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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Where Did the Money Go? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  It's Sunday night,
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  you know what time it is,
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  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Welcome to the show, it's time to ignite.
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  Scott's silky smooth voice keeps the vibes
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  just right.
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  Carol Ann on the mic,
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  wants a star on the ice.
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  Games athlete so strong,
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  keeps the balance precise.
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  And Jamie's in the house,
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  the engine full of grit.
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  Never backing down, down Thursday night.
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  So buckle up, friends,
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  it's Burpees Forever.
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  Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
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  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
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  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  Welcome to Sunday.
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  what is going on everybody welcome to
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  sunday sunday sunday night crossfit talk
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  we are two we're about to be three
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  uh carolyn is just finishing up dinner
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  being polite doing that off camera
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  She'll be here soon.
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  It's another week.
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  I'm sitting here thinking, like,
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  is there going to be a week, like,
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  that we can just take off because
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  nothing's happening?
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  No.
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  And then it's like CrossFit.
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  It's as bad as the NFL.
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  Like, it is every week.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, the CAC's busy, so that's good.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  um patrick clark just finished season two
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  we were literally just talking about
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  season two of lioness before we went on
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  the air sure and i watched the first
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  episode of season three this week which
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  was phenomenal i haven't seen any is what
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  we're talking about so yeah jamie has not
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  seen it at all
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  um so yeah crazy stuff it's it's but
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  it is it is one of those shows
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  that make you think and so like i
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  like pairing that with like the hawk which
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  is no think yeah we finished that did
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  you finish it i haven't finished it yet
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  but i'm maybe six episodes in okay
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  wherever it's when he well i don't want
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  to ruin anything
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  Yeah.
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  Easy watch.
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  Yeah.
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  And we started Ted Lasso this week.
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  That's back.
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  And then we finished Ride or Die.
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  If you have not seen that on Prime...
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  It is so good.
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  It's Hannah Waddingham from Ted Lasso and
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  Octavia Spencer and their best friends.
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  And in the first fifteen minutes,
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  you learn that Hannah Waddingham is a
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  trained assassin and she's been hiding it
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  from her best friend for twenty years.
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  Yes, I saw the previews for this.
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  And so it starts off as a very
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  funny concept, right?
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  Yeah.
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  But it turns into a great,
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  well-written spy.
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  Okay.
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  Series by the end.
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  So highly recommend ride or die.
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  We like,
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  I was on the edge of my seat.
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  Okay.
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  We binged four episodes last night and
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  today to finish it off.
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  So good.
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  Katie L says Jamie doesn't need to watch
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  lioness.
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  She is a lioness.
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  Well, dang.
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  Drew says bears going down against the
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  pack.
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  Well,
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  my wife and I were figuring out our
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  plans.
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  We have tickets to the first bears Packers
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  game in Lambeau field because of a great
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  listener, Eric Mackey.
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  And we're trying to figure out whether to
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  fly or drive.
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  And we're trying to price it all out
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  and figuring out what is the most
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  economical and what is like the easiest.
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  There's no direct flight from Columbus to
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  Milwaukee.
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  Really?
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  Can you believe that?
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  Not really.
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  So then we tried Chicago and then rent
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  a car because it's only like an hour
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  north.
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  Yeah.
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  And we're meeting Eric in Milwaukee and
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  we're riding up with him to Green Bay.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  And there's only a couple direct flights
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  from Columbus to Chicago now,
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  which baffles me.
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  It used to be a direct flight all
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  the time.
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  Yeah.
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  Because it's only a six-hour drive,
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  so it should be just a quick...
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  I don't want to go to Detroit before
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  I go to Chicago.
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  No, I wouldn't either.
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  Yeah, that's...
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  I feel like I had three stops on
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  the way to California.
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  It was a pain.
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  If it was three stops,
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  I'd just cancel my trip.
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  I guess I could have done that.
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  I did one stop to California.
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  That was enough.
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  But you fly out of a smaller airport,
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  right?
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  Grand Rapids?
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  I usually fly out of Grand Rapids.
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  I got really lucky flying out of Lansing
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  and actually did get a
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  I think a one-stop when I went to,
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  um, Del Mar, I think,
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  I think it went Lansing to Detroit and
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  straight over to,
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  and it's usually really hard to get
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  flights out of Lansing.
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  Yeah.
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  I was Minnesota to the shirt.
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  Tessa wants to see the shirt.
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  I'm so proud of the shirts.
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  They came out so nice.
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  Jamie says it's a good fit.
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  Yeah, perfect fit.
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  Nice and soft.
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  If you want yours or thirty dollars,
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  you just Venmo me.
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  Vicky had to take the night off because
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  her husband's leaving town for a while.
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  So just go to my Instagram.
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  There's a Venmo thing there.
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  Thirty two dollars.
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  Just put your size, name,
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  address in the comment section and I'll
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  ship ship them out.
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  And I just got a couple orders today,
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  so I'll probably do another shipment
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  tomorrow or Tuesday.
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  A definite master show talking about
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  airports next up.
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  Which highway did you take?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Masters.
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  Speaking of masters,
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  I had my twenty five year high school
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  reunion yesterday.
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  OK.
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  Yeah.
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  Wow.
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  That makes me feel old.
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  Not very many people came at all.
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  yeah i graduated with like two hundred
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  fifty people there was like twelve or
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  thirteen of us there crazy um kdl i
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  wore my cloud snow shirt to work lunch
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  to a work lunch the other dude's reaction
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  no lie was wowed the lap you are
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  more jacked than i thought i gave the
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  shirt all the credit hey if you want
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  to look jack too
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  You can order a shirt as well.
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  Larry Young's already wanting another
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  color.
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  Oh.
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  You know how long it took me to
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  get these in?
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  And I still have like a bunch of
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  them.
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  And thank goodness I did inventory of the
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  whole thing.
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  And the ones that are being ordered the
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  most are the sizes I ordered the most
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  of.
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  Perfect.
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  So we're doing well.
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  CrossFit keeps making fun of us.
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  I know.
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  So I did want to say,
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  before we get into the CrossFit stuff,
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  I watched Supergirl on Friday night.
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  Yeah.
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  I really enjoyed it.
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  Really.
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  I think because the bar was set so
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  low by the critics and what everybody was
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  saying about it,
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  I went with zero expectation.
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  And I just really enjoyed it as a
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  fun movie.
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  it's not going to win any Academy awards
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  and that's fine.
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  It just was fun.
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  Okay.
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  If you want to see super girl kick
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  people's ass for an hour and a half,
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  it's a good movie.
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  And Jason Momoa as Lobo was fantastic.
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  I feel like the critics are always wrong.
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  Uh, I wouldn't say always wrong, but I,
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  I,
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  not everything has to be an Academy award
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  winning movie.
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  Correct.
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  Right.
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  And some of the stuff they like as
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  Academy award winning.
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  I'm like, that was weird.
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  No, thanks.
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  Yeah.
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  Jason Momoa basically paid,
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  played Jason Momoa,
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  but that's who Lobo is.
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  So it was like, perfect.
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  It's like Kevin Costner has ever played
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  anybody, but Kevin Costner.
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  Yeah.
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  Whether it's Bull Durham for Love of the
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  Game, Dancing with Wolves,
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  it's the same damn character in every
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  movie.
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  CrossFit says it's fine.
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  Masters of the Universe was better,
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  but similar ride.
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  I have that in my queue.
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  I don't think I've seen that either.
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  It just came out.
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  I think it only lasted in theaters a
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  couple weeks.
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  Okay.
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  The issue is that everybody is comparing
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  the DCU to the MCU.
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  And for those of you who don't speak
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  geek,
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  that is DC Comics versus Marvel Comics.
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  The Marvel Comics were much better off the
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  bat with making movies other than the Dark
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  Knight series with Batman and then the
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  DCU.
