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Clydesdale Media Live from the CrossFit Games | Wrap Up Day 2 · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't happen right away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how it win us, man.
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  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale
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  Media Podcast live from the
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  Renaissance in Albany, New York.
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  And here comes Alison Scuds.
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  And there she is.
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  Let's bring her in.
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  Can you hear me?
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  Yep.
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  I can.
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  Okay.
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  I don't think the microphone is hooked up.
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  I have it plugged in.
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  And then I pushed the power button,
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  but nothing happened.
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  Did you hold it in?
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  Does it have a light on it?
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  It does.
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  I'm not seeing it do
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  anything when I hold it.
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  Let me try the other one.
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  Okay.
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  Can I wear my AirPods and
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  this at the same time?
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  Yes.
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  You already sound better
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  tonight than you did last night.
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  Oh, okay.
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  That's good.
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  So maybe it is Ricky.
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  Yeah, we are live.
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  Oh, I'm sorry.
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  You're fine.
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  Sorry guys.
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  It's all good.
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  It sounds good.
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  Then if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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  So we're just.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um, we're here live in Albany.
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  Uh,
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  Allie and I are here in Albany.
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  Yeah, what's her name?
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  Jamie.
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  She's in Michigan,
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  leaving us high and dry.
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  But we're making it work somehow.
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  But, yeah, we're hanging out here,
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  having a good time.
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  It was a wild,
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  wild day at the CrossFit Games.
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  But before we get into all
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  the action on the floor,
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  the day started with a twist.
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  Dave Castro came out and
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  added some run to event four.
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  He added one other lap or
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  one other length of the
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  floor on the handstand walk.
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  Felt it was a little
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  underwhelming for a big twist.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, yeah, it was a little underwhelming.
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  Was it not originally said
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  that that was three hundred
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  feet of running?
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  No.
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  I swear that Isabel is two hundred feet.
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  Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
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  I don't know.
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  Right?
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  Never did I hear it feet?
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  No.
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  I don't know.
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  Definitely not because they
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  released the behind the
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  scenes video and there were
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  like on the runner so you
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  couldn't even do three
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  hundred feet on the runner.
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  So if they did, it was a typo.
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  But I think it was always
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  three hundred meters.
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  I mean that makes more sense
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  I just I swear I read the
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  feet and yeah lex this one
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  was always three hundred
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  meters yeah four hundred
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  makes more sense but I mean
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  either uh jeremy eats world
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  scuds did castro hint at
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  adding the distance when you tested
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  Um, not really.
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  I know that Rafa tested was
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  doing four hundred meters
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  on his first couple rounds
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  and mid workout.
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  He changed it to three
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  hundred for him because I
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  think he was taking longer.
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  So I was interested because like my runs,
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  I mean,
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  I'm not I'm definitely not the
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  best runner,
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  but my runs were very slow at the ranch.
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  I still did it on the
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  woodway like they did at the games.
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  But I was wondering if
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  maybe that one was kind of
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  like the air runner issue
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  where his was calibrated
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  like to an old system and
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  then when they got the new
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  ones at the games they
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  tested the the distance
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  again and maybe they were
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  quicker that was kind of
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  like the only thing that I
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  was like maybe that
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  happened it's total
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  speculation like I have no
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  insider info on that but
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  That was kind of what my
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  assumption was because to my knowledge,
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  they had already tested it
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  a few times when I test it
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  and they were pretty
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  certain on the three
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  hundred meter distance.
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  And my time was like twenty five, I think,
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  or twenty four or twenty five, I believe.
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  So it wasn't super fast.
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  And that was doing but I was
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  I did I tested it to forty five.
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  So I tested it much heavier.
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  which definitely had an
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  impact on the whole workout,
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  just because it's a lot,
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  you have to brace a lot harder.
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  You have to break it up more, um,
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  gets the heart rate a lot higher.
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  So, um,
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  but I did know about the final
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  fifty feet at the end,
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  just because that was just
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  a layout thing because
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  every round they were going
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  down and back to the
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  treadmill and then they wanted to finish.
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  They didn't want them to go
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  down and back and then have
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  to turn around and run.
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  So I did test it with the
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  full handstand walk length.
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  So I did a hundred and fifty
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  on my last lap as well.
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  There's a lot more in the
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  chat about the stuff that
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  happened on the floor.
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  Again,
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  we're going to get to that in a second.
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  A couple of things around the games.
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  People asked yesterday about the crowds.
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  I will tell you, under Village,
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  the line was completely
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  wrapped around the building
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  to get under Village today.
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  Vendors who were very happy
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  with how things were going as well.
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  I actually heard that
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  vendors didn't bring as
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  much this year after what
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  happened last year,
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  and they are running out of
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  stock because they are much
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  more crowded than they anticipated.
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  I've been there too.
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  Like they have,
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  I don't know if you saw Scott,
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  but like on the ceiling,
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  they have like these cool
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  like studio lights and it
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  actually like spells out
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  CrossFit kind of subtly.
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  And it was a good vibe in there for sure.
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  Yeah, it was, I love where it was at.
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  It was, I mean, one,
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  it's air conditioned unlike
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  Wisconsin when you're in a barn.
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  Everybody kind of brought
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  their best foot forward.
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  And I will say it's the best
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  layout the CrossFit retail
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  store has ever put up.
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  You got to get some footage in there.
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  So I did take some pictures
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  of the shirts that we
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  talked about last night.
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  Yeah.
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  Cause they're not on the store yet.
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  Like we can't see them on our end.
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  So let me pull those up.
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  Okay.
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  Um, just like,
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  it was bummed out to hear
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  that it wasn't completely connected,
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  but it's, it's not that far of a walk.
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  Like,
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  it felt kind of like,
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  whereas last year it felt like very far.
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  And maybe that was cause it
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  was so hot and whatnot, but it definitely,
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  even though it wasn't
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  technically the same building,
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  it does feel like a more
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  cohesive experience.
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  Okay.
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  Well, this sucks.
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  Um, I cannot blow it up.
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  Oh,
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  Hold on.
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  Let me try to share this another way.
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  So I can at least show Pukie.
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  Sort of worried that this is
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  like games exclusive merch.
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  I mean,
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  I guess depending on what they have left.
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  Because it's not on their website.
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  Yeah.
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  Get you something.
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  Okay.
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  Come on.
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  There we go.
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  So there's the Pukie shirt.
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  Oh, is that what Bryson had on?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So that is out,
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  and you see it's got the
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  full CrossFit logo on it.
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  Now,
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  I think they've brought back Forging
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  Elite Fitness.
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  That's a flag that you can buy.
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  Nice.
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  And it does not say twenty twenty five.
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  Yeah.
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  CrossFit Games on it.
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  This is a CrossFit shirt
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  with like the metal lettering,
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  which I thought was kind of
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  cool and different.
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  Yep.
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  Here is, uh,
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  eat meat and veggies CrossFit.
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  Oh, that's cute.
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  That's cool.
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  Uh, here, here's a shirt.
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  Yeah.
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  That's like a new version of it.
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  Games, twenty,
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  twenty five CrossFit forging
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  elite fitness.
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  And the old routine is the enemy.
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  Yeah.
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  So they're,
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  they're bringing out all the old hits.
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  Well, hopefully they go online.
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  The general public would
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  like some of these.
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  Well,
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  a lot of them look like they are
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  branded to be online and sold year round.
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  Yeah.
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  Other than the forging elite
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  fitness shirt.
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  That's the only one that
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  said CrossFit games,
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  Yeah.
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  It doesn't take much to,
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  to like up the merch, you know?
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  So it's great.
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  Yeah.
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  So I thought that was cool.
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  Uh, inside the arena,
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  the whole lower bowl was full.
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  Um, the upper middles were pretty full.
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  So it was definitely a much
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  better crowd today than it was yesterday.
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  Good.
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  It's good to hear.
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  Um,
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  Fergie wants to know if they have
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  Spartan green.
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  I did.
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  I did not see Spartan green.
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  Oh,
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  spectator experience,
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  they could do a little bit
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  more with the lighting.
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  And also,
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  at least the events that I watched,
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  the DJ was pretty weak.
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  They before the final heat
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  of the women for six and seven,
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  they had some kind of like
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  almost like not elevator
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  music but like almost like
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  very chill music like
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  serious music for the
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  athletes like coming up to
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  the floor which is fine
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  that's a cool atmosphere
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  but then they were all like
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  on their starting mats and
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  the music was just like so
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  dead and the crowd was so
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  dead and I was like they're
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  about to do like a sprint
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  workout like you need to
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  like turn some something
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  bumping on right now like
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  it was just like that was
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  definitely a miss for me I
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  was like ah I couldn't
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  because that was such a fun
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  event to watch so
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  They could have created a
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  little bit more of like, okay,
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  we're about to go, you know.
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  Larry Young with nine ninety
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  nine super chat from where we were at.
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  It's great programming.
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  Great.
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  Lots of swings and pop.
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  Yeah.
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  Balanced old school merch
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  full pretty much today.
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  Albany.
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  This little square is fine.
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  Yeah.
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  The facilities are awesome.
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  Like,
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  you look around Albany and
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  you would not picture the
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  inside of these facilities
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  to be as nice as they are.
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  The amenities for the media
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  are better than they've been ever.
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  The, the,
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  the vendor village is the best
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  I've ever seen it at the games.
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  Cause it's indoor.
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  It looks nice.
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  It's,
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  I don't know.
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  It's just really, and the,
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  and the venue itself, the,
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  the arena looks really good inside.
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  Like the lighting is really good.
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  The Jumbotron is awesome.
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  The seats are nice.
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  It, it just is really good.
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  And, but we know we're not coming back.
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  So don't get too attached.
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  Yeah.
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  That sort of sucks.
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  Cause like Allison was saying yesterday,
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  it takes time to learn the
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  venue and learn.
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  And like,
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  I mean,
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  it is nice to stay in one place for
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  a few years and for even
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  for spectators to learn
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  restaurants and where they
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  want to go and just getting around.
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  Does it look professional?
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  No, it does.
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  I think you're muted, Allison.
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  All of a sudden we can't hear you.
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  Um, while she's trying to get on.
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  Um, yeah, it looks professional.
