:46
  um that kind of that messed with me
• 39:47
  a lot but um yeah I was on
• 39:49
  the team with CrossFit Milford it was
• 39:52
  really fun training that year I was
• 39:54
  full-time working um I was working at NBC
• 39:56
  Sports at the time so I was like
• 39:58
  know young getting my training in the
• 40:00
  morning working all day getting my
• 40:01
  training at night like that was my whole
• 40:03
  life basically and we just kind of went
• 40:06
  in and it was across the mill for
• 40:07
  its first time at the games or sorry
• 40:10
  technically no i think like they went in
• 40:12
  like or something like that or
• 40:14
  when it was like the ranch and stuff
• 40:16
  but um went there yeah it was like
• 40:19
  the first year that like rich stopped
• 40:21
  being the individual and now rich is the
• 40:23
  team and he had you know like i
• 40:25
  just remember like it was like ellie and
• 40:28
  um matt and oh god who else was
• 40:31
  on the team that year they had the
• 40:32
  masters athlete as one of the lauren yeah
• 40:35
  lauren um i forget who else um kristen
• 40:39
  um so yeah it was it was definitely
• 40:42
  like one of those things where like the
• 40:43
  team was super fit
• 40:45
  We had a fit team.
• 40:47
  NorCal,
• 40:48
  that was the year that Jason Kalipa was
• 40:49
  at the games.
• 40:51
  Miranda tore her knee up.
• 40:54
  That happened right next to me.
• 40:57
  Because NorCal was crushing that games.
• 41:00
  And then all of a sudden,
• 41:01
  now they're out because Miranda gets hurt.
• 41:05
  Right.
• 41:05
  So it was wild.
• 41:07
  Yeah.
• 41:07
  And like that was also like Tommy
• 41:09
  Hackenbrook was with you.
• 41:11
  And at that time I had gotten cast
• 41:13
  for Stone Cold's Broken Skull Ranch.
• 41:16
  So like I was supposed to fly out
• 41:18
  the week before the games to film that.
• 41:20
  And I had said like, hey,
• 41:22
  I can't do it.
• 41:23
  Like, I don't want to get hurt.
• 41:24
  And I was talking to him about it
• 41:25
  because he was the winner for the one
• 41:27
  season.
• 41:28
  The legend.
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  yeah and they were doing like this whole
• 41:32
  reunion thing so he was like you know
• 41:34
  you made the right choice because like i
• 41:35
  watched people do like three hour grapples
• 41:39
  and i watched people like have to go
• 41:40
  to the hospital for like broken legs and
• 41:42
  stuff so i was like okay cool like
• 41:44
  so we got to like connect with that
• 41:45
  but it was crazy like it was like
• 41:47
  yeah you norcal mayhem and then we were
• 41:51
  just like in the mix of just like
• 41:52
  we're just we're just a team from random
• 41:55
  Connecticut,
• 41:57
  like and I remember it started off like
• 42:02
  pretty bad.
• 42:02
  It was like a swim event and a
• 42:04
  worm in the beach and it was pretty
• 42:06
  bad.
• 42:07
  And then I think like we started to
• 42:08
  like chip our way back up.
• 42:09
  Everybody on our team was like really fit,
• 42:12
  like very good endurance.
• 42:13
  We had like Kalina Ladaris on our team
• 42:15
  and she was just kind of like the
• 42:18
  She was very much like Sam Briggs,
• 42:20
  like where she was just engine,
• 42:21
  all engine.
• 42:22
  And everyone was super well-rounded.
• 42:25
  And I think like our main break was
• 42:29
  that we won.
• 42:32
  It was kind of,
• 42:33
  it was like a worm squat and then
• 42:35
  like a run through the stadium.
• 42:37
  And we were like neck and neck with
• 42:40
  NorCal and they're right next to us.
• 42:42
  And it was just like,
• 42:42
  that's when we started to get like a
• 42:44
  lot of momentum and then made our way
• 42:47
  up through the weekend.
• 42:49
  Obviously,
• 42:49
  like we were like in like a high
• 42:51
  spot and everything.
• 42:52
  I'm pretty sure at the time,
• 42:54
  even before Miranda got hurt,
• 42:55
  like we were like third place.
• 42:57
  So we like we're just edging out you.
• 43:00
  And then, yeah, they got hurt.
• 43:02
  It was like a clean and jerk workout.
• 43:04
  I didn't even see her like I didn't
• 43:06
  see what happened.
• 43:07
  Thank God,
• 43:08
  because I would have probably gotten so
• 43:09
  spooked.
• 43:10
  apparently like she dropped the bar and
• 43:12
  then like that's when her acl just like
• 43:14
  tore it was wild it was so wild
• 43:16
  and then i remember they kept going like
• 43:18
  they were allowed to keep going without
• 43:19
  her and they still did really great
• 43:21
  without her like it was their team was
• 43:23
  so incredibly fit the only thing i will
• 43:25
  say is that like i've heard her talk
• 43:28
  about it and they'll be like we should
• 43:29
  have won the games like well
• 43:34
  you'll never know.
• 43:35
  Like, so, you know,
• 43:37
  but we also felt like, I mean,
• 43:39
  we never felt like we should have won
• 43:41
  the games,
• 43:41
  but there was a point at the end
• 43:44
  of the weekend where they just kept
• 43:45
  throwing events in and we were like,
• 43:48
  is this going to stop?
• 43:49
  And then eventually it was sort of like,
• 43:51
  no,
• 43:51
  I think this is like one of those
• 43:53
  things where like mayhem was in second and
• 43:55
  we were in first and they're like,
• 43:56
  we can't like, this is my conspiracy.
• 44:01
  might upset people,
• 44:02
  but they wanted Rich to win his first
• 44:04
  year as a team.
• 44:07
  So like the last event,
• 44:09
  the last event should have been the last
• 44:11
  event, but then they were like,
• 44:12
  wait a second, wait a second.
• 44:14
  We're going to do like a hundred worm
• 44:16
  cleaning jerks and that's who will decide
• 44:18
  the winner.
• 44:18
  So I'm not mad about it.
• 44:21
  Cause it's over, but.
• 44:27
  So where, where do you have the metal?
• 44:30
  It's in the gym.
• 44:30
  It's in the gym.
• 44:31
  Okay.
• 44:32
  Yeah.
• 44:33
  Yeah.
• 44:35
  I have it hung up in the gym.
• 44:35
  So then my credit card that year,
• 44:36
  that was good though.
• 44:39
  Outstanding.
• 44:40
  Yeah.
• 44:41
  Fast forward.
• 44:42
  Ten years to today.
• 44:44
  You,
• 44:45
  you decide you're going to do the master's
• 44:47
  division.
• 44:47
  I don't even know how that works.
• 44:49
  Like you just start the open and you
• 44:51
  just kind of see where you land.
• 44:53
  And then do you decide,
• 44:54
  or did you decide prior to the season?
• 44:56
  So I knew that this was my first
• 44:59
  master's year.
• 44:59
  And I was like, OK,
• 45:00
  I'm going to go all in for master's.
• 45:03
  I'm not really even going to mess around
• 45:05
  with individual this year.
