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Lunch with the Clydesdale - CrossFit Games Slashing Prices · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:31
  what is going on everybody
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  it is a thursday lunchtime
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  it is time for lunch with
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  the clydesdale we're here
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  we're gonna get the dart
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  throw out of the way all
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  right here we go oh my
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  goodness not even close not
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  even close here I'll uh
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  oh man I keep messing this
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  up here we go I don't know
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  if you can see it's off to
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  the side not even on the
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  dartboard not not a great
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  move today someday I'll
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  figure it out it's really
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  tough from a seated position i
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  It's just really, really hard.
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  I know Dave used the same excuse, but man.
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  And then I have to like,
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  because of the angle I'm at,
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  I'm not going at about a
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  forty five degree angle and
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  I've got to go up over the
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  mic and it's just I don't know.
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  I'll figure it out at some point.
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  I swear to God, I swear I'm a good,
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  good dart thrower.
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  And all those years of
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  bouncing and bartending, I got really,
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  really good and I'm totally
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  shitting the bed here.
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  Doing it from a seated position.
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  Anyway, I was just getting on.
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  I was just trying to figure
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  out some stuff.
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  It's a slow day.
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  And I pull up Instagram
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  because I always just want
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  to have it ready when I do the show.
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  And up pops this thing about Alex Kazan.
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  from the barbell spin and
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  maybe she took a gummy that
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  may be a banned substance
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  at the world fitness
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  project while to help her
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  sleep while she was there I
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  don't know man I don't know
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  it just seems like I don't I don't know
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  if you can prove to me that
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  THC is actually a performance enhancer,
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  uh,
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  cause everybody I've ever known that has,
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  uh, smoked weed or taken a gummy, uh,
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  the last thing I wanted,
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  they want to do is get up and work out.
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  And, um, I think it's just,
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  I think it's over the top.
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  I think the days, I mean,
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  marijuana is legal in so many states now.
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  It's been shown to have so
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  many recovery benefits for athletes,
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  but it doesn't enhance your
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  performance in any way.
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  There was just this stigma
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  with it that it was like an
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  illegal narcotic, which it's not anymore.
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  Um,
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  we're not talking about heroin or
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  cocaine or, um,
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  meth or any of these other
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  types of drugs.
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  I mean, it's just freaking marijuana,
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  dude.
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  If she take that little bit of a gummy,
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  like a little bit of a gummy,
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  are you freaking kidding me?
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  Um,
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  I think we have bigger fish to fry than
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  whether someone uses a
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  little THC here and there
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  to let themselves get some sleep.
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  Just my thought.
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  Denise said,
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  I thought she said it was
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  mostly CBD or whether it's mostly CBD.
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  She did say it had some THC in it.
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  So whether it's a little bit
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  or I don't even care if it's a lot,
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  like when was the last
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  person you saw take a gummy
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  or smoke some weed and they're like, okay,
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  let's get it on.
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  Let's go bench press.
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  Let's go get some pull-ups in.
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  No man.
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  Usually it's like, I'm done, man.
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  I'm toast for the day.
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  Like it is over.
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  So it helped her sleep a little bit.
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  I find it's just a big old
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  pile of nothing.
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  But if it's on their banned
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  list and it's a rule,
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  I guess we got to figure that out too.
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  But it just seems like a
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  waste of time for something
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  that just doesn't even seem
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  that big of a deal to me.
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  And maybe I'm wrong.
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  Like,
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  I'm not like young but like
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  I just don't see I don't
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  see anything to this at all
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  yeah I'm concerned about
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  performance enhancing drugs
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  in in the sport not
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  necessarily marijuana or thc right denise
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  Like most of my buddies that
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  have taken THC are asking
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  me where the Doritos are.
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  And that does not help your
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  performance at an event.
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  So, I don't know.
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  I think a rain or a C-IV
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  helps your performance better than THC.
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  So, there it is.
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  Jay Burch, squeaky wheels.
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  There you go.
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  really and I'm probably
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  biased in this manner
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  because I I love alex I
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  think she's she's awesome
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  you know we've done a lot
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  of features with her um I
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  love my guy justin um I
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  just love that team I like
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  jake jake worked for us at
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  the games two years ago um
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  So I might have a bias there,
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  but I think even if someone
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  that I was not a fan of was taking THC,
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  I would not think twice of it.
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  A lot of the pro sports have
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  removed THC as a banned
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  substance from their list
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  now that it is legal in most states.
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  I know the NBA has removed it.
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  I think the NFL has removed it.
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  So I just don't get why it
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  would even be on a banned substance list.
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  but there it is I've not
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  done much research into
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  this at all I literally
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  just pulled it up to have
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  some instagram ready in
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  case I needed to dive into
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  that while we're on the air
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  and I saw it and so I
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  thought I would stop start
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  with that so um what do I
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  want to do next so I'm
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  going to I'm going to share my screen um
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  don't always do this um but
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  I I do think that what was
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  said so sunday night after
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  our show uh savan went live
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  with a a ultra marathoner
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  and after that person left
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  the air he made a comment
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  about our sunday night show
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  and um I wanted to play it
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  because it's not often you
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  get this type of
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  this type of compliment.
