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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Under the Lights in Texas! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:27
  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale
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  Media Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 0:33
  What is going on?
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  So, first of all,
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  I was interviewing Abby Domet today,
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  and her mic was very soft.
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  Okay.
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  So, I turned my volume way up,
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  and then that music came on,
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  and I think I lost both eardrums.
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  Oops.
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  Yeah, that was a bit abrupt.
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  Okay.
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  I got some TV in the background.
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  Aaron, please turn that off or down.
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  Let them know.
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  Let them know.
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  All right.
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  What do we got to first let them know?
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  Carolyn, you're the best at this.
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  you got to hit that notifier.
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  Again,
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  That's $2.99 to help us out.
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  So with that,
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  thank you for joining us tonight.
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  And we will get into tonight's agenda.
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  Well, first of all,
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  I have a question to ask.
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  Carolyn.
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  Yes.
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  How is your nephew dealing
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  with one of the greatest
• 2:00
  comebacks in hockey history?
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  He's so excited.
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  So they went to game the
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  last two games in Edmonton.
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  My sister and her husband
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  went and then Easton as well,
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  which is the nephew.
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  They're so excited.
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  They're so pumped.
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  Huge Edmonton fans.
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  I'm rooting for them, too,
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  in these playoffs.
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  I would love to see that
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  reverse sweep come back.
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  It's been super exciting to watch.
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  And for those of you who
• 2:27
  don't follow hockey,
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  the Florida Panthers had a 3-0 lead,
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  only needed to win one game
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  to clinch the Stanley Cup,
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  and Edmonton has won three in a row.
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  It is now tied.
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  With one game left, winner takes all.
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  For the hardest trophy to
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  win in all of sports,
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  and the most beautiful trophy as well,
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  may I add.
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  And my Pittsburgh Penguins
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  have won it three times.
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  I mean,
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  do you want to go with my Montreal
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  Canadians?
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  24?
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  Actually,
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  my Penguins have won it more than that,
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  right?
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  Five times.
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  Five times.
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  Yeah,
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  because Sydney has... Two
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  back-to-backs and then the
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  one in the middle.
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  Yeah, I forgot the one back-to-back.
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  Okay.
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  When you win so much, you know, it's hard.
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  I...
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  I have been watching this show.
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  I've got to tell you about
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  King of Collectibles.
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  If you've never watched it on Netflix,
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  it is golden auction house
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  and they show what it is to
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  like get valuable items and
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  put them up for auction.
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  And they're really big in the sports world,
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  like trying to get the most
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  rare sports items there are
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  and sell them.
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  And it has been so freaking fun to watch.
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  And they're in season two.
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  And I've been binge watching.
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  And Julie was watching it
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  with me till someone
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  brought in supposedly the
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  mummified hand of Cleopatra
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  to put up for auction.
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  And Julie was like, I'm out.
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  Where do you even get that?
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  So apparently there was a
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  tidal wave at one point in
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  Europe that where her grave site was,
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  apparently it got disrupted
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  by this tidal wave and
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  things went ashore.
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  And then it has been passed
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  down and there's paperwork
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  with it from like the 1600s forward.
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  Wow.
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  Changing hands and all that.
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  But now to like authenticate it,
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  they have to like do DNA testing on it.
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  And compare it to different
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  mummies from her lineage of
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  the same time.
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  And that's what's fascinating to me.
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  Not necessarily the hand,
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  but all the kind of cool
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  science behind it.
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  Just to authenticate that it's hers.
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  That's crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  um so yeah I just wanted to
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  put that out there and that
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  you know just this little
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  like talk at the beginning
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  we do is allows more people
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  into the audience before we
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  get really rolling but
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  With that,
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  we're going to get into the first thing,
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  which is the final response
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  to the riffs from last week.
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  It has been an ongoing week
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  of stuff from the riffs.
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  Jamie's riff has been mostly
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  positive in agreement,
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  and that is really cool.
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  We should get back to public
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  posting of riffs.
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  videos.
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  My rift, on the other hand,
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  has resulted in an apology kind of,
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  sort of,
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  and then it resulted in John
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  Young and I actually
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  exchanging phone numbers,
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  having a conversation on Thursday,
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  talking it all out,
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  and him and I are cool with
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  the whole thing.
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  like he gets it you're in
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  this business you say goofy
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  things um occasionally
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  you're wrong and you get
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  called out on it and that's
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  what it is right um the
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  only thing I want to say
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  about is a lot of people
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  not involved in the actual
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  beef or whatever we want to
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  truly call it that was the
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  clickbait version of it
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  are like giving their two cents.
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  I was not bragging about my
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  ability to pick people
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  because I am not good at it.
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  Lex will tell you, I am not good at it.
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  I was just defending myself
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  when someone said that my
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  picks were silly.
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  So I miss picks all the time.
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  But when I do make good picks...
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  I like to tout myself a little bit.
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  Let it be known.
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  And then... And the other thing is,
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  Heat One app, just for you all that know,
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  I try to play it.
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  I have never completed a
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  weekend with all of my picks.
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  Because if I'm not...
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  It's not that I forget.
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  I'm at an event, and they won't take.
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  I get to where I don't have
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  good reception.
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  At the games last year,
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  I couldn't make picks.
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  I was in the Coliseum.
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  They wouldn't go through.
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  This year, we were in the parking garage.
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  I was picking event four.
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  It didn't take...
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  it it's just been weird stuff like that.
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  Or like when they add the prop bets now,
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  I don't get the notifier
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  cause I'm working on something.
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  And then by the time I see it,
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  the events already happened.
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  So I've never been able to
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  complete a weekend of the heat one app,
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  but I still have fun trying.
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  And, or my,
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  the other result is I make all
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  the picks on Thursday and
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  then I don't get to make
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  any changes based on what I
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  see over the weekend.
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  Yeah.
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  That's usually what happens to me.
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  Someone gets injured and I
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  don't have the time or
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  service to get in there and
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  get things changed and I
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  just get stuck with that
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  person that I put in or whatever.
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  And Patrick Clark says,
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  we are more often than not,
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  we are more wrong than right.
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  Correct.
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  Yeah.
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  So when you get that right call,
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  you're like shouting it
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  from the mountaintop
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  because you finally got one.
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  But, yeah.
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  But Hattie was my dark horse
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  pick in the West.
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  Jack Rosamond was my dark
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  horse pick in the East.
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  I did pretty good this year
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  on those kinds of picks.
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  But I did not get event four
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  picked for heat one.
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  I didn't get some of the prop bets.
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  And that happens a lot, so...
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  But John and I have talked.
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  Everything's cool.
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  Him and I are cool.
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  And he said it's okay to have a rivalry.
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  It's okay to have a friendly rivalry.
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  It makes things interesting.
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  And that's actually going to
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  be a topic later in the show.
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  And that's what inspired
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  that to kind of talk about.
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  But we're bringing up a new segment,
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  which is our listener
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  question of the week,
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  which actually is going to
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  roll into something else
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  that a listener is talking
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  about in the chat now and
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  why I kind of ignored it.
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  So the question, the original question was,
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  did you like the Dave
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  Castro Week in Review more
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  before he came back?
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  And I'm assuming he came
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  back to the game side of CrossFit.
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  Or did you like it more
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  before he was there?
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  And so I'm going to open
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  that question to you two first.
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  Before he was where?
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  Before he was on the game
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  side of CrossFit.
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  So he got fired.
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  He was brought back and then
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  put on the affiliate side.
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  And that's when he started?
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  And that's when he started.
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  And it was like he would
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  talk about his agenda going
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  to this affiliate, to that affiliate,
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  having a meeting with a
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  bunch of affiliate owners,
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  things like that.
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  And then when he moved over
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  to the game side,
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  it took a turn into more the sport.
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  Yeah, I feel like I did enjoy it.
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  Maybe it's because it was new and a new,
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  cool,
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  fun thing when he first started them.
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  Um,
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  but maybe it was also because it was
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  more affiliate driven and I
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  was interested in hearing
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  some of that and where this,
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  the company was going.
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  Um,
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  but it is nice to get some of the maybe
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  hints sports, you know,
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  his mind frame on that stuff too.
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  But I do personally,
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  I think I enjoyed it more before.
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  I mean,
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  I'm in the camp of any news is good news.
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  I feel like we don't get
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  enough news in general,
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  whether it's the affiliate side,
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  the sports side.
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  I still don't know whether,
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  like for the sports side,
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  whether it should come from
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  him and YouTube.
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  I think there's a more
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  professional way to get
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  some of the information out.
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  But in general,
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  I think any time that he
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  can get on the mic and just
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  speak in general with what's going on,
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  I think that's a good thing.
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  I would like to see it more as like a –
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  what did they have before
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  during COVID where some of
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  the media outlets, I mean,
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  the ones that were getting
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  invited to it could
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  actually ask questions and
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  maybe have more of like a
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  dialogue response,
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  like where he's just
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  answering certain questions from the chat,
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  which is also good because
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  now you're involving the
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  community that might not
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  have that access with the questions.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I think,
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  I think that's a good segment.
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  I always watch them every week.
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  This week's was interesting.
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  So I don't,
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  So here's my thought.
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  And Patrick Clark's kind of
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  went down that road already,
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  and I'm just going to dive
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  down it as well.
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  One, it's the only news source we have,
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  which I think is the crime in this.
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  If he wants to have his own
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  release of information once a week,
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  that's all cool to do that.
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  But for it to be the only one,
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  I think is wrong.
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  And in a bad play by CrossFit overall.
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  At the very least,
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  there should be press
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  releases to the media that
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  have applied and been to
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  the games and the
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  semifinals and all that
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  stuff when news is released.
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  All the stuff that just came
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  out about the games, about Fender Village,
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  CrossFit Boulevard,
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  all that stuff should have
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  been in a press release with documents.
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  But it's never released.
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  It's one of the new,
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  one of the media companies
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  gets a hold of it.
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  Like barbell spin publishes it.
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  Now that's the media release
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  for everybody.
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  And CrossFit never gives out
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  the official release.
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  And you have to think about
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  the language barrier too.
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  Like how many people in the
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  international space can
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  even understand like fully
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  English and what's going on,
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  like on YouTube,
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  like they're probably not
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  following like Dave Castro's,
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  YouTube channel, like they would normally,
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  if it's an article,
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  they can translate it and whatnot.
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  I mean, now you can use AI, but it just,
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  it's very,
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  it's for like North America and
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  Europe and Australia,
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  like the communities that
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  maybe understand more
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  English and just what's going on there.
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  In some of the hotbeds, like Brazil,
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  there's a guy who does the
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  media for Brazil who can't
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  speak English and then
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  probably translate it to his audience.
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  Then there's a podcast
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  called Dummies at the Box,
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  which is Italian,
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  and they probably do the
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  same thing for Italy.
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  There's a lot of people
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  around the world that are bilingual,
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  but it's a shame that you
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  have to be bilingual to
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  then be the media person
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  for that and spokesperson
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  for that country.
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  It just seems unprofessional
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  to do it on YouTube,
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  on his personal channel.
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  It's not even on the
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  official CrossFit Games site.
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  I think that's the one.
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  It's growing his own
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  personal brand versus CrossFit,
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  which has a million
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  followers or I don't know
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  how many they have on YouTube.
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  Pretty close to a million if
• 13:57
  you use the CrossFit Games one.
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  That reaches already more
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  people on YouTube versus
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  his personal one.
