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Lunch with the Clydesdale & Cowboy - Thursday Show - Radical CrossFit Games Solution! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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All right, everybody, it's a Thursday.
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Corey got my mouth watering so bad with
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some food talk before this show.
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Hopefully I can make it through.
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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 family.
1:04
It's lunch time.
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You have not accidentally muted yourself
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in quite some time.
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That was good.
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I didn't even hit the mute button, dude.
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Like StreamYard did that to me this time.
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StreamYard was like, shh,
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just let it happen.
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Man, lost all my momentum.
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I feel like it was just like a-
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It's a false start, dude.
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A four point five lunchtime today.
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The false starts are the worst.
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False starts are the worst.
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Like all into it and whatnot and you
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got to back up and do it again.
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Because it's like that Jim Carrey thing.
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Like I got to-
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before i get that lunch toy going right
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and then you like throw it out there
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and it's not the mic is muted and
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now i got now i'm doing it on
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half the air you gotta bring it up
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from the diaphragm big oh man it actually
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is taco thursday oh my gosh joseph was
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listening to our conversation before the
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show i didn't even know he had access
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i mean
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yes that's exactly actually what we're
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talking about my boy gonzo go give him
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a follow on instagram uh gonzo's barbecue
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it is i say don't give him a
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follow because you're just gonna eat your
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mouth watering and there's no way you can
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get there anyway he just posted a picture
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of all the stuff that they're they're
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tacos that they're rolling out today and
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it's absolutely insane oh but yeah it
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actually i'll go thursday
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were talking about beef cheek and uh how
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much corey loves it and the gluttony that
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he has done to himself in eating it
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i've never had a beef cheek bro you
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gotta come down here i've had a lot
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i've had a lot of different meats right
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i've had moose i've had elk i've had
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bear i've had all that stuff but i've
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never ever had a beef cheek
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which is insane because it's part of the
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cow.
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And I know you've had all the,
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all the parts of cow.
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Oh yeah.
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I'm like three quarter cow.
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Yeah.
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A hundred percent.
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I am too.
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But yeah, I was telling Scott,
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Gonzo sent me a sampler bladder one day
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with very strict instructions on how to
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warm everything up because it was all not
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Ziploc, but you know, vacuum sealed,
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vacuum sealed.
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Thank you.
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And then one of the things he sent
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was two beef cheeks,
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and I ate an entire beef cheek,
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and then I was completely ruined for the
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rest of the afternoon.
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I couldn't move up off the couch,
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just like basically a meat coma,
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which I don't know if you've ever
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experienced before, but it's a great,
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horrible thing to have.
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It was great in the moment,
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and then the rest of the afternoon was
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just me laying on the couch watching TV,
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hoping that I would feel good enough to
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move again sooner rather than later.
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Daniel Arnson, good to see you back,
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coaching in a new gym.
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I've been absent from the lives,
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but excited to make it today.
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Congratulations on the new gym.
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Yes, sir.
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I see later in the comments you say
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it's a wonderful place.
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I love when you get OG gyms.
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Yeah.
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OG gyms are the best gyms.
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Joy Perez.
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Meat sweats.
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Dude, it was terrible.
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I've had those.
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Yeah, a hundred percent.
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I haven't had a beef cheek,
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but I've had, I've had meat sweats.
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I've been to,
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we have a Brazilian steakhouse, you know,
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they bring you all the big.
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The saber full of luscious meat.
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two years ago texas day brazil it was
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two years ago and how long since we've
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been uh from my jennifer brought me for
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my birthday golly man i'll hurt myself
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like i will legitimately it's a twenty
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minute drive back to the house a minute
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drive to back back to the house maybe
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thirty minute drive back to house and the
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whole time i'm like fighting to stay awake
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that's how we get home oh man
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yeah i i really enjoy those but we
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actually just got one five minutes from
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the house it's expensive dude but god man
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it is i mean it's not something you
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do every week by any stretch of
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imagination but every now and again sure i
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would one thousand percent take it uh
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luscious was too far
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Have you been to a Brazilian steakhouse?
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Because the meat is luscious.
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The meat is luscious, Joey.
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I'm telling you, you're missing out,
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brother.
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You need to go catch one.
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First pocket jerky and now meat sweats.
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I almost went with pouch jerky today
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because I'm wearing a hoodie and I was
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going to slide the jerky into the pouch
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because that would be easier access than
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down into the pocket.
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Fair point.
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And I'm,
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my keys aren't in the way that way,
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as you pointed out yesterday.
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Reach it from my pocket jerky.
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Oh, I gotta get around my car keys.
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Hold on.
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Uh,
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my dog just stares at me when I
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dance to the opening.
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Yeah.
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Corey and I stare into each other's eyes.
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I say my dog, his name is Scott.
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We stare at each other at the same
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point.
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A lot of that going on.
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It's fantastic.
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If you all want meat sweats,
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go to the Fresh Coast Games in Muskegon
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and go to the deck.
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Jamie knows.
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Bend to the deck, Daniel Arnson.
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Good place, I'm assuming.
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It is very good.
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It's right on Lake Michigan.
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I ate on the rooftop thing, deck, bar,
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whatever it is.
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And you're overlooking Lake Michigan as
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you're chowing down.
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But it...
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standing out in the sun all day on
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the beach because the competition is held
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on the beach like not near the beach
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like literally you have to slog through
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the sand for everything and uh and it's
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a it's you need a cold beverage after
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anyway and so that's the perfect place to
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go
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I'm glad you clarified when you said on
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the roof.
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They didn't just make you climb a ladder.
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Look here, sir.
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Your table is going to be up there.
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There's not actually going to be a table.
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You're just going to have to sit on
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the edge of the roof and eat.
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We'll throw you your food whenever it's
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ready.
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Slide that jerky into the pouch for easier
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access.
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Clip it.
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uh pouch jerky uh like i said the
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other day this group needs therapy we are
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the therapy vicky thank you you said it
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before we are the thing this group is
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therapy uh we took our son to fogo
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brazilian steakhouse fogo de chow uh after
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wrestling season was over almost annually
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yeah it's it's really good well fogo de
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chow we got a texas day brazil and
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that place is fantastic
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tomato tomato oh yeah absolutely the
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little bread balls with the cheese inside
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and then the lobster bisque and like the
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various things that are on the salad bar
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that i tried to ignore but it gets
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really hard to because i just want i'm
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there for meat um there isn't a therapy
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strong enough for this group we are the
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therapy meg i say speak for yourself megan
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So I got some weird news yesterday.
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I love weird news.
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What do I love more than CrossFit?
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I love the Chicago Bears.
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The Chicago Bears, yeah.
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They're getting their own Hallmark special
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this year.
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Get out.
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Not kidding, man.
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They are doing a holiday Christmas special
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with the Bears.
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I cannot wait,
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and I'm going to admit it.
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Are they going to make it a double
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release with the Super Bowl shuffle and
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put that out at the same time?
