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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Sam Briggs Answers the Big Question! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody it
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is lunchtime lunch with the
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Clydesdale here on a
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Thursday afternoon what's
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going on Ken Walters just I
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think it's just you and I
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it's a song by Crystal Gale
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and Eddie Rabbit from the
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eighties just you and I
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Now we got Corey.
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So there we go.
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It's not just you and I anymore.
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There we go.
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Got to do my dart throw.
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I'm going to do it open
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instead of at the close
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because close I always miss terribly.
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Dang it.
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One of these times I'm going
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to hit a bullseye.
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I got a... I think I just realized...
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think I just realized my
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dart board is um spun it is
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not configured correctly
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because I just hit a triple
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twenty and um twenty should
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be at the top not kind of
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side wickered anyway ken is
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having uh rudd russets and elk
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Elk is one of my favorite
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things in the world to eat.
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When I was out in Montana with my daughter,
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the Fuddruckers even served elk like,
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oh my gosh.
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And there's no Fuddruckers
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left in Columbus.
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They've all closed down.
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And, uh, so we went,
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we were out in Montana and
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when I saw elk on the menu, so stoked,
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it is just the best.
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So enjoy that today, Ken.
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I had a Bear Bells salty
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peanut protein bar about an hour ago.
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My schedule's way off with
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getting my wife up and around,
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and I'm back to work today,
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getting ready to launch a
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new project in a few weeks.
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So getting some of the
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prelim talks done today, but yeah.
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Speaking of my daughter in Montana,
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we got a call last night
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that she got moved into her new place.
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So she has her own space now.
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She has an apartment.
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She mentioned at work that
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it came open and three of
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her coworkers with pickup
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trucks showed up at the
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U-Haul storage facility.
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They loaded all of her stuff
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up into three trucks in one trip.
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took them over and unloaded
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everything into her apartment.
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And she got to sleep in the
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apartment last night.
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So good to have friends with
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pickup trucks.
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And that was awesome for her.
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She said it was the best
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night's sleep she's had in three weeks.
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And so that was awesome that
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she actually has her own space.
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And the best part is you go
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out onto the balcony of her
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apartment and you can sing, you can sing.
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you can see the rocky
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mountains uh it's a
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beautiful view from where
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she's at it is uh is so
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cool it's the best place
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she's lived in since she
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left this house her college
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apartments were trash her
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apartments in pittsburgh
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were not much better and
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now she's in a really nice apartment so
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Uh, Meredith,
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he had debt props to the
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coworkers for having her back.
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She's only been there a week and a half.
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Um,
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so I guess she's making an impression
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that they were willing to help.
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Uh, pretty crazy.
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Ken says, check out Buffalo gal online.
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She's in Minnesota elk, wild boar, bison,
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venison order from her
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until the son-in-law starts
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hunting seasons in fall.
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Yeah, there you go.
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There you go.
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I will check her out for sure.
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A couple of things I wanted
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to touch on today.
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We're going to be all over
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the map a little bit today,
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but I saw this,
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I saw this thing that Sam Briggs posted.
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I had to share it because it's like that,
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that unanswered question
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that's always been out there.
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And, and she finally answers it.
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and so I'm going to share my
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screen and we'll take a
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look at her post so you can
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see in this picture this is
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from I think the sixteen
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games um when sam overtook
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brent on the trail run
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And a lot of people asked
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why she did it because she
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was already winning the women's side.
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There was no advantage to doing that.
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And she says that she was
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recording a podcast
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yesterday and the old
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Fikowski takeover got brought up.
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I've been asked numerous
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times after why I fought to
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overtake him when I didn't need to.
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Well, here is the answer.
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Simple.
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I did need to.
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And Fikowski has Rich
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Froning to thank for it.
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And during the two thousand
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fourteen champions open announcement,
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I led for most of the workout.
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But during the closing rounds,
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Rich was catching up.
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The voice inside my head was
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telling me we're hurting enough.
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I don't need to beat Rich.
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I just have to stay ahead of Annie.
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And I listened to that voice
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and didn't try to push and
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stay ahead of him.
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Ever since that workout,
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I always wondered if I had
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enough energy left in the
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tank to beat him.
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But now we'll never know.
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So when I saw Fikowski in my sights,
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it didn't matter that we
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weren't in direct competition.
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I had no choice.
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I had to see if I could pass him.
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Moral of the story,
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if you ever get the chance
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to beat Rich Froning in a workout,
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you take it.
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And Fikowski actually comments,
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you definitely passed me fair and square.
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I was in a rough place and
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couldn't have held you off
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even if I wanted to.
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But I made sure Tia and
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Christy didn't get me the next year.
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And Rich Froning chimes in,
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I always thought you let me.