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  So if you just took that same interview,
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  switch it there
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  significantly better.
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  Well, and,
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  and in maybe getting in trouble
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  with this comment
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  Is attacking Hiller
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  professional news release
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  information the reason why
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  Hiller didn't get a media
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  pass to the games and
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  taking 10 minutes out of
• 14:28
  your week in review to have
• 14:31
  a personal beef between the two of you?
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  That's not professional news
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  to be released either.
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  So it's like this hodgepodge
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  of stuff that really makes no sense.
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  That's where I think he can
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  release it on his own
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  personal channel is
• 14:48
  answering questions that
• 14:49
  people from the community have.
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  But the moment it's official
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  information about the season,
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  about the affiliates,
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  that should be on the
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  CrossFit Games Instagram or
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  the CrossFit website, YouTube,
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  all of the platforms from
• 15:06
  CrossFit and CrossFit Games.
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  That's where it gets pumped out to.
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  If it's just answering
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  Hiller stuff and questions
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  in the community,
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  that can be his own
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  personal conversation with the community.
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  And I think that got lost
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  along the way where now
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  it's like releasing clues
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  on his Instagram where you
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  have to follow Dave to get
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  some of that information.
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  so so then this rolls into
• 15:32
  today where dave releases a
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  new series that he's doing
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  where he's going to
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  interview all 80 crossfit
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  games athletes for five to
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  ten minutes each one to get
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  to know them better my
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  first reaction was what I
• 15:52
  saw brooke there and I was like
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  cringe that was my first
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  reaction I was like what
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  now it's confused right it
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  wasn't a week in review
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  it's this new series he's
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  doing but it's released on
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  the same channel right
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  And it's kind of like you're
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  asking them what events they want,
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  what are their strengths and weaknesses.
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  As an athlete, talking to the programmer,
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  a co-programmer of the CrossFit Games,
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  I feel like that's kind of awkward too.
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  You're not trying to expose
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  your weaknesses or what you want,
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  and he's getting ideas in
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  his head of different athletes.
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  I don't know.
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  It just seems – I mean,
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  it's entertaining for
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  people who are going to want to see.
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  I don't know if he'll get to all 80.
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  Hopefully he does, so it's a fair –
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  thing but it's just I don't
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  know I just I don't know I
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  feel like there's no way
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  he's getting all 80 done if
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  he does 10 a week for for
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  the next eight weeks is
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  that he doesn't even have
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  that long he has he has
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  four weeks so he's got to
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  do 20 a week so he's got to
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  do three a day
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  And just organizing that
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  with his own time and with
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  the athletes' time is hard enough.
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  Yeah.
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  He's not getting three of
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  those done a day.
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  Those are not getting done.
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  So my first question,
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  I have two big things I
• 17:13
  want to talk about here.
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  One,
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  is it a conflict of interest for the
• 17:16
  programmer of the games to
• 17:18
  interview what his intention is all 80,
• 17:23
  but probably won't be all 80?
• 17:25
  How much of a conflict of
• 17:26
  interest is it to have
• 17:28
  those conversations with the athletes?
• 17:30
  I think it's a major.
• 17:31
  I don't like it.
• 17:33
  Because it puts ideas in his head,
• 17:36
  whether it's this year or
• 17:37
  the following years.
• 17:38
  It's putting, I don't know.
• 17:40
  And more importantly,
• 17:40
  it puts doubt in the heads
• 17:42
  of those fans of the sport
• 17:45
  or media covering the sport
• 17:48
  or the other athletes, right?
• 17:51
  And the more doubt that we have,
• 17:55
  the less you believe in a
• 17:57
  fair product at the end.
• 17:59
  And it's not a fair product to begin with.
• 18:01
  Like I, I've, I've had problems with,
• 18:04
  you know,
• 18:05
  people testing the workouts every year,
• 18:06
  people on the demo team every year.
• 18:08
  And it's like, there's leaks that come out,
• 18:10
  whether it's from the, that,
• 18:11
  or you have testers that
• 18:13
  are part of training camps
• 18:14
  are best friends with athletes.
• 18:15
  Like it's just not a professional space.
• 18:18
  Like you can't have people
• 18:19
  that are testing workouts or whatever,
• 18:21
  regardless of the NDA,
• 18:23
  like their best friends or
• 18:24
  training partners of athletes are
• 18:27
  it's just, you have that going on.
• 18:28
  You have interviewing the athletes.
• 18:30
  Like they're so like,
• 18:31
  it's just such a close
• 18:33
  community that I think it's
• 18:34
  really hard to set.
• 18:36
  Like, I don't know.
• 18:39
  And Patrick Clark makes a great point.
• 18:40
  Duan Young and Shung Young
• 18:42
  Choi do not speak English.
• 18:44
  So how,
• 18:45
  and Dave most likely does not speak
• 18:47
  Korean.
• 18:48
  So how do you have those conversations?
• 18:52
  yeah,
• 18:53
  I don't think that those ones are
• 18:54
  happening.
• 18:54
  Cause I don't think you're
• 18:55
  bringing on a translator
• 18:56
  for a five minute like that.
• 18:58
  That'll just be,
• 19:00
  wouldn't even be fun to watch.
• 19:03
  Um, yeah.
• 19:07
  So,
• 19:08
  so then my other point is there are
• 19:13
  people already doing this.
• 19:17
  There's us, there's be friendly fitness.
• 19:20
  Um,
• 19:21
  There are other people
• 19:22
  already down the road of
• 19:23
  interviewing these athletes.
• 19:25
  Why don't they just share
• 19:28
  the interview that's already been done?
• 19:31
  Share it on the CrossFit
• 19:34
  Games website or our
• 19:36
  YouTube channel and share
• 19:37
  those interviews.
• 19:39
  I mean,
• 19:39
  Brian and Patrick have almost done
• 19:41
  all of Europe already.
• 19:41
  I know.
• 19:43
  You know,
• 19:43
  we've been down the road with
• 19:45
  like five or six athletes already.
• 19:48
  Let those just be what they
• 19:50
  are and share them instead
• 19:52
  of redoing everything and
• 19:54
  creating this big conflict of interest.
• 19:58
  It's weird to me.
• 19:59
  When did Dave become
• 20:01
  interested in the – I know
• 20:04
  he's friends with some of the athletes,
• 20:05
  friendly with some of the athletes,
• 20:07
  but he's always tried to
• 20:09
  make it pretty clear that –
• 20:11
  he doesn't think about specific athletes.
• 20:13
  He's not like,
• 20:13
  that's not what he's invested in.
• 20:14
  So like,
• 20:16
  for what reason is he even wanting
• 20:17
  to talk to these people?
• 20:19
  And ask those specific questions.
• 20:20
  Yeah.
• 20:21
  Right.
• 20:21
  Cause it just puts an idea
• 20:23
  in our heads that like
• 20:24
  something gets programmed.
• 20:25
  You're like, Oh, he must've like,
• 20:27
  like who knows?
• 20:28
  It's just, it's just awkward.
• 20:29
  It's not awkward.
• 20:30
  I don't know what the right word is.
• 20:31
  It's just positive interest.
• 20:33
  Like it's just.
• 20:34
  Sus.
• 20:35
  It's sus.
• 20:36
  It is so sus.
• 20:39
  That's what my daughter
• 20:40
  would say completely.
• 20:41
  That is sus.
• 20:44
  And so it just baffles me.
• 20:49
  So now we're to this point
• 20:50
  where CrossFit media or
• 20:53
  CrossFit as a whole would rather say, hey,
• 20:56
  I know other people are doing it, but hey,
• 20:57
  let's do it ourselves.
• 20:59
  And the only person we have
• 21:00
  to do it is the guy running
• 21:02
  the whole show.
• 21:06
  I know they have a small team.
• 21:09
  but you can't find anybody
• 21:10
  else to do a five,
• 21:13
  10 minute interview with these people.
• 21:15
  I mean,
• 21:15
  I feel like this is his own idea
• 21:18
  and own thing that he wanted to do.
• 21:19
  I don't even think he talked
• 21:20
  to the media department.
• 21:24
  Cause if you did,
• 21:25
  they would have been like, cool.
• 21:26
  Yes.
• 21:27
  Let's get you logged into
• 21:28
  the CrossFit YouTube
• 21:29
  channel and upload those.
• 21:31
  Like this is totally rogue on his part.
• 21:34
  Yeah.
• 21:36
  You got to think so.
• 21:38
  I don't know.
• 21:39
  It just,
• 21:40
  it baffles my mind that they would
• 21:41
  even entertain this.
• 21:48
  I just,
• 21:49
  it makes me worry that we're even
• 21:50
  going to, where we're even going at all.
• 21:58
  I didn't want to do a riff
• 21:59
  tonight and I'm trying not
• 22:00
  to like go all in on this,
• 22:02
  but it's really tough.
• 22:05
  To be fair, I liked the interview,
• 22:07
  but you're like, why is this happening?
• 22:11
  Brooke came off great.
• 22:15
  Sure, but it showed the fallacy of it all,
• 22:17
  too, where, hey,
• 22:18
  what don't you want to see?
• 22:19
  Well, I'm not going to tell you.
• 22:22
  And just the fact that
• 22:23
  that's the athlete he picks first.
• 22:24
  We already know that's his
• 22:25
  favorite athlete.
• 22:26
  So it just is already like, okay,
• 22:28
  we get it, Dave.
• 22:31
  Yeah.
• 22:31
  I don't know.
• 22:32
  If you start with a random athlete,
• 22:34
  it looks less sus.
• 22:36
  That's true.
• 22:37
  Like you start with already your favorite,
• 22:40
  and maybe that's what's
• 22:41
  going to draw the attention
• 22:42
  and people to look at all
• 22:44
  of the next interviews.
• 22:45
  But we'll see.
• 22:48
  I mean, like you said, I was –
• 22:50
  entertain.
• 22:51
  I thought it was like,
• 22:51
  I still listened to the interview.
• 22:52
  I was curious of what kind
• 22:54
  of questions he was going to ask,
• 22:55
  what direction it was going to go.
• 23:00
  Again, it's media and more media is better,
• 23:02
  but I just think it's not
• 23:05
  from the right source at
• 23:08
  this time of the year and
• 23:10
  whether he's using that information,
• 23:11
  like I said,
• 23:12
  this year or next year in future years,
• 23:14
  it's still popping ideas.
• 23:16
  In his mind,
• 23:17
  he's curious on what the
• 23:18
  athletes are thinking about
• 23:19
  the venues and what's a possibility.
• 23:21
  We'll see.
• 23:25
  Did you feel like he gave a
• 23:26
  good answer on why he
• 23:27
  wanted to go to Fort Worth?
• 23:30
  No.
• 23:31
  Yeah, I didn't love it.
• 23:34
  So Linda Jerry says,
• 23:36
  playing devil's advocate,
• 23:37
  Dave wanted his channel to
• 23:38
  be just him doing his stuff.
• 23:40
  So he most probably didn't
• 23:41
  think it with a CrossFit HQ hat on.
• 23:44
  So I work for the state of Ohio, right?
• 23:48
  There are things that I am
• 23:49
  not allowed to do because I
• 23:51
  work for the state of Ohio
• 23:53
  because of my job.
• 23:54
  Because there is a definite
• 23:56
  conflict of interest in...
• 23:58
  And it would...
• 24:03
  it would taint the
• 24:07
  authenticity and the
• 24:08
  fairness and all that stuff
• 24:11
  for whatever we are doing, right?
