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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Let's Get Done with the Week!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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If you were around my age today,
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we lost a legend.
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We're gonna talk about it next.
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I love the chase and the hunt and
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I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want and I
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always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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It's time to break up so I can
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make a better me.
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It's lunch time.
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Yay!
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what is going on everybody welcome to
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lunch with the clydesdale looks like i'm
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going solo today you guys think we have
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a plan we never have a plan i
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don't know if i'm gonna have cowboy with
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me or not until i open up the
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app
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when I come down, um,
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to do this show.
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So apparently he got busy today.
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I understand it's the middle of the work
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day.
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He's an hour behind me.
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So, eleven,
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fifteen is a little early for lunch.
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Um, but yeah, we'll see.
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Maybe he'll pop in at some point.
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But if you did not see the breaking
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news, the breaking news,
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if you are my age,
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this man was a legend.
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Chuck Norris passed away today.
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Um, such shame.
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Um,
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I thought that Chuck Norris was
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indestructible and, uh,
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the legend was that he didn't age.
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He just leveled up.
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Um, when he did a,
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he didn't do pushups.
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He pushed the earth down, you know,
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all the stuff.
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And, uh,
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There was a stretch in the eighties where
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he did missing in action and Delta force
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where those movies were iconic, iconic.
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And if you watch the expendable franchise,
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the second,
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or whatever the second movie in the
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sequel, uh,
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Chuck Norris was the punchline of that
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movie.
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It was an amazing storyline to get to
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the punchline.
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Um, and that is, uh,
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I think that says it all.
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If you've
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if you've not, there's a bunch,
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there's a bunch of like legends of action
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movies pinned down.
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There's people everywhere.
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And all of a sudden you hear like,
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uh, and everybody's,
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the shooting has stopped and they look out
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and it was Chuck Norris took out the
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whole crew.
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Um, so yeah.
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Uh,
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Total legend that I'm not even your age.
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Dad brought me up in all the movies.
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Really felt like he would last forever.
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I think Omar says it best.
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It's not jazzy that we lost him.
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He still is.
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He chose to leave as he already defeated
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the bad guys here on Earth.
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He is now the new leader of the
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Guardians of the Galaxy.
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There you go, Mike DeVito.
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Uh, you're never alone.
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You have all of us here.
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Chuck Norris didn't die.
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He went to heaven to give God a
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vacation.
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All right.
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Yes, that is good.
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Um, his cameo in dodgeball.
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So good.
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So good.
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Yeah.
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Um, so much fun, you know, he, uh,
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he was in the air force.
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He learned martial arts.
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His break into the movies was a Bruce
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Lee movie, um,
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giving him instant legitimacy in the
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martial arts action movie field.
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And, uh, yeah.
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Sad day.
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Sad day for people of my generation.
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And then he was on TV forever.
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Walker, Texas Ranger.
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Never a fan of that show,
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but like people around me were and would
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never miss an episode.
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So he'll be deeply missed.
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And hopefully he's up there giving God a
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break.
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With that,
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I have an interesting topic today.
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So a friend of mine sent me something
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last night.
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And I'm not going to say who unless
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they want to be recognized for that.
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And then I would give them all the
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love and the flowers in the world because
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what they sent me was pretty amazing.
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It was a writing that they had done
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about the open.
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And I want to pose this question to
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us all.
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Do we as the CrossFit community at large
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and all of the media representation that
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is out there,
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have we so much forgot about our own
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perspective of starting the open that we
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are taking away that joy
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from new people coming into the space and
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getting to do the open for maybe the
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first or second time?
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Are we so critical of what it has
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become that we have taken away that joy
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from new people coming into the CrossFit
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space?
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And if we lost our own perspective on
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the beauty of the CrossFit open,
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So someone sent me this writing that they
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had done through frustrations they had.
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And the way to get out their frustrations,
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they basically wrote a beautiful essay
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about what it's like to be a newbie
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in the space today and hearing all of
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the criticism of the open space.
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And I think back to like the first
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times I did the open,
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how much I loved it.
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And it wasn't like I never said to
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myself, is this a well-rounded test?
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Is this the right thing to get somebody
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to the games?
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What I said was,
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I'm going to do some hard shit today.
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And because I go to a CrossFit gym,
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I do hard shit every day.
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But this is another level of hard shit
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that forces me outside of my comfort zone.
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And at the end of the day,
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I do it with my CrossFit family.
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And we had fun and we,
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we joked about it.
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And the only complaints that were coming
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were, wow, that was hard.
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Wow.
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That kicked my ass.
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And I think we get so,
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we get so wrapped up in
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in how it's not what it used to
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be or how it's not finding the fittest
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or name half a million other things that
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both the media and the community complain
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about when the open workouts come out.
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You know, the time domains weren't,
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were all the same this year or we
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didn't test this.
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We didn't test strength or we didn't do
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this.