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  They, they extended the ending,
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  the landing where you come in to finish.
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  And, uh,
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  that makes it even better there too.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I think she can hear us.
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  We can't hear her.
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  She might be doing the out and in thing.
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  Vicki with a four ninety
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  nine super chat for a cup
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  of coffee and a snack or a snack.
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  Thank you so much.
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  That would have been so nice today.
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  Are you making it inside for
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  the events today or not?
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  So only I've only made one today,
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  but the content I'm trying to get,
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  I just can't get.
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  And because it's in two
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  different buildings.
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  Right.
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  If I had a team of two,
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  I could do I could do all this stuff.
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  Right.
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  I just, because I'm a team of one,
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  it's really hard.
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  Now,
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  Ishmael is getting me some content
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  from inside.
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  So I have a lot of video of
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  Hattie for that documentary
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  and stuff like that.
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  And he, of course,
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  posting pictures left and right.
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  You going to try to talk, Allison?
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  Nothing.
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  Nothing.
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  Sorry.
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  Oh, there.
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  There it is.
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  Nope.
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  Now gone.
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  You were there, then you were gone.
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  Jeremy, no,
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  I have not done any of the workouts.
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  I was thinking about
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  possibly doing the run
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  deadlift TNC walk tomorrow just for fun.
• 14:44
  Just for fun.
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  Although that doesn't look fun at all.
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  I hope they announce the
• 14:57
  twenty twenty-sixth location tomorrow.
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  Now you have the mute logo
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  that you're muted, Alison.
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  There, now try.
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  Is this working?
• 15:09
  Yes.
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  That is awesome.
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  Okay, great.
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  I just ditched the AirPods completely.
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  There you go.
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  If they announce the twenty
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  twenty-sixth location,
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  It means that the sale is
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  imminent and that the new
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  owners are cooperating with
• 15:29
  the current owners.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Just like the open
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  announcement already being
• 15:34
  out for the dates,
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  just like the new merch
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  moving into a new owner.
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  I think that will just tell
• 15:44
  a big story if we do hear a new location.
• 15:49
  And you were saying for sure
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  it's not in Albany next year?
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  Dave said we are not coming
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  back to Albany.
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  Oh, wow, okay.
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  That it's a one-year thing.
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  Yeah.
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  And what's funny is the
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  people... So this was
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  something I had in my notes.
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  People from Albany are
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  telling me that Albany did
• 16:09
  nothing to promote the event.
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  That's not good.
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  Yeah.
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  Now the people at the
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  facility are asking us if
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  all our needs are being met,
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  can they do anything more?
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  which is really cool.
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  But the fact that like when
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  you went downtown Madison,
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  you saw CrossFit everywhere,
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  not the case here.
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  Yeah.
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  I wonder how much of that is
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  CrossFit versus like the
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  city of Albany and like how
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  that kind of whole relationship works.
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  Cause I would assume it's kind of both,
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  right?
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  Yeah.
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  I would say that's a little
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  bit of function of,
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  first year thing I don't
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  think that they really I
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  don't think madison on year
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  one had a ton of buy-in
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  from the city I think as
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  the years progressed that
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  some of the businesses
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  would start to know you
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  know they know that weekend
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  is coming they would prep
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  menus with extra like
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  crossfit meals like if it
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  came back next year albany
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  might be more prepared yeah
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  It's interesting that he I didn't watch.
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  I'm assuming it was like one
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  of the weekend reviews that
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  Dave said we're not coming
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  back to Albany.
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  That would almost make me
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  think that they do have a location.
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  Yeah,
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  because I feel like if it were up in
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  the air, like, okay,
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  it's just a one year contract.
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  But like,
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  maybe we'll sign another one year
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  contract.
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  But if it was definitely
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  we're not coming back,
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  that makes it seem like
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  they have somewhere else then.
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  Agreed.
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  Yeah,
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  I know for like the age group games
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  that the people running
• 17:49
  that are trying to work
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  with the city of Columbus
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  to form a partnership
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  because they want to stay
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  there long term.
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  And so they've been in
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  negotiations with the city.
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  community members and the uh
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  city of commerce chamber of
• 18:04
  commerce um to help promote
• 18:07
  the events and that's why
• 18:09
  they got it we've said on
• 18:10
  the show the different
• 18:12
  hotels with blocks of rooms
• 18:15
  so that they can show what
• 18:17
  how many people are coming
• 18:18
  to the town for the event
• 18:21
  and um and so they can get
• 18:23
  that partnership and making
• 18:25
  it making it an ongoing um
• 18:28
  an ongoing relationship
• 18:31
  Which they were late to the
• 18:32
  party on announcing that
• 18:34
  because so many people
• 18:37
  already had hotel rooms
• 18:38
  booked in Columbus before
• 18:40
  that got announced.
• 18:41
  So maybe,
• 18:42
  I don't know if these hotels can
• 18:44
  ask upon check-in if you're
• 18:46
  there for the games and
• 18:47
  maybe tally it somehow after the fact,
• 18:50
  because they're going to
• 18:51
  miss out on a ton of
• 18:52
  numbers with the way they
• 18:53
  did it this year.
• 18:54
  Yeah.
• 18:56
  If you are going to Columbus,
• 18:58
  I got some recommendations.
• 19:00
  Definitely,
• 19:01
  definitely check out North Star Cafe,
• 19:05
  Jenny's Ice Cream, Brown Bag Deli,
• 19:09
  and CrossFit Grandview.
• 19:10
  Those are some of my...
• 19:12
  CrossFit Grandview?
• 19:17
  CrossFit Polaris.
• 19:20
  That's like thirty minutes
• 19:21
  from the convention center.
• 19:23
  It is.
• 19:24
  Even people that ask me,
• 19:25
  I'm not even recommending that.
• 19:28
  Yeah.
• 19:32
  I see.
• 19:33
  It's not CrossFit Polaris anymore though,
• 19:35
  right?
• 19:36
  It is.
• 19:37
  Oh, okay.
• 19:39
  I thought they renamed it.
• 19:41
  no um the christy and
• 19:44
  patrick sold it yeah and
• 19:46
  they're old-time members
• 19:48
  who bought it so they have
• 19:49
  kept it all crossfit
• 19:51
  polaris okay they never
• 19:52
  really switched they called
• 19:54
  it training center but it
• 19:56
  was still crossfit polaris
• 19:58
  okay well I thought they
• 19:59
  changed it to like
• 20:00
  community fitness polaris
• 20:03
  like it was like cfp or
• 20:04
  something I don't think it
• 20:07
  ever got to that point I
• 20:08
  got you okay let's see
• 20:11
  It is a great gym also.
• 20:14
  Jeremy says it'll go
• 20:16
  overseas too much flying back and forth.
• 20:18
  Dave specifically said it
• 20:20
  like probably in two years,
• 20:21
  it's going overseas.
• 20:24
  That's what he said.
• 20:25
  Yeah, I agree.
• 20:29
  I think it's a mistake personally,
• 20:32
  but I don't, maybe that was,
• 20:34
  maybe he knows something
• 20:34
  with the new owners that
• 20:35
  they want to push the
• 20:36
  Europe scene and that's,
• 20:38
  that's on the plan.
• 20:42
  One of the best crowds I ever competed in,
• 20:44
  though, was Brazil.
• 20:47
  CrossFit.
• 20:48
  Jenny's is a chain now,
• 20:50
  but it originated in Columbus.
• 20:53
  Yeah.
• 20:53
  Get your facts straight.
• 20:54
  CrossFit.
• 21:02
  Jenny's is basically in
• 21:03
  every possible games.
• 21:04
  Not the original.
• 21:08
  Come on.
• 21:09
  It's not in Albany.
• 21:11
  No, it's not.
• 21:12
  It's not in Las Vegas?
• 21:13
  I've never heard of it.
• 21:16
  It's not here in Michigan.
• 21:18
  Bramble Berry Crunch.
• 21:19
  And the goat cheese with red cherries.
• 21:25
  Peanut Almond Brittle.
• 21:28
  They have the wackiest flavors.
• 21:32
  They are in Whole Foods.
• 21:33
  Snackrelidge.
• 21:35
  Grater's Beats Jenny's.
• 21:38
  That's an L take.
• 21:42
  All right.
• 21:43
  That's Cincinnati versus Columbus.
• 21:45
  Graders is Cincinnati.
• 21:47
  Jenny's is Columbus.
• 21:51
  Anything else I have?
• 21:54
  Yeah, I think that's all the notes I had.
• 21:55
  So we hit the floor this
• 21:57
  morning with event four
• 21:59
  where they did the twist,
• 22:01
  and we had some running,
• 22:04
  we had some deadlifts,
• 22:05
  and we had some handstand walks.
• 22:09
  Let's talk about the women first.
• 22:10
  Okay.
• 22:13
  Because someone stared down
• 22:15
  the champ and said, let's go.
• 22:18
  She sure did.
• 22:21
  And I had goosebumps.
• 22:24
  That's like someone going up
• 22:25
  to Tiger Woods on a Sunday and saying,
• 22:28
  let's rumble.
• 22:30
  You know,
• 22:31
  there was a fifteen year period
• 22:32
  where that never happened.
• 22:34
  And Lucy Campbell went head
• 22:37
  to head with the goat and she won.
• 22:41
  Did she actually say that to Tia,
• 22:43
  or you're just saying by her performance?
• 22:45
  By her performance.
• 22:46
  Okay.
• 22:47
  I was like,
• 22:47
  I want to see that footage of
• 22:49
  her going up to Tia and be like,
• 22:51
  you and me.
• 22:51
  That would be epic.
• 22:58
  She forced Tia's hand to go
• 23:00
  early on a handstand walk
• 23:02
  and miss a handstand walk.
• 23:04
  When was the last time you saw Tia miss?
• 23:09
  I mean, I will say...
• 23:11
  If there was an event.
• 23:12
  Don't ruin my vibe.
• 23:15
  Dan's handstand walking is
• 23:18
  the event Tia doesn't win.
• 23:21
  All the time.
• 23:22
  That's where you see
• 23:22
  Danielle Brandon or
• 23:24
  somebody else beat Tia.
• 23:27
  It's no surprise that she
• 23:28
  didn't win this one.
