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Lunch with the Clydesdale - How is it Going After that Loss? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Well,
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it was a fun ride while it lasted.
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The magic is over.
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Where do we go from here?
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And how do I apply this to what's
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going on in CrossFit?
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Let's talk next.
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I love the chase and the hunt,
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and I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want,
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and I 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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E-M-M!
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it's lunch time what is going on everybody
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welcome to a federal holiday monday where
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i didn't have to work today um yeah
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i woke up this morning uh to a
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complete white out outside my house the
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wind whipping so hard uh it was shaking
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my house um i think our high right
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now is like
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ten fifteen maybe um it is absolutely
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insane here right now um with weather i
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just got a text from jamie because we're
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doing a show tonight so if you missed
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the sunday night show last night it's
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happening tonight um she is behind a
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hundred car pile up in michigan
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based on the weather.
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So hopefully she can make it back home
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in time for the show tonight,
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but it is just brutally cold.
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So it was nice.
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I got up, looked outside,
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saw the blizzard, climbed under a blanket,
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got some hot coffee,
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and then debriefed all of my bear stuff
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and just tried to detox from it all
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by hearing all the comments and commentary
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and all of that stuff just to kind
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of get over everything that happened.
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So the one thing I will tell you
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that was amazing is after last night,
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I didn't think I would sleep.
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But I took my third Z and out
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like a light I went and I literally
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slept the longest straight sleep I've had
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in months.
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I slept eight straight hours,
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which I have not done yet.
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it may be years and I did it
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all after taking my third C last night,
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sipped it while I was watching the post
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game out like a lad.
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I went, woke up this morning,
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refreshed and ready to go.
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Even though my favorite team in the world
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lost last night.
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And you can do the same thing by
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going to third C.com backslash Jazzy or
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use Jazzy at checkout as your promo code
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to get to a
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If you didn't watch the game last night,
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it was such a back and forth.
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It was crazy bear weather.
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Um, the bears were down.
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They were in the game the whole time.
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They didn't have to make the miraculous
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comeback this time.
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Um,
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but they were down and they had fourth
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down from like the.
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Fourteen yard line.
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Caleb.
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Went backwards.
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I was like, our season is over.
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I literally thought it was over.
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He turned and ran the opposite direction.
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Um,
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as a heavy rush came upon him and
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then he turned.
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And Chuck,
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the most amazing pass I've ever seen in
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my fifty six years on this planet.
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And hit on a dime his tight end
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in the back corner of the end zone.
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On a dime.
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He he threw a fourteen yard touchdown
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pass.
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Forty five yards.
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What the hell?
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My heart rate,
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my heart rate was a hundred and eighty
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beats per minute.
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It had to be.
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And then we get to overtime.
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We get a three and out for the
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Rams immediately.
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And I'm like, here we go.
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My goodness.
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My bears are going to make it to
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the NFC championship game.
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And then, unexplainably,
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the receiver and the quarterback were not
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on the right page.
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And the safety made the most amazing
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interception you've ever seen in your
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life.
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And there went the hopes of the Chicago
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Bears.
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So, typically,
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I would be devastated today.
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But I had no expectations going into this
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season.
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I had none.
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I thought they would get better with Ben
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Johnson.
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I thought they would get better with Caleb
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Williams.
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I thought it would get better.
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I didn't think they would make it this
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far.
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I didn't even,
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I wasn't even sure they would make the
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playoffs and then they make the playoffs.
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They win a playoff game.
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They do that by beating their arch rival
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of a hundred and six years,
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which was awesome.
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Um,
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And the future is bright.
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And I know nothing is guaranteed.
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I know the commanders made it to the
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NFC Championship last year and then shit
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the bed this year.
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But this is different.
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They had old talent on that team.
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The Chicago Bears have young talent.
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They need a better defense.
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They've got a good offense.
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Can they build on that and get a
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more consistent defense to help out?
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I think they can.
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We have free agency coming.
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I think athletes are going to want to
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come play with Caleb Williams.
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I think he is an attraction now,
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which the Bears have never, ever had.
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I envied those teams that had the
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quarterbacks that drew talent to the team
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because of them.
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And I'm hoping,
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I'm hoping that that happens for the
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Bears.
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I've never seen it happen because the
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Bears have never had a quarterback like
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this.
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Never, ever, ever.
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And the fact that they do is hopeful.
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And now next year,
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they're going to have the expectations.