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And maybe it's back to what I'm saying
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where the open is trying to be two
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things and it really just can't be
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anymore, especially at three weeks.
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It's supposed to be this large online
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community event where everybody comes
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together and does something hard and feels
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like they've accomplished something at the
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end of the day.
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But on the other hand,
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it's the first stage to get people to
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the CrossFit Games.
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And so a lot of the criticism I
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think is on this first stage of the
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CrossFit Games piece.
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And we're forgetting about what attracted
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us as newbies in the CrossFit space to
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doing the open, to doing hard things,
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and laying it all out on the floor
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with our best friends in the world.
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Are newbies even paying attention to the
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tiny circle that is the CrossFit media?
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Sean,
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I would say that I don't think they're
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necessarily paying attention to the media.
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I think there's a handful that are.
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But I do think that because of the
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media,
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more people are complaining about it in
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the gyms.
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There's a trickle-down effect to the media
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getting to the newbies that may be
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affecting the joy that they have.
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Vicky says, I know some who do,
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and even a couple years in,
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I'd still consider that new.
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Daniel Arnson, for me,
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thank you so much for the super chat.
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Always appreciated.
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For me,
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the joy of the five-week open cannot be
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matched.
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Still amazing.
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Every time someone does the open for the
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first time now, I say to myself, man,
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if only they knew how much better it
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used to be.
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So I want to speak to that too,
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because...
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I think it can still be great as
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a three-week open.
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As someone who was very vested as a
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coach in a CrossFit gym,
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the five-week open took its toll on the
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owners of the affiliate,
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on the coaches of the affiliate,
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everybody who volunteered their time to be
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judges.
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It got to be a lot.
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And maybe my life grew to be that
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much as it went.
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I still think you can find magic in
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three weeks,
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but it's not going to be the same
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type of test.
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You can't add in as much people,
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as many people, or I'm sorry,
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you can't add in as many tests and
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movements to a three week open as you
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can to a five.
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Uh, Vicky says, shoot,
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they had the CrossFit podcast had Seth on
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and they kind of talked about it.
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I did see that.
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I did.
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I saw a clip.
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I should say I did not see the
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full podcast.
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I probably should go back and look at
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that.
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Um, but I did not see,
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I did see a clip of that.
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Mike, I love the open.
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This was my fourth open and I still
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get it.
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But there was always complainer since I
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started.
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Maybe the hate has grown, I guess.
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What's up, cowboy?
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What's up, y'all?
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You're not at work.
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No, I'm working from home today.
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My wife is on a retreat with church,
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and I had to get Jameson on the
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bus.
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I got to get her off,
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so I'm working from home today.
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I was literally wrapping up some stuff
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right about when we started,
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so I figured I'd hop on a little
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bit.
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How's my sound?
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Terrible?
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No, it's good.
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That's awesome.
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Daniel says, how amazing it is, however,
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I believe,
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just as much on the affiliate owners and
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coaches to push and get people excited
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about it.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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We, we made a huge deal of it.
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I am my old affiliate and, um,
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and the participation there was in one
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fifty to two hundred athletes every year.
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This year we made a big deal out
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of it with doing the intramural open and
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whatnot and it worked.
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I mean, plain and simple.
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If you, if you were an affiliate,
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you want it to be a big deal
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you have to make it a big deal
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i know how it sounds so simplistic but
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like people are going to get excited for
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it if you don't give them a reason
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to be excited for it i don't know
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i've told this fifteen different times in
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fifteen different ways but like we just
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put everybody on a team whether you want
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it to be or not doesn't matter doesn't
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matter if you signed up for the open
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or not you could still get points for
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your team
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even if you weren't signed up for the
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open,
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by coming to Friday Night Lights and doing
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the workout during Friday Night Lights
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just to get people excited and get people
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at the gym and be in their Friday
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Night Lights.
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And, I mean,
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everybody had an absolute blast.
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My team especially because we won.
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But, you know.
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Well,
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I don't know if you heard the original
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part of this.
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I don't know if you were listening before
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you came on.
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But someone had sent me an essay that
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they wrote about –
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I have the same essay.
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Right.
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I'm not identifying that person.
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They don't want to be identified.
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About do we complain about it?
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And have we stripped?
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My question is,
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have we stripped the joy from newbies by
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complaining about it so much?
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When I started in twenty thirteen.
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There was no CrossFit media other than
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CrossFit itself and Arm and Hand.
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And maybe barbell shrugged, but nobody,
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there wasn't such an in-depth look at the
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open back then.
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And so to us,
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it was just this really,
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really cool thing we did once a year.
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We didn't care if it was well-rounded.
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We didn't care if it was just hard
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stuff that we signed up for and did
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every year with our friends.
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Absolutely.
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And are we stripping that experience away
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from newbies by being overcritical of it?
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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It's the people that are in your gym
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like, well,
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I'm going to make it into the game,
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so why should I even do it type
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deal.
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Do it to prove something to yourself.
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Who gives a shit what the test is?
