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Thursday Night CrossFit Talk - Off Season is Over, What does it All Mean? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  again in five four are we just live three we didn't get our music two one thursday night crossfit talk what's happening with scott schweitzer and jamie latimer we're about to change the game we're out here taking names let our voices rise let them reach the sky we're about to change the game we're out here taking names let our voices rise
• 0:42
  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Thursday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 0:47
  You've heard Jamie talking and asking questions.
• 0:49
  We're having some technical issues tonight.
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  We don't know why.
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  I was like, where's the intro?
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  Is it just... It played.
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  Is it just mine?
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  It did?
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  You couldn't see it, yeah.
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  Oh, gosh.
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  You know, I couldn't see anything.
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  It was black screen.
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  I'm like, what's going on here?
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  I'm trying to chew this last little bit of beef jerky while we're here.
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  Morning.
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  Morning.
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  So we are all over it tonight.
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  As Kenneth said, we are the original Thursday at CrossFit talk show.
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  And we mess up just like everybody else.
• 1:27
  Yeah.
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  We're professionals.
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  Don't worry about it.
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  Are you on a laptop tonight?
• 1:32
  I am on a laptop.
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  So you've only done that for like two weeks, right?
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  Yes.
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  Is that why I can't see the intro?
• 1:38
  No.
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  You should be able to see the intro.
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  That's what I'm saying.
• 1:48
  Jamie never charges her new headset, Andrew.
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  So that's why she's wearing her old.
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  These are actually old headsets.
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  Yeah, this is just the earbuds.
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  I'll have the gaming mic headset on next week.
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  But Andrew Sten, I've got to tell you, I finished Welcome to Wrexham.
• 2:07
  One of the best things on TV.
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  have not heard of this oh my gosh it's so good so it is welcome to wrexham welcome to wrexham it is uh about a soccer team that ryan reynolds and rob mcelheny buy okay and so in english
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  soccer, and I am not an expert English football.
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  There are leagues, right?
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  There's a premier league, a championship lit champions, leg championship league.
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  So then there's a tier three, a tier four.
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  And then if you get relegated out of that, you kind of drop out of the main thing of, of football in England.
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  Okay.
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  Wrexham was relegated to that fifth tier and have been there for 20 some years.
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  Oh, this is a legit team.
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  This is real life.
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  Ryan Reynolds bought this team.
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  Real life.
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  Okay.
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  Real life.
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  So good.
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  So, and, um,
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  Like, I don't want to have any spoilers.
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  Cause like, if you have not seen it, you should go watch it.
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  It is, it is like watching a sporting event though, because they document like they document the team and their efforts to get better, to get, because if you finish in the, either the regular season as a champion or the playoffs as a champion, you get promoted to the league above you.
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  Okay.
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  If you finish in the bottom two spots, you get relegated to the league below you.
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  Okay.
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  And so this is their effort to try to help this soccer team get back into... And basically the line that they're under, they get nothing from the league.
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  It's almost like a semi-pro league.
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  And if they can get promoted up one level, then they start getting league money and they can invest more in the town.
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  but it's really about the town.
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  It's really about this town of Wrexham that has supported this team forever.
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  Their stadium is like the oldest active stadium in the world.
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  Wow.
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  And, uh, and it's in Wales.
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  Um, and so it's all about this little community that supports them and how they've, the community and the team have been down on their luck and can they change these fortunes?
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  And there's two seasons.
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  It was on FX.
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  Okay.
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  I watch it on Hulu.
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  So is Ryan Reynolds like a huge soccer fan?
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  I don't think he was at the beginning of this.
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  Okay.
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  But he quickly becomes one.
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  Now his Rob McElhinney, who is his co-chair is I think a big fan and he is the writer and he's an actor and it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
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  Oh, so they're both famous.
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  Um, and they're all right.
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  Ryan is just way more famous and they make a lot of jokes about that, but they are only in like some of the episodes.
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  It's really about the town and the team and,
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  And I'm telling you, like, it was like rooting for my new favorite team throughout this whole thing.
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  And it was crazy, but I knew I talked to Andrew after I finished season one and he said, wait till you get to season two.
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  And it was, it was even better.
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  I'll have to check it out.
• 5:51
  It's like 18 episodes a season.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  And they're about a half, they vary in length, about a half hour, an episode.
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  So really good.
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  Cool.
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  I need something else to watch.
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  So perfect.
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  Yeah, it is.
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  It will consume your time.
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  And what's cool about this year is when they bought this whole thing, they didn't realize it, but they bought the women's team as well.
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  So there's a rest of the women's team.
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  And, and they are featured, they're featured through this season somewhat as well.
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  Are they, are they like just as bad as the other team in the, in the same tier?
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  So they're in, they're in a league where they don't get paid.
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  Okay.
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  So all of them work jobs and then play, but if they can get promoted, they move to like a semi pro league where they can pay the players.
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  Awesome.
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  So yeah, it's, it's really, really good.
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  Um, one of the best things I've seen on TV in a very long time.
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  So I know we have this much later, but I am almost caught up on Reacher as well.
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  So you haven't watched Friday last week.
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  I am halfway through it.
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  Okay.
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  How did you stop that one?
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  Uh, cause we had to do the show tonight.
• 7:21
  Oh, you might as well just, you might as well leave it till tomorrow.
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  Cause like, I was mad that we watched that last week.
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  I was like, I wish I would have waited because that like clip hanger on that one is frustrating.
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  Okay.
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  So just save it for tomorrow.
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  Usually like when we're done with the show, I go right to bed.
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  So it'll probably be tomorrow when we watch it anyway, and then they'll release the new episode.
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  Yep.
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  And we go right to do it.
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  Yeah.
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  But we are almost dead half of the, the last, um, the last episode that's released of reacher.
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  Um, and Kenneth said last week, season two, greater than, um, season one.
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  Yep.
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  I'm not sure.
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  I agree.
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  That's kind of how, when he said it, I was like, Oh really?
• 8:08
  I feel like as we're going along, I'm kind of feeling that a little bit.
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  This last episode was really good.
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  I think, I think the storyline is way more complicated and harder to, to like figure out all the tentacles, but the down hominess of the, of season one is really hard to match.
• 8:31
  Yeah.
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  And, um, and the, the characters in season one will forever be in my heart.
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  I agree.
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  I really liked season one.
• 8:40
  I'm not, I'm not sure the characters in season two have endeared them.
• 8:43
  The guy I liked the best is no longer with us.
• 8:51
  Oh, really?
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  Yeah.
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  We can talk offline.
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  I don't want to spoil it because it really just came out last week.
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  Um, but.
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  LDY2742 said he liked season one better.
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  I really... I love the Tweed Tornado and I love Roscoe.
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  Those two characters are some of my favorite characters ever.
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  I agree.
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  But I think it's too early for us to say until this season's over.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Neely's in both and I like her.
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  I'm not...
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  this is more of like a Clancy thing.