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So where do you go when you're playing
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a season with no expectations and you
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outshoot your coverage by a mile?
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And now next year,
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you're playing a first place schedule.
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You've got all these expectations.
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And where do you go from here?
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CrossFit says, preseason,
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we literally heard bears are bad because
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Caleb might be gay.
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Now it's legit.
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Yeah, I don't think anybody said.
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Nobody's talking about his painted nails
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at this point.
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Nobody.
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This doesn't hurt like double doink,
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I'm guessing.
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Not even close.
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Double doink,
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I thought that we had a legit shot
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to go to the Super Bowl that year.
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I had high expectations going into that
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year.
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This was just crazy.
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It's all Ken's fault.
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Sorry I texted you.
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I jinxed it.
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As soon as I texted you, they're destined.
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It all turned.
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Yeah.
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You weren't the only one that texted me,
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just so you know.
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It's crazy to look back at Caleb's
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discourse.
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It is.
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And he still gets hammered for everything.
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Like he still gets hammered for not being
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accurate.
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He still gets hammered for all these
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things when other quarterbacks are just as
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inaccurate as he is.
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Josh Allen played like shit yesterday and
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you don't hear anything about his accuracy
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concerns, right?
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Matt Stafford completed less than fifty
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percent of his passes yesterday in the
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same game.
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And nobody's talking about Matt Stafford's
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inaccuracies.
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Yet with Caleb and he had,
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it was no less than eight drops in
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that game yesterday that he put right on
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the money and his receivers let him down.
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One of them would have been a touchdown
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and it would have changed the trajectory
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of that game completely.
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Yeah, you can feel better.
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I got a lot of texts last night
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when he hit that.
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insane past that I don't,
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I don't even know how to explain.
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I don't even know how to explain,
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but so this morning, like I could be,
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and I was watching one of the,
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my podcast from the Chicago bear area of
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things.
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And someone wrote in, you know,
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it's not a time to be sad that
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you lost.
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It's a time to be happy that you're
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here.
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And I think that that depicts exactly what
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this bear season has been.
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Um,
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I think that, like,
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nails it on the head.
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Now, next season,
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expectations are going to be raised,
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and it's going to be a lot more
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difficult.
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So, CrossFit,
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they kept calling pass with Stafford
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crazy.
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Yeah, they were running on the Bears.
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I don't know why.
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I don't know why they went to passing
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every single down with Stafford.
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Passes were sailing on both quarterbacks.
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It was cold.
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I am sure their grip was not great.
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So I don't know.
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With how many teams are firing and hiring,
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it's a good time to have Ben Johnson.
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It is so much.
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But what's crazy, CrossFat,
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is already this morning,
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our running backs coach is Eric Bien-Ami.
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The Chiefs are asking permission to
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interview him to be their new offensive
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coordinator.
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He was there a while ago.
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My guess is he probably goes right back
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to it.
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So we're probably going to lose a running
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back coach.
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And say what you will about Eric Bien-Ami,
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DeAndre Swift and Kyle Menungai were
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awesome this year.
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Am I still a Bears fan if they
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move to Indiana?
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Where they're proposing the site in
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Indiana is actually five minutes closer to
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the current Soldier Field than the
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proposed site in Arlington Heights.
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Is that right?
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Arlington Heights.
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In Chicago, in Illinois.
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It's that close to the border.
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But the tax difference is huge.
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Do you think Caleb's success makes it more
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likely they will consider trading Tyson?
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I don't think so.
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I think backup quarterbacks are too
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necessary in these days.
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And...
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And no, I don't think they will.
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Plus,
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Tyson had the option to not sign an
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extension and go on the open market.
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And Tyson said in his press conference,
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he wanted to spend time with Ben Johnson
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to learn how to play NFL quarterback
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better.
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I think Tyson is playing the long game,
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and he's learning while he's being a
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backup quarterback right now,
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making millions of dollars, by the way.
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And then once he learns that system,
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which Ben Johnson takes a little bit of
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this, a little bit of that,
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a little bit of this,
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it'll help him get a job later down
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the road and probably make more when he
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goes out for that job than he would
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right now.
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Um, so I,
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I think that he's going to play the
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long game.
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Uh, Chad,
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a new fee Collinsworth and literally cost
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the game, uh, before bears OT drive.
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He said, Oh yeah, all the pressure.
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And then you're thinking about throwing
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interception.
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That guy needs to be fired.
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Announcer curse.