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  So he is correct.
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  But this was fun.
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  I really, really enjoyed it.
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  Matt Damon also plays himself.
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  Maybe.
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  Maybe.
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  We watched the Ben Affleck,
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  not Matt Damon,
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  but we watched The Accountant two weeks
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  ago.
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  I like both Accountant movies a lot.
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  Yeah, they're great.
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  I'm a huge Ben Affleck fan.
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  I know that's not cool to be a
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  Ben Affleck fan,
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  but Argo was one of the best movies
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  I've ever seen.
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  Good Will Hunting is an all-time classic
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  movie.
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  Lex wants to know if we've seen The
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  Odyssey.
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  I have not.
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  I do not believe that I have.
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  It, again, just came out,
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  so I'm assuming no.
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  Then no.
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  That's a Matt Damon, and it's a long,
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  long movie.
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  Okay.
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  Like,
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  you have to go on an Odyssey to
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  watch the Odyssey.
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  Okay.
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  Is it like The Martian?
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  It is longer than The Martian.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  i think it's the same guy who did
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  oppenheimer and actually who did the dark
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  knight movies for dc um christopher nolan
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  yep but but lately he just seems to
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  be like into these super long epic movies
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  like oppenheimer was what four hours long
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  and i think this is like in that
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  range i haven't seen it yet but i
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  don't mind a long movie but four hours
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  is
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  Probably pushing it.
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  Yeah.
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  The other Ben Affleck movie, The Town.
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  I love The Town.
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  Lex's Odyssey is three hours long.
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  That's fine.
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  Question of the week for Scott.
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  Whoa.
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  Wow.
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  Would you rather watch the Toxic Avenger
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  anthology or do a hundred burpees for
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  time?
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  I'd probably rather do a hundred burpees
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  for time.
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  so uh matt damon is always trying to
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  get home saving private ryan the martian
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  the bourne movies i love the bourne movies
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  yeah me too oceans eleven's one of my
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  favorite movies of all time too with matt
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  damon but he's not even really the main
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  character uh
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  Uh, oh, interstellar too.
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  Yep.
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  Um,
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  the other thing I wanted to say is,
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  uh, I am teaming up with the Glintons.
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  Well, the one Glinton and Jeremy Williams,
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  and we are doing a sports show every
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  Tuesday night at six PM.
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  It is not CrossFit.
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  We are not talking CrossFit.
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  There's already bets over under how long
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  it'll take us to talk about CrossFit,
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  but it is going to be an other
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  sports show.
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  Okay.
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  With Garrett?
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  With Garrett and Jeremy Williams.
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  Okay.
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  And maybe Corey.
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  All right.
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  So we'll see.
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  There we go.
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  And another shirt.
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  And looking good.
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  Looking good.
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  I think that shirt moves you up Hiller's
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  list all the way to an A.
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  I don't know about that.
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  But I'll take it.
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  I like it though.
• 14:09
  This is a very good color.
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  I love this blue.
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  Although mine looks a different blue than
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  yours.
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  You think?
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  I think it's just lighting.
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  They're all the same color in the box.
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  Trust me.
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  Um, so cool.
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  Uh,
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  the other thing I wanted to talk about
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  real quick before we get into the
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  Christmas stuff is, uh,
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  my dumb cohost did the impossible mile
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  this week.
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  Why?
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  We've been wanting to do it for like,
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  I don't know,
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  like a year at least we've been talking
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  about it at the gym.
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  And then I saw they like,
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  we're doing it at the games and Veronica
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  and I were going to go,
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  go try to do it.
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  And then I was like, nah, we'll just,
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  cause there's people at the gym who wanted
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  to do it too.
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  So I was like,
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  we'll just program in it,
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  program it when we get back.
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  Oh, and it was,
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  it was poor Jim's seventieth birthday on
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  Thursday.
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  And I programmed it for that day so
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  that people would come and spend the day
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  with him.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  It was rough.
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  How long did that take?
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  It took me forty nine minutes,
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  but it took a lot of people like
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  seventy five minutes.
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  jim peeper for people who don't know is
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  uh one of the members of jamie's gym
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  and he is a former crossfit games podium
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  winner in the masters division um and it
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  was the seventieth birthday which is
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  really cool now he's seventy plus i know
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  now he can be in the new category
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  yeah yeah um but i actually texted jamie
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  and she said it would did you not
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  say it was a mistake
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  I, well, yeah, when we finished it,
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  I was like, I was like, never again.
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  Like, that's not,
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  that's not something I'll ever do again.
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  And in midway through it, I was like,
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  we need to change this for the night
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  class.
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  Cause like nobody should be doing this.
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  It was, it needed to be partner.
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  It needed to be,
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  which a lot of people,
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  I had already put it in leveled out
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  level method.
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  So a lot of people were already scaling
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  it.
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  Like a lot of people did it.
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  Two hundred meters of the movement.
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  And then jogged in two hundred meters and
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  then the two hundred of the next movement.
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  So they did like half the work.
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  What I tried to get my husband to
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  do because he came at six.
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  I was like,
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  you should do because I the only thing
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  that really bothered me was the burpee
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  broad jump.
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  And it starts with that.
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  So you're just you're there for like
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  twenty five minutes doing burpee broad
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  jumps.
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  It just takes forever.
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  And then you're annoyed with the whole
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  thing.
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  So, yeah.
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  I had told him, I was like,
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  you should just do a hundred meters of
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  burpee, brow jump,
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  a hundred meters of lunging,
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  a hundred meters of bear crawl, jog,
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  and do four laps of that.
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  So it was like broken up,
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  but he did.
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  He was like, no,
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  you guys all did it the right way.
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  He's just as stubborn as me.
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  We went to a track.
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  So even in the evening classes,
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  they went to the track.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  The gym was shut that day.
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  I was like, show up at the track.
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  Cool.
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  Yep.
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  the video i saw was of aaron yes
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  and he looked miserable and that was the
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  burpee broad jump so that's at the
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  beginning already looking miserable i
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  think i snapped i think i had snapped
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  you scott like the lunges and the bear
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  crawl so like a little bit of each
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  lap yep all of aaron though and all
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  of all of him looking miserable how far
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  how far into the burpee broad jump where
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  you're like i shouldn't have programmed
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  this for the class
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  Probably just short of two hundred meters.
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  I was like, this is a terrible idea.
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  It just and like the last time we
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  did like a high rock last summer,
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  we had done some high rocks style workout.
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  And I don't know what it is,
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  but I I can't do burpee broad jumps
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  and not be crazy.
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  like the front my tibialis is like wrecked
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  like i still today am like in pain
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  walking around the rest of me feels fine
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  now um or what three days out yesterday
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  i was still pretty sore like all over
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  even my shoulders um but the front of
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  my shins kill i don't know what it
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  is i don't know i it's probably just
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  the way i land when i broad jump
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  i don't even i do not like broad
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  jumps at all well you would be lifting
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  your
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  lifting your feet up probably reaching and
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  it's just that motion that you're not used
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  to.
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  Like if you're doing like a box jump,
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  you're just a quick but just the amount
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  of times that you're gonna have to
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  dorsiflex there.
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  Yeah, it's gonna, it's gonna get you.
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  Yeah,
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  my son did it with us at noon
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  and he he went out hot like he
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  was like fifty meters ahead of me on
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  the burpee broad jump.
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  He like he can burpee broad jump like
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  two to two to one to me.
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  Like his jump is just far.
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  And I just was I was doing him
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  quick but short.
• 19:04
  And I finally like he sort of like
• 19:07
  started to die towards the end of the
• 19:08
  burpee broad jump.
• 19:09
  I caught him and I just I like
• 19:10
  lunges.
• 19:11
  So that didn't bother me.