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  Season two, like a Tom Clancy movie book.
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  Yeah.
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  Which I'm a huge fan of me too, but it's different.
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  It's just different.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I know.
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  So yeah, so we got all of our TV stuff out in the first little bit.
• 9:56
  That's usually, this is usually my game show rant or my TV talk.
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  But if you start watching Welcome to Wrexham, I cannot wait to hear what you think of it.
• 10:05
  Yeah.
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  It's really good.
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  Kenneth says, I like angsty emo season two Reacher with his sad eyes.
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  What can I say?
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  He's a little more angsty, isn't he?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And you'd think, well, again, I don't want to give a spoiler last week.
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  Yeah.
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  So anyway, we did some wrap-up shows last week with Wadapalooza.
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  So I want to put a final bow on that.
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  And then I kind of want to talk about the off-season.
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  Off-season.
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  And it's over now.
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  Like the off season is over.
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  We're going to be heading into the new CrossFit game season.
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  What does that mean?
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  What did the off season tell us anything?
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  And we'll kind of talk about that.
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  And then, and whatever else comes up from the chat or whatever.
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  And I did, I've watched the first five episodes of behind the scenes.
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  And I wanted to kind of give my impressions of that as well.
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  Okay.
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  So.
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  So, Wadapalooza.
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  Just to recap, it seems like months ago, but Ricky Garrard and Emma Carey won the individual competition at Wadapalooza.
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  There was weather issues on day one, and then it was really clear on day two to kind of finish it out.
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  Any overall thoughts about the individual competition that you want to talk about before we move on?
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  um no i feel like we squashed the judging and all that to death like it is what it is we you know and weather plays a role and they did what they did yeah i did want to talk about the weather because i watched death by today and their first question was about the weather do we need to move events inside yeah and
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  Again, I've said this many times with Waterpalooza, the draw is outside.
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  Yes.
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  Right.
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  Like in my opinion, you cannot move that event inside.
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  You just have to deal with it.
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  I just think we, we need to come up with a better contingency plan as to what happens in the weather.
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  Um, and it's, it's,
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  Through no fault of the directors or anybody that worked the event, the events became pedestrian once they were changed for the weather.
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  And there was a couple interesting things that Matt O'Keefe said on the death by that I wanted to bring up.
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  One, it has been researched that the Surface Co.
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  surface actually becomes 25% tackier when it's wet.
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  Okay.
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  So that should not affect the safety of the athletes.
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  Agreed.
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  So I like that.
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  And he also said that when he was running Wadapalooza, they would make calls to Rogue about different things.
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  Like the wooden rings actually get tackier when they're wet.
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  So what I liked about that is, can we find elements, if it rains, that are still safe for the athletes?
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  Because they've been researched.
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  We know what gets tackier in the wet weather.
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  Um, we know that the Dahmer mat is not tackier and when it's right.
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  So what can we do about those things to still have like, cause if you, instead of going to strict muscle ups or strict pull-ups, if you had muscle ups on a ring, that would have added some complexity and some, um, Kenneth.
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  It's too early to be pushing buttons.
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  And the athletes could have showed off what they could do.
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  Yeah.
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  With, with like ring muscle ups rather than all strict pull-ups.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Twice having that.
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  Right.
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  Not my favorite.
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  So the other thing that, that was brought up on death by that just shocked me is to have like a plan B at a, at an indoor location.
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  I cannot imagine the cost of reserving an indoor facility just in case, because you're taking that off the calendar for them to rent out to somebody else.
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  So that means you're paying full price.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  There's no way you would do that.
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  You either do it indoor or you don't.
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  And with like one outdoor event that you just take the day that looks best.
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  Right.
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  As you and I have said, Guadalupalooza has to be outside.
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  It's an outdoor event.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Aaron Frazier says they should put a tent over Flagler and have the events at Bayside be okay to do in bad weather.
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  Yeah, Bayside never affects me because if you're swimming, you're wet anyway.
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  The floor's wet.
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  Everything's wet.
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  The gear is designed that the athlete is going to be wet while doing it.
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  So Bayside never bothers me.
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  But Flagler... And Tina Hills has a roof.
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  Yep.
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  So it's only the spectators that are affected.
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  And it is just Flagler, but...
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  And it's such a big floor.
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  I mean, that would be one large tent.
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  Yeah, but if you're talking about possibly renting a secondary facility, I mean, a tent is way more reasonable.
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  Yeah, I don't know what to go up above the stands.
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  Like it's just a lot of surface area to cover and I don't know logistically, but it'd be, it'd be cool if they could do that.
• 16:48
  You see those like those sunshades that are like stretched out.
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  I wonder if you could do a series of those that at least partially kept the floor dry.
• 17:01
  Yeah.
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  I don't know.
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  Um, so yeah, I, but those were weird comment.
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  Cause I, I couldn't believe people were like, let's rent a facility just in case that just seems an astronomical expense.
• 17:20
  Yeah.
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  Uh, to me.
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  Um, so I wanted to ask you, do the wins for Ricky and Emma mean anything?
• 17:32
  I mean, yeah, I feel like we sort of talked about this on our wrap up show, uh,
• 17:37
  Yeah, I think probably more so for Ricky, like, you had, you didn't have Adler there, but you had Roman and you had Pat and you had like, kind of what you wanted to see in Rogue in the games.
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  So he had some solid competition there to test against.
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  It's, it's only, it's only the five events.
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  We, we know it's not super well-rounded.
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  We know the tests got changed.
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  Um, but sure.
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  Of course, like he has to be feeling, he hit some things that he was probably unsure about and to still pull off a win has to like give him some serious confidence going into the, into this year's games.
• 18:19
  Yeah.
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  I think it means more for him than it has for most past winners.
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  Yeah.
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  Because of the injury.
• 18:25
  Yes.
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  That's it.
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  It's just testing out the shoulder, getting some confidence in the shoulder to be able to do high-skill movements without pain or to know what his threshold is on those movements moving into the CrossFit Games season.
• 18:47
  I think for Emma, Andrew says he thinks it means more for Emma.
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  I mean, I think for her, it was a really good test of pacing.
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  I think we saw her compete the best we've ever seen her compete.
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  So again, I should give her some serious confidence of, okay, I figured out this racing thing.
• 19:10
  I think that plus she pretty much dominated like after the swim event, she, she finished top five and just in everything, I believe.
• 19:22
  I mean, I could pull up the leaderboard to be sure, but I'm,
• 19:27
  pretty sure top five and everything yeah i think you're right so then we go to teams which is where we only did a little bit of a wrap-up um what were your thoughts on the team overall it was it was exciting there was still like some of those races you you had your bigger men's team races that um you're rooting
• 19:58
  rooting for, um, again, the change in some of the, the change in some of those workouts kind of took the fun away from that in the judging and standards laid out, I think just really like frustrated me.
• 20:16
  Um, but it was, it was good.
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  I mean, that's, that's the event, right?
• 20:25
  It's there.