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Yeah,
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I really am in a good place this
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morning.
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I think that we're in a good place.
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We'll see.
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I had Swift on my fantasy team all
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year.
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I did as well on one of my
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leagues.
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Arlington Heights is basically O'Hare.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Tirico was great.
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Tirico is always great.
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His reaction to that pass that Caleb made
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was awesome.
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They've been planning on get up this
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morning and so good.
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So good.
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So that's where I am with the bears.
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And if you follow the show and you
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follow me, you know,
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like I am a diehard Bears fan.
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I've been one since I've been twelve years
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old.
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I'm now fifty six.
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So that's a long time to be invested
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in a team.
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So the way I'm going to kind of
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translate that or transition this to
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CrossFit is.
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I have not had a passion for an
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athlete in CrossFit like I have for my
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Chicago Bears since Rich Froning stopped
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being an individual.
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There may have been a brief moment where
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I was a huge Sarah fan in the
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fifteen sixteen year.
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But other than that,
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I I've never had a passion for an
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athlete like I have a passion for my
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Chicago Bears.
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And I wonder what is the,
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what is the reason behind that?
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And we've talked in past weeks about
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there's no heel to this.
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Everybody's super nice.
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And so like,
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and I've met a lot of these athletes
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now, how many, I,
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you can't be a fan of ten people,
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right?
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And have a passion for who you want
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to win.
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And because you're not as invested in any
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of these athletes as
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then the passion to go see them play
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or to go see them compete is reduced.
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So I wonder what needs to change in
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the ecosphere of CrossFit to actually make
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you care more about who wins and loses.
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Is there anybody in this chat that has
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an athlete that they completely,
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completely want to win an event or win
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a competition over everybody else?
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Because I don't.
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I think too many of them are really
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nice and I like a lot and I
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want them all to do well.
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And because of that,
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I have no passion for who wins or
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loses.
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Last night, I was dying with every throw,
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every run, all of those things.
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And I don't have that in CrossFit.
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Kenneth DeLapp and Ken Walter say Colton,
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the hog train.
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CrossFit,
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haven't had it since like the front end
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of Matt, maybe Cara.
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Yeah.
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It's about that time for me too.
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Like, and Matt,
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you had this up and coming kind of
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brash guy that nobody heard of going,
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going up against the goat, rich froning.
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That was like the last time I had
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like immense passion for wanting rich to
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win number four.
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And then when I met Sarah Signizar for
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the first time,
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she was so cool to the security staff
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that worked regionals that year.
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And I wanted her to win so bad
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over everybody else, everybody else.
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And, and then since that,
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so you're talking like twenty fifteen,
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twenty sixteen is the last time it's been
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ten years since I've given.
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Not not given a shit because I do
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like care that people do well and and
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stuff like that,
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but I've never had the passion for one
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individual to be the best.
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I find myself pulling for James the most.
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Yeah, Wayne,
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that kind of is exactly what I'm talking
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about.
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You pull for people.
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You want them to do well,
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but you don't live and die by every
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event.
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CrossFit, I woke up, my kids yelling,
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I don't even like the Bears.
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Chad and Newfie,
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I have people I want to lose.
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Yeah, I think we need more of that.
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The more you want people to lose,
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the more you want people to win.
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Right?
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So, Jay Birch,
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I see you would love to see Dallin
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win it.
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And I would say that same statement.
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I would love to see Dallin win it.
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But will you live and breathe by every
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event when he does well or does not
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do well in his pursuit of that
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championship?
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That's the question.
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That's the difference.
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And it may sound slight.
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It may sound small.
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But it is how much that passion changes
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how much you're willing to invest into
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this sport.
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Are you willing to go watch them live?
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Are you willing to become a volunteer to
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get to events?
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Are you willing to do all these things
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to support that one person that you love
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and want to win?
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Larry Young.
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I was like that with Sarah early.
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The Ricky, the year he came back.
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So I think I root for the underdog.
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Again,
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I think all of those are relevant points.
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And I root for the underdog a lot
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as well.
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But I've never been, again,
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after Rich and maybe Sarah,
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I have never been passionate about that
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underdog or that person.
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Frida says,
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I think it's because they keep themselves
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on the outside away from the community.
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You can say that,
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but if I watch NFL games,
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I've never met a single Chicago bear.
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There is no, I mean,
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they're attached to a city.
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Maybe that's what it is.
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Maybe it's they're attached to a city and
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a region of the country that gets behind
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them.