• 23:31
  I'd say with the amount of running,
• 23:34
  that was surprising to me.
• 23:35
  I mean, yes,
• 23:36
  it was a lot of handstand walking, but
• 23:39
  you just think tia like with
• 23:40
  her high rocks you know
• 23:42
  like stent that she's been
• 23:43
  on it's like she could make
• 23:44
  up so much time on those
• 23:46
  runs but lucy beat her on
• 23:50
  the deadlifts yeah she beat
• 23:52
  her by going unbroken on
• 23:54
  every set of deadlifts
• 23:56
  that's incredible and
• 23:57
  that's what forced tia to
• 23:58
  do more handstand walking faster right
• 24:05
  Well,
• 24:05
  I would say it was probably heavy
• 24:07
  enough on deadlifts.
• 24:08
  It didn't need to be heavier.
• 24:09
  It didn't need to change to
• 24:10
  a heavy deadlift workout.
• 24:12
  Yeah.
• 24:15
  I thought that workout
• 24:17
  looked boring on paper.
• 24:20
  But like Dave always says,
• 24:22
  it's not about the programming.
• 24:24
  It's about letting the athlete shine.
• 24:26
  Yep.
• 24:27
  And that's what that workout did.
• 24:28
  I agree.
• 24:33
  The athletes made that workout.
• 24:36
  Yeah.
• 24:39
  I sort of expected Danielle
• 24:41
  Brandon to be a little higher.
• 24:51
  Really?
• 24:51
  I did.
• 24:53
  She has not done well on a
• 24:54
  handstand walk workout in a couple years.
• 24:56
  It's almost like she's saying,
• 24:58
  I don't want to be predictable.
• 25:03
  I don't know if I agree.
• 25:05
  I don't know about that.
• 25:08
  I think when you have your thing,
• 25:09
  you want it to be your thing.
• 25:11
  Like, yeah.
• 25:15
  Maybe.
• 25:16
  Maybe.
• 25:18
  She just hasn't dominated
• 25:19
  like she did in the past.
• 25:21
  I don't know.
• 25:22
  Yeah.
• 25:22
  But the ones that she's
• 25:24
  dominated have been, like, a heavy, like,
• 25:26
  it's only handstand walking.
• 25:28
  Like, the obstacle,
• 25:29
  the year where they had the row,
• 25:31
  kettlebell, long distance, like...
• 25:35
  that that's where she can
• 25:36
  really make up her time.
• 25:38
  And like, I think in a workout like that,
• 25:40
  I, you know,
• 25:41
  wasn't paying super close attention,
• 25:43
  but I would imagine that
• 25:44
  most athletes are just breaking it up,
• 25:46
  being smart.
• 25:47
  And like,
• 25:48
  you're not going to really make
• 25:50
  up that much time on a handstand walk.
• 25:52
  Like, yes,
• 25:52
  if you're more efficient and
• 25:55
  competent at the handstand walking,
• 25:57
  it's going to take less
• 25:58
  energy and that's going to, you know,
• 26:00
  compound and help you get
• 26:02
  through the event faster.
• 26:03
  But yeah,
• 26:05
  And especially these days,
• 26:07
  like everybody's good at
• 26:08
  handstand walking now.
• 26:10
  The field is catching up.
• 26:12
  Yeah.
• 26:13
  So that workout changed the
• 26:15
  leader's jersey.
• 26:17
  Yeah.
• 26:19
  Chase kept saying the first
• 26:20
  time since two thousand eighteen.
• 26:22
  That is not true.
• 26:23
  It's not true.
• 26:25
  It was twenty two.
• 26:27
  Yeah.
• 26:27
  After the skill medley.
• 26:32
  I sent a note to the podcast
• 26:33
  to say it was actually Mal
• 26:37
  O'Brien took over the jersey.
• 26:40
  It was Emma Lawson, then Mal O'Brien,
• 26:43
  then she got it back after the Capitol.
• 26:44
  Yes.
• 26:47
  I went back through all the
• 26:48
  video footage to see when
• 26:50
  she had it on and when she didn't.
• 26:52
  So for two events,
• 26:53
  she did not wear the
• 26:54
  leader's jersey in twenty two.
• 26:56
  Yeah.
• 26:58
  And
• 26:59
  I sent a note to the barbell spin.
• 27:01
  Hey, get this to Chase.
• 27:02
  Tell him to stop saying twenty eighteen.
• 27:04
  Set him straight.
• 27:07
  Yeah.
• 27:07
  Sounds so much cooler, though.
• 27:08
  Yeah, it does.
• 27:12
  But yeah,
• 27:14
  it was because you remember in twenty two,
• 27:15
  like everybody was shocked
• 27:17
  when she got cut on the
• 27:19
  first round of the skill
• 27:20
  medley because she couldn't
• 27:20
  do a single under single unders.
• 27:22
  Yeah.
• 27:22
  Yeah, I remember.
• 27:28
  Larry Young.
• 27:29
  Oh my gosh.
• 27:31
  This is actually Larry Young saying this.
• 27:34
  I need to check ID.
• 27:36
  It's funny.
• 27:36
  I heard a few people say
• 27:37
  deadlifts could have been heavier.
• 27:39
  Probably Larry,
• 27:41
  but it played out pretty good.
• 27:43
  Shocker.
• 27:43
  Shocker how that works.
• 27:46
  I'm always like,
• 27:47
  I know that I'm not the
• 27:48
  only person that they had
• 27:49
  test set events too,
• 27:50
  but I was kind of nervous that I was like,
• 27:52
  Oh, maybe I'm just like weak, you know,
• 27:55
  like,
• 27:55
  cause like I did it at two forty
• 27:57
  five and it was very hard
• 28:00
  and I had to break up every
• 28:01
  set substantially.
• 28:03
  And I was like, I don't know.
• 28:04
  I just kind of feel like the
• 28:06
  deadlifts were a little too heavy.
• 28:08
  And just with the axle bar,
• 28:10
  it's a little bit, you know,
• 28:11
  it's kind of like not the
• 28:12
  same percentages as a regular bar.
• 28:17
  um and then you know when
• 28:18
  you hear everyone
• 28:19
  criticizing you're kind of
• 28:20
  like oh maybe I'm just like
• 28:21
  maybe I just suck at
• 28:22
  deadlifts and they
• 28:23
  shouldn't have changed it
• 28:24
  you know but it was it
• 28:26
  looked like a better
• 28:28
  workout how it how it
• 28:29
  played out today I every
• 28:32
  single woman except for
• 28:34
  Lucy broke up the deadlift
• 28:36
  yeah if it would if it was
• 28:38
  too light people would have
• 28:39
  that people would have been
• 28:41
  crushing yeah exactly it wasn't too light
• 28:46
  Especially, you know,
• 28:47
  considering how many events
• 28:49
  they've done already.
• 28:50
  Yes.
• 28:52
  Why is it called the Woodway?
• 28:54
  I was expecting it to look
• 28:56
  like it was made out of a piece of wood.
• 28:57
  I don't know why the brand is that.
• 29:03
  Yeah.
• 29:04
  Maybe the original, they were actually,
• 29:06
  I think the original curved treadmill.
• 29:09
  Um,
• 29:09
  and maybe their first prototype was
• 29:12
  made out of wood.
• 29:13
  Cause they are kind of like slats.
• 29:14
  Right.
• 29:14
  Right.
• 29:15
  But they're the current day
• 29:17
  ones are made out of like rubber.
• 29:19
  Yeah, it is the brand.
• 29:22
  I don't know.
• 29:22
  It could be someone's last name too.
• 29:23
  I don't even know.
• 29:26
  Uh, just not get Jersey till day two.
• 29:29
  That's not correct.
• 29:30
  You can go back and watch the video.
• 29:32
  She has the Jersey on.
• 29:33
  She won the first event,
• 29:35
  which was bike to work.
• 29:39
  And then she lost the jersey
• 29:42
  on the fourth event,
• 29:44
  which was the skill medley.
• 29:47
  She did not get it back
• 29:48
  during Elevated Elizabeth.
• 29:50
  And then she finally took it
• 29:51
  back after the Capitol.
• 29:56
  I thought Haley won bike
• 29:57
  tour because she had a
• 29:57
  leader's jersey for the first time.
• 30:01
  Okay.
• 30:02
  But Tia does have it on in
• 30:04
  the event before the skill medley.
• 30:07
  Or she has it on in the skill medley.
• 30:09
  Okay.
• 30:11
  I went back and watched
• 30:12
  those events over again to
• 30:14
  see when she had the jersey on.
• 30:17
  You can pull them all up on YouTube.
• 30:19
  Yeah.
• 30:25
  What I did notice is the
• 30:26
  younger girls were stronger
• 30:27
  than the old guard.
• 30:29
  It wasn't me, Scott.
• 30:30
  I told you give me one rep
• 30:32
  max to balance things out.
• 30:34
  Things...
• 30:38
  do wtf you want the rest and
• 30:41
  I'll never complain I'm
• 30:43
  just giving you a hard time
• 30:43
  larry uh trish heard that
• 30:50
  the woodway was made of
• 30:51
  douglas fur all right trish
• 30:56
  all right so on the other
• 30:57
  side of the house we also
• 30:58
  had um we also had
• 31:04
  a changing of the Leisure's jersey,
• 31:07
  and someone get it for the
• 31:08
  first time in his career,
• 31:09
  and that's Jay Crouch,
• 31:10
  who dominated this event.
• 31:14
  Yeah, he did.
• 31:15
  Incredible.
• 31:16
  When I saw his time was like,
• 31:17
  sixteen-something, I was like, what?
• 31:18
  That's nuts.
• 31:18
  It's crazy.
• 31:27
  And he had such a lead, he could stop,
• 31:29
  look both ways,
• 31:31
  make sure that he kept the lead.
• 31:33
  Almost.
• 31:35
  He almost got beat by
• 31:37
  walking across the freaking finish line.
• 31:43
  He knew what he was doing.
• 31:44
  I don't know.
• 31:45
  I don't think anyone was coming.
• 31:48
  Yeah.
• 31:59
  Don't read all that.
• 32:00
  They went down.
• 32:03
  I can't see it.