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  It's mostly there for the teams.
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  And I think, I think it showcased teamwork.
• 20:37
  I don't want to be like ultra negative, but it was, it was hard to watch for me, especially on Sunday.
• 20:44
  Yeah.
• 20:45
  I thought that Saturday we were cheated because the office offsite event, we didn't get to see.
• 20:52
  Yes.
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  Um,
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  We had a couple good events Saturday night, and then Sunday was just... Everything became really pedestrian, except for communication.
• 21:07
  So if you knew how to communicate with loud music and rain pouring on you, you had a distinct advantage.
• 21:18
  Yeah.
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  Well, teams that had used the worm regularly clearly had a...
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  an advantage.
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  Um, I, I kinda liked the sandbag event.
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  Like, I feel like you could see the race a little more in that event that I thought that was better.
• 21:37
  That maybe was the only one that, and I feel like the points race was getting closer at that at that time.
• 21:43
  Um, but that maybe was the only one that was like kind of exciting.
• 21:50
  Jody Lynn with strong comments coming in.
• 21:53
  I'm so tired of the worm.
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  Let's hope CrossFit can come up with a new implement for teams.
• 22:00
  I really love the broken worm.
• 22:01
  Oh God.
• 22:04
  I think that that is such the degree of difficulty on the broken worm compared to the regular worm is so much higher compared
• 22:13
  that you have to be elite at communication to make that work like at the games we saw people get flung off of that thing like when you make a mistake it it hits um and i guess i forgot it was called the earthworm the earthworm i like broken worm but okay
• 22:37
  And I like that it's kind of a throwback to the first worm that was made out of logs at the games.
• 22:46
  So I really like that a lot.
• 22:52
  And it makes it exciting because when they mess up, it's obvious.
• 22:57
  Yeah, I know.
• 22:58
  The way that just took teams down.
• 23:00
  i mean and it was like this like domino down they all go getting tore down by that sandbag i i i can kind of see maybe where you're coming from jody but like i don't know if there's a better implement to force synchronization
• 23:21
  If you aren't a true team that isn't training together, you're not going to excel at that.
• 23:27
  For me, that's where I don't like to just see the super teams.
• 23:30
  I don't want them to just pick a bunch of individuals and throw them together.
• 23:33
  I want the teams that grind it out in the gym together and practice these moves together.
• 23:38
  I like to see true mastery of the worm, either worm.
• 23:49
  So we had some really big super teams in the men's league, in the men's side.
• 23:57
  But on the women's side, it was a little lackluster for the super teams.
• 24:03
  And it, it really did come down to, to more teams that work together for a while or to, um, that were team type athletes.
• 24:12
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  They did much better on the women's side than any kind of super team.
• 24:18
  And the only super team I can even think of is, uh, the dunk tank team or the, uh, Bailey and page.
• 24:27
  Yes.
• 24:28
  Yeah.
• 24:30
  Yeah.
• 24:31
  Yeah.
• 24:33
  And you could tell when they were interviewed that they didn't practice at all on teamwork and, and it pay, they paid for it dearly at times.
• 24:45
  Um, so on the men's side, the winner was the go odd team, which was just a Madaris.
• 24:51
  Um, was that Willie George's and yeah.
• 24:59
  And, uh, Jay Crouch.
• 25:00
  Jay Crouch was on that team.
• 25:02
  Yeah.
• 25:05
  I thought that was a good win for Justin and we'll kind of talk about that in a little bit as well.
• 25:14
  And then I guess I should just pull up the leaderboard.
• 25:19
  I should have had that ready.
• 25:23
  Yeah, was Ombre Ombre second or third?
• 25:27
  Third.
• 25:28
  Third and second was
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  Getting there.
• 25:35
  Did Tier jump up?
• 25:37
  It was Team Pisco.
• 25:40
  Roman, Saxon, and Jorge.
• 25:42
  Yeah.
• 25:43
  Team Tier was fourth.
• 25:45
  Okay, that's what I thought.
• 25:46
  Trace Leitch is fifth.
• 25:49
  Oh, yeah.
• 25:51
  Strapping young lad sixth.
• 25:55
  Yeah.
• 25:57
  That's about the order I put them in.
• 26:01
  Um, and then on the women's side, we had stronger than a nineties trend with our dear friend, Kelly Baker and her team with Kelsey Keel and Amelia Lungberg Lungberg.
• 26:14
  Um, RX performance was in second again.
• 26:19
  Um, they, they are a team dominated.
• 26:25
  group uh team scandinavian best team love the name um but our friend annika greer um matilda garness and rebecca medicine and rebecca vitteson yeah there we go uh yep and then team marine and lycan gang tmi sparrow was in sixth wow that's crazy and lycan was the two women from crossfit 80.
• 26:53
  And My High Muscles with Madison.
• 26:59
  Zoe Warren.
• 27:01
  They were in seventh.
• 27:04
  So pretty good showing for them too.
• 27:06
  Yeah, very good.
• 27:13
  So I guess we have to talk about the Heat One app and how you beat me by one stinking point.
• 27:24
  I beat you at one point in the top 10.
• 27:27
  Right.
• 27:28
  And then I crushed that color.
• 27:32
  It was close.
• 27:34
  I mean, I was within like 10.
• 27:36
  Yeah.
• 27:37
  What were you overall in chat color?
• 27:39
  Like an overall.
• 27:41
  I thought if I signed up for my league or the Clydesdale media league, it would do both.
• 27:46
  So I didn't do the overall.
• 27:48
  Oh, that sucks.
• 27:50
  I know you were way up there in the, I know.
• 27:55
  Fifth.
• 27:56
  Yeah.
• 28:00
  Not so great in the top 10, though.
• 28:02
  The women kind of just messed me up in that one.
• 28:07
  I know.
• 28:08
  I lost you.
• 28:08
  91-90.
• 28:08
  That's close.
• 28:16
  LDY 2742.
• 28:18
  Heck, they could do same movements with a tractor tire instead of the worm.
• 28:26
  like thrusters and clean and jerks and be interesting to see.
• 28:31
  It would be very interesting to see.
• 28:34
  Don't know how you get four people on it.
• 28:41
  Um, okay.
• 28:42
  And if we're still trying to figure out technology, well, we've worked you through the top 10.
• 28:49
  So at least you got that figured out.
• 28:53
  Now we, now you're going to be a pro come, um,
• 28:56
  the games so i have a list of things from wadapalooza and then we'll wrap that up okay okay the barge i thought that was awesome yeah it was cool i mean it looked cool to have that like ramp out there for athletes to get out to it um yeah i thought that was cool
• 29:19
  From being there the last couple years, it gets more space used up for spectators.
• 29:29
  So they can get more spectators in that area and still have the cool look of Bayside.
• 29:36
  So I thought...
• 29:39
  Bayside always had 10 lanes.
• 29:41
  Now they were able to do 20 on the barge.
• 29:44
  It was able to get more people on and get through events fairly quickly.
