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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - How Did Jamie do at The Fittest of the Coast · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what's going on everybody
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  welcome to sunday night
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  crossfit talk on a monday
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  night super bowl edition
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  we're back jamie's back
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  from south carolina carolyn
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  is chilling in canada I'm
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  just surviving thriving
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  um so what's going on
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  everybody we are going to
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  do a little catch-up or
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  then we're going to hit
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  some news of the week it's
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  kind of been a light week
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  so we have a lot of like
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  quick hitters this week um
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  other than the experience
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  at fresca or fittest on the
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  coast and then um then
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  we'll get out of here
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  tonight but it's good to
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  see everybody good to see
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  you aaron everybody else in
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  the chat I'd love to have
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  you here so we had the
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  super bowl yesterday let's
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  start with that
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  I know I think we were all
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  pulling for the eagles I
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  mean I didn't care
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  regardless but yeah I
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  didn't nice to not see the
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  chiefs win again yeah
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  agreed agreed agreed I
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  didn't expect a blowout
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  like that I didn't either
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  not a very fun game to
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  watch yeah like I was hoping for
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  the Eagles to win,
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  but I still wanted it to be a game.
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  And it was,
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  it just got away so fast that
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  it was almost,
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  it was just like a disappointing.
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  I agree.
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  Right.
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  Like it was like, Oh,
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  You almost felt bad.
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  It was tough to watch.
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  I love watching great defense, though.
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  And I know I'm probably one
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  of the few in the world that loves that.
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  But being a Bears fan,
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  we've never had a good offense.
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  So like you always,
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  the only times when my team
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  were good were when the
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  defense was like that.
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  and that was fun to watch
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  for me see cooper dejean
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  get a touchdown on his
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  birthday um with the pick
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  six um that defensive line
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  was ferocious what seven
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  sacks that last one that
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  that one looked painful
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  he got decapitated.
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  It was bad.
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  I was like,
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  someone take him out of the
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  game right now.
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  He's about to get injured.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um, so overall, like not,
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  you're right.
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  Not a great game,
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  but I really do like
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  watching great defense play defense.
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  Um, and that was fun to watch for me.
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  Uh, several commercials, uh,
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  We don't see them really in Canada.
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  We get different commercials.
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  So I'll see,
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  I'll see some of the
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  commercials like on
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  Instagram or other places
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  that are shared after,
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  but we don't have the same networks.
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  I think promoting the games as you guys.
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  So oftentimes I'll see the
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  commercials later.
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  Yeah.
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  Gotcha.
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  I did really like that Nike one.
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  I thought one was that one,
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  one of them released yesterday.
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  No, the one with all the females.
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  Yeah,
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  that one was released during the
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  Super Bowl.
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  Yeah, see,
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  that was a great commercial to
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  use the platform of the
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  Super Bowl to promote all
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  the top women right now.
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  Yeah, I thought that was good.
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  And then they released a Jalen Hurts one,
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  like everybody doubting him
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  right after the game.
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  Oh, awesome.
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  And it was actually very well done.
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  Like if he was my team and my guy,
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  like I would be so pumped
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  up after watching that ad.
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  Yeah.
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  And that was cool to do.
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  They were making jokes this
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  morning that I wonder if
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  Adidas still has the
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  Patrick Mahomes one and
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  they have to now scrap it
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  and never use it.
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  Does that end the Brady and
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  Mahomes debate right now?
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  I think for now.
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  Yeah,
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  they'll slow it down a little bit for
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  sure.
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  It's tough to three-peat.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, they've still been in the finals.
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  Is that fifth time or
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  something in six years,
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  something like that?
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  Which is incredible.
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  Yeah.
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  All before thirty.
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  He's done all this before thirty.
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  I think what
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  the defense was great and
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  I'll give them their flowers,
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  but he looked,
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  he Patrick Mahomes looked
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  like a bears quarterback.
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  That's how bad it was.
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  Like,
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  I felt like I was watching my own team.
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  It was that bad.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Wasn't great.
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  um nicole sherman says uh
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  commercials were mid
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  halftime show was lit did
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  you see serena crip walking
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  well played I did see that
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  I I did not realize it was
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  her until a couple moments
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  later when it finally sunk
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  in I have got to be honest
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  like I'm a huge music fan I
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  I know nothing from
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  kendrick lamar I knew none
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  of that music during the
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  halftime show I thought it sounded good
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  And I thought the show was good.
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  I could not get into it like
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  the hip-hop anniversary
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  show they did or Usher or any, like,
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  I know that stuff.
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  This one just didn't do it for me.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  it's a lot of art really and
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  historical references and
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  Drake references.
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  And yeah,
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  like I've been reading up a lot on it.
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  I'm not obviously a
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  professional of everything
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  that's happened
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  historically and currently with the beef,
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  but there's a lot of stuff
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  to read up on it.
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  And the more that you read
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  up and then you go back and
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  watch the performance,
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  you can appreciate more and more.
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  what he orchestrated with
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  with his performance um
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  which is cool yeah I did
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  not know that serena was
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  drake's ex and so yeah very
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  well played yeah I don't
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  know I that whole thing
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  I've been seeing so many
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  posts like if you didn't
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  like the halftime show
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  you're racist I I'm so over
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  shit like that like
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  Like,
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  Scott just doesn't really know the music.
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  Doesn't mean he has an opinion.
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  Like,
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  there's going to be a lot of people
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  who listen to that who just
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  couldn't understand the words.
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  So they didn't even
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  understand the message right away.
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  Like,
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  you cannot put that kind of statement
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  on people just for not
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  grasping something right away.
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  And now they need to go do
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  research and praise it and be like, oh,
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  my gosh, it was genius.
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  Like,
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  this is just so ridiculous that this
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  is where we're at as a society.
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  my my dad didn't know much
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  of it like he he's like I
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  don't really listen to rap
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  like my dad likes uh just
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  different genre and he's
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  very french right so he
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  he's not able to appreciate
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  it yeah I was like I mean I
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  was like I mean I like
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  kendrick so um like I can
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  and lex is a huge kendrick
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  fan so um for sure that's
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  different music for different people too
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  So I'm lumped in the
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  Carolyn's dad category, which is fine.
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  Yeah, it is.
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  I will say.
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  I will say like Julie and I have my wife,
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  Julie,
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  and I have this conversation all
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  the time.
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  She knows every word to
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  every song ever done.
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  I am more of a groove beat guy.
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  She is more of a lyrics person.
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  And so like the lyrics are
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  never going to like speak
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  to me like they do to her.
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  If that makes sense.
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  Like, I'm more a,
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  I want to hear a good groove, a good beat,
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  things like that, where she really wants,
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  if the lyrics aren't
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  important and mean something,
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  she doesn't like the song.
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  Did she,
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  could she hear all the lyrics and
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  understand it?
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  She has been so, she has insomnia so bad,
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  she probably slept through
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  most of the game.
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  Fair enough.
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  So I don't know her take on Kendrick's.
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  She said it sounded good.
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  I think what she could hear
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  with her eyes closed.
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  That's good.
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  So she missed out on the art part of it.
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  Yeah, I mean, the dancing was cool.
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  Like the overhead aerial
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  shots looking down looked sweet.
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  But I don't know.
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  I mean,
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  to read into people's opinions is
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  just mind-boggling to me.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Everything turns out that way.
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  And it really, I can't, we just enjoy.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Um, I thought the pregame was good.
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  I thought I really liked
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  John Baptiste's national anthem.
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  I thought that had a cool vibe to it.
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  And I know that Canada has a different one,
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  Carolyn.
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  So I'm not even going to
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  assume that you watched that part.
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  Um, I thought, but I've really,
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  I've really grown to get to
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  know John Baptiste over the
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  last few months, even before this thing.
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  And I really like his music.
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  I thought he was good.
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  I thought Lady Gaga was good
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  in the French Quarter.
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  I thought a lot of the pregame stuff.
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  America the Beautiful was awesome.
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  And what's really cool is they had...
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  I can never remember their name,
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  but it's a trombone shorty
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  play a song beforehand.
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  And what was cool about that
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  is I saw them when I was in
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  New Orleans for a business
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  conference free at the House of Blues,
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  and they were incredible.
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  It's just like a tuba, a trombone,
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  a lady singer,
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  some other marching band music,
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  and they play like they're a rock band.
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  and they played right before
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  and it was cool to see like
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  new orleans native music
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  being played at the super
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  bowl I thought that was
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  cool so that's my two cents
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  In other news,
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  because our TV shows have
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  been really weird this year
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  by the way they broadcast.
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  I found two new shows that I
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  absolutely adore.
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  And that is The Pit on HBO
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  Max with Noah Wiley back in the ER.
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  Every episode of the show is
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  one hour of a day.
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  And the whole show is one day.
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  Dang, back to twenty four.
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  That was one of my favorite shows ever.
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  And then another show I
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  found on Prime is On Call.
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  And it is a police show with
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  a trainee of a rookie.
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  And one of the police forces
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  has been shot and killed
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  right before he comes into the force.
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  Oh, geez.
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  So they're trying to find
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  the person who killed the police officer.
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  And she's trying to train
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  him on how to be a good cop.
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  And a lot of the footage is
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  dash cam body cam footage.
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  Now it's fictitious completely, but they,
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  so when they're running down a perp,
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  like you're running with them,
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  it is insane.
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  It is so like mobile.
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  And I really,
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  really are enjoying those two shows.
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  I'll check them out.
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  We binge watched five
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  episodes yesterday before
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  the Super Bowl of long call.
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  So,
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  because I couldn't do like eight hours
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  of pregame stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  Did you watch Fresh, the Fittest, or the,
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  yeah, the Fittest of the Coast?
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  I did.
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  Oh.
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  I would watch that in between episodes.
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  We'll get to that in a second.
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  I have a lot of thoughts.
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  But anyway.
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  Did you watch the Puppy Bowl?
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  I did not.
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  I did.
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  I saw that when I was scrolling through.
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  I was like, what?
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  I didn't watch it this year
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  and all that stuff.
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  No.
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  I was doing some schoolwork.
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  To those who enjoy that, good for them.
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  I have a puppy at home.
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  I was hearing that like
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  those dogs are up for
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  adoptions all the time and
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  then they get – is that
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  true or did I read that wrong?
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  That those are like dogs
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  that are up for adoption
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  and then people will call in?
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  Oh, wow.
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  Oh.
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  I could be wrong with that.
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  Maybe I read something else.
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  That's actually a pretty cool idea.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, cool.
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  Does anybody else have
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  anything to catch up on this week?
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  All right.
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  With that,
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  then we'll jump into some CrossFit stuff.
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  It was announced not that
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  long ago that CrossFit
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  Mayhem will be doing the
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  first open announcement,
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  with three of their athletes.
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  Haley, Roman,
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  and Austin Hatfield will be
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  doing the announcement.
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  We have...
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  We've been pretty hard on
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  mayhem on this show the last few weeks.
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  It just seems after the
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  things that we have said
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  over the last few weeks,
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  when this is the first
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  announcement on the first open workout,
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  good Lord,
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  like I joked to the crew in the
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  text string,
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  welcome to the twenty twenty
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  five mayhem open.
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  Seems like they have their
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  hands involved everywhere
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  with the games stuff this year.
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  First of all,
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  thoughts on Mayhem being picked first?
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  I mean, they went to what?
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  Proven?
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  Was Proven last year first?
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  No, I don't think it was first.
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  No, yeah, it had the Barmell stuff.
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  That wasn't the first one.
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  That was the third one.
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  Right.
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  I mean...
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  Mayhem's a safe pick.
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  They have a great community.
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  They have a lot of reach
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  everywhere around the world.
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  I think it's a safe pick.
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  And I think that they do a
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  really good job with their
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  social media team.
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  They put out a ton of great content.
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  So in terms of that,
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  I think they'll do a great job.
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  I like that that inevitably
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  means that you're getting Rory back.
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  Well, they wrote in the thing, Rory,
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  and then I think I saw Get
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  With The Programming.
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  Yeah, Chase.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  If you give me a Roe versus Boz,
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  I'll really be into it.