• 19:12
  Everyone else is like dying on the lunges.
• 19:16
  You know what it sounds like Jamie needs?
• 19:18
  Some Playa with Brevo.
• 19:20
  I do.
• 19:20
  But I always comment on Carol and stuff.
• 19:22
  I'm like, I can't even do...
• 19:25
  I couldn't even do half of the stuff.
• 19:29
  I went filming today,
• 19:30
  so I'm all done writing my program.
• 19:32
  Now it's about going to film every single
• 19:35
  drill.
• 19:36
  And
• 19:38
  It's going to take me so long to
• 19:39
  film every single drill that I have.
• 19:41
  You need to send me some of it
• 19:43
  and I need to film scaled versions for
• 19:46
  you.
• 19:46
  No, I am.
• 19:48
  Like I did like a hurdle jump,
• 19:50
  like a lateral low hurdle jump.
• 19:52
  But then I also had cones to the
• 19:53
  side just to show that you can also
• 19:55
  just use cones if you don't feel like.
• 19:56
  But you make it look too easy.
• 19:58
  You need the scaled.
• 19:59
  I'm working on it though.
• 20:02
  You need Jamie to do the Teemu version
• 20:04
  of the...
• 20:06
  But it's the first week it starts.
• 20:10
  It's foundation.
• 20:13
  I'm not going to do all of my
• 20:14
  crazy things on that.
• 20:16
  But there's a good progression.
• 20:19
  Jamie, does your gym do Sentinel?
• 20:21
  No,
• 20:21
  we do not do Sentinel as a gym.
• 20:24
  We probably about...
• 20:28
  Two, three months ago,
• 20:29
  we switched over from Training Think Tank.
• 20:32
  I've done a Training Think Tank affiliate
• 20:34
  programming for like four years.
• 20:36
  The day they came out with it,
• 20:37
  we've done that.
• 20:38
  And about two or three months ago,
• 20:40
  we switched over to HillerFit as a gym.
• 20:44
  So that's what we do as a gym.
• 20:45
  How do you like that?
• 20:48
  I like it.
• 20:49
  The gym does not seem to love it.
• 20:54
  Like some do.
• 20:55
  It's just,
• 20:56
  there's like a lot of like some high
• 20:58
  rep stuff that they're like,
• 21:00
  they feel beat up.
• 21:01
  I really need to like emphasize people
• 21:04
  like scaling down.
• 21:05
  There's just a lot of people who,
• 21:07
  cause I level it out.
• 21:08
  And if I put the RX plus version
• 21:11
  in at all,
• 21:13
  I have people thinking they need to do
• 21:15
  RX plus and nobody needs to be doing
• 21:17
  RX plus.
• 21:18
  Um,
• 21:18
  it's more in there for me and then
• 21:20
  like level down.
• 21:21
  But there's too many people who like still
• 21:23
  try to do what they would consider their
• 21:24
  color.
• 21:25
  And I'm like,
• 21:26
  you guys all need to just back down
• 21:27
  till we get comfortable with this.
• 21:31
  everything that i've seen from him when he
• 21:33
  would post his his programming like i
• 21:35
  think it's very smart and like yeah well
• 21:37
  done i don't know what he's done for
• 21:39
  like affiliate programming but i i follow
• 21:41
  his like affiliate page yeah yeah okay so
• 21:43
  that is yeah i like his stuff and
• 21:45
  it's it's got some creative things and
• 21:47
  it's probably good tessa i i do follow
• 21:52
  sentinel yes yes i yes i follow sentinel
• 21:56
  it's just
• 21:58
  a little, it would be a little much.
• 21:59
  I mean, honestly,
• 22:00
  I don't know when I compare it to
• 22:02
  Hiller fit, maybe it wouldn't,
• 22:04
  wouldn't be, but I,
• 22:05
  if I scaled all of it,
• 22:07
  I follow the compete in Sentinel,
• 22:10
  which is just, it's far too long.
• 22:12
  I suppose I could swap over to the
• 22:15
  classic track and it would maybe fit in
• 22:17
  an hour,
• 22:18
  but then I'm still doing something
• 22:20
  different.
• 22:21
  If I'm doing like the whole thing is
• 22:23
  like, I'm trying to get,
• 22:24
  I'm trying to not double up all the
• 22:26
  time on everything I do.
• 22:28
  So I'm trying to find something that I
• 22:29
  can do class wide weekly and add in
• 22:34
  a piece, you know, from Sentinel.
• 22:37
  So when I do the Sentinel workouts,
• 22:40
  they fit.
• 22:41
  If I do the classic,
• 22:42
  I don't do the compete.
• 22:43
  It easily fits in an hour.
• 22:47
  And they rate up like four different
• 22:49
  scales for the workout.
• 22:51
  It is super easy to use.
• 22:55
  I can't say enough good things about how
• 22:57
  easy.
• 22:57
  I've done a couple other ones.
• 22:59
  That's been the easiest one for me to
• 23:01
  follow because it gives so many scaling
• 23:04
  options.
• 23:05
  And they're very clear and precise in how
• 23:08
  they describe everything.
• 23:11
  I think I just saw that they have
• 23:12
  like a
• 23:13
  low equipment that they added as well.
• 23:16
  I think recently,
• 23:16
  I don't know if that matches up to
• 23:17
  the classic or if it's something
• 23:18
  different.
• 23:19
  But I saw that's probably something
• 23:21
  different.
• 23:22
  Because even the classic has some
• 23:24
  equipment that I don't have.
• 23:25
  And I have to like sub in things.
• 23:33
  A classic from anyone is a tough sell
• 23:35
  to members if they've done ABC stuff.
• 23:39
  I agree, it's effective stuff,
• 23:40
  but members get squirrels.
• 23:42
  they sure do man i'm never like i
• 23:45
  just try to not even listen to the
• 23:47
  feedback anymore because everyone's gonna
• 23:48
  have a complaint um and it's just i
• 23:52
  don't know it's nice to switch it up
• 23:53
  different equipment different movements
• 23:54
  like we did for a while there we
• 23:56
  did like three weeks of toes to ring
• 23:58
  and some people really were excited about
• 24:01
  getting a different movement i mean some
• 24:03
  like they can't do total bar but they
• 24:04
  can do total ring so that was fun
• 24:06
  for some people oh
• 24:08
  My biggest thing is if you're not
• 24:10
  competing,
• 24:11
  there should be some elements of fun to
• 24:13
  it.
• 24:13
  Totally agree.
• 24:15
  You're not there to go to the games.
• 24:18
  You're there to get fit and it should
• 24:20
  be fun.
• 24:21
  It should be a thing that you go
• 24:22
  do with your friends and you just get
• 24:24
  fitter.
• 24:25
  And when my gym switched to Comptrain,
• 24:28
  I lost all the fun.
• 24:31
  That was my biggest complaint with
• 24:32
  Comtrain is it was all about competing and
• 24:36
  getting to the games and doing all this
• 24:38
  dumbbell work.
• 24:39
  And it lost the fun aspect of things.
• 24:45
  And so that's what I loved about Polaris.
• 24:47
  Christy was so good about, yeah,
• 24:52
  she trains for the games,
• 24:53
  but the class work is fun.
• 24:55
  Interval work can be fun even though it's
• 24:58
  interval work.
• 25:02
  um but yeah i look that's my favorite
• 25:05
  programming of all time is christie's and
• 25:08
  i miss her dearly um agree there everyone
• 25:16
  did com train when it first got big
• 25:17
  we all got fit and super bored yeah
• 25:26
  Uh,
• 25:26
  you didn't like bike buy-ins and three
• 25:28
  minutes of overhead squats on repeats.
• 25:31
  Not so much.
• 25:35
  Um,
• 25:37
  so I wanted to talk about the CrossFit
• 25:40
  athlete council made recommendations to
• 25:43
  CrossFit.