• 32:05
  jay almost hot dogged yeah
• 32:08
  it yeah it was not I was
• 32:10
  like oh my god get across I
• 32:12
  mean even like judge is
• 32:13
  like go yeah I I saw his
• 32:20
  judge go like you have to
• 32:21
  cross yeah yeah um so that
• 32:27
  was pretty cool
• 32:30
  Then we moved into Jamie's
• 32:32
  favorite event of the weekend,
• 32:34
  which is the one rep max back squat.
• 32:37
  This was truly my favorite.
• 32:39
  How?
• 32:41
  How can it not be?
• 32:44
  To see that little dude get
• 32:47
  under that bar and walk
• 32:49
  back with five hundred and
• 32:51
  seventy pounds and drop
• 32:55
  into a squat and back up
• 32:56
  like I have six hundred in me.
• 32:58
  Yeah.
• 33:01
  I specifically said if it's
• 33:03
  just a three-rep attempt
• 33:05
  back squat situation like normal,
• 33:08
  it's going to be dumb.
• 33:09
  I mean, sure,
• 33:10
  it's cool to see Colton hit that weight.
• 33:13
  It's cool to see Annika and
• 33:15
  Miriam hit those weights.
• 33:16
  But, like, out of the women, I'd say only,
• 33:20
  like,
• 33:21
  three women even hit their third weight.
• 33:23
  Everyone failed their third weight.
• 33:26
  You left out Jennifer Muir,
• 33:27
  who won the damn thing.
• 33:30
  Oh,
• 33:30
  Jennifer Muir hit the same way as Anika
• 33:35
  though.
• 33:39
  Hot take.
• 33:39
  I think Anika has the stronger back squat.
• 33:43
  She finished and I was like,
• 33:44
  why didn't you go heavier?
• 33:48
  It looked so easy compared to Miriam's.
• 33:52
  Hers was amazing too, but I was just like,
• 33:54
  oh my gosh,
• 33:55
  Anika had like twenty more
• 33:56
  pounds in there.
• 33:57
  It would look so easy.
• 34:00
  And then did you see Rebecca Devine?
• 34:03
  Oh, yeah.
• 34:04
  Oh, and that looked easy.
• 34:06
  Unbelievable.
• 34:06
  Oh, my God.
• 34:08
  She attempted four.
• 34:09
  Did she?
• 34:10
  I missed that one.
• 34:12
  She backed off the rep with
• 34:14
  four hundred pounds.
• 34:16
  That alone is amazing.
• 34:18
  Yeah.
• 34:20
  Did the boys have to start
• 34:21
  lower than her top attempt?
• 34:24
  They let her go first and
• 34:25
  then strip the bar.
• 34:28
  no so I don't the first guy
• 34:30
  lifted what she finished
• 34:31
  with okay that's so badass
• 34:32
  that's so badass yeah five
• 34:40
  seventies freakish try
• 34:41
  moving that off the rack
• 34:43
  yeah listen I've gotten
• 34:46
  four seventy five off the
• 34:48
  rack and I can tell you it
• 34:49
  was it was hellish hard I
• 34:52
  can't even imagine a hundred more pounds
• 34:59
  Yes, Jeff.
• 34:59
  Rebecca Devine is teams.
• 35:01
  CrossFit Hendersonville.
• 35:03
  They're the other Mayhem
• 35:04
  team that had to go.
• 35:06
  They were like last minute one, right?
• 35:09
  Yeah, they're the ones who didn't... Yeah,
• 35:11
  they got called in because
• 35:12
  of the... I don't even know
• 35:14
  what happened.
• 35:15
  But yeah,
• 35:16
  they're the ones that worked out.
• 35:17
  I think it was a failed drug test.
• 35:18
  Yeah, I think so.
• 35:19
  It was someone got hurt and
• 35:20
  they didn't name a sub.
• 35:24
  They only named four people.
• 35:26
  It was out of...
• 35:29
  Yeah, it was out of Norway.
• 35:30
  Yes.
• 35:31
  Oh, wow.
• 35:35
  Okay.
• 35:35
  But, yeah,
• 35:35
  they're typically the second Mayhem team,
• 35:37
  but they couldn't have two Mayhem teams,
• 35:39
  so they had to go to the
• 35:40
  neighboring affiliate.
• 35:41
  I see.
• 35:46
  Did you see this?
• 35:47
  Denise really enjoyed Alex's
• 35:48
  commentary during the back squad event.
• 35:51
  I liked her kickback to
• 35:53
  Chase when he asked what it
• 35:54
  – Brooke felt like being
• 35:55
  out there for the last time,
• 35:56
  and she's like, I don't know.
• 35:57
  I have never retired before.
• 36:01
  That's a good response.
• 36:05
  Who was doing the commentary?
• 36:07
  Alex Kazan.
• 36:08
  Oh,
• 36:09
  I didn't know she was doing that today.
• 36:10
  That's awesome.
• 36:11
  She just did heat one and
• 36:12
  two of the women's squats.
• 36:15
  Yeah.
• 36:17
  And her response was what?
• 36:20
  I don't know.
• 36:21
  I've never retired before.
• 36:24
  I love Alex.
• 36:24
  Okay.
• 36:32
  James Sprague looks like
• 36:32
  he's going to herniate his
• 36:33
  back and shoot a hemorrhoid
• 36:35
  out every time he back squats.
• 36:37
  That is an accurate description.
• 36:40
  That's exactly what I look like squatting.
• 36:42
  And just looking in a mirror
• 36:47
  with far more plates than
• 36:49
  what I would have.
• 36:50
  Got to work with what you got.
• 36:51
  Yeah.
• 36:55
  James Sprague is performing good mornings,
• 36:57
  not back squats.
• 36:58
  I'm well aware.
• 37:01
  Yep.
• 37:09
  OK.
• 37:12
  So I thought it was a fun event.
• 37:15
  I didn't really like the format,
• 37:17
  as we've talked about on the show.
• 37:18
  I think tiebreakers can be
• 37:20
  an exciting element to the games.
• 37:23
  And if they would have had a
• 37:24
  way to climb a ladder and
• 37:27
  then have tiebreakers for
• 37:28
  everybody at the same weight,
• 37:30
  I think that would have
• 37:31
  been a lot more fun.
• 37:33
  Yeah, especially on the,
• 37:34
  I didn't fully dive into
• 37:36
  the leaderboard on the men's side,
• 37:37
  but the women,
• 37:38
  there was a lot of
• 37:39
  bottlenecks right around
• 37:40
  three Oh five to two ninety.
• 37:42
  And so I think there was
• 37:43
  like ten plus people in those weights.
• 37:45
  And so if they had something,
• 37:47
  I think it looked like they
• 37:49
  scored them tiebreaker on
• 37:50
  the attempt that they took.
• 37:52
  So if you attempted three hundred first,
• 37:54
  but then failed the rest, you, I guess,
• 37:57
  won the tiebreaker.
• 37:58
  Huh.
• 38:00
  Versus like working up to three hundred.
• 38:03
  okay so what I heard was
• 38:05
  from athletes is that the
• 38:08
  tiebreaker was your second
• 38:09
  lift that's what I had
• 38:10
  heard if you didn't have a
• 38:11
  second lift it went to your
• 38:13
  first lift yeah okay that's
• 38:15
  good to know but like
• 38:16
  annika and annika and
• 38:19
  jennifer muir did the same
• 38:22
  three weights the entire
• 38:23
  way through so they tied
• 38:30
  then yeah yeah um
• 38:33
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  I love when they have like the little,
• 38:35
  like, you know,
• 38:36
  sandbags over the yoke or
• 38:37
  like something like little sprint off,
• 38:40
  like, like they've done in years past.
• 38:41
  I think that makes it really, it's like a,
• 38:44
  you know,
• 38:45
  workout within the workout to
• 38:46
  make it more exciting.
• 38:48
  Yeah.
• 38:48
  And in the clean,
• 38:49
  they did like a clean and jerk runoff in,
• 38:54
  uh, in.
• 38:56
  Yeah.
• 38:56
  And they've done like the
• 38:57
  touch and go cleans too.
• 38:59
  They had the one year.
• 39:01
  Yeah.
• 39:04
  So that would have been fun,
• 39:05
  but it was a good event.
• 39:07
  Again, I could quibble with the format,
• 39:10
  but it was still fun to watch.
• 39:12
  I got excited.
• 39:16
  I do like that they had
• 39:17
  people go one at a time, though.
• 39:19
  They've typically done that in the past,
• 39:22
  but, you know,
• 39:23
  when you look at something like WFP, like,
• 39:25
  yes, the athletes got a lot more attempts,
• 39:28
  but it was just, like, a lot going on to,
• 39:31
  like,
• 39:31
  instead of just kind of focusing on
• 39:33
  one at a time.
• 39:39
  Allison looking a lot like
• 39:41
  Shailene Woodley tonight.
• 39:43
  thank you I think I think
• 39:45
  that's yeah I would I would
• 39:46
  take that as a compliment
• 39:47
  thank you um so we finished
• 39:51
  the back squat and then we
• 39:53
  went into probably the most
• 39:54
  exciting event of the night
• 39:57
  and I didn't foresee this
• 39:58
  to be that way but it
• 40:00
  really did turn out well um
• 40:04
  I love the box jump box jump overs
• 40:08
  three at a time,
• 40:09
  boxes the whole way down the floor.
• 40:12
  It tells the story so much
• 40:14
  better than in past years,
• 40:17
  but it was a back-to-backer.
• 40:19
  The first one was ski erg
• 40:21
  into chest-to-bar,
• 40:22
  into the burpees down the
• 40:24
  floor with a weight vest on.
• 40:27
  Strip the weight vest,
• 40:29
  come back to concept two bike,
• 40:32
  bar muscle-ups, burpees down the floor.
• 40:36
  this thing shook up the
• 40:38
  leaderboard tremendously
• 40:42
  tremendously so if you
• 40:44
  thought the one rep max
• 40:45
  squat was going to shake it
• 40:47
  up because it's um single
• 40:50
  modality this shook it all
• 40:53
  right back to where fitness was king
• 40:58
  Yep.
• 40:58
  Especially with the recovery aspect.