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  Yeah.
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  Right?
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  I think we need stuff like that again.
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  I do, too.
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  Whether it's the two of them
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  or two new people that have an ongoing...
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  competition through all the
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  weeks of the open and maybe
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  even into uh the community
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  cup or whatever we're doing
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  um I think that would be
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  awesome yeah I agree is
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  roman healthy like that's
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  what I'm wondering like I
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  wasn't even sure he was
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  competing this year
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  Did he have the surgery on his hip labrum?
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  Did he ever have the surgery?
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  I don't know.
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  I feel like I saw him just
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  continue to train.
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  And maybe he's putting it
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  off or maybe he had the
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  surgery and he just
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  recovered really fast.
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  Because I thought it was a
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  surgery that was like a lot
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  of months of recovery if I
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  remember well from like a
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  barbell spin article.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I thought it was his hip labrum.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Which is a major one.
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  Yeah, that's not going to be quick.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  Kat has had that surgery from
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  the roundtable show.
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  Charlie has had that surgery.
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  The recovery is not quick.
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  Yeah,
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  I've had a lot of hockey teammates
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  have that surgery.
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  It's a tough one.
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  So I feel like he'd never had it.
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  Yeah, that's what it seems like.
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  Yeah.
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  Craig says he's not posting a lot.
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  All his posts say regaining strength.
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  Sus.
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  And Aaron says Roman has had
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  quite the offseason with his injury.
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  Interested to see if he can
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  put things together this year.
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  I think the shame of it all is, you know,
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  we waited for him for five
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  years when he was probably in his prime.
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  And then he gets here and
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  he's had nothing but injury
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  riddled seasons ever since he got here.
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  I mean,
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  I think he was in his prime last
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  year as well.
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  Like he was dominating until
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  Jeff was not like this last year,
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  but the year before.
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  Right.
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  Until Jeff was like creeping
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  up on him and then overtook
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  him on event ten.
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  But, like,
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  he looked good at those games
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  until he got injured and
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  then hasn't been the same really since.
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  He didn't look good at
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  Waterpalooza that following year.
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  Semifinals was okay.
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  The games wasn't great for him.
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  And then, yeah, the injuries.
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  Like, even this matchup, I'm like, meh.
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  That's just my opinion.
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  I'm like, yeah.
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  It doesn't excite me that much.
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  There's not really, like,
• 18:15
  a big rivalry there, like,
• 18:19
  There's no rivalry.
• 18:20
  And it's like,
• 18:21
  I do always wonder how they
• 18:22
  pick the people they're
• 18:23
  going to pick to do it.
• 18:24
  And if it's based on the workout,
• 18:26
  because like they don't
• 18:27
  seem to necessarily pick
• 18:29
  matchups that make sense for the workout.
• 18:32
  Like you want to see a good head to head.
• 18:33
  Like those three athletes
• 18:36
  don't even like make sense to me.
• 18:39
  that's how I felt but then
• 18:41
  I'm assuming they they said
• 18:42
  hey mayhem do you want to
• 18:43
  host pick a few athletes
• 18:45
  and then they went and
• 18:46
  picked their athletes like
• 18:47
  that's just like what I'm
• 18:48
  assuming yeah um because
• 18:51
  they're very different
• 18:52
  athletes I mean if we're
• 18:53
  looking at it from a draw
• 18:56
  standpoint the most popular
• 18:58
  mayhem athletes those are the three
• 19:03
  Probably.
• 19:08
  I would say he is a more
• 19:09
  popular mayhem athlete than
• 19:11
  all three of them.
• 19:12
  Yeah, you're probably right.
• 19:16
  Haley's pool is pretty big.
• 19:18
  Haley out of the other two,
• 19:20
  like Austin has barely any followers.
• 19:22
  I feel like he's growing quickly, but yeah,
• 19:26
  he's growing,
• 19:27
  but I wouldn't put them very
• 19:29
  like really up there.
• 19:31
  And Roman's been pretty quiet.
• 19:33
  He's got the John Young boost.
• 19:35
  Yeah.
• 19:41
  Alyssa Stuckey says,
• 19:42
  I've had the same surgery
• 19:43
  and the recovery is long.
• 19:50
  I just had to.
• 19:51
  Trish ate too much
• 19:52
  Stouffer's chicken fried rice.
• 19:54
  Might need surgery too.
• 19:56
  About to burst.
• 19:57
  I feel you, Trish.
• 20:00
  I feel you.
• 20:01
  I've had those days.
• 20:04
  Um, my other,
• 20:10
  I guess we already talked
• 20:11
  about the other aspect of this.
• 20:13
  Um, but yeah, so they're,
• 20:14
  they're leading off the open stuff also.
• 20:17
  Um,
• 20:20
  We had a Dave's Week in
• 20:21
  Review happen just before
• 20:23
  we went on the air.
• 20:25
  I captured a couple
• 20:26
  highlights that I thought
• 20:28
  were either pertinent or funny.
• 20:31
  At one point,
• 20:32
  someone asked him about High
• 20:33
  Rocks and to combat High Rocks,
• 20:37
  should the games do event
• 20:39
  one as the High Rocks event?
• 20:42
  Um, Dave said,
• 20:44
  you could see him thinking
• 20:45
  through the process and he said, well,
• 20:47
  it's just a chipper and
• 20:49
  then the broad jumps are
• 20:51
  silly and we would hold
• 20:56
  people more accountable.
• 21:00
  On the judges of the wobbles.
• 21:02
  Right.
• 21:03
  And we could probably just
• 21:04
  make a better workout.
• 21:07
  Fair.
• 21:07
  He said better use of the
• 21:08
  time for our first event.
• 21:12
  I was paraphrasing.
• 21:13
  Yeah.
• 21:13
  But like, same thing.
• 21:14
  Like,
• 21:16
  I don't think the burpee broad jumps
• 21:17
  are a bad movement though.
• 21:18
  I don't, I don't either.
• 21:20
  I think they're,
• 21:21
  I think they're very efficient.
• 21:22
  Get the point A to point B.
• 21:23
  You can easily.
• 21:25
  Huh?
• 21:26
  Hella hard to judge.
• 21:30
  Yeah.
• 21:31
  I mean, they wouldn't be if,
• 21:33
  if people don't, if,
• 21:34
  if you could just burpee
• 21:36
  and then your feet must be together.
• 21:38
  Once you've taken your one
• 21:39
  step or your two feet,
• 21:40
  they have to be together
• 21:41
  and not one foot way in front.
• 21:43
  It's not too bad.
• 21:45
  It's just really getting
• 21:49
  from point A to point B though.
• 21:50
  Yeah.
• 21:52
  We did them a lot when I
• 21:53
  first did CrossFit, like,
• 21:54
  like they were always in our warmup.
• 21:59
  Um,
• 22:00
  Like if you did twenty five
• 22:02
  feet at a time and you
• 22:04
  don't even care as long as
• 22:05
  you don't take shuffle steps.
• 22:09
  It's not that bad of a movement.
• 22:10
  I don't think so.
• 22:13
  The true highlight of the
• 22:15
  days we can review is I
• 22:18
  have wanted something in CrossFit forever,
• 22:22
  so much so that I named
• 22:24
  this channel Clydesdale Media.
• 22:29
  I have wanted it forever.
• 22:34
  When I was a kid or when I
• 22:36
  was in high school,
• 22:37
  they had a running division
• 22:38
  in all the big events that
• 22:40
  they called the Clydesdale
• 22:41
  division that were for two
• 22:43
  hundred plus two hundred
• 22:45
  pound plus athletes where
• 22:47
  they could run and compete
• 22:48
  amongst themselves as
• 22:49
  opposed to running against
• 22:51
  one hundred and twenty
• 22:52
  hundred and thirty pound runners.
• 22:54
  And I thought,
• 22:55
  wouldn't that be cool if
• 22:56
  CrossFit had that in local
• 22:58
  comps and maybe even at the upper levels?
• 23:00
  But it doesn't have to be the main event.
• 23:04
  Someone wrote in that question,
• 23:06
  why doesn't CrossFit have weight classes?
• 23:09
  And Dave said, ooh, that's a good idea.
• 23:13
  We could do something like a
• 23:14
  Clydesdale division.
• 23:17
  I was surprised to see him say that.
• 23:20
  And I lit up like a Christmas tree.
• 23:23
  because I think that's
• 23:24
  against the methodology.
• 23:25
  Like, it's just like, it's,
• 23:26
  you should be able to adapt
• 23:28
  regardless of weight, size, height.
• 23:31
  I'm not saying don't do it.
• 23:32
  Rx.
• 23:33
  No, no, I,
• 23:35
  I just was surprised that he
• 23:36
  even wanted the idea of
• 23:38
  doing different weight
• 23:40
  classes and it like for the open,
• 23:43
  cause they said something about like, um,
• 23:45
  you know,
• 23:46
  doing States and you can see if
• 23:48
  you're the fittest in this, you know,
• 23:49
  whatever state or country
• 23:51
  or what or whatnot.
• 23:52
  Um,
• 23:53
  but I was surprised that he liked the
• 23:55
  idea of the weight class.
• 23:56
  Yeah.
• 23:58
  Well,
• 23:59
  he hit my heart right in the center
• 24:01
  with the Cupid arrow,
• 24:03
  with that statement.
• 24:04
  So I was super happy about that.
• 24:05
  The other thing about the States,
• 24:07
  and this has been
• 24:08
  confounding for me forever,
• 24:10
  is that when I first
• 24:12
  started CrossFit and first did the Open,
• 24:14
  you could sort that leaderboard by like,
• 24:17
  eighteen different ways.
• 24:19
  You could do state,
• 24:20
  you could do geographic regions,
• 24:23
  you could do, like, all...
• 24:26
  by your job, by a ton of stuff.
• 24:29
  We've gone backwards
• 24:31
  technologically in how you
• 24:34
  can sort the leaderboard,
• 24:35
  and it is dumbfounding to
• 24:37
  me why you would get rid of that.
• 24:41
  Me and my friends would sort
• 24:42
  it all kinds of ways.
• 24:45
  Yeah, I would too.
• 24:45
  I would see,
• 24:46
  especially earlier on in CrossFit,
• 24:48
  I would look, okay,
• 24:49
  where am I in Ontario?
• 24:50
  Okay, where am I in Canada?
• 24:53
  Okay, where am I X, Y, and Z in the world?
• 24:57
  I always did that.
• 24:59
  Always, always.
• 25:00
  Okay, where am I with the teachers?
• 25:01
  I looked at every division
• 25:03
  that I felt like I took part in,
• 25:04
  and then I would see where I was at.
• 25:06
  And then I would do every
• 25:08
  year on January first,
• 25:09
  I would have goals.
• 25:10
  I want to be number one in Ontario.
• 25:12
  I want to be top, I don't know,
• 25:13
  three in Canada.
• 25:14
  And I would write them all.
• 25:15
  And they were all based off
• 25:16
  of those divisions that were in the open.
• 25:19
  So when that question was posed,
• 25:20
  I was like, oh,
• 25:21
  do they not even have that anymore?
• 25:24
  They have not had it for
• 25:25
  five or six years.
• 25:27
  they should bring that back for sure.
• 25:28
  Cause to me it was meaningful.
• 25:30
  Cause if you know,
• 25:31
  certain things are out of reach,
• 25:32
  especially earlier on for certain people.
• 25:35
  And then you start having
• 25:36
  smaller goals or forever.
• 25:37
  Yeah.
• 25:38
  And then you start having certain goals.
• 25:40
  Yeah.
• 25:40
  Some of us are not Carolyn
• 25:41
  Prevo that are in the top
• 25:43
  ten of the open and can
• 25:45
  just look at the leaderboard.
• 25:47
  Some of us have to finagle
• 25:48
  that leaderboard to make it
• 25:49
  look like we're doing something.
• 25:51
  Clydesdale division.
• 25:52
  Yep.
• 25:53
  There we go.
• 25:57
  Yes, Andrew,
• 25:57
  you can create custom leaderboards,
• 25:59
  but to organize everybody
• 26:00
  in the state of Ohio to
• 26:02
  join in on your leaderboard
• 26:04
  would be... With a hashtag Ohio,
• 26:06
  like it's not happening.