• 45:07
  And so I'm always sick for the open,
• 45:11
  no matter what.
• 45:12
  So it's always just like a just do
• 45:14
  your best and move on.
• 45:15
  So I was sick for the open,
• 45:17
  still coming off of being sick for
• 45:18
  quarters, and was like, OK,
• 45:20
  as long as I can just make it
• 45:21
  through and be healthy and then push it
• 45:23
  for semis, then I'll be OK.
• 45:26
  So I had already gone on with, like,
• 45:29
  luckily, because the Masters was, like,
• 45:32
  the first week.
• 45:35
  And I was like,
• 45:35
  I'm only going to dedicate myself to the
• 45:37
  online because there was a lot of
• 45:39
  traveling happening for me this summer.
• 45:42
  I didn't want to go.
• 45:43
  Like, you guys know Jess Kresmian?
• 45:46
  Yes.
• 45:46
  She's like, okay.
• 45:48
  that poor girl she did like three
• 45:50
  back-to-back weekends to try to qualify
• 45:53
  and i was like god bless this woman
• 45:56
  like she's a mom she's a master's athlete
• 45:58
  like she's traveling everywhere i mean i
• 46:00
  felt so bad she was like my body
• 46:02
  is just not where it's at like at
• 46:04
  the end of this and i'm like i
• 46:05
  understand because that was my goal was
• 46:06
  like i got invited to legends i got
• 46:08
  invited to magic city
• 46:10
  i was like i'm not gonna go take
• 46:11
  my chances and fly out spend a bunch
• 46:13
  of money and maybe don't qualify for like
• 46:14
  these things like i'm just gonna put all
• 46:16
  my effort into the online semis so i
• 46:19
  forfeited those did the online semis
• 46:22
  everything was good and then it was like
• 46:24
  one of those things of like i i
• 46:26
  qualified i
• 46:28
  qualified.
• 46:28
  I ended up in fourth for a masters
• 46:32
  and the semis.
• 46:33
  And I got the news on,
• 46:36
  it was like the Saturday before like the,
• 46:39
  everything had like, um,
• 46:41
  later board locked.
• 46:42
  And they were like,
• 46:44
  you didn't complete the standards of the
• 46:46
  power clean for the the tie break of
• 46:49
  that like deadlift workout like every all
• 46:52
  of my videos were good everything was fine
• 46:55
  i was killing myself this whole weekend
• 46:57
  and they were like yeah
• 46:58
  And I was like, oh my God.
• 47:00
  And I had so many people like reaching
• 47:02
  out to me that were like,
• 47:03
  and I had posted obviously like what I
• 47:06
  did.
• 47:06
  I was like, you guys be the judge.
• 47:07
  Like you tell me what you think.
• 47:09
  I think every rep looks the same.
• 47:11
  They said half of my reps were garbage.
• 47:14
  And half of them were good.
• 47:15
  And I had done my whole like appeal.
• 47:17
  I had done like the whole like this
• 47:18
  is what happened.
• 47:19
  I typed up my whole thing like and
• 47:22
  they were like, yeah, sorry,
• 47:24
  they're garbage.
• 47:24
  And I'm like, fuck.
• 47:25
  And so I'm, you know,
• 47:27
  I'm not even bothering like I'm like my
• 47:29
  heart's broken.
• 47:30
  I'm crushed.
• 47:30
  I'm crying.
• 47:31
  I like just, you know,
• 47:32
  I got friends who are like, well,
• 47:33
  this person didn't do it right.
• 47:34
  And if they're going to do this,
• 47:35
  they're going to do that.
• 47:36
  And they were reaching out to CrossFit and
• 47:37
  everything.
• 47:38
  And I'm like, you know what?
• 47:38
  It's not going to it's not going to
• 47:39
  help.
• 47:40
  It's not going to change like one.
• 47:43
  I should have had my camera angled a
• 47:44
  little bit different because maybe then it
• 47:46
  would have looked different too.
• 47:48
  Like that's just the way my body is
• 47:49
  structured.
• 47:50
  Like, you know, three,
• 47:52
  what a weird movement to have as a
• 47:53
  tie break.
• 47:54
  Because like,
• 47:54
  there's a lot that you could just,
• 47:56
  it should have been a clean and jerk
• 47:57
  in my opinion,
• 47:58
  but it's a lot easier to judge.
• 48:00
  Right.
• 48:01
  And so were they saying your elbows
• 48:03
  weren't coming through?
• 48:04
  No, they said my knees were soft.
• 48:06
  I had soft knees.
• 48:08
  Yeah, I had soft knees.
• 48:10
  I said, this is just my legs.
• 48:11
  But it wasn't meant to be.
• 48:14
  It took me probably, like,
• 48:15
  a week or two to, like,
• 48:17
  come to that conclusion.
• 48:19
  And I had, like,
• 48:19
  a lot of friends who were like,
• 48:20
  you know what,
• 48:21
  just focus on this other stuff.
• 48:23
  You know, and so...
• 48:26
  I accept it now.
• 48:27
  Whereas like before I'm like,
• 48:28
  I'm going to de-affiliate.
• 48:30
  I'm not going to do,
• 48:30
  I'm not going to pay CrossFit for
• 48:32
  anything.
• 48:32
  I'm not going to do this anymore.
• 48:33
  You know,
• 48:34
  like had my like pity party and stuff
• 48:36
  and everything.
• 48:36
  And yeah, it didn't, it didn't work out.
• 48:39
  I mean,
• 48:39
  it's not the first time I've gotten like
• 48:41
  penalized for things,
• 48:42
  but at the same time,
• 48:43
  I just hate the fact that like,
• 48:45
  we have to have like,
• 48:47
  two judges who were there and like I
• 48:49
  had my judge telling me like you need
• 48:51
  to lock out and I was like you're
• 48:53
  right I need to lock out so then
• 48:54
  I started correcting it but then even like
• 48:56
  the corrected reps they said weren't right
• 48:58
  either so I'm like what's the point in
• 48:59
  having two people on two different angles
• 49:03
  seeing what I'm doing they're dictating if
• 49:05
  it's good or not I then have to
• 49:07
  leave it up to the public to dictate
• 49:09
  if I did it good and then I
• 49:10
  have to leave it up to the powers
• 49:11
  that be like
• 49:13
  In what universe is that right?
• 49:17
  I could have just went to an event,
• 49:19
  qualified,
• 49:20
  and then done with one judge there.
• 49:24
  And had a lot more fun.
• 49:26
  Magic City was a blast.
• 49:28
  I know.
• 49:28
  I know.
• 49:30
  And I really debated on going there and
• 49:32
  was like, oh, that would be so cool.
• 49:33
  And yeah, I just, you know what?
• 49:36
  Mistakes were made.
• 49:37
  Mistakes were made on that.
• 49:40
  So like I understand everything that
• 49:44
  you're saying and thinking.
• 49:45
  The problem we have in this sport is
• 49:46
  so many people cheat.
• 49:48
  So many people cheat, right?
• 49:50
  So to say you had two judges, well,
• 49:53
  other people have two judges and they let
• 49:55
  them get away with everything, right?