• 25:45
  Um,
• 25:45
  I put it in our notes what those
• 25:46
  recommendations were.
• 25:47
  I have them, uh,
• 25:49
  their Instagram posts to pull up, uh,
• 25:51
  in full detail.
• 25:55
  If I can find it again.
• 25:58
  I have so many things queued up.
• 26:03
  Here we go.
• 26:06
  so um the first recommendation and i just
• 26:09
  want to get your feedback on this is
• 26:11
  and i know the feedback on this because
• 26:13
  we have talked about it endlessly over the
• 26:16
  last two seasons number one is the opening
• 26:18
  quarterfinal should be one continuous
• 26:20
  leaderboard making the top five hundred
• 26:23
  men and women individuals eligible to
• 26:25
  complete compete at semifinals yeah we've
• 26:31
  been asking for it right
• 26:35
  Yeah, I think that's good.
• 26:36
  Like I have,
• 26:37
  I've been saying that forever.
• 26:38
  Like the open style workouts are a
• 26:39
  different style of workouts.
• 26:41
  And then you have the quarterfinals,
• 26:42
  which is a different style workout.
• 26:43
  And I don't think that the open should
• 26:45
  get a race.
• 26:45
  It makes the open matter.
• 26:46
  I like it.
• 26:48
  I've always liked that.
• 26:50
  Yeah.
• 26:50
  I really like that.
• 26:51
  It's the one week too.
• 26:53
  Like they could have made the leaderboard
• 26:54
  continue on,
• 26:55
  even if it was like last year's format,
• 26:58
  a month and a half later or whatever.
• 27:00
  I really liked that.
• 27:01
  They moved the open up like two weeks.
• 27:04
  So I feel like we're going to basically
• 27:06
  end when the Open ended last year,
• 27:09
  and we're going to be done with
• 27:10
  quarterfinals,
• 27:11
  which was our complaint last year, right?
• 27:14
  Well,
• 27:14
  it gives two more weeks for the semifinals
• 27:19
  to use this leaderboard as opposed to
• 27:22
  invites and their own qualifiers.
• 27:24
  Right, right.
• 27:27
  But the thing that I think is frustrating
• 27:29
  for me is the number of people who
• 27:31
  want the open scrapped,
• 27:33
  who think that it's useless.
• 27:35
  It's still a valid test for certain
• 27:37
  things.
• 27:38
  And when you add in the other four
• 27:40
  or five workouts and it becomes a part
• 27:43
  of the whole,
• 27:44
  it even makes a more complete test.
• 27:47
  And it lets you open up the quarterfinals
• 27:50
  to be even higher skill.
• 27:55
  Yeah, for sure.
• 27:56
  Yeah.
• 27:57
  Because you see a lot of people who
• 27:59
  are really,
• 28:00
  really good at high skill gymnastics and
• 28:02
  very, very heavyweights.
• 28:04
  But if you ask them to go light
• 28:06
  and fast, they're not that good.
• 28:09
  And they have a hole.
• 28:10
  and when we just count the quarterfinal or
• 28:13
  even the semifinal let's say but well for
• 28:15
  this purpose the quarterfinal they can
• 28:18
  hide their hole very very well and then
• 28:21
  just focus on the high skill heavy weights
• 28:23
  and like that's not what fitness is it's
• 28:26
  not just that you have to also be
• 28:27
  able to do the rest so i think
• 28:29
  it's it makes sense it's going to give
• 28:31
  people you know seven maybe eight scores
• 28:34
  that they're we all took the same test
• 28:36
  now from there who gets to go to
• 28:38
  semi-finals
• 28:39
  I think that's way better.
• 28:41
  Agreed.
• 28:45
  Yeah, I've seen a lot of comments like,
• 28:46
  oh,
• 28:46
  you're going to have to change the way
• 28:49
  the ompens run.
• 28:50
  You need to add a lift in the
• 28:51
  ompen.
• 28:51
  And I mean,
• 28:53
  we go through this every year and people
• 28:55
  complain about the programming.
• 28:58
  The base of the pyramid is metabolic
• 29:00
  conditioning.
• 29:01
  I feel like people are not aerobically fit
• 29:03
  enough.
• 29:05
  They just want the heavy lift.
• 29:10
  Does this mean videos are on our system?
• 29:13
  I know.
• 29:14
  I mean, that's another subject completely.
• 29:17
  They address that later on.
• 29:18
  As far as video review,
• 29:20
  one idea would be to opt in to
• 29:23
  compete versus, I don't know, participate.
• 29:26
  Yeah,
• 29:26
  when signing in for the CrossFit Open,
• 29:28
  this would still be the same leaderboard,
• 29:30
  but only those who are competing would be
• 29:32
  eligible for quarterfinals and beyond and
• 29:34
  would also require a video link during the
• 29:37
  score submission window for both Open and
• 29:39
  quarterfinals.
• 29:40
  Only videos with high public scrutiny
• 29:42
  would be reviewed,
• 29:43
  or HQ could request a video from one
• 29:45
  workout at the end of quarterfinals for
• 29:47
  semifinal qualifiers as a spot check of
• 29:50
  sorts,
• 29:51
  like past CrossFit Open requirements.
• 29:55
  Regardless,
• 29:56
  having that as an option over no one
• 30:00
  gets their video reviews and it's always
• 30:02
  been an honor system.
• 30:03
  That's already a step up if we were
• 30:05
  to at least have, you know,
• 30:07
  the compete versus participate and then
• 30:08
  the compete have their videos,
• 30:10
  let's say public.
• 30:12
  Right.
• 30:12
  Like that's already a step that we,
• 30:14
  we already don't have.
• 30:15
  So I'm good at that.
• 30:17
  And I think just by having to put
• 30:19
  your video public, it still makes people,
• 30:22
  or at least it should make people think
• 30:23
  about their movement standards.
• 30:33
  Yeah.
• 30:35
  It sucks.
• 30:37
  I know it sucks.
• 30:37
  I mean,
• 30:38
  I have to do it every year.
• 30:40
  I get that it may deter some people,
• 30:43
  but if you truly are competitive and
• 30:46
  you're going to click compete,
• 30:47
  it means you want to move on and
• 30:49
  you have to submit a video for
• 30:51
  quarterfinals.
• 30:52
  So like, what's the,
• 30:54
  what's the issue with videoing three more
• 30:56
  workouts?
• 31:01
  Most people do anyway,
• 31:02
  if you're a competitor.
• 31:03
  Exactly.
• 31:05
  Right.
• 31:07
  You see people's video on Instagram and,
• 31:10
  Just, you know, I don't know.
• 31:16
  And then I've had people say to me,
• 31:18
  well, why not just do a five-week open?
• 31:20
  One,
• 31:21
  doing multiple workouts in one weekend is
• 31:23
  a harder test than doing one workout a
• 31:25
  week.
• 31:26
  So it's a different style of test.
• 31:28
  The other thing is when you get to
• 31:30
  the higher level skills,
• 31:32
  the equipment becomes more scarce in
• 31:34
  affiliates.
• 31:35
  GHDs aren't as plentiful.
• 31:37
  Ropes aren't as plentiful.
• 31:39
  Rings aren't as plentiful.
• 31:41
  So...
• 31:42
  You need to help out the affiliates by
• 31:45
  funneling down the number of people doing
• 31:48
  those higher skills.
• 31:54
  Because the equipment just is more scarce
• 31:57
  at that point.
• 32:03
  Not everybody's like CrossFit Polaris that
• 32:05
  had a rope in every lane and an
• 32:07
  echo bike and a rower in every lane
• 32:09
  and all of that stuff, right?
• 32:12
  That's very rare.
• 32:19
  I like the idea.
• 32:20
  I hope they do have to video.