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Like re-release the Super Bowl shuffle and
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put that out at the same time?
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I hope they incorporate the Super Bowl
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shuffle into the holiday special.
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If they do that, man,
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like I may just pass out.
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And I'll really lose my mind if Lacey
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Chabert is the star of it.
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I'm pretty sure if it's on the Hallmark
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Channel,
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she has to be the star of it.
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It's so funny.
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My mom and I do this joke.
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I always say, hey, is that Lacey Chabert?
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Is that Lacey Chabert?
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She's from Louisiana.
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You know that, right?
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I just know she's from Party of Five.
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Yeah, well, she's from Louisiana.
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Chabert.
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Yeah.
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That's funny, though.
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That was a strong female cast back in
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the day.
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Oh, yeah.
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Lacey Chabert.
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um jennifer love hewitt and the best one
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of them all um oh oh you you
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you already said the best one of them
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all you said jennifer love you and done
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see i like the other one um oh
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shoot she was in the rock movie st
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andreas
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Oh.
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She was the wife.
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Yes.
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I stand corrected.
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That is the best one.
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Neve Campbell.
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Neve Campbell.
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Neve Campbell.
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Thank you, Andrew Sten.
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Neve Campbell.
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Thank you, Andrew Sten.
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Yep.
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Strong female cast back in the day.
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Yep.
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Candice from Full House.
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Yes.
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Candice Cameron.
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Yes.
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I'm not as big a fan of hers
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as I am of Lacey Chabert.
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So if you want to see one of
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twenty seven movies starring Lacey
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Chabert,
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all you need to do is turn on
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the Hallmark Channel at any given time of
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the day.
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You know,
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she's just like she's sleeping on money.
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Is she like is she?
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She's in all the Hallmark movies, dude.
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They came to her one day and they're
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like, hey.
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do you want to make every movie?
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You want to be the female lead in
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every movie we make for the next fifteen
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years?
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And she's like, sure.
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And we'll pay you all the dollars.
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We'll give you so many dollars.
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We'll give you a stake in the company.
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You can direct some of them if you'd
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like.
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We don't care.
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We just need you.
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Yeah.
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Bet you never thought we'd be talking
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about Hallmark movies on this channel
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today.
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I can pretty much promise you I did
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not.
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This was not on my bingo card for
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today.
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So did you see the Lydia Fish interview
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with Dave?
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Negative.
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Or the clip that CrossFit Network or CF
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Network put out,
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where Lydia asked Dave how much history is
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involved with this year's games.
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I caught a part of that,
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but it's been a hectic morning and day,
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so no, I did not.
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And he basically said everything.
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There are going to be straight repeats.
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There are going to be things that look
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familiar.
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There are going to be elements and fan
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favorites that are pulled.
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Things that are influencing what they do
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today.
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Pretty much everything.
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Softball throw.
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Yep.
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I'm going to ride that train until the
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games is actually over.
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They're going to be on.
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All right.
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And get ready for event twenty.
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I'm going to be sitting at home going
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softball through softball through.
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Actually, I won't be at home.
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I'll be at monster games.
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But whatever.
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Same thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So that was that was kind of breaking
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news.
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OK.
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I guess I think we all thought.
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So let me.
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Yeah.
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Train says,
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let's switch that to a football throw.
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Football throw.
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Tyson Bajan's coming in for the games.
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Let's make it a football throw.
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We swapped it up.
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We swapped it up.
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Tyson Bajan introducing the football
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throw, event eleven.
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He will throw the ball.
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If any athlete can beat him,
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they get a hundred points.
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Closest to beating him without going over.
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They'll do it price-wise, though.
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Yeah,
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because ain't nobody throwing as far as
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he's going to throw.
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No.
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So I'm going to go out of order
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what I have here.
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So with that,
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do you think this is Dave's last year?
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No.
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I do like the fact that he's like
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talking it up and like making people think
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that, you know,
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because as soon as somebody asked him, oh,
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you know, who do you think you put?
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Boz.
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He just throws that out there,
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which to be fair,
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Boz already did it once.
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he's had a lot of say in a
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lot of the programming he's programmed for
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the teams he's programmed for the like
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he's done a whole lot of it and
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he would be the natural uh the natural
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next choice i just don't see without
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somebody actually telling dave to get bent
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and hit the road jack i don't see
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him actually just okay i'm just not doing
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this anymore
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So he has said in the past open
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to being wrong.
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He has said in the past that his
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original plan was to go for twenty and
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then hang it up.
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Okay.
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Well, here we are.
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However, he's only done nineteen.
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I know.
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I know.
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But it just we have a new CEO
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who wants to change focus.
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He wants to to get more laser focused,
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get back to an educational company and a
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media company.
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maybe he wants Dave in another spot.
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I mean, Dave's already in,
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like his title is not just games director.
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He's also in education.
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He's also in something else.
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I saw it the other day.
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He's got like three things in his title.
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So maybe he does.
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And maybe Bruce thinks he'd be better
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utilized somewhere else.
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If that's the case, then cool.
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I'm all for that.
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Again, so long as it's in good hands.
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And I think we would be in good
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hands with Boz.
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I enjoyed Boz's games.
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Yeah, he actually said also in,
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was it the Alex Kazan video,
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that Boz is pretty much coming up with
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the format of the hopper.
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There you go.
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He's in charge of that.
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Boz took a sandbag to shoulder and made
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it one of the most compelling events,
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exciting to watch events at the games I've
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ever seen.
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I was just fighting with a sandbag to
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get it to their shoulder.
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I think that may have been the biggest
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shift in attitude for an event from paper
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to reality that we've ever had in the
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CrossFit Games.
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Absolutely.
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Because everybody was dogging.
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You're talking a sandbag clean for the
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strength event?
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And then when they brought out the big
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one, he said, bring it out.
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And they rolled out that,
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I forget how much it was, a lot.
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I know that it was heavy.
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That was amazing in and of itself.
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And what people miss about that is,
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The tiebreaker was just as exciting as the
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event.
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The throwing of three different size
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sandbags over the yoke.
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And which one are you going to pick
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first?
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Are you going to go with the heavy
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one first down to light?
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You can go with light down to heavy.
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was compelling to watch the entire thing
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what i watched it from the minute it
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started until the minute it finished
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everybody was covered in chalk all their
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shirts and whatnot to try to get some
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grip um in all my time in madison
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that is the loudest the arena ever got
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in madison was who was it was it
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um
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Was it Fikowski or was it Cole Sager
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that like fought with it for like some
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like thirty five,
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forty seconds or something like that?
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Just trying to like get in it from
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all the way up to his lap and
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trying to, you know,
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you remember what I talk about?
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I don't know who it was,
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but I don't remember either.
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I think Brent,
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it was Fikowski and just kept because he
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had a long way to pull that up
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to the clean.
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Yeah, and just was... And then finally,
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that was amazing.
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Yeah.
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And he was one of those tall guys.