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And we don't,
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you see that passion in Europe when you
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go to like a European semifinal.
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Because you're connected to a country.
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There are so many little countries in
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Europe and everybody is attached to one
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that you maybe feel more of allegiance
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because of your country than you do to
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the athlete.
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And maybe that spurns into now I want
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the athlete to win.
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We don't have that like, hey,
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Ariel Lowen's from Texas and I am too.
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So I really want Ariel to win.
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We just don't have that here.
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I almost cried when Colton didn't make the
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games that one year.
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Okay, that's passion, Ken.
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That is exactly what I'm talking about.
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But I think you're the rare breed.
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You are the rare breed that does that.
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CrossFit,
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I remember yelling and exclaiming during
20:48
regionals finishes.
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I agree.
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Regionals, semifinals,
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I think are way better than the games.
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But like the Rich Scott thing,
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that was real.
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And that's when I was big time rich,
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wanted rich to win with everything in my
21:07
being.
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And the showdowns between those two were
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epic.
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Epic.
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But we're talking ten years ago.
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There was story there.
21:25
Judy Reed, KDL, you were known.
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So Judy must have cried too when Colton
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didn't make the games.
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And that's the passion I'm trying to find.
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Where do we have it?
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And it sounds like in this chat,
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the only person that gets that kind of
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passion is Colton.
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Ken Walters,
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will the amount of Vindicate Colton shirts
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and hog scrub I have bought?
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I say yes,
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next to full pig and a teeny weenie.
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That's passion.
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If you're going to buy a pig and
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a teeny weenie,
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you have a lot of passion for that
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one individual athlete.
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Bring back the Invitational.
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I think we have.
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Just because it's not called that,
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Waterpalooza SoCal is pretty much that.
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Now,
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do I think they need to expand it
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maybe to like a three team or a
22:20
four team and maybe split up the world
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a little bit more?
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Sure.
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But I do think that we've brought back
22:28
that regional feel or the invitational
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feel with Wadapalooza SoCal.
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And that has become one of my favorite
22:34
events that I look forward to during the
22:36
season.
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A CrossFit says,
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I thought Ariel had that potential,
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but she kind of stepped back.
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Yeah,
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I think it's just the attitude around the
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sport and the way it's marketed.
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And maybe it's because CrossFit markets to
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the community that you don't want any
23:04
divisiveness and maybe the passion and the
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rooting become divisive in their minds
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when I think it actually accentuates that.
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We've talked about this.
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I talked about this with Corey on the
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show.
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I had an arch rival in the gym
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that I wanted to beat every single day
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I went in there.
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And that's okay.
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It made us both better.
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It made us both better.
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The affiliate support of individual
23:34
athletes drove a lot of that in the
23:35
past.
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No more green machine in the crowd.
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That's a great point.
23:39
Invictus brought the house.
23:41
Here in the central region,
23:45
when Christy was there,
23:47
CrossFit Polaris was there behind her.
23:50
When Rogue was here in Columbus,
23:52
Christy was there and the whole gym was
23:54
behind her.
23:56
So there is probably something to,
23:59
as regionals went away,
24:01
we lost that linkage to the athletes we
24:04
loved.
24:06
But it also,
24:07
the connection to the affiliate has gone
24:09
away too.
24:10
There are very few athletes now that are
24:13
linked to a specific affiliate.
24:21
Announcers were crazy.
24:22
Fans went nuts.
24:24
Yeah.
24:25
I want Ariel to win because our values
24:28
align and I think she motivates moms to
24:29
train.
24:30
I also think Dylan is a hoot.
24:33
And that's great, Fergie,
24:35
but are you telling me that, like,
24:38
you live and breathe with every event in
24:40
her pursuit of a championship?
24:45
I'm comparing it to my passion for my
24:47
Bears.
24:48
Like, literally, I'm on the edge of my,
24:50
literally up off my seat last night during
24:52
that game.
24:54
Like, every play mattered to me.
24:58
I had to stop and take deep breaths.
25:01
I was a complete wreck.
25:03
Nobody in CrossFit does that to me.
25:11
Jay Burch, yes.
25:11
Josh Bridges would be that level for you.
25:14
That is a perfect analogy.
25:16
But he's no longer competing.
25:18
So now you don't have that person that
25:20
you root for like you did Josh.
25:25
And I know you're out there paying the
25:26
man every single day.
25:28
And I know how you feel about Josh
25:30
Bridges.