• 26:08
  We're talking about the...
• 26:10
  You didn't have to customize it.
• 26:11
  It was already done for you.
• 26:13
  Like you wrote where was
• 26:15
  your affiliate or where
• 26:16
  your hometown was and
• 26:17
  everything was sorted from there.
• 26:21
  If it was a field you had to
• 26:22
  enter to sign up for the open,
• 26:24
  you could pretty much sort on it.
• 26:25
  Right.
• 26:29
  And that was awesome.
• 26:30
  That's great.
• 26:31
  Yeah, they should bring that back.
• 26:32
  That's a great idea.
• 26:34
  But apparently new
• 26:36
  technology won't allow them to do it.
• 26:40
  Baffling small team.
• 26:43
  He was also asked about the
• 26:45
  World Fitness Project and
• 26:47
  their competition.
• 26:50
  He said that he doesn't know much about it,
• 26:53
  hasn't really heard much.
• 26:54
  He's heard some rumors that scare him.
• 26:57
  He does not like the
• 26:58
  exclusivity talk that he
• 27:00
  heard about in a rumor.
• 27:02
  And he said that CrossFit
• 27:04
  will never have an exclusive signing,
• 27:09
  that you can only do theirs
• 27:10
  and not others'.
• 27:13
  And that's really all he
• 27:14
  really said about it.
• 27:15
  And then he said,
• 27:16
  I wish them luck and then
• 27:19
  kind of moved on.
• 27:21
  But CrossFit shouldn't have
• 27:22
  an exclusive thing.
• 27:25
  If you think about the sport,
• 27:26
  we want to say,
• 27:27
  go take part in anything in
• 27:30
  the world that's physical challenge,
• 27:32
  and we know that the
• 27:33
  CrossFitters are going to outdo everyone.
• 27:35
  That's what we're built off, right?
• 27:38
  Why would they want just
• 27:39
  people to do the CrossFit Open Season,
• 27:41
  CrossFit Games, and that's it,
• 27:42
  and never expose those
• 27:44
  athletes to any other competition?
• 27:45
  It's only beneficial to...
• 27:47
  CrossFit to allow people to
• 27:49
  go take part in all of
• 27:50
  these competitions and the
• 27:51
  CrossFitters win.
• 27:52
  It's like, oh, okay.
• 27:54
  How do you get good at this
• 27:55
  type of competition?
• 27:56
  You go to your affiliate and
• 27:57
  you do CrossFit.
• 28:01
  the last thing I'll say is
• 28:02
  he promoted uh the
• 28:04
  community cup repeatedly um
• 28:06
  there seems to be just a
• 28:07
  major push uh to get people
• 28:10
  to sign up for um the the
• 28:12
  community cup and then he
• 28:14
  also talked about if you if
• 28:15
  you're an affiliate who
• 28:16
  wants to win prizes you
• 28:18
  have to create a team and
• 28:20
  it's a dollar to create the
• 28:22
  team and it does not
• 28:25
  qualify it's not a qualifier
• 28:27
  to get you to semis as a
• 28:29
  team it's just for these
• 28:30
  prizes uh to set up your
• 28:34
  affiliate so that they can
• 28:36
  I'm assuming so they can
• 28:37
  query you into a
• 28:39
  leaderboard to find out who
• 28:41
  has performed the best
• 28:44
  because they eliminated
• 28:45
  that a former leaderboard
• 28:47
  that they could have done
• 28:47
  that all along right
• 28:52
  All right,
• 28:52
  the next thing we have on the
• 28:54
  rundown is Max Elhaj has
• 28:59
  not been on social media
• 29:00
  forever and came back with a bang.
• 29:07
  What I will say about this,
• 29:08
  and then I'll leave it up
• 29:09
  to my co-hosts and we can
• 29:12
  run through this, is this, first of all,
• 29:15
  he posted six or nine of these
• 29:19
  about different coaching
• 29:20
  philosophies and things like that.
• 29:23
  They're very good reads, all of them.
• 29:25
  But I wanted to focus on
• 29:26
  this because I think for the first time,
• 29:29
  someone said how I was feeling the best.
• 29:34
  And it's on this one.
• 29:35
  Because
• 29:38
  I do want to support CrossFit.
• 29:41
  I do think the methodology saved my life,
• 29:46
  and I do want to support it,
• 29:47
  but they have not been perfect.
• 29:50
  We have been demanding changes,
• 29:52
  and those changes haven't happened yet.
• 29:55
  And I still think they need
• 29:56
  to be held accountable for
• 29:58
  some of those changes to
• 30:00
  different things.
• 30:01
  And this is well before the
• 30:03
  Lazar Jukic issue.
• 30:07
  So I don't want it to all fall on that.
• 30:09
  This is an overarching,
• 30:11
  things needed to be done better.
• 30:17
  And so I was really,
• 30:18
  I felt good about that
• 30:20
  someone actually was able
• 30:22
  to articulate the way I was
• 30:23
  feeling like Max did.
• 30:27
  So I will turn it over to you too,
• 30:29
  if you have any thoughts
• 30:31
  and then we can go through
• 30:32
  it if we need to.
• 30:33
  I think I only made it
• 30:34
  through this one in the coach.
• 30:35
  What makes a good coach?
• 30:38
  That was a good one as well.
• 30:40
  That's some great points.
• 30:45
  Do you want to say anything, Jamie on it?
• 30:47
  No, you can start.
• 30:48
  I thought it was really well written.
• 30:51
  Um,
• 30:53
  Yeah.
• 30:54
  I felt like it was a lot of
• 30:56
  how a lot of people in the
• 30:57
  community feel.
• 30:58
  So,
• 30:58
  and you can definitely see that within
• 30:59
  the comments that, you know,
• 31:01
  at the end of the day, like we've all,
• 31:03
  we've all loved this sport
• 31:05
  and have seen it, you know,
• 31:08
  from a baby stage all the
• 31:09
  way to where we feel like
• 31:10
  we know it could be.
• 31:12
  And it hasn't been perfect at all.
• 31:14
  And there's been a lot of Rocky, you know,
• 31:17
  moments and, um,
• 31:21
  I think, yeah, I think,
• 31:22
  I think that there's some,
• 31:23
  some good stuff in there.
• 31:24
  I think that it's also
• 31:25
  important to listen to both sides and,
• 31:29
  and to, how do I say this?
• 31:34
  I think it was Lynn actually
• 31:35
  that said it in the comments.
• 31:36
  I have to go back to that post.
• 31:40
  Hold on one second.
• 31:45
  That like,
• 31:47
  there's been a lot of like
• 31:47
  disagreements and stuff like that.
• 31:49
  And then I think as long as
• 31:51
  there's people at the table, you know,
• 31:52
  having conversations and
• 31:54
  both sides are kind of
• 31:54
  being heard and you know,
• 31:57
  the athlete side is really being heard.
• 31:59
  I think that we can go forward.
• 32:02
  And not separate as much as it has been.
• 32:07
  But in order to not separate,
• 32:09
  we do have to listen to both sides,
• 32:12
  right?
• 32:12
  So the PFAA, let's, for example,
• 32:15
  like if they have
• 32:15
  suggestions that they've had,
• 32:17
  and now it's the CAC, is that what it is?
• 32:18
  C-A-C-A-C.
• 32:21
  Yeah.
• 32:22
  So it's like listening to
• 32:23
  the athletes and not just
• 32:24
  discarding because we have
• 32:26
  seen those those groups
• 32:28
  being formed before and
• 32:29
  then they've dismantled and
• 32:30
  stuff like that.
• 32:30
  So it's like you have to be
• 32:33
  able to listen to different
• 32:38
  perspectives and stuff.
• 32:39
  And and, you know.
• 32:42
  The division is obviously huge right now.
• 32:45
  But I thought he nailed it.
• 32:47
  I thought that he did a
• 32:48
  really good job with his
• 32:49
  wording here was really nice.
• 32:51
  Yeah.
• 32:55
  Just to pound home.
• 32:57
  A lot of us are torn inside, right?
• 33:00
  And just because people are
• 33:01
  moving with the season does
• 33:05
  not mean that they agree at
• 33:06
  all with how things have
• 33:09
  taken place and unfolded
• 33:13
  from the games and
• 33:15
  Um, it hasn't been enough, you know,
• 33:20
  like it's not forgotten, you know,
• 33:22
  just because someone is
• 33:23
  deciding to compete and
• 33:25
  there's a lot of work to be
• 33:26
  done and still changes need
• 33:28
  to happen to never have
• 33:29
  this ever happen again.
• 33:31
  Yeah.
• 33:32
  I mean, yeah, I think absolutely.
• 33:34
  Just because you are
• 33:35
  participating in the season
• 33:36
  does not mean you're fine with it.
• 33:38
  I think what I like about
• 33:39
  this is that like Max is saying,
• 33:41
  this is why he's going to
• 33:42
  step back in the,
• 33:44
  into the media space, speak up.
• 33:48
  You can't really just wipe
• 33:49
  your hands of it and say,
• 33:50
  don't participate, screw CrossFit.
• 33:53
  Hopefully they go under.
• 33:54
  That's not going to do anybody any favors.
• 33:57
  And so you need to
• 33:58
  participate and you need,
• 33:59
  and then you need to use a
• 34:00
  voice and speak up and have
• 34:04
  constructive criticism.
• 34:05
  There's a little bit,
• 34:06
  maybe too much of a bashing.
• 34:08
  And that's,
• 34:08
  that's just going to fall on
• 34:10
  deaf ears if we aren't providing the
• 34:13
  And I get it.
• 34:13
  We've tried to provide
• 34:15
  helpful solutions along the way,
• 34:18
  and it does feel like it's
• 34:19
  falling on deaf ears.
• 34:20
  I really enjoyed listening
• 34:21
  to Taylor talk with Saban
• 34:23
  about the CAC and how he
• 34:26
  feels like this time they
• 34:27
  are actually coming to the
• 34:29
  table to listen.
• 34:32
  I mean, that's encouraging to hear.
• 34:35
  Yeah, that's what you want, right?
• 34:36
  Like,
• 34:37
  that's why these types of groups
• 34:39
  should be formed, you know,
• 34:41
  and you should have different,
• 34:43
  not auditions,
• 34:44
  but every year new people
• 34:46
  that want to take part in any group.
• 34:48
  Yeah, it sounds like it is.
• 34:48
  New elections.
• 34:50
  Elections, yeah, not auditions.
• 34:51
  There's like a term limit, so, yeah.
• 34:54
  Because, like you said, you know,
• 34:57
  for it to happen,
• 34:58
  you have to be able to
• 34:59
  listen to both sides and see, you know,
• 35:02
  how we can go...
• 35:05
  forward together and, you know,
• 35:07
  proposing new ideas and stuff like that.
• 35:10
  So, yeah, I mean, it's what we're in,
• 35:14
  but again, I still don't,
• 35:17
  If people have a different
• 35:18
  opinion than this,
• 35:18
  I still don't fault them if
• 35:22
  they don't want to go on with the season.
• 35:24
  And if that's their personal
• 35:25
  decision and they have not seen enough.
• 35:28
  And like I said,
• 35:29
  just because some people
• 35:30
  are going with the scene
• 35:31
  doesn't mean that they're
• 35:33
  fine with what's happened as well.
• 35:35
  right and then other people
• 35:36
  that are designed to move
• 35:37
  away it's just it's also
• 35:39
  okay but they want to still
• 35:41
  see more and maybe they'll
• 35:42
  come back after they've
• 35:43
  seen a year or two and
• 35:45
  they've actually seen the
• 35:47
  progress in action versus
• 35:49
  talks and and that's okay
• 35:51
  too and some of them might
• 35:52
  never come back and that's
• 35:53
  okay as well um so I think
• 35:55
  there's there's room for
• 35:56
  everyone here but
• 35:59
  Hopefully, regardless of all that,
• 36:02
  I hope that lives are going
• 36:04
  to continue to get changed
• 36:06
  with CrossFit methodology.