• 24:14
  If we're putting a bid out
• 24:15
  for someone to come in and
• 24:17
  work on our systems that I work on,
• 24:19
  and I say, oh,
• 24:20
  my brother-in-law owns this company, like,
• 24:23
  I have to recuse myself from all of that,
• 24:27
  right?
• 24:27
  Because it is a conflict of interest.
• 24:29
  When you are programming the games...
• 24:33
  when you're programming the
• 24:34
  games and you're running
• 24:35
  the games and determining
• 24:37
  like a lot of the things
• 24:38
  that go around it and you
• 24:40
  are now interviewing these athletes,
• 24:43
  I think it's a conflict of interest.
• 24:45
  You would never see this
• 24:46
  happen with any other sport.
• 24:54
  This is the best comment I've seen so far.
• 24:57
  John Young says,
• 24:58
  I think Sydney should have
• 24:59
  done the interview to see
• 25:00
  if Dave could tell the difference.
• 25:10
  Will Branstetter.
• 25:11
  She might be testing the workouts, right?
• 25:14
  She might be signing an NDA.
• 25:17
  I love Dave doing the interviews.
• 25:18
  It's not like Dave isn't
• 25:19
  allowed to talk to any of
• 25:20
  the athletes when he goes
• 25:21
  to semis or games.
• 25:22
  No conflict at all.
• 25:26
  Agree to disagree, Will.
• 25:29
  The questions he was asking
• 25:31
  were things that could
• 25:34
  influence how you do things at the games.
• 25:37
  And what I don't understand
• 25:39
  is the about face.
• 25:40
  Like, just a week ago...
• 25:43
  I think, Will,
• 25:43
  you were in the room with
• 25:44
  him when he was asked about athletes.
• 25:47
  He goes,
• 25:47
  I don't really care about the athletes.
• 25:49
  I don't care about the outcomes.
• 25:51
  I just think of it as a playing field.
• 25:53
  Now, all of a sudden,
• 25:54
  we have this about facing a
• 25:55
  180 direction going in another way.
• 25:59
  That's baffling.
• 26:00
  That's probably the most
• 26:01
  baffling part to me.
• 26:04
  We don't know if it was in Sydney.
• 26:06
  We don't know.
• 26:07
  True.
• 26:07
  True.
• 26:14
  I mean, I'll listen to all of them.
• 26:16
  I'll watch all of them for sure.
• 26:17
  It's going to be
• 26:18
  entertaining to hear how
• 26:20
  he'll ask the questions.
• 26:22
  And he might go a different
• 26:23
  direction with other athletes.
• 26:25
  It's just his new creative way of,
• 26:29
  I don't know,
• 26:30
  learning about the athletes.
• 26:31
  Because a lot of times we
• 26:33
  get to the games and he
• 26:35
  doesn't know much about any
• 26:36
  of the other athletes.
• 26:37
  So maybe this is his way of being like, oh,
• 26:41
  let me try to actually get
• 26:42
  to know the athletes before.
• 26:44
  But, well, maybe it's a good idea,
• 26:47
  maybe not.
• 26:48
  Yeah.
• 26:49
  We'll see how it plays out.
• 26:52
  Yeah.
• 26:53
  So this week,
• 26:55
  the Barbell Spin broke the
• 26:56
  news that they actually got
• 26:58
  a hold of the vendor deck,
• 27:00
  which actually released a
• 27:01
  lot of the information of
• 27:02
  things that are going on
• 27:03
  around the CrossFit Games this year.
• 27:07
  The first big announcement
• 27:08
  was something we've been
• 27:10
  talking about for the last
• 27:11
  couple weeks is hoping that
• 27:12
  there was going to be a
• 27:13
  Friday Night Lights.
• 27:16
  Um,
• 27:17
  I think Tristan brought it up to me
• 27:18
  first at semifinals and then,
• 27:22
  then it stuck in my brain
• 27:23
  that that has to happen.
• 27:25
  Um, I think it came out this week that, uh,
• 27:27
  Joe from morning chalk up
• 27:29
  mentioned this like six months ago.
• 27:31
  Um, so I think people have been,
• 27:32
  if you're going to be in Texas, that's,
• 27:35
  that is an iconic thing
• 27:36
  that happens in Texas.
• 27:38
  Why not embrace it?
• 27:40
  Um,
• 27:41
  we talked to the last couple
• 27:42
  of weeks that there's a
• 27:42
  football field right beside the venue.
• 27:45
  And sure enough,
• 27:46
  that's where they're going.
• 27:48
  So that's really awesome
• 27:49
  that that's been confirmed
• 27:51
  by the barbell spin.
• 27:53
  What are your thoughts about
• 27:53
  a Friday night lights in
• 27:55
  Texas and knowing that you're,
• 27:57
  there's going to be some
• 27:57
  outdoor events on a
• 27:59
  football field with a track.
• 28:03
  It's just like, it's like at 8 PM.
• 28:05
  It's like one,
• 28:05
  one event like is from what I can gather.
• 28:08
  Yeah.
• 28:10
  It's going to be awesome.
• 28:11
  I love it.
• 28:13
  And it's open to the public.
• 28:15
  I think that's great.
• 28:16
  I think that's awesome that people that,
• 28:19
  you know,
• 28:20
  normally don't have those
• 28:20
  Coliseum tickets or whatever the,
• 28:22
  what's it called,
• 28:23
  Dickies Arena tickets can
• 28:25
  come and see this.
• 28:25
  Just like the North Park
• 28:26
  when everyone that had tickets could,
• 28:28
  you know,
• 28:29
  like a regular ticket could go and see.
• 28:32
  Love that.
• 28:33
  Because you're now allowing
• 28:35
  more people to see certain events.
• 28:36
  Because with everything indoors,
• 28:39
  you're stuck to only the
• 28:40
  people that have the tickets.
• 28:41
  So unless you have one or
• 28:43
  two events outdoor,
• 28:44
  which before we could see
• 28:46
  so many more events at the North Park.
• 28:47
  So having that at the football stadium,
• 28:51
  you know, that's going to be important.
• 28:53
  And whether they use it more than once,
• 28:55
  I don't know.
• 28:55
  But I love it because those
• 28:58
  tickets are so expensive
• 29:00
  normally to see the action inside.
• 29:03
  So more people, more eyes, the better.
• 29:07
  And it's a good time of the night, right?
• 29:08
  It's should be cool, like cooler.
• 29:12
  So John Young says the event is insane.
• 29:16
  Do they know what the event is?
• 29:21
  I'm not prying.
• 29:25
  It is what it is, but that's crazy.
• 29:32
  andrew stent says people
• 29:33
  with coliseum tickets are
• 29:34
  complaining about it they
• 29:36
  want reserve seating for
• 29:37
  themselves listen I get it
• 29:39
  in the years that they were
• 29:41
  outside for most of the day
• 29:43
  and your reserve tickets
• 29:44
  didn't get you squat this
• 29:46
  is one event maybe maybe
• 29:48
  there's going to be a
• 29:48
  second event outside most
• 29:51
  of this most of this games
• 29:53
  is going to be completely
• 29:55
  inside with your reserve seats right
• 30:00
  So you get to see nine or 10
• 30:02
  of the 12 events or if there's 15,
• 30:04
  even more.
• 30:07
  I think their reason for
• 30:08
  complaining is minute
• 30:10
  compared to years past.
• 30:15
  Yeah, I love it.
• 30:22
  Um,
• 30:23
  the feels like at 9 30 PM on the same
• 30:25
  date last year in Fort
• 30:26
  Worth was the field.
• 30:28
  I'm guessing.
• 30:29
  No, the field.
• 30:30
  I gotcha was 117 degrees.
• 30:34
  So I was just talking to
• 30:34
  Abby Domet today and she
• 30:36
  was talking about how the
• 30:37
  much different this year
• 30:39
  has been to last year.
• 30:40
  They were in a major heat wave last year.
• 30:43
  So hopefully it's been much
• 30:45
  cooler this year for them in Texas.
• 30:47
  I think the United States
• 30:49
  has flipped upside down
• 30:50
  because us in the upper
• 30:51
  Midwest are getting hammered with heat,
• 30:54
  and they're not so much in
• 30:55
  Texas right now.
• 30:56
  Hopefully that holds
• 30:57
  throughout the year this year.
• 31:04
  I mean, it's one event that's late.
• 31:06
  Like they're doing whatever they can to,
• 31:09
  you know,
• 31:09
  they can't control what weather
• 31:10
  is going to be that night or whatnot.
• 31:12
  It could be great.
• 31:13
  It could be hot.
• 31:15
  You know,
• 31:15
  I feel like by putting it in the evening,
• 31:17
  they're doing everything
• 31:18
  they can to at least
• 31:20
  control what they could.
• 31:24
  They played football in
• 31:24
  Texas with pads and everything on.
• 31:27
  You just take the
• 31:28
  precautions you need to take.
• 31:32
  I think it's great.
• 31:33
  I love it.
• 31:33
  I'm excited for it.
• 31:36
  All right.
• 31:37
  So then in addition to that,
• 31:39
  vendor village is going to be like,
• 31:41
  it looks like a block away ish, um,
• 31:44
  at the will Rogers park.
• 31:49
  And in the,
• 31:50
  in the trip from the Dickies
• 31:52
  arena to that,
• 31:54
  they're having CrossFit Boulevard.
• 31:57
  There will be active.
• 31:58
  There'll be tons of activations, um,
• 32:01
  Things like that.
• 32:02
  And then at the end,
• 32:03
  you'll get to Vendor Village,
• 32:05
  which includes a beer garden,
• 32:07
  a big screen TV,
• 32:10
  all of that in the boulevard between.
• 32:12
  Lots of misting air fans as you're going.
• 32:16
  There's a community workout area.
• 32:18
  And all of that stuff is
• 32:19
  open to the public free of charge.
• 32:21
  Wow.
• 32:22
  So all the activations,
• 32:24
  all of that stuff down the
• 32:25
  boulevard and the beer
• 32:28
  garden and vendor village
• 32:30
  all open to the public free of charge.
• 32:33
  That's awesome.
• 32:34
  I mean,
• 32:35
  some of the best stuff that I got
• 32:37
  to be a part of last year
• 32:38
  was seeing like the
• 32:39
  community events that they
• 32:40
  did or the affiliate owners
• 32:43
  that got to do certain
• 32:43
  events on each like on the playing field,
• 32:46
  the 5K run.
• 32:48
  ish that they, that the whole community,
• 32:50
  um, ran like those, those are awesome.
• 32:53
  Um, so to have certain things to do for,
• 32:56
  for the community or people
• 32:57
  that are just walking around and, um,
• 33:00
  this is how they see
• 33:01
  CrossFit and there's
• 33:02
  different activations, um, spots.
• 33:04
  It's, it's gonna be good.
• 33:08
  Yeah.
• 33:09
  Halpin, we'll give you kudos.
• 33:11
  I know you put that out pretty early.
• 33:13
  Glad someone found the
• 33:14
  vendor deck and released it.
• 33:15
  Lots of great info.
• 33:17
  Sure was.
• 33:18
  I saw it on your Instagram first.
• 33:20
  I didn't know who got it,
• 33:22
  who put it out first or whatever,
• 33:23
  but if it was you, kudos, man.
• 33:30
  Um, so,
• 33:32
  and so here's the one thing that
• 33:34
  was in that vendor deck and
• 33:35
  it was a projection of
• 33:36
  attendance that they have
• 33:38
  been going up in attendance every year.