• 49:58
  So your hands are tied on how you
• 50:00
  do it.
• 50:01
  Then it's just the opinion of the person
• 50:03
  watching your video that time.
• 50:05
  right that's the thing i feel like there
• 50:07
  should be like a board like because what
• 50:10
  i might think are bad reps you might
• 50:13
  think are good and you might think are
• 50:15
  good right and so like i kind of
• 50:17
  feel like it has to be like the
• 50:18
  same thing as like judging weightlifting
• 50:20
  like you have three judges and like some
• 50:23
  are gonna give you a red light and
• 50:24
  some of you gonna give you a white
• 50:25
  light right and like it depends on what
• 50:27
  they're seeing so yeah if you have like
• 50:29
  that one person who's just like yeah this
• 50:31
  is not good or
• 50:32
  Or you just have a person who like
• 50:33
  doesn't know if it's good or not.
• 50:35
  So they're just going to say it's not
• 50:36
  good.
• 50:37
  Like I had the same thing happen this
• 50:38
  weekend at Xenon where I was making,
• 50:41
  I was doing chest or pull-ups and I
• 50:42
  was getting no rep.
• 50:44
  And I stopped, I stopped.
• 50:45
  I go, why?
• 50:47
  Like,
• 50:47
  why are you giving me the no reps?
• 50:48
  And she's like, well,
• 50:49
  you're coming up short.
• 50:50
  And I'm like,
• 50:52
  Okay.
• 50:53
  And so then I'm like, she's,
• 50:55
  she's looking at it from this angle.
• 50:57
  So maybe it does look like I'm coming
• 50:58
  up short and I'm like,
• 50:59
  I'm just going to try to rip it.
• 51:00
  And then as I addressed her on this,
• 51:02
  she didn't give me any more no reps
• 51:03
  after that.
• 51:04
  And I was like,
• 51:05
  all the reps are the same.
• 51:06
  So it's like,
• 51:07
  kind of comes down to like,
• 51:09
  oh,
• 51:09
  should I just say something for the sake
• 51:11
  of saying something at that?
• 51:13
  Or do I really believe that these were
• 51:15
  good or anything?
• 51:16
  So I don't know.
• 51:17
  There's a lot of it's very subjective.
• 51:20
  Judging is still subjective in our sport.
• 51:22
  It's not as objective as I feel like
• 51:24
  it should be.
• 51:25
  I think people get really scared because I
• 51:29
  don't mean to name any names,
• 51:30
  but there's people out there who obviously
• 51:32
  have a
• 51:33
  big grievances on judging in the sports.
• 51:36
  So they just kind of like double down
• 51:38
  on like, Oh, I should just,
• 51:40
  I just should hammer them with no reps
• 51:41
  type of thing.
• 51:42
  So I don't know.
• 51:43
  It's, it's very subjective.
• 51:45
  So I was a judge during the regional
• 51:47
  days and I, and I would,
• 51:49
  and I would say that it's hard.
• 51:52
  Ninety-nine percent of the judges are not
• 51:54
  malicious about anything.
• 51:55
  No, no, no, no.
• 51:57
  The best job they can.
• 51:58
  But I will say like, because of, um,
• 52:03
  the way that CrossFit is structured,
• 52:05
  it's season now.
• 52:07
  Yeah.
• 52:07
  We're getting thin in the number of people
• 52:10
  that are available.
• 52:11
  Well, that, that, and like, they don't,
• 52:13
  they don't allow more people to come in.
• 52:15
  Like I've applied to be a judge and
• 52:17
  they're like, no, they don't need you.
• 52:19
  And I'm like, you do.
• 52:20
  Yeah.
• 52:21
  It's, it's a tough.
• 52:24
  I mean, hold on.
• 52:24
  Podium, podium in twenty fifteen.
• 52:31
  Right.
• 52:32
  Yeah.
• 52:33
  semi-finals, affiliate owner,
• 52:36
  all of this stuff.
• 52:37
  And you're like, I would like to judge.
• 52:38
  And they're like, nope, nope, nope.
• 52:40
  You have no experience.
• 52:41
  That's insane.
• 52:43
  It kind of comes down to like when
• 52:45
  you apply for a job and they're like,
• 52:46
  we require five years of experience in
• 52:48
  this field.
• 52:49
  And you're like,
• 52:50
  I'm trying to get into the field.
• 52:51
  And they're like, too bad.
• 52:55
  That shit crazy.
• 52:58
  Andrew Sten is big in the judging world.
• 53:01
  He said he'll put in a good word
• 53:02
  for you.
• 53:03
  Oh, good.
• 53:03
  Yeah.
• 53:04
  I would love to judge some events.
• 53:05
  Absolutely.
• 53:06
  Yeah.
• 53:07
  Andrew's good at what he does.
• 53:08
  I've met some good friends.
• 53:10
  I just hope you compete again.
• 53:12
  That's at the end of this.
• 53:14
  Because I saw your post like right after
• 53:16
  and you were just like,
• 53:18
  I don't know if I'm ever doing this
• 53:19
  again.
• 53:19
  And trust me,
• 53:21
  I'm a hothead from way back in the
• 53:23
  day.
• 53:24
  And I get to those moments.
• 53:27
  You are going to compete again?
• 53:29
  Yeah.
• 53:30
  Okay.
• 53:31
  yeah i would i can't help it i'm
• 53:34
  a sucker you know like this is it's
• 53:36
  changed my life and like as much as
• 53:38
  i do hate the outcome like i know
• 53:41
  that every year it's ever changing i like
• 53:44
  you know i obviously own the affiliate and
• 53:47
  stuff and like i have
• 53:50
  you know grappled with the like do I
• 53:51
  do this do I do that um I
• 53:54
  think now as like I'm obviously further
• 53:58
  away from it happening like I'm not I'm
• 54:00
  not upset over it or anything like I'm
• 54:02
  still me and I still know like my
• 54:05
  efforts and my capabilities and I know
• 54:06
  that I'll be able to have the chance
• 54:08
  and and all that so I'm not like
• 54:10
  very I mean I'm now looking at
• 54:13
  I became bitter again once I saw all
• 54:15
  the adaptive athletes getting, like,
• 54:17
  slapped.
• 54:18
  And I was like, come on.
• 54:19
  Like, come on.
• 54:22
  Like,
• 54:23
  these poor people have so many different
• 54:25
  standards that they have to abide by and
• 54:27
  just so much different stuff that, like,
• 54:29
  come on.
• 54:30
  You're going to do that?
• 54:31
  And it's just, I don't know.
• 54:32
  There needs to be more consistency across
• 54:35
  the board.
• 54:35
  And really my gripe is that.
• 54:38
  It's not so much, like,
• 54:40
  Like, oh,
• 54:41
  the HQ is bad and everything is bad.
• 54:43
  It's just,
• 54:44
  I just don't think that they have the
• 54:46
  right people in place right now to like
• 54:50
  get everything as consistent and fair as
• 54:53
  possible.
• 54:54
  And that could take time.
• 54:55
  And like, it's ever changing.