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The test is going to be the test.
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You don't show up every day and be
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like, oh, this workout is dumb,
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or you might, whatever,
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but you're still going to do it no
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matter what it is.
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Right.
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Like if you're in a good affiliate,
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if you're in one that just, you know,
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allows you to just kind of cherry pick
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and slide on through and not really do
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whatever it is you want,
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you're actually doing,
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then that's one thing.
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But the test is the test.
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If you sign up for a comp,
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you sign up for a five K is
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five K. That's what the test is.
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You signed up for.
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This is the only,
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the only difference is that this is going
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to be unknown until the week of.
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So what's the point?
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Like,
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what's the point in complaining about it?
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Show up, do it,
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get on with your life.
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I think the over-analyzation is a big,
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I get it.
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People want to have stuff to talk about
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and I understand about wanting to,
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but like saying, Oh,
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this is a huge miss or this is
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a huge dad or this is a huge
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set.
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Encourage your people to get fitter.
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I think it's a lot about perspective too,
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because I think if you looked at the,
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it is a well-rounded test and,
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and Dave kind of spoke to this about,
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he thinks that the opening quarterfinal
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should be one big score, right?
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Right.
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We talked about that earlier, right?
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If you look at quarterfinals as the fifth
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week of the open and the test just
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changes because now you have to do
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multiple workouts in the same weekend,
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right?
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to test not only each individual test,
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but your stamina of doing multiple events
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in a weekend, right?
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If you looked at that as the fifth
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week open and week four was your buy,
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right?
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One, two,
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three are the first three weeks of the
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open.
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You have a buy week four and week
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five is the fifth week of the open.
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And I do think that you...
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there is a relevance to cutting the field
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from a hundred percent to twenty five
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percent because affiliates to set up for
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what you have to set up for in
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quarterfinals is way different than it is.
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And affiliates could not handle a hundred
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percent of the population doing
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quarterfinals for events one weekend.
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I'm going to say right now, if it
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depending on what your gym actually looks
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like, like our ropes don't go to.
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Like you touch,
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you touch feet on our rope at the,
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at the gym,
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you have to actually reach up and touch
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the ceiling in the gym.
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Like you gotta get,
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and that means you gotta reach around a
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beam all the way up and touch the
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ceiling.
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So like for us,
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if we have rope climbs,
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I have to go somewhere else.
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That's all there is to it because I
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can't, can't make it work.
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And I feel like it's a lot like
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that for a whole lot of affiliates.
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So.
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It's that type of deal.
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So Jay Birch,
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that's how I view quarterfinals right now.
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I view it as part of a five-week
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open with cuts,
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but it has to go to,
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there's a reason why it jumps from one
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event a week to four events in a
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weekend.
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That has to be tested before semifinals.
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Volume has to be tested.
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Volume, strength, things like that.
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Yeah, a hundred percent.
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Otherwise,
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you get people at semifinals that have
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absolutely no business being there.
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You get the KL Amans of the world.
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Vicky says,
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exactly just like cuts of the games.
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Mike DeVito.
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Daniel, without quarterfinals,
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what the heck am I supposed to do
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after the Open?
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I'm not semifinals material.
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Let us have a moment.
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The Community Cup is fast approaching.
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They're going to do it again this year.
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Right.
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But let's be honest.
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Like,
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the quarterfinals gave more incentive to
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athletes than the Community Cup did last
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year.
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And that's the reason they brought it
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back.
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I would,
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I would one hundred percent agree with
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that.
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I do think twenty five percent is a
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wide net to cast.
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And there's nothing wrong with making
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money.
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And that's a way for them to make
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money.
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Mm hmm.
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I just think if you're making another step
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towards qualifying for the games,
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for some, for others,
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it's just going to be cut it down
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to fifteen percent.
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It doesn't need to be top ten.
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I think that's a little.
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But like somewhere in between,
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there's going from top ten percent to top
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twenty five percent is a huge jump.
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Right.
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Let's be honest.
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It says top twenty five percent.
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Half of those half of those people do
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not sign up.
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true right it's fifty bucks it's fifty
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bucks from from from twenty five which is
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another determining factor of who actually
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is going to show up or not because
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a lot of people are not going to
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pay that just to do five more workouts
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for no good reason uh it's one hundred
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percent of money grab i'm going to sign
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up most likely but let's be honest about
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what it is but there's nothing wrong with
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making money no i that that yeah i
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don't i don't
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I understand the thought, but to say, oh,
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it's a money grab.
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Yeah, of course it is.
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Everything is.
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It's business.
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It's business.
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When McDonald's started making value
20:55
meals,
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that's a money grab to get you in
20:58
there and go, oh,
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I can get a quarter pounder and a
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set of fries and a Coke for three
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dollars and twenty six cents.
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I am there.
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Everything's a money grab.
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They're trying to make money.
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You want them to make money.
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You want CrossFit HQ to make money.