• 32:25
  Does your open rank relative the open
• 32:27
  field or quarterfinal field count towards
• 32:29
  your quarterfinal rank?
• 32:32
  In this case, Max,
• 32:33
  it is the combination of all workouts from
• 32:37
  both is your overall rank.
• 32:43
  Right.
• 32:44
  Yeah.
• 32:44
  Like all seven scores count together as
• 32:47
  your test.
• 32:48
  It's not like you're open.
• 32:49
  Let's say you finished the fifteenth and
• 32:50
  all of a sudden you carry that over,
• 32:52
  which they've done before.
• 32:53
  Yeah.
• 32:54
  That's how they used to do the Masters.
• 32:56
  That's dumb.
• 32:58
  Yeah.
• 33:00
  Yeah,
• 33:00
  it would count like as their first score
• 33:02
  of the next stage.
• 33:04
  But no,
• 33:05
  this each of them would count equally
• 33:08
  altogether.
• 33:09
  I'm not sure if when you go to
• 33:11
  the quarterfinals, if it's only the seven,
• 33:14
  like if you're,
• 33:15
  if they have like another type of
• 33:17
  leaderboard,
• 33:18
  where it's only the people that have taken
• 33:21
  all those tests that are kind of ranked,
• 33:23
  or if during the open when you were
• 33:25
  ranked,
• 33:26
  whatever if it's just added on i don't
• 33:28
  know if that makes sense or not but
• 33:30
  yeah no i agree because yeah if if
• 33:33
  you finished two hundredth in a workout
• 33:36
  and thirty of those people didn't sign up
• 33:38
  you you really would be one seventy on
• 33:41
  the in the quarterfinal leaderboard it i i
• 33:47
  have a feeling crossfit is not going to
• 33:50
  do that work no i i think that's
• 33:52
  too much work i think you'll just
• 33:54
  Yeah, everything combined.
• 33:55
  And these are just recommendations.
• 33:57
  We don't know that CrossFit's doing any of
• 33:58
  this.
• 33:59
  Well, that's true.
• 34:00
  Yeah, they haven't approved it.
• 34:02
  Yeah, my point is,
• 34:04
  I have a feeling CrossFit will say, no,
• 34:05
  we can't do that.
• 34:07
  And this won't happen.
• 34:08
  Because they're just going to be like,
• 34:11
  yeah, we're... I mean,
• 34:13
  there's probably someone here freaking in
• 34:15
  our chat who could do this in a
• 34:17
  day.
• 34:18
  Well, Patrick doesn't...
• 34:23
  Patrick makes a good point.
• 34:25
  The one big bugaboo with this, I think,
• 34:28
  is reducing the field from two thousand to
• 34:30
  five hundred who make it to semifinals,
• 34:33
  because that is a lot of money that
• 34:35
  CrossFit is giving up.
• 34:38
  Because a lot of people signed up to
• 34:39
  do the online semifinal that had to pay
• 34:42
  that fee.
• 34:44
  And now you're reducing that overall fee.
• 34:47
  pieced down by fifteen hundred people not
• 34:50
  that every one of them signed up but
• 34:52
  it's just reducing the pool a great deal
• 34:56
  from people who act who did sign up
• 34:58
  to see what they could do
• 35:00
  That is going to be.
• 35:02
  It says to compete live at a semifinals.
• 35:05
  You can still probably have a bigger pool
• 35:07
  of people that can be for an online
• 35:10
  semifinal.
• 35:12
  Like I think that if you're in the
• 35:13
  top five hundred,
• 35:14
  you can get asked for a semifinal,
• 35:16
  let's say.
• 35:17
  But past that,
• 35:18
  maybe it's the online because I just see
• 35:20
  live here.
• 35:21
  So that's one thing.
• 35:23
  I think the bigger issue with that is
• 35:26
  the,
• 35:27
  because you can look at this past year's
• 35:29
  semifinal registrations and the year
• 35:31
  before,
• 35:32
  and it's a pretty stark difference because
• 35:35
  of the number of spots given to that
• 35:38
  online semifinal.
• 35:39
  And later they talk about they want to
• 35:42
  have it be one or two,
• 35:42
  and I think that's going to be their
• 35:44
  fatal flaw if they want to make money
• 35:45
  online.
• 35:47
  You have to have more than one or
• 35:49
  two spots if you want people to pay
• 35:51
  to compete online.
• 35:53
  Yeah,
• 35:53
  because people will just look at the
• 35:54
  workouts and then be like, no,
• 35:55
  not for one spot.
• 35:56
  Yeah.
• 35:58
  And that's the crux of everything.
• 36:02
  We are giving up making it a better
• 36:04
  and more seamless transition to make the
• 36:08
  quick buck.
• 36:10
  Yeah.
• 36:10
  Instead of trying to make a more
• 36:12
  longer-lasting season that makes sense.
• 36:18
  um and looking at the future dollars as
• 36:21
  opposed to the current dollars but if
• 36:26
  semifinals run a two day competition.
• 36:29
  Now all of a sudden,
• 36:30
  if you want to do two days prior
• 36:32
  teams or masters,
• 36:34
  that can also add into the pool of
• 36:36
  semifinal athletes in person and adding to
• 36:39
  the revenue of these semifinal host
• 36:44
  competitions.
• 36:45
  I think it would add more people there
• 36:46
  so that people can still sit there
• 36:48
  semifinal athletes.
• 36:49
  Because right now like the teams don't
• 36:51
  have many options.
• 36:52
  So
• 36:56
  Seth Jumpship,
• 36:57
  who is a big part of writing these
• 36:58
  recommendations, is in the chat.
• 37:00
  The theory is that you would get more
• 37:02
  from increased quarterfinal participation
• 37:04
  fees than you would lose from an online
• 37:06
  semifinal.
• 37:08
  Right.
• 37:09
  I mean,
• 37:09
  it makes sense to me whether or not
• 37:13
  they can convince HQ.
• 37:15
  We have loved this idea for two years.
• 37:18
  Carolyn brought this up two years ago to
• 37:20
  us,
• 37:21
  and we have been banging this drum a
• 37:23
  long time.
• 37:25
  It's getting CrossFit to see that, okay,
• 37:29
  you may lose a couple dollars today,
• 37:31
  but you're going to make way more in
• 37:32
  the future is a really hard sell.
• 37:35
  With the past administration,
• 37:37
  we don't know what's going to happen with
• 37:39
  the new guy.
• 37:45
  Barry makes a great point.
• 37:46
  Twenty years, eventually,
• 37:47
  they'll get it right.
• 37:48
  Will they?
• 37:49
  They could make it worse in another
• 37:51
  twenty.
• 37:51
  Yeah, Patrick's got it right here.
• 37:53
  Yeah, read that one.
• 37:54
  The last time they did last chance
• 37:55
  qualifier in twenty twenty five,
• 37:57
  they had one spot available for men and
• 37:58
  women.
• 37:59
  Only seven men and fifteen women did all
• 38:01
  the five workouts and less than one
• 38:03
  hundred signed up total.
• 38:04
  Yeah.
• 38:05
  So you're like the people's argument.
• 38:08
  I was one of the fifteen.
• 38:09
  Right.
• 38:10
  I mean, it wasn't very many people.
• 38:11
  And you say like five hundred is not
• 38:14
  enough to advance semis.
• 38:16
  Honestly,
• 38:16
  like if those five hundred feel like they
• 38:18
  have a shot and there's five spots online,
• 38:20
  you're going to get way more signups than
• 38:23
  one spot.