• 33:41
  And the projection is to go
• 33:42
  up in attendance this year.
• 33:44
  My question is how the hell
• 33:46
  do you do that when the
• 33:48
  arena only seats 9,000 people?
• 33:51
  What was the Coliseum in Madison?
• 33:53
  So the Coliseum was less than that,
• 33:56
  like six maybe, five or six.
• 33:59
  But you had the festival seats,
• 34:01
  which has all of those
• 34:03
  other people in North Park
• 34:05
  that would be packed for the big events.
• 34:09
  And I'm trying to go by memory.
• 34:11
  I actually think I have it up.
• 34:13
  Let me look.
• 34:15
  The projection was last year was 69,969.
• 34:20
  If you only have 9,000 seats,
• 34:23
  how do you beat attendance this year?
• 34:27
  Are you going to count all
• 34:28
  the people that go to the
• 34:29
  high school stadium?
• 34:31
  Are you going to count all
• 34:32
  the people in Vendor Village?
• 34:35
  Like, how does that happen?
• 34:36
  I mean,
• 34:38
  we count people that sign up for
• 34:40
  the Open and don't do any
• 34:41
  of the workouts.
• 34:44
  True.
• 34:46
  True.
• 34:47
  What's the difference?
• 34:48
  Like anyone that sees one
• 34:50
  event that count it.
• 34:54
  Cause the Coliseum,
• 34:55
  the Coliseum is sold out.
• 34:57
  Right.
• 34:57
  It's capped at a number
• 34:59
  that's nowhere near 70,000 people.
• 35:04
  And so like, I just,
• 35:05
  I don't get where they come
• 35:06
  up with the projection, but I guess I,
• 35:08
  I shouldn't trust CrossFit's math anyway.
• 35:14
  But I think just having it
• 35:15
  in a new location will
• 35:16
  bring up the attendance.
• 35:17
  Because once people had been in Madison,
• 35:19
  like, many years, people were like, okay,
• 35:20
  I've seen it.
• 35:21
  I'm good.
• 35:21
  I'll watch it from home or whatever.
• 35:23
  And having a new location
• 35:25
  can get people excited.
• 35:26
  People that, you know,
• 35:28
  are from that area of Texas
• 35:29
  that haven't been at, like, you know,
• 35:31
  the West Coast when it was
• 35:32
  in California or the
• 35:34
  Midwest in Wisconsin
• 35:35
  finally get their chance to
• 35:37
  show out here.
• 35:38
  I think you'll see more people.
• 35:41
  I hope so.
• 35:42
  I hope this one keeps growing.
• 35:43
  I just don't know how
• 35:44
  they're going to count them if it's,
• 35:47
  unless they have a,
• 35:47
  you don't have to have a
• 35:48
  ticket to get into any of
• 35:50
  this stuff outside now.
• 35:51
  So unless you have a gate
• 35:53
  with someone clicking,
• 35:54
  like I heard how you count the people.
• 35:56
  Yeah.
• 35:58
  I mean,
• 35:58
  you still have to have people that
• 36:00
  go through the security stuff every time.
• 36:02
  Like you're,
• 36:02
  you can't just show up at the
• 36:03
  event and not go through any security.
• 36:06
  Like you'd have to pass your bag and,
• 36:08
  and whatnot.
• 36:09
  So that's the one they're counting.
• 36:13
  Okay.
• 36:14
  It was something that
• 36:15
  baffled me in the stuff.
• 36:18
  And you both have said, my question was,
• 36:21
  is it a good move to open
• 36:23
  all of this to the public?
• 36:25
  And I think it is.
• 36:26
  I think it actually will
• 36:27
  give a Waterpalooza-esque
• 36:30
  feel to Vendor Village that
• 36:32
  the game's never had.
• 36:33
  I somewhat worry that it's
• 36:38
  going to be too busy.
• 36:43
  Even if it's far away from
• 36:44
  the venue or like, yeah.
• 36:48
  Well, I'll be honest.
• 36:49
  Like there's times where
• 36:50
  being in the beer garden,
• 36:51
  watching on that big screen
• 36:53
  is pretty freaking cool.
• 36:55
  Yeah.
• 36:56
  I mean, cause you have all this big crowd,
• 36:58
  you get the sense of being
• 37:00
  in the big crowd and you
• 37:02
  have this big TV where
• 37:03
  you're seeing everything.
• 37:07
  It's going to be,
• 37:08
  it's going to be interesting.
• 37:10
  Cause I do think a lot of
• 37:11
  people will take advantage of that.
• 37:17
  For sure.
• 37:19
  Lynn makes a great point.
• 37:20
  Too busy is great for vendors.
• 37:25
  Yeah, there comes a point.
• 37:27
  I mean,
• 37:28
  like if you're going and you're
• 37:30
  trying to experience these,
• 37:32
  like the community workout
• 37:34
  area or some of these
• 37:35
  activations and you can't
• 37:37
  get access to any of that,
• 37:39
  like there becomes a bit of
• 37:41
  frustration with that.
• 37:42
  And then do you keep
• 37:43
  attending stuff like this?
• 37:47
  Yeah.
• 37:48
  I think it's also going to
• 37:49
  be a big story is going to
• 37:52
  be what they have in the
• 37:53
  activations in that boulevard.
• 37:56
  Like,
• 37:57
  what are they doing there to attract
• 37:58
  people in?
• 38:01
  And it also says in the deck
• 38:03
  that they're going to have
• 38:04
  pre-planned breaks for
• 38:06
  people to be able to get up
• 38:08
  out of their seats at the
• 38:09
  arena and to go out and
• 38:10
  check out the activations,
• 38:12
  check out vendor village.
• 38:14
  Well,
• 38:14
  there's more time because there's no
• 38:16
  age group, um, athletes that are there.
• 38:19
  So,
• 38:19
  and Dave said that it doesn't
• 38:21
  necessarily mean they're
• 38:22
  adding more events.
• 38:23
  So those, you know,
• 38:24
  those times were the
• 38:26
  masters athletes or the
• 38:27
  teenage athletes were competing.
• 38:29
  I'm sure they'll have a few
• 38:30
  hours break so that people
• 38:31
  can go and shop and come back.
• 38:35
  Those prices that I think it
• 38:37
  was Spin that put out for the vendors,
• 38:39
  is that comparable to what
• 38:40
  it was in Madison?
• 38:41
  Do we know?
• 38:42
  Is that more expensive?
• 38:44
  It seems so expensive.
• 38:48
  It seemed more expensive to me.
• 38:49
  I thought I heard at one
• 38:51
  time that in Madison,
• 38:53
  a booth was $10,000 for the games.
• 38:58
  You're on mute, Jamie.
• 39:03
  Is what Halpin set up here is $35,000?
• 39:05
  Is that what they're charging this year?
• 39:09
  I would take Halpin at his
• 39:11
  word at this point.
• 39:12
  Here we go.
• 39:13
  So a 10x10 is $9,000.
• 39:14
  I've heard a 10x10 was $10,000 at Madison.
• 39:16
  A 10x20 is $19,500,
• 39:17
  and a 10x30 is $35,500.
• 39:29
  Oh, okay.
• 39:30
  The, the 10 by 30 is the 35.
• 39:33
  Yeah.
• 39:35
  So I'll just share this real
• 39:37
  quick so people can see it.
• 39:40
  Um,
• 39:40
  and this is from the bar best men
• 39:42
  article.
• 39:46
  There are three options.
• 39:50
  I'm trying to blow it up.
• 39:50
  There we go.
• 39:52
  And we don't have that list of, uh,
• 39:54
  vendors yet.
• 39:55
  Right.
• 39:56
  No, this was the deck to sell to vendors.
• 40:02
  So nowhere in here does it
• 40:03
  actually say who those vendors will be.
• 40:06
  Do we know if the space in
• 40:09
  terms of what they're looking to fill?
• 40:13
  I'm assuming it's going to
• 40:15
  be way more than Madison,
• 40:17
  but I could be wrong thinking that.
• 40:20
  you look at the mock-up of
• 40:21
  the I'll try to get to that
• 40:23
  too it looks like it's much
• 40:26
  bigger so here we go I
• 40:37
  think this so this is
• 40:39
  pretty much it and these
• 40:41
  big ones on the side are
• 40:42
  already not available
• 40:45
  But here are the different sizes.
• 40:47
  And that's a lot of vendor booths,
• 40:49
  a lot of 10 by 10s.
• 40:51
  With the beer garden smack
• 40:52
  dab in the middle, like right there.
• 40:56
  And a demo area right behind it.
• 41:02
  So that's going to attract
• 41:03
  some people in with the
• 41:04
  beer garden and the demo area.
• 41:07
  And then you have the bigger
• 41:08
  ones in back and then all
• 41:10
  of these 10 by 10s around
• 41:13
  the beer garden and the demo area.
• 41:17
  Yeah, that looks like a great setup.
• 41:19
  It's got to be enticing to
• 41:20
  some of these vendors.
• 41:21
  I just think you'd have to
• 41:23
  question the actual foot
• 41:25
  traffic without knowing ticket sales.
• 41:28
  Like, sure, you know,
• 41:30
  there's the 9,000 sold out,
• 41:31
  but it's almost like they
• 41:34
  should have sold like a $50
• 41:36
  festival pass so that you
• 41:42
  knew who was coming.
• 41:45
  I actually like that it's free.
• 41:46
  We need to attract guys.
• 41:48
  And I think that's more than,
• 41:50
  than the money you make off the 50 bucks.
• 41:53
  It's just going to be
• 41:54
  someone sitting there with
• 41:54
  a clicker as people walk in and,
• 41:57
  and then you're just going
• 41:57
  to be estimating.
• 41:58
  Cause you don't know who has
• 41:59
  a ticket and who doesn't.
• 42:02
  Um,
• 42:03
  but here's the spectator workout area
• 42:05
  right here below.
• 42:06
  I don't know if you can see that.
• 42:09
  Yeah.
• 42:10
  Yep.
• 42:11
  Um,
• 42:12
  And then the boulevard is
• 42:14
  off to the left of this.
• 42:15
  Let me see if I can.
• 42:17
  Here we go.
• 42:18
  So here's Dickie's.
• 42:20
  And then the boulevard is
• 42:22
  straight down this red line.
• 42:24
  And then that's the entrance
• 42:25
  to the vendor village and
• 42:28
  all of that right here.
• 42:31
  So this whole boulevard is
• 42:33
  going to be full of activations, misting,
• 42:36
  fans, all of that stuff.
• 42:43
  So not too far of a walk.
• 42:49
  It's going to be interesting.
• 42:51
  It's going to be different,
• 42:51
  and I think it's going to
• 42:52
  be interesting to see how
• 42:53
  it all plays out, right?
• 42:56
  And we've been asking for
• 42:57
  different and more ways to attract people,
• 43:00
  and I think they have
• 43:03
  responded with something.
• 43:07
  We'll see how it goes.
• 43:12
  So now let's move on to
• 43:14
  something near and dear to
• 43:16
  our very own Jamie Latimer,
• 43:20
  and that is the Barbell
• 43:22
  Spin also put out this week
• 43:24
  that they've talked to Masters athletes.
• 43:27
  You've actually...