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  And so I just,
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  I wanted to share it because
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  I echo his sentiments so much.
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  And I just wanted to share
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  that real quick.
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  So this is from the Sevan
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  podcast on Sunday night.
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  And I'm going to go ahead.
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  Shoot.
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  Then I worked out again.
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  And when I worked out, I watched, um,
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  Clydesdale podcast with
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  Scott Schweitzer and I want
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  to keep calling her Courtney Love,
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  Carolyn Prevost and Jamie Latimer,
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  which I'm going to tell you,
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  he finally found it.
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  After thirty five years of podcasting,
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  Scott Schweitzer has found his team.
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  That's the team.
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  I don't know how he did it,
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  but that's good.
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  He that's it's Jamie and
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  Miss Prevost and him.
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  They're the shit.
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  They're so good.
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  Yeah, they're good.
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  I'm watching,
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  waiting for the day for Prevo
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  to kind of crack, right?
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  Get a little snappy.
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  But it's cool.
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  I really enjoy the three of them.
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  Then I worked out...
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  So that was on Sunday Night
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  Savant podcast.
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  And I have to agree with them.
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  To find people that chip in
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  and to participate with you
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  as much as they do to get
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  into the arguments that...
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  that I want to and to and to
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  not be afraid to like
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  challenge each other on
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  their opinions but do it in
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  a respectful way um this is
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  the team uh that I have
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  envisioned my whole um time
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  trying to do this and I'm
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  so glad that I I became
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  friends with jamie and that
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  um and I became friends
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  with carolyn and she agreed
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  to come on um they're just
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  amazing amazing women
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  I wanted to have a space
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  where women could give
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  their input as to what's
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  going on in the CrossFit
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  world that had knowledge
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  about what it's like to be an athlete.
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  and um and I felt that that
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  has been missing in the
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  crossfit space for a long
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  time and uh so glad that I
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  found them and that we
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  we've been doing it with
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  the three of us for about
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  months and I feel like
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  we're we're really getting
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  into a groove now uh where
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  we we debate freely and um
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  And I'm just really excited
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  that other people are starting to notice.
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  Um, what I will say is, uh,
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  when he said that I'm
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  waiting for Carolyn to crack, um,
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  if you've watched us consistently, um,
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  Carolyn has cracked before on the show.
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  She has lost her mind over
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  things and I love it when it happens.
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  Um,
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  But it does.
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  It really does happen a lot.
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  But I know some people are
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  new to the show and have
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  never seen it yet.
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  But when it happens, it's gold.
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  But yeah, I just wanted to share that.
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  Some people shared it with me.
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  I was really excited to hear
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  that because I do feel like
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  I found the right team for
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  that Sunday night show.
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  And I'm so excited that I
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  have and that that's happened.
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  so well thank you very much
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  denise you three are very fun to watch
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  like I told you like jamie
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  from the minute I met her
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  we were like a brother and
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  sister we fought all the
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  time on on the road when we
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  were out doing semi-finals
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  in um we would we would
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  fight non-stop about
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  different things going on
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  in crossfit and that's when
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  I knew that I needed to get
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  her on a show and I had to
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  like kind of ease into that
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  to get her to come on uh consistently
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  but now it's second nature for her.
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  She, she's really good at it.
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  And then when Carolyn came on,
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  it just gave us even another perspective.
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  Um, and she's such a CrossFit nerd.
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  She knows everything that's going on.
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  And as Kenna said,
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  it is the original Sunday
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  night CrossFit talk, the original, um,
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  So, yeah.
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  So I'm going to throw a
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  couple of topics out to you guys.
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  I'm curious to know what you
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  think about this.
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  So if you have not been under a rock,
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  you have seen that the
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  CrossFit Games have slashed,
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  slashed CrossFit game
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  ticket prices by forty
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  percent in what they're
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  calling a flash sale for Memorial Day.
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  In years past,
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  the CrossFit Games have sold out,
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  and this stuff was never an
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  opportunity because the
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  tickets had sold out so fast.
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  There were not tickets to
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  Slash and to give it at
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  these deep discounts.
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  What does it mean for this
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  season when your championship match,
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  you have to sell at sixty
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  percent of what you want to
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  to get people to buy the tickets?
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  I don't think that's a good sign.
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  Kenneth says like, twenty percent off,
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  right?
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  They are forty percent off
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  right now in a flash sale.
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  It's all over Instagram.
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  I will pull that up.
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  Here it is.
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  Flash sale right there for
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  forty eight hours only.
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  The twenty twenty five
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  CrossFit Games at an
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  unbelievable forty percent
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  off now through Friday,
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  May twenty third at twelve p.m.
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  Pacific Standard Time.
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  So, um,
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  and how it happens right there is a
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  lot of meta ads out there
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  about it right now.
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  Um, but yeah, this is,
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  this one is directly from
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  the CrossFit Games Instagram page.
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  This is the flash sale.
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  It's for forty eight hours only.
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  And it is until twelve p.m.
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  tonight.