• 38:24
  i also feel like for the quarterfinals
• 38:26
  there's a lot of members that would enjoy
• 38:29
  i know it's more expensive to do the
• 38:30
  quarterfinals but that they'll get a
• 38:32
  better idea of their fitness when they
• 38:34
  have all those scores counted and then
• 38:37
  they get to see okay i was really
• 38:39
  bad at the high skill but i'm really
• 38:40
  good here and like i'm this place with
• 38:44
  seven events versus just three and then
• 38:46
  starting over and then getting you know
• 38:49
  kicked out or just not kicked out but
• 38:52
  like
• 38:53
  really beat up in the quarterfinals
• 38:54
  because you were not ready.
• 38:55
  I just think it gives members also a
• 38:57
  better picture so that their levels are
• 39:01
  more appropriate for the Community Cup.
• 39:04
  Yeah.
• 39:06
  Which was not really talked about that
• 39:10
  much.
• 39:11
  It kind of just came by fast.
• 39:14
  I don't think I heard one thing about
• 39:15
  the Community Cup at the games.
• 39:19
  And that could have been a great
• 39:20
  opportunity to talk about it.
• 39:23
  It was on a reel of videos that
• 39:27
  showed up on the screen,
• 39:28
  but I didn't hear anybody say anything
• 39:30
  about it.
• 39:37
  Number two,
• 39:38
  forty men and women should qualify to the
• 39:40
  CrossFit Games.
• 39:43
  Yeah,
• 39:44
  I don't know if I agree with this
• 39:45
  one.
• 39:47
  i'm not completely opposed to it but like
• 39:49
  i said we've the thirty seems to be
• 39:52
  a sweet spot i think i think i
• 39:55
  said this last week unless you can figure
• 39:56
  out a twelve lane system and have thirty
• 39:58
  six that's probably three heats is
• 40:01
  probably i think the sweet spot yeah like
• 40:04
  thirty six with twelve so that'd be great
• 40:06
  yeah i would love that i'm just of
• 40:08
  the opinion and we're all i think
• 40:11
  for all of us that whoever goes to
• 40:13
  the games,
• 40:14
  you take the full test and each test
• 40:16
  matters.
• 40:17
  Correct.
• 40:18
  That's my bigger issue with saying let's
• 40:20
  get forty there.
• 40:21
  I don't want someone to go there and
• 40:22
  not and not complete the weekend.
• 40:27
  I'm also the opinion that like all the
• 40:28
  tests should be like equally ranked,
• 40:31
  like a five hundred meter sprint should be
• 40:34
  as important as a six mile trail run.
• 40:39
  a bag throw if you view it as
• 40:41
  important to put in the test.
• 40:43
  Hundred points like.
• 40:48
  Maximally the big pro of this year was
• 40:50
  the high tempo of events for heat starts
• 40:52
  to drone on.
• 40:54
  Here's what I'll say.
• 40:56
  I have always been a proponent of the
• 40:58
  forty people at the games until I saw
• 41:01
  it play out this year.
• 41:02
  And they did do an excellent job of
• 41:05
  moving things quickly through,
• 41:08
  which I think is a necessity.
• 41:10
  The other problem is we've never seen
• 41:11
  forty with the forty best athletes.
• 41:13
  Correct.
• 41:15
  So you're comparing apples to oranges.
• 41:19
  This year we had probably the closest we
• 41:22
  have ever had to the thirty best athletes
• 41:25
  at the games.
• 41:27
  It's still not perfect,
• 41:28
  but it was close to.
• 41:31
  And I always loved the forty athletes,
• 41:36
  but we didn't have the right forty there.
• 41:38
  I agree with that.
• 41:41
  So it's hard to like compare.
• 41:43
  Well,
• 41:44
  I think that's what makes the cuts idea
• 41:46
  even...
• 41:46
  Because I feel like if we go this
• 41:48
  route and we get the right forty athletes,
• 41:51
  I really don't want someone cut.
• 41:53
  In the past,
• 41:54
  I could maybe have justified that there
• 41:55
  were eight to ten people who probably
• 41:57
  didn't even really deserve to be there.
• 41:59
  And so if they get cut,
• 41:59
  they get cut.
• 42:00
  It is what it is.
• 42:01
  But I think if you have the right
• 42:03
  forty people, you don't want any cuts.
• 42:06
  So like...
• 42:07
  I mean,
• 42:08
  I just think you figure out how many
• 42:10
  people you can run.
• 42:11
  The cuts are the semifinals.
• 42:13
  The cuts are the quarterfinals.
• 42:14
  The open.
• 42:15
  Those are the cuts.
• 42:17
  And then you get to the games.
• 42:18
  This is the test.
• 42:19
  So if you look at the decathlon,
• 42:21
  you're not getting cut.
• 42:22
  These are the events.
• 42:24
  who at the end of this specific test
• 42:26
  is the fittest.
• 42:27
  Same thing for us.
• 42:28
  Like it just makes no sense to me
• 42:30
  that like you would cut someone after
• 42:32
  seven or eight events when there's
• 42:33
  thirteen to fifteen events and all of
• 42:35
  their strengths could have been there and
• 42:37
  they could have really affected the
• 42:39
  leaderboard and all that.
• 42:40
  Like I just don't think it gives
• 42:42
  a good representation of what everyone's
• 42:45
  fitness is when you you cut people short,
• 42:47
  then the order of the events matter.
• 42:49
  The scoring system changes after the cut
• 42:52
  some events if they change the scoring
• 42:54
  system.
• 42:54
  So now the events are worth more.
• 42:56
  So why are those events worth more than
• 42:58
  these ones?
• 42:59
  Just I don't know.
• 43:01
  I just think for our methodology and the
• 43:03
  definition of fitness, who's ever there,
• 43:06
  whether it's twenty, thirty, forty,
• 43:08
  take the test.
• 43:10
  And then let's see who's ranked where.
• 43:13
  And we've never gotten a...
• 43:17
  an event after the cuts that was promised
• 43:21
  that now that we're cuts,
• 43:22
  we can do this where we couldn't in
• 43:24
  the before that's never happened.
• 43:27
  It's been a promise that's never been
• 43:28
  fulfilled.
• 43:30
  And I agree with everything that Carolyn
• 43:31
  just said,
• 43:32
  like that the points change after the
• 43:35
  cuts,
• 43:36
  the order of events really is crucial when
• 43:39
  you're having cuts.
• 43:41
  And depending on what kind of an athlete
• 43:43
  you are,
• 43:44
  one year you might get cut the other
• 43:46
  year you might not get cut.
• 43:47
  Like it's just, yeah.
• 43:49
  Like a lot of times it's like the
• 43:50
  single modality things at the start.
• 43:52
  And then here comes all the CrossFit,
• 43:53
  which you could be excelling at so much
• 43:56
  when it's mixed.
• 43:58
  Yeah.
• 43:58
  Like, and people will say, Oh,
• 44:00
  the cuts are exciting.
• 44:01
  It's exciting to see who gets cut.
• 44:02
  Who's going to not, but like, it's just,
• 44:05
  it's not comparable to playoffs or other
• 44:08
  sports.
• 44:08
  Like this is a test of fitness.
• 44:10
  And these are the events that the director
• 44:12
  chose to put forward and,
• 44:14
  And I feel like all should take part.
• 44:16
  The drama that happens from the cuts is
• 44:19
  a bullshit argument.
• 44:21
  Because if that's your argument,
• 44:23
  you would not have five attempts to
• 44:25
  qualify for the games.
• 44:27
  If you want the drama in the season,
• 44:31
  it's going to be another recommendation
• 44:32
  that's coming up on this list.
• 44:36
  If you truly cared about the drama,
• 44:39
  there are points in the season you can
• 44:40
  have a lot of drama.
• 44:46
  Um, Seth was, I need to find it.
• 44:48
  Um, the cuts are a concession to HQ,
• 44:52
  not a recommendation of the CAC, uh,
• 44:54
  forty athlete spot strengthens live semis.
• 44:57
  More will fight to participate because of
• 44:59
  the increased opportunities.