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So I thought that was pretty cool.
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It's one of those infamous
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moments in CrossFit Games
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lore that Sam Briggs took
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that opportunity to pass
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Fikowski on the final, what,
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couple hundred meters of the trail run.
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And now we know the whole story behind it,
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that it actually was something burning
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in her from when she
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basically let rich froning
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overtake her in an open
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announcement and um and it
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was never gonna let that
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happen again uh so I
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thought that was pretty
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cool and then the fact that
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rich chimed in to say that
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I always thought uh that
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she let him beat her in that event
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Cause I can't imagine Sam
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letting anybody win,
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but there we have it
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straight from her mouth.
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She did that back then and
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has had a hard time living with that.
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So there you have it.
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Pretty cool.
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A fun little story to read today.
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When I was looking through my Instagram.
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Um, so Ken Walters, I know,
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I know I have a story for everything.
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My strength coach,
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Will Griffin beat rich and
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Angelo in a team event at
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the big Texas event last year.
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He put it on our PR board.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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Um, yeah,
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rich has a team that always comes
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up to fresh coast, uh, up where Jamie, uh,
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lives in Detroit.
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It's actually, uh,
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about an hour away on Lake
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Michigan and they compete on the beach.
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And, uh,
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I don't think they win every event, um,
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every year, but they,
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they come him and Dan Bailey.
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And, um, I think it was, uh,
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who was with them.
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They're three person teams.
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It's one of his cousins from Michigan.
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We're up there.
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And they did that event.
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And then Mayhem brought
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another team with Ben.
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And I think I'm just having
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a brain fart today.
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Again,
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the guy who does the merchandise for
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them and the graphics.
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Can't think of it.
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the top of my head anyway it
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was fun seeing them up
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there uh working out and uh
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as I was capturing some of
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that event live um it was
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cool seeing them do that
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with the community pretty
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cool um one other thing I'm
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going to touch on real
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quick uh to just kind of
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back up what we talked
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about yesterday and that is
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uh this was posted hillary shared it
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It was actually, let me share the screen.
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I don't know if you guys have seen this.
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We'll crank this up a little bit.
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Your fitness videos being
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scrutinized by a YouTuber
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that's compensating for
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never qualifying for the CrossFit Games.
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Are you tired of the
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CrossFit community
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attacking your movement
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patterns because you still
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don't understand how to do
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a burpee correctly?
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Then maybe you should
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consider finding a real coach,
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a coach that holds you accountable,
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a coach that'll tell you the truth,
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even if it hurts.
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We might just know a guy.
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How cool is that?
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What an answer to everybody
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saying that the athletes
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are in a tough position
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getting judged by everybody
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in the community right
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after they spent their
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energy hard at work over
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the weekend as a professional athlete.
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And I love that Marco used
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that as a marketing thing
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for his coaching.
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That was awesome.
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But I still can't get over
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the fact that people are
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butthurt about this.
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Every professional sport has this.
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And Corey and I were talking
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after we went off the air yesterday.
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Like,
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look at divers and figure skaters and
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gymnasts.
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They get judged every event
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right after the event, live on TV,
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live in the arena.
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People hold up cards about
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how good or bad you've done
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during that event.
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And so many of these
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athletes come from the
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gymnastics background.
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Why is it such a surprise
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that people are actually
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going to judge you?
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Jason Bourne, they get to do CrossFit.
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They don't have to.
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Exactly.
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When you sign up to be a
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professional athlete and
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you're in the public's eyes,
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whether it be a big
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spotlight like the NFL or a
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smaller spotlight like the
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CrossFit community,
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you are going to get judged
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in everything that you do.
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People are going to pick
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who's going to win.
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People are going to say
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you're better at this event.
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This is an event that's tough for you.
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Analysis is going to happen all the time.
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But there is a standard.
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There is a standard out
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there that you are supposed to follow.
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And when you don't follow that standard,
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it makes the sport not fair for everyone.
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And to make a sport real and
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to make it legit,
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it has to be a fair playing
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field for everyone on the
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on the floor everyone has
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the same chance to win not
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that this person has to go
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below parallel this person
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can go three inches above
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parallel it's not a fair
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equitable field for them to
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compete in and when you're
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online the only way to
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determine if that has
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happened is through a video
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review it's so it's so dumb
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Ken Walter says, yeah,
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and even the all-star game
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slam dunk competition.
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They get the scores right after.
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I would say that that was
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not a fair and equitable
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judging during the eighties.
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When the slam dunk contest
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was at its peak and you had
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Dominique Wilkins and Spud
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Webb and Michael Jordan and
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all those guys competing, man,
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the judging was sus at best back then.
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But anyway, that's that.
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So we're going to talk about
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a few other things today.