• 54:57
  So I have to give them the benefit
• 54:58
  of the doubt sometimes there too.
• 54:59
  And again,
• 55:00
  I have to take accountability on my part
• 55:02
  because should I have watched my video and
• 55:04
  been like, you know what?
• 55:05
  Like, would I think those were no reps?
• 55:06
  Like, obviously I didn't.
• 55:09
  And now I have to learn from those
• 55:11
  mistakes.
• 55:11
  Like,
• 55:11
  I have some very good friends who were
• 55:14
  like, hey, I love you,
• 55:15
  but I'm gonna call you out on your
• 55:16
  on your shit.
• 55:17
  Like, they're not entirely wrong.
• 55:19
  And so I was like,
• 55:21
  yeah, you know,
• 55:22
  there's nothing I can do about it now
• 55:24
  except for move on.
• 55:25
  So, you know,
• 55:26
  and I knew like putting it out there
• 55:28
  too,
• 55:28
  I was going to have like a fair
• 55:29
  amount of support and a fair amount of
• 55:31
  haters.
• 55:32
  And I was just really glad that the
• 55:33
  people who did support me or like,
• 55:36
  you know, I, I respect them and I,
• 55:38
  I know want them to, yeah,
• 55:41
  I think highly of them.
• 55:42
  And then there's obviously like the people
• 55:44
  who I don't know that are like,
• 55:47
  You're a cheater.
• 55:48
  Take accountability.
• 55:49
  I'm like, I know.
• 55:50
  I will.
• 55:52
  I was intentionally making my knees soft.
• 55:54
  I do that all the time.
• 55:56
  The internet's stupid.
• 55:59
  I'm like,
• 55:59
  you do a minute of Max Power Cleans
• 56:02
  and tell me how that goes.
• 56:05
  Let's get to my grievance,
• 56:07
  and that is American Gladiator.
• 56:09
  Oh, no.
• 56:10
  What's the grievance?
• 56:11
  The airing of grievances.
• 56:12
  Here we go.
• 56:12
  Great.
• 56:14
  You were mad about the game season.
• 56:16
  I was mad how gladiators played out.
• 56:19
  But I have to remember,
• 56:20
  this is entertainment.
• 56:22
  Yeah.
• 56:22
  It's not really a sport.
• 56:25
  Yes.
• 56:26
  So... It is and it isn't.
• 56:28
  I will go into whatever you want to
• 56:30
  go into on this.
• 56:31
  I... Yeah.
• 56:33
  So...
• 56:35
  I was all excited.
• 56:36
  I grew up watching gladiators.
• 56:38
  I love gladiators and I started watching
• 56:41
  it.
• 56:41
  So you said they reached out to you
• 56:43
  because of your performance at syndicate.
• 56:46
  And so what was that process like?
• 56:49
  So I had a random DM,
• 56:52
  which was like very spammy.
• 56:53
  And it was like, hey,
• 56:55
  my casting director watched you compete
• 56:57
  this.
• 56:58
  It was like in July.
• 57:00
  He's like, oh,
• 57:00
  my casting director watched you compete in
• 57:02
  Knoxville this past June.
• 57:04
  He doesn't have Instagram.
• 57:06
  I'm his assistant.
• 57:07
  I'm reaching out on his behalf.
• 57:08
  Would you entertain a interview for the
• 57:12
  show, the reboot of American Gladiators?
• 57:15
  And I was like.
• 57:16
  i just like watched the um the documentary
• 57:18
  right um and i was like cool like
• 57:20
  i watched a couple of episodes and stuff
• 57:22
  like that but um i was like i
• 57:25
  don't know if this is real but i'll
• 57:26
  whatever i'll take it because what's
• 57:29
  what's the worst thing that can happen
• 57:30
  right so he's like great send me your
• 57:32
  email i'll set it up and then from
• 57:34
  there i got um set up with the
• 57:37
  interview i met the casting director he
• 57:38
  was super nice he's like listen like
• 57:41
  you know, we saw you, you perform great.
• 57:43
  You're not going to the games, obviously.
• 57:45
  And we're going to start filming like in
• 57:47
  August.
• 57:48
  So can you be ready?
• 57:50
  And I was like, yes, a hundred percent.
• 57:52
  He's like, great.
• 57:53
  This could be overseas.
• 57:54
  Do you have a passport?
• 57:55
  And I was like,
• 57:56
  yeah so he's like okay cool like we're
• 57:58
  and then you know we go through everything
• 58:00
  he's like hey for the sake of um
• 58:02
  formalities like i'm gonna have to do like
• 58:04
  uh basically it's like a one minute video
• 58:07
  of like a like an interview type of
• 58:09
  video where he's like i'm gonna splice
• 58:10
  like video clips and pictures and stuff
• 58:12
  like that explaining yourself and then i i
• 58:14
  present it to like the the higher ups
• 58:16
  right so he's like i'm gonna do that
• 58:19
  i'll get back to you
• 58:20
  so do that get back to me he's
• 58:22
  like okay we're like august september
• 58:24
  we're gonna go it's gonna be in the
• 58:26
  uk because they have gladiators over there
• 58:30
  it's really big so we're gonna fly you
• 58:31
  guys out to this the uk it's gonna
• 58:33
  be like in random random sheffield um
• 58:38
  and you guys are going to do that.
• 58:40
  Are you still game?
• 58:41
  And I'm like, for sure.
• 58:42
  So he's like, cool.
• 58:43
  Like,
• 58:43
  we're going to move you on to the
• 58:44
  next stuff.
• 58:44
  And like,
• 58:45
  obviously I have to go through all like
• 58:46
  the, the contract stuff and like,
• 58:47
  you know, the NDA things.
• 58:51
  And then it turns into like, okay,
• 58:53
  well now we're going to push it out
• 58:54
  to the fall.
• 58:55
  And then it's like,
• 58:56
  now we're going to push out to January
• 58:58
  and now we're going to push out,
• 58:59
  you know, here.
• 58:59
  So like,
• 59:00
  it kind of was like one of those
• 59:00
  things where like,
• 59:01
  they kind of kept like going like, Hey,
• 59:03
  it's going to get pushed.
• 59:03
  Are you still, are you still game?
• 59:05
  It's going to get pushed.
• 59:06
  You still game.
• 59:07
  And so it was like one of those
• 59:08
  things where like in TV,
• 59:09
  like you never actually know if it's going
• 59:10
  to happen or not.
• 59:11
  Like they have this idea and they're like,
• 59:14
  we're casting and stuff and we have this.
• 59:17
  But like,
• 59:17
  it just seems like everybody has their own
• 59:19
  agenda and nobody knows what's going on.
• 59:21
  So I just kept like going through this.
• 59:23
  I kept meeting like producers and I kept
• 59:25
  interviewing with people and they were
• 59:26
  just doing all that stuff.
• 59:28
  And then eventually it got to a point
• 59:29
  where it was like.