• 43:28
  been talking to me about
• 43:29
  this for sure I think
• 43:31
  you've said it on the air
• 43:32
  as well that um that
• 43:36
  masters athletes are not
• 43:37
  happy with the kits that
• 43:39
  they are receiving for the
• 43:41
  masters crossfit games and
• 43:43
  the real the big deal here
• 43:45
  is that essentially you
• 43:47
  don't like the the choices
• 43:48
  you are given in addition
• 43:51
  to that there's only three
• 43:52
  complete outfits
• 43:55
  for 12 possible workouts for
• 43:57
  the weekend and not enough
• 43:59
  to even like the complaints
• 44:02
  are you're going to be
• 44:02
  doing laundry every single
• 44:03
  night trying to squeeze
• 44:04
  that in just to have clean
• 44:06
  clothes because you are
• 44:08
  required to wear the
• 44:09
  outfits are you are you
• 44:10
  required required to can't
• 44:13
  be on the floor can't I
• 44:15
  don't even think you can be
• 44:16
  out like I don't think you
• 44:21
  come out to the floor like at all
• 44:24
  i don't know I i don't know
• 44:25
  how they'll run that per se
• 44:28
  but like yeah you
• 44:28
  definitely can't get on get
• 44:30
  on the competition floor
• 44:30
  without your uniform on
• 44:32
  they've said but there's
• 44:33
  four days of competition in
• 44:34
  three outfits it makes no
• 44:35
  sense at least four outfits
• 44:39
  yeah like if you want to go
• 44:39
  in the cold tub or
• 44:40
  something after an event
• 44:43
  like that you're just
• 44:44
  drenched after yeah that's
• 44:47
  that's your that's your
• 44:48
  laundry that's your bath I
• 44:50
  guess is the cold tub
• 44:51
  And then you bring a
• 44:52
  different outfit for the
• 44:53
  next event and hope the
• 44:54
  other one dries and yeah,
• 44:56
  we're required to wear it.
• 45:01
  So I think this was either
• 45:04
  note from Lex or Carolyn.
• 45:09
  There's a significant influx
• 45:10
  of masters this year.
• 45:12
  Yes.
• 45:12
  Right?
• 45:14
  Is that what's hurting this?
• 45:17
  Now,
• 45:17
  instead of outfitting 10 per age group,
• 45:21
  now you're outfitting 300, 400 people.
• 45:27
  Yeah.
• 45:28
  I've said since they made
• 45:29
  the change that they made this too big.
• 45:33
  It's no longer... It's not as prestigious.
• 45:40
  And then you've watered it down with
• 45:44
  It's not the same experience at all.
• 45:49
  Yeah, they made it too big.
• 45:52
  Probably trying to make some
• 45:53
  money back off of a bunch
• 45:55
  of extra registration fees.
• 45:57
  And I mean, it is what it is.
• 46:05
  Beggars can't be choosers, I guess.
• 46:07
  And every comment I see,
• 46:09
  other than the people that are angry,
• 46:10
  are people like, boo-hoo you.
• 46:11
  Yeah.
• 46:16
  It's just it's it is hard to
• 46:18
  have had something that you
• 46:20
  were working for or the
• 46:21
  people like gone and got
• 46:23
  something and it just be
• 46:24
  like ripped away.
• 46:28
  John wants to know, Jamie,
• 46:29
  did you know if do you know
• 46:31
  if there are cuts?
• 46:31
  I do not know if there are cuts.
• 46:34
  I. I would be surprised if
• 46:37
  there's cuts without cuts.
• 46:40
  a heads up on that, but I don't know.
• 46:42
  They, yeah.
• 46:44
  Like in, like in 2019,
• 46:45
  when they had the cuts,
• 46:47
  I remember like the further you got,
• 46:49
  you got more uniforms.
• 46:50
  And like,
• 46:50
  that was like a motivation for me
• 46:51
  to be like, Oh,
• 46:52
  I want to make it to the next day.
• 46:53
  So I get a new set of outfits.
• 46:55
  Um, so they could do something like that.
• 46:57
  If they cut down,
• 46:57
  let's say a 20 on the last day,
• 46:59
  then those 20 get a special
• 47:01
  new outfit or something.
• 47:03
  They could, something that they could do.
• 47:07
  Yeah.
• 47:08
  And Jamie has actually had
• 47:10
  more beef with this than
• 47:11
  even what was put in the article.
• 47:13
  Because they're treating the
• 47:16
  Masters athletes like
• 47:17
  they're all in the 60 plus division.
• 47:21
  With the very long shorts.
• 47:24
  Am I quoting you correctly?
• 47:27
  Yeah.
• 47:28
  I want my booty shorts, dang it.
• 47:30
  I'm so the opposite.
• 47:32
  Give me those bike shorts.
• 47:34
  There's not an option.
• 47:36
  See,
• 47:36
  what I didn't like was that you guys
• 47:37
  have to wear crop tops for girls, right?
• 47:40
  yeah I hate that I hate two
• 47:42
  crop shirts and like one
• 47:45
  tank one normal thing I
• 47:46
  think yeah they count the
• 47:48
  sports bra probably as a
• 47:49
  jersey too right for you
• 47:50
  guys because most girls
• 47:51
  take off their shirt like I
• 47:52
  wouldn't like that because
• 47:53
  like I never take off my
• 47:54
  shirt I never wear a crop
• 47:55
  top I always wear like a
• 47:58
  t-shirt or like a tank top
• 48:00
  but not like a crop like a
• 48:01
  regular tank uh dex says
• 48:03
  he'll wear the biker shorts
• 48:08
  and he will crop everything
• 48:11
  Well, when you have a body like Dex,
• 48:14
  you know,
• 48:14
  you're willing to just let it
• 48:16
  all hang out.
• 48:19
  It's.
• 48:24
  I mean, I hate to complain about it.
• 48:26
  It's just like.
• 48:28
  Like you have the events
• 48:29
  like MFC and legends in the winter and.
• 48:36
  Those are the places where
• 48:38
  you go and get experience
• 48:40
  and you get a pair of
• 48:42
  shorts and a shirt and
• 48:43
  you're not forced to wear it,
• 48:44
  but you're getting something.
• 48:45
  Those are our master's mid-majors, right?
• 48:51
  When people sign up for Metcon Rush,
• 48:52
  they don't expect a kit.
• 48:53
  They're going there to get experience.
• 48:55
  They're going there to...
• 48:58
  You make the games and you expect...
• 49:02
  something for $330 and
• 49:06
  $2,000 of hotel room and $800 of flights.
• 49:10
  And I mean, you're,
• 49:12
  you're spending four or five grand for,
• 49:19
  you got,
• 49:19
  you got like four or five grand
• 49:21
  of kit stuff in the past that like,
• 49:24
  I see in your notes,
• 49:24
  you said something about shoes.
• 49:25
  I'm actually happy.
• 49:26
  They're not even messing with the shoes,
• 49:28
  but I,
• 49:29
  I probably could have sold
• 49:30
  all my Noble shoes last
• 49:32
  year if I would have made
• 49:33
  it and made my entry fee back.
• 49:36
  There's options there.
• 49:40
  I did like the stuff when
• 49:41
  they gave it to us at semifinals.
• 49:42
  They treated us really nice there.
• 49:44
  It looked good on the judges
• 49:46
  and everything,
• 49:46
  but it's just not enough if
• 49:47
  it's the Masters games.
• 49:50
  Didn't you guys get three outfits?
• 49:53
  Uh, yeah, it was,
• 49:55
  we are getting what you
• 49:56
  guys got at semifinals.
• 49:57
  Like don't even a supply it
• 49:59
  for semifinals and spend
• 50:00
  that budget on actually
• 50:02
  providing us with enough clothes.
• 50:03
  Like,
• 50:03
  I don't understand how the games
• 50:05
  athletes are getting what
• 50:06
  your semifinals athletes got.
• 50:08
  Like I asked for, uh, like unisex t-shirts,
• 50:12
  but they didn't make small for the men.
• 50:14
  So I was given a medium.
• 50:16
  So I just, had I gone to small,
• 50:18
  I would have worn it.
• 50:18
  It's like a little bit baggy, which I mean,
• 50:21
  I could have worn, but, um,
• 50:24
  So you might be able to
• 50:24
  switch some styles out and
• 50:26
  say that you don't want
• 50:27
  long shorts and you only
• 50:28
  want the booty shorts.
• 50:30
  Same with you, Dex.
• 50:31
  You can ask for the booty shorts.
• 50:36
  Larry Young says... I'm sorry.
• 50:39
  Go ahead.
• 50:40
  Put the one you wanted.
• 50:42
  I lost it.
• 50:42
  It went bye-bye.
• 50:44
  There's so many comments
• 50:44
  right now about Reebok
• 50:45
  colors that I lost it.
• 50:48
  No, it was Larry Young.
• 50:50
  Okay.
• 50:51
  I get it.
• 50:52
  I liked the Reebok colors back then.
• 50:54
  I did too.
• 50:54
  I loved it.
• 50:55
  It was cool.
• 50:56
  It's this one.
• 50:59
  I found it.
• 51:00
  They take the Masters for granted.
• 51:01
  And if you look at recent statistics,
• 51:03
  without the Masters, it's over.
• 51:05
  They waste money on everyone
• 51:07
  who doesn't care.
• 51:08
  Invest in the people that do care.
• 51:12
  All right.
• 51:13
  Now you had John somewhere.
• 51:14
  Here we go.
• 51:16
  Dang it.
• 51:20
  I think if three outfits is
• 51:22
  all they want to give y'all,
• 51:23
  then it should just be
• 51:24
  optional to wear them or not.
• 51:26
  Most people would still wear
• 51:27
  them during at least three events.
• 51:30
  Agreed.
• 51:31
  Every time you read it,
• 51:33
  I read it in John Young's like voice.
• 51:35
  I can't help it.
• 51:36
  Like I'm like thinking about
• 51:37
  just like y'all like all
• 51:39
  the passion behind that statement.
• 51:41
  Yeah.
• 51:44
  MFC, one year,
• 51:46
  asked everyone to wear...
• 51:48
  Because I think they only
• 51:49
  gave two shorts and two shirts.
• 51:52
  They just said, hey,
• 51:54
  this event is the one that
• 51:55
  we're trying to like stream
• 51:57
  or whatever they're doing.
• 51:58
  Please wear it for this event.
• 51:59
  And I think everyone complied.
• 52:00
  And if they said that, like, hey,
• 52:03
  we have these three floor events, Friday,
• 52:06
  Saturday and Sunday.
• 52:08
  Those are the ones where
• 52:09
  like we are enforce us.
• 52:11
  I don't care.
• 52:11
  Say event seven, event three,
• 52:14
  seven and nine.
• 52:14
  You must be in your uniforms.
• 52:17
  it for broadcast for whatnot.
• 52:20
  Cool.
• 52:20
  But like beyond picking three,
• 52:23
  because you are failing to
• 52:24
  provide more than three, that's gotta be,
• 52:26
  that's gotta be the
• 52:27
  athlete's choice at that point.
• 52:29
  I like that.
• 52:29
  That would be good.
• 52:31
  Like one each day that, you know,
• 52:33
  whether it's the first
• 52:34
  event of each day or some sort of event,
• 52:38
  that'd be good.
• 52:39
  So Dex says,
• 52:41
  and this is just to
• 52:41
  encapsulate everything
• 52:43
  that's just been said in
• 52:44
  the comments about colors and all that,
• 52:46
  Reebok apparel was poo-poo.
• 52:48
  My response to that is,
• 52:49
  it may have been poo-poo,
• 52:50
  but I could tell what
• 52:51
  athlete was who on the
• 52:53
  floor because of the
• 52:54
  combination they wore during that event.