• 29:50
  And so I thought that was super cool.
• 29:54
  Why was nobody from CrossFit there?
• 29:56
  Because it's not a CrossFit licensed event.
• 30:02
  Last year, Don Fall was there.
• 30:04
  Dave Castro was there.
• 30:07
  It is the largest sports festival that is CrossFit in the world.
• 30:15
  It is probably bigger than the games from an attendance standpoint.
• 30:21
  At least send somebody.
• 30:24
  They had a booth, sounds like.
• 30:27
  They had a booth.
• 30:28
  But it was the affiliate booth, right, Tristan?
• 30:31
  That's what they have at everything.
• 30:37
  i think they needed to send somebody from the sports side to be there to see what's going on i mean oz or dave or any any of those yeah i don't know i don't know like i feel like i feel like a lot of like how many people were even there this year
• 31:06
  I think Guadalupe took a huge hit.
• 31:12
  From what I hear, if you were there, it was just as packed as always.
• 31:16
  Oh, that is not what I heard.
• 31:18
  Once it rained, people scattered and went and watched the stream.
• 31:27
  I don't know.
• 31:29
  I heard they couldn't sell tickets or they overpriced them so they didn't have enough people in the stands.
• 31:37
  I heard from vendors that like the amount of foot traffic was like half as much as normal.
• 31:46
  Yeah.
• 31:47
  Okay.
• 31:48
  Getting that a lot.
• 31:51
  Yeah.
• 31:51
  I mean, how much of that would be the, the weather though?
• 31:57
  I think it was the price of their tickets.
• 31:59
  Okay.
• 31:59
  Yeah.
• 32:02
  Because we had to buy those special seats.
• 32:05
  And then what happens with that is then like you have a weather event, they should have then opened it up for anybody to walk in just to fill the stands.
• 32:16
  You go to the games and on a Saturday night, there's empty seats because this person bought them for a couple of events and then they're not there for everything.
• 32:29
  They need to find a way to, after so many minutes of an event, it's opened up to the general public to go take those seats.
• 32:39
  Yeah, I suppose.
• 32:41
  I don't know.
• 32:42
  Yeah, this is not a great way to do that.
• 32:47
  My next thing was, why did it have less star power than last year?
• 32:58
  I don't know.
• 32:59
  I mean, truthfully, I'm like slightly worried for Wadabooza.
• 33:05
  I like, I understand that like the, the chaos is, I mean, it's just become to be expected, but I also feel like at some point people are just over it.
• 33:18
  You pay for, it's like over 400 bucks to compete in this event.
• 33:24
  It's extremely expensive to find lodging there.
• 33:27
  Like, is it worth it?
• 33:30
  And then to go get events changed on you and you get treated like, unless you're an elite, you get treated like garbage.
• 33:37
  And who wants to go deal with all of that?
• 33:41
  I don't know.
• 33:45
  I remember last year thinking, my God, there's like 10 great teams on both the men and women's side.
• 33:52
  And this year we had four or five.
• 33:54
  Mm-hmm.
• 33:55
  I was surprised there weren't more teams.
• 33:59
  Individual-wise, I thought it did not run as deep as it did last year.
• 34:07
  And then you have people like... I mean, last year we had Laura competing, and we had Annie competing, and Katrin, and none of those people are... So...
• 34:27
  Oh, Tristan, we're not saying the whole team side was weak.
• 34:31
  I didn't say anything about weak at all.
• 34:33
  I just said it lacks star power.
• 34:41
  So it's nothing about the competition or the people in it because I think it did.
• 34:48
  Okay, Corey, Annie was a bad example.
• 34:52
  I'm just saying that those were the names that were out there last year.
• 34:56
  Like Jeff Adler competed last year.
• 34:58
  Yeah.
• 35:00
  you had so many more names out on the floor competing.
• 35:05
  It just seemed, it just seemed to lack that star power.
• 35:10
  Maybe it was more European too.
• 35:12
  Like we got more European teams this year than we've had in past.
• 35:16
  And I heard Snorri say today that actually Miami is an easy flight for Europe.
• 35:22
  Yeah.
• 35:23
  Major city on the East coast and they can get in pretty easy.
• 35:27
  Yeah.
• 35:27
  So maybe I just need to get my head wrapped around that there's a big European contingent that aren't the names that we talk to all the time.
• 35:37
  Well, and we know on the women's side, the European field is typically stronger anyway.
• 35:43
  So if that's who's coming over, it definitely doesn't mean women was necessarily weaker.
• 35:46
  We just, we just might not be as familiar with them.
• 35:51
  Right.
• 35:51
  Yeah.
• 35:56
  carolyn's talking that individual was better than last year um i think carolyn's point here is possibly what happened um people went indie this year over team thinking maybe that more people would team like in the past and the prize first was would be open to them because i feel like that's what happened last year right like i mean i feel like at the last minute people were like i should have signed up for individual
• 36:26
  $75,000 was up for grabs.
• 36:28
  I kind of feel like more people jumped that route and then didn't participate in the team side.
• 36:38
  Yeah, I agree.
• 36:40
  Just some thoughts I had.
• 36:42
  Do we need star power?
• 36:44
  Is that what's missing?
• 36:48
  I don't know.
• 36:51
  I'm just posing the question.
• 36:54
  For me, we follow so many semifinal athletes.
• 37:00
  To me, there were plenty of people I knew out on that floor that I wanted to root for.
• 37:05
  I agree.
• 37:06
  Even in the RX division.
• 37:08
  So for me, I'm not a good judge of do we need more star power because I knew a lot of the people out there, they're just not the household names that you see at the games every year.
• 37:20
  Mm-hmm.
• 37:22
  Um, so I, that's why I was posing the question because I, I don't know.
• 37:28
  I would rather, and it sounds weird to say other than like the games and rogue, I want to see those other athletes.
• 37:42
  I completely agree.
• 37:43
  So I'm a, I completely agree.
• 37:46
  I'm a very bad judge of, of what is star power.
• 37:51
  Corey, I saw that.
• 37:54
  Max Craig was in RX.
• 37:58
  I was disappointed, and maybe this was my own fault.
• 38:01
  I was pretty busy.
• 38:02
  But I was disappointed in the coverage of RX and Masters.
• 38:07
  I wanted to catch some of the Masters.
• 38:09
  And shoot, Friday, I messaged Scott.
• 38:11
  And I'm like, am I the idiot?
• 38:13
  I can't find any coverage.
• 38:16
  I was like, Masters start at like 9, 9.30 a.m., right?
• 38:19
  And I'm like trying to find anything, nothing.
• 38:23
  So like, yeah, I was a little frustrated with some of the coverage on that kind of stuff.
• 38:28
  I don't know.
• 38:28
  I don't know if we'll ever get there.
• 38:32
  I can tell you that the still cam at Bayfront was not bad.
• 38:36
  I could get a pretty good indication of who was doing what at Bayside with that Steadicam.