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The tiebreaker was sick.
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Tiebreaker was sick.
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Tessa thinks Dave's out.
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He might be.
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Amanda says,
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sometimes it's better to go out on a
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high as well.
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Hey.
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What is it?
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Live fast, die young?
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Live pretty cool?
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Mm-hmm.
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Go out on a high, dude.
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Like, I mean...
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If this game ends up being his magnum
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opus, right,
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where it's like the best thing he's ever
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done and it's compelling and all that
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other good stuff.
18:35
Dude's bringing Latin to the conversation
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now.
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I don't know what to do.
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I just think I'm a dumbass coonass.
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I mean, I am.
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But if it ends up being his ultimate
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masterpiece and people are saying it might
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be just from the amount of events and
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the things that he's promising and the
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things that
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Davis rarely over-promised and
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under-delivered.
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Rarely.
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It's happened.
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It hasn't happened,
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but it's rarely that it's been that he's
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said, hey,
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this is going to be effing cool,
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and it wasn't.
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So if this is his big, you know,
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farewell or whatnot, it's not farewell.
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I mean,
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he's going to be two offices down for
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all intents and purposes.
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Good.
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You know, awesome.
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And then we'll go into the Boz era.
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Mark Phillips says the timing is right for
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him to step back or out.
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At the beginning of the season,
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I would have told you absolutely not.
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The more I listen to him with the
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athletes,
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the more I have a slight lean to
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this is it.
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Yeah.
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I'm not fully committed to this is it,
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but I'm not a slight lean to this
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is it.
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I'm not either.
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Um,
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Maybe it is.
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Maybe it's not.
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I do not like making those kind of
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predictions because I'm never right.
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Like I am batting a thousand on never
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nailing it down.
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So much the better.
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If it is and he goes out with
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a bang, awesome.
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And if not and we get him again
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next year, cool.
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Even better.
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It would be a big bang way to
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go out and let Boz build his own
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legacy from a quieter start.
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Yeah.
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so i'm going to preface this next part
20:31
with third c had me sleeping so well
20:37
in these last few weeks that every night
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i wake up at two a.m to pee
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because i'm old right and i wake up
20:46
with these epiphanies because the sleep
20:49
i'm getting is so deep from third c
20:53
Now,
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I'm not claiming everybody's going to have
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epiphanies just because they're doing
20:57
Thursday, but I am.
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Man,
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if only there was a discount code you
21:01
could use for Thursday.
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That would get you like jazzy percent off
21:07
jazzy, fifteen percent off, man.
21:10
And or you can go to Thursday dot
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com backslash jazzy and automatically get
21:15
the fifteen percent applied.
21:17
That is amazing.
21:18
What a coincidence.
21:21
The trouble with this epiphany is I'm
21:23
sleeping so deep I wake up with an
21:25
epiphany.
21:26
I ain't lying.
21:27
This is not like for commercial.
21:29
This is true.
21:31
Wake up.
21:32
I have the epiphany.
21:34
I try not to open my eyes.
21:36
I try to go to the bathroom and
21:37
back without opening my eyes because I
21:40
want to go right back to that deep
21:41
sleep.
21:42
Sure.
21:43
But if I've had the epiphany and I
21:44
go right back to the deep sleep,
21:46
it's gone.
21:49
So,
21:51
last night had the epiphany of how to
21:54
fix the CrossFit Games.
21:57
Did you write it down?
21:59
Grab my phone, open up notes,
22:01
a couple little things just to remind me
22:05
of what I had come up with in
22:08
my sleep.
22:09
Sure.
22:10
Using Thirdsy.
22:12
And then Julie go,
22:13
what the hell are you doing?
22:17
Went to bed, woke up, opened up notes.
22:19
Hey, I remember it all.
22:23
Now,
22:24
this fix of the CrossFit Games is radical.
22:30
Ladies and gentlemen, it is radical.
22:33
Radical.
22:35
Now,
22:37
I want this twentieth year to be awesome
22:40
and grandiose and big and do all the
22:43
stuff, right?
22:44
Sure.
22:46
so this is for the first crossfit games
22:49
and beyond what are some of the pitfalls
22:53
of the current games the season itself i'm
22:57
i'm saying the the games right now i'm
23:00
just talking about the games okay it is
23:03
a full weekend yep it is full days
23:06
of the entire weekend sure and it's a
23:11
lot of time to commit
23:13
in the middle of summer to watching the
23:15
CrossFit Games.
23:18
Especially when it starts on a Wednesday.
23:22
So,
23:23
and you might have it in a cool
23:25
place like San Jose.
23:27
And hey,
23:28
I want to go to San Jose.
23:29
I don't go to California,
23:31
but once in my life,
23:32
maybe I want to go see the Golden
23:34
Gate Bridge,
23:34
but I can't leave the venue if I
23:36
want to see all the games.
23:39
Right?
23:40
Sure.
23:41
So here we go.
23:44
People aren't going to like this,
23:45
but it would work.
23:48
Keep an open mind, folks.
23:50
Only ten people make the games.
23:56
Ten men, ten women.
23:59
Let's think about this.
24:00
Every other championship, the Olympics,
24:04
what do they show on NBC at night
24:07
for the Olympics?
24:09
Yeah.
24:10
One heat.
24:11
One heat for the Olympic champion.
24:18
When we go to the championships of
24:20
CrossFit, it's three heats,
24:24
which makes it super, super long.
24:31
Now, so now you condense the viewing time,
24:36
and most events would be less than a
24:38
half an hour.
24:41
So you could put the half-hour broadcasts
24:44
up on YouTube or whatever.
24:48
Maybe ESPN wants half-hour things now,
24:50
right?
24:52
Much easier to digest,
24:54
much easier to grab and watch,
24:56
much easier to sell to other companies to
24:59
use to fill the time.
25:06
And yes, Judy Reed, like the finals.
25:08
This is the finals of the season.
25:10
The best of the best make it to
25:12
the CrossFit Games.
25:18
But we now have to actually have a
25:20
season that makes sense to get us there.
25:23
I was about to say that.
25:26
Right?
25:28
The season has to be done in a
25:29
way where you funnel it down to those
25:32
ten athletes that go to the games.
25:35
I'm about to say that that was my
25:39
initial thought.
25:40
As soon as you said that,
25:41
is that you're going to have to...
25:45
The route to get to that top ten
25:47
has got to be a lot better.
25:49
A lot better.
25:50
Mark Phillips says,
25:51
the Dark Horse story has shrunken quite a
25:53
bit.
25:53
You think?
25:54
Because last time I checked...
25:56
The College March Madness starts with
25:59
sixty eight teams.
26:02
Sixty four.
26:04
The championship game is played with two.
26:07
And along that path,
26:09
there are tons of dark horses that emerge.
26:19
You need to make it a viewable,
26:21
watchable experience.
26:24
sitting through six heats of the same
26:26
event is hard.