• 59:31
  early spring and things were starting to
• 59:33
  finally come together and then they're
• 59:35
  like we're actually not going to go to
• 59:36
  the uk it actually might be in georgia
• 59:39
  and then it was just kidding it's not
• 59:40
  gonna be in georgia it's gonna be in
• 59:42
  france and we're like okay so it it
• 59:46
  all like kind of happened like slow and
• 59:48
  then all of a sudden it was like
• 59:50
  we need this and this and this and
• 59:51
  this from you and we're going to be
• 59:53
  shooting it in june
• 59:56
  And you need to give us all the
• 59:57
  stuff to us, like, right now.
• 59:58
  And we need to figure out your trip.
• 1:00:00
  And we need to figure out all this
• 1:00:01
  whatever.
• 1:00:02
  And, like,
• 1:00:03
  I was actually given the opportunity to
• 1:00:04
  pick which season I wanted to be on.
• 1:00:07
  And I was just like, you know what?
• 1:00:09
  Let's just go season one.
• 1:00:10
  Like, let's just do that.
• 1:00:11
  Yeah, there we go.
• 1:00:15
  And so...
• 1:00:17
  I was like, all right,
• 1:00:18
  I'll be on season one because like part
• 1:00:19
  of me was also like,
• 1:00:20
  let's just get it done in June because
• 1:00:22
  like the season two was going to be
• 1:00:24
  filmed going into like July.
• 1:00:25
  And I wanted to be back here for
• 1:00:27
  in like July for some trips I had.
• 1:00:29
  And, um,
• 1:00:31
  Yeah.
• 1:00:32
  So I think like two weeks from being
• 1:00:35
  flown out is when I finally got all
• 1:00:37
  the information,
• 1:00:38
  all the itinerary and everything.
• 1:00:39
  And even then it was just very like
• 1:00:41
  convoluted.
• 1:00:41
  So a really long process took about a
• 1:00:45
  year from the start of interest and like
• 1:00:49
  interviewing to actually going to France
• 1:00:51
  to film it.
• 1:00:52
  And like I said,
• 1:00:53
  the reason why I was in France is
• 1:00:54
  because the UK was filming their seasons
• 1:00:57
  and
• 1:00:57
  France had picked up that they wanted to
• 1:00:59
  do it.
• 1:01:00
  They moved all the equipment to France and
• 1:01:02
  like, it was probably this little town,
• 1:01:04
  like, thirty minutes outside of Paris.
• 1:01:08
  They were doing that.
• 1:01:09
  So instead of, like,
• 1:01:09
  moving all the equipment to the US,
• 1:01:12
  they just moved us to France.
• 1:01:13
  And then after we filmed,
• 1:01:15
  they just moved all the equipment back to
• 1:01:17
  the UK because they were on their third
• 1:01:18
  season.
• 1:01:18
  So, yeah, it was wild.
• 1:01:21
  It was really wild.
• 1:01:22
  Lived in a two star hotel with my
• 1:01:24
  husband and my toddler for two and a
• 1:01:26
  half weeks.
• 1:01:27
  no air conditioning no ice no deodorant
• 1:01:34
  everybody was so sm not like me like
• 1:01:39
  me but like the european people hundred
• 1:01:43
  percent it's wild it's wild so it was
• 1:01:47
  hot and wild so did it film as
• 1:01:51
  like we watched it or did you do
• 1:01:53
  different parts at different times
• 1:01:55
  Okay.
• 1:01:56
  So it's really fun to talk about this
• 1:01:58
  because we got there and we did basically
• 1:02:04
  four.
• 1:02:05
  So first day was all the story time,
• 1:02:09
  like story land stuff.
• 1:02:10
  So like they do like all your B
• 1:02:12
  roll filming, your interviews,
• 1:02:14
  your green screen photos.
• 1:02:15
  So you're, you know,
• 1:02:16
  like all the poses and stuff.
• 1:02:18
  You fit for your uniform.
• 1:02:21
  You get fitted for like your safety
• 1:02:22
  equipment.
• 1:02:24
  And then you're just kind of like all
• 1:02:26
  day long, like going through this stuff.
• 1:02:27
  Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  This was at like eight o'clock in the
• 1:02:30
  morning after a really horrible red eye.
• 1:02:37
  So everything I'm just like so puffy and
• 1:02:39
  tired and those poor makeup people are
• 1:02:41
  just going at you all day long.
• 1:02:45
  Yeah, so you do all that stuff.
• 1:02:47
  And then the next day,
• 1:02:49
  because there's so many of us,
• 1:02:50
  they had to do that.
• 1:02:51
  And then from there,
• 1:02:53
  we did like three days of training.
• 1:02:57
  And so the training just was basically
• 1:02:59
  looking like,
• 1:03:00
  here's all the games and events.
• 1:03:01
  Here's how they're going to run.
• 1:03:03
  You get one touch on everything.
• 1:03:06
  So you get one touch on a lot
• 1:03:07
  of the things that you're going to be
• 1:03:08
  doing.
• 1:03:08
  You don't know what you're going to be
• 1:03:09
  doing.
• 1:03:10
  And also, by the way,
• 1:03:12
  you will have a person trying to attack
• 1:03:14
  you or chase you or something.
• 1:03:16
  So all of your training is just like,
• 1:03:18
  I'm just getting a feel for what this
• 1:03:19
  is like,
• 1:03:20
  but I don't actually know what this is
• 1:03:21
  going to be like in the moment.
• 1:03:23
  where the gladiators were there like a
• 1:03:24
  week before and they're just beating the
• 1:03:26
  shit out of each other and they're
• 1:03:29
  practicing techniques and they're on all
• 1:03:31
  the stuff and they got a training program
• 1:03:34
  and they're going all these different
• 1:03:35
  places and they're like because they're
• 1:03:37
  supposed to be like yeah we're
• 1:03:40
  like we know this like the back of
• 1:03:42
  our hand we're gonna destroy these
• 1:03:43
  contenders right so like i'm not a
• 1:03:45
  gladiator i was a contender and that was
• 1:03:48
  the other thing they originally were
• 1:03:49
  trying to cast me as a gladiator but
• 1:03:52
  i was too short so i'm five two
• 1:03:54
  and they're like we need somebody who's
• 1:03:56
  like five seven five eight six foot
• 1:03:59
  preferably because they want these people
• 1:04:01
  to be larger than life and they are
• 1:04:03
  massive massive people and that's why like
• 1:04:07
  I always think about myself, and I'm like,
• 1:04:09
  Danny Spiegel and I are the same height,
• 1:04:12
  weight.
• 1:04:13
  No, not even close.
• 1:04:14
  I saw us next to each other,
• 1:04:15
  and I'm like, dang, girl.
• 1:04:18
  I've competed against her in CrossFit,
• 1:04:20
  but on that stage,
• 1:04:22
  actually seeing us next to each other in
• 1:04:23
  screenshots, I'm like, holy crap.
• 1:04:26
  She mopped me.
• 1:04:27
  She put me through a blender during some
• 1:04:30
  events.
• 1:04:30
  I had no chance.
• 1:04:34
  So since you brought that up,
• 1:04:36
  that's the start of my grievance.
• 1:04:37
  Yeah, okay.
• 1:04:37
  Okay.