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I watched,
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I talked yesterday that I
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watched Tia's video.
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I'll tell you,
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it takes a lot for me to
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watch a Tia video.
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Her content is not my
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favorite on the planet.
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It may be others, they love her to death.
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She is the greatest athlete
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we have ever seen in this sport,
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but her content does not
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live up to what she is as an athlete.
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And so I saw clips of her
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getting her hairdo getting
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compared to Tim Paulson's hairdo,
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which is really funny.
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And some stuff about her and
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Colton shit talking, which in the video,
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the full video, it never amounts to much.
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Colton says he's saving his
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shit talking for the competition season,
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not for an exhibition with Tia.
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And he chuckles a little bit.
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And he's not in the video a lot.
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I know that Kenneth Lapp
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said yesterday that there
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wasn't enough Colton in it.
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And there really wasn't a lot.
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She's also asked why she's
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not competing in the
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in-person semifinal or the
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in-affiliate semifinal.
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And she says that she actually needed...
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to have something to train
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for and to train hard for.
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And so she's putting
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everything into the Torian
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as her big event.
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She doesn't mention the games.
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She doesn't mention if she's
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going to go to the games,
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if she gets an invite.
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Those are all those
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speculation things that
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have been swirling out there.
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And she does nothing to clarify it,
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which is a little bit
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aggravating because...
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she put that last video out
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making everybody think that
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Torian was going to be it.
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And she's done nothing to
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clarify anything that came
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out after that.
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And in this video,
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they talk about Torian again.
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And again, she does,
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she talks about nothing
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after Torian and what her
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decision will be, uh, following that.
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So found that, um,
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somewhat interesting I guess
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is a word for it um but I I
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just am tired of the games
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everything is this like
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cloak and dagger with her
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and she doesn't really say
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anything um to give us any
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direction as to what where
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her career is going to go
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And she doesn't owe us that
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or anything like that.
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If you're going to put it
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out there in a coded way,
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explain yourself at some
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point so we actually know what you said.
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So there it is.
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Ken says,
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at least she's consistent since
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her original retirement announcement.
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I guess.
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Yep.
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consistently shady not not
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shady in a bad way but just
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cloak and dagger never
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really giving you the full
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story or the full
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understanding as to what
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all of that means I also um
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this is the video review
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process of the show.
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I watched the behind the
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scenes part one of the
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world fitness project.
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Um, what I'll say is it was short.
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It was cute.
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Um, I enjoyed it a little bit.
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Um, but again,
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like I think it lacks some storytelling.
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Everything was super quick hitter in that.
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Um,
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there's a part in there.
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So basically what it is,
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it's people arriving in Indianapolis,
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getting their new jackets,
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getting the new t-shirts,
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doing some media stuff.
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And then they go to the Indy
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Motor Speedway where they
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meet up with some IndyCar drivers.
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And this is all athletes.
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They hop in a car,
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get driven around the track a little bit.
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I didn't,
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I think that is cool,
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but you're not telling me
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how fast they're being
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driven around the track.
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You don't see any real reactions to them,
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like getting scared of the
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speed or anything like that.
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Those are things I would
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like to know or see as
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they're doing that.
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They did get like
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autographed milk bottles.
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And if you've ever watched
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the Indy five hundred,
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the winner chugs milk at the end of it.
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And they all the driver
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signed milk jugs for them.
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to take back with them.
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And that was kind of cool.
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But then there's a part
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where they actually are
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talking about or showing
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the community events where
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they teamed up with local gyms,
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showed up and coached classes, did Q&As,
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all of that stuff.
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That's where I thought the
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meat on the bone was that I
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really wanted to see.
18:53
This is stuff that's been
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explained to us as things
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that they want to do to
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kind of differentiate themselves.
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And to me, it was too short.
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I wanted to see them working
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with the athletes.
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They showed a little bit of the Q&A,
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but not a whole lot of it.
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And I think that would have
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helped understand what
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their goal is with this
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community event or community events.
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They did a couple of them to
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see what it is they're
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doing to reach out and
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connect and become a part
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of the community.
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Because they don't have an
19:30
established affiliate system,
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they have to create their
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own community now.
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And I wanted to see how they
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were doing that.
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You hear them talk about it.
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You hear Saxon and Will talk about it.
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I wanted to see it in action.
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And it was really short in that area.
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They did show the facility.
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It is massive.
19:52
They showed the turf being laid.
19:55
They were getting ready to
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lay the rubber mats and put up the rig.
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It looks like there's a full
20:01
lighting rig that's going
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to be floating above it.
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So it's going to be more of like a,
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from my guess, with what I saw,
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like a Wadapalooza light
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show as it's going on.
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Rogue kind of leaned in that
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direction in Scotland.