26:32
How many of you open up YouTube and
26:35
fast forward to the final heat of every
26:37
event?
26:38
I don't, but I'm that dude.
26:42
I don't either, but I'm a nerd.
26:45
This isn't the games for Scott and Corey.
26:48
This is the games for more widespread
26:50
people.
26:58
I think it's the only way to make
27:00
the sport survive.
27:02
Now,
27:03
if you want to take this affiliate idea
27:07
and have a bunch of little live regionals
27:12
and hold competitions to get you to the
27:16
finals...
27:20
or you have the bunch of call it
27:22
quarterfinals at the affiliates,
27:25
and then you do do an online competition
27:28
for semifinals,
27:29
but only thirty people make it.
27:32
So now you can video review all thirty
27:35
videos of every event.
27:45
So your prize pool for the athletes is
27:47
now down some.
27:49
The prize pool is coming down anyway.
27:50
Where are they going to have the money
27:52
to pay out that much?
27:54
We have five sponsors at a semifinal.
27:57
Well,
27:58
if it's based on open registration and
28:00
then quarterfinals registration and
28:03
semifinals registration and all that good
28:05
stuff is going towards the prize pool for
28:07
the athletes and you're drastically
28:09
cutting that down.
28:11
Prize pool is just the open.
28:12
Okay.
28:15
That's what it is currently.
28:17
Okay.
28:17
No, good.
28:18
I didn't know.
28:20
I would have assumed it would have also
28:22
gone from quarterfinals and then from
28:24
semifinals.
28:27
If you look at the formula in the
28:28
rulebook,
28:29
it is fifty percent of the open
28:32
registrations go to fund the game's
28:35
payouts.
28:36
And that's that's not just the elite.
28:38
That's elite masters.
28:39
Yeah, that's what I did know.
28:42
uh this right here uh more phillips i
28:44
am with you though but every stage has
28:46
to be consumable not just the end
28:47
otherwise the story is lost yes which
28:50
we've been saying that anyway as far as
28:54
that part of it's concerned we've been
28:55
saying that anyway because it the story
28:58
gets lost especially when there's less on
29:01
the line because if you don't make it
29:03
here you can make it somewhere else i
29:07
don't fast forward i do laundry
29:10
same premise same premise i disagree with
29:17
this idea but we can fight it about
29:18
it via text before tomorrow's show like
29:21
five minutes before vicky thirty seconds
29:25
whatever same thing uh y'all need a live
29:30
call in number i would be dropping heavy
29:32
truth right now
29:33
Yeah, I switched out my mixer,
29:35
so I've got to figure out how to
29:36
hook up this phone.
29:37
We used to have one, Daniel,
29:40
when I had the Rodecaster.
29:42
I could Bluetooth my phone in.
29:44
It still saves in my phone.
29:50
I would argue that as far as the
29:52
door course is concerned,
29:53
is that now your door course is who's
29:55
probably going to actually make the top
29:57
ten.
29:58
Not necessarily who's going to win.
30:03
as far as that kind of stuff is
30:04
concerned.
30:04
So that instead of being it,
30:06
who's the door course of the games,
30:08
it's going to be the door course of
30:09
who's actually going to make it,
30:10
which is why the rest of the season
30:12
has to be more compelling to follow.
30:16
People simply do not care to watch
30:17
competitive fitness,
30:18
no matter what the format presentation.
30:20
Aside from the people who do.
30:22
That's a ridiculous statement of ours.
30:25
And last time I checked,
30:27
what is that show on Netflix that gets
30:30
the one hundred, the fittest one hundred,
30:31
the
30:32
Yeah.
30:33
I forget what it's called.
30:34
I mean,
30:34
they're expanding it to all these
30:36
different countries because so many people
30:38
are watching it.
30:39
Because it's in a consumable format.
30:43
I mean,
30:44
even the other shows that were like that,
30:45
the one that...
30:48
That Danny won and the one that...
30:51
What was those?
30:52
The thing that The Rock was involved in?
30:54
Where they competed against whoever?
30:57
Titan Games.
30:58
Yes, Titan Games.
31:00
That was fun to watch.
31:01
It was kind of silly,
31:03
but it was fun to watch.
31:04
A little over the top,
31:06
but it was fun to watch.
31:09
People who care about it care about it.
31:11
Everybody likes different things.
31:12
There's eight billion people on the
31:13
planet.
31:14
People are going to watch it.
31:15
People watch the games.
31:17
People who don't necessarily do
31:19
competitive fitness watch the games.
31:26
Elwin,
31:27
the type of content CrossFit put out with
31:28
Zlatan this week is more helpful than the
31:31
games, in my opinion.
31:31
More of that, please.
31:33
It may be more helpful.
31:36
but that's it's a different thing yeah
31:38
we're not hit that's not what we're trying
31:39
to say it's a different thing i don't
31:42
disagree with this i am so glad they
31:44
finally leaned into zlatan because he's a
31:47
he's lot if you know anything about soccer
31:51
like the dudes everywhere he's been on
31:54
every team he's competed and won at almost
31:56
every level um and he is all ego
32:00
it is fun to watch because he refers
32:03
to himself in the third person most of
32:04
the time
32:06
And he is an incredible player.
32:09
And the fact that he does CrossFit and
32:11
he said that's the only thing that he
32:12
suffers from.
32:15
And the fact that they finally leaned into
32:16
him because a lot of us, myself included,
32:19
have been tagging CrossFit saying, hey,
32:21
you should reach out to this dude.
32:23
So that's amazing for that.
32:31
I don't, again, I don't, Corey,
32:33
our passion for competitive fitness does
32:34
not traverse the masses.
32:36
If enough people watched it, it would,
32:38
we would not be looking for answers.
32:40
That's like saying,
32:42
if I make a pot of chili that
32:44
tastes like shit, but I like chili,
32:49
it doesn't traverse them.
32:50
No, I need to improve the chili.
32:52
Yeah.
32:56
It needs to be better.
32:58
It's always needed to be better.
33:00
Even when it was on ESPN,
33:01
it needed to be better.
33:03
It needs to be consumable.
33:05
And right now,
33:05
it's too big of a chunk.
33:08
It's too big of a time commitment for
33:10
a televised sport.
33:13
Well, it's on YouTube.
33:16
I watch F-One because it's a ninety-minute
33:19
commitment every couple weeks.
33:22
And then I'm done.
33:23
I move on with my day and my
33:25
weekend.
33:28
Yeah.
33:32
What Mark's saying right there.
33:34
That's why we want to change the format
33:35
to be consumable.
33:36
Someone who doesn't understand it should
33:38
be able to know what's going on and
33:40
get invested.
33:41
Yes.
33:44
You should be able to.
33:45
And look, I will say this.
33:46
The first time I can remember,
33:50
because it struck me because I was trying
33:51
to figure out what was going on.
33:54
when the games were on ESPN and it
33:56
had to have been like the snatch ladder,
34:00
like the speed snatch ladder or whatnot,
34:01
because I remember seeing it.