• 36:08
  And I hope that we've
• 36:12
  learned a lot from this past year.
• 36:16
  And like I said,
• 36:17
  that it never happens again
• 36:18
  and that everything gets better.
• 36:23
  I think what has me optimistic is...
• 36:26
  that I know the former
• 36:27
  athlete councils didn't do
• 36:29
  anything and already we're
• 36:32
  hearing that they've met a
• 36:32
  couple times in dave's week
• 36:34
  in review he talked about
• 36:36
  one example of the grips
• 36:38
  and the change in the rule
• 36:40
  book and he they presented
• 36:42
  it to the athlete council
• 36:43
  the athlete council council
• 36:45
  is doing research on their
• 36:46
  own and they're going to
• 36:47
  come back with
• 36:48
  recommendations on that
• 36:50
  because it's caused such a stir um
• 36:54
  And when you listen to Taylor with Siobhan,
• 36:57
  a lot of that is exactly what Dave said.
• 36:59
  Like they're matching up.
• 37:02
  Both sides are matching up
• 37:03
  in their stories.
• 37:04
  And that is very,
• 37:06
  that gives me hope that
• 37:08
  they are starting to listen more.
• 37:11
  But again,
• 37:12
  this has only been a few months.
• 37:14
  We just need to talk about,
• 37:19
  we need this to be a more
• 37:21
  long-term thing.
• 37:23
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 37:23
  Like it's, it's more fresh.
• 37:25
  Well,
• 37:25
  obviously you have more meetings and
• 37:26
  then will it die off?
• 37:28
  And then there's less,
• 37:30
  there's less meetings.
• 37:31
  I hope not.
• 37:31
  I hope that they'll continue
• 37:33
  to get involved and people
• 37:34
  from outside of this, right.
• 37:35
  People that are not
• 37:36
  affiliated with CrossFit in
• 37:38
  any way that have great
• 37:40
  ideas and maybe can,
• 37:41
  can create some better changes for,
• 37:44
  for the sport or anything
• 37:45
  that's involved with CrossFit.
• 37:49
  But yeah, I hope that it continues.
• 37:54
  I do as well.
• 37:57
  That's cool.
• 38:01
  If you want to know more,
• 38:02
  make sure to check out
• 38:03
  Max's Instagram page.
• 38:05
  It's just Max Elhaj on Instagram.
• 38:10
  Like I said,
• 38:12
  let me... They're all really good.
• 38:16
  I really like the coaching one.
• 38:18
  The coaching one is phenomenal.
• 38:20
  So he put out nine different things.
• 38:24
  Mental health, quarter one,
• 38:27
  twenty twenty five training cycle.
• 38:30
  Yeah, they're all different subjects.
• 38:32
  Pretty cool stuff.
• 38:40
  Vi is asking,
• 38:41
  did you already talk about
• 38:42
  the survey sent out by the
• 38:43
  athlete council?
• 38:44
  Did not know that happened.
• 38:45
  I, where did that, like,
• 38:47
  did you get that Carolyn?
• 38:50
  I don't think I received a
• 38:51
  survey from the athlete council.
• 38:53
  I didn't receive that part.
• 38:54
  I'm curious whether those
• 38:55
  athletes are going to be
• 38:57
  expanding and asking
• 38:58
  questions within the community.
• 38:59
  How,
• 39:00
  how are they getting the answers to
• 39:02
  then bring back from the athletes?
• 39:03
  Right.
• 39:04
  Or is it just their personal?
• 39:06
  I'm curious.
• 39:07
  I'm curious for that, that kind of stuff.
• 39:10
  Cause I don't,
• 39:11
  I don't believe I've received anything.
• 39:13
  Yeah.
• 39:14
  Yeah.
• 39:18
  CrossFit will only listen to
• 39:20
  athletes about small things like Crips,
• 39:22
  making it look like there's
• 39:23
  meaningful dialogue.
• 39:23
  It's all BS politics.
• 39:25
  I'm trying to be optimistic.
• 39:27
  Yeah, I mean,
• 39:29
  that kind of thinking is just
• 39:31
  going to get us nowhere.
• 39:31
  I mean, they've taken us up.
• 39:34
  We've got to give them a chance.
• 39:37
  Yeah,
• 39:39
  and I really hope that this time around,
• 39:42
  You know, it's,
• 39:43
  it's done well and it's
• 39:45
  done with intention and it's done,
• 39:49
  you know, to really save,
• 39:52
  save the sport and save CrossFit really.
• 40:01
  So it's linked on helping stories.
• 40:03
  What I'll tell you is as,
• 40:05
  as many chances it takes
• 40:06
  because we don't have any other options.
• 40:08
  Yeah.
• 40:12
  um so now um wfp announced
• 40:15
  their final signings no tia
• 40:17
  right surprised she doesn't
• 40:21
  need it no she does not
• 40:23
  need it to go to a
• 40:27
  competition for six events
• 40:28
  and it's a lot of competing
• 40:31
  for her she's got a family
• 40:32
  like I don't think she needs it
• 40:36
  Tia's going to thrive anywhere.
• 40:38
  It doesn't matter,
• 40:39
  but I think it's more risky
• 40:41
  for her to go to a
• 40:41
  six-event competition
• 40:43
  that's not really testing
• 40:44
  for the fittest.
• 40:45
  She has more to lose than to win.
• 40:47
  This is for athletes who are
• 40:50
  trying to make a living off
• 40:52
  of this that don't have an income.
• 40:54
  Not for people who are
• 40:56
  million-dollar-sponsored athletes.
• 40:58
  They're good.
• 41:02
  I'm not surprised.
• 41:04
  Not at all.
• 41:06
  I'm surprised about Jeff
• 41:08
  being the final signed
• 41:09
  athlete and saying not even
• 41:11
  sure he's going to do the full season.
• 41:13
  Yes.
• 41:15
  I don't like that at all.
• 41:17
  I think that was taken out
• 41:18
  of context by people.
• 41:22
  I think he's just saying,
• 41:23
  the way that I understood it,
• 41:24
  and maybe it's just lost in translation,
• 41:26
  that people aren't going to
• 41:28
  be able to do every single
• 41:29
  competition like they think
• 41:30
  that they will be.
• 41:32
  But I don't think he's
• 41:33
  saying that you can't do
• 41:34
  both seasons in terms of
• 41:35
  qualifying online,
• 41:37
  going to the games for the
• 41:38
  CrossFit Games season.
• 41:40
  He could easily do online
• 41:42
  and just go one time at the
• 41:43
  CrossFit Games and then
• 41:44
  continue with the WFP.
• 41:47
  That's no issue.
• 41:48
  I think he's saying that
• 41:49
  people think that they can
• 41:50
  do way more than what they think.
• 41:53
  And they just won't have time.
• 41:55
  I think what he's saying is...
• 41:58
  I have a short amount of
• 41:59
  time to capitalize and make
• 42:01
  a living for myself.
• 42:03
  And I'm going to see how
• 42:05
  many people sign up for the
• 42:06
  open and what that prize
• 42:07
  purse is at the games.
• 42:09
  And I'm going to see what
• 42:09
  the prize purse is at WFP.
• 42:11
  And I'm going to do whatever
• 42:12
  is in my best interest to
• 42:14
  sustain myself in this
• 42:16
  career for as long as I can.
• 42:20
  If he has to choose.
• 42:28
  Which I'm okay with.
• 42:30
  I'm okay with saying, hey,
• 42:32
  I have limited opportunities.
• 42:34
  And because of all the unknowns,
• 42:36
  I just need to sign up for
• 42:37
  everything and figure it out as it goes.
• 42:40
  I mean,
• 42:40
  I think Carolyn made that very
• 42:42
  clear a couple months ago
• 42:43
  that they would watch.
• 42:46
  That it was a monetary decision.
• 42:52
  Yeah, like he'll do Rogue.
• 42:55
  I think he'll do some WFP
• 42:56
  and then he can qualify
• 42:58
  easily for the games online.
• 43:00
  Like he's one of the best,
• 43:01
  if not the best.
• 43:04
  I mean, in person and online.
• 43:06
  He's great online, though.
• 43:09
  He's amazing online.
• 43:12
  The WFP has got to come out
• 43:14
  with the rest of the
• 43:16
  details surrounding this with points and.
• 43:20
  Like I tell you what,
• 43:21
  if someone like Jeff only
• 43:24
  does two out of three
• 43:25
  events and still maintains his pro card,
• 43:28
  I'm going to be upset,
• 43:29
  extremely upset with the point system.
• 43:30
  Like that's not how this should work.
• 43:33
  Like we need athletes who
• 43:34
  want to be at all three events.
• 43:36
  The finals are worth like
• 43:38
  double or triple points.
• 43:39
  So I feel like you don't
• 43:40
  even need to go to all of them.
• 43:41
  That's ridiculous.
• 43:46
  We'll see what happens.
• 43:55
  It seems like that is open
• 43:56
  for interpretation, Jeff's comments.
• 43:58
  Yeah.
• 43:58
  Caroline and I had different
• 44:00
  interpretations.
• 44:00
  Yeah,
• 44:01
  I didn't interpret it the way that
• 44:03
  everyone else is.
• 44:04
  I feel like it's taken and
• 44:06
  maybe just I think it's
• 44:08
  sometimes it's the language
• 44:09
  barrier that he has.
• 44:11
  I don't think that he's
• 44:12
  saying that he's going to
• 44:13
  just stop the season.
• 44:16
  I interpreted it as
• 44:19
  I don't think people are
• 44:20
  going to be able to do everything.
• 44:24
  Go to Europe.
• 44:26
  Back to back and think that
• 44:27
  they're doing every single thing.
• 44:29
  That would be too much.
• 44:31
  They're going to have to
• 44:33
  basically pick a little bit
• 44:34
  more than what they think.
• 44:36
  That might mean one of their
• 44:38
  seasons is going to be
• 44:39
  affected in terms of their performance.
• 44:41
  And it'll be what it'll be.
• 44:42
  That's how I interpreted it.
• 44:44
  I didn't look at it the way
• 44:46
  that everyone else is looking into it.
• 44:52
  so then we had this weekend
• 44:53
  fittest on the coast our
• 44:55
  very own Jamie Latimer went
• 44:57
  down and competed on a team
• 44:59
  she coached two individual
• 45:01
  athletes no no one I don't
• 45:10
  even think I would say I
• 45:11
  coached Jim I mean I was
• 45:12
  there from all but one
• 45:13
  event it was an interesting
• 45:19
  weekend for Jim
• 45:22
  Okay.
• 45:23
  I mean, he was in the sixty.
• 45:26
  It's they only have sixty plus there.
• 45:27
  And he was there was a lot
• 45:30
  of sixty year olds.
• 45:31
  How old is he?
• 45:32
  Sixty eight.
• 45:35
  Yeah, he's he was the oldest one there.
• 45:38
  And it's evident, right?
• 45:39
  Like they had bar muscle ups.
• 45:41
  They had handstand walk and
• 45:45
  not everyone had them.
• 45:46
  But I mean, he doesn't have them.
• 45:49
  So like he just, you know.
• 45:51
  he's at a standstill or he's
• 45:53
  standing there not working
• 45:54
  out when it gets to that
• 45:55
  point of the event.
• 45:56
  And so, I mean, he was like,
• 46:00
  I think he was second to
• 46:01
  last for most of the weekend.
• 46:02
  And then after the last event, he was,
• 46:04
  he finished last.
• 46:06
  I think he would have liked
• 46:06
  to not finish last, but again,
• 46:08
  there's just,
• 46:11
  It's just some mobility
• 46:12
  stuff that he just doesn't
• 46:13
  have the capacity to do.
• 46:15
  And when you get these six-year-olds,
• 46:17
  to be fair,
• 46:17
  I think Freddie Cherry
• 46:19
  podiumed and he's sixty six.
• 46:21
  I think he was over sixty five.
• 46:24
  So it's not like only the young guys won.
• 46:27
  Freddie, who is over sixty five,
• 46:29
  beat some of the other
• 46:30
  under sixty five year olds.