• 52:56
  Because Reebok gave you so
• 52:58
  many varieties of different
• 53:00
  colored shirts and bottoms
• 53:02
  and bras and tanks,
• 53:04
  and I could tell who was
• 53:05
  who on the floor.
• 53:07
  these last couple years it
• 53:09
  is tough you're like well
• 53:12
  that body type I think it's
• 53:18
  I don't even know that
• 53:18
  you're gonna be able to
• 53:20
  even see body type in the
• 53:22
  outfits that we have really
• 53:23
  like they're not that baggy
• 53:28
  they're not flattering some
• 53:30
  people make them look good
• 53:31
  I'm sure I'm gonna look
• 53:32
  like a box out there so
• 53:35
  Dex said they gave so much back then,
• 53:37
  he wrote it off on his taxes.
• 53:43
  Must be nice, Dex.
• 53:44
  Rub it in.
• 53:47
  Well,
• 53:47
  now I know what riff I'm going to
• 53:49
  clip this week.
• 53:51
  Because I'm going to look
• 53:51
  like a box out there.
• 53:53
  That's the line.
• 53:57
  I like their stuff, though.
• 53:59
  That was good.
• 54:01
  I have yet to feel it.
• 54:04
  Um, which is also,
• 54:05
  that's another thing that's
• 54:06
  like scary to me.
• 54:07
  Like we're pretty,
• 54:09
  athletes are pretty
• 54:10
  particular in the stuff they wear.
• 54:13
  Um, I didn't like their sports bra.
• 54:15
  That's the only thing I felt
• 54:15
  like it was like wider than normal.
• 54:18
  Yeah.
• 54:20
  And I think it's one style
• 54:21
  to each their own.
• 54:22
  Like some, it could be, you know,
• 54:23
  I didn't particularly like that,
• 54:24
  but someone else could.
• 54:25
  So that's clothing for you.
• 54:31
  So I think we've pounded that one home.
• 54:35
  Masters need more.
• 54:38
  Masters need more clothes.
• 54:40
  A lot of comments were,
• 54:42
  y'all going to end up naked
• 54:43
  by the end of the weekend
• 54:44
  because there's nothing left.
• 54:47
  I think that was Sarah Cooper.
• 54:50
  Wonderful.
• 54:52
  And Lynn's in agreement with me,
• 54:54
  which I love.
• 54:55
  I like the gear to identify
• 54:57
  the athletes during streaming.
• 54:58
  Yes.
• 55:02
  so uh why is dex in a speedo
• 55:06
  will be the question at the
• 55:07
  way oh god I miss you
• 55:14
  brother larry I agree I do
• 55:16
  like that they stepped up
• 55:17
  to sponsor I just and I i
• 55:20
  do feel like I'm on them
• 55:22
  and it's unfair but it's
• 55:25
  again don't take on the
• 55:27
  semi-finals don't like
• 55:28
  think about what you're
• 55:29
  doing and still making it
• 55:32
  prestigious for the masters.
• 55:34
  Otherwise just get rid of us.
• 55:36
  Like,
• 55:36
  I don't know why we're half-assing
• 55:38
  this event.
• 55:39
  Like we could just do our
• 55:40
  events like MFC and legends
• 55:42
  could just stay legends.
• 55:43
  And you can't say you're
• 55:46
  doing the games and then
• 55:47
  change it completely.
• 55:50
  Yeah.
• 55:51
  I think the biggest mistake
• 55:53
  was it shouldn't have moved to 40.
• 55:55
  And I know that's going to
• 55:56
  piss Dex off because then Dex is out.
• 55:59
  But 10 was way too small.
• 56:01
  40 is way too big.
• 56:04
  Yep.
• 56:05
  There's a happy in between
• 56:06
  there that better fits this event.
• 56:08
  Yes.
• 56:09
  30 for the 35 to 39.
• 56:10
  Like 20 to 30 there.
• 56:10
  And then the rest of them are basically...
• 56:17
  Maybe 20 next, and then it's 10.
• 56:19
  And then the upper ones, five.
• 56:21
  Five.
• 56:23
  Yeah.
• 56:23
  Yeah.
• 56:24
  Again,
• 56:25
  that's where MFC and Legends come
• 56:28
  into play.
• 56:29
  If you're 20 to 40, go to those events.
• 56:32
  Get more experience and earn your way up.
• 56:34
  I agree.
• 56:39
  All right.
• 56:40
  So the next topic was
• 56:42
  inspired by John Young and
• 56:45
  in our conversation saying
• 56:47
  that rivalries are good and
• 56:48
  we should embrace them.
• 56:50
  And so what I wanted to talk
• 56:52
  about is do we need more
• 56:54
  rivalries in CrossFit?
• 56:57
  And my opinion is from my
• 57:00
  perspective is the men,
• 57:02
  they're coming with rivalries.
• 57:04
  We've got them all over the map.
• 57:07
  And it's going to make the
• 57:09
  men's games super fun to
• 57:11
  watch because of that.
• 57:13
  But we don't seem to have
• 57:15
  them as much on the women's side.
• 57:17
  And so I want to oppose that to you.
• 57:20
  Have we ever had a good women's rivalry?
• 57:29
  I can't think of many.
• 57:30
  I think maybe Cara and Tia
• 57:32
  would be one that would come to mind.
• 57:34
  Just coming from the same region,
• 57:36
  they were back and forth at finish.
• 57:41
  I don't know how close they are together.
• 57:43
  I feel like they're fine with each other,
• 57:45
  but there hasn't been much
• 57:49
  on the women's side.
• 57:51
  Yeah, I mean,
• 57:52
  me versus Semenza for hockey was great,
• 57:55
  but we... Wisco won, though.
• 57:59
  Is it a rivalry, though,
• 58:00
  when you dominate the other side?
• 58:03
  No,
• 58:03
  but Ohio State won against Wisconsin
• 58:07
  this year in the finals.
• 58:08
  Yeah, but you weren't playing then.
• 58:09
  No.
• 58:10
  When you were playing,
• 58:11
  it was a domination.
• 58:13
  And Paige will admit that.
• 58:14
  Yeah.
• 58:17
  But I think that's part of the problem,
• 58:19
  right,
• 58:19
  is Tia has not let anybody be her
• 58:22
  rival for seven years.
• 58:25
  Right.
• 58:26
  No,
• 58:26
  because we're just working out with her
• 58:28
  basically.
• 58:28
  Like it's her for so long
• 58:30
  and then the rest of us are
• 58:32
  competing after that.
• 58:34
  I think the best rivalry,
• 58:36
  the most recent rivalry
• 58:37
  we've had is Tia and Katrin.
• 58:41
  The two years Tia was second
• 58:43
  and Katrin won.
• 58:48
  Those were close.
• 58:49
  You could even throw Sarah in there.
• 58:51
  It was more of a three-way.
• 58:54
  They came down to the last
• 58:55
  events a couple times.
• 58:59
  They don't talk the smack
• 59:01
  that's going on now.
• 59:02
  I saw a little bit of it.
• 59:06
  You know how Jason Hopper is
• 59:08
  with Dallin and everything?
• 59:09
  Between Ariel and Daniel Brandon,
• 59:12
  they're friendly chirping.
• 59:14
  I think they were trying to
• 59:16
  be like a girl version of it
• 59:18
  maybe but I think they
• 59:20
  they've stopped but it
• 59:21
  could have been fun between
• 59:22
  those two like that would
• 59:23
  be that would be a good
• 59:24
  battle because I feel like
• 59:25
  it's a good match yeah and
• 59:28
  they're great friends so
• 59:29
  it's like you know that
• 59:30
  hopper and and gallon type
• 59:32
  I hope they bring it to the
• 59:34
  games because you did see
• 59:36
  it like when ariel did the
• 59:38
  open announcement yeah and
• 59:39
  that was there with signs
• 59:41
  um like that was awesome
• 59:44
  And I think we need more of that.
• 59:46
  And I think Laura would be a
• 59:47
  trash talker in the right situation.
• 59:52
  But she has to hang with Tia
• 59:53
  to make it work.
• 59:55
  Right.
• 59:56
  She can hang.
• 59:57
  She's good.
• 1:00:00
  And I hope we get that this
• 1:00:01
  year because I think that
• 1:00:02
  will elevate the sport.
• 1:00:04
  I think the men's side this
• 1:00:05
  year is freakish.
• 1:00:08
  You've got Jeff and Roman.
• 1:00:09
  You've got Dallin and Roman.
• 1:00:11
  You've got Dallin and Jeff.
• 1:00:12
  You've got Dallin and Hopper.
• 1:00:15
  The best shit talker is Pat Belner.
• 1:00:18
  When he wants to,
• 1:00:20
  he has some great
• 1:00:21
  one-liners and he's great.
• 1:00:24
  He's always in the mix.
• 1:00:26
  Well,
• 1:00:26
  and then you had two people wanting to,
• 1:00:28
  like Dex brought up,
• 1:00:29
  two people wanting to fight
• 1:00:29
  after the bike event last year.
• 1:00:31
  I mean, Medeiros and Lazar.
• 1:00:35
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:00:40
  You guys probably have not
• 1:00:41
  seen the behind the scenes of West Coast,
• 1:00:43
  the second episode this morning.
• 1:00:45
  I watched it this morning.
• 1:00:47
  There's a moment where
• 1:00:49
  Savannah is interviewing Pat,
• 1:00:51
  and Pat's like,
• 1:00:51
  I didn't even win the event.
• 1:00:52
  Go talk to Colton.
• 1:00:54
  He won.
• 1:00:54
  Wait, you always talk to Colton.
• 1:00:56
  Stay here.
• 1:00:56
  I deserve some love.
• 1:00:59
  That's great.
• 1:01:03
  It was probably the highlight of the whole,
• 1:01:05
  because you know he means it.
• 1:01:09
  Yeah.
• 1:01:10
  I think the thing with the guys,
• 1:01:12
  other than Justin and Lazar,
• 1:01:16
  I feel like everyone else
• 1:01:19
  is actually friends,
• 1:01:20
  and it's funny banter.
• 1:01:22
  That's the problem with women,
• 1:01:25
  is they either will
• 1:01:28
  actually hate each other,
• 1:01:29
  and I feel like that's kind of where...
• 1:01:32
  the question was with Emma
• 1:01:33
  Carey and Danielle Brandon, like,
• 1:01:35
  is there actual animosity here?
• 1:01:37
  And you could like feel that
• 1:01:38
  tension on the floor and
• 1:01:39
  the year that's going to be your rivalry.
• 1:01:41
  Like it's going to be awkward with women.
• 1:01:43
  It's there's not, they're just personal.
• 1:01:45
  It's more,
• 1:01:45
  I feel like girls take it more
• 1:01:47
  personal in general.
• 1:01:49
  Right.
• 1:01:50
  Like they'll be like, Oh, it's jokes.
• 1:01:51
  But then they'll be like, I remember that.
• 1:01:52
  Yeah.
• 1:01:53
  Yeah.
• 1:01:56
  Yeah.
• 1:01:58
  There's comments in here about, like,
• 1:01:59
  women taking it too seriously.
• 1:02:00
  Yep.
• 1:02:02
  Right?
• 1:02:02
  And the men,
• 1:02:04
  you can tell it's in jest most
• 1:02:06
  of the time.
• 1:02:07
  Yes.