34:02
I was at a restaurant and it was
34:04
on the TV, right?
34:06
And I remember looking and going,
34:08
what in the hell are they doing?
34:10
Like trying to figure it out.
34:12
I just saw a bunch of barbells.
34:13
I had no idea what a snatch was
34:14
at the time and that kind of stuff.
34:16
But it looked cool.
34:19
It looked cool.
34:20
I had no idea what was going on.
34:22
And it's consumable.
34:24
And like an event like that only takes,
34:27
if you only had ten athletes,
34:29
like that speed ladder would be done in
34:32
five minutes and you could do some
34:34
explanation around it so that people
34:36
understood what was trying to be
34:38
accomplished.
34:41
Yeah.
34:41
Right?
34:42
Like it lends itself to,
34:44
like if I do tune into an F-one
34:46
race on a Sunday, right,
34:48
there is a two-hour pregame to that ninety
34:51
minutes I want to commit to.
34:55
explaining what the engine thing is like.
34:58
And that's not as far in as I
35:01
am, right?
35:02
So I can choose to watch that part
35:03
or not.
35:06
And I think it was Vicky that said,
35:09
what if you don't want chili?
35:10
Well,
35:10
then we're not here for you at all.
35:14
No.
35:14
There are people that don't like football,
35:16
but there's a billion people who do.
35:19
I have not watched a single minute of
35:21
the World Cup
35:24
but there are a shit ton of people
35:26
watching the world cup every day.
35:27
I'm one of them.
35:30
Right.
35:30
Like, and I don't,
35:35
I'm not mad at the world cup watchers.
35:37
Go do your thing.
35:38
Love your event.
35:39
A lot of people aren't going to watch
35:40
F one.
35:42
Doesn't take away from my enjoyment.
35:43
Yeah.
35:46
And I think what Craig's saying is what
35:48
we're trying to get across.
35:49
People watch all the type of activities
35:51
and sports on TV, poker, bowling,
35:54
et cetera.
35:55
And if it's done,
35:56
if it's viewable and watchable,
35:58
it's entertaining.
35:59
I will accidentally get caught up watching
36:01
people play poker,
36:03
which is batshit crazy because I have no
36:07
stake in the game.
36:08
I do not care who wins.
36:11
It's poker.
36:11
They're sitting there playing poker.
36:15
And I will watch that.
36:16
I have watched, dude, curling?
36:18
Don't even get me started on curling,
36:19
Mark.
36:22
Every winter Olympics,
36:24
every winter Olympics,
36:26
me and the wife watch curling.
36:28
I've never done curling in my entire life.
36:30
I live in South Louisiana.
36:31
There's nothing frozen enough around here
36:33
for me to do curling on.
36:35
I watch curling every single year because
36:38
it's fun to watch.
36:40
It's silly.
36:41
I don't understand it.
36:42
The brooms, the sweeping, the whatever.
36:45
But I'll watch it.
36:46
Yep.
36:47
They make it viewable.
36:51
Make it eleven, Scott.
36:52
The eleventh person is the average
36:54
CrossFit athlete for scale.
36:55
Nobody wants to see me out there throwing
36:58
a ball with Caleb Williams.
37:00
I do.
37:03
I have been behind this idea for the
37:05
longest time.
37:06
I think they ought to do it at
37:07
the Olympics.
37:09
I think they ought to do it at
37:10
the CrossFit Games.
37:11
And look, at the CrossFit Games,
37:13
you could just pull somebody out of the
37:14
crowd, right?
37:16
Fittest crowd on earth.
37:17
Look up there, and there's Daniel Aronson.
37:20
Hey, come on down.
37:22
You're in lane eleven.
37:25
Let's go.
37:25
You got ten minutes to get warmed up.
37:28
I would love to see that.
37:30
i think that honestly for people that have
37:33
never seen it before and they just they
37:35
show you hey look we just pulled freaking
37:38
uh you know we just pulled sean out
37:41
of the out of the crowd he was
37:43
literally sitting up there five minutes
37:44
ago he's getting warmed up and he's going
37:46
to go against these guys so you can
37:48
understand how good these dudes actually
37:50
are that would be that would be compelling
37:54
to watch i kind of i'm with i'm
37:58
in the mark phillips camp
38:00
It breaks the illusion.
38:01
Right now, people watching go, hell,
38:03
I could do that.
38:04
We got a dude that just started at
38:05
the gym three months ago.
38:09
That's like right at,
38:11
he's right at thirty, something like that.
38:14
CrossFit Games, twenty, twenty-seven.
38:15
He already said he's going.
38:17
I mean, why not?
38:18
I mean, I could go.
38:19
He's like, hmm, can you?
38:21
Yeah, I do think that there is some
38:27
And that's what does drive people to the
38:29
affiliates.
38:30
If you're going to get that push at
38:32
all,
38:32
it's the fact that people think I'm going
38:36
to the twenty twenty eight CrossFit Games.
38:38
All I have to do is go to
38:39
an affiliate and start working out.
38:41
It's got I've been here three months.
38:43
My first butterfly pull up.
38:45
We had ten people that thought they were
38:47
going to the games.
38:49
Then I switched to CrossFit players,
38:51
watched Christy Aramo in one workout and
38:53
said, nope,
38:54
none of them are going to the CrossFit
38:55
Games.
38:56
If you've never actually worked out with
38:58
or anywhere near actual elite athletes,
39:01
it's an eye-opening experience.
39:05
I've had the privilege to do that several
39:07
different times.
39:08
And when I tell you there's levels to
39:09
it,
39:10
there are one hundred percent levels to
39:12
it.
39:16
Even if you only do one heat,
39:18
the games run three to five days with
39:20
events throughout each day.
39:20
Nobody can sit down and watch.
39:23
And very few coming back all day over
39:25
three to five days.
39:26
Avery, you are very negative.
39:30
My true belief on this is,
39:34
and the big plan,
39:37
is it shouldn't be live broadcast.
39:39
We're not there yet.
39:41
All of this should be done
39:44
And recorded by a Netflix or a Paramount
39:48
or whatever.
39:50
And released as half-hour episodes.
39:57
So now, if you've ever seen...
39:59
Hell of a lot of NDAs.
40:02
Yeah, if you've ever seen,
40:04
in which that's not done with NDAs,
40:06
but we were at the Bowling Alley last
40:09
year sometime,
40:10
and they had on one of the random
40:12
CBS sports stations,
40:15
and the Rogue Invitational was on.