• 41:00
  Um,
• 41:01
  I also thought it was cool that we
• 41:03
  didn't see, uh, any repeat winners, um,
• 41:08
  just showcasing that, like,
• 41:10
  that they were different
• 41:11
  enough to reward different
• 41:14
  athletes and also the
• 41:15
  recovery aspects and
• 41:17
  different strategies that
• 41:18
  you could take as an athlete.
• 41:19
  Like,
• 41:20
  am I going to just send it and see
• 41:22
  what happens?
• 41:23
  Or am I going to like leave
• 41:24
  a little bit still on the tank?
• 41:27
  So I heard a male athlete
• 41:30
  tell a female athlete after
• 41:32
  they went that the first
• 41:35
  one doesn't get you tired
• 41:36
  as tired as you think it will push it.
• 41:41
  Totally different workouts for the women.
• 41:45
  Very different.
• 41:46
  I will say that is my big
• 41:48
  complaint with this was the
• 41:52
  difference in workouts
• 41:54
  between the men and the women.
• 41:55
  I,
• 41:56
  either the calories needed
• 41:57
  to be less or the time cap
• 42:00
  needed to be longer.
• 42:01
  So they had a little bit longer rest.
• 42:03
  I didn't, I didn't like it.
• 42:04
  Yeah.
• 42:06
  The woman that was told that
• 42:07
  did well in both.
• 42:08
  Oh, there you go.
• 42:13
  I think that was one of the
• 42:14
  most interesting things of
• 42:16
  the day for me.
• 42:17
  Yeah.
• 42:18
  Is the amount of talking
• 42:19
  between the men and the
• 42:20
  women in between events.
• 42:22
  And it wasn't camp camp.
• 42:25
  Exclusive.
• 42:26
  Hmm.
• 42:26
  Yeah.
• 42:27
  Well, that's cool.
• 42:31
  I've never been in the warmup area before.
• 42:33
  This is like my first time.
• 42:34
  Right.
• 42:35
  So I'm seeing these things
• 42:37
  that probably Alison has seen before,
• 42:40
  but it just seems like, Hey,
• 42:42
  these two people are
• 42:43
  friends and they're sharing
• 42:44
  a lot of information back and forth.
• 42:46
  Yeah.
• 42:48
  Even though they're in separate camps.
• 42:50
  Yeah,
• 42:50
  it can definitely be helpful if you
• 42:51
  know who you're talking to as well.
• 42:54
  But a lot of the times if I
• 42:56
  hear advice from somebody
• 42:57
  who doesn't know me as an athlete,
• 42:59
  I'm just, I kind of just like, okay,
• 43:00
  thanks.
• 43:01
  Like, yeah, it's so...
• 43:04
  specific athlete driven but
• 43:07
  also it's a different type
• 43:08
  like different types of
• 43:09
  athletes I think also like
• 43:11
  I'm a very like I know what
• 43:14
  my strategy is and maybe to
• 43:15
  a fault even you know maybe
• 43:17
  I like pace it too much or
• 43:19
  like have too much of a
• 43:20
  strategy versus like kind
• 43:22
  of letting it rip sometimes but
• 43:26
  Yeah,
• 43:26
  I remember actually one of my
• 43:29
  previous semifinal event
• 43:33
  level events that I competed at.
• 43:36
  I was in one of the first
• 43:38
  heats and someone in the top heat,
• 43:41
  a very well-known games athlete, asked me,
• 43:44
  was like,
• 43:46
  what pace do you think I should bike at?
• 43:48
  And I was like,
• 43:49
  What?
• 43:50
  We don't know each other at all.
• 43:51
  I'm like, don't you know your paces?
• 43:53
  I don't know.
• 43:55
  I can tell you what I did,
• 43:56
  but you're probably going
• 43:58
  to be faster than that.
• 43:59
  So that just kind of blew my
• 44:01
  mind five minutes before the workout.
• 44:03
  Oh, what pace do you think I should do?
• 44:04
  Yeah.
• 44:07
  Uh, Jeff Bako says,
• 44:08
  can you comment on how DB's
• 44:10
  interaction with the other athletes was?
• 44:13
  I saw nothing out of the
• 44:14
  ordinary in her interaction
• 44:15
  with other athletes.
• 44:17
  No,
• 44:17
  she was just like everybody else back
• 44:19
  there.
• 44:20
  And no,
• 44:20
  I didn't see the gooch and I didn't
• 44:22
  see cash backstage.
• 44:26
  No,
• 44:26
  she's as focused as every other athlete
• 44:29
  getting coached by, um, more not Adam,
• 44:35
  but the other one.
• 44:36
  Um,
• 44:38
  of Justin's coaches.
• 44:40
  But the glasses, I don't know.
• 44:43
  Yeah.
• 44:43
  Yeah.
• 44:44
  Jesse.
• 44:44
  Yeah.
• 44:45
  Jesse.
• 44:45
  Yep.
• 44:46
  Yeah.
• 44:47
  She's getting coached more by Jesse and,
• 44:49
  um,
• 44:51
  and that they seem to have a nice
• 44:52
  working relationship and
• 44:55
  everything seems peachy
• 44:58
  keen and all the other,
• 44:59
  and she's chatting with the
• 45:01
  other athletes on the bike
• 45:02
  while they're warming up on
• 45:03
  the bikes and whatever, nothing,
• 45:05
  nothing out of the ordinary to report.
• 45:10
  I will say like the one
• 45:11
  thing I've learned is before an event,
• 45:13
  the focus is through the roof,
• 45:16
  like getting any kind of
• 45:18
  interaction with an athlete
• 45:19
  for the press is very hard.
• 45:22
  It is much better to get it
• 45:23
  after the event is over and
• 45:26
  talk to them on a cool down bike.
• 45:30
  Yeah.
• 45:31
  And then they're very amenable to tell,
• 45:33
  talk and tell a story and whatever.
• 45:37
  Yeah, that's probably why, I mean,
• 45:39
  a lot of people have
• 45:40
  commented on Lauren
• 45:41
  Khalil's interviews and
• 45:43
  that she's getting a lot.
• 45:44
  And honestly,
• 45:45
  the not having the enhanced
• 45:47
  access may have saved her
• 45:48
  because she's getting them
• 45:50
  on their way back from
• 45:51
  events and when they're
• 45:53
  more willing to talk and she isn't.
• 45:57
  Yeah, in a way,
• 45:58
  it's nice to not be in their space.
• 46:01
  They will be more willing to
• 46:03
  speak to you if you aren't bothering them
• 46:06
  And you don't get on their nerves.
• 46:10
  Yeah.
• 46:11
  And most of the people back there,
• 46:12
  back with the enhanced
• 46:14
  access are doing more than one thing.
• 46:16
  They're doing more than just interviewing.
• 46:18
  So like they're splitting time with,
• 46:20
  with different stuff and moving around.
• 46:22
  Yeah.
• 46:26
  I have other comments,
• 46:27
  but I'm going to keep them to myself.
• 46:29
  Did you watch six and six and seven,
• 46:34
  Live or on the TV?
• 46:36
  I was live right at the finish line.
• 46:38
  You both watched it live?
• 46:39
  On the TV.
• 46:40
  You watched it?
• 46:41
  I watched it on the TV.
• 46:42
  And you thought it was good?
• 46:43
  I did.
• 46:45
  I did.
• 46:47
  I thought it was terrible coverage.
• 46:50
  I didn't say the coverage
• 46:51
  was good I said the event
• 46:52
  was good but you but you
• 46:54
  could barely like I know
• 46:55
  exactly what you're talking
• 46:56
  about like when they would
• 46:57
  show the floor you're like
• 46:58
  man this is going to be
• 46:59
  awesome but they kept
• 47:00
  zooming in on one athlete
• 47:01
  and you couldn't even see
• 47:02
  the race on the floor you
• 47:03
  didn't even know who was
• 47:04
  ahead on burpee box jump
• 47:05
  overs and you're like this
• 47:06
  is a perfectly laid out
• 47:07
  floor for a yeah for a side
• 47:09
  view and to see people it was awful
• 47:16
  I was talking with Lex this morning,
• 47:20
  and they've gone back to
• 47:22
  the same old coverage where
• 47:23
  they just show the top person,
• 47:25
  maybe a split screen if it's a close race,
• 47:29
  and then you don't see any
• 47:30
  of the other athletes until
• 47:31
  those are off the floor.
• 47:34
  And then you have to see
• 47:34
  them laying on the ground
• 47:35
  for five seconds before
• 47:36
  they go back to the... Exactly.
• 47:38
  Yeah.
• 47:38
  So frustrating.
• 47:43
  I will never like that coverage.
• 47:46
  I don't understand why they
• 47:47
  won't change that.
• 47:48
  I don't understand how they
• 47:49
  can think that's good
• 47:50
  coverage and how that's
• 47:52
  exciting for people to watch.
• 47:56
  Yes, I'm watching the zone.
• 47:59
  Nobody likes it, Andrew.
• 48:07
  It's zero, one hundred,
• 48:09
  maybe one ninety nine.
• 48:12
  Andy has it right.
• 48:13
  Love the event layout coverage was ass.
• 48:15
  Yep.
• 48:24
  And then just right.
• 48:25
  You,
• 48:25
  then you get to see the athlete that
• 48:26
  finishes dead last more
• 48:28
  than anyone else since
• 48:29
  they're the last on the floor.
• 48:36
  Yeah.
• 48:36
  Um, at AI says, Allie,
• 48:39
  tell your cat to calm down.
• 48:43
  What do you mean?
• 48:43
  There was someone banging on
• 48:45
  one of somewhere.
• 48:46
  Oh, sorry.
• 48:47
  I was just moving my chair.
• 48:50
  Oh.
• 48:54
  My cat's not here, sadly.
• 48:55
  I wish that she was.
• 48:58
  They were missing people
• 48:59
  coming up the outside lanes
• 49:00
  and confusing athletes.
• 49:01
  They missed a couple
• 49:03
  completely that overtook the lead.
• 49:06
  And even the ticker at top
• 49:08
  said they took over the lead,
• 49:10
  and they still didn't move
• 49:11
  off the center lane.