25:31
So that is a perfect example.
25:37
CrossFit says, Ken always had a teeny.
25:39
Oh, never mind.
25:40
Yeah.
25:42
We don't need to talk about Ken's teeny.
25:45
It all feels like canned ads from
25:46
athletes.
25:48
It does.
25:49
It does.
25:50
The only people changing that are Colton
25:53
and Hopper.
25:55
And Dallin, the trash talking is helping,
25:58
but it's got to be more widespread.
26:01
And I think we've lost it completely on
26:03
the female side.
26:04
There's one person that trash talks on the
26:06
female side,
26:07
and then she gets railed every time she
26:09
says something,
26:10
and that's Danielle Brandon.
26:11
But I think there are people passionate
26:14
about wanting her to win or passionate
26:17
about wanting her to lose either way.
26:21
She is the,
26:23
she is the epitome of what it's,
26:26
she's like the Dallas Cowboys of CrossFit.
26:30
You either love her or you hate her.
26:33
She is the only female athlete that
26:36
engages that kind of passion and that kind
26:40
of guttural reaction about everything she
26:43
does.
26:50
Jody,
26:50
the shit talk from the boys in my
26:52
old CrossFit gym was hilarious.
26:54
Yeah.
26:57
When I was at Shred CrossFit,
26:58
the first gym I ever went to and
26:59
was there for ten years,
27:01
we shit talked every single day.
27:04
Every single day.
27:10
Tristan says,
27:11
do you think it's because it's not new
27:12
anymore that that plays in every comp is
27:15
the same constant change to things
27:17
irritating fans to a degree?
27:19
Do you think people just don't care to
27:21
get so invested?
27:24
Okay, so here's my question to you,
27:26
back to you, is when you watch football,
27:30
do you care about the rules committee and
27:33
what they talk about in the offseason?
27:35
Or do you care about what your hometown
27:37
team or the team that you root for
27:39
is doing to prepare for the next season?
27:43
And I would say it's the latter for
27:45
most fans.
27:48
And the NFL has been around for a
27:50
hundred and six years.
27:52
A hundred and six years.
27:55
It's not getting old to anybody.
27:57
They're hitting ratings highs left and
28:00
right to this day because people care who
28:04
wins and loses.
28:18
Distance from affiliates and the season
28:20
stories are so inconsistent year over
28:22
year.
28:23
Well,
28:23
I think we had a long time where
28:24
we didn't tell any stories.
28:27
We didn't tell any stories about anything
28:31
going on with the athletes at all.
28:41
Jay Burchess are the O'Connells in Idaho
28:43
now.
28:44
I know they're out west.
28:45
They bought a home out there.
28:48
I don't know exactly where it's at.
28:58
CrossFit says Ariel's values don't put
29:00
butts in the seats.
29:01
Fergie says Ariel's values put eyes on her
29:03
social,
29:04
and that's where the money is these days.
29:14
Jody says,
29:15
thank God you didn't knock your heart out
29:16
of arrhythmia from that game.
29:18
Yeah, it was a concern at one point,
29:21
for sure.
29:27
I was like that for Kara back when,
29:30
yeah.
29:31
I think if you're looking at like,
29:34
fifteen and sixteen was the last time we
29:37
had that guttural feeling for an athlete.
29:47
Fergie says, Laura wears the black hat.
29:49
That's all well and good,
29:50
but she doesn't play in the season
29:51
anymore.
29:59
Corey's giving me a warning not to use.
30:02
She gets railed.
30:04
She gets a lot of news for that
30:05
as well.
30:06
True.
30:07
Probably not the right choice of words.
30:12
Jay Burch, true that.
30:13
Love DBE and the Dallas Cowboys.
30:15
See, you're one of those people.
30:26
Lito,
30:26
we're doing a CrossFit show tonight with
30:29
Carolyn and maybe Jamie.
30:31
And I'm going to talk about all that
30:32
stuff tonight.
30:46
There's so many comments.
30:52
Tristan says,
30:52
but those little changes in the passing of
30:54
rules don't,
30:55
don't drastically impact the season who
30:57
competes, who gets seen.
31:00
I think you're more invested as a coach
31:01
because those affect you deeply.
31:07
And I get affected by it because I'm
31:08
media and I'm trying to follow it all,
31:10
but I don't think it really matters to
31:13
me as a,
31:13
as a supporter of an athlete.