40:18
they were showing different events from
40:19
the rogue invitation it wasn't live it had
40:21
already happened like i already knew most
40:22
of what was going on but it was
40:25
being rebroadcast on cbs i think it was
40:28
on cbs um and it was it was
40:31
cool like you got to see some of
40:33
the strongman stuff you got to see some
40:35
of the crossfit stuff whatnot they just
40:36
were showing like i said it was it
40:38
was a show about the rogue invitation
40:41
and they were just they were running
40:43
different you know showing different parts
40:44
from different events that was pretty cool
40:46
and that was all post-production stuff i
40:48
mean it definitely was not live because
40:50
it's not being broadcast on cbs but um
40:53
so rogue is broadcast on cbs i believe
40:58
like a simulcast like at the same time
41:00
but not like the main if not the
41:04
main affiliate like cbs new york or cbs
41:07
columbus yeah no this was on cbs whatever
41:10
I think part of it is broadcast on
41:13
like the CBS sports network.
41:15
Yeah.
41:16
Or like their web thing.
41:23
I think here's my problem of error right
41:25
now.
41:26
And listen,
41:27
I love comments and I love responding to
41:29
comments is I don't want to give up.
41:34
I don't want to give up yet.
41:36
I think there are things that have not
41:37
been tried yet.
41:40
So to just look at one iteration and
41:43
one attempt at what the CrossFit Games
41:46
could be and either it passes or fails
41:51
is not in my notebook.
41:53
My notebook is, okay, let's tweak this.
41:57
And there's been a shitload of tweaks over
41:59
the years, right?
42:01
But always with the same kind of general
42:04
format.
42:06
I think the only way to get it
42:07
to truly make sense is to do a
42:10
complete overhaul.
42:16
They've never seemed to try...
42:22
It's always different variations,
42:25
like you said, of the same format.
42:29
And so your F-one example actually makes a
42:32
lot of sense to me because...
42:34
they'll get on right it's it's uh you
42:39
know whoever's commentating it's it's bill
42:41
and or not bill chasing and adrian
42:44
whatever and that's the first two people
42:46
they show and hey welcome to the twenty
42:48
twenty six crossfit games blah blah blah
42:49
whatever and instead of just saying and
42:54
here's the first event and it's you know
42:56
twenty one fifteen nine blah blah whatever
43:00
If you're watching the F-One show,
43:01
they're talking about building the motor.
43:03
They're talking about what happened last
43:06
year or whatever else.
43:08
You get very little of that from the
43:10
broadcast.
43:10
You get very little of,
43:12
and if you don't know what a thruster
43:14
is, here we go.
43:16
You get none of that now.
43:18
You get none of that.
43:19
It's just, and it's because,
43:22
and I think it's because, anyway,
43:23
I'm not going to say it is or
43:24
it isn't,
43:24
but I'm going to say I think it's
43:25
because they know who they're broadcasting
43:27
to, and they're figuring,
43:29
like old girl said, it's just a thruster,
43:32
and you know what that is.
43:34
Instead of, hey,
43:37
dumb it down a little bit.
43:39
It'll be okay.
43:42
Give us more than what we're asking for.
43:44
here's what f-one does if i go to
43:46
apple tv i can watch the race live
43:49
after it's over it's sitting there
43:51
recorded i can watch it recorded and fast
43:53
forward rewind to whatever i want and then
43:56
they make a post edited cut down version
44:00
of the race
44:02
Like a highlight.
44:04
That's what I was watching.
44:05
That's what was on in the bowling alley
44:06
that day was, like I said,
44:09
it wasn't all the heat by any stretch
44:10
of the imagination.
44:12
They would play one or maybe two,
44:14
and then they'd go to commercial,
44:15
and they'd come back,
44:16
and then maybe you'd see a strongman event
44:18
or whatever.
44:21
Dan McCoy, it's just a thruster.
44:23
And you know what that is.
44:26
Yeah, I know what that is.
44:28
If I made the games next year and
44:30
my mom was watching the broadcast,
44:32
she has absolutely no idea what that is.
44:38
Period.
44:39
They should do a week-long think tank type
44:41
thing with people inside and outside of HQ
44:43
to brainstorm deeper than people throwing
44:46
darts at a wall.
44:48
Yeah.
44:49
Or listening to the vocal minority.
44:52
But...
44:55
Two things that are never going to happen.
44:57
Number one,
44:58
them not listening to the vocal minority
45:00
because that's been going on for a very
45:03
long time now.
45:04
Years upon years upon years.
45:06
The second thing that's never going to
45:08
happen is them asking for outside help and
45:11
then actually listening to the outside
45:13
help.
45:15
Also not going to happen.
45:18
We don't know what the new CEO is
45:19
going to do.
45:20
I was about to say,
45:21
maybe not at Bruises & George.
45:23
Maybe we'll get a little bit of that.
45:25
But historically, it hasn't happened.
45:32
And the reason this idea came to me,
45:35
other than my thirdsy,
45:36
was that the new CEO has already said
45:40
that the focus is going to be on
45:42
becoming a training and media company with
45:45
focus on the affiliates.
45:48
And so that means that we are going
45:53
to get a reduced version of what the
45:54
CrossFit Games are going forward,
45:57
in my opinion,
45:58
until it can prove that it is financially
46:01
sustainable.
46:02
Are you going to get an altered version
46:04
of it?
46:05
That's what I'm saying.
46:06
We already know we're going to get
46:08
something a little bit different.
46:11
Why not just completely overhaul it and
46:14
make it something that is consumable?
46:17
I was going to say,
46:18
we know we're going to get something
46:18
different because we've gotten something
46:20
different every year for the past twenty
46:23
years.
46:25
If there's one thing that they're really,
46:26
really good at,
46:28
it's doing something different every
46:30
single year.
46:31
Because the way to get to the games
46:32
last year is not the same way to
46:34
get to the games this year.
46:35
And it wasn't the year before that.
46:36
Those little tweaks just aren't going to
46:38
do it.
46:39
It's still the same thing.
46:43
And honestly, like, if you're...
46:50
I am deathly afraid that it's just going
46:53
to go away and shrivel up and die.
46:56
As a sport,
46:58
I think the gyms will stay around.
47:00
CrossFit as a methodology will be here for
47:03
a very long time.
47:06
But I think the sport,
47:08
as we know it,
47:10
is going to die anyway.
47:12
So why not go out swinging and try
47:14
something different?
47:17
I don't know.
47:17
We just got a new comp just appeared.
47:22
I know I'm talking local comps here,
47:23
not big stuff,
47:24
but the bigger comps still seem to be
47:28
going on.
47:29
The guys that are putting on those things,
47:31
the Jason Ansleys and the Micah Shoemakers
47:32
of the world and whatnot who are good
47:35
at what they do.
47:36
I'm talking the CrossFit Games season
47:38
funded by CrossFit HQ.
47:42
But what I'm saying is that if it
47:44
needs to switch and they need to do
47:46
stuff,
47:47
there are hands out there that are capable
47:49
of putting something together.
47:50
Does that make sense?
47:51
But you've screwed over those hands for a
47:53
couple years.
47:54
Okay.
47:57
Something's got to give at some point.
48:00
That's what I'm saying.
48:03
Something has to give.
48:09
I feel like it's a lot of questions
48:10
and not a whole lot of answers.