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  so there's twelve p.m noon
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  twelve p.m is noon right so
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  so it would be till three
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  p.m eastern time this
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  afternoon they're on sale
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  till for forty percent off
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  I did go to um the
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  ticketing software to buy
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  do they have a link here um
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  let me see if they have a
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  link in the in their bio um
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  I went to buy and I looked at the map.
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  It's going to take me to another page,
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  so I've got to stop sharing
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  and I'll bring it back up here.
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  Okay,
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  so this doesn't show the map because
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  it's just the flash sale.
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  there and it looks like the
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  flash sale okay I'll show
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  this to you so you guys can
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  see so it looks like the
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  flash sale is only one half
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  of the arena so in the blue
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  is what's for sale on the
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  forty percent off and then
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  the gray is the finish line
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  so anything around the
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  finish line is not for sale
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  anything on the other side
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  of the stadium is going to
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  be at uh forty percent off
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  so that is and helping is
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  saying twelve p.m tomorrow
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  it ends okay in there in
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  the narrative it says
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  friday so I don't know
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  maybe they've extended it a little bit um
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  Oh, tomorrow's Friday.
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  Today is not Friday.
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  Oh man, I need to, I need some more sleep.
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  Um, so yeah,
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  so that is what the forty
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  percent off sale was.
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  I did go yesterday.
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  I think it was out to the website.
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  Um, I did, I tried to get,
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  they have a map that
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  actually show you can
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  actually pick the seats.
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  and and when it's not forty
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  percent off and it actually
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  would show you oh there we
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  go okay there we go so you
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  can see how many seats are
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  left uh I was able to get
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  that now okay so let's blow this up
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  So you can see how many
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  seats are left to purchase every whoops.
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  Every blue dot is a seat for sale.
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  So there are seats in really
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  good places like down low, um,
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  that are still available.
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  Um,
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  Uh, lots in the lower bowl.
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  It looks like the upper bowl
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  is sold way more than the
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  lower bowl must be a price.
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  Um, but yeah, that's pretty crazy.
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  And there we go.
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  And then on this one side, there's a ton.
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  Uh, so at the bottom of the screen,
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  a ton of the lower bowl
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  seats are available.
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  I just think it's a bad look, man.
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  I don't think they
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  anticipated such a decrease
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  in demand this year.
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  And I don't know what to attribute it to,
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  whether it was the Lazar
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  Jukic tragedy from last year,
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  whether it was the competition,
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  whether it's the impending
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  sale and who knows what's going to happen,
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  whether it's the season
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  doesn't make any sense this
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  year and the excitement
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  just isn't there building
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  as we move through the season.
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  I don't know.
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  Or maybe it's the location.
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  They seem to do better when
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  the location is in the
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  middle of the United States
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  where more people can get
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  there at a more reasonable
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  effort and cost than to try
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  to put it on one side of
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  the country and forcing
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  people to go cross-country to get to it.
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  regardless of which side you
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  pick whether it be the west
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  coast or the east coast we
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  are pretty far east coast
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  this year and so is it that
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  um the the west coast
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  people are like that's too
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  far of a flight for me to
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  get on to go all the way to
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  new york to do that um
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  But when they were in Fort
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  worth and they were in, um, Madison,
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  it was in the central part
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  of the country.
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  It was a lot easier to get
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  halfway across the country
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  than the whole way of more
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  people could drive.
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  Uh, so I don't know.
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  Uh,
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  helping us is also in outside influences,
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  uh,
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  way lower tourism from international
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  countries this year.
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  That is correct.
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  with everything going on politically there,
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  that is going to be, um,
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  that's going to be impacted as well,
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  but just really shocked.
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  They had to go to forty percent off.
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  Aaron Fraser, if, if you fly,
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  what is the difference between the two?
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  Well, for me, every time I fly West Coast,
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  it's just more expensive.
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  Um, I,
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  it's really hard to get a cheap
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  flight from Ohio to California.
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  Um,
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  for events but and I'll tell
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  you this year has been
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  really really difficult for
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  me because of everything
• 20:21
  I've had going on just in
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  my life normally I would go
• 20:25
  to multiple events in the
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  um qualifying event season
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  or semi-final season um and
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  I haven't been to anything this year
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  I've had my daughter move
• 20:36
  across the country to Montana,
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  and I had to take that
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  drive with her to do that.
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  And we helped her
• 20:42
  financially make that move.
• 20:45
  My wife has had her second
• 20:47
  knee replacement surgery since January.
• 20:50
  Those two things have laid her up,
• 20:53
  and I've had to assist her
• 20:54
  in many ways during that time.
• 20:57
  And with all of that,
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  I just haven't been able to get out.
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  And now I kind of put a,
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  like a lot into going to
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  syndicate crown and, and I'm,
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  I'm still planning on going, but I,
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  I look at the lineup that's there and,
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  and how, how diminished the field is.
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  And is it,
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  is it worth me driving to Knoxville,
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  getting a hotel for three days?
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  Um,
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  to watch a diminished field
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  at the syndicate crown.
• 21:29
  And I'm a CrossFit nerd.
• 21:30
  Like I love going to these events.
• 21:32
  I love this stuff.
• 21:33
  And if I'm questioning it,
• 21:35
  who else is questioning it?