• 45:04
  I really struggle with this one.
• 45:06
  Cause I know one of their recommendations
• 45:09
  is to increase semifinals fields.
• 45:12
  And I think that is.
• 45:16
  I just – I don't see the benefit
• 45:21
  in that.
• 45:22
  In all honesty,
• 45:23
  the best way for HQ to make money
• 45:27
  is to do all online.
• 45:30
  And pushing those spots out to in-person
• 45:33
  semis that – and I know they're going
• 45:37
  to, you know,
• 45:40
  push that off to somebody else and not
• 45:42
  have any cost incurred with it.
• 45:43
  I just –
• 45:46
  They're also not going to get the revenue
• 45:48
  from it,
• 45:48
  so I don't see why that's a benefit.
• 45:51
  I know we want we as a sport
• 45:53
  would like in-person events,
• 45:56
  but I don't see how this improves things
• 46:01
  for HQ, money-wise, personally.
• 46:03
  No, because one,
• 46:05
  I think one of the recommendation was for
• 46:07
  half of the quarterfinal money to go
• 46:09
  towards these events to help them for
• 46:13
  registration, or maybe not registration,
• 46:15
  but to offset some of their costs.
• 46:18
  I just don't see how CrossFit's going to
• 46:19
  say, oh, yes, let's do that.
• 46:22
  Because like you said, and I fully agree,
• 46:24
  the online version of CrossFit makes HQ so
• 46:30
  much money.
• 46:33
  Yeah.
• 46:35
  The quarterfinal edition was brilliant for
• 46:39
  HQ.
• 46:40
  It was the smartest move that they
• 46:41
  probably could have made to add another
• 46:43
  fifty bucks for that and then you added
• 46:47
  the online semifinal.
• 46:48
  That's just easy for them to take all
• 46:51
  that money.
• 46:54
  Semifinal athletes should have one
• 46:56
  opportunity to qualify for the CrossFit
• 46:58
  Games at a live event.
• 47:00
  Agree?
• 47:01
  Two billion thousand zillion percent.
• 47:04
  I do agree with this.
• 47:08
  For the director of the semifinals,
• 47:10
  Sanity, yes.
• 47:12
  And also, like, yeah,
• 47:13
  if you pick one that was stacked,
• 47:15
  it does suck, but then you would have,
• 47:16
  let's say,
• 47:17
  the last chance online to do that,
• 47:19
  or if you were sick or whatnot,
• 47:21
  because then it becomes who has the most
• 47:23
  sponsors,
• 47:24
  who has no job and can go and
• 47:27
  travel everywhere around the world or has
• 47:29
  the funding or support to be able to
• 47:31
  do this versus you get one shot,
• 47:34
  pick your region, and then if you don't,
• 47:38
  online.
• 47:39
  Then the online would be really,
• 47:40
  really interesting.
• 47:43
  We have lost all the drama in the
• 47:44
  season.
• 47:46
  And I think that's because CrossFit has
• 47:48
  given up any role in the season until
• 47:53
  the games.
• 47:54
  And so they,
• 47:55
  all they focus on is the drama of
• 47:56
  the games and they don't give a shit
• 47:58
  about the drama, the rest of the season,
• 48:01
  which is a horrible way to look at
• 48:03
  it and is never going to grow the
• 48:05
  sport.
• 48:06
  think that's why i'm like hesitant to say
• 48:09
  let's get let's bring on more semi-finals
• 48:12
  i don't want more third-party
• 48:13
  organizations doing their own you're
• 48:15
  jumping ahead okay um so we agree on
• 48:24
  that one crossfit hq should seek out new
• 48:27
  semi-final event organizers even at the
• 48:29
  affiliate level now go jamie
• 48:33
  I, it just, I don't, I don't like,
• 48:37
  it's literally the exact same thing as
• 48:39
  what's going on for the masters.
• 48:41
  Like giving that responsibility to
• 48:44
  somebody else just cheapens the whole feel
• 48:49
  of the whole thing.
• 48:50
  Like I know some of these event organizers
• 48:53
  can do an incredible job.
• 48:55
  But if you're going to then have twelve
• 48:57
  random semifinals that run however they
• 49:01
  want to run with maybe one guideline,
• 49:05
  I think it's crazy.
• 49:06
  I'd rather see four big semifinals that
• 49:08
  have seven spots, eight spots each.
• 49:12
  I thought Syndicate that year,
• 49:14
  when there was whatever,
• 49:14
  nine spots available,
• 49:15
  was incredibly exciting.
• 49:18
  I know it's not the three podium spots
• 49:20
  that you're looking at,
• 49:21
  you're looking down here,
• 49:22
  but that's exciting to me.
• 49:24
  Like there was a bunch of good athletes
• 49:26
  there.
• 49:26
  People will travel to see that.
• 49:28
  People aren't going to travel to twelve
• 49:29
  different semifinals when there's two good
• 49:32
  athletes at them for one or two spots.
• 49:35
  Like you need to bring.
• 49:38
  Thirty of like the best athletes to fight
• 49:40
  over nine spots and it's a mini games
• 49:44
  and people will.
• 49:45
  That's where you're going to maybe get
• 49:46
  people going to view in live in person.
• 49:53
  So here's the thing.
• 49:56
  I see both sides of this in a
• 49:57
  way.
• 49:59
  I don't think we need more semifinal,
• 50:01
  but we need more people that are willing
• 50:03
  to run semifinals and learn how to.
• 50:06
  We are burning out the semifinal people
• 50:08
  that we have that are good at it,
• 50:11
  and we're going to lose them because of
• 50:12
  it.
• 50:13
  The other thing is CrossFit is giving them
• 50:16
  no support, no way to sustain themselves,
• 50:19
  and they're losing money.
• 50:22
  And they've given them a shitty part of
• 50:25
  the season where there is no drama.
• 50:28
  People can go to eighteen different
• 50:29
  semifinals if they want.
• 50:32
  People aren't traveling to them to watch
• 50:35
  because there's so many of them and
• 50:37
  they'll get another opportunity down the
• 50:38
  road to see their favorite CrossFit
• 50:40
  athlete.
• 50:41
  So who wants to sign up for that
• 50:43
  junk?
• 50:47
  I think rather than add more,
• 50:49
  we're probably going to lose some.
• 50:52
  rightfully so i've said that if i was
• 50:54
  an event organizer i would say no f
• 50:57
  you run it yourself do it the way
• 50:59
  it should be done like and that's i
• 51:02
  think truly what needs to happen is people
• 51:03
  need to just back out and make hq
• 51:05
  take it over i think it's a lost
• 51:06
  cause that hq is probably never going to
• 51:08
  take it back over if that's what happens
• 51:09
  they'll probably go a hundred percent
• 51:10
  online um but yeah i'd rather see three
• 51:14
  incredibly strong semi-finals events
• 51:21
  And if you don't make it,
• 51:23
  you have the online portion.
• 51:24
  And if not, this is when, you know,
• 51:26
  trying to make WFP,
• 51:28
  going to Waterpalooza and all these other
• 51:30
  events are also rogue, are also options.
• 51:33
  And honestly,
• 51:33
  it makes more money than the CrossFit
• 51:34
  Games season because all of those
• 51:37
  athletes...
• 51:38
  that don't make it half the time they
• 51:40
  don't make anything at the games anyways
• 51:42
  so if you don't make it that year
• 51:44
  it just there's other opportunities in the
• 51:45
  season to continue to compete it's just
• 51:48
  you know people put all their eggs
• 51:50
  obviously across the game season because
• 51:51
  that is the biggest one like for sure
• 51:55
  but they would have a second chance online
• 51:58
  so it's still two chances there and i
• 52:01
  do think that that still works
• 52:07
  So Patrick says only in North America,
• 52:08
  French, Jordan, Torian, Far East, Copa,
• 52:10
  Sur and rebel are doing fine.