• 46:31
  So congrats to him.
• 46:32
  But I mean,
• 46:33
  he has handstand walk and he
• 46:34
  has bar muscle up.
• 46:36
  He was awesome.
• 46:39
  It's still cool to see
• 46:41
  people that age doing what they do.
• 46:44
  Yeah.
• 46:46
  When they have the skill, it's cool.
• 46:48
  When they're standing around
• 46:49
  for five minutes just to
• 46:52
  leap their hands across to
• 46:53
  get five foot of like,
• 46:55
  like I didn't like the
• 46:58
  workout that handstand walk.
• 46:59
  Cause it was so long.
• 47:02
  They got the other guys that were like,
• 47:04
  Jim wasn't even willing to try.
• 47:06
  Cause it's not worth,
• 47:08
  falling over and hitting a
• 47:09
  judge or another athlete or
• 47:11
  breaking a hip.
• 47:12
  Um,
• 47:13
  but a lot of the guys sat there and
• 47:14
  tried for five, six minutes,
• 47:16
  and that's a long time to
• 47:17
  sit there and dry.
• 47:18
  And when you add the last ten seconds,
• 47:20
  finally get five feet by
• 47:21
  jumping your hands across.
• 47:22
  It's just, eh, that's just, you know,
• 47:27
  I don't know.
• 47:29
  That's not showing the skill
• 47:32
  in my opinion.
• 47:35
  True.
• 47:38
  um so I have the leaderboard
• 47:40
  up for the team which is
• 47:43
  what you competed in um
• 47:47
  what are your overall
• 47:48
  thoughts on the weekend um
• 47:52
  they did a they did a good
• 47:54
  job like I mean it's it's a
• 47:55
  pretty big event there's
• 47:57
  the two floors running I
• 47:58
  think they only got off by
• 47:59
  like ten twelve minutes on
• 48:01
  one of the days which is
• 48:03
  kudos to them there's a lot
• 48:04
  going on I think
• 48:06
  Things could have been briefed way better.
• 48:08
  I think judges could have
• 48:09
  been a little bit more prepared.
• 48:15
  I think everything was kind of short,
• 48:17
  and I get it.
• 48:19
  It seems to be the way these
• 48:20
  comps are going, and I get it.
• 48:24
  You have to be really big to
• 48:25
  make it worthwhile to host,
• 48:27
  and you have to have all
• 48:27
  these divisions and all these brackets,
• 48:30
  and what it ends up doing
• 48:32
  is cramming stuff into
• 48:34
  twelve minutes or less.
• 48:36
  six minute workouts, things like that.
• 48:38
  Like it's just not my cup of tea really.
• 48:40
  Um,
• 48:41
  but I get that's kind of the way of
• 48:45
  this money-making process.
• 48:49
  So your women's pro division
• 48:53
  was pretty stacked with
• 48:55
  semifinal and masters games athletes.
• 48:58
  Mm-hmm.
• 49:00
  Motown Grit won it.
• 49:02
  Yeah.
• 49:02
  That is Caroline Klutz and
• 49:03
  Stevie Dellinger.
• 49:05
  Stevie won Crash, correct?
• 49:09
  Yep.
• 49:10
  And Caroline Klutz has won
• 49:12
  Crash in the past and other stuff.
• 49:16
  Long Island's best was
• 49:18
  Calista Lang and Christine Best.
• 49:20
  Right.
• 49:22
  Both friends of the show.
• 49:23
  Christine Best was on our
• 49:24
  sponsored team a couple years ago.
• 49:27
  And Calista Lang was one of
• 49:32
  our people at Atlas Games
• 49:34
  along with one Carolyn
• 49:36
  Prevo a few years back.
• 49:40
  And then Shark Tank,
• 49:41
  do you remember that team?
• 49:43
  Yeah.
• 49:47
  I cannot recall who was on Shark Tank.
• 49:50
  Ashley Cope's team?
• 49:53
  No, she was on Coed.
• 49:55
  The problem is when I blow it up,
• 49:58
  it makes it really hard to.
• 50:01
  Hannah Hardy and Lisa Thomas.
• 50:03
  Yes.
• 50:04
  Again, semifinal athlete.
• 50:08
  So, yeah.
• 50:09
  So you're up there with a lot of, like,
• 50:11
  great women.
• 50:12
  You're with Haley Rolfe,
• 50:14
  who was a teen games athlete.
• 50:17
  Is what, nineteen?
• 50:18
  Yep.
• 50:20
  You are a Masters athlete.
• 50:23
  I was the oldest one out there for sure.
• 50:28
  But you still beat some of
• 50:29
  the other Masters athletes
• 50:30
  that are younger than you.
• 50:32
  Yeah.
• 50:33
  It was weird.
• 50:34
  We were tenth going into the
• 50:36
  last workout and we got
• 50:37
  seventh on the last workout.
• 50:38
  And then we finished twelfth.
• 50:40
  Like, I was like, oh,
• 50:43
  this one will be decent for us.
• 50:44
  I was like, we're in tenth.
• 50:46
  I think maybe we could finish ninth,
• 50:47
  which was like my goal.
• 50:49
  And I was like, oh, we got seventh.
• 50:51
  Great.
• 50:51
  And then I pulled the
• 50:52
  leaderboard and it's I think, well,
• 50:54
  I wasn't certain, but I was like,
• 50:55
  I think we got like at
• 50:56
  least eighth in that
• 50:57
  workout when we finished.
• 50:58
  And I looked around and I was like, oh,
• 51:00
  good.
• 51:00
  This should be good.
• 51:01
  We dropped to twelfth.
• 51:03
  Just ridiculous.
• 51:05
  It must have been close
• 51:06
  between you guys at the tenth place then.
• 51:08
  Yeah, I think it was like five points.
• 51:13
  Yeah.
• 51:14
  What I'll say is I tried to
• 51:16
  watch most of the weekend.
• 51:18
  I watched all of your events.
• 51:20
  But it really... They never
• 51:23
  went to your side of the floor.
• 51:25
  Yeah.
• 51:26
  Aaron was telling me that too.
• 51:28
  Um...
• 51:29
  because you were on one end, um, it,
• 51:32
  they always seem to start
• 51:34
  on the other end.
• 51:35
  They'd walk down halfway and
• 51:37
  then they turn around.
• 51:40
  And I was like, are you kidding me now?
• 51:42
  Brian would say your name.
• 51:44
  Yeah.
• 51:46
  But we couldn't see you.
• 51:47
  Yeah.
• 51:49
  Uh,
• 51:49
  so it was a little frustrating as a fan
• 51:52
  of Jamie and Haley, uh,
• 51:54
  to try to watch it.
• 51:55
  Um, uh,
• 51:57
  But overall,
• 51:58
  I think they did a good job
• 51:59
  with the coverage.
• 52:00
  It's a super wide field.
• 52:04
  Trying to get everybody in.
• 52:05
  I tried to watch as much as I could.
• 52:08
  I even watched a lot of the individual.
• 52:12
  I thought they did a really good job.
• 52:15
  And I think like their production,
• 52:17
  they just got ripped for what a Palooza,
• 52:19
  but in this setting,
• 52:21
  the expectations are not
• 52:23
  where they are for what a Palooza.
• 52:24
  And I would say that, like,
• 52:26
  I was very happy with it
• 52:27
  other than I couldn't see my friend.
• 52:29
  Yeah.
• 52:30
  I, yeah, I think Brian did great.
• 52:31
  I went back and watched one of the events,
• 52:35
  um,
• 52:36
  And Aaron had told me that,
• 52:37
  that we were on one end.
• 52:39
  So I actually have video of
• 52:41
  the other three workouts
• 52:42
  that I'll just put up on my YouTube.
• 52:43
  It should mostly cover our lane and well,
• 52:47
  Jim videoed it.
• 52:48
  So I don't know.
• 52:49
  I haven't watched it, but I'll upload it.
• 52:52
  Hopefully it's decent.
• 52:53
  Yeah.
• 52:55
  Yeah.
• 52:58
  I watched a few of the
• 52:59
  events this weekend sporadically.
• 53:02
  It was good.
• 53:03
  Like I thought that Brian
• 53:04
  did a good job and he would
• 53:06
  interview some athletes right after.
• 53:09
  Like I've,
• 53:09
  I've enjoyed some of the graphics that,
• 53:11
  that they do showing the
• 53:14
  workouts and stuff like that.
• 53:15
  Like,
• 53:16
  you know, he,
• 53:17
  he's been doing a ton of competitions and,
• 53:21
  you know, as, as a fan of the sport,
• 53:23
  like I, when there's nothing to watch,
• 53:25
  like on a weekend, I just look in,
• 53:27
  I'm like, Oh,
• 53:28
  let's see what's going on here.
• 53:29
  And it's, and it's,
• 53:30
  it's great that he has been
• 53:31
  putting about a bunch of competitions on,
• 53:34
  on YouTube and,
• 53:35
  and doing a good job with that.
• 53:37
  Yeah.
• 53:38
  I mean, he knows everyone on the floor.
• 53:40
  He does.
• 53:41
  It's, it's excellent.
• 53:42
  Like you're not going to
• 53:43
  find somebody who's more
• 53:44
  committed to the athletes and like,
• 53:49
  I mean, he kudos him.
• 53:49
  He does a good job.
• 53:50
  It's for, for me,
• 53:52
  I'd say it's like to fly out there for,
• 53:54
  to take the floor four
• 53:55
  times is I just feel like
• 53:58
  we needed another event.
• 54:01
  Like, like I said, like we were in tenth,
• 54:04
  we took seventh and that's
• 54:05
  how much the leaderboard
• 54:07
  was flopping because there
• 54:07
  wasn't like there needed to
• 54:08
  be another event.
• 54:09
  Yeah.
• 54:11
  The double workouts were,
• 54:14
  they just didn't do it for me.
• 54:15
  Yeah.
• 54:16
  Yeah.
• 54:17
  um yeah because there were
• 54:20
  six court events with four
• 54:22
  times taking the floor
• 54:24
  correct um so the one thing
• 54:28
  I will say about brian and
• 54:29
  I don't usually toot my own
• 54:30
  horn but because I've
• 54:32
  interviewed so many
• 54:33
  semi-final athletes like I
• 54:36
  know their backstories and
• 54:37
  I know how to pronounce
• 54:38
  their names correctly
• 54:40
  and things like that.
• 54:41
  That's the only thing that
• 54:42
  gets to me with Brian,
• 54:43
  but most people wouldn't know that.
• 54:45
  Um, it's just,
• 54:46
  I've interviewed so many of them,
• 54:49
  but I feel like he normally
• 54:50
  tries to find out how to say their name.
• 54:53
  He does.
• 54:53
  And he does.
• 54:54
  He, yeah, he does a really good job.
• 54:57
  Actually.
• 54:58
  I think of correcting himself if,
• 55:01
  if he said it wrong and,
• 55:02
  and like he wants to do
• 55:05
  like to say the right names.
• 55:06
  Um, he does.
• 55:08
  Yeah.
• 55:09
  When we worked together at Morning Talk Up,
• 55:11
  we helped each other a lot on that.
• 55:13
  Yeah, I think he takes a lot of pride in,
• 55:15
  like, pronouncing and stuff.
• 55:18
  Yeah.
• 55:22
  So you wouldn't do it again?
• 55:27
  I don't know.
• 55:29
  I feel like maybe if I did it again,
• 55:32
  I would do both so that, you know.
• 55:35
  It's more worthwhile for the trip.
• 55:37
  But then again, you're also,
• 55:38
  then you're paying.
• 55:41
  Yeah.
• 55:41
  Like, I don't, it's like,
• 55:44
  I don't know what I, what.
• 55:47
  I don't know.
• 55:47
  As a non-sponsored athlete and stuff,
• 55:50
  these competitions are so expensive.
• 55:53
  It is an expensive hobby.
• 55:54
  Yes, exactly.
• 55:57
  Because you're having to travel all over.
• 56:01
  If you look at most people our age,
• 56:03
  they're not competing and
• 56:04
  they're not living this
• 56:05
  life of going to different
• 56:06
  competitions and spending
• 56:10
  one to two thousand dollars
• 56:11
  just to compete on a weekend.