• 21:38
  I think a lot of people are like,
• 21:40
  is it worth the investment
• 21:41
  to go see five people
• 21:44
  compete in an event that
• 21:45
  have a shot at getting the top two spots?
• 21:49
  I mean, last year,
• 21:50
  if you went to a semifinal event,
• 21:54
  in the East,
• 21:55
  there were twenty women who
• 21:57
  had a shot to get the top
• 21:58
  eleven positions.
• 22:00
  And the same thing for the men.
• 22:05
  It was easier to justify
• 22:08
  going to see that and I
• 22:09
  could get way more content
• 22:12
  from who my audience would
• 22:14
  know who they were.
• 22:17
  Um,
• 22:18
  now I I've been following semifinal
• 22:20
  athletes for years and
• 22:22
  there are a lot of those at
• 22:23
  this event that I, I know and, and, um,
• 22:26
  would love to catch up with
• 22:27
  and chat with.
• 22:28
  Um, it's just,
• 22:31
  it's a really crazy year and
• 22:35
  we've talked about it a lot.
• 22:39
  For the first time,
• 22:40
  CrossFit has competition.
• 22:41
  And it doesn't seem like
• 22:42
  they've done anything to
• 22:43
  this season to make it easier to follow,
• 22:46
  easier to attend,
• 22:47
  easier to do anything with.
• 22:49
  And I just,
• 22:52
  I feel like things have got to
• 22:53
  change soon or we're in a really,
• 22:55
  really bad place from the CrossFit side.
• 23:02
  a bit surprised it wasn't
• 23:03
  offered to affiliate owners
• 23:04
  initially or even offered
• 23:05
  geographically offer a
• 23:07
  deeper discount to new york
• 23:09
  affiliates that that
• 23:12
  actually sounds like a
• 23:13
  pretty good marketing plan
• 23:17
  uh weird dave gave a twenty
• 23:19
  percent off code monday for
• 23:20
  them to do a forty percent off yesterday
• 23:23
  Yeah,
• 23:23
  I think they've actually been giving
• 23:25
  the code out to a lot of
• 23:26
  people in the media and a
• 23:29
  lot of people in, I think,
• 23:33
  other athletes.
• 23:35
  And it was a twenty percent off code.
• 23:37
  And then today and then to
• 23:39
  do this at forty percent
• 23:41
  off kind of undercuts all
• 23:42
  those people you send it to.
• 23:46
  But we'll see.
• 23:50
  Yeah, and this is what Halpin is saying.
• 23:52
  They also offered athletes a
• 23:53
  twenty percent off with a
• 23:55
  fifty dollar per ticket
• 23:56
  kickback at the same time.
• 23:58
  This forty percent is occurring.
• 24:01
  Yeah.
• 24:03
  But if you have a favorite
• 24:04
  athlete and you want to use
• 24:05
  their code and give them a
• 24:06
  fifty dollar kickback,
• 24:07
  that's a way to support
• 24:08
  your favorite athlete in a way.
• 24:11
  Maybe that means more to you
• 24:12
  than the forty percent.
• 24:14
  So you do have some options there.
• 24:20
  Um,
• 24:21
  the other thing I wanted to throw out
• 24:22
  there and we haven't talked
• 24:23
  about yet this week,
• 24:24
  and that is the event one was announced.
• 24:27
  Uh,
• 24:28
  it is a four mile run into three
• 24:30
  thousand meter row into a two mile run.
• 24:36
  I don't think it's real
• 24:37
  exciting to get me
• 24:39
  motivated to want to go to the games.
• 24:41
  Um,
• 24:41
  they are offering it as a community
• 24:44
  event afterwards where a
• 24:47
  community members can come, um,
• 24:51
  do the event there and
• 24:53
  they're going to keep an
• 24:53
  overall leaderboard on that
• 24:56
  throughout the weekend.
• 24:58
  And you can do it all
• 24:59
  weekend long while seminar staff,
• 25:02
  people are kind of manning that,
• 25:05
  that project for that.
• 25:08
  So it is, I do like this.
• 25:11
  I do like when they take one of the,
• 25:13
  the games events and make
• 25:14
  it a community event.
• 25:16
  But if it's just running and rowing, like,
• 25:20
  That's not identifiable as
• 25:22
  like a CrossFit event.
• 25:26
  The last time they did this,
• 25:27
  it was a five K this year.
• 25:30
  It's this run row run.
• 25:32
  Why couldn't you have a
• 25:34
  couple lanes and do one of
• 25:36
  the other workouts that may
• 25:38
  appear and allow people to do like
• 25:43
  like a Metcon plus four mile,
• 25:49
  three thousand, two mile, that's a long,
• 25:53
  long event.
• 25:54
  That is a commitment of, what,
• 25:57
  an hour of your time to go do that?