• 1:02:11
  It's a shame that culturally
• 1:02:13
  it's allowed to kind of be
• 1:02:15
  where for the men it's okay
• 1:02:17
  and for the women it's catty.
• 1:02:20
  It shouldn't be that way.
• 1:02:22
  Women should be able to have
• 1:02:23
  just as much fun doing it.
• 1:02:25
  And Danielle and Ariel
• 1:02:26
  showed that it can be done
• 1:02:28
  in a tasteful way.
• 1:02:30
  I think, I think they,
• 1:02:31
  they did a good job.
• 1:02:32
  And like, I, I would like, um,
• 1:02:34
  DM them and be like, I like, I like it.
• 1:02:36
  Keep going, like run with it.
• 1:02:38
  Um, yeah, because guys do it and it's,
• 1:02:42
  you know,
• 1:02:42
  they're confident girls do it
• 1:02:44
  and we're cocky.
• 1:02:45
  Um, like it's,
• 1:02:46
  it's just the way it's
• 1:02:47
  sometimes that things can
• 1:02:48
  get looked at and, um,
• 1:02:52
  that's how the society is a lot of times.
• 1:02:56
  I come from the attitude era
• 1:02:57
  of wrestling and cocky is cool to me.
• 1:03:02
  That's why I was a big Rock fan.
• 1:03:05
  Back when he was a wrestler,
• 1:03:06
  I loved The Rock because he
• 1:03:08
  was flat-out cocky.
• 1:03:10
  And I love that stuff.
• 1:03:16
  And I think we've missed it.
• 1:03:19
  in this sport.
• 1:03:20
  When it's been there,
• 1:03:21
  it has elevated the sport.
• 1:03:23
  The thing is it needs to be
• 1:03:24
  from the top because if the
• 1:03:25
  rivalry is from the 20th places,
• 1:03:28
  it's not relevant.
• 1:03:29
  Like John Young said earlier,
• 1:03:31
  Tia has been in a league of
• 1:03:34
  her own and Laura's in a
• 1:03:35
  league of her own.
• 1:03:36
  normally like right after
• 1:03:37
  for the last few years so
• 1:03:39
  like we want to see it from
• 1:03:40
  the top people and on the
• 1:03:41
  men's side we are seeing it
• 1:03:43
  and it's not from you know
• 1:03:44
  people down the leaderboard
• 1:03:45
  it's from the top 10. so
• 1:03:47
  that's what's making it
• 1:03:48
  even more interesting even
• 1:03:49
  more captivating for us so
• 1:03:51
  unless like those top girls
• 1:03:55
  start you know going back
• 1:03:56
  and forth I just I mean I
• 1:03:57
  hope to see it it's fun I
• 1:03:59
  love it I mean I come from
• 1:04:00
  a hockey sport which people
• 1:04:02
  chirp all the time
• 1:04:04
  Yeah,
• 1:04:04
  cocky for women is amazing if you can
• 1:04:06
  back it up.
• 1:04:10
  Well said.
• 1:04:18
  Also,
• 1:04:19
  do you think the rivalries are a U.S.
• 1:04:20
  thing because of Europeans
• 1:04:21
  and Asia and Africa?
• 1:04:23
  I don't think it's a thing,
• 1:04:25
  just culturally.
• 1:04:27
  So how would that translate globally?
• 1:04:30
  I do think there's European
• 1:04:31
  rivalries for sure.
• 1:04:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:04:34
  Um,
• 1:04:36
  it's definitely easier to have a
• 1:04:37
  rivalry when you compete
• 1:04:38
  more often against each other.
• 1:04:39
  So it's a natural robbery
• 1:04:42
  that will happen in North
• 1:04:43
  America versus in Europe when they go to,
• 1:04:45
  you know, multiple events in Europe,
• 1:04:47
  like you start competing
• 1:04:47
  against those people and now you're,
• 1:04:50
  you're beating them in certain comps,
• 1:04:51
  they're beating you and
• 1:04:52
  you're starting to, you know,
• 1:04:53
  go back and forth, but.
• 1:04:58
  Emily Rolfe should get, look at Tia,
• 1:05:00
  give her a fake silver
• 1:05:01
  medal before the run.
• 1:05:03
  If she beats her, she's a legend.
• 1:05:08
  Or Alex Kazan hand her a
• 1:05:10
  fake silver medal before
• 1:05:11
  legless rope climbs.
• 1:05:14
  It's still risky.
• 1:05:19
  Um,
• 1:05:23
  I agree with that.
• 1:05:24
  I think we create the
• 1:05:25
  narrative with Euro rivalries.
• 1:05:27
  They don't give a shit about
• 1:05:28
  each other in that regard
• 1:05:30
  unless someone cheats.
• 1:05:36
  So yeah.
• 1:05:39
  Anyway, I just thought about that.
• 1:05:41
  I thought like every time
• 1:05:45
  that's just another way for
• 1:05:46
  people to beat me, John.
• 1:05:47
  I think this is a great idea though.
• 1:05:53
  I do like this idea of, you know,
• 1:05:56
  North America West versus
• 1:05:57
  the East versus Canada.
• 1:05:59
  Cause I won't say North America.
• 1:06:00
  Let's go USA West East.
• 1:06:03
  I think Canada can have her
• 1:06:04
  like their own team.
• 1:06:07
  Oceana is ridiculous.
• 1:06:10
  Yeah.
• 1:06:10
  We're team world team Europe.
• 1:06:12
  This is, that's a great idea.
• 1:06:13
  You start cheering for people within your,
• 1:06:16
  your region.
• 1:06:18
  I like that.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah,
• 1:06:22
  what they're doing with Heat One is
• 1:06:23
  awesome.
• 1:06:23
  I just wish I could get all
• 1:06:24
  my picks in in a weekend.
• 1:06:26
  Just one time.
• 1:06:29
  Without having to do them all on Thursday.
• 1:06:31
  You just have to do them
• 1:06:33
  each night right before you go to bed.
• 1:06:35
  They need to switch it so
• 1:06:36
  you can't just use Tia the whole time.
• 1:06:39
  Agree.
• 1:06:40
  It could be no more than two
• 1:06:42
  plays or something.
• 1:06:44
  If there's six athletes per team,
• 1:06:46
  let's call it three in case...
• 1:06:49
  Cause six times two would be
• 1:06:50
  12 events and there could
• 1:06:52
  be more than 12 events.
• 1:06:53
  So no more than three plays.
• 1:06:57
  Yeah.
• 1:06:58
  But you've been like when
• 1:06:59
  we're on the road,
• 1:07:00
  like we're shutting down the show at 10,
• 1:07:02
  11 o'clock at night.
• 1:07:04
  Sometimes we have,
• 1:07:05
  we're eating as we're starting the show.
• 1:07:08
  Like it's, it's just craziness.
• 1:07:11
  I try to do it right before
• 1:07:12
  I close my eyes.
• 1:07:15
  Yeah.
• 1:07:17
  I need to set an alarm.
• 1:07:18
  Yeah.
• 1:07:21
  So John says they've got it
• 1:07:23
  all figured out.
• 1:07:24
  Just hasn't come out yet.
• 1:07:26
  Awesome.
• 1:07:27
  Cool.
• 1:07:29
  So then I just have some quick hitters.
• 1:07:32
  These are not things we're
• 1:07:33
  going to dwell on a long time,
• 1:07:34
  but just some quick hit notes that I saw.
• 1:07:37
  And that is first is prize
• 1:07:39
  money was announced this
• 1:07:41
  week and it's remaining the
• 1:07:43
  same for everybody except adaptive.
• 1:07:47
  Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  Any, any thoughts?
• 1:07:53
  Adapted, they added more divisions.
• 1:07:55
  So that's a positive for
• 1:07:57
  for that community.
• 1:07:58
  Obviously,
• 1:07:58
  unfortunate that their prize
• 1:08:00
  purse is going down, but I think overall,
• 1:08:02
  people in that community
• 1:08:04
  would want to have more
• 1:08:05
  people represented.
• 1:08:06
  So I think that part is good.
• 1:08:08
  To have it match with losing Noble,
• 1:08:10
  I think is a good sign that
• 1:08:12
  GORUCK and whatever else
• 1:08:14
  for sponsor were at least
• 1:08:15
  able to match in their first year.
• 1:08:18
  We'll see what happens from
• 1:08:19
  here on out and how fast
• 1:08:21
  those payments will come after the games,
• 1:08:24
  but
• 1:08:26
  At least we're not going down.
• 1:08:28
  Yeah.
• 1:08:29
  Yeah.
• 1:08:30
  I did see some comments
• 1:08:33
  about taking some of the prize money,
• 1:08:37
  like from first and making
• 1:08:38
  instead of 315 or whatever it is,
• 1:08:42
  and making it like 215 and
• 1:08:44
  get a paid group of judges
• 1:08:47
  that are trained and good
• 1:08:51
  on the floor in the moment.
• 1:08:52
  And I don't know how I feel about that.
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  But I do think the judges
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  work hard and there are
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  good ones out there and
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  they should be rewarded for
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  being the good ones they
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  are and find a way to not
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  let some of those that
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  maybe have graded out
• 1:09:08
  differently from being on the floor.
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  Aren't the games judges all seminar staff?
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  Theoretically, yeah.
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  So like, I mean,
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  aren't they already kind of getting paid?
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  So what I don't know about
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  the seminar staff is if
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  they're graded as judges.
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  Because to be a seminar
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  staff member is one thing.
• 1:09:30
  To be a judge on the floor
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  is something different.
• 1:09:36
  And they should have some kind of a, well,
• 1:09:39
  I know they paid the
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  seminar staff judges.
• 1:09:42
  But like for the teams,
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  it won't be seminar staff.
• 1:09:45
  It will be the volunteers.
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  Who cares?
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  I care.
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  I care.
• 1:09:52
  No, you don't.
• 1:09:53
  I care because they don't
• 1:09:54
  put the right... Just
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  because you can teach a
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  movement doesn't mean you
• 1:09:58
  can judge a movement.
• 1:09:59
  I agree.
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  At high speed.
• 1:10:01
  I agree.
• 1:10:05
  They put a lot of credence in that,
• 1:10:06
  and I think it's misguided.
• 1:10:09
  I still would like to see...
• 1:10:11
  Let's say you were going to
• 1:10:12
  bring down the money of the first place,
• 1:10:15
  which, I mean, that sucks,
• 1:10:16
  but I still feel like that
• 1:10:18
  middle ground doesn't get paid enough.
• 1:10:20
  Like,
• 1:10:21
  you go through the whole
• 1:10:22
  season and you're a top,
• 1:10:24
  let's say top 10 or top 15
• 1:10:25
  athlete at the games,
• 1:10:26
  which is you're a stud.
• 1:10:29
  And the most you'll make
• 1:10:31
  within semifinal and the
• 1:10:33
  games is like less than, I don't know,
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  40,000 maybe between both
• 1:10:40
  of them to combine like,
• 1:10:43
  plus you're taxed on it.
• 1:10:44
  Like that's not a full-time job.
• 1:10:47
  I mean, people have sponsorships,
• 1:10:49
  but I'd like to see some.
• 1:10:50
  I mean,
• 1:10:51
  it's good that finally from the
• 1:10:53
  worst place they're getting
• 1:10:55
  paid now because for a long
• 1:10:55
  time they weren't getting anything.