48:12
I hope we get some whenever.
48:17
I told you my answer was radical.
48:21
Radical.
48:23
It was way beyond anything else.
48:27
I just think that if you want this
48:29
to succeed,
48:30
and if you go to a small version
48:34
of it and it starts to gain popularity,
48:37
it's easier to grow that than have to
48:40
keep shrinking it over time.
48:44
How popular was the five-person games?
48:48
I think it was very popular.
48:52
but how popular was it actually well we
48:55
don't know because you couldn't go you
48:57
couldn't go watch it in person except for
48:59
people that showed up anyway you just you
49:05
just couldn't so that and that's the other
49:09
thing like life has happened over the last
49:12
six seven years
49:14
had a person die at the games we
49:16
had covid we've had things hit that were
49:21
factors that make any kind of linear
49:24
analysis impossible i would also argue
49:28
that just the constant shifting nature of
49:32
how to get to the games also plays
49:35
a role in not in making any kind
49:36
of litter because
49:39
Do the fittest people get there?
49:40
Eventually.
49:41
Sure.
49:42
Maybe.
49:43
But when the rules change every single
49:45
year on how to actually make it,
49:48
it's hard to make a comparison when you
49:49
go, well, this year, you know,
49:52
twenty nineteen is a great example.
49:53
Whenever Pat Veldo had was kind of sort
49:57
of knew how he got there,
49:59
but not really.
50:01
Maybe sort of I think I think I
50:03
qualified to the Open.
50:05
And then that changed the year after that,
50:07
COVID year.
50:08
And then that changed the year after that.
50:10
And then that changed the year after that,
50:11
all the way to where we are now.
50:15
it's very difficult to maintain some
50:18
semblance of, well,
50:19
this is the way we do it and
50:20
this is the way we're going to do
50:21
it.
50:22
And we're going to make mild tweaks
50:24
because I will also argue that we've
50:26
always done it this way is the most
50:28
dangerous sentence in the English
50:30
language, right?
50:32
Because you can always do something that
50:34
way and just be doing it wrong the
50:35
entire time.
50:36
Excuse me.
50:41
I just, I don't,
50:43
And it's okay.
50:44
I don't think you and I are coming
50:45
to an agreement on this today.
50:48
I think it needs a major overhaul.
50:51
The only people watching now are you, me,
50:54
Meg, and Joseph,
50:56
and a couple people in the chat, Vicky.
51:00
And that's not enough to sustain it
51:02
financially.
51:06
So I think something has to be done
51:11
in a more...
51:13
radical sense complete overhaul to make it
51:17
work i won't say it won't happen because
51:24
i'm not that guy especially not with new
51:26
guy in charge but again historically
51:30
looking at how they do something expecting
51:32
them to make a giant major overhaul when
51:35
it's not
51:37
necessary for it to continue.
51:38
Does that make sense?
51:39
Like we had a five person games that
51:42
was mostly online and then in person for
51:44
just five people,
51:45
no spectators in twenty twenty because
51:48
they had to.
51:50
There was no choice.
51:54
That's the only reason that happened that
51:55
way, because it had not been that way.
51:58
We had the games as normal.
52:01
Ed says,
52:02
so shift masters to a separate comp,
52:03
also teams games is just elite.
52:06
I mean,
52:08
If we want to face reality,
52:12
those things don't make money.
52:15
In Madison,
52:16
when the games were still going strong,
52:20
nobody was in the stands for the teams.
52:23
Nobody.
52:25
And Masters is already separate by itself,
52:27
so is the team's.
52:32
The Super Bowl doesn't bring in the peewee
52:35
championships.
52:37
Although it should.
52:38
No, but literally World Series is a thing.
52:44
But it's its own thing.
52:45
That's what I'm getting at.
52:47
Thousands upon thousands of people go to
52:48
watch that because it's its own thing.
52:58
Games Elite only top twenty.
52:59
I say top ten.
53:06
Make it top ten, one heat.
53:09
Each event only takes at a max like
53:12
half hour, forty-five minutes.
53:19
It's much more digestible and consumable.
53:23
Go to a Masters competition where you get
53:24
to see the same event twenty-seven times.
53:30
It's funny, dude,
53:30
because when I'm competing,
53:32
especially with the people I know that are
53:34
in the other age groups, they're like,
53:35
man, did you see?
53:36
Nope, sure didn't.
53:39
Sure didn't.
53:39
That happened throughout.
53:41
I was still at the Airbnb.
53:43
I didn't see any of that.
53:45
I believe you.
53:51
Daniel says, I agree, top ten,
53:53
but people seem to be hurt by the
53:54
idea of ten, so I compromised.
54:00
My proposal is going to be ten.
54:02
If I have to meet someone in the
54:03
middle, I'll give some room then.
54:05
But right now, the proposal is,
54:07
if you want this to be televised by
54:11
anybody, it has to be ten.
54:17
One heat of each.
54:19
The best of the best in the world.
54:21
And every year,
54:22
it's going to have shake-up.
54:23
People not qualifying that you think
54:25
should.
54:26
And that is going to add drama to
54:29
the season.
54:32
But start with the championship and then
54:34
work the format back.
54:37
Don't try to make the front of it
54:39
fit everything and then somehow fit that
54:43
square peg into the round hole of the
54:45
championship.
54:56
I like the chaos of mass starts,
54:58
Mark Phillips.
55:02
What was the last beach run,
55:04
like the run spring run they did on
55:05
the beach where I forgot who it was,
55:09
just fell flat on their face like right
55:11
after they started.
55:13
I'm sorry.
55:13
Like, I like watching stuff like that.
55:17
Mark's my man.
55:18
Exactly.
55:20
Exactly.
55:22
I don't know about the get to know
55:23
the athletes easier type thing because
55:26
with the way that the media is right
55:27
now,
55:27
like it's really easy to get to know
55:29
everybody because they're doing.
55:30
It's not.
55:31
We talked about this this week.
55:33
Media is doing the same story six times.
55:36
And then Dave's interviewing all the
55:38
athletes.
55:38
And then not that we've interviewed
55:40
anybody recently,
55:41
but we used to invite and interview people
55:45
with the glintons or the stuff's out
55:48
there.
55:50
Here's the way the format is structured
55:52
right now.
55:53
I can't do what I used to do.
55:55
I can't do a hundred semifinalists because
55:58
I don't know who's there.
55:59
I don't know who's actually going to
56:00
compete in an event.
56:02
I don't know who's going to wimp out
56:04
and go to another one or who has
56:06
an arm injury and can't go to this
56:07
one.
56:07
You're not wrong on that.
56:10
So I can't, I,
56:12
when there was a leaderboard for, Hey,
56:14
here's the North America East semifinal.
56:17
Here's a list of people.
56:18
I could actually go down that list and
56:20
interview people.
56:22
I can't now.
56:28
I swear to God, Wayne, I said this.
56:30
Yeah, you did.