• 1:04:41
  So for those who have not watched,
• 1:04:44
  spoiler alert,
• 1:04:45
  plug your ears if you don't want to
• 1:04:46
  know this.
• 1:04:47
  Yeah.
• 1:04:48
  Bailey makes the finals.
• 1:04:51
  The final episode,
• 1:04:53
  three people make the finals.
• 1:04:55
  They cut it down to two.
• 1:04:58
  There's one game where
• 1:05:03
  It's like a round ring type thing,
• 1:05:06
  and the first person thrown out is
• 1:05:09
  eliminated, and the other two move on,
• 1:05:11
  correct?
• 1:05:12
  Yeah.
• 1:05:12
  Something like that.
• 1:05:14
  Yeah.
• 1:05:15
  So, yeah, how it works,
• 1:05:16
  it's bracket style, right?
• 1:05:18
  So you start off with the prelims.
• 1:05:20
  We narrow it down from twenty-four
• 1:05:22
  contenders to twelve contenders,
• 1:05:24
  and then twelve to...
• 1:05:26
  uh i think it's like six or so
• 1:05:28
  and then we go down to like three
• 1:05:31
  um and it was one of those things
• 1:05:33
  where like i don't think they did this
• 1:05:36
  in the original series um i think it's
• 1:05:39
  probably because they just had more people
• 1:05:41
  the this is my grievance and so you'll
• 1:05:44
  probably be like yeah i i'm right for
• 1:05:46
  having this grievance where the way that
• 1:05:49
  it's filmed you're not seeing like it's
• 1:05:52
  not going
• 1:05:54
  Continuity wise,
• 1:05:55
  we're filming certain things on certain
• 1:05:57
  days and certain people are doing certain
• 1:06:00
  things.
• 1:06:01
  For instance, I did my prelim first.
• 1:06:04
  Everything I did in France was first.
• 1:06:07
  I was the first person to run an
• 1:06:09
  event.
• 1:06:09
  I was the first day to do it.
• 1:06:11
  And so I just got all of it
• 1:06:13
  done on Friday.
• 1:06:16
  then the next group of people did their
• 1:06:18
  saturday you have a blackout day sunday
• 1:06:20
  nobody works and then monday the other
• 1:06:22
  group goes and then how it like those
• 1:06:25
  were the three the three events so yes
• 1:06:27
  i'm doing all three events in one day
• 1:06:30
  they're not done the way that they were
• 1:06:32
  shown so my first event um was the
• 1:06:36
  wall which they showed that way my second
• 1:06:38
  event was actually the edge so that like
• 1:06:41
  crisscross um
• 1:06:43
  balance beam and my third event was
• 1:06:45
  actually gauntlet so where i was like
• 1:06:47
  running through the people and everyone's
• 1:06:49
  like oh my god you like we're destroying
• 1:06:50
  them i was like yeah because i was
• 1:06:51
  so mad because i had no points accumulate
• 1:06:54
  that whole day there was a lot of
• 1:06:56
  like weirdness with like am i trying to
• 1:07:00
  be forced out like thing like there was
• 1:07:02
  a little bit of conspiracy and then it
• 1:07:04
  was like i had gone against this girl
• 1:07:07
  who had a perfect score of all the
• 1:07:09
  contenders
• 1:07:11
  I had the most,
• 1:07:13
  the biggest discrepancy of point total.
• 1:07:16
  So like your point total put in half
• 1:07:19
  is the amount of time that you either
• 1:07:21
  get a headstart or you're delayed in the
• 1:07:23
  eliminator run.
• 1:07:24
  So I had the largest,
• 1:07:26
  I had the largest amount of time for
• 1:07:29
  my eliminator run.
• 1:07:30
  So like she had a,
• 1:07:33
  the girl that I was against had like,
• 1:07:37
  ten seconds on me to run the eliminator
• 1:07:39
  which is huge right because it's like a
• 1:07:41
  it's like a minute long um event and
• 1:07:48
  i i did end up beating her right
• 1:07:50
  so that was cool and it was really
• 1:07:51
  emotional
• 1:07:54
  The travelator.
• 1:07:54
  Yeah,
• 1:07:55
  it's a it's a it's a forty five
• 1:07:56
  degree incline treadmill going at eight
• 1:07:59
  miles an hour.
• 1:08:00
  So it's really it's really rough.
• 1:08:04
  Like it is one of the hardest things
• 1:08:07
  like I've ever done.
• 1:08:08
  And there's nothing that replicates it
• 1:08:10
  because we were trying to do it in
• 1:08:11
  the gym.
• 1:08:12
  And the incline of like a regular
• 1:08:14
  treadmill is.
• 1:08:16
  I goes up to like.
• 1:08:16
  Fifteen degrees or something.
• 1:08:18
  It's not.
• 1:08:19
  Yeah.
• 1:08:20
  And it was like.
• 1:08:20
  There's just.
• 1:08:21
  It's just.
• 1:08:22
  And it's.
• 1:08:23
  Looks longer on TV.
• 1:08:24
  It's much shorter.
• 1:08:25
  But it is just.
• 1:08:27
  Right up there.
• 1:08:29
  Yeah.
• 1:08:29
  So I end up beating her out.
• 1:08:31
  Did.
• 1:08:32
  And this is where it gets bad.
• 1:08:33
  So like this.
• 1:08:34
  The semis.
• 1:08:35
  Right.
• 1:08:37
  You do all your three events.
• 1:08:39
  And the way it was filmed again.
• 1:08:41
  Was.
• 1:08:43
  um oh that was like six four six
• 1:08:47
  of us we did our events i'm trying
• 1:08:52
  to think all i know is i did
• 1:08:56
  my three events plus the eliminator so
• 1:09:00
  everybody else who is competing did their
• 1:09:03
  three events rested and then got to do
• 1:09:07
  their elimination runs
• 1:09:09
  myself and a couple other contenders had
• 1:09:11
  to do all three events plus the
• 1:09:13
  elimination run on the same day so we're
• 1:09:15
  going from eight in the morning till ten
• 1:09:17
  o'clock at night and it is it's long
• 1:09:20
  it's a long freaking day and like the
• 1:09:23
  next day was filming of the finals so
• 1:09:26
  it's like okay i'm back at the hotel
• 1:09:28
  it's eleven o'clock at night i gotta be
• 1:09:29
  back there filming again at nine in the
• 1:09:31
  morning like everyone else has had the
• 1:09:34
  time to do their three events
• 1:09:36
  rest and then just the elimination like
• 1:09:38
  they all they had to do was the
• 1:09:39
  elimination that day and uh my last event
• 1:09:45
  before the elimination run was the ring so
• 1:09:47
  that like um event you're talking about
• 1:09:50
  and i like
• 1:09:52
  did well right because it's just the
• 1:09:53
  regular limit it's the regular event of
• 1:09:56
  the ring so it's just like pressing the
• 1:09:57
  button but i'm getting beaten to and just
• 1:10:02
  smacked around by this girl who's like six
• 1:10:04
  foot one and then i gotta do the
• 1:10:06
  elimination run and i do that i'm
• 1:10:07
  exhausted i'm tired i go back to the
• 1:10:09
  hotel and the next morning they announced
• 1:10:11
  hey
• 1:10:12
  the sudden death is the ring and me
• 1:10:15
  and the other guy who made it out
• 1:10:17
  that that day look at each other and
• 1:10:18
  we just started crying and we're like oh
• 1:10:21
  my god we have to do this again
• 1:10:23
  and he's like you know soaking wet he's
• 1:10:26
  like and these guys are like and it's
• 1:10:31
  just so bad and we're like really upset
• 1:10:34
  we're like we're just like okay maybe we
• 1:10:36
  can just like
• 1:10:38
  get it together.