• 1:10:57
  But I'd like to see a little
• 1:10:59
  bit more for those,
• 1:11:01
  let's call it at least
• 1:11:02
  those top 20 at least need
• 1:11:04
  to get a little bit more.
• 1:11:09
  The volunteers are paid in
• 1:11:10
  old merchandise from
• 1:11:11
  previous year's games.
• 1:11:12
  They are.
• 1:11:13
  And a challenge coin.
• 1:11:16
  And usually a pair of shoes
• 1:11:16
  that just hurt.
• 1:11:27
  I used to agree with you, Scott,
• 1:11:28
  but if you notice,
• 1:11:29
  there's been less
• 1:11:29
  controversy surrounding
• 1:11:31
  seminar judges than the
• 1:11:32
  volunteer judges from semis, for example.
• 1:11:38
  I guess I don't know who's
• 1:11:38
  who because there was some
• 1:11:39
  atrocious judging.
• 1:11:43
  At semifinals?
• 1:11:45
  Yeah, those are the volunteer judges.
• 1:11:48
  Some of our staff only do the games.
• 1:11:50
  Okay,
• 1:11:50
  so maybe we need to take the money
• 1:11:52
  and put it towards paying
• 1:11:53
  semis so that actual
• 1:11:56
  correct athletes make it through.
• 1:12:00
  I don't disagree.
• 1:12:02
  Because I think for the most
• 1:12:03
  part of the games, for the most part,
• 1:12:05
  it's well judged, I would say.
• 1:12:10
  For the individuals, for the most part.
• 1:12:15
  Okay.
• 1:12:16
  The year that Boz did all
• 1:12:17
  the programming and with
• 1:12:19
  the wall facing and the
• 1:12:20
  brick with the hole and the
• 1:12:23
  crossovers and there was a lot of stuff.
• 1:12:26
  But it was a lot of new
• 1:12:27
  stuff thrown at everybody last minute.
• 1:12:29
  Make it easy on the judges.
• 1:12:31
  You're making it tough on the judges.
• 1:12:33
  You got people's hair that
• 1:12:35
  are going over the line and
• 1:12:37
  it's hard to see whether it
• 1:12:38
  was the head going to the,
• 1:12:39
  like past that line on the block or,
• 1:12:41
  or the hair,
• 1:12:42
  like just make it easy on the judges,
• 1:12:44
  pick movements that are
• 1:12:45
  going to be easy to judge
• 1:12:47
  and let the athletes race.
• 1:12:50
  Yeah.
• 1:12:51
  I think that the more
• 1:12:52
  simplified straight
• 1:12:54
  CrossFit workouts we get, the easier,
• 1:12:56
  the better the judges will do.
• 1:13:01
  But
• 1:13:04
  so uh okay uh the
• 1:13:08
  wadapalooza socal tickets
• 1:13:09
  are on sale how much uh
• 1:13:13
  they're not cheap um I know
• 1:13:16
  the vip tickets are like
• 1:13:17
  400 bucks but they come
• 1:13:19
  with food but all you can
• 1:13:21
  drink beverages um private
• 1:13:23
  bathrooms um and premiere
• 1:13:27
  seating on all floors wow
• 1:13:32
  And then the regular tickets, I think,
• 1:13:35
  are about $100 and something, I think.
• 1:13:39
  I'm going by memory.
• 1:13:40
  I saw the Instagram post.
• 1:13:45
  The VIP looked like worth it
• 1:13:47
  to me because of all-day food,
• 1:13:50
  all-day drink.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah.
• 1:13:53
  Private bathrooms.
• 1:13:56
  Access to air-conditioned bathrooms.
• 1:13:57
  Yeah.
• 1:13:59
  Which is a big deal in the hot sun.
• 1:14:02
  So I thought that was pretty cool.
• 1:14:08
  The other thing we have is Uplift shirts.
• 1:14:10
  Uplift has announced their
• 1:14:11
  new shirts for this year.
• 1:14:13
  I don't know if you saw those.
• 1:14:17
  Trying to pull it up real quick here.
• 1:14:18
  It's got the like camo, right?
• 1:14:23
  Yeah,
• 1:14:24
  he tagged me and now I can't find it.
• 1:14:29
  Okay.
• 1:14:31
  Let me search.
• 1:14:35
  There we go.
• 1:14:38
  Let me share my screen.
• 1:14:49
  There they are.
• 1:14:50
  So I don't know if you can see.
• 1:14:53
  Those are, those are look nice.
• 1:14:54
  Yeah.
• 1:15:12
  They've got Boz programming
• 1:15:13
  this year's workout on Labor Day weekend.
• 1:15:16
  So make sure you go sign up.
• 1:15:18
  Do that WOD in honor of
• 1:15:21
  suicide prevention and you
• 1:15:22
  get a shirt commemorating it with it.
• 1:15:26
  So super cool this year.
• 1:15:28
  Do you want to post the link
• 1:15:29
  in the comments maybe or something after?
• 1:15:34
  Yeah, I'll do that after the show.
• 1:15:36
  I'll put those in the
• 1:15:37
  comments or I can do it now, I guess.
• 1:15:41
  Sure.
• 1:15:44
  Yeah, I'll do it.
• 1:15:46
  Too much going on right now.
• 1:15:48
  I'll put them in the
• 1:15:49
  comments right after the show.
• 1:15:50
  So make sure you check there.
• 1:15:55
  And back to this.
• 1:15:58
  And finally, we have Metcon Rush.
• 1:16:01
  They've announced their
• 1:16:03
  workouts for this year.
• 1:16:05
  Looks like a fun competition.
• 1:16:08
  And pretty much...
• 1:16:10
  Other than Carolyn,
• 1:16:11
  everybody who didn't make
• 1:16:12
  the games this year is at this event.
• 1:16:17
  So Nick Matthew, Freya Mooseburger,
• 1:16:20
  I think Paige Powers is there.
• 1:16:21
  It is a who's who lineup
• 1:16:26
  pretty much of all those athletes.
• 1:16:29
  So it's in Hagerstown, Maryland.
• 1:16:32
  They put on a great show.
• 1:16:34
  You should go check that out.
• 1:16:35
  It is really, really a cool event.
• 1:16:41
  I like the events.
• 1:16:44
  Yeah.
• 1:16:46
  They look fun.
• 1:16:47
  I think I looked at them and
• 1:16:49
  was glad I didn't sign up.
• 1:16:50
  See, I was like, crap,
• 1:16:52
  I should have signed up.
• 1:16:52
  These are much better than
• 1:16:53
  my semifinal workouts.
• 1:16:56
  I like them.
• 1:16:57
  Yeah.
• 1:16:58
  So a couple things real quick just is...
• 1:17:03
  In the comments,
• 1:17:05
  we do a listener question of the week.
• 1:17:07
  If you have a question for us,
• 1:17:08
  make sure you drop that in the comments,
• 1:17:11
  not the chat, but the comments,
• 1:17:13
  and we'll go through the
• 1:17:13
  questions and bring one of
• 1:17:15
  those up next week for us to talk about.
• 1:17:19
  In addition to that,
• 1:17:20
  this is a new concept.
• 1:17:22
  We're getting big on our riffs,
• 1:17:26
  and I want to put this out to the crowd.
• 1:17:28
  If you have a riff that you
• 1:17:30
  want us to hear about,
• 1:17:33
  Record your riff,
• 1:17:35
  make it two minutes or less, DM it to me,
• 1:17:38
  and if it's good and PG,
• 1:17:42
  we will play it on the show,
• 1:17:45
  and then we'll respond to your riff.
• 1:17:49
  but why should we have all
• 1:17:51
  the fun riffing about
• 1:17:53
  what's going on in the CrossFit space?
• 1:17:55
  Let's give you the option,
• 1:17:57
  the opportunity to make your own riff.
• 1:18:00
  Just take your iPhone or
• 1:18:01
  your Android device,
• 1:18:03
  record yourself a video and
• 1:18:05
  drop it in a DM to me,
• 1:18:08
  or I will give you my email address.
• 1:18:10
  I think you can only put one
• 1:18:11
  minute on Instagram.
• 1:18:14
  So you might have to,
• 1:18:14
  or they can put on YouTube.
• 1:18:17
  They can do it unlisted on
• 1:18:17
  YouTube and give you a link.
• 1:18:20
  That's true.
• 1:18:21
  And I can make a version for
• 1:18:23
  Instagram that's longer than two minutes.
• 1:18:26
  Yeah,
• 1:18:26
  my riff last week with John was well
• 1:18:29
  longer than two minutes.
• 1:18:30
  I meant more like if you try
• 1:18:31
  to send it through a DM, like your video,
• 1:18:35
  you'll have to put it on YouTube,
• 1:18:37
  like unlisted.
• 1:18:38
  Yeah.
• 1:18:38
  However you need to do it to us,
• 1:18:40
  I will give you my email.
• 1:18:41
  You can send it to me that way.
• 1:18:43
  I think you can get a couple
• 1:18:44
  minutes video through email.
• 1:18:47
  Yeah,
• 1:18:47
  John has never gone only two minutes.
• 1:18:50
  Don't be lying, John.
• 1:18:53
  So if you have that,
• 1:18:55
  I was going to say something else to that,
• 1:18:56
  but it can be about anything.
• 1:19:00
  I don't, I don't care.
• 1:19:01
  I we're just not a political show,
• 1:19:03
  but it can be anything sports related,
• 1:19:05
  anything entertainment related,
• 1:19:07
  whatever it is.
• 1:19:07
  If it, if it's cool,
• 1:19:09
  we'll play it and then
• 1:19:10
  we'll respond to it.
• 1:19:13
  But we want to give you the fans,
• 1:19:15
  the listeners,
• 1:19:16
  an opportunity to riff with
• 1:19:17
  us and then we'll react to your riff.
• 1:19:22
  So with that,
• 1:19:23
  if you have any questions
• 1:19:25
  about getting that to me,
• 1:19:26
  just DM me and we'll work it out.
• 1:19:28
  And somehow I have some Google drives.
• 1:19:30
  You can drop it in there.
• 1:19:32
  I can just give you permission.
• 1:19:34
  I think I'm going to get
• 1:19:35
  Dropbox back because too
• 1:19:37
  many times are we sharing
• 1:19:38
  folders with Holly and it,
• 1:19:41
  it doesn't seem to work at
• 1:19:42
  different events.
• 1:19:43
  So PG girls, goodness.
• 1:19:51
  Listen,
• 1:19:54
  We talk what we feel,
• 1:19:58
  but we keep it PG here, okay?
• 1:20:04
  Keep it PG.
• 1:20:07
  It's the way I honor my mother.
• 1:20:09
  Keep it only two minutes, John.
• 1:20:11
  Keep it only two minutes.
• 1:20:14
  John can't keep it under two minutes.
• 1:20:16
  Keep going.
• 1:20:17
  He does a riff like every three hours,
• 1:20:20
  I think.
• 1:20:20
  I love it.
• 1:20:34
  Okay.
• 1:20:40
  Okay.
• 1:20:42
  And on that note,
• 1:20:43
  we're going to say goodbye.
• 1:20:46
  Peace out.
• 1:20:47
  Thank you for joining us.
• 1:20:49
  Don't forget in the comments,
• 1:20:50
  question of the week,
• 1:20:51
  send us your video riffs.
• 1:20:53
  And with that,
• 1:20:53
  we will see everybody next
• 1:20:55
  time on the Clydesdale media Sunday night,
• 1:20:58
  CrossFit talk.
• 1:21:00
  Bye guys.