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I think that it's going to
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be more that that we're
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going to see this weekend
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as opposed to like the
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conventional semifinal or regional setup.
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So that's going to be interesting to see.
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I would a fitness rave.
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That's it, Corey.
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It's going to be a fitness rave.
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Yeah.
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T-Bird says,
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I really enjoyed the behind
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the scenes video just released.
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I enjoyed the video.
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I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it,
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but I want more storytelling.
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There's this aspect about
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community outreach that
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they keep talking about
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that I want to understand more.
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And they showed it so
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briefly in this behind the scenes.
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I just wanted more of that
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meat from the bone than
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maybe the athletes going
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and riding in a car fast.
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that's just me personally um
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I want to understand it
21:18
better so I can talk about
21:20
it better and and just
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understand what's going on
21:30
I want to I want to gauge your
21:33
opinions.
21:34
They,
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they got these new like leather
21:36
varsity jackets with the
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WFP logo on the back and their name.
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And I'm just curious, like, is that,
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is that cool now?
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Because I come from the era
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of Seinfeld where putty put
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that on the eight,
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the magic eight ball and
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like got made fun of with
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the leather varsity jacket kind of thing.
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I think it looks kind of cool.
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Um, but in my head,
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I have that whole thing going on.
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And so I'm having a hard time figuring out,
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is it really cool or is it just, um,
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I don't know.
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The athletes seem to be enjoying it.
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And again, I'm I am not,
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I am not the hippest guy in the world.
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So I just trying to figure
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out whether it's cool or not.
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And,
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Everything old is new against us, Corey.
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And Ken says,
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I think those look awesome in
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black and white.
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Ken says putties was even
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bad for the eighties.
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Okay.
22:45
Touche.
22:50
Touche.
22:54
Um, so there we go.
22:55
Uh, but yeah, overall it was a good video.
22:58
It's, it's not real long.
22:59
It's super short.
23:00
The behind the scenes.
23:01
Um, if you want to watch it, it's a quick,
23:03
quick watch.
23:05
Uh, again,
23:06
I just wanted more of that
23:07
community outreach piece.
23:08
And there's, there's,
23:09
there's so many like
23:10
elements like Saxon looking
23:12
at this sign that they
23:13
designed about the
23:14
community and what it means
23:16
and what are the different aspects of it.
23:18
But then they don't really
23:19
talk about what those aspects are.
23:22
And then they go to gyms and
23:24
they're doing workouts with the community,
23:27
but it's super short.
23:29
And you don't like,
23:30
I wanted to see them like
23:31
coaching the athletes,
23:33
talking to the athletes.
23:35
They show a little bit of a Q and a,
23:36
I just wanted a little bit more.
23:38
That's it.
23:41
So, um, but it's, it's a,
23:44
it's a good watch.
23:46
Just not, I just wanted a little bit more.
23:50
T-Bird says maybe they'll
23:51
release a longer form behind the scenes.
23:53
What says BTS one?
23:55
So I'm assuming there's
23:56
going to be a BTS two and
23:58
three and maybe some behind
24:01
the scenes of the actual
24:02
competition weekend.
24:04
That would be cool.
24:08
So, yeah, I don't know.
24:13
Ken says putties fur coat
24:14
wasn't much better.
24:15
No, no.
24:17
And his face paint at the
24:18
Devils game was absurd.
24:24
Jay Burch,
24:24
the PRCA gives out those to
24:26
competitors who make the
24:27
finals and have for years.
24:29
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
24:32
So those leather jackets are like a trophy,
24:35
I'm assuming, for those people there.
24:37
What I couldn't tell from
24:38
the behind the scenes is,
24:40
did just the twenty
24:42
contracted athletes get it?
24:44
because I didn't see any
24:46
that said like Sagafi or
24:48
some of the challengers
24:49
that had advanced.
24:51
I didn't see their leather jackets.
24:53
I saw them in the t-shirts,
24:55
but not the leather jackets.
24:57
It appeared like just the
24:59
twenty pro card athletes
25:04
got the leather jackets,
25:05
and I could be mistaken.
25:07
I was just trying to
25:12
I was just trying to figure
25:13
out if the challengers got
25:14
it as well because they qualified.
25:18
Ken says, now I have a hockey bias.
25:21
I did like the devil's face paint episode.
25:23
Love the episode,
25:24
but the paint job was absurd.
25:31
Tiber says, I think they are great.
25:33
Speaking of the videos, something unique.
25:37
I think they have the
25:38
potential to be super great.
25:39
The Laura Horvath one, I will go on and on,
25:42
is one of the best
25:45
storytelling episodes of anything.
25:47
CrossFit, WFP, whatever.