• 1:10:39
  We did this last night.
• 1:10:40
  Maybe we can just like find it within
• 1:10:42
  ourselves to do it again.
• 1:10:44
  And it just so happens myself and him
• 1:10:46
  were the ones who got eliminated.
• 1:10:48
  And again, I'm not,
• 1:10:50
  I'm going to upset some people,
• 1:10:52
  but I've been, I've been on Reddit.
• 1:10:56
  That upsets me even more because it was
• 1:10:59
  very obvious watching the show that Danny
• 1:11:03
  was the most athletic.
• 1:11:05
  Yeah.
• 1:11:06
  the most athletic gladiator on the floor.
• 1:11:12
  So for that ring and the elimination
• 1:11:14
  sudden death,
• 1:11:15
  you get pitted against her one-on-one.
• 1:11:18
  Yeah,
• 1:11:18
  and they weren't even supposed to have her
• 1:11:20
  against me.
• 1:11:21
  That was a last-minute change-out.
• 1:11:24
  So they...
• 1:11:27
  And my conspiracy theory is CrossFitters
• 1:11:30
  keep winning these events,
• 1:11:31
  like Titan Games...
• 1:11:34
  broken skull all that right they did not
• 1:11:37
  want crossfitters to win right and that
• 1:11:40
  you kind of see that with like the
• 1:11:42
  the dynamic with the guys too right that
• 1:11:45
  was yep that's my next point so you
• 1:11:48
  have to go up against the best gladiator
• 1:11:50
  in the sudden death it's it's one event
• 1:11:53
  and you're done and you were you showed
• 1:11:57
  a capacity to be able to compete with
• 1:11:58
  any of those other contenders
• 1:12:01
  right yeah there was on the men's side
• 1:12:03
  the guy actually wins the crossfitter wins
• 1:12:07
  and they dq him for stepping on a
• 1:12:09
  line
• 1:12:10
  Well, we were talking about that after,
• 1:12:13
  because they would let us watch certain
• 1:12:15
  events,
• 1:12:15
  and then they would not let us watch
• 1:12:17
  certain events.
• 1:12:17
  We had handlers around.
• 1:12:19
  And I remember one of the contenders got
• 1:12:23
  to watch it,
• 1:12:25
  who was already eliminated at that point.
• 1:12:26
  And so they were like,
• 1:12:28
  you guys will never guess what happened.
• 1:12:30
  You'll never guess the outcome of what
• 1:12:31
  happened.
• 1:12:32
  And when we found out that the guy
• 1:12:36
  who won got DQ'd,
• 1:12:38
  it was one of those things where there
• 1:12:39
  was like, how did this happen?
• 1:12:41
  Like,
• 1:12:42
  because the DQing was that he stepped on
• 1:12:45
  the middle mat running up the travelator.
• 1:12:48
  And it's like, it's a wide surface.
• 1:12:50
  So like,
• 1:12:51
  you have to really go out of your
• 1:12:52
  way to step like on either side.
• 1:12:55
  And it was,
• 1:12:56
  I was talking to the one guy who
• 1:12:57
  got eliminated with me.
• 1:12:59
  and he's like that guy like talks to
• 1:13:01
  himself like there's no way that he up
• 1:13:05
  that hard like there's no way and so
• 1:13:08
  we kind of have this like conspiracy of
• 1:13:10
  like did he get paid off for this
• 1:13:13
  like type of thing like what's happening
• 1:13:15
  here you know like it's it's just those
• 1:13:17
  things like and then there were there were
• 1:13:18
  some gladiators who also had like their
• 1:13:20
  own thoughts when it came to that because
• 1:13:23
  it's a game,
• 1:13:24
  but they can like kind of sway how
• 1:13:26
  the game works.
• 1:13:27
  They can't necessarily like do it.
• 1:13:30
  Like they can't just outwardly do it,
• 1:13:33
  but they can kind of like push and
• 1:13:34
  encourage certain things.
• 1:13:36
  And I'm sure they did.
• 1:13:38
  And again, yeah,
• 1:13:39
  it's for entertainment purposes.
• 1:13:40
  They will push stories.
• 1:13:42
  And some stories are better than I was
• 1:13:43
  like,
• 1:13:45
  there is a crossfitter i won't name any
• 1:13:47
  names who was on season two who got
• 1:13:50
  cast as a contender went all the way
• 1:13:52
  to france and they decided that they
• 1:13:55
  didn't like his storyline and so they made
• 1:13:58
  him an alternate last minute and they took
• 1:14:02
  an alternate and put that person in
• 1:14:04
  instead and it was just like
• 1:14:07
  Wait, what?
• 1:14:08
  Like, and they were like,
• 1:14:09
  if I knew this was going to happen,
• 1:14:11
  I wouldn't have come out here.
• 1:14:12
  But now I have to be here for
• 1:14:13
  however long because I now I'm an
• 1:14:15
  alternate.
• 1:14:16
  And they moved the alternate to my
• 1:14:17
  position because they wanted a better
• 1:14:19
  storyline.
• 1:14:20
  So, like, it kind of comes down to,
• 1:14:21
  like, how you present yourself,
• 1:14:24
  what they think America will like,
• 1:14:26
  how you're perceived and everything.
• 1:14:27
  Like,
• 1:14:28
  and they will typecast you into a role.
• 1:14:30
  So, like, I always get, like, the, like,
• 1:14:31
  oh, you're the goth girl and stuff.
• 1:14:33
  And I'm like, you're not wrong.
• 1:14:34
  But, like, at the same time, like...
• 1:14:37
  I'm not like,
• 1:14:38
  I'm not going out there performing Fran
• 1:14:40
  and like black lipstick and like in a
• 1:14:43
  platform, you know, combat boots.
• 1:14:46
  To back up your storyline about that,
• 1:14:49
  the crossfitting male was an alternate and
• 1:14:52
  just by chance got into the game.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah.
• 1:14:56
  And it's also like the,
• 1:14:57
  if you're an alternate for American
• 1:14:59
  gladiators,
• 1:14:59
  there is a high probability you're going
• 1:15:01
  in because the amount of injuries that
• 1:15:03
  happen on that show are insane.
• 1:15:05
  Insane.
• 1:15:07
  I didn't realize it was going to be
• 1:15:09
  that combative.
• 1:15:10
  Like I knew it was going to be
• 1:15:12
  something.
• 1:15:12
  And my mom was like,
• 1:15:13
  what if you get hurt?
• 1:15:14
  I'm like, no mom, it's fine.