• 26:03
  Honestly,
• 26:04
  it would be more than an hour for me,
• 26:05
  but for most people,
• 26:07
  an hour to take out of your
• 26:10
  day at the CrossFit Games
• 26:11
  to go do this event,
• 26:14
  it's it's it's just
• 26:15
  interesting it just doesn't
• 26:18
  seem like something that
• 26:20
  would entice people other
• 26:23
  than like jamie jamie would
• 26:24
  jump at the chance to do
• 26:25
  this and kill it and try to
• 26:28
  get her name up on the leaderboard um
• 26:32
  I just don't see it being
• 26:33
  that that event that
• 26:34
  attracts a majority of
• 26:36
  CrossFit CrossFitters going
• 26:38
  to the games and wanting to
• 26:41
  see how they they compare
• 26:42
  against everybody else in the world.
• 26:48
  I just think,
• 26:48
  I think it'd be cool if you
• 26:49
  did something like with toes to bar and,
• 26:52
  um, maybe a sandbag carrier,
• 26:54
  maybe like things that are
• 26:56
  more CrossFitty on, on a little outdoor,
• 27:01
  um, workout area and,
• 27:03
  and let people do it there.
• 27:05
  I think that would entice more people,
• 27:07
  but who am I?
• 27:09
  I'm just, I'm just a media guy.
• 27:13
  Jay Birch says, might as well do Murph.
• 27:16
  I think Murph is a better
• 27:17
  option than this.
• 27:18
  Murph is a couple one-mile runs,
• 27:20
  and at least you get to do
• 27:21
  some gymnastic stuff with it.
• 27:24
  It's just running and rowing.
• 27:29
  Are we doing a High Rocks event?
• 27:32
  Is that the plan?
• 27:34
  It just doesn't...
• 27:36
  And I'm not dogging High Rocks.
• 27:37
  Like High Rocks is very
• 27:39
  successful and they're
• 27:40
  doing great with what they're doing.
• 27:41
  It just,
• 27:45
  it doesn't seem like that enticing
• 27:47
  event to bring the
• 27:47
  community together to do
• 27:49
  something that is CrossFit.
• 27:52
  It sounds like a cross country meet.
• 28:00
  I think we should remove
• 28:01
  unknown and unknowable
• 28:02
  since the first event of
• 28:03
  the games is always the same thing.
• 28:07
  Well, one key element was removed, Tristan,
• 28:10
  and that was swimming.
• 28:11
  I wonder why.
• 28:21
  So we have a weekend where
• 28:22
  there's really nothing
• 28:23
  going on in the CrossFit space.
• 28:27
  Ah, Aaron's got the answer.
• 28:30
  Aaron's got the answer.
• 28:31
  They are trying to tease Tia
• 28:33
  into doing the games.
• 28:34
  She's already training for high rocks.
• 28:37
  Here's your event Tia.
• 28:38
  Come on.
• 28:38
  It's like a little mousetrap.
• 28:41
  See if we can get her to commit.
• 28:47
  Jay Birch.
• 28:47
  I am with you.
• 28:48
  That would be a no for me on
• 28:49
  the long distance.
• 28:54
  Yeah.
• 28:56
  But I think Aaron Frazier nailed it, man.
• 28:58
  It is there.
• 28:59
  They are trying to lure Tia
• 29:01
  back for one more season to
• 29:03
  come to the games.
• 29:05
  Been training high rocks.
• 29:06
  Let's make this the first event.
• 29:08
  Get Tia to sign up.
• 29:10
  And then all is right with the world.
• 29:16
  I personally hope she
• 29:16
  doesn't come to the games.
• 29:18
  I think it's more exciting
• 29:19
  when she doesn't.
• 29:21
  I thought the twenty three
• 29:22
  games on the female side
• 29:23
  was so much fun to watch
• 29:24
  when we didn't know who was going to win.
• 29:29
  But it does not mean I do
• 29:31
  not respect her as the
• 29:33
  greatest CrossFit athlete
• 29:34
  I've ever seen in my life.
• 29:36
  She definitely is.
• 29:38
  She definitely is.
• 29:39
  But from a spectator point of view,
• 29:41
  I enjoy it when I don't
• 29:42
  know who's going to win.
• 29:45
  And on the men's side,
• 29:46
  anybody could win this year.
• 29:48
  Anybody could win out of about ten guys.
• 29:53
  And on the women's side,
• 29:54
  I think it's totally up in
• 29:56
  the air if Tia doesn't come back.
• 30:00
  And I think that's what
• 30:02
  makes it entertaining.
• 30:07
  This week on Get Up,
• 30:08
  they actually asked the question, are...
• 30:18
  Oh, gosh.
• 30:19
  Oh, my gosh.
• 30:23
  What are they called?
• 30:24
  The teams that win a lot.
• 30:25
  I am having such a brain fart.
• 30:30
  Anyway.
• 30:34
  Damn it.
• 30:35
  Dynasties.
• 30:36
  Dynasties.
• 30:36
  Are dynasties good for sports?
• 30:38
  That was the question on Get Up this week.
• 30:41
  And there are people arguing
• 30:42
  that that gives you the
• 30:43
  villain that someone wants to take down,
• 30:46
  which makes things better.
• 30:48
  And other people are like, no,
• 30:49
  I like it when we don't
• 30:52
  know who's going to win.
• 30:52
  It's not predetermined.