• 38:44
  But Flagler's just so damn wide.
• 38:48
  It's nearly impossible.
• 38:51
  Tina Hill's the same.
• 38:53
  One Steadicam, I can at least get the idea if I know who's in what lane.
• 38:59
  Yeah.
• 39:01
  I know.
• 39:01
  I feel like they need a running ticker at the top on that stream.
• 39:05
  And I know that's just more production costs.
• 39:07
  Somebody has to be in charge of all that on the back end.
• 39:08
  I get it.
• 39:11
  I think it'd be far more appealing and draw in some more spectators.
• 39:16
  So at Bayfront 2, they have that big video board that actually lists the names of the people in each lane?
• 39:25
  So I didn't ever see that.
• 39:26
  Whenever I brought it up, it just said Bayfront.
• 39:29
  like rx teams it funnels between the workout and the names okay funnels whatever which is between the two um jenna says maybe the draw of water blues is being there at the event person i hear athletes and live podcasts etc are super approachable for us normie fans
• 39:52
  Waterpalooza is very approachable.
• 39:54
  People are walking around, athletes are walking around all the time.
• 39:58
  Most of Waterpalooza is a vendor village and most of the athletes are there.
• 40:06
  More business deals get done at Waterpalooza than anywhere else.
• 40:10
  And so you have athletes at all the different vendors, um, fulfilling obligations, taking pictures, signing autographs, doing all that stuff.
• 40:22
  They, it's just everywhere.
• 40:24
  So if you want to go meet some people, it is the perfect place to go.
• 40:27
  Yep.
• 40:34
  Um,
• 40:38
  So that's it for Wadapalooza.
• 40:40
  But then I have one big overarching piece about the off-season.
• 40:49
  Forever we called the off-season, there was the big three.
• 40:52
  Okay.
• 40:54
  Rogue, Dubai, Wadapalooza.
• 40:57
  Yep.
• 40:59
  Are they still the big three or are we looking at other places for off-season entertainment?
• 41:10
  I mean, Rogue's always going to have it, right?
• 41:15
  They do an incredible job.
• 41:17
  And they've tried to up their game.
• 41:18
  They had the extra streaming that you could purchase.
• 41:22
  I think they... And they probably have the most money at their disposal to make it how they want.
• 41:27
  I think Rogue's going to continue to be the draw.
• 41:31
  It has the biggest prize purse.
• 41:32
  It's going to...
• 41:35
  It's going to draw, obviously, your best athletes.
• 41:37
  Well, it's invite, so they're going to get that star power that you people want to see.
• 41:44
  Beyond that, I mean, even if Wadapusa tails off, it's probably going to remain that number two spot.
• 41:51
  I mean, some catastrophic things would have to happen for it to just fizzle out.
• 41:59
  But third, man, I feel like something's going to take over Dubai's spot for sure.
• 42:08
  So Carolyn said, yes, they are still the big three.
• 42:10
  Most money.
• 42:14
  Yeah.
• 42:14
  I, I think like rogue is almost elevated itself to like a one a off the games.
• 42:23
  They're becoming so innovative.
• 42:26
  If they wouldn't have had, if they would not have had the bad weather this year, that competition would have been Epic.
• 42:34
  Yeah.
• 42:35
  With the alternate broadcast, which was phenomenal, and I would pay for if they did that at any event that I'm not at live, it's going to be incredible.
• 42:51
  Dubai, I get it because it is a draw.
• 42:54
  You get big names, especially from Europe, and it is a big prize purse.
• 42:59
  I just wish they could get some people in the stands.
• 43:03
  And the coverage better.
• 43:04
  I wasn't thrilled with that either.
• 43:07
  The coverage has always been that.
• 43:11
  But I think the athletes will always view it as a big three because of the money and the competition.
• 43:22
  And Carolyn says, yes, Rogue is barely off the games.
• 43:27
  They're just so innovative.
• 43:29
  Like they're coming up with new cool things that the games need to adopt.
• 43:41
  And maybe the big games are too big to do that themselves.
• 43:46
  Andrew Sten says, maybe Rogue and Waza times two with SoCal in September, though they likely won't get big names competing since it's so close to the games and so close to Rogue.
• 43:59
  But what you're going to get is that group of people that aren't the top 20.
• 44:05
  You're going to get the people who had a catastrophic failure and missed the games.
• 44:11
  You'll get those.
• 44:13
  You'll get semifinal athletes.
• 44:14
  And you'll get the 20 through 40 that don't get invited to Rogue.
• 44:19
  Yep.
• 44:29
  I've heard good things about Beach Brawl.
• 44:32
  It's going to come down to prize purse at some point.
• 44:34
  If somebody else can match the money that they're even getting close to Dubai, just...
• 44:42
  I like this comment from Carolyn.
• 44:45
  I would like to see an Australian comp like Torian or Down Under give more money.
• 44:48
  Their fan base there is fire.
• 44:51
  I totally agree because in my mind, I feel like Down Under Championship is one of the big ones.
• 44:58
  It just sucks that it isn't a big prize purse.
• 45:03
  Well, and that semifinal down there is like a damn party.
• 45:06
  Yeah, Torian is insane.
• 45:10
  So hopefully they can get some prize purse or some sponsorships to be able to give a bigger prize because they're there.
• 45:21
  Yeah.
• 45:27
  So Kenneth says Rogue is unique because it's more than just CrossFit.
• 45:30
  Also Strongman brings new eyes to CrossFit, brings new eyes to Strongman.
• 45:33
  Win, win, win.
• 45:34
  Again, that's one of those innovative ideas, though, that makes Rogue better.
• 45:40
  Yeah.
• 45:41
  Right.
• 45:43
  I've heard they've talked about even adding a third sport.
• 45:49
  Interesting.
• 45:50
  They've thrown up like a powerlifting meet with like the best of the best or the top end Olympic lifting or something like that.
• 45:59
  That would still be that kind of like Iron Games type deal, but even expanding what they offer.
• 46:07
  Yeah, that would be cool.
• 46:13
  Alex says, it costs so much to travel to Australia, though.
• 46:16
  They need more money.
• 46:19
  It was just a misspelling.
• 46:20
  But I like the way she said money.
• 46:26
  Yeah.
• 46:34
  That's what I was thinking.
• 46:35
  A baseball game?
• 46:36
  Sweet.
• 46:36
  I'm in.
• 46:36
  Let's go.
• 46:37
  Yeah.
• 46:40
  Okay, so that was that question.
• 46:43
  Now that the offseason's over, who had an offseason that will help them lead themselves into the next CrossFit game season?
• 46:57
  You want my number one?
• 46:59
  Sure.
• 46:59
  Okay.
• 47:01
  Well, I think Ricky because he didn't get to, I mean, he was injured, so he's come back and really showed.