25:50
One of the best episodes
25:51
I've seen in a very long time.
25:57
Uh, Corey,
25:58
Patrick Warburton is a hilarious
25:59
as an actor, dude.
26:01
I've, I've loved him since Seinfeld.
26:03
And when he played the tick, uh,
26:05
loved the old tick episodes.
26:08
He was so awesome in that.
26:16
A T bird think these are for
26:17
quick turnaround again.
26:18
Hopefully there'll be
26:19
something released after.
26:24
I would bet Colton doesn't
26:25
wear the WFP coat auctioned for charity.
26:29
I don't know.
26:30
I kind of have a thing about that too.
26:33
And I don't know.
26:37
I don't know.
26:38
I was thinking about saving
26:40
this for tomorrow.
26:43
I don't understand why
26:44
people are refusing to even
26:46
mention WFP's name when
26:48
they're talking about the
26:50
fitness space as a whole,
26:52
the competition fitness space.
26:55
To ignore them is stupid.
26:58
They exist.
26:59
They are affecting the season.
27:01
You cannot talk about the
27:02
season without talking about them,
27:04
whether you like them, love them,
27:07
hate them, disagree with them,
27:08
whatever it is.
27:10
You cannot,
27:12
you cannot talk about the
27:14
season without
27:15
acknowledging that they exist.
27:19
And all these people on shows,
27:21
like when WFP comes up, they're like,
27:24
I never heard of them.
27:25
Oh, don't know who that is.
27:27
It's just dumb.
27:33
You cannot do your part as
27:35
an analyst if you don't
27:37
acknowledge they are having
27:39
an impact on the season.
27:41
And when I look at,
27:43
and I was going to pull up
27:44
the French throwdown lineup,
27:45
and you look at WFP this weekend,
27:48
one of these two elements,
27:52
or one of these two events,
27:53
is going to be better to
27:55
watch than the other, in my opinion.
27:57
And it's probably not the
27:58
French throwdown.
28:06
I was watching Beyond the
28:07
Whiteboard yesterday,
28:08
and I heard Chase...
28:11
try to act like the wfp
28:15
didn't exist and I just I
28:18
don't understand it uh jay
28:24
birch I always acknowledge
28:25
when a rattlesnake is in
28:26
the room yeah competition
28:29
is a good thing competition
28:32
makes everybody better
28:35
And you shouldn't be afraid from it.
28:39
If you are confident in what you are doing,
28:41
you should move forward
28:42
with what you want to do
28:46
and be confident that you
28:47
are just better than the other person.
28:51
Jason Bourne, I agree.
28:52
It's like being a petulant child.
28:58
I mentioned WFP at a workout
29:00
recently and someone said,
29:01
you know about Women for Peace?
29:02
Yes.
29:07
I did not know about Women for Peace.
29:12
But that is just driving me crazy.
29:14
And I know, like,
29:15
Hiller is refusing to talk about it.
29:18
And I think it's a protest
29:19
that he doesn't believe
29:20
they're telling us enough
29:21
about what's going on.
29:23
But regardless of that,
29:25
they are impacting the season.
29:27
If you are talking about the
29:29
fitness space as a whole,
29:30
you have to talk about the WFP.
29:34
Because...
29:36
They're happening this weekend.
29:38
TFX is happening next weekend.
29:40
And whatever happens this
29:41
weekend at WFP is surely
29:43
going to affect what
29:44
happens next week at TFX.
29:50
The Europeans that are
29:52
choosing to do WFP this
29:53
weekend and not going to
29:55
the French throwdown where
29:56
there is nobody in the lineup...
30:00
not nobody,
30:01
but there's very little in the
30:02
lineup and actually a good
30:03
shot at qualifying at French Throwdown,
30:07
you're basically throwing
30:08
away your games ticket by going to WFP.
30:12
And that needs to be talked about.
30:17
Because Wadland Fest is over.
30:19
The in-affiliate semifinal is over.
30:22
If you didn't qualify in those,
30:23
and the only thing left in
30:25
Europe is French Lowdown,
30:26
which is this weekend,
30:28
and you're choosing to go to WFP,
30:30
you're basically handing in your ticket.
30:35
Unless you think you can
30:36
qualify in the last chance qualifier.
30:40
Or you're going to fly to the U.S.
30:42
or fly to Torian or fly to
30:45
one of these other
30:45
competitions to compete.
30:53
So let's take a look.
30:57
Ken says,
30:57
that just tells you how much
30:58
guaranteed money WFP
31:00
athletes are getting.
31:01
They don't all care about
31:03
the games anymore.
31:11
I wouldn't say they, yeah, I don't know.
31:13
I need to think on that a little bit more.
31:17
but let's look at the French throwdown.