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The more money they make,
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the better kind of quality stuff they're
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going to have.
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It's a thriving ecosystem.
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You don't want HQ to be broke, dog.
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Believe what I'm telling you.
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Why not increase open fee?
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I'd pay forty or fifty for the open.
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Here's why, Joseph.
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The only way to track CrossFit success
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today,
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because none of us know how many
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affiliates are truly active and alive in
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this world, is open registration.
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You keep the price at twenty dollars so
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that that as long as no tragic event
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occurs,
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that number can keep climbing year over
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year because it's only twenty bucks.
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People spend twenty bucks on dumb shit on
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a regular basis.
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And that is right now currently the only
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way to show growth in the CrossFit space.
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Hundred percent.
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And it's comparable price.
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If I haven't,
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it's been a while since I signed up
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for a five K,
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but it's like twenty five to thirty bucks.
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It's been a while since I signed up
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for a ten K,
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but it's twenty five to thirty bucks,
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maybe forty five bucks,
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depending on which one, which one it is.
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So it's any kind of fitness type event.
22:33
That's a standard price.
22:35
Quarterfinals is the next level of that.
22:38
It's going to be a little bit more
22:39
involved.
22:40
There's going to be all things, all, all,
22:42
you know,
22:43
all five things that released at once when
22:45
we can do it.
22:45
So it's going to cost a little bit
22:46
more because they can and they should.
22:53
The way it's set up now is twenty
22:54
bucks to get you in.
22:55
So we have the good numbers.
22:58
If you're serious about this and you want
23:00
the next part of the test,
23:03
we're going to charge a fitty.
23:04
Yeah.
23:06
Right.
23:07
That actually makes business sense.
23:11
For you addicts and animals out there,
23:16
we're going to charge you fitty.
23:20
Sure.
23:20
Right.
23:24
The problem is CrossFit keeps all this
23:26
stuff so close to the vest.
23:29
They never tell us that.
23:31
They just think we can assume and
23:33
understand it, and then nobody does.
23:35
And then you attach words like money grab
23:38
and they're not transparent and blah,
23:42
blah, blah, right?
23:44
I don't think they care, Scott,
23:45
to be quite honest with you.
23:47
I think they look at it and they
23:48
go –
23:49
Let's go.
23:50
How much should we charge this?
23:51
Fifty bucks.
23:52
All right, cool.
23:53
Hey,
23:53
people are going to complain about it.
23:55
People are going to complain about it no
23:56
matter what.
23:56
It could be free and people will complain
23:58
about it.
23:59
Which goes to our original point.
24:01
We're going to find ways to complain about
24:02
everything.
24:04
But is all of that complaining, in fact,
24:08
stunting our growth because newbies come
24:11
into it and go, man,
24:13
all they do is bitch around here.
24:14
Yeah.
24:17
right?
24:18
Yeah.
24:18
Is this all y'all do is bitch all
24:20
day long?
24:20
Yes, mostly.
24:25
We bitch about the workouts.
24:26
We bitch about not doing the workouts.
24:28
We bitch about the workouts that we like.
24:30
We bitch about the workouts that we don't
24:31
like.
24:32
It doesn't matter.
24:33
People are going to find a reason to
24:36
complain.
24:38
Every single workout could have been
24:39
something in my wheelhouse that I would
24:41
have absolutely smashed and been top
24:43
half a percent in my age group.
24:45
And I still would have found something to
24:46
complain about.
24:47
I'm sure I would have.
24:49
There's no question in my mind.
24:50
I'm not a complainer.
24:51
I'm usually the one like, well,
24:52
this is what the test is.
24:53
This is what we're doing moving right
24:54
along.
24:58
So Siobhan says, Daniel, Daniel,
25:00
I had no business doing the opening.
25:03
That is so counter to the CrossFit
25:05
methodology.
25:07
Everything is infinitely scalable.
25:11
Oh, believe me.
25:11
Do the open,
25:12
especially now that it's not just RX.
25:14
Yeah.
25:15
When I first started the open,
25:17
it was RX or nothing.
25:21
Believe me.
25:22
Savant took the infinitely scalable stuff
25:24
to heart.
25:25
Did you see his a twenty six point
25:27
three video in bare feet?
25:28
Listen,
25:29
I can't I can't say a word because
25:31
medically I just couldn't do it this year.
25:34
So.
25:36
I got I got nothing.
25:38
I watched it and I
25:41
At one point he goes,
25:43
I think I just did ten instead of
25:44
twelve and just kept on going,
25:46
kept on trucking and did extra reps on
25:48
the next round to make up for the
25:51
ten that he did on the one before
25:53
that.
25:53
It was fantastic.
25:54
It was fun to watch.
25:56
All he has to do is turn to
25:57
the camera and go,
25:58
are you not entertained?
26:00
A hundred percent.
26:03
A hundred percent.
26:03
Look at this small Armenian man.
26:08
And then he has every bit of the
26:09
business to do the open.