• 30:55
  Like in the NFL right now,
• 30:56
  it's almost like a given
• 30:57
  that the Chiefs will be in
• 30:58
  the Super Bowl.
• 31:00
  Is that good for the sport?
• 31:02
  Um,
• 31:02
  and they were arguing that when that
• 31:05
  happens,
• 31:06
  then you have the villain of the
• 31:08
  chiefs where everybody wants to,
• 31:09
  to beat them.
• 31:10
  And then if you, if you don't have that,
• 31:14
  then nobody really knows.
• 31:16
  And it makes it a more exciting season.
• 31:18
  So those were the two arguments.
• 31:20
  And I say the same thing
• 31:21
  with CrossFit when Matt
• 31:22
  Frazier and Tia were on their run,
• 31:25
  it was predetermined that
• 31:26
  they were going to win.
• 31:27
  And I felt that it was
• 31:28
  harder to watch the games that way.
• 31:31
  because really you were just
• 31:32
  watching to see how big they would win,
• 31:35
  not if they would win.
• 31:37
  And I'm ready for a period
• 31:42
  of time where we don't have that dynasty,
• 31:45
  where it is totally up for
• 31:47
  grabs and anybody could win.
• 31:53
  Aaron says, yes, MJ and the Bulls,
• 31:55
  Brady and the Patriots were
• 31:56
  great for sports.
• 31:57
  I think they are for a
• 31:58
  limited amount of time.
• 32:01
  Um, but man,
• 32:03
  when the run goes way too long, I just,
• 32:05
  I really get frustrated with it.
• 32:07
  And that's me personally.
• 32:08
  Like I, even in Brady's like year run,
• 32:14
  there were moments where he did not win.
• 32:19
  And MJ took two years off
• 32:20
  where it did open up and it
• 32:21
  wasn't going to be the Bulls.
• 32:23
  And it wasn't the Bulls
• 32:24
  during those two years.
• 32:26
  Then he came back and said, nope,
• 32:27
  I'm still the most dominant
• 32:28
  player in the world.
• 32:30
  Won three more titles and
• 32:32
  then rode off to Washington
• 32:35
  to totally end his career
• 32:39
  on a bad note that
• 32:41
  hopefully most people don't remember.
• 32:45
  Halpin says,
• 32:46
  already gave her red carpet
• 32:48
  with her biggest touring
• 32:49
  competition qualified.
• 32:51
  Tia could take fourth at
• 32:52
  touring and qualify.
• 32:53
  I think she will still take
• 32:56
  first regardless.
• 32:56
  Yeah, if she's in the field,
• 32:59
  she's going to do well.
• 33:01
  And it's like the Tiger-MJ effect where...
• 33:07
  when they're in the field
• 33:08
  the intimidation alone
• 33:10
  makes other people push and
• 33:12
  press and make mistakes um
• 33:15
  so it's more than just
• 33:17
  beating them it's
• 33:17
  overcoming the mental thing
• 33:19
  of that they're going to be
• 33:21
  great and you that forces
• 33:22
  you to be great as well and
• 33:24
  sometimes then you push
• 33:25
  outside of what your
• 33:27
  capability is and you make
• 33:29
  horrible horrible mistakes
• 33:33
  and I think that's what would happen
• 33:35
  with Tia in Australia, in Etatorian,
• 33:39
  because, yeah,
• 33:40
  she hasn't been training
• 33:41
  CrossFit as much.
• 33:42
  She's doing more High Rocks training,
• 33:44
  but she's still going to be intimidating.
• 33:46
  One,
• 33:48
  she owns the camp that most of those
• 33:52
  athletes belong to,
• 33:54
  so it's kind of like she's their boss,
• 33:57
  and she is who she is,
• 34:00
  and her reputation will
• 34:02
  force other people to make mistakes.
• 34:10
  And Aaron says she's going
• 34:11
  to Torian to win.
• 34:12
  I agree.
• 34:14
  I think she wants to go out
• 34:15
  on top if she is retiring after this,
• 34:18
  which she has not clarified
• 34:21
  after people questioned the
• 34:23
  word usage she did in her
• 34:24
  video and in the podcast.
• 34:27
  But if this is her final hurrah,
• 34:31
  I think she wants to go out on top.
• 34:33
  She doesn't want to go out
• 34:34
  in fourth place.
• 34:40
  help and says I don't care I
• 34:42
  don't I don't see any
• 34:43
  scenario where she
• 34:44
  qualifies and doesn't go to
• 34:45
  the games regardless of her
• 34:46
  clickbait videos yeah
• 34:49
  that's what I'm afraid of I
• 34:50
  think that if she qualifies
• 34:54
  she will then go do the
• 34:55
  high rocks world
• 34:55
  championships and then
• 34:57
  she'll take the next six
• 34:58
  weeks to train for the
• 35:00
  games and compete at the crossfit games
• 35:08
  She is trolling retirement again.
• 35:10
  I think that's what the
• 35:11
  consensus is in the space
• 35:13
  is she used such bizarre
• 35:16
  word salads in her two
• 35:19
  efforts to announce some
• 35:20
  kind of retirement,
• 35:22
  but never really said
• 35:24
  retire and never really
• 35:26
  said that she wouldn't be
• 35:27
  going to the games.