• 56:12
  It's just like...
• 56:14
  It's an expensive hobby.
• 56:16
  I'm going to say it's a
• 56:17
  hobby just because like for
• 56:18
  most of the people that are competing,
• 56:20
  they have full-time jobs
• 56:21
  and it's not like they're... Yeah.
• 56:25
  It's like a non-sponsored podcast.
• 56:28
  Yeah.
• 56:28
  Trying to go to events.
• 56:32
  I feel you.
• 56:33
  I get why it's popular in that area.
• 56:37
  That area has a ton of athletes.
• 56:38
  It's easy for those people to get to.
• 56:40
  It is not easy for me to get to.
• 56:43
  Like...
• 56:44
  Talking,
• 56:44
  talking to some of the other
• 56:45
  athletes for me,
• 56:47
  like I feel like MFC is better run,
• 56:51
  better competition.
• 56:53
  And I would of course prefer
• 56:56
  to go to that.
• 56:56
  It's a two hour drive for me.
• 56:59
  I understand why these
• 57:00
  athletes want to go to this one and not,
• 57:01
  and not like those athletes
• 57:03
  that I talked to that were like,
• 57:05
  I don't know if I'll go back to MFC.
• 57:06
  It's a little far for me.
• 57:07
  Yeah.
• 57:08
  That's exactly how I feel
• 57:09
  about all your cops.
• 57:11
  It's,
• 57:12
  a fourteen-hour drive or a
• 57:13
  flight and it's not it's
• 57:15
  not easy that's why I'm
• 57:17
  very selective on the comp
• 57:19
  so I do like early on in my
• 57:21
  CrossFit I was you know
• 57:23
  just trying to get
• 57:23
  experience and stuff now
• 57:25
  I'm like uh I don't really
• 57:27
  feel like paying this money
• 57:28
  like can I make it back do
• 57:29
  I have a shot at making it
• 57:30
  back because if I don't I'm
• 57:32
  like I'm good I'll keep
• 57:34
  working this weekend
• 57:37
  do my stuff and continue training.
• 57:39
  Cause it just adds up like the food,
• 57:41
  the hotel, the flight.
• 57:43
  And like,
• 57:43
  there's not really any major constant,
• 57:45
  like where I live in Toronto,
• 57:47
  that is worthwhile at all
• 57:49
  for me to compete.
• 57:49
  So I always have to travel
• 57:51
  and it's always out of pocket.
• 57:53
  And to me, I'm just like,
• 57:56
  what are the chances I have?
• 57:57
  Who's competing?
• 57:59
  Can I make money?
• 58:00
  No.
• 58:00
  Okay.
• 58:01
  I'm good.
• 58:02
  The odd ones, the odd ones I'll go for, um,
• 58:07
  for the,
• 58:08
  if it's an experience and it's like, okay,
• 58:10
  this is my one big comp of the year.
• 58:11
  But other than that,
• 58:12
  it's not something that I
• 58:13
  can just afford to just do on the regular,
• 58:16
  like in compete multiple
• 58:17
  times in the year.
• 58:18
  Like it's just, it's just too expensive.
• 58:21
  Yeah.
• 58:22
  I just, I don't know how else to get,
• 58:25
  how people are expect
• 58:27
  people to get experience and exposure.
• 58:29
  Yeah.
• 58:32
  We need some sponsors.
• 58:34
  We need some sponsors.
• 58:39
  And there's other athletes
• 58:40
  that have like all these
• 58:40
  sponsors and I'm like, how?
• 58:43
  I'm like, where?
• 58:44
  Like, what are you doing?
• 58:46
  And like,
• 58:46
  some of them don't even have that
• 58:47
  many followers.
• 58:48
  I'm like, I don't know.
• 58:52
  last thing I'll say is so
• 58:54
  many friends of the show
• 58:55
  competed so many did well
• 58:58
  so many I don't if I tried
• 59:00
  to name them I would miss
• 59:01
  some so I'm just gonna say
• 59:03
  like we noticed we saw you
• 59:04
  there so happy for all of
• 59:06
  you and what you've done um
• 59:10
  you guys you guys are
• 59:11
  awesome we we love watching
• 59:13
  you compete um and I will
• 59:16
  continue to do so uh next
• 59:19
  up is it looks like there
• 59:20
  was a relaunch of the crossfit podcast
• 59:24
  and there's a trailer on
• 59:25
  youtube I'm gonna play a
• 59:27
  little bit of it um not too
• 59:30
  much because I don't want
• 59:30
  to get too much copyright
• 59:32
  infringement or anything um
• 59:34
  but uh who's running it
• 59:38
  it's not the same if it's
• 59:39
  not it looks like it's more
• 59:41
  affiliate based uh um here
• 59:47
  we go so here's the trailer
• 59:51
  of doing this.
• 59:52
  I want everyone you love doing this,
• 59:54
  right?
• 59:54
  Because I just know how well it works.
• 59:56
  And if you're going to spend time in a gym,
• 59:58
  there's nothing else I want you doing.
• 1:00:00
  With people in our community
• 1:00:02
  who are out there changing,
• 1:00:04
  and better than that, saving lives.
• 1:00:06
  The kids,
• 1:00:07
  they were in quarantine the longest.
• 1:00:10
  We were seeing diabetes on
• 1:00:11
  the rise for kids.
• 1:00:13
  I'm at home and I'm like, you know,
• 1:00:15
  I've got this experience.
• 1:00:17
  I've got all of these qualifications.
• 1:00:20
  I can do this.
• 1:00:22
  I can.
• 1:00:23
  Helen Taylor is awesome.
• 1:00:25
  She's so awesome.
• 1:00:26
  She's a huge friend of the show,
• 1:00:28
  speaking of.
• 1:00:30
  Love her to death.
• 1:00:32
  So cool that she's on this already.
• 1:00:35
  Start something in Detroit for the kids.
• 1:00:38
  Join me as I get to know
• 1:00:40
  these incredible humans.
• 1:00:42
  As a scientist and psychiatrist,
• 1:00:44
  I took this very nerdy
• 1:00:46
  science cell biology path.
• 1:00:49
  to get to the conclusions
• 1:00:50
  that a lot of you already know.
• 1:00:52
  Go do CrossFit.
• 1:00:53
  Together,
• 1:00:54
  their stories are the story of CrossFit.
• 1:00:56
  And I saw that with my
• 1:00:57
  training with my brothers.
• 1:00:58
  At a point,
• 1:00:59
  they were able to beat me in a workout.
• 1:01:02
  And I did not like that.
• 1:01:03
  But I can tell you this.
• 1:01:05
  It made me a better athlete.
• 1:01:08
  So, go check out the trailer.
• 1:01:11
  It's on the CrossFit YouTube channel.
• 1:01:15
  It's the new CrossFit podcast.
• 1:01:18
  Is that on their tree?
• 1:01:20
  They're like their new
• 1:01:22
  channel with all the like
• 1:01:24
  coaching tips and all that.
• 1:01:26
  It's just on the cross.
• 1:01:27
  See right here.
• 1:01:28
  I don't know if you can see it.
• 1:01:29
  I'll blow it up.
• 1:01:30
  See, just cross on their main one.
• 1:01:32
  Okay.
• 1:01:33
  Cause I think the training
• 1:01:34
  one is just for like
• 1:01:36
  educational technical stuff.
• 1:01:39
  This one is just their main one.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah.
• 1:01:42
  So Denise is the host.
• 1:01:44
  It appears.
• 1:01:45
  It looks like it.
• 1:01:46
  Yeah.
• 1:01:48
  I got to meet her at an
• 1:01:50
  affiliate gathering in the
• 1:01:51
  Southwest of Ohio.
• 1:01:54
  She in person has so much freaking energy.
• 1:01:57
  It is insane.
• 1:02:01
  Just one of those people you
• 1:02:02
  meet and you're like,
• 1:02:03
  I got to be around this
• 1:02:04
  person because she is awesome.
• 1:02:07
  Yeah.
• 1:02:08
  I met her at the games in
• 1:02:09
  twenty twenty three and she
• 1:02:10
  was one of my favorites there for sure.
• 1:02:13
  Yeah.
• 1:02:14
  So check that out.
• 1:02:16
  Subscribe if you want.
• 1:02:20
  also another thing that
• 1:02:21
  dropped on youtube is a new
• 1:02:24
  video about uh rebecca
• 1:02:26
  voight-miller and you know
• 1:02:29
  the masters athletes are so
• 1:02:31
  near and dear to me um this
• 1:02:33
  is about crossfit doesn't
• 1:02:34
  have to end and the title
• 1:02:36
  of the video as it goes on
• 1:02:37
  is actually from legend to
• 1:02:39
  longevity I love it
• 1:02:42
  And it talks about how the
• 1:02:44
  way she looks at CrossFit now is not,
• 1:02:49
  she goes and competes
• 1:02:50
  because she wants to show
• 1:02:51
  people what's possible,
• 1:02:53
  but it's really about like
• 1:02:55
  how to sustain her life.
• 1:02:57
  And she talks about seeing
• 1:02:59
  the seventy plus out there
• 1:03:02
  busting their tail at the
• 1:03:03
  games and being in the
• 1:03:05
  corral with them and
• 1:03:07
  hearing them talk about how they want to
• 1:03:11
  Show people show off their
• 1:03:12
  bodies and show off what
• 1:03:14
  they can do at seventy plus years old.
• 1:03:18
  It's a great, great video.
• 1:03:21
  A little behind the scenes
• 1:03:23
  or behind the curtain is
• 1:03:25
  Mariah Moore did that one.
• 1:03:28
  And I was with her at the
• 1:03:29
  Masters CrossFit Games and
• 1:03:31
  was filming with her in the
• 1:03:33
  back at the same time I was
• 1:03:36
  doing my behind the scenes.
• 1:03:38
  She was doing this as well
• 1:03:40
  as a couple others.
• 1:03:43
  And she's awesome.
• 1:03:46
  And the story of this one is so good.
• 1:03:50
  Highly, highly recommend.
• 1:03:54
  So.
• 1:03:55
  again on that same crossfit
• 1:03:57
  uh youtube page yep yep
• 1:04:02
  that's good it looks like
• 1:04:03
  they're pulling their media
• 1:04:04
  together a little bit yeah
• 1:04:07
  it's about time like again
• 1:04:09
  more optimism like if this
• 1:04:11
  stuff is if they're
• 1:04:12
  changing in this direction
• 1:04:14
  and they're going to
• 1:04:14
  continue these changes like
• 1:04:16
  I'm all in for that the one
• 1:04:20
  thing yeah never mind we
• 1:04:22
  won't get on that we'll do
• 1:04:23
  that another night um
• 1:04:27
  Elisa Fuliano announced that
• 1:04:28
  she is saying no to both
• 1:04:30
  the CrossFit Games season
• 1:04:31
  and the WFP season,
• 1:04:33
  that she has lost her love
• 1:04:40
  for the sport and is really
• 1:04:44
  just training for her now.
• 1:04:50
  Okay.
• 1:04:50
  She's going to do the French
• 1:04:51
  Throwdown and the Wadland Fest as well.
• 1:04:59
  So she's just going to
• 1:04:59
  compete in Europe when she feels, um,
• 1:05:04
  she's one of my favorite CrossFitters.
• 1:05:07
  I say that a lot, but, um,
• 1:05:09
  she fights rheumatoid arthritis.
• 1:05:11
  She has a limited expiration
• 1:05:15
  date on this career because of that.
• 1:05:17
  Um, and.
• 1:05:20
  can't do it while you're
• 1:05:21
  miserable right like uh you
• 1:05:24
  got to do it for the love
• 1:05:25
  of it so um because what
• 1:05:27
  she does to keep her body
• 1:05:28
  moving um it's got to be
• 1:05:31
  worth it right in the end
• 1:05:33
  if you're not happy no
• 1:05:35
  point in doing it I didn't
• 1:05:38
  see anything that she wrote
• 1:05:40
  maybe I missed it for the
• 1:05:42
  wfp that she wasn't doing
• 1:05:43
  that I just saw the the game season but
• 1:05:47
  I didn't see it particularly
• 1:05:49
  the address too.