26:11
yeah and and uh jenny's right he savannah
26:14
moves better than ninety percent of people
26:16
doing open that is a hundred percent
26:18
correct he does man you ain't going to
26:21
worry about step on not going to extension
26:23
not going not hitting depth none of that
26:25
stuff the dude moves like he's supposed to
26:27
he he is mobile man it's it's fun
26:31
to watch
26:34
My first open at thirty ring muscle ups
26:36
in it.
26:36
No scaling.
26:37
And it was my first month.
26:38
And you just had to keep trying until
26:41
time cap.
26:42
Yeah.
26:43
It was a twenty twenty point five.
26:47
It had the wall balls rolling in ring
26:51
muscle ups.
26:51
Break it up however you want.
26:53
I flew through the wall balls and roll.
26:57
And then I spent the next however many
26:59
minutes I had just trying to get over
27:01
the rings in ring muscle up.
27:03
It is what it is.
27:05
The test is the test.
27:06
Kind of like the standard is the standard.
27:08
Hey, this is what we put out.
27:10
You don't like it?
27:11
Cool.
27:11
You don't have to do it.
27:12
I think people are missing that point.
27:17
Right.
27:17
Or you can do a scaled version of
27:19
it.
27:19
Suck your pride up.
27:21
Right.
27:21
Get it out at the front door.
27:23
Don't click the Rx box.
27:24
Yeah.
27:26
Come inside, do a scaled version of it,
27:29
and call it good.
27:31
And work on it.
27:32
So where next year when it comes up,
27:33
or it doesn't,
27:35
You'll have a whole year that you have
27:37
worked on it and try to get better
27:38
at that one thing.
27:41
Every,
27:42
everybody has business doing the open and
27:44
there are plenty of options for everybody.
27:46
Absolutely.
27:48
But that is where ego gets in the
27:49
way.
27:49
And I think ego is the biggest deterrent
27:53
for CrossFit.
27:55
People walk in the door and they want
27:56
to do it as it's written on a
27:59
board instead of saying, you know what,
28:02
I'm just not there yet and I need
28:04
to work my way to that.
28:06
So how do I make it so I
28:08
can get stronger and better at these
28:10
movements to eventually be able to do
28:12
what's on the board?
28:15
The whole check your ego at the door
28:17
thing is lost on a lot of people
28:19
because like you said,
28:20
they want it and they don't just want
28:21
it.
28:21
They want it right now.
28:24
Right now.
28:26
Hey, can you?
28:28
I mean, yeah.
28:29
I mean, I clean one thirty five.
28:30
Yeah, but can you do it fifteen times?
28:33
In a row?
28:35
Well, well, if you can't,
28:36
then you have no business or excellence.
28:38
You just don't understand that you can
28:40
understand it's the open and it's going to
28:43
pump your ego up over the moon to
28:45
be able to click that little RX button.
28:48
But maybe let's go ahead and meet you.
28:52
Meet yourself where you're at.
28:55
Suck it up a little bit and then
28:56
do what you can with what you have.
29:02
Lana Foundations has options for everyone.
29:07
Lana is over over seventy.
29:11
I think I'm safe to say that.
29:12
I think she's made that publicly known.
29:15
And that woman works out all the time.
29:18
And she does it for her.
29:19
She's fit.
29:28
Every year I see people trying to do
29:29
movements that they didn't spend any time
29:31
working on.
29:32
Like it's just going to happen.
29:34
Then they bitch that it's in the open.
29:38
Preach, Travis.
29:39
Preach.
29:43
Put it out there.
29:44
She's seventy seven.
29:48
And FYI, when you meet her,
29:50
that is not your first thought.
29:51
And holy smokes,
29:52
this woman is seventy seven.
29:53
There's no possible way.
29:55
No way.
29:57
No.
30:01
Um, so yeah, so that's that,
30:04
that was interesting conversation.
30:06
Um, I wanted to talk, I had,
30:09
I just had this thought, you know,
30:13
Xenon has come into this space and they're
30:16
getting a ton of publicity and they're
30:18
getting a lot of people excited about it.
30:21
And I think it comes down to with
30:23
saying, let's partner with CrossFit.
30:27
Let's bring on, um,
30:31
wilson pock to help us run the first
30:33
event is he really that's what they said
30:37
on spin i have to go back and
30:38
watch it but i heard that this morning
30:40
on the wad print wide prep podcast that's
30:44
going to run really well then right other
30:49
entities that have come into the space
30:51
like wfp high rocks
30:56
have created a gap,
30:58
a gorge between CrossFitters and their
31:02
event.
31:05
Xenom has done this and has done it
31:07
so beautifully in the,
31:12
has done this so beautifully that they
31:15
have created so much excitement out of the
31:18
base.
31:23
I think it's amazing.
31:26
There's everything that WFP didn't.