• 47:07
  I don't think Rogue went like,
• 47:10
  great for him per se but clearly wadapalooza is putting him in the right direction and he did carolyn me it's not money it's money yeah it's the canadian dinner yeah uh-huh the money money
• 47:32
  So I agree with you, Ricky.
• 47:33
  I had him on my list.
• 47:36
  Knowing that the shoulder's right, being able to compete at Rogue, being able to compete.
• 47:41
  Did he do Dubai too?
• 47:43
  Yes.
• 47:44
  And Waterpalooza.
• 47:46
  I think that that is strong for him.
• 47:51
  Lex says Emma Carey, which is on my list as well.
• 47:54
  Right.
• 47:55
  Also on my list.
• 47:58
  I think that she did...
• 48:00
  she finished sixth at rogue.
• 48:03
  She won water Palooza.
• 48:05
  That's a great, um, that's great momentum going into the season.
• 48:10
  And you and I talked so many times about her pacing at water Palooza and how much she has gotten better at not just going to blackout, but to actually see what's going on around her and, um, and, and pace the race.
• 48:31
  And Lex says her typo will now be used permanently.
• 48:40
  Do you have anybody else on your list?
• 48:43
  Yes.
• 48:43
  I also have Gabby.
• 48:46
  Okay.
• 48:48
  The rest of mine.
• 48:49
  Why Gabby?
• 48:53
  Well, I think she had a great showing at Rogue.
• 48:56
  And then I think she still did great here at
• 49:05
  wasn't it like fourth at both yeah you don't think yeah you think if she's not on the podium it's not good enough no no no oh i think that she's finally becoming the consistent athlete we've wanted her to become for years i had her on my list yeah
• 49:25
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 49:28
  She seems to be filling some of those holes.
• 49:30
  Her upper body pulling strength probably wasn't ever the greatest, but she seems to be rounding that out a little bit better.
• 49:42
  She did luck out at two bad weather events, though, taking away the rope climbs.
• 49:47
  Yes, agreed.
• 49:53
  Who else you got?
• 49:54
  I'll let you go one more.
• 49:55
  I have Anika.
• 49:58
  Okay.
• 49:59
  Why?
• 50:00
  Well, I thought she did good at Down Under.
• 50:02
  I thought that was a good showing for her.
• 50:05
  And her team didn't win, but they podiumed here at Guadalupe.
• 50:10
  That's got to be confidence.
• 50:11
  But she needs wins in her life.
• 50:17
  She just doesn't get enough of that.
• 50:19
  I don't have her on my list, but she podiumed at Madrid.
• 50:21
  Yes.
• 50:22
  Yes.
• 50:23
  She did well at down under and you could say she was the leader of that team at Waterpalooza.
• 50:31
  And that was cool to see because the other two have games experience and she was the leader.
• 50:41
  Yeah.
• 50:42
  That was, that was pretty cool.
• 50:45
  Yeah.
• 50:45
  She won down.
• 50:47
  Did she win, win down on her?
• 50:51
  I know she podiums.
• 50:52
  For some reason, I thought she was second.
• 50:54
  No, Down Under was Madeline Sturt that won it.
• 50:59
  Then Annika, and then Grace Walton, who is, by the way, my fifth person on my list, Grace Walton.
• 51:07
  Okay.
• 51:09
  And that's it for me.
• 51:10
  Why Grace?
• 51:12
  Because of Down Under and this showing at Guadalupe.
• 51:17
  Taking some of the big comps.
• 51:20
  She definitely made up a name for herself at Waterpalooza.
• 51:23
  That girl can swim.
• 51:24
  Yes.
• 51:25
  Flat out.
• 51:29
  Andrew Sten throws up Rebecca Vitteson.
• 51:32
  Could be interesting to watch.
• 51:34
  Is she not an older athlete though?
• 51:39
  I don't think so.
• 51:40
  I think she's like 24 or 25.
• 51:43
  I don't think she's that old.
• 51:44
  I thought she was in her 30s.
• 51:47
  Man, I don't think so.
• 51:50
  Google her.
• 51:54
  Okay.
• 51:55
  So I had on mind Laura Horvat.
• 51:59
  Yes.
• 52:00
  Beat Tia is huge.
• 52:04
  I know she only did Rogue.
• 52:06
  She did Olympic lifting thing and she won that too.
• 52:11
  But to beat Tia and know that it's possible, I think is huge for her.
• 52:20
  And then she got to rest for a while.
• 52:23
  Madison is 26.
• 52:24
  So I was mistaken.
• 52:26
  I actually think she's 28.
• 52:28
  If you're looking at the same article I am, that was from 2021 that said she was 26 years old.
• 52:36
  I also had Justin Medeiros to be able to recover in the offseason and then to win a powerlifting meet.
• 52:47
  and then have his team win Wadapalooza, I think it brought back some of the joy in competing that wasn't just on him.
• 52:58
  And we'll get to this in behind the scenes.
• 53:03
  It shows Justin very stressed out behind the scenes.
• 53:10
  And so to see that contradiction at Wadapalooza, I think is good for him.
• 53:17
  maybe teams is where he belongs.
• 53:20
  Well, I don't think one year away from a two-time championship is time to wrap it up into teams.
• 53:28
  I think he just needs to find the love of the game again.
• 53:31
  Yeah.
• 53:36
  And then my last one was in a very similar way.
• 53:38
  And I know I said I was done with this guy, but Jason Hopper.
• 53:44
  Geez, old Pete's.
• 53:46
  He's had some good off season counts.
• 53:48
  And it's not, it's, he did well in some competitions in some events, but it was, he was having fun again.
• 53:56
  I agree with that.
• 54:00
  He he's laughing a lot.
• 54:01
  He's making fun of himself.
• 54:04
  And I think that's something he needed back in his life.
• 54:08
  I think when he went to Vermont, he got too serious.
• 54:11
  Yep.
• 54:11
  And he tried to do it the way Matt did it.
• 54:13
  Yep.
• 54:15
  And he has to do it the way he does it.
• 54:21
  And to see the interviews with him over the weekend with Dallin and Ricky and just having a ball, I think that that is as good for him as anything.
• 54:31
  I agree.
• 54:36
  That's only going to help him progress in the sport.
• 54:40
  Um, so yeah.
• 54:43
  So if anybody else has any thoughts on who had a great off season, love to hear them, shoot them in the comments or put them in the, uh, comments on YouTube.
• 54:55
  I will check those out, talk about them next week, maybe.
• 54:57
  Um, so my last thing for the night is I broke down
• 55:05
  Bought the behind the scenes with some birthday money that I had laying around.
• 55:12
  And a couple things I want to talk about with it.
• 55:17
  Episodes 1A, 1B, and 2 were not great for my viewing.
• 55:25
  And I'm saying it from my perspective.
• 55:27
  I'm not saying it from anybody else.
• 55:30
  Because we were behind the scenes at that point in time.
• 55:34
  Right.
• 55:35
  We were talking to the athletes.
• 55:37
  We were getting a lot of the same information that was gathered in those episodes.