• 1:15:15
  We've got like helmets and knee pads and
• 1:15:17
  mouth guards.
• 1:15:18
  It's going to be fine.
• 1:15:18
  No, no, no.
• 1:15:20
  No.
• 1:15:21
  There was people who had to get surgery.
• 1:15:22
  They had to be wheelchaired out.
• 1:15:26
  It was a lot more hands-on than I
• 1:15:29
  anticipated.
• 1:15:30
  Yeah.
• 1:15:31
  Yeah.
• 1:15:32
  The one thing about CrossFit,
• 1:15:33
  I know Colton Mertens wants it,
• 1:15:35
  but it's not a contact sport.
• 1:15:38
  Wait, I have to talk about this.
• 1:15:41
  I now know why Colton Mertens wants this.
• 1:15:44
  Because I was staying with him in the
• 1:15:47
  Proven House this past weekend in Dallas.
• 1:15:49
  And this man, we were watching,
• 1:15:52
  what do you even call it?
• 1:15:53
  It's like World Slap Championships?
• 1:15:57
  Yeah.
• 1:15:57
  power slap yep yeah and he's like he
• 1:16:00
  put it on and he's like yeah i
• 1:16:01
  watch this like every night and we were
• 1:16:03
  like amazed like the amount of money these
• 1:16:06
  people make and he knew all the rules
• 1:16:08
  he taught like told us all the background
• 1:16:10
  of stuff and i was like damn like
• 1:16:11
  this is crazy and i just was thinking
• 1:16:15
  like if i got yeah if i got
• 1:16:17
  slapped
• 1:16:18
  I don't know.
• 1:16:19
  I would be really mad, but yeah,
• 1:16:21
  these people,
• 1:16:21
  these people make a lot of money and
• 1:16:23
  they got, they've got like weight classes.
• 1:16:26
  They've got backstories.
• 1:16:28
  They've got sponsors.
• 1:16:30
  Like it's wild.
• 1:16:31
  And he knew all about it and he's
• 1:16:32
  just like watching it.
• 1:16:32
  And I'm like, okay, this, this tracks.
• 1:16:35
  It makes sense now.
• 1:16:37
  Yeah.
• 1:16:39
  That absolutely tracks that Colton Mertens
• 1:16:41
  watches power slap and knows everything.
• 1:16:44
  Yeah.
• 1:16:45
  Yeah.
• 1:16:47
  We'll know that you gained a fan.
• 1:16:50
  I adored you on the show.
• 1:16:52
  My mom watched it with me.
• 1:16:54
  She was here staying with me at the
• 1:16:55
  time.
• 1:16:56
  She was not rooting for you.
• 1:16:57
  I don't want to call her out.
• 1:16:59
  She was rooting for somebody else.
• 1:17:01
  Who?
• 1:17:03
  You can tell me.
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  The circus performer.
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  Oh, Becca.
• 1:17:10
  People ask me, they're like, oh,
• 1:17:11
  is she nice?
• 1:17:12
  I go,
• 1:17:13
  she honestly deserved to win the most.
• 1:17:14
  This woman needs to have brain surgery.
• 1:17:18
  She's literally a sneeze away from her
• 1:17:22
  brain having an aneurysm.
• 1:17:24
  She has a literal...
• 1:17:26
  detachment from like her skull to her her
• 1:17:29
  neck and she's still an incredible athlete
• 1:17:32
  incredible person like as i said i go
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  like if i lost rebecca i'd be like
• 1:17:39
  you do deserve the money you need to
• 1:17:40
  buy yourself a new van you need to
• 1:17:41
  go have surgery like she is an incredible
• 1:17:43
  human she's incredible
• 1:17:45
  Yeah.
• 1:17:46
  And they really did do a good job
• 1:17:48
  with some of the storylines.
• 1:17:50
  I just,
• 1:17:51
  I picked you as my favorite from the
• 1:17:52
  beginning.
• 1:17:53
  And then when you got the hose job,
• 1:17:56
  I was like, all right,
• 1:17:57
  I'm done with this.
• 1:17:59
  Yeah.
• 1:17:59
  Yeah.
• 1:17:59
  You're like me with the CrossFit games.
• 1:18:01
  Like I'm, it's finished.
• 1:18:02
  I'm over.
• 1:18:03
  Cancel it.
• 1:18:04
  Never watching this again.
• 1:18:05
  I almost shut off the rest of the
• 1:18:07
  episode.
• 1:18:07
  I'm like, not even worth watching anymore.
• 1:18:09
  Nope.
• 1:18:09
  Yeah.
• 1:18:10
  I'm glad you were in my corner there.
• 1:18:12
  Thank you.
• 1:18:14
  But I had so much more.
• 1:18:17
  But this is my lunch hour for my
• 1:18:19
  day.
• 1:18:19
  Anytime you just let me know.
• 1:18:24
  I can definitely definitely need to do a
• 1:18:26
  part two.
• 1:18:27
  And this was a blast.
• 1:18:28
  And you you fit our vibe so well
• 1:18:32
  on this show.
• 1:18:34
  Because you like to go off the rails
• 1:18:36
  just like we do.
• 1:18:37
  yeah yeah i mean i would love i'd
• 1:18:39
  love to go part two especially because
• 1:18:41
  like i want to gap about um like
• 1:18:43
  xenon like i was just talking about how
• 1:18:45
  the whole event was so crazy and now
• 1:18:47
  only people only had positive things to
• 1:18:49
  say and like i'm like oh i need
• 1:18:51
  to talk about that so you ever want
• 1:18:53
  me back on i'll be i'll be here
• 1:18:54
  i want to talk to you about xenon
• 1:18:56
  i want to talk to you about hyrox
• 1:18:57
  i want to talk to you about being
• 1:18:58
  affiliate owner oh yeah about being a mom
• 1:19:01
  and not missing an open
• 1:19:04
  There's a lot of cool things that we
• 1:19:06
  never even got to touch on.
• 1:19:08
  Let's check back next week.
• 1:19:13
  So I will stay in touch.
• 1:19:14
  We will figure out a way to get
• 1:19:16
  you back on for the rest of that.
• 1:19:18
  And I can't wait to catch back up
• 1:19:21
  with you.
• 1:19:22
  But for now, and if you hold on,
• 1:19:24
  we'll say goodbye after the show is done.
• 1:19:26
  Yeah, don't bounce off yet.
• 1:19:27
  Okay.
• 1:19:30
  The rest of you,
• 1:19:30
  don't forget to like and subscribe.
• 1:19:32
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• 1:19:34
  Hit that like button.
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• 1:19:38
  And with that,
• 1:19:38
  we'll see everybody next time on Lunch
• 1:19:41
  with the Gladstone.
• 1:19:42
  You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
• 1:19:43
  room to jazz me up.
• 1:19:46
  I'm already jazzy.
• 1:19:57
  Love's with the Clydesdale cowboy in the
• 1:19:58
  saddle.
• 1:19:59
  Love's with the Clydesdale cowboy in the
• 1:20:01
  saddle.
• 1:20:01
  Talking to reps,
• 1:20:02
  real life strength in the battle.
• 1:20:05
  From the gym to the street.