31:30
So, and I know we said this before,
31:32
but when you react and you're acting on,
31:36
you know,
31:38
it's an emotional reaction to something
31:40
that happened and trying to capitalize on
31:41
something, an emotional event,
31:44
and that's all you have going for you
31:46
because you refuse to do it any other
31:48
way,
31:49
as opposed to taking a clear methodical
31:51
approach and going,
31:52
what's the best path forward?
31:53
Well, maybe we should,
31:55
merge or align ourselves with the people
31:58
who are actually the innovators in the
32:01
space and kind of go with them that's
32:04
that's the difference that is the
32:07
difference uh yeah jenny i would probably
32:09
i'd probably say so but jenny here's the
32:13
other thing too you think wilson would
32:15
have actually uh would have gone with him
32:18
given his history no i don't think so
32:23
either
32:25
Not just given his history,
32:27
given his history in knowing what WFU were
32:30
actually trying to do.
32:33
The one thing I know about Wilson Pac
32:35
is he's a man of integrity.
32:39
He would have had the whole plan given
32:42
to him and understand it to sign on
32:45
with that.
32:48
Travis.
32:53
Well, that's a problem.
32:55
That's a problem, but I,
32:56
I get Travis mentioned that last or
32:58
earlier this week as well.
32:59
He's trying to get in touch with him
33:01
because he wants a vendor spot.
33:02
Huh?
33:02
All right.
33:10
Maybe I need to text Wilson and see
33:11
what's up.
33:12
I'm about to say you Wilson lives.
33:14
Ten minutes from you, man, a holler.
33:19
Um,
33:29
I don't know.
33:32
That sucks that that's happening, though.
33:34
But I'm wondering if they're just not
33:36
prepared to even take vendor calls at this
33:38
point.
33:40
When's the first event supposed to be?
33:42
I don't even know, dude.
33:43
I don't either.
33:46
I keep meaning to look into it,
33:49
and every time I do, I get sidetracked.
33:51
Well, I know...
33:54
Carolyn said Travis Travis said this
33:58
didn't know Wilson was involved.
34:00
Stand by texting him right now.
34:01
Yeah, that's what they did.
34:09
There we go.
34:09
June the twenty seventh to twenty eight.
34:12
Yeah, just.
34:18
It's it's ninety eight days away,
34:20
but it doesn't give me the damn date.
34:23
uh birch said june twenty seven twenty
34:25
eight june twenty seventh and twenty
34:27
eighth yep birch said just contact jerry
34:34
world yeah they're not going to jerry
34:37
world they're going to the star still
34:41
owned by jerry jones
34:44
So there it is.
34:46
June, twenty seven to twenty eight.
34:47
The star Frisco, Texas,
34:50
two thousand athletes.
34:51
The other thing about people saying,
34:53
are you going to pay five hundred dollars
34:54
for this in the world of supply and
34:57
demand?
34:58
You're there's only two thousand spots.
35:03
So you can like you can ask for
35:06
a little bit more money because the supply
35:10
is probably less than the demand.
35:13
As I say, you just created,
35:17
I won't say a shortage,
35:17
but you made it exclusive.
35:20
Hey,
35:20
we're only taking two thousand people.
35:23
Period.
35:24
End of story.
35:25
Done.
35:26
Well,
35:26
and they've given out like what they call
35:31
it,
35:31
like a drawing where they gave out five
35:33
hundred or two hundred fifty spots of
35:35
that.
35:36
So there's really only seventeen fifty
35:38
left.
35:40
And Carolyn, Carolyn got one of those.
35:44
She's going to crush it, dude.
35:48
So hopefully we'll get an inside look at
35:50
what's going on down there.
35:53
And from her,
35:55
from an athlete's perspective.
36:01
Yep.
36:02
That's what happened with Carolyn.
36:06
I missed that completely.
36:08
I guess I need to get.
36:09
Definitely need to up my social media game
36:11
because I missed that completely because I
36:13
would have thrown my hat in the ring
36:14
to try to get a free spot for
36:15
sure.
36:16
Yeah, Jamie put her hat in the ring.
36:18
She didn't win.
36:20
But Carolyn did.
36:22
Dallas is like a six,
36:26
seven and a half hour drive from here.
36:28
It's not terrible.
36:31
so i'm i'm really anxious to see what
36:33
it's like from the athlete perspective
36:35
when they get there and i'm going to
36:38
try to give carolyn a gopro um so
36:41
that she can take some footage when she's
36:44
not out on the field um and kind
36:48
of report back to us so she could
36:50
also wear it while she's on the field
36:52
just throwing that out there as a for
36:53
instance
36:55
i don't think she would do that but
36:56
okay i don't think she would either she'd
36:59
be i feel like she'd be too self-conscious
37:01
if you roll out roll out there with
37:02
a gopro on but yeah tristan tried and
37:05
get didn't get one either that's not that
37:08
i mean relatively speaking that's not that
37:09
far from tristan uh no at least in
37:13
the same well you can say you're in
37:15
the same state as texas but that doesn't
37:17
help with distance no it could be a
37:20
two-day drive in in texas it's it's
37:24
ridiculous
37:26
telling you you cross the state line
37:27
louisiana getting into texas on i-ten and
37:30
there's a sign says el paso eight hundred
37:32
and fifty seven miles like i can't even
37:35
fathom that i can't it doesn't compute in
37:38
my head yeah then insanity um if crossfit
37:48
had an hq performance complex where should
37:50
it be located
37:55
Where should it be located or wherever
37:57
they can find the cheapest land in the
38:04
nicest community in a relatively low tax
38:10
area.