31:23
Tristan says that would be like the NFL
31:25
moving half the games overseas every other
31:27
year.
31:28
They've moved so many games overseas.
31:30
So many games.
31:31
That's a bad example, Tristan.
31:33
They're like half the season.
31:35
There's a game at nine thirty a.m.
31:37
Eastern time, which would be what?
31:39
Six thirty a.m.
31:40
Pacific time in Europe every single week.
31:44
If you're a fan of those teams,
31:45
that's a.
31:47
That's not when I watch football.
32:07
CrossFit says,
32:07
so before Greg canned the media team and
32:09
changed the marketing.
32:10
Yes.
32:12
That's probably a perfect demarcation as
32:17
to when the passion left.
32:19
Stories stopped being told.
32:22
we stopped caring about the athletes and
32:25
we don't really root anymore.
32:41
Tristan says, but I feel it too,
32:44
what you're getting at.
32:46
I would have an athlete I cheered for
32:48
crazy if I wasn't a coach anymore.
32:51
I wouldn't have an athlete.
32:52
Right.
33:01
Do those people tailgate over breakfast?
33:06
There are fans that would tailgate at a
33:08
nine thirty a.m.
33:09
game.
33:12
In Europe, it's not nine thirty, right?
33:13
It's in the middle of the afternoon.
33:15
But here in the States,
33:17
I know people that go to the bars
33:19
at nine thirty a.m.
33:20
to watch their team.
33:27
Fergie,
33:27
the landscape has definitely changed from
33:29
coaches as athletes to full time athletes
33:32
with sponsors,
33:33
and we kind of lost the soul of
33:34
the sport in exchange for shilling for
33:36
sponsors.
33:38
I would.
33:40
Here's my answer to that as well.
33:43
Tons of every other sport has, I mean,
33:45
my God,
33:46
NASCAR has eight hundred logos on their
33:49
fire suits, on their cars.
33:52
Everybody shills for sponsors.
33:54
Everybody's trying to make money.
33:56
Everybody's trying to do it all.
33:58
And they find a way to still maintain
34:02
the connection with the fan base.
34:09
This is it here.
34:10
Athlete visibility is just so cautious.
34:12
Everybody is afraid to show their true
34:15
self and upset sponsors.
34:17
That's where I think they're being given
34:20
misguidance.
34:23
Daniel Brandon has pissed off the world,
34:26
and she probably has as many sponsors as
34:28
any other athlete in the space.
34:30
But nobody's learning from that.
34:33
Colton got more sponsors when he looked in
34:35
the camera and talked trash.
34:38
and cursed out this person or cursed out
34:40
that person.
34:42
When Hopper and Dallin and Colton went
34:46
head-to-head with Taylor for that
34:49
quarterfinals or whatever it was a couple
34:51
years ago,
34:53
they let the world see them at a
34:56
vulnerable time and did not care.
34:59
And because of that,
35:00
they all grew in popularity.
35:05
Like Colton says,
35:06
he's a pig farmer and he has more
35:08
followers than the games champion because
35:12
Colton is authentic.
35:14
Colton doesn't care what you think.
35:16
Colton isn't cautious about what he says.
35:20
Danielle doesn't care.
35:22
She may care what you say and she
35:24
may respond to it,
35:25
but she's going to say whatever she wants
35:27
to say.
35:28
And because of that,
35:30
she has more followers than any of them.
35:34
CrossFit says, Guy, Guy doesn't care.
35:36
Guy's going to do whatever he wants to
35:38
do.
35:39
People can tell him your cardio sucks,
35:42
your metabolic conditioning sucks,
35:44
but you're going to lift a house,
35:46
and he doesn't care.
35:47
And he's taking all of his followers to
35:50
the bank.
36:00
Kenneth,
36:00
I drove five hours one way to go
36:01
watch Colton and Taylor duke it out a
36:03
crash.
36:04
Exactly.
36:05
That's the stuff that's missing.
36:12
I so hated when the NHL went to
36:13
board ads and it was one on ice
36:18
ad, then four,
36:19
now some have six or more.
36:21
Then it went to sponsor patches on Jersey.
36:24
It keeps getting worse as time goes by.
36:26
Well,
36:26
join me in the scream at the clouds
36:29
from your front porch, Ken,
36:30
because that's all we're doing.
36:31
That ain't going to change money rules.
36:35
And the more ways they find to show
36:37
ads, the more they're going to do it.