• 49:14
  Yeah,
• 49:14
  I think definitely for the – I can
• 49:16
  see why they do that
• 49:18
  coverage in some events, but, like,
• 49:22
  because you want to get the
• 49:23
  – you do want to have the up-closes and,
• 49:25
  like, get to really, like,
• 49:27
  see the athletes.
• 49:28
  But especially something
• 49:30
  that's really short and
• 49:31
  fast down the lane,
• 49:33
  it's like you almost need, like,
• 49:34
  a drone cam or, like,
• 49:36
  just a sideline just, like,
• 49:37
  following the leader, but, like,
• 49:39
  so you can still see the floor.
• 49:40
  Yeah.
• 49:41
  um because that was a really
• 49:42
  cool component of watching
• 49:44
  it live is like you could
• 49:45
  see they were right next to
• 49:47
  each other and you could
• 49:48
  see if somebody was gaining
• 49:49
  on somebody because of how
• 49:51
  fast they were like
• 49:51
  advancing yeah it was
• 49:54
  really great in person
• 49:56
  Now you're just starting to piss me off,
• 49:58
  Andrew.
• 49:58
  Yeah.
• 50:00
  I trust people who have
• 50:00
  decades of experience in production.
• 50:03
  It's only been one company
• 50:04
  they have ever used.
• 50:06
  There's been no threat to
• 50:07
  them ever not being the
• 50:09
  production company for the
• 50:10
  CrossFit Games.
• 50:12
  If you go back to twenty
• 50:13
  thirteen and you turn it on,
• 50:15
  you can't tell the
• 50:16
  difference in the coverage then to today.
• 50:19
  Every other sport you turn on coverage,
• 50:21
  it has advanced.
• 50:23
  It has gotten better.
• 50:24
  Things around it have gotten better.
• 50:26
  Hell,
• 50:26
  they didn't even change the graphics
• 50:28
  for ten years.
• 50:30
  It is ass.
• 50:32
  They have done nothing to improve it.
• 50:34
  Nothing.
• 50:36
  And I don't need to be an expert.
• 50:37
  I'm a viewer.
• 50:38
  I'm a watcher.
• 50:39
  I can tell you it sucks.
• 50:41
  I watch other sports.
• 50:42
  They don't suck.
• 50:45
  Yeah,
• 50:46
  I will say I did get to get a little
• 50:47
  peek behind the broadcast
• 50:49
  curtain last year.
• 50:50
  I was in their like control
• 50:51
  rooms and it's an amazing
• 50:53
  thing to watch for sure.
• 50:55
  And those people like are
• 50:57
  very good at their jobs,
• 50:58
  but it almost seems like a
• 51:00
  stylistic type of thing.
• 51:01
  Like you're saying, Scott,
• 51:02
  like they have this like
• 51:04
  formula and they stick to it and
• 51:08
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 51:09
  I was just trying that whole time to, like,
• 51:11
  brainstorm, like, what is that?
• 51:14
  What is the reasoning, you know?
• 51:16
  Because you hear that a lot
• 51:17
  from the people that watch.
• 51:19
  And, yeah, it's interesting.
• 51:22
  I would love to talk to Rafi about that.
• 51:26
  Yeah.
• 51:28
  Well,
• 51:28
  and part of my hope was the WFP would
• 51:32
  do something about that, right?
• 51:35
  And I understand what you're
• 51:36
  saying about people want to see –
• 51:38
  closer action I'm okay with
• 51:42
  a two or a three shot for a
• 51:44
  while I hate when they go
• 51:46
  to a one shot yep so just
• 51:51
  give me the couple lanes
• 51:53
  beside the person yeah
• 51:58
  along with the person don't
• 51:59
  just give me the one person
• 52:02
  Right.
• 52:02
  Which they, you know, it's,
• 52:04
  there's a time and a place.
• 52:05
  Allie's right.
• 52:06
  Like that,
• 52:06
  that three minute event to spend
• 52:09
  thirty seconds on one
• 52:10
  person and you've lost, which they did.
• 52:13
  Like, seriously, I'm like,
• 52:15
  we're going to miss the
• 52:16
  entire finish here.
• 52:18
  I don't need thirty seconds
• 52:19
  of one person on a three minute event.
• 52:21
  When it's the eighteen minute event,
• 52:22
  if you want to spend twenty,
• 52:23
  thirty seconds on somebody, totally fine.
• 52:26
  Yep.
• 52:27
  Yeah,
• 52:27
  and that's where they can sometimes
• 52:28
  tell the story of an athlete.
• 52:30
  They have it on them and they're like, oh,
• 52:32
  this is Brooke Wells.
• 52:33
  She's competed ten times, blah, blah,
• 52:35
  blah.
• 52:35
  Give a little background and
• 52:37
  story of the athletes,
• 52:39
  which I think is a great part.
• 52:41
  But it's like they almost
• 52:42
  need a dynamic approach.
• 52:45
  It reminds me a lot, actually, of...
• 52:47
  the crossfit um kind of like
• 52:50
  their no rep policy where
• 52:53
  it's like certain no reps
• 52:54
  and events are much more
• 52:56
  costly than others so you
• 52:57
  can't just have like a
• 52:58
  blanket statement much like
• 53:00
  you can't just have a
• 53:01
  blanket broadcast it's like
• 53:03
  okay this is you know and
• 53:05
  maybe they have like two or
• 53:06
  three templates okay this
• 53:07
  is like a longer event so
• 53:09
  we are going to tell those
• 53:10
  longer stories get in depth
• 53:12
  And this is a fast event.
• 53:13
  So we're going to like do
• 53:14
  mostly zoomed out shots, show the leader,
• 53:17
  but like also show the race
• 53:18
  because that's what makes
• 53:20
  this event super exciting.
• 53:24
  Yeah.
• 53:25
  And CrossFit has taken that
• 53:26
  feedback and now they have
• 53:28
  different penalties and
• 53:31
  kind of like standards for
• 53:35
  different types of no reps.
• 53:37
  And I think that was a really good change.
• 53:41
  Yeah.
• 53:42
  Agree,
• 53:43
  a double under is not the same as a
• 53:44
  rope line.
• 53:45
  Yeah, exactly.
• 53:47
  You can though, Scott.
• 53:48
  There's clock and rep
• 53:50
  counters on the floor.
• 53:51
  There's ticker across the
• 53:52
  top of the screen.
• 53:53
  The last few years we never had.
• 53:56
  There's always been rep
• 53:57
  counters at the top of the screen.
• 53:59
  Go back to twenty fourteen.
• 54:01
  There were rep counters at
• 54:02
  the top of the screen then.
• 54:04
  The rep counters on the
• 54:05
  floor are not broadcast.
• 54:07
  They are there in the arena
• 54:08
  for the people watching live.
• 54:16
  It's okay to say something needs improved.
• 54:19
  It needs improved.
• 54:21
  There can be a better
• 54:22
  watching experience than
• 54:23
  what we have today.
• 54:24
  There can be.
• 54:27
  I do think the rep counters on the floor,
• 54:29
  though, were a nice touch this year.
• 54:31
  I know they've done those in
• 54:32
  certain events,
• 54:33
  but it seems like they're
• 54:33
  really utilizing those this year.
• 54:36
  They used them for the pack squats.
• 54:37
  They used them for the team pegboard event,
• 54:40
  too, which was really nice.
• 54:43
  I could not agree more.
• 54:45
  I thought that added so much to the floor,
• 54:48
  having them on everything.
• 54:50
  You got to see the meters run.
• 54:52
  You got to see the scales on the machines.
• 54:57
  The made weight and the
• 54:59
  attempted weight on the back squat,
• 55:02
  I thought it added so much,
• 55:04
  so much to the floor.
• 55:07
  Yeah.
• 55:07
  Kudos to whoever came up with that idea.
• 55:18
  So anyway, that's that.
• 55:21
  At the end of the day,
• 55:22
  let's look at the
• 55:23
  leaderboards real quick.
• 55:24
  Okay.
• 55:24
  Give you your top five.
• 55:27
  On the men's side, James Hopper,
• 55:29
  Jason Hopper.
• 55:30
  Gosh.
• 55:32
  Jason Hopper has the
• 55:34
  leader's jersey again.
• 55:35
  He had it, lost it, got it back.
• 55:38
  Ricky Garrard made it mad
• 55:40
  ground to be in second.
• 55:42
  James Sprague is in third.
• 55:45
  Justin Medeiros in fourth.
• 55:47
  And Jay Crouch sitting in fifth,
• 55:50
  with Dallin Pepper sneaking
• 55:51
  up behind by five points in sixth.
• 55:54
  The points were very close, like,
• 55:56
  all the way down to eighth, really.
• 55:57
  Like,
• 55:58
  just like people were kind of predicting,
• 56:00
  like, those top ten,
• 56:01
  it could be anybody's
• 56:03
  tomorrow with those events.
• 56:05
  And I think Harry
• 56:06
  Lightfoot's the only one in
• 56:07
  there that wasn't in everyone's top ten.
• 56:11
  Yeah.
• 56:11
  Right.
• 56:13
  He kind of struggled on
• 56:14
  those last two events tonight,
• 56:16
  but I don't know how much
• 56:18
  that swung his points, but...
• 56:22
  On the women's side,
• 56:23
  Tia Clare Toomey got back
• 56:24
  her leader's jersey.
• 56:26
  Lucy Campbell, though,
• 56:27
  is sitting in second.
• 56:29
  Tia does have a sixty point lead,
• 56:31
  fifty nine point lead.
• 56:33
  Ariel Lowen is in fourth or third,
• 56:37
  and she is.
• 56:39
  Almost one hundred points
• 56:41
  behind Lucy Campbell.
• 56:41
  That's crazy.
• 56:43
  That's insane.
• 56:43
  Yeah.
• 56:44
  Lucy Campbell and Tia are
• 56:46
  running away from with this.
• 56:49
  Miriam Von Roer is eight
• 56:52
  points behind Ariel.
• 56:54
  Amy Kringle sits in fifth,
• 56:56
  just one point behind Miriam.
• 56:59
  And Maddie Sturt sitting in sixth.
• 57:02
  Yeah.
• 57:03
  I was really impressed with Maddie today.