• 1:05:50
  So I saw it on barbells.
• 1:05:51
  Yeah, I saw it there,
• 1:05:53
  but I didn't see it in her
• 1:05:55
  particular post.
• 1:05:56
  And then I saw her talk at
• 1:05:58
  water Palooza in something.
• 1:06:00
  Okay.
• 1:06:01
  Um, and then, uh,
• 1:06:03
  and she talked at water
• 1:06:04
  Palooza about not being,
• 1:06:06
  just not being happy with
• 1:06:09
  the training for the season.
• 1:06:10
  Okay.
• 1:06:14
  So,
• 1:06:18
  don't know yeah we'll leave
• 1:06:21
  tonight with this and this
• 1:06:22
  was something I pondered
• 1:06:23
  last week on my lunch with
• 1:06:24
  the clydesdale I was there
• 1:06:26
  was so much debate last
• 1:06:27
  week about josh allen
• 1:06:29
  winning the mvp in the nfl
• 1:06:32
  over lamar jackson my one
• 1:06:35
  beef with the super bowl
• 1:06:36
  was that I didn't think
• 1:06:37
  jalen hurt should have won
• 1:06:38
  the mvp I thought it should
• 1:06:40
  have been a defensive player
• 1:06:42
  that Philadelphia's defense
• 1:06:44
  truly was the reason they won that game,
• 1:06:46
  and someone from the
• 1:06:47
  defense should have won the MVP.
• 1:06:51
  But nay-nay, nobody listens to me anyway.
• 1:06:53
  I think it's your point there.
• 1:06:58
  So I thought about, like,
• 1:06:59
  if CrossFit did a season-long MVP,
• 1:07:05
  there wouldn't even be
• 1:07:05
  competing to pick the female MVP.
• 1:07:13
  for the last several years
• 1:07:14
  other than the time she
• 1:07:15
  took off for pregnancy.
• 1:07:17
  But in the men's,
• 1:07:19
  if you did betting before the season,
• 1:07:22
  I bet you less than one
• 1:07:24
  percent of the community
• 1:07:25
  would have bet that James
• 1:07:31
  Sprague would have been the
• 1:07:32
  MVP for the year.
• 1:07:34
  And looking back at the season,
• 1:07:36
  with a games win and a Waterpalooza win,
• 1:07:40
  he has a pretty strong case
• 1:07:41
  to be the MVP.
• 1:07:44
  would say he is others may
• 1:07:46
  argue otherwise for sure
• 1:07:49
  but I but I think he's in
• 1:07:51
  the argument for sure I
• 1:07:53
  think he's in the argument
• 1:07:54
  I think brent had also a
• 1:07:56
  very good season that you
• 1:07:58
  couldn't ignore and based
• 1:07:59
  off the what is it the
• 1:08:01
  apollo rankings I mean he
• 1:08:04
  was number one yep so
• 1:08:08
  that's based off a bunch of
• 1:08:09
  head to heads that they
• 1:08:10
  were together all year and
• 1:08:11
  their experience.
• 1:08:12
  So I think that's a valuable
• 1:08:14
  leaderboard there,
• 1:08:16
  but it also favors people
• 1:08:17
  that just compete a lot just in general.
• 1:08:19
  So you got to compete a lot
• 1:08:21
  to get your ranking up
• 1:08:22
  because if you don't and you're selective,
• 1:08:25
  then even if you win, it doesn't matter.
• 1:08:28
  Right.
• 1:08:30
  But for everything like, and,
• 1:08:32
  and we don't need to,
• 1:08:33
  maybe we can get into it.
• 1:08:34
  I don't know.
• 1:08:35
  Like Craig says, Jason had a great season.
• 1:08:38
  For every great event Jason had,
• 1:08:41
  James was better.
• 1:08:44
  Right.
• 1:08:45
  The only one that James was off was Rogue.
• 1:08:48
  Right.
• 1:08:48
  Coming off Pneumonia.
• 1:08:50
  Correct.
• 1:08:53
  Other than that, James was better.
• 1:08:54
  Agree.
• 1:08:59
  And you could say that Brent
• 1:09:01
  had a better Rogue.
• 1:09:05
  But he didn't even compete
• 1:09:06
  in Waterpalooza.
• 1:09:10
  But I would say that Rogue
• 1:09:11
  was a much better test than Waterpalooza.
• 1:09:15
  Waterpalooza has only six events as well.
• 1:09:16
  I don't think that's a full test.
• 1:09:25
  Semantics, man.
• 1:09:26
  We're just having a fun discussion.
• 1:09:30
  And it wouldn't be MVP.
• 1:09:31
  It'd be more just a ranking system.
• 1:09:33
  Who's ranked number one.
• 1:09:35
  Maybe it would be the better
• 1:09:35
  word than MVP.
• 1:09:38
  I'm trying to think of what, yeah,
• 1:09:41
  it would just be a ranking
• 1:09:42
  or a champion player of the
• 1:09:43
  year or athlete of the year.
• 1:09:48
  I should say.
• 1:09:49
  Right.
• 1:09:51
  Especially in sports that
• 1:09:52
  have a lot of different
• 1:09:54
  things you can win.
• 1:09:56
  Right.
• 1:09:56
  Yeah.
• 1:10:00
  But I just thought about that.
• 1:10:04
  He really came out of nowhere.
• 1:10:09
  Yes or no?
• 1:10:14
  Yeah.
• 1:10:14
  He way exceeded expectations.
• 1:10:16
  He exceeded expectations for sure.
• 1:10:18
  Because I think people would
• 1:10:19
  have put some money on Dillon.
• 1:10:22
  Maybe even Jason.
• 1:10:25
  You're not really thinking that.
• 1:10:28
  Yeah, I had James Moore around the
• 1:10:30
  Tenth place at the games, like,
• 1:10:32
  ten to twelve.
• 1:10:34
  At best, I had him, like, eighth, I think,
• 1:10:37
  in, like, a ranking.
• 1:10:38
  Like, if everything goes well,
• 1:10:39
  maybe eighth.
• 1:10:41
  I don't think people would
• 1:10:42
  have put Brent high.
• 1:10:46
  He's always literally by the podium.
• 1:10:48
  To be, like, the best for the year.
• 1:10:52
  he's always kind of outdone
• 1:10:53
  by Pat and by Madera and by like,
• 1:10:57
  you can list off all these
• 1:10:58
  that we didn't know Roman
• 1:10:59
  was going to be hurt all year.
• 1:11:00
  We didn't like, he had an underwhelming.
• 1:11:03
  I think a lot of people
• 1:11:04
  would have put their money
• 1:11:05
  on Ricky at the beginning of the year.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah.
• 1:11:10
  It just, and what I,
• 1:11:13
  what I think is awesome is
• 1:11:14
  it shows you the potential
• 1:11:16
  for how good the men's
• 1:11:17
  division can be for years.
• 1:11:19
  Yeah.
• 1:11:21
  Because someone that we
• 1:11:22
  didn't even think about as
• 1:11:24
  being the best athlete this year came out,
• 1:11:28
  okay, not out of nowhere,
• 1:11:29
  came out of the teens in
• 1:11:34
  the ranking or ten in the
• 1:11:35
  ranking to possibly win it.
• 1:11:39
  Brent, probably the same thing.
• 1:11:40
  Lower tens to teens and to win it.
• 1:11:45
  And you have so many people
• 1:11:47
  in the list that could beat
• 1:11:49
  them on any given day.
• 1:11:53
  which I think makes it
• 1:11:55
  incredible for what could
• 1:11:57
  happen in the upcoming seasons.
• 1:12:06
  Yeah.
• 1:12:06
  And CrossFit says both Brent
• 1:12:08
  and James are athletes.
• 1:12:09
  We normally felt we're programming,
• 1:12:10
  rely it for their finish.
• 1:12:12
  I feel less that way than I
• 1:12:14
  did going into the season.
• 1:12:19
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:12:21
  I think confidence is a big thing too,
• 1:12:23
  right?
• 1:12:23
  Like in competition,
• 1:12:24
  like your mental state.
• 1:12:27
  And I think James right now
• 1:12:28
  is very confident.
• 1:12:29
  And, um, when you compete that way,
• 1:12:32
  I think, you know, you,
• 1:12:34
  you can go pretty far.
• 1:12:38
  Yeah.
• 1:12:41
  It was just an,
• 1:12:41
  it was just a thought I had
• 1:12:43
  that I thought would be fun discussion.
• 1:12:49
  But yeah, I'm just,
• 1:12:52
  I'm really happy for James
• 1:12:54
  because it could have been like,
• 1:12:55
  I think the Waterpalooza win was huge.
• 1:12:58
  I agree.
• 1:13:00
  To go from games champion
• 1:13:05
  that nobody really gave the credit to,
• 1:13:07
  to get that validation at
• 1:13:08
  Waterpalooza was pretty cool.
• 1:13:10
  And I know it wasn't a full field,
• 1:13:12
  but still he dominated Waterpalooza.
• 1:13:18
  One first, four seconds,
• 1:13:21
  and then the lift.
• 1:13:23
  Yeah, he had a great event.
• 1:13:30
  But with that,
• 1:13:32
  you guys got anything else for this week?
• 1:13:34
  It was a bunch of quick hitters.
• 1:13:38
  We're coming up on the open.
• 1:13:40
  Things are going to start
• 1:13:41
  getting hot and heavy here soon.
• 1:13:48
  yes only we're already
• 1:13:50
  february tenth it's going
• 1:13:51
  by fast it's going too fast
• 1:13:56
  yeah valentine's week I
• 1:13:59
  think there's some
• 1:13:59
  qualifiers this week too
• 1:14:01
  for one of the events uh
• 1:14:06
  which one one of the
• 1:14:11
  european ones I believe is
• 1:14:13
  it french throwdown that
• 1:14:14
  they have their qualifiers this week
• 1:14:20
  I forget.
• 1:14:22
  Do you guys know?
• 1:14:23
  I don't know.
• 1:14:25
  That's not my region.
• 1:14:27
  The French Throwdown
• 1:14:28
  qualifiers begin February twelfth,
• 1:14:33
  February eighteenth,
• 1:14:34
  and then February twenty-third.
• 1:14:37
  Okay.
• 1:14:38
  So, for the people doing that one.
• 1:14:41
  That's every Wednesday for
• 1:14:42
  the next three weeks.
• 1:14:45
  Until the open, right?
• 1:14:46
  Yeah.
• 1:14:47
  Yeah.
• 1:14:49
  I think in the French
• 1:14:50
  Throwdown was one of the
• 1:14:51
  ones that was half the
• 1:14:52
  field invited and half the
• 1:14:55
  field was qualified.
• 1:14:58
  That's qualified.
• 1:14:59
  Gotcha.
• 1:15:03
  Greg's asking, is Mayhem sold out?
• 1:15:06
  I don't know if tickets were on sale,
• 1:15:08
  to be honest.
• 1:15:11
  That's right.
• 1:15:12
  They were going to do Mayhem
• 1:15:13
  affiliates first.
• 1:15:15
  And that'll probably sell it out.
• 1:15:19
  I feel like they should be
• 1:15:20
  releasing tickets way
• 1:15:22
  earlier than they do.
• 1:15:23
  I think that competitions
• 1:15:24
  would do better if they
• 1:15:25
  released stuff earlier.
• 1:15:28
  I know more information
• 1:15:31
  released tickets this week.
• 1:15:33
  Okay.
• 1:15:33
  Early bird special, uh,
• 1:15:35
  to get the cheapest price as possible.
• 1:15:37
  Even like the open,
• 1:15:39
  like they could do a discount.
• 1:15:40
  Like if you want to pay
• 1:15:41
  right now for open and community event.
• 1:15:47
  Yeah.
• 1:15:48
  That's how you get like, you know,
• 1:15:49
  you get a. Ten dollar off
• 1:15:52
  or five dollar off.
• 1:15:54
  I think you do these bonuses
• 1:15:56
  and you already get your commitment.