31:19
Um, and this is the leaderboard.
31:22
Um, and this is the men's division.
31:27
There are names on here.
31:28
I know Brianna Guillaume.
31:31
I know,
31:31
I know Bronislaw Alinkowitz and
31:33
Callum Clements.
31:36
Uh,
31:36
Enrico Zanoni has already has his spot.
31:38
Maybe, uh,
31:42
Now, if he qualifies here,
31:44
then one spot will move up
31:46
on the leaderboard on the in-affiliate.
31:49
George's Kervis.
31:58
Luke Parker.
32:00
Moritz Fiebig, who already has his ticket.
32:07
Yep.
32:08
Any names, anybody?
32:10
Ola Supanix.
32:12
It is not a stacked field by
32:17
any stretch of the imagination.
32:24
So this is your lineup for
32:25
the men at the French Throwdown.
32:27
I'll do my picks tomorrow for that.
32:32
On the elite side, again...
32:37
Andra Moistus almost qualified, I think,
32:40
at Wadland Fest and then
32:43
fell off at the end.
32:44
Claudia Gluck.
32:47
Lisa Fuliano, we already know,
32:48
is not competing this year.
32:51
Emily Lundberg.
32:59
Karen Frey is not competing this year.
33:06
Lucy McGonigal, Miriam Von Rohrer,
33:16
and Taylor Howe.
33:20
It is not,
33:22
not at all a stacked field on
33:24
either side.
33:25
And there are going to be
33:26
four tickets coming from
33:28
this competition.
33:30
Four tickets.
33:33
That is insane.
33:36
And there's already people
33:36
here who have either
33:37
qualified or did not do the Open.
33:41
So it's going to mess up the
33:43
leaderboard a little bit to
33:44
try to figure out who's going.
33:45
But, yeah,
33:48
I see people saying Braun could
33:49
actually qualify again.
33:51
There's Jay Burch.
33:52
Braun could qualify again.
33:54
Luke Parker for the win.
33:57
It is entirely possible.
33:59
Now, I don't know.
34:05
So my question to you all is,
34:08
do you watch this,
34:09
the French throwdown with these athletes,
34:13
or do you watch the WFP
34:15
where you get to see Jeffrey Adler,
34:22
Dallin, Jason Hopper, Colton Mertens,
34:26
and the names go on and on and on.
34:29
And on the women's side,
34:29
you get to see Ariel, you see Emily,
34:31
you get to see Laura Horvat,
34:33
you get to see...
34:36
Emma Lawson, you get to see Alexis Raptus,
34:41
all of those.
34:42
It just seems absurd that
34:46
you're not going to at
34:47
least give the WFP a chance.
34:48
One, just out of curiosity,
34:50
I want to see what they're going to do.
34:52
I want to see what it's
34:53
going to look like.
34:55
And all honesty,
34:57
they have a stacked field
34:59
that I'm going to know
34:59
everybody in that field,
35:01
and I'm going to have a rooting interest.
35:04
And I will admit my Europe
35:05
knowledge on athletes is not that strong.
35:09
But I know a handful of
35:10
people on the men's side
35:12
and a handful on the women's side.
35:14
And it's going to be a lot
35:14
harder to root for all of
35:16
those other heats other
35:18
than the main heat in that one.
35:22
So...
35:25
Yeah.
35:26
I mean, technically,
35:27
I'll be watching both.
35:28
I'm going to see what's
35:30
going on at both so I can
35:31
talk about it on Sunday night.
35:34
But, yeah.
35:38
But I'm more curious about
35:39
the WFP to see what is new,
35:42
what is different, or are they just, like,
35:45
revamping what's been done?
35:52
Yeah.
36:03
I see what else is here.
36:07
I'm watching WFP.
36:08
Not so much athletes except Colton,
36:10
but to see how this new
36:12
circus monkey works.
36:14
Yeah.
36:14
And who knows?
36:15
They may put on a great show.
36:18
We don't know.
36:18
We don't know until we see it.
36:25
Corey says,
36:26
I'll probably watch some WTF
36:28
this weekend out of sheer curiosity.
36:31
I think it's more than curiosity.
36:36
I've gotten to know these
36:37
athletes over the time I've
36:38
been doing the media and
36:40
judging and security.
36:42
I want to see these athletes
36:43
and what they're going to do.
36:47
None of the semifinals will
36:48
match the field of what's
36:50
going to happen at WFP.
36:53
And I want to see what that is.
36:58
T-Bird, I'll be watching both.
37:03
I mean,
37:03
I'll be watching both so I can
37:05
report out on everything on Sunday night.
37:09
But I will tell you,
37:10
I'm more excited to watch
37:11
WFP this weekend just
37:13
because I want to see what they're doing.