• 57:05
  I mean, she's an amazing athlete,
• 57:07
  obviously,
• 57:07
  but she is a little bit on the
• 57:09
  smaller side,
• 57:10
  and I wasn't sure how she
• 57:11
  would do in the back squat,
• 57:12
  but she put up a really big number,
• 57:14
  and she's just –
• 57:17
  Good at everything.
• 57:18
  She is extremely raw.
• 57:20
  She's kind of like Jay.
• 57:21
  Yeah.
• 57:22
  Yep.
• 57:26
  Did you guys see the real I
• 57:27
  put out of Maddie watching
• 57:29
  Jay on the screen?
• 57:30
  Oh yes.
• 57:30
  That was adorable.
• 57:32
  That's adorable.
• 57:33
  I love it.
• 57:33
  And did you see the comment?
• 57:35
  Do you get one of Jason and Dale?
• 57:37
  Yeah.
• 57:37
  If they could watch each other,
• 57:41
  that would be amazing.
• 57:43
  Yeah.
• 57:45
  Yeah.
• 57:46
  The problem is they're on
• 57:47
  the floor at the same time.
• 57:48
  They'd have to stop working
• 57:49
  out to look at each other.
• 57:50
  Yeah.
• 57:54
  All right.
• 57:54
  Do we want to hit teams
• 57:55
  before we head out?
• 57:56
  I know Savon's live.
• 57:57
  So we lost.
• 57:59
  Yeah.
• 57:59
  A decent, well, not,
• 58:01
  we lost a third of our audience,
• 58:02
  but we still have two thirds here.
• 58:04
  What?
• 58:04
  Yeah.
• 58:05
  I want to,
• 58:06
  I have not seen the finish of the teams.
• 58:07
  I don't know what the leader.
• 58:08
  Yeah.
• 58:09
  So really close race for the podium.
• 58:12
  Oh yeah.
• 58:13
  Is Oslo in first?
• 58:15
  yep but I believe that I
• 58:16
  don't have it in front of
• 58:17
  me but are they tied for
• 58:18
  points scott or it's very
• 58:19
  close five five point
• 58:20
  difference yeah mayhem and
• 58:23
  krieger oh mayhem oslo
• 58:27
  mayhem and then butcher's
• 58:28
  lab and then butcher's lab
• 58:29
  okay yeah yeah and they
• 58:30
  just um they don't have their uh they
• 58:40
  don't have their final event
• 58:41
  for tomorrow yet.
• 58:43
  But Dave posted on his story
• 58:47
  like a behind the scenes of
• 58:49
  the teams doing lunges.
• 58:51
  The team is thinking that
• 58:53
  they're going to have lunges.
• 58:54
  Worm lunges?
• 58:56
  It was literally just people's feet,
• 58:58
  but it looked like it was
• 58:59
  worm lunges because they
• 59:00
  were all on the line.
• 59:01
  You know what I mean?
• 59:01
  Okay.
• 59:03
  He posted like a little teaser.
• 59:05
  I see he put out the event ten, which is
• 59:09
  Oh, right.
• 59:09
  That event is out now.
• 59:10
  Okay.
• 59:11
  Yeah.
• 59:13
  So do you think teams is
• 59:15
  like basically the same
• 59:16
  instead of the finish of
• 59:17
  the overhead walking lunge?
• 59:19
  There's a lunge to finish with the worm,
• 59:21
  but they have to also do
• 59:23
  I mean,
• 59:24
  they have done overhead worm lunges
• 59:26
  in the past.
• 59:27
  Gross.
• 59:31
  I have no intel of the team competition.
• 59:35
  I just did the individual testing,
• 59:37
  but it seems like the team
• 59:39
  events have trended this
• 59:40
  year as being very similar
• 59:42
  to the individual events.
• 59:45
  so I wouldn't be surprised
• 59:47
  if they had some sort of
• 59:48
  synchro thruster rope climb
• 59:50
  and then a lunge maybe even
• 59:51
  an overhead lunge with the
• 59:53
  worm to finish it off I
• 59:56
  would even like to see that
• 59:57
  just like rope climb and
• 59:59
  lunge a lunge thruster yeah
• 1:00:02
  yeah maybe yeah that would
• 1:00:05
  that would actually make
• 1:00:06
  more sense to do worm
• 1:00:07
  thruster and then you know
• 1:00:09
  lunge it down the field or
• 1:00:10
  whatever yeah I think that'd be great
• 1:00:12
  They haven't done any burpees yet either,
• 1:00:14
  so that could be a possible
• 1:00:15
  wrench in the difference in the workout.
• 1:00:20
  Yeah.
• 1:00:28
  I could see that.
• 1:00:28
  Bless you.
• 1:00:29
  Thank you.
• 1:00:31
  That final event is so fun, though.
• 1:00:32
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:00:33
  Especially ending with that lunge.
• 1:00:35
  Ace ending reps.
• 1:00:36
  Gross.
• 1:00:37
  Yeah.
• 1:00:37
  Yep.
• 1:00:39
  Ooh.
• 1:00:41
  Three, five, seven, rope climbs, nine,
• 1:00:43
  fifteen, twenty-one, thruster,
• 1:00:45
  hundred foot overhead
• 1:00:46
  walking lunge to finish.
• 1:00:47
  Yep.
• 1:00:52
  You know Dave has to have
• 1:00:53
  his march at the end.
• 1:00:54
  I know.
• 1:00:57
  Yep.
• 1:00:59
  I think it'll be a exciting
• 1:01:00
  day for teams and
• 1:01:02
  individuals tomorrow just with chances.
• 1:01:04
  On a team side, they have a lot of,
• 1:01:07
  the first event is very CrossFit-y.
• 1:01:10
  They have the four-person deadlift bar,
• 1:01:12
  which is always fun.
• 1:01:13
  It's a cool visual on the floor.
• 1:01:16
  They have big chunks of handstand walking,
• 1:01:18
  which in the past has been
• 1:01:19
  a really big shakeup for the teams.
• 1:01:22
  So that'll be interesting.
• 1:01:24
  I don't think they know
• 1:01:24
  exactly the format of that
• 1:01:26
  because they get briefed in the morning.
• 1:01:28
  So it'll be interesting to see, like,
• 1:01:30
  they had the one year where
• 1:01:31
  they all had to kind of go
• 1:01:33
  in the same order and you
• 1:01:34
  had to go unbroken.
• 1:01:35
  So I could see them doing
• 1:01:37
  something similar to that,
• 1:01:38
  which could really shake up
• 1:01:39
  the field more.
• 1:01:41
  And then, yeah,
• 1:01:42
  if we get some sort of like
• 1:01:44
  burner with the worm,
• 1:01:45
  especially we saw the teams
• 1:01:46
  today with those clean and jerk jerk,
• 1:01:49
  which was like a new movement,
• 1:01:52
  you can just tell the
• 1:01:53
  difference in the teams
• 1:01:54
  that have experience in
• 1:01:55
  that and how much of a
• 1:01:57
  difference that makes in
• 1:01:59
  their efficiency and how
• 1:02:01
  well they perform on those events.
• 1:02:05
  And just to reiterate how close it is,
• 1:02:09
  kreiger is at four eighty
• 1:02:12
  mayhem four seventy five
• 1:02:14
  butchers lab four sixty
• 1:02:15
  five whoo who's in fourth
• 1:02:19
  and then it's crossfit
• 1:02:20
  franco's imam company they
• 1:02:23
  are forty five points
• 1:02:24
  behind okay and fourth so
• 1:02:26
  it really does look like a
• 1:02:27
  three-team race and
• 1:02:28
  something unless something crazy happens
• 1:02:31
  There could be some, I mean,
• 1:02:32
  those three teams are very
• 1:02:34
  solid and they're in first,
• 1:02:35
  second and third for a reason.
• 1:02:37
  But we've seen crazier things happen,
• 1:02:39
  especially with a high scale movement,
• 1:02:41
  like a long handstand walk,
• 1:02:42
  especially if it's got to be unbroken.
• 1:02:43
  There can be a lot of shakeups there.
• 1:02:45
  And the team field is just
• 1:02:48
  very competitive this year
• 1:02:50
  with only twenty teams.
• 1:02:52
  So I know the Franco squad there.
• 1:02:54
  They're legit.
• 1:02:55
  I know I know a few of them
• 1:02:56
  and they're they're right there.
• 1:02:58
  They've been doing great all weekend.
• 1:03:00
  And yesterday's leader, Campbell City,
• 1:03:02
  is still in fifth.
• 1:03:03
  Okay.
• 1:03:04
  I think they did last on the back squat.
• 1:03:06
  That was tough.
• 1:03:10
  They are sixty-five points out of first.
• 1:03:15
  Everybody else is way more
• 1:03:16
  than a hundred points out.
• 1:03:17
  Yeah.
• 1:03:20
  So it's really going to come
• 1:03:22
  down to those five teams.
• 1:03:27
  Any others?
• 1:03:28
  I really want to see Tola
• 1:03:30
  get his gold medal.
• 1:03:31
  So that's what I'm rooting for.
• 1:03:32
  Do you know what Tola hit on a squat?
• 1:03:35
  I didn't even like see him.
• 1:03:37
  I don't know.
• 1:03:38
  I know Griffin did a four sixty five.
• 1:03:42
  Five sixty five.
• 1:03:43
  Sorry, five sixty five.
• 1:03:46
  I keep getting the hundred
• 1:03:47
  pound marker messed up for
• 1:03:48
  the men and the women.
• 1:03:50
  Yeah, I did.
• 1:03:51
  Griffin's.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah.
• 1:03:53
  Griffin had more in the tank.
• 1:03:55
  They just were rushing to
• 1:03:56
  get that last lift in.
• 1:03:57
  And that's probably all they
• 1:03:59
  could get on there.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah.
• 1:04:02
  It was very chaotic for the team format.
• 1:04:04
  They were like, five minutes to go.
• 1:04:05
  Yeah.
• 1:04:09
  How about totally getting
• 1:04:10
  his gold medal and Kristen
• 1:04:12
  Holta helping him do it?
• 1:04:13
  Pretty epic.
• 1:04:17
  I find it interesting that
• 1:04:18
  they keep talking about Oslo like a
• 1:04:22
  I don't know what they've been saying.