• 35:31
  So I agree.
• 35:33
  I think she's trolling us all.
• 35:38
  Well,
• 35:38
  I'm going to end on a light note
• 35:40
  because I didn't know how
• 35:41
  much we would have.
• 35:42
  And then a couple of things popped off,
• 35:44
  but I haven't done a top five in a while.
• 35:47
  So I'm going to do top five
• 35:49
  and I'll make it quick.
• 35:51
  There are times when I get
• 35:53
  such a craving for cereal,
• 35:55
  just cereal and milk.
• 35:56
  I just love it sometimes.
• 36:01
  And I might not eat a bowl
• 36:03
  of cereal for nine months or ten months,
• 36:05
  and then all of a sudden,
• 36:06
  that's all I want to eat is cereal.
• 36:09
  And so I have my top five
• 36:12
  cereals of all time.
• 36:15
  Take it or leave it, this is what it is.
• 36:18
  My first cereal is an honorable mention,
• 36:21
  and it's only because it
• 36:22
  has one fatal flaw.
• 36:24
  And my honorable mention is
• 36:27
  Fruity Pebbles.
• 36:29
  I love Fruity Pebbles,
• 36:31
  but the fatal flaw is that
• 36:33
  it gets soggy in milk way too fast.
• 36:36
  So you have to play a game
• 36:38
  where you kind of keep the
• 36:39
  milk away from it and then
• 36:41
  just dip it to get the milk
• 36:42
  when you do it.
• 36:44
  And so it's a tough game to play,
• 36:50
  but I love Fruity Pebbles
• 36:52
  if I can play that game well.
• 36:56
  My number five is Peanut Butter Chex.
• 36:59
  It's a new one to the game.
• 37:02
  You know, growing up,
• 37:02
  we had wheat checks and
• 37:03
  rice checks and corn checks.
• 37:05
  Well,
• 37:05
  peanut butter checks is freaking awesome.
• 37:08
  Put a peanut butter on
• 37:09
  cereal and you've got me hooked.
• 37:14
  Number four for me is Frosted Flakes,
• 37:16
  the good old Tony the Tiger.
• 37:18
  They're great.
• 37:19
  If I just want to straight
• 37:21
  down the fairway, great cereal,
• 37:23
  Frosted Flakes are a winner.
• 37:27
  Um,
• 37:27
  number three for me is frosted mini
• 37:29
  wheats.
• 37:30
  Um,
• 37:30
  they sometimes rough up the roof on my
• 37:32
  mouth, but I really enjoy it.
• 37:34
  And those ones you have to soak in milk.
• 37:36
  You got to get them just a
• 37:37
  little bit away from the
• 37:38
  crispy side and get it a
• 37:39
  little bit soggy.
• 37:41
  So those need to soak a little bit, um,
• 37:44
  in the milk to get a really good, uh,
• 37:47
  frosted mini wheat.
• 37:49
  If you leave them too hard,
• 37:50
  you're going to have cuts
• 37:52
  in the roof of your mouth
• 37:53
  and all that kind of stuff.
• 37:55
  But it's a good tasting cereal.
• 37:56
  You just have to play with
• 37:57
  the milk in a good way.
• 38:00
  My number two cereal is Cinnamon Life.
• 38:03
  Cinnamon Life is...
• 38:06
  so good so good I've loved
• 38:08
  that since I was a child it
• 38:10
  is my mom would keep life
• 38:13
  and cinnamon life in the
• 38:14
  cupboard all the time that
• 38:15
  was just a staple in our
• 38:17
  house growing up um and so
• 38:20
  sim in life at number two
• 38:22
  and the number one cereal
• 38:24
  of all time and I've seen
• 38:26
  semi references to it but
• 38:28
  my favorite cereal of all
• 38:29
  time is peanut butter crunch
• 38:32
  The Captain Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch,
• 38:36
  number one cereal of all time.
• 38:38
  It's good crispy.
• 38:39
  It's good soggy.
• 38:40
  It always holds up,
• 38:42
  and it is a consistent flavor forever.
• 38:45
  And since I was a kid,
• 38:47
  it's the same flavor as it is today.
• 38:50
  And I'll explain why I say
• 38:51
  that because of some of the
• 38:52
  comments in the chat.
• 38:54
  But number one, Peanut Butter Crunch.
• 38:57
  So back to my top five,
• 38:58
  number five is peanut
• 38:59
  butter checks for frosted flakes,
• 39:02
  three frosted mini wheats
• 39:03
  to cinnamon life.
• 39:05
  And number one is peanut butter crunch.
• 39:09
  Now train to live comes in
• 39:11
  with cinnamon toast crunch
• 39:13
  that used to be in my top five,
• 39:15
  but something changed in
• 39:16
  the formula of how they make it,
• 39:18
  that it is not as good
• 39:19
  today as it used to be.
• 39:21
  And I don't know what they did.