37:16
And are they bringing
37:17
innovation and new stuff to the table?
37:22
That's what I want to see.
37:24
For sure.
37:28
The last thing I want to talk about,
37:30
and I'll get into it more
37:31
tomorrow because I'm running out of time.
37:36
And that is,
37:38
did anybody else watch the
37:39
spin last night?
37:41
Because when John did the Games Mountain,
37:47
I really had a hard time with it.
37:52
His obsession with Austin
37:54
Hatfield has gotten out of control.
38:00
And what I mean by that is
38:02
to make him the top of the mountain,
38:05
the guy won mayhem.
38:07
And other than that has
38:08
never won an event at all.
38:13
And he has him at the top of the mountain.
38:15
And he made the statement
38:17
that Jeff Adler has never
38:19
beaten at Austin in the last two years.
38:24
And, um,
38:28
Who else was it?
38:29
And Dallin has never beaten
38:30
Austin in the last two years.
38:32
And James Sprague has never
38:33
beaten Austin in the last two years.
38:40
Jay Burch, Crash is great.
38:42
Great competition.
38:43
It is not Rogue,
38:45
which Jeff Adler won and
38:47
took second in the year before that.
38:49
It is not the North or the
38:51
East North America East semifinal,
38:54
which Jeff Adler won and
38:56
Austin Hatfield finished seventh.
38:58
I think James Sprague won the games.
39:03
Jeff Adler won the games two years ago.
39:07
All of those things are
39:08
bigger accomplishments than
39:10
what Austin Hatfield has done so far.
39:13
I think that Austin is talented.
39:16
I think that he has a shot to make a move.
39:19
But how the hell can you put
39:20
him at the top of your
39:21
mountain when he has not
39:23
done anything to prove that
39:27
he belongs there without
39:29
going up against the Adlers
39:32
and the Dallin Peppers of the world?
39:39
It is...
39:43
It just is insanity to me.
39:44
Like, has John lost his marbles?
39:49
Has he fell in love so much
39:51
with Austin Hatfield that
39:54
everything else be damned?
39:55
He's going to be at the top
39:56
of my mountain.
39:57
And it doesn't matter that
40:04
Jeff Adler has won a ton of
40:06
shit since then or that
40:09
Dallin Pepper beat him at
40:11
the games last year.
40:14
I mean, come on.
40:16
Come on.
40:19
T-Bird, completely agree.
40:28
Just giving the John Young perspective.
40:34
I mean, I watch the spin every week.
40:38
And it's just stuff like
40:39
this that makes me shake my head.
40:41
I actually watch it as I'm going to bed,
40:43
as I'm getting ready for bed,
40:45
and I lay down,
40:48
and literally this made me
40:50
pop up out of bed and scream at the TV.
40:56
Are you kidding me?
40:57
Yep,
40:58
and he is the senior analyst in the
41:00
CrossFit space.
41:07
Uh, so anyway,
41:10
just had to get that off my chest.
41:13
Today was a get things off
41:14
of Scott's chest day.
41:17
Um,
41:19
Jody Lynn's still haven't watched the
41:22
spin.
41:24
That's okay.
41:24
Cause you watch me.
41:25
And if there's something important,
41:26
I'm going to tell you, uh, what, uh,
41:33
Adler would have smoked
41:34
Hatfield at mayhem.
41:36
look what Adler did in the
41:37
online qualifier.
41:40
He smoked everybody.
41:43
Now I get it.
41:44
Hatfield and Mertens didn't compete,
41:47
but he had Colton like up
41:50
on tier three and he's
41:52
never finished above ninth.
41:53
Nineteenth at the games.
41:57
Like we've lost some sense
41:59
of reality in this whole thing.
42:02
Um,
42:06
Lunch rant.
42:06
There we go.
42:08
Lunch riff, Jody.
42:09
It's always a riff for me.
42:12
I always like to be just a
42:13
little bit different.
42:18
The spin is fun to watch
42:19
just on at a bad time for
42:21
me to watch live.
42:22
That's usually family night.
42:23
I actually never, ever watched.
42:27
I very rarely do I watch the spin live.
42:33
And
42:35
I always watch it going to
42:36
bed so it is it's probably
42:38
two or three hours after
42:39
they go off the air I start
42:41
watching it um but yeah I
42:44
stand up and I stood up in
42:46
bed last night like what
42:48
the hell are you talking
42:49
about john young but
42:54
Atlanta is WFP being live streamed.
42:56
It is.
42:57
It is going to be a full
42:58
production live stream.
43:00
They're adding bells and
43:01
whistles that we don't know
43:02
all the details of,
43:04
but it's on their website.
43:06
It's not going to be on YouTube.
43:08
So you have to go to the
43:09
worldfitnessproject.com to see.