• 55:43
  So for me, it was very meh those first couple of minutes.
• 55:51
  Once you hit episode three, it really picks up for me because then every episode after that is one event and
• 56:01
  Okay.
• 56:01
  Episode three is the bike.
• 56:03
  Episode four is the pig flip.
• 56:06
  Episode five is inverted medley.
• 56:11
  Okay.
• 56:13
  Okay.
• 56:14
  And at that point it really picks up because then there was content grabbed that I never, I never saw.
• 56:23
  um the madaris lazar jukic wreck um plays a big role in episode three um and again i'm not going to spoil anything but very intense and very much behind the scenes kind of information that you could only get from those two people um
• 56:52
  the coolest part of episode five is there's a girl using a vintage camera to take still shots in the media pit and ask her about why she's doing it.
• 57:06
  Um, what all is why, why it's being used, how to use it, how to focus it.
• 57:12
  That was fascinating to me.
• 57:16
  They talked to athlete control and what their responsibilities were throughout this stuff.
• 57:20
  I thought that was pretty cool.
• 57:23
  The first few episodes, there's a lot of Dave.
• 57:26
  A lot of riding around with Dave.
• 57:29
  Dave wasn't...
• 57:37
  he's over the whole thing, but he's not boss.
• 57:40
  Right.
• 57:40
  And he's not.
• 57:42
  So it didn't have the same feel as like the old ones when he was with Dave, because there Dave is worried about every little nuance of the programming where that's not the case this time.
• 57:55
  There's cool conversations with rich as a coach.
• 57:59
  Um, um, so that was really cool.
• 58:03
  Um,
• 58:06
  I will say what was really cool to me is Lana makes two appearances.
• 58:12
  Awesome.
• 58:14
  Um, and Teddy.
• 58:16
  So if you did, we did, we put out a real Teddy captured this piece where Justin and inverted medley bobbled and recovered and bobble, like,
• 58:30
  right?
• 58:31
  Teddy cut captures that.
• 58:33
  So one of Savant's cameraman caught that from the opposite side of the floor.
• 58:39
  So you see in the background, Teddy capturing the whole thing.
• 58:44
  Awesome.
• 58:45
  Um, so that was really cool for me to see Teddy in there and to the, him doing that.
• 58:51
  I did not see Jamie.
• 58:52
  I have to, uh,
• 59:00
  I watch these as I'm working and doing some other projects.
• 59:04
  So my eyes are not on the screen the entire time.
• 59:08
  But I will say they're very good.
• 59:12
  The old ones used to be like an hour.
• 59:15
  These ones are like 15 minutes or not 15.
• 59:17
  They're like a half an hour.
• 59:19
  So it ends really quickly.
• 59:22
  And then you got to wait a couple of days for the next one to come out.
• 59:26
  Great.
• 59:28
  So now I'm like caught up until Sunday.
• 59:35
  Worth the investment?
• 59:39
  Sure.
• 59:42
  I'll say worth the investment because I know we put a lot of time and effort into things.
• 59:47
  And when I really kind of like reconciled it all in my head, like they worked their ass off to put this out.
• 59:56
  Why shouldn't I give them 20 bucks to watch it?
• 1:00:01
  Fair enough.
• 1:00:03
  I would do that for a movie or whatever.
• 1:00:11
  That's how I reconciled it in my head.
• 1:00:15
  Now I can go back and watch them again.
• 1:00:17
  I'll have to go back and see if I see Jamie this time.
• 1:00:22
  You've probably got to keep your eyes out for your shirts.
• 1:00:26
  That's why I always saw Teddy.
• 1:00:28
  Teddy popped out really quick.
• 1:00:32
  with the shirt.
• 1:00:33
  So plus it was, he was right there.
• 1:00:37
  Like he took up like a big chunk of the screen.
• 1:00:44
  But I'll be, but those outdoor events too, when they're doing the event coverage, it's fast.
• 1:00:57
  So it'd be hard to,
• 1:01:00
  I put a stick of beef jerky in my mouth and it had a hot pepper on it.
• 1:01:07
  So anyway, holy shit.
• 1:01:15
  And you like spicy.
• 1:01:19
  Um, um, like at the bike, the actions go by so fast.
• 1:01:25
  Like anything peripherally is very hard.
• 1:01:29
  unless the focus is right on them.
• 1:01:34
  So, cause I know like at some points he does, cause Yvonne captures someone cheering for somebody or.
• 1:01:41
  That's cool.
• 1:01:46
  Yeah.
• 1:01:47
  It's, I mean, it's really well done.
• 1:01:50
  The editing is really good.
• 1:01:51
  They put up leaderboards after each episode cause each one is.
• 1:01:56
  And then they show the.
• 1:01:57
  Yeah.
• 1:02:01
  So it's good.
• 1:02:04
  It's really good.
• 1:02:07
  I can't wait to see them.
• 1:02:10
  But it looks like now the free versions aren't coming out until just before the open.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah, I think that's what he always said.
• 1:02:16
  I was going to tie in with the open.
• 1:02:17
  Okay.
• 1:02:23
  What are your thoughts on The Master's Love in the first couple episodes?
• 1:02:31
  I wish there was more.
• 1:02:36
  I thought that there were a couple clips of Masters, but they were doing so many cool things.
• 1:02:49
  There were so many cool things that happened in the Masters, and none of it was really captured.
• 1:02:59
  But I don't know what their mission is for that documentary was anyway.
• 1:03:09
  What Kelly Friel was doing, what Susan Clark was doing could have been highlighted pretty quickly.
• 1:03:16
  Grub, Rudy, those like legends that were doing a lot.
• 1:03:22
  Sam, Sam Briggs.
• 1:03:27
  Like they weren't in it at all.
• 1:03:29
  Yeah, that's too bad.
• 1:03:34
  But there were master stuff caught.
• 1:03:37
  It just was what it was.
• 1:03:41
  And like there was a cool piece where the grandmother is competing with the mother and daughter cheering.
• 1:03:51
  And Siobhan was interviewing the mother and the daughter while they were cheering for the grandmother.
• 1:03:55
  That's cool.
• 1:03:57
  And all three generations do CrossFit.
• 1:04:00
  That's awesome.
• 1:04:02
  So there were some cool things like that that were captured.
• 1:04:05
  So I don't want to just shit on it.
• 1:04:10
  Yeah, Grubb was there taking his dog to the bathroom.
• 1:04:13
  But they could have done more about him being a four-time champion.
• 1:04:23
  So, yeah.
• 1:04:25
  Yeah.
• 1:04:29
  Again, it's really good.
• 1:04:30
  Even the first couple episodes are good.
• 1:04:32
  I went in expecting my memory and what I had in my head of what they were.
• 1:04:39
  And then it was a lot of what we were doing the first couple days talking to people anyway.
• 1:04:46
  We ran into Ariel in the media room and sat and talked to her for 20 minutes.
• 1:04:55
  That's what you're getting in the first couple episodes.