36:52
But you just said gyms used to show
36:54
up for athletes,
36:55
mainly because they are also coaches.
36:57
I never could become a fan of Matt
36:58
because he trained in this basement.
37:00
The culture is in the affiliate.
37:04
You may not be able to cheer for
37:06
Matt because of that.
37:07
But back when they made content that
37:09
included Matt and told his story about
37:12
eating the chop suey for lunch every day
37:15
and not caring about his diet and just
37:18
going to local competitions to make a
37:20
thousand dollars here,
37:21
eight hundred dollars there.
37:23
Everybody bought into that.
37:24
And he had just as many fans at
37:26
the games as Rich did because he was
37:29
the anti-Rich guy.
37:32
When the two of them went head-to-head,
37:33
it was the climax of the popularity of
37:38
the CrossFit Games, in my opinion,
37:40
because you really cared which one of
37:42
those two guys won.
37:44
And it carried over a bit for me
37:46
to Ben versus Matt because I wanted Ben
37:48
to get his first win,
37:50
and I didn't want Matt to win.
37:56
But those stories were being told back
37:59
then.
38:00
They're not being told now.
38:06
And I know that Guy legit asked someone
38:09
to buy his bike,
38:09
but I think that was a farce anyway.
38:25
Ken Walters is responding to CrossFit.
38:27
They all want more money.
38:28
I get it.
38:29
But the most recent NHL TV deals has
38:31
them sitting just fine.
38:33
Just fine ain't good enough for a big
38:34
business.
38:36
They want to maximize the amount of profit
38:38
they can make on their advertising.
38:51
I think Matt resonated to fans with those
38:55
stirrings because a lot of members do the
38:57
same thing but aren't as good as he
38:59
was.
39:01
And it gave hope to those people.
39:09
Tia trained in her basement.
39:10
I don't remember her being in an
39:11
affiliate.
39:13
Well,
39:13
she was at Mayhem for a good chunk.
39:16
And then she built her own.
39:20
I don't know what she did before she
39:22
came from Australia, though.
39:36
Now look at the landscape.
39:37
Tia's thriving with Proven.
39:38
Matt is struggling with HWPO.
39:40
Tia engages the audience and Matt does his
39:42
own thing.
39:44
You think the HWPO is struggling because
39:46
you're looking at it from a games
39:47
perspective and games athletes.
39:50
HWPO is doing just fine with their
39:52
programming,
39:53
with all of the different facets and
39:55
different sports that they reach out to.
39:57
They are doing just fine.
40:08
Corey said Matt resonated when he became
40:10
unbeatable,
40:12
but when he was becoming unbeatable,
40:13
once he got there and had basically no
40:15
weakness, it got boring.
40:19
I don't disagree with that.
40:19
I think anytime a team wins multiple
40:23
championships in a row or an individual
40:25
wins multiple championships in a row,
40:27
it starts to disenfranchise some of the
40:30
fans and they want to see somebody else
40:33
win.
40:43
so and vicky says that tia was at
40:49
an affiliate in australia as well yeah i
40:59
saw that this morning corey gail layman is
41:01
posting on ig again i'm not retiring
41:13
Clayton Wall,
41:14
the connection to affiliates was never
41:15
going to remain as the elite athletes
41:18
increasingly focus on making competitive
41:20
CrossFit career.
41:21
Those are two worlds.
41:24
Well,
41:24
a couple other quick subjects and then I'm
41:26
going to get out of here and prepare
41:28
for tonight's show.
41:30
The first thing is last week we talked
41:32
about prize money in Mexico City and maybe
41:36
being double taxed.
41:38
I said that my nephew had been in
41:40
Canada and got really messed up on taxes
41:43
coming back to the States.
41:45
I was corrected that there is a treaty
41:49
between Canada, Mexico,
41:50
and the United States not to double tax
41:53
people in those states or in those
41:56
countries.
41:57
So if you win the money in Mexico
41:59
City, you're only taxed once.
42:02
Now, where that is,
42:03
I am not a tax expert.
42:04
I don't know.
42:06
But you will only be taxed one time.
42:09
other thing i wanted to share is this
42:11
thing by becky harsh and i don't know
42:13
if you guys have seen this uh but
42:15
it was pretty funny and it is a
42:16
warning about this year's crossfit game
42:17
season have you or someone you loved been
42:18
injured judging an open workout was it an
42:19
athlete that doesn't adhere to movement
42:20
standards throughout the year
42:39
Don't hesitate.