38:14
So Texas somewhere is basically what that
38:17
would look like somewhere in.
38:22
Probably Northwest Texas.
38:26
Travis Nashville.
38:32
Well, let's be honest.
38:35
Tennessee doesn't have state taxes.
38:38
So these two are open.
38:40
Yep.
38:41
Florida.
38:42
Florida doesn't have state tax.
38:44
Texas doesn't have state tax, does it?
38:48
um so those that eliminates fifteen
38:51
percent of your taxes right there done
38:55
deal montana yeah so it can be buried
39:01
in any seventeen feet of snow in the
39:03
wintertime ramirez no thank you yeah and
39:07
it it is cost prohibitive to fly into
39:09
montana trust me yeah no scott knows
39:14
Just to go to see my kid this
39:16
spring,
39:17
like trying to find flights is insanity.
39:24
Property taxes suck in Texas.
39:28
Hell,
39:28
Indiana's like offering everybody free
39:31
everything to come.
39:32
Like they did that with the Chicago bears.
39:34
I say to Indiana bears.
39:36
Yeah.
39:42
Yeah, I think I, uh,
39:43
I'm with you on that one there, Tristan.
39:46
Gonna be honest.
39:47
If there's an event in Montana,
39:48
I'm going to the state,
39:48
but not the event.
39:49
Catch my ass out in the mountains.
39:51
God, it's beautiful there.
39:53
That is truly God's country.
39:57
So, um, I think we'll, uh,
40:01
we'll wrap it up with this.
40:06
I w I did go to the cardiologist
40:08
yesterday.
40:09
Uh, they gave me two choices.
40:12
Um, the one choice they told me to,
40:14
uh,
40:15
watch this video of how it would go
40:17
down.
40:18
Uh,
40:18
so I was going to share it with
40:19
you.
40:20
Wait, what's that?
40:22
Let's turn that up.
40:38
More smoke.
40:53
You only get one shot.
40:57
One shot.
40:57
That's a weird flex, but...
41:10
If that's going to be your procedure,
41:13
I'm going to be there when it happens.
41:15
I'm going to come in and I'm going
41:15
to be your support system.
41:16
I'm going to hold it down for you
41:18
right there in the building.
41:21
Scoop is my anesthesiologist.
41:24
Dre is my doctor.
41:28
I see nothing wrong with that scenario.
41:32
I don't know what kind of shot Eminem's
41:34
given me,
41:34
but
41:35
They look neon green.
41:37
I would be a little bit concerned about
41:38
it's probably mom's spaghetti.
41:39
Oh shit.
41:46
Yeah.
41:46
So in all seriousness, I was given to,
41:49
uh, two different options.
41:51
One is to take, uh,
41:56
a new medication that has a fifty percent
41:59
chance of working but it has side effects
42:02
that i would have to be hospitalized for
42:04
three days when i start taking it to
42:06
make sure nothing went wrong or have the
42:10
pat velner ablation procedure is that what
42:13
they refer to it as the pat velner
42:15
yeah that's what it's called now here are
42:18
your options you begin to give you the
42:20
pat velner
42:22
Stop right there.
42:23
Say no more.
42:24
I'll take the Pat Velner.
42:29
Uh, so yeah, I,
42:31
I'm opting for the Pat V. Yeah.
42:34
I would take the Pat V too.
42:36
So that is just a,
42:37
it is a procedure.
42:38
It's a two hour long procedure,
42:40
four hours of recovery.
42:41
And I get to go home the same
42:42
day.
42:44
Um,
42:45
And that is basically burning the
42:49
electrical receptors in the one valve of
42:52
my heart.
42:53
So it stops telling the wrong message.
42:57
I mean, I have a, a,
42:58
a hot glue gun.
43:00
We can just use the hot part of
43:02
it.
43:02
We could probably get that done.
43:03
Like I, I get up there this weekend,
43:05
honestly.
43:06
So they're going through my groin.
43:09
Whoa.
43:10
To my heart.
43:13
Hold up.
43:13
Yeah.
43:18
That does not seem like the most direct
43:19
path to your heart, Scott.
43:21
I understand there's some big veins in
43:23
there.
43:23
I get that.
43:24
Like femoral artery type shit.
43:27
But like, okay,
43:28
we're going to do this heart procedure.
43:30
Cool.