• 1:04:58
  Right.
• 1:05:01
  Um, it's just like in the tent waiting to try on their, try out their bike.
• 1:05:08
  There is a cool piece with Cole Sager.
• 1:05:09
  I know I'm talking about him a lot lately, but he talked about how he remembers his first CrossFit Games so vividly.
• 1:05:20
  He can see the colors.
• 1:05:21
  He can smell the smells.
• 1:05:23
  And to this day, he remembers those moments.
• 1:05:27
  And looking around and seeing these legends and how they handled themselves and how he wanted to do the same.
• 1:05:39
  So anyway.
• 1:05:41
  Very cool.
• 1:05:44
  That's my take on what is out on the behind the scenes.
• 1:05:49
  And with that, I think that's everything I have in my notes.
• 1:05:53
  Anything else you want to talk about?
• 1:05:56
  Are we ever going to know if the Masters are going to compete at the games?
• 1:06:02
  I'm not holding my breath.
• 1:06:09
  I did not catch Pedro's whiteboard show this week.
• 1:06:13
  I don't even know what it was about.
• 1:06:15
  I saw it pop up yesterday, but I have been so busy with my job.
• 1:06:21
  Was it more Wadapalooza coverage?
• 1:06:24
  No, no, no.
• 1:06:24
  Whiteboard is like, it's like death by, but Pedro's version.
• 1:06:28
  Right.
• 1:06:30
  I don't even know what the topics were.
• 1:06:31
  Oh.
• 1:06:36
  I did see something.
• 1:06:38
  So in the behind the scenes, when Justin is very stoic and like not really talking to people and Savan makes a comment, like, does he not like doing interviews?
• 1:06:51
  And Adam says, I don't know.
• 1:06:53
  I've never really asked him.
• 1:06:56
  And so they're walking down like the hallway and Savan asks him, do you not like doing interviews?
• 1:07:01
  And he goes,
• 1:07:02
  listen, I want the sport to grow and I want to do what I can to help the sport grow, but I need people to get better at this.
• 1:07:09
  So I'm not answering the same question four times in a row.
• 1:07:14
  Oh, man.
• 1:07:20
  And in some aspects, I get what he's saying.
• 1:07:22
  Yeah.
• 1:07:23
  Because in the behind the scenes, one thing that I did notice, so many people had access.
• 1:07:28
  We were told, Buttery Bros, Craig Ritchie, and Siobhan.
• 1:07:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:07:33
  There were so many people, so many cameras.
• 1:07:37
  It was a zoo in that warm-up area.
• 1:07:42
  Interesting.
• 1:07:44
  So as an athlete, I'm wondering how that was taken.
• 1:07:49
  Because they went from nobody had access, except for like the documentary crew, to now like...
• 1:08:02
  talking elite fitness is down there.
• 1:08:03
  Mayhem's down there.
• 1:08:05
  Savan, then Craig and the buttery bros.
• 1:08:10
  Now you've got cameras everywhere.
• 1:08:12
  Yep.
• 1:08:12
  Like the one camera where guys trying to avoid the other camera guy.
• 1:08:15
  Yep.
• 1:08:16
  Yeah.
• 1:08:20
  I could see that as an athlete perspective.
• 1:08:23
  And if like, we're not communicating with talking elite fitness and,
• 1:08:30
  Yeah, we probably will ask Justin the exact same question.
• 1:08:36
  Well, I would hope we wouldn't ask the same question as Talking Elite Fitness.
• 1:08:39
  But I get what he's saying.
• 1:08:43
  Even if you change up the questions, it's just got to be like you just because it like he had just done inverted medley.
• 1:08:52
  Right.
• 1:08:52
  And he took second.
• 1:08:53
  And so everybody wanted to talk to him.
• 1:08:56
  So it's like he's going through this barrage of interviews right after.
• 1:09:02
  And even if the questions are different, they're probably in the similar vein.
• 1:09:08
  Oh, absolutely.
• 1:09:16
  That is true, Kenneth.
• 1:09:18
  One camera is taping the interview of the other camera guy.
• 1:09:29
  so it's um and what made me think of that is can this comment of a pat had an interesting take on making up athletes i know that's huge in the nfl kind of like they did for is that they were what they were going to do with ricky and dylan and hopper and teams yep are they going to put together i believe too oh nice
• 1:09:58
  So they'll get a little mini documentary of water.
• 1:10:01
  All mic'd up.
• 1:10:03
  Yeah.
• 1:10:04
  I know that's in the NFL.
• 1:10:08
  That'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
• 1:10:10
  I think that could be huge.
• 1:10:14
  Yeah.
• 1:10:21
  So Carolyn says people are so fake when they're mic'd up.
• 1:10:25
  I think it depends on the person.
• 1:10:29
  Yeah.
• 1:10:37
  Trying to be funny just because I have a mic on.
• 1:10:43
  Yeah.
• 1:10:43
  I think it depends on the person.
• 1:10:46
  Some people are just going to be very intense and you're going to get that intensity.
• 1:10:52
  Maybe them talking to themselves and you know, whatever the NFL guys say, like they forget the mics on like,
• 1:11:00
  10 minutes into the game because they're so focused on everything else yeah um kind of said behind the scenes took four months to come out I will tell you it is way harder than anybody thinks the little documentary we've been working on it is just
• 1:11:24
  I have to carve out so much time to edit a piece.
• 1:11:28
  It's just been really hard with the holidays and everything.
• 1:11:31
  And working a full-time job that actually wants me to do work now.
• 1:11:36
  Work.
• 1:11:40
  And I'll try to catch it, Kenneth.
• 1:11:45
  I actually like that show sometimes.
• 1:11:48
  Mostly.
• 1:11:48
  Yeah.
• 1:11:51
  I like the takes.
• 1:11:54
  I like that you're at 40 seconds and you're done.
• 1:11:58
  Death by my gosh, they, they go on for like ever.
• 1:12:10
  Um, it all depends.
• 1:12:14
  It's funny.
• 1:12:15
  Cause like when I, when I did Jamie's documentary, um,
• 1:12:18
  Like it was just her so I could get back and I could edit that night in the hotel room.
• 1:12:27
  And, and then edit the next morning and then go film some more and then edit.
• 1:12:32
  So then by the end of the weekend, I had it almost done.
• 1:12:36
  Cause I had it, I was building it as we were going.
• 1:12:41
  Um, but when you're doing four athletes and you have to wait until it's over and then interview them afterwards and try to piece it all together and then get all the video components and the photo components at all different times, it just, it gets, and then the longer you are away from it, the harder it is to remember how you want to put it.
• 1:13:06
  Yep.
• 1:13:09
  But
• 1:13:09
  we'll try to get the rest of that documentary out soon with that.
• 1:13:20
  I guess that's all we got.
• 1:13:21
  That's it.
• 1:13:24
  We will see you next week on there's an, a CrossFit.
• 1:13:32
  The original, the original.