43:17
You have to go to their website to see it.
43:20
But they're using AI to do
43:22
like six or seven different languages.
43:26
And they're doing other
43:27
bells and whistles that
43:28
YouTube will not allow for them to do.
43:31
So they're taking a risk
43:35
because YouTube is such...
43:37
the is the place where
43:38
everybody goes to for
43:39
crossfit content and it's a
43:41
the number two search
43:42
engine in the world and I
43:44
think they're going to be
43:45
missing out on viewers
43:46
because they're not there
43:47
with things popping up to
43:48
them but they wanted to um
43:52
they wanted to do something
43:56
new and different and see
43:57
if that made a difference
43:58
uh and it will then the
44:00
replay will be available on
44:02
youtube after the fact
44:04
And they didn't say how long
44:06
after the fact,
44:07
I don't know if it's like right after,
44:09
or if it's like the following week,
44:11
we don't know, but we'll see.
44:14
Um, we'll see sometime.
44:18
Uh,
44:19
Jake says some people get phased out at
44:21
in-person comps.
44:23
I agree.
44:28
Um,
44:30
I also think Jay Crouch
44:31
should be higher than Hatfield.
44:33
He did extremely good in the
44:34
online semis as well.
44:36
And he's done well at the
44:37
games the last couple years.
44:38
A couple top ten finishes.
44:41
So he's doing it in person and online.
44:46
Ken, I don't know what this means.
44:48
I didn't get to hear Savon this morning.
44:52
So I have been off nicotine
44:54
for a very long time.
45:00
Uh, so they're taking on YouTube too.
45:02
Now they are.
45:04
Yeah, they are.
45:06
They're not competing.
45:07
They're just taking them on.
45:13
Uh,
45:13
doing something new for new sake is
45:14
silly when you're just starting out.
45:18
I think if you have enough
45:19
money to like throw a bet at the wall,
45:22
then fine.
45:24
Do it.
45:25
But just don't do it in a
45:26
way that takes away your
45:28
stability to keep going.
45:31
If the bells and whistles are cool enough,
45:33
then fine.
45:34
Like when Rogue added the
45:37
camera that I could move
45:38
around and see whoever I
45:40
wanted on the stream,
45:43
that was a bet that I would
45:44
pay the twenty five dollars
45:46
every time Rogue puts it
45:47
out there to watch that way.
45:53
So.
45:54
there are bets worth it and
45:57
there are bets not worth it.
45:59
Um,
45:59
I don't know what those bells and
46:00
whistles are cause they're
46:01
not telling us.
46:02
So until I see it,
46:03
I don't know if it's worth the gamble.
46:12
So of course there's also,
46:13
what could they possibly be
46:14
doing that YouTube doesn't allow?
46:15
Um,
46:16
That's what Rogue did.
46:18
Rogue's special broadcast
46:19
that you pay for is not on YouTube.
46:22
It is on their website.
46:24
And that allowed you to move
46:25
the camera to different lanes.
46:28
It allowed you like four
46:30
different or five different angles.
46:32
It allowed you to hear an
46:34
alternate broadcast from a
46:36
desk show as opposed to
46:38
Sean and Adrian on the broadcast.
46:42
So...
46:47
Yeah.
46:51
Yeah.
46:52
So it could be worth it.
47:03
Jake says,
47:04
I have no idea who came where at
47:05
the games.
47:06
All I know is Philip Kelly
47:07
went and was sensational in
47:09
his shorts in the stands there.
47:11
Whatever helps you out, buddy.
47:15
T-Bird is twenty three days
47:16
away from being smoke free for a year.
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Nice job.
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Good for you, T-Bird.
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T-Bird heart heart.
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It allows them to do live
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interpretation using eye.
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I know that is the one bell and whistle,
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but they actually said
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there was more to it than that,
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but they didn't dive into
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what those things were.
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I am hoping that it allows
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some interactivity that you
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can look at different camera angles,
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things like that, like Rogue did.
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Hopefully they reached out
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to Rogue and said,
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what did you do with your
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broadcast that made it so special?
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Maybe we'll take some of
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that stuff over here.
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I'm excited to see what that is,
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but we won't be able to do
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that until tomorrow afternoon.
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So tomorrow we'll be back on the show.
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We will.
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I will make my picks for who
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I think will podium at the WFP.
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I'll make my picks for who I
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think will get their
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tickets at the French throwdown and, um,
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and whatever else pops up
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in the world of news and
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fitness in the space.
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We'll do that then.
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But it's my first day back
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to work after my wife's
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surgery and I need to get back.
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So it's time to get back to work.
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You knuckleheads.
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We are out of here.
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Talk to you tomorrow.
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Bye guys.