56:31
It's way at the beginning of the show.
56:36
I'm just kidding, man.
56:37
I'm just kidding.
56:43
The other thing,
56:44
and I think Avera is kind of alluding
56:46
to this, think about how much money Nike,
56:48
et cetera,
56:49
have made off of CrossFit and shoes alone.
56:51
You would think they would sponsor the
56:54
fact that they do not is very telling
56:57
because their items don't get highlighted.
57:02
only have ten athletes you're gonna see
57:04
them more in their gear and maybe because
57:07
we don't have a clothing sponsor over all
57:11
the thing maybe it can go to like
57:13
an individually sponsored event
57:16
making the uniforms could you imagine if
57:19
people had their own uniform with and and
57:23
it had to be a jersey or something
57:25
like that that you could understand but
57:27
did you could actually tell who was who
57:30
by their uniform on the field instead of
57:33
just a big blob of black and brown
57:36
and gray noble
57:42
go rock go rock go rock was just
57:45
as bad go rock was just as bad
57:47
go rock was like we'll add green you
57:53
got to listen to tessa tessa said the
57:54
only time to do laundry is in the
57:56
first heats of any event that's when you
57:59
go to your laundry the ass heats as
58:01
people would like to call them
58:04
No, boy, yours were terrible.
58:06
No, boy,
58:07
yours were absolutely terrible as far as
58:09
color is concerned because they decided
58:11
that nobody needed any.
58:13
I would never understand that.
58:14
It's such a weird choice.
58:17
Gold Ruck was almost as bad.
58:22
Last couple of years weren't terrible or
58:23
last year was a Jim Reapers last year.
58:26
Velites.
58:27
I'm sorry, Velites.
58:28
Velites wasn't horrible, but still not...
58:32
Nothing's ever going to match up to the
58:33
Reebok days where it was all the colors
58:36
all the time.
58:38
Why is F-One popular?
58:40
Because when my papaya and black car comes
58:42
around the corner, I know it's them.
58:46
When Ferrari red comes around the corner,
58:48
you know it's them.
58:51
I like the idea of not...
58:55
wouldn't say not giving them swag
58:57
necessarily you know if if there is in
59:00
fact an apparel sponsor they need to wear
59:01
that apparel with their names on the floor
59:03
but i do like the idea of each
59:06
person having their own color wave yeah
59:10
because then as when you see them that
59:12
morning you know that that's what they're
59:14
wearing the rest of that day like that
59:15
is that's what they got on i like
59:19
that
59:23
Who would wear the all pink outfit?
59:25
That would be me.
59:25
I got no problem with pink.
59:35
Bruce should personally go to Nike and
59:37
tell them that they have made hundreds of
59:38
millions off of CrossFit.
59:39
Let's make a deal that works for everyone.
59:43
That is a bold stance to take.
59:47
I don't disagree with the sentiment of it.
59:50
I understand where you're coming from.
59:52
I do,
59:52
but that is a bold stance to take
59:54
to go kick in the door.
59:56
I would probably do it in, hey,
59:59
we benefit from people buying your shoes.
1:00:02
You benefit from people working out in our
1:00:04
boxes.
1:00:05
How can we partner together to make this
1:00:08
a more cohesive partnership where we both
1:00:13
benefit even more?
1:00:14
I think Nike's problem would probably be
1:00:16
that they make bumper plates now.
1:00:20
You can buy Nike bumper plates and they're
1:00:22
gonna be like, well,
1:00:23
not only do we want our apparel in
1:00:26
there,
1:00:26
but we need you to use Nike bumper
1:00:28
plates.
1:00:29
And then rogue is gonna be like, uh,
1:00:31
excuse me, we've been here since day one.
1:00:35
And like, you're gonna,
1:00:35
you're gonna run it.
1:00:36
I think you would run into, uh,
1:00:37
those sort of problems with Nike
1:00:38
specifically.
1:00:41
Because I do feel like they're going to
1:00:42
be a lot more of the, oh,
1:00:44
you let us in the door.
1:00:45
Cool.
1:00:46
We want this Nike logo on every possible
1:00:49
thing that we can.
1:00:51
Okay.
1:00:58
Well, I stirred the pot today.
1:01:01
Yeah, you did a good job.
1:01:04
With that, guys,
1:01:06
I'm going to leave you with this.
1:01:09
Two quick Instagram videos.
1:01:12
for your viewing pleasure.
1:01:16
First is if you didn't see the girls
1:01:18
unfiltered commercial for this week's
1:01:20
show, you got to.
1:01:40
I love how they make fun of themselves
1:02:11
That's fantastic.
1:02:15
I think Grant's one.
1:02:17
Feed them with the ideas.
1:02:19
And he is awesome at directing.
1:02:22
Now,
1:02:22
I don't know if you've seen this video
1:02:24
yet.
1:02:26
This children's birthday party.
1:02:28
It doesn't look familiar.
1:02:29
Throw in a pink dress on the right
1:02:32
of your screen.
1:02:34
Make sure you follow her for this.
1:02:39
Got it.
1:02:47
Yes!
1:02:50
That girl has been raised right.
1:02:51
How do you bust open a pinata?
1:02:54
Atomic elbow.
1:02:58
Look, and she got it ready first.
1:02:59
Look, she slapped it in.
1:03:02
She queued up the pool stick, man.
1:03:05
Bruh.
1:03:09
She has brothers.
1:03:12
That is not her first atomic elbow.
1:03:14
I can promise you that.
1:03:16
Dude, the dive.
1:03:17
She committed fully.
1:03:20
Full commit.
1:03:21
That is so good.
1:03:25
Yeah, I saw that.
1:03:26
I was like, oh,
1:03:26
that's what I want my daughter to do.
1:03:30
Yeah, that would be mine.
1:03:31
That would be mine right there.
1:03:34
She would do something like that.
1:03:35
And in this day and age, you know,
1:03:36
there's like eight parents going, oh,
1:03:38
my gosh, what did she just do?
1:03:39
Oh, she just did an atomic elbow.
1:03:42
And there's eight dads going, yeah,
1:03:43
that's my girl.
1:03:43
I love it.
1:03:43
I absolutely love it.
1:03:46
All right.
1:03:52
On that note, guys.
1:03:55
Top ten at the games.
1:03:57
Let's do it.
1:03:57
Next year, twenty twenty seven.
1:04:00
Let's shake this whole thing up.
1:04:03
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
1:04:11
room to jazz me up.
1:04:13
I'm already jazzy.
1:04:24
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
1:04:25
saddle.
1:04:26
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
1:04:28
saddle.
1:04:28
Talking reps,
1:04:29
real life strength in the battle.
1:04:32
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
1:04:34
we cover it all.
1:04:37
Midday motivation every time we press
1:04:39
call.
1:04:42
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
1:04:43
heat.
1:04:44
Crossfit, movies, music on repeat.
1:04:46
Half hour hustle, yeah,
1:04:47
we building that brain.