42:41
Contact your local CrossFit affiliate rep
42:43
now.
42:44
You are not alone.
42:52
You may be entitled to compensation.
43:02
Remember,
43:03
the open is just around the corner.
43:04
Take the judges course and warm up that
43:07
rotator cuff.
43:10
Thought that was pretty funny.
43:11
Wanted to share with everybody.
43:14
I love when he throws the wall ball
43:16
ladder.
43:19
So because I've actually had that happen
43:21
in real life,
43:24
a wall ball thrown at me for that.
43:26
But I thought Becky did a great job
43:28
with that and promoting the open.
43:30
And if you didn't see dense update this
43:32
morning,
43:33
which she scared the crap out of me
43:34
this morning when I woke up,
43:36
looked at my phone and saw I was
43:37
tagged in that.
43:38
That always makes me nervous.
43:41
But I did see that she bought the
43:43
bundle where she got the judges course,
43:45
the open registration and a T-shirt.
43:48
all with a bundle and that is an
43:49
option this year with this year's open so
43:52
make sure to check that out um jay
43:56
birch especially with wall balls uh been
43:58
there yeah yeah i've i've had a wall
44:01
ball or two chucked at me in my
44:02
life so the last thing i'm going to
44:05
leave with and this is just um when
44:08
i was talking to caroline klutz and i
44:09
had her on the show a little bit
44:11
ago and she won the the to year
44:14
old um
44:18
She won the thirty five to thirty nine
44:19
year old division of the CrossFit Games.
44:22
And back then she told me kind of
44:25
secretively that she was working with
44:27
Mayhem to form a team.
44:30
It came out today what that team is.
44:32
And I just want to show you that
44:36
video now because I was kind of surprised
44:40
who it was.
44:42
So with that, here we go.
44:50
Thank you.
45:02
so if you didn't recognize those faces
45:05
that is introducing the team from crossfit
45:08
mayhem is jack rozema caroline klutz
45:13
tanner balazs and stevie dellinger and
45:16
caroline and stevie actually took third at
45:18
the games last year so that is significant
45:22
and they're teaming up with jack rozema
45:24
who apparently is going team
45:26
and Tanner Balazs,
45:27
who's been training with Alexis Raptus.
45:32
So that, I think,
45:33
is going to be a pretty formidable team
45:36
going into this season.
45:41
Yeah, Ken, you can see it here.
45:43
They just announced it.
45:46
That is the team.
45:51
So...
45:53
early sights into who's going to be
45:56
competing.
45:57
I don't know what the Norwegian crew are
46:00
going to bring, but man,
46:02
that's a pretty tough team.
46:04
I would have to have them as podium
46:07
favorite for sure.
46:08
Maybe even champion.
46:14
Hopefully he doesn't get stuck in teams.
46:17
I know he's been busy with things with
46:20
work and with children and all of those
46:23
things.
46:24
And maybe he just needs a year to
46:26
work on weaknesses.
46:28
I know some elite athletes feel that when
46:30
they go team,
46:31
because there's less pressure to do
46:33
everything,
46:34
that they can actually work on their
46:36
weaknesses for a full season while going
46:38
team and then be more prepared to make
46:41
a shot the following year.
46:48
Now,
46:49
if there were only a way to make
46:50
teams more watchable, I agree.
46:54
I wish CrossFit would...
46:59
look at what a blues of SoCal and
47:01
kind of the way they are.
47:03
Um,
47:05
they are doing things to make the team
47:07
setting more watchable and more enjoyable.
47:10
I think they've done a good job with
47:11
that.
47:12
Um, but it would take some rule changes.
47:15
And I know Tristan's against that, uh,
47:17
to get it to look better,
47:19
but with that,
47:22
and it looks like the kale layman news
47:24
is fake.
47:27
So,
47:30
With that,
47:34
I hope you guys had a great day.
47:36
It was a good discussion.
47:37
Glad we had it.
47:39
I will be back here tonight at eight
47:41
PM Eastern time to do Sunday night
47:44
CrossFit talk on a Monday.
47:46
Carolyn is in for that show.
47:48
Jamie, if she can get through the traffic,
47:50
she will be back.
47:54
We'll see.
47:56
With that, hope everybody had a great day.
47:58
Make sure you like and subscribe to the
48:00
channel,
48:01
and we will see you tonight at eight
48:03
p.m.
48:04
Thank you so much.
48:05
Bye, guys.