43:31
Take off your pants.
43:32
I'm sorry.
43:33
Say what?
43:33
I, you know, just for clarification,
43:38
not the penis, but the groin.
43:40
The groin.
43:41
Is that what they're doing?
43:45
They're going in through femoral and just
43:46
going all the way up?
43:47
Yep.
43:51
With a laser and then pew, pew, pew,
43:53
pew.
43:55
Is it a shark with a laser on
43:57
its head?
43:57
I hope it's a shark with a freaking
44:01
laser on its head.
44:07
It's a great play to access,
44:09
says our CrossFit MDL one.
44:14
I got everybody,
44:15
all the dudes in the chat are like,
44:16
whoa, hold up.
44:17
You said groin and heart.
44:19
And Shannon's like, no, no, no.
44:20
It's a great place to ask.
44:24
Joseph says they may hit something on the
44:26
way up.
44:26
No, thank you.
44:27
listen I am tired tired of dealing with
44:32
this shit back and forth trying this and
44:34
then it it works for through six months
44:37
eight months nine months and then I'm back
44:40
going through the same shit over and over
44:41
again so I let's get it done let's
44:46
This has a much higher success rate of
44:50
working.
44:51
And I'm home same day.
44:55
I say that's the way we're going to
44:56
go.
44:57
I just got to let them know right
44:59
after the show.
45:02
Give them a call, text, email,
45:04
smoke signal, carry a pigeon,
45:06
like whatever you got to do.
45:08
My wife has been in cardiology for twenty
45:10
five plus years doing these procedures
45:12
daily.
45:13
They rarely hit anything on the way up.
45:14
Very, very safe.
45:18
I wasn't even worried about hitting
45:19
anything on the way up.
45:21
I was worried about once they got inside
45:23
the heart.
45:24
Right.
45:26
And now you got that seat.
45:27
Now I'm worried about hitting something on
45:29
the way up.
45:30
Wait a minute.
45:31
I hadn't even thought about that.
45:35
My head didn't even go to the trip.
45:38
I was way more worried about once they
45:41
got inside.
45:42
My head was at the destination,
45:44
not at the journey.
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That's fantastic.
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I do like the way he said they
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rarely hit anything on the way up.
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Let's not use the word rarely.
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How about they never hit anything on the
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way up?
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No, no, no.
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They never hit anything on the way up.
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Not rarely.
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Because rarely implies that every once in
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a while some shit gets sideways.
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Yes.
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Don't worry about that.
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I'm not really worried about it.
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The guy, my cardiologist,
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this is actually what his specialty is
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these types of procedures.
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And he is one of considered one of
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the best there is at this.
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And so I am not worried.
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I just, I was,
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I was making light of it because that's
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what you during stressful situations.
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A hundred percent.
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A hundred percent.
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Do not look over at me.
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If we're in a stressful situation,
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I'm going to laugh about it.
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I can tell you that right now.
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Corey tells the doc, the groin.
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I literally have an entrance on the
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opposite side.
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You don't even have to make another hole.
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Yon wants you to put your pipes away.
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Oh, Hey, Robin doing all my,
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all my pressing work, man.
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Trying to get swole.
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um yes all right guys with that i'm
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gonna get back to work man usually as
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a state worker like work on fridays is
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very limited right they have been
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hammering us today dude through the groin
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or uh cory you're great for relieving
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stressful discussion
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work boo exactly exactly Vicky Corey who's
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your coach I think he's mentioned on this
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show like five billion times only five
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billion or so times if you haven't figured
47:43
it out by now it's Mr. Mr.
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I don't know if I'm actually going to
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try to make another run for the game
47:50
Brandon Luggett that guy how about that
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basketball bracket yeah I'm already I'm
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already
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smoked is it too late i meant to
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go freaking make my thing did i miss
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it too late yeah like half of my
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stuff is gone anyway speaking of which
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half my stuff being gone i need to
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reorder some thirdsy and i can do that
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promo code jazzy on the way out
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Fifteen percent off.
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Worth every single penny.
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Every single penny.
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Like, share, subscribe, peeps.
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Have a great weekend.
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And just so you know,
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just for informational purposes,
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Jonathan Ortega has had twelve concussions
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and he can barely remember his own name.
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Which is Jonathan Ortega.
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Yep.
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Takes you a wonder.
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Yes.
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And apparently he's had concussions.
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I mean,
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we never had one really bad one,
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but it was a bad one.
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To my knowledge, I haven't had any.
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However, I have.
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I was like twelve years old playing league
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basketball.
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I got knocked smooth out and woke up
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in a completely different place than what
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I was.
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So maybe, maybe not.
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Mike says,
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love the vibes in the stable today.
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Deuces, y'all.
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That's right, deuces, we're out of here.
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Have a great day.
49:25
Like and subscribe.
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Do all the stuff.
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We'll see you Sunday night for Sunday
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Night CrossFit Talk.
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Later, bye.