• 1:04:23
  A Norwegian team has never
• 1:04:24
  won or whatever.
• 1:04:26
  But then, I mean,
• 1:04:29
  they keep talking about them,
• 1:04:30
  but they fail to mention
• 1:04:32
  that it's taken bringing an
• 1:04:33
  American to the team to get
• 1:04:35
  them in this position.
• 1:04:36
  And it's like,
• 1:04:37
  maybe you should stop
• 1:04:37
  talking about it because it doesn't.
• 1:04:39
  Yeah.
• 1:04:39
  I don't know.
• 1:04:39
  It's weird.
• 1:04:48
  Jamie always defending us.
• 1:04:49
  All the top teams are mixed,
• 1:04:51
  you know what I mean?
• 1:04:52
  Yeah.
• 1:04:52
  There's no true grassroots affiliate teams,
• 1:04:56
  really.
• 1:04:57
  There might be some.
• 1:04:58
  I don't know for sure,
• 1:05:00
  but I'd say more teams than
• 1:05:02
  not are some kind of super team,
• 1:05:05
  whether somebody's moved
• 1:05:06
  there or like Raf's team,
• 1:05:07
  they travel in for, you know.
• 1:05:09
  Yeah.
• 1:05:11
  Yeah.
• 1:05:12
  Yeah.
• 1:05:16
  Well, that's pretty much all I have today.
• 1:05:18
  There are more vignettes out
• 1:05:19
  there for the members.
• 1:05:22
  I talked with, who did I talk to today?
• 1:05:26
  Nick Matthew after the back squat.
• 1:05:28
  I talked to, or no,
• 1:05:30
  I talked to Nick before the back squat.
• 1:05:33
  I talked to your guy, Tudor Magda,
• 1:05:36
  after the back squat.
• 1:05:38
  I talked to Braun,
• 1:05:40
  which is always an
• 1:05:41
  interesting conversation.
• 1:05:43
  He's great.
• 1:05:45
  because I interviewed him
• 1:05:46
  last year for the masters
• 1:05:47
  games and this year, and he's like,
• 1:05:52
  he's just over the moon
• 1:05:53
  that as a master's aged athlete,
• 1:05:55
  he's out there on the floor
• 1:05:57
  and he just wants to finish
• 1:05:59
  better than twenty seven,
• 1:06:00
  which is where he finished
• 1:06:01
  last time he went to the games.
• 1:06:05
  OK.
• 1:06:06
  But he it's a good one.
• 1:06:08
  And then I did talk to the AFJ today.
• 1:06:11
  about what they're trying to do,
• 1:06:13
  how they're trying to
• 1:06:16
  tighten up so little things
• 1:06:18
  don't bog them down.
• 1:06:22
  So we had a nice conversation about that.
• 1:06:24
  And those will all be live
• 1:06:26
  to everybody tomorrow.
• 1:06:28
  Basically,
• 1:06:29
  I'm not even following the
• 1:06:30
  twenty-four hour rule.
• 1:06:31
  It is as I get a new one,
• 1:06:33
  I put the new one in members only,
• 1:06:35
  and I take the last one of
• 1:06:36
  the members out to the
• 1:06:38
  public as I do it from now on.
• 1:06:43
  Uh, CrossFit,
• 1:06:44
  I did ask if their L ones
• 1:06:46
  were up to date and what
• 1:06:48
  they were doing to prove
• 1:06:49
  that all of their app,
• 1:06:50
  their judges are L ones are
• 1:06:52
  up to date whenever they do
• 1:06:53
  a competition.
• 1:06:54
  Now they actually post all
• 1:06:56
  the certifications on the
• 1:06:58
  wall with the names of the
• 1:07:00
  judges on it so that they
• 1:07:01
  see the spelling and can
• 1:07:03
  actually type it into the
• 1:07:05
  database correctly.
• 1:07:07
  Cause CrossFit doesn't have a,
• 1:07:09
  a dropdown list anymore.
• 1:07:10
  Right.
• 1:07:13
  That's a good idea.
• 1:07:16
  Should print those certificates.
• 1:07:21
  They actually hired a
• 1:07:23
  secretary who is taking
• 1:07:26
  that and making a database of everything.
• 1:07:29
  And they're doing their own
• 1:07:30
  reminders now to their
• 1:07:33
  judges when their L-Ones
• 1:07:35
  are due to expire.
• 1:07:35
  That's good.
• 1:07:43
  We actually talk a lot about
• 1:07:44
  like the goals of getting
• 1:07:46
  more entrenched with
• 1:07:46
  CrossFit HQ and having a
• 1:07:49
  database for CrossFit to
• 1:07:51
  have who are certified judges,
• 1:07:53
  who are good ones to have
• 1:07:55
  come in and do things.
• 1:07:57
  And they say they're working on all that.
• 1:08:01
  Now,
• 1:08:01
  hopefully that continues with the new
• 1:08:03
  ownership.
• 1:08:08
  So.
• 1:08:12
  Uh, no.
• 1:08:13
  And I,
• 1:08:14
  I don't want to ask them what their
• 1:08:15
  favorite color is.
• 1:08:18
  Although, uh,
• 1:08:20
  Jules that I interviewed with them,
• 1:08:22
  she brought me a red velvet
• 1:08:24
  cheesecake cookie.
• 1:08:25
  Oh, did she get that somewhere on site?
• 1:08:31
  She made it herself.
• 1:08:33
  She is, she is a known like chef, uh,
• 1:08:37
  level cook and baker it was
• 1:08:40
  so rich oh my gosh but it
• 1:08:43
  was tasted so good that's
• 1:08:46
  one thing I think they're
• 1:08:47
  missing out a little bit is
• 1:08:48
  the food situation on site
• 1:08:50
  I wish they had more better food options
• 1:08:54
  Although I had a slice of pizza today,
• 1:08:55
  and it was pretty good.
• 1:08:57
  Is it just, like, normal concession food?
• 1:08:59
  Normal concession food.
• 1:09:01
  And then outside they have, like,
• 1:09:02
  the Asian punch bowls, which were fine.
• 1:09:07
  One of the concessions today I had was,
• 1:09:08
  like, tacos, which was fine.
• 1:09:12
  But I just feel like they
• 1:09:13
  have a missed opportunity there.
• 1:09:15
  Like,
• 1:09:15
  I remember they had a couple
• 1:09:16
  specialized vendors in Madison,
• 1:09:18
  and they were, like, such good food.
• 1:09:21
  And they were always super busy.
• 1:09:23
  Yeah.
• 1:09:26
  It did.
• 1:09:27
  It had white chocolate on the outside,
• 1:09:30
  just so you know.
• 1:09:31
  Still talking about this cookie.
• 1:09:34
  She told me she bribed you
• 1:09:35
  with it to get the interview.
• 1:09:39
  We actually set up the interview.
• 1:09:40
  He doesn't deny it.
• 1:09:45
  In Vendor Village,
• 1:09:45
  they did have like a yogurt stand.
• 1:09:49
  which was a little bit different.
• 1:09:50
  You could just get like
• 1:09:51
  literally a cup of yogurt
• 1:09:53
  that you would buy at the store.
• 1:09:54
  They just had it available
• 1:09:56
  like as a vending thing.
• 1:09:59
  And I know some of the press
• 1:10:01
  people were eating that as
• 1:10:03
  opposed to the other options available.
• 1:10:09
  So, all right.
• 1:10:14
  Yeah,
• 1:10:15
  forget that Allie talked about
• 1:10:16
  Jenny's ice cream earlier.
• 1:10:20
  Yeah, they need an ice cream place.
• 1:10:22
  I'd be hitting that up.
• 1:10:23
  I've, I've definitely been in a,
• 1:10:24
  as a spectator,
• 1:10:25
  I've definitely been in a calorie deficit,
• 1:10:27
  which is not good for me.
• 1:10:29
  So I got to kind of get the
• 1:10:31
  calories in somehow.
• 1:10:33
  They have the acai bowls at least.
• 1:10:35
  Yes, they do have the acai bowls,
• 1:10:38
  but I think only one vendor
• 1:10:39
  and it's outside.
• 1:10:40
  Like they don't have a
• 1:10:41
  little cart on the inside.
• 1:10:42
  Like they moved it.
• 1:10:43
  Yeah.
• 1:10:47
  You've got to go like back
• 1:10:49
  and forth so much anyway.
• 1:10:50
  You're outside, inside, outside, inside.
• 1:10:52
  Yeah.
• 1:10:57
  Yeah.
• 1:10:58
  Anyway.
• 1:10:59
  Well, with that,
• 1:11:01
  Andrew's going to bring
• 1:11:01
  graders up to Columbus.
• 1:11:02
  We have those.
• 1:11:03
  They have them.
• 1:11:03
  Yeah.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah.
• 1:11:06
  We don't need you to bring us other.
• 1:11:09
  Actually, graders is actually.
• 1:11:10
  We don't need your graders.
• 1:11:11
  Graders is pretty good, but it is not.
• 1:11:14
  It is good.
• 1:11:16
  Agreed.
• 1:11:16
  Jenny's is a little creamier.
• 1:11:17
  in my opinion um with that
• 1:11:21
  guys thank you so much for
• 1:11:22
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• 1:11:24
  to like and subscribe we'll
• 1:11:26
  be back tomorrow night
• 1:11:27
  after it's all said and
• 1:11:28
  done see who the fittest
• 1:11:30
  man and the fittest woman
• 1:11:32
  on earth are and team I bet
• 1:11:35
  you and team and I bet you
• 1:11:37
  the woman is either tia or lucy
• 1:11:44
  Oh, it's not losing that at this point.
• 1:11:45
  She's far enough ahead,
• 1:11:46
  especially with the workouts tomorrow.
• 1:11:48
  Like push up line.
• 1:11:49
  Like she's so good at those.
• 1:11:51
  Yeah.
• 1:11:51
  Yeah.
• 1:11:54
  Yeah.
• 1:11:56
  All right, guys.
• 1:11:57
  Have a good night.
• 1:11:58
  We'll see everybody next
• 1:11:59
  time on the Clydesdale media podcast.
• 1:12:02
  Bye.