• 1:15:57
  You already have your you
• 1:15:58
  start seeing the picture of.
• 1:16:01
  I think with syndicate,
• 1:16:02
  if you do the community event,
• 1:16:04
  your admissions free.
• 1:16:06
  OK, cool.
• 1:16:06
  Yeah,
• 1:16:06
  I think I remember them doing that in
• 1:16:08
  the past.
• 1:16:10
  Yeah, it should be.
• 1:16:10
  Yeah.
• 1:16:11
  Yeah.
• 1:16:13
  And I thought it was cool
• 1:16:14
  how they did it last year.
• 1:16:16
  with the community event
• 1:16:17
  outside in the vendor village.
• 1:16:21
  I thought their vendor
• 1:16:22
  village was the best I saw
• 1:16:24
  during the season last year.
• 1:16:34
  I thought vendor village at
• 1:16:36
  Fittest of the Coast was
• 1:16:38
  pretty well done.
• 1:16:40
  The setup in there was nice.
• 1:16:42
  I probably should have taken
• 1:16:44
  some video for you
• 1:16:46
  But they had several vendors there.
• 1:16:49
  You were too busy getting sun in the sand.
• 1:16:52
  I was trying to sit outside in the sun.
• 1:16:54
  That is true.
• 1:16:55
  I feel like a lot of the
• 1:16:56
  competitions I've been at
• 1:16:58
  the last few years,
• 1:17:00
  they have a lot of vendors,
• 1:17:01
  but I feel like they're not
• 1:17:03
  very busy when I look at them.
• 1:17:07
  Yeah, I would be curious.
• 1:17:07
  Have you guys felt like
• 1:17:09
  there's just been less of
• 1:17:10
  an interest to buy because
• 1:17:11
  people just have so much stuff?
• 1:17:13
  Yeah.
• 1:17:14
  I sometimes I feel for some
• 1:17:15
  of the vendors that are
• 1:17:16
  there and I'm like, Oh,
• 1:17:17
  I feel like you spent so much money.
• 1:17:18
  So sometimes I'm like, okay,
• 1:17:19
  I need to go spend because like, yeah,
• 1:17:21
  I feel bad that they made all this trip,
• 1:17:23
  but I don't know if they're
• 1:17:24
  doing as well as they were
• 1:17:25
  like many years ago.
• 1:17:28
  You know, we actually,
• 1:17:29
  Jamie and I talked about this, gosh,
• 1:17:32
  probably at legends maybe a
• 1:17:34
  couple years ago where like,
• 1:17:36
  I think some vendors are so
• 1:17:40
  CrossFit zoned in that,
• 1:17:43
  that once people buy the thing,
• 1:17:47
  they don't come back for the thing,
• 1:17:49
  right?
• 1:17:49
  And other vendors make their
• 1:17:52
  stuff more widespread.
• 1:17:56
  And where that came into
• 1:17:57
  play at Legends is you're
• 1:17:58
  on the Arizona State University campus.
• 1:18:02
  If your apparel focused on CrossFit only,
• 1:18:07
  people walked by and didn't
• 1:18:08
  know what it was.
• 1:18:10
  If your apparel focused
• 1:18:12
  spoke to things outside the
• 1:18:14
  space but just like fitness
• 1:18:16
  in general or people then
• 1:18:19
  going to the gym to work
• 1:18:20
  out were like hey fitness
• 1:18:22
  boom boom I'm gonna buy
• 1:18:23
  that those vendors did much
• 1:18:26
  better than the crossfit
• 1:18:28
  isolated vendors like you
• 1:18:32
  take barbell voodoo
• 1:18:35
  Just someone we don't know
• 1:18:37
  someone we don't have any
• 1:18:39
  affiliation with.
• 1:18:40
  They do those funny t-shirts
• 1:18:42
  with like the golden girls flexing or, um,
• 1:18:46
  the office with prison,
• 1:18:48
  Michael benching on the
• 1:18:51
  bench with Dwight spotting them.
• 1:18:54
  Like those translate outside
• 1:18:56
  the CrossFit space.
• 1:18:57
  Right.
• 1:19:00
  Right.
• 1:19:03
  And I think that that is a
• 1:19:05
  great lesson when you're a vendor.
• 1:19:07
  Just because you're
• 1:19:09
  associated with CrossFit
• 1:19:10
  and you do CrossFit doesn't
• 1:19:12
  mean that your business
• 1:19:13
  should be solely focused on that.
• 1:19:15
  Yeah.
• 1:19:23
  And I think the other thing
• 1:19:24
  I learned is Masters athletes don't share,
• 1:19:28
  don't buy, don't.
• 1:19:33
  yeah I thought the masters
• 1:19:35
  athletes were the ones that
• 1:19:36
  were buying before but I
• 1:19:38
  think they know how to do
• 1:19:39
  it cheaper now yeah well
• 1:19:42
  that's sort of the problem
• 1:19:43
  like unless you're gonna be
• 1:19:46
  a vendor and have like a
• 1:19:47
  discount at these events
• 1:19:52
  for one like I had to fly
• 1:19:54
  here fly here like I
• 1:19:55
  couldn't buy anything I
• 1:19:57
  didn't have any room to get
• 1:19:58
  any get anything home so
• 1:20:02
  mean there would have had to
• 1:20:02
  been like an enticing
• 1:20:04
  reason or a very small item
• 1:20:05
  like I I like I have that
• 1:20:09
  stuff I have all the shirts
• 1:20:12
  I want I have all the grips
• 1:20:14
  that I want like unless
• 1:20:16
  there was like a fifty
• 1:20:17
  percent off a grip that I
• 1:20:19
  needed to replace I'm
• 1:20:20
  probably not buying it I'll just
• 1:20:23
  I'm just going to wait.
• 1:20:24
  I'll get it shipped to my, to myself.
• 1:20:26
  Like that.
• 1:20:27
  That's the thing right there.
• 1:20:28
  I feel like if there's even
• 1:20:30
  a small discount, I'm like more,
• 1:20:32
  I'm more inclined to go buy
• 1:20:33
  it just because, or also my, okay,
• 1:20:35
  I'll just buy it down the road online.
• 1:20:37
  And then sometimes I'm like, Oh,
• 1:20:38
  down the road, I've, I don't buy it,
• 1:20:40
  you know?
• 1:20:41
  Right.
• 1:20:41
  But if I was there and I'm like, Oh,
• 1:20:42
  there's, there's like, Oh, there's like,
• 1:20:43
  Oh, there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:44
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:45
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:45
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:46
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:47
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:48
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:48
  there's like, Oh, there's like, Oh,
• 1:20:49
  there's like
• 1:20:49
  But now I'm like,
• 1:20:50
  it's going to be cheaper
• 1:20:51
  here than online.
• 1:20:52
  But if it's not going to be
• 1:20:52
  cheaper here than online,
• 1:20:53
  people are going to wait.
• 1:20:54
  And then that person just
• 1:20:56
  wasted their trip and their
• 1:20:57
  money to put their, their stuff there.
• 1:21:02
  Yep.
• 1:21:03
  Look at thick boy.
• 1:21:04
  Thick boy takes merchandise
• 1:21:05
  that he does not sell on
• 1:21:06
  his website that you can
• 1:21:09
  only get in person.
• 1:21:09
  And I think that's smart.
• 1:21:12
  Right.
• 1:21:14
  And he's not like,
• 1:21:16
  he's not zeroed in on just CrossFit only.
• 1:21:20
  I think that helps him.
• 1:21:23
  Yeah,
• 1:21:23
  he does really well whenever he is a
• 1:21:26
  vendor.
• 1:21:29
  I just think some of the other products,
• 1:21:31
  I don't know.
• 1:21:35
  I guess I don't even look anymore.
• 1:21:36
  I used to, but like I said,
• 1:21:39
  I usually have my knee sleeves there.
• 1:21:42
  I feel like at Legends,
• 1:21:44
  someone needed knee sleeves or something,
• 1:21:47
  and there actually weren't any.
• 1:21:50
  Anywhere.
• 1:21:51
  It was like, it was just a weird year.
• 1:21:53
  Like, I don't know.
• 1:21:54
  Yeah.
• 1:21:57
  Well, you know what, what's funny is,
• 1:22:01
  and then there's all these
• 1:22:01
  contractual things, right?
• 1:22:03
  That they're sponsors of the
• 1:22:04
  event and yet you're a vendor,
• 1:22:06
  but you're not that.
• 1:22:08
  So like,
• 1:22:09
  I remember when I first met Gabe
• 1:22:11
  at paper street coffee and I said,
• 1:22:13
  can I buy coffee?
• 1:22:14
  And he goes, I'm not allowed to sell it,
• 1:22:16
  but if you buy this sticker,
• 1:22:17
  I'll give you one for free.
• 1:22:18
  Right.
• 1:22:22
  And that's how he had to do
• 1:22:24
  it because he wasn't allowed to,
• 1:22:28
  to sell because they had an
• 1:22:30
  official coffee of that event.
• 1:22:37
  Yeah.
• 1:22:37
  We're just,
• 1:22:37
  we're robbing Peter to pay Paul.
• 1:22:40
  Like the, the,
• 1:22:41
  the competitions need sponsors.
• 1:22:43
  The athletes need sponsors,
• 1:22:45
  the media needs sponsors,
• 1:22:47
  and we're just robbing each
• 1:22:49
  other of those opportunities.
• 1:22:55
  which is really hard.
• 1:22:57
  Yep.
• 1:22:57
  But I think the competitions
• 1:22:58
  could like sometimes do a
• 1:23:00
  better job of promoting
• 1:23:01
  their vendors or placing
• 1:23:04
  them in better positions or
• 1:23:06
  reminding people to go and
• 1:23:07
  shop just different things like that too,
• 1:23:09
  just because it is tough on the vendors,
• 1:23:12
  right?
• 1:23:12
  And like these vendors do
• 1:23:13
  help these competitions
• 1:23:15
  then give back to the athletes.
• 1:23:17
  And so it needs to work both ways.
• 1:23:20
  Like if we as athletes want
• 1:23:21
  better competitions,
• 1:23:22
  like we have to go and
• 1:23:23
  support these vendors, right?
• 1:23:25
  Because they're the ones
• 1:23:26
  paying for a spot there at
• 1:23:27
  the venue to help the competition grow.
• 1:23:30
  But if we're not buying anything,
• 1:23:33
  it's a lose-lose because
• 1:23:35
  then there's going to be less vendors,
• 1:23:37
  less people want to go,
• 1:23:38
  less money to give to the athletes.
• 1:23:42
  So I think that we just have
• 1:23:42
  to help each other.
• 1:23:45
  So last year at Syndicate...
• 1:23:48
  Rad was not allowed to be on
• 1:23:50
  the premises because they
• 1:23:54
  go rock was there or somebody like that.
• 1:23:57
  Um,
• 1:23:58
  but they pulled a van into the parking
• 1:24:00
  garage across the street,
• 1:24:02
  put out on their social media.
• 1:24:03
  Hey,
• 1:24:04
  we're going to come sell our shoes out
• 1:24:07
  of the back of this van.
• 1:24:09
  And they actually like that
• 1:24:10
  beat that gorilla marketing
• 1:24:12
  became pretty popular because
• 1:24:14
  When Jamie and I were going
• 1:24:15
  to our car the one night,
• 1:24:16
  the line for that van was huge.
• 1:24:21
  So you just have to get creative too.
• 1:24:28
  I mean,
• 1:24:28
  you remember the Nike driving the
• 1:24:30
  trucks around Carson when
• 1:24:35
  they were told they
• 1:24:36
  couldn't come in because
• 1:24:37
  Reebok was a sponsor and
• 1:24:38
  they bought the big
• 1:24:40
  billboard trucks and just
• 1:24:42
  drove continuously around the venue.
• 1:24:48
  so yeah fun stuff it's fun
• 1:24:52
  stuff to talk about well
• 1:24:54
  guys next week we'll be
• 1:24:55
  back to our normally
• 1:24:56
  scheduled sunday night time
• 1:24:59
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• 1:25:01
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