• 39:23
  Um,
• 39:25
  I don't know what they did
• 39:26
  but it is not as good as it
• 39:28
  used to be it has like a
• 39:29
  film to it now that it
• 39:30
  didn't ever have in the
• 39:32
  past so uh jay birch my
• 39:37
  grandparents ate shredded
• 39:38
  wheat every night for
• 39:39
  supper yeah I gotta do the
• 39:41
  frosted shredded wheat
• 39:42
  because it or frosted mini
• 39:44
  wheats shredded wheat alone no sorry uh
• 39:53
  trained to live a captain crunch.
• 39:55
  I do love a good captain crunch,
• 39:56
  but it's not something I
• 39:57
  can do like consistently.
• 39:59
  And I did see someone say like, um,
• 40:02
  it rips you.
• 40:03
  It's Meredith.
• 40:04
  Captain crunch literally
• 40:05
  damages the roof of my mouth,
• 40:06
  but I love it anyways.
• 40:08
  Yeah, it does.
• 40:11
  It does rip you up.
• 40:11
  She also says frosted flakes is a classic.
• 40:15
  Um,
• 40:18
  Trying to live the true test
• 40:19
  of a cereal lover is do you
• 40:20
  ever mix cereals?
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  I do actually,
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  I love captain crunch and
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  peanut butter crunch mixed together.
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  That's really good.
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  Um,
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  and sometimes I do peanut butter crunch
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  and cinnamon life.
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  That's a good one mixed together.
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  That's number one and number
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  two on my list mixed
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  together makes a good, good cereal.
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  Uh, cinnamon toast crunch,
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  probably less chemicals.
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  Yeah.
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  Probably less.
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  Now you get the film that
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  you didn't used to get back in the day.
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  Uh, Jay Birch,
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  many hay bales is what I
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  called many wheats.
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  Yeah.
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  That's a good ref.
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  That's a good call.
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  Uh, still, still a good cereal.
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  Um, especially.
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  Yeah.
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  If you get the ones that aren't frosted,
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  it is totally hay bales.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Trying to live, yes, the mixing.
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  I also hate to admit I like Raisin Bran.
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  I like Raisin Bran too.
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  I just have to be in the mood for it.
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  It's like raisins.
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  There are days I could eat a
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  box of raisins, no problem at all.
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  And other days, nah,
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  it just doesn't sound good.
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  But I have to be in the right mood for it.
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  But I like a good Raisin Bran, of course.
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  so funny when seinfeld first
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  came out and all jerry had
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  in his kitchen was cereal I
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  was like man that's that's
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  the life I want to live
• 41:45
  right there man be an adult
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  and just to eat cereal all the time
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  And again, I don't do it very often,
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  but I get these cravings
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  where I just have to have some cereal.
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  And I just do it occasionally.
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  So I thought I'd throw that out there,
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  see if there's any feedback.
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  Usually when you talk about
• 42:04
  things like this or candy
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  bars or stuff like it,
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  people are very adamant
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  about what their favorites are.
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  My wife is a Special K nut.
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  She gets it with the berries.
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  Special K with strawberries
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  or Special K with whatever.
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  And she'll eat that all the time.
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  I think that the flake is
• 42:30
  weird in Special K. It's
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  like puffy or something in it.
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  I don't know.
• 42:37
  I have a hard time with that one.
• 42:41
  anyway um that's really all
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  I have today we hit the hot
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  topics we hit some cereal
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  stuff and uh had a little
• 42:50
  fun at the end but again no
• 42:54
  events this weekend the
• 42:55
  only thing really going on
• 42:56
  is the united grid league
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  If you're a fan of John
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  Young or Kelsey Keel or Griffin Rowley,
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  they're all competing this
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  weekend in Miami.
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  And they're going to show
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  their stuff on United Grid
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  League Channel.
• 43:14
  That will be on Saturday.
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  And the matches just happen.
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  One match goes, it ends,
• 43:22
  the next match starts,
• 43:23
  the next match starts,
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  and all eight teams are in
• 43:26
  one place to do that.
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  that's going on this weekend
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  and other than that it's uh
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  it's a dead weekend and
• 43:34
  then we hit four uh
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  qualifying events the
• 43:37
  weekend after that which
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  includes syndicate crown um
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  and torian and all of that
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  uh andrew stenn we have the
• 43:48
  indy five hundred in the
• 43:49
  monica monaco f-one race is
• 43:52
  way better to watch um
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  barry mccauchner yes we did
• 43:57
  talk about gazan right off the top
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  Um, which I hope is just a big old,
• 44:03
  nothing because I don't know, most, uh,
• 44:10
  most pro sports have removed, uh,
• 44:13
  cannabis and cannabis cannonoids,
• 44:16
  whatever they call that, uh,
• 44:17
  off of their band substance list.
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  I think it's silly that it's
• 44:21
  still on the list for here.
• 44:22
  It's not a performance enhancing drug.
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  Um, so we talked about it off the top.
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  I'm hoping it's a big nothing.
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  With that, I think that's it, guys.
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  I guess I got to get back to work.
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  I got one minute to get back to work.
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  Got to run up the stairs.
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  It's time for you
• 44:42
  knuckleheads to get back to work as well.
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  We'll see everybody tomorrow
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  on lunch with Clydesdale.
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  Bye, guys.