• 52:11
  That's because they only have one event
• 52:13
  per country.
• 52:14
  Well, I mean,
• 52:16
  he has a point there for one.
• 52:17
  I feel like, I mean, let's be real.
• 52:19
  Norcale is doing fine.
• 52:21
  And maybe Norcale shouldn't be a
• 52:22
  semifinal.
• 52:23
  They should just continue to run their,
• 52:26
  well like well-run comp that brings in a
• 52:28
  ton of community and that should be their
• 52:31
  thing and they should continue to make
• 52:32
  money on their event and then syndicate
• 52:35
  stays the like premier one here because
• 52:38
  it's kind of central and that's i i
• 52:43
  think the i mean that was the problem
• 52:45
  is we tore syndicate and nor kill in
• 52:48
  half being on the same weekend like you
• 52:51
  can't do that kind of thing
• 52:53
  I don't want more.
• 52:54
  I want less and I want everyone to
• 52:56
  go there.
• 52:59
  And then you have Del Mar and mayhem
• 53:01
  added.
• 53:01
  So now you have four semifinals in one
• 53:04
  country with people going to all like
• 53:06
  signing up for all of them,
• 53:07
  except for when they're on the same
• 53:09
  weekend.
• 53:10
  It's just bananas.
• 53:12
  I mean, mayhem is small.
• 53:13
  You're only going to draw so much crowd.
• 53:15
  So I'm not opposed to them remaining one.
• 53:19
  What sucks is it's so close to syndicate.
• 53:22
  location wise, right?
• 53:22
  Like it's kind of already that same crowd.
• 53:25
  Um,
• 53:25
  but ma'am is so small that not everyone
• 53:28
  can go there.
• 53:29
  So I guess syndicate could pull a bigger
• 53:33
  crowd.
• 53:35
  I don't know.
• 53:35
  All right.
• 53:37
  Next one.
• 53:39
  Quarterfinals revenue should be,
• 53:40
  have a percentage based and transparent
• 53:42
  split between CrossFit HQ and semifinal
• 53:45
  event hosts.
• 53:48
  Yes.
• 53:48
  I, I get it.
• 53:50
  Cause I think,
• 53:51
  I think they need to do a better
• 53:52
  job with handing money over for like age
• 53:55
  group too,
• 53:55
  but I just don't see them agreeing to
• 53:58
  this.
• 54:00
  Well,
• 54:00
  what's funny is the rule book says that
• 54:02
  the money earned from the open goes to
• 54:03
  like the prize purse and the quarterfinal.
• 54:06
  We have no idea where that goes to
• 54:09
  the, to the games budget.
• 54:10
  I'm sure it's not in the rule book.
• 54:13
  You're just making a big assumption.
• 54:15
  Yeah.
• 54:15
  Well,
• 54:16
  who knows if it even goes towards the
• 54:18
  games budget?
• 54:18
  Maybe that's just their pocket.
• 54:20
  And that's the money that like Karen said,
• 54:21
  that's their,
• 54:22
  that's how they made their books look back
• 54:25
  in black.
• 54:27
  It could be, I don't know.
• 54:32
  It's a private company.
• 54:34
  We're never going to know where that goes
• 54:35
  unless it's spelled out somewhere and it's
• 54:37
  not spelled out.
• 54:38
  Could be the Easter bonus for the
• 54:39
  employees.
• 54:40
  Who knows?
• 54:48
  But I do like the idea of me
• 54:50
  being more transparent with the
• 54:52
  quarterfinal money and showing where it
• 54:54
  goes.
• 54:56
  If they showed that it went to the
• 54:57
  game's budget,
• 54:58
  at least we'd know it's going to that.
• 55:00
  But there are people that do
• 55:01
  quarterfinals,
• 55:03
  and I don't know how big of a
• 55:04
  percentage this is, to support the season.
• 55:07
  People think that they're paying that
• 55:08
  money in support of the season,
• 55:10
  and we don't even know if the money
• 55:12
  goes to the season.
• 55:13
  Well,
• 55:14
  we also think people pay for the Open
• 55:17
  to support the season.
• 55:19
  We're getting to that, too.
• 55:24
  Individual semis should uniformly be a
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  two-day competition with five to six
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  scored events.
• 55:30
  At least six.
• 55:33
  I'm totally on board for the two-day.
• 55:35
  Totally.
• 55:35
  I'm on board for the two-day.
• 55:36
  I do agree.
• 55:37
  I think six is better because every
• 55:39
  semifinal always does a max lift and a
• 55:41
  run.
• 55:41
  I don't know.
• 55:42
  I just think six is a more well-rounded
• 55:45
  test.
• 55:45
  Yeah.
• 55:49
  The athletes can handle three events a
• 55:50
  day.
• 55:51
  A hundred percent.
• 55:52
  As long as, yeah.
• 55:53
  And then the other two days you could
• 55:55
  put the teams or masters there if you
• 55:57
  needed more or community divisions to add
• 55:59
  to your weekend.
• 56:05
  All right, and then finally,
• 56:06
  CrossFit should lean into age group
• 56:08
  athletes and team live semifinals as a way
• 56:10
  to improve competition and generate more
• 56:12
  participation.
• 56:15
  Yes, if you want to add the teams,
• 56:16
  that's one thing,
• 56:16
  but I think the age group kind of
• 56:19
  made their stand there this year on how
• 56:21
  that worked out.
• 56:24
  Well, there was no lean.
• 56:25
  I mean,
• 56:25
  they'd have to start leaning to lean more
• 56:27
  into.
• 56:29
  When you don't even acknowledge that they
• 56:32
  happened...
• 56:33
  during the games that were just down the
• 56:35
  street and it happened just days before
• 56:39
  there were no updates from the the teen
• 56:42
  group during the weekend while it was
• 56:44
  going on there now granted things move
• 56:47
  pretty quickly and there wasn't a lot of
• 56:49
  break between events but they had that
• 56:51
  video board running different things on it
• 56:54
  you're telling me you can't run footage of
• 56:58
  carolyn winning the thirty five to thirty
• 57:01
  nine noah winning thirty five to thirty
• 57:03
  nine rudy berger winning forty to forty
• 57:05
  four yeah yeah but they're not even
• 57:08
  talking about them highlighting like the
• 57:13
  games masters they're not even talking
• 57:15
  about they're literally talking about
• 57:16
  adding them to semifinals and i don't i
• 57:19
  don't think that that went well for the
• 57:21
  for the age groups
• 57:24
  Well, again, there's still no lean.
• 57:25
  Even when they were in the same place
• 57:27
  doing things at the same time,
• 57:29
  they didn't lean into that.
• 57:37
  All right.
• 57:40
  So I think that's all seven of the
• 57:42
  CAC recommendations.
• 57:45
  So I'll stop sharing.
• 57:46
  I appreciate the work that the CAC is
• 57:48
  doing, though,
• 57:49
  to bring these points up and...
• 57:53
  get some better, you know,
• 57:56
  get a better structure for the season.
• 57:57
  So definitely appreciate the work that
• 57:59
  they're doing and their ideas.
• 58:02
  Even if not everyone agrees with every
• 58:03
  single one of them, I think just having,
• 58:06
  you know,
• 58:07
  different representation on there and at
• 58:09
  least getting a dialogue going with HQ and
• 58:14
  the sport, I think is important.
• 58:15
  So we'll see where that goes.
• 58:20
  I wanted to,
• 58:21
  I'm going to skip ahead a little bit.
• 58:25
  WFP workouts were what,
• 58:27
  two weekish away from WFP tour stop two?
• 58:32
  while patrick's in the comments i'm going
• 58:34
  to put him on the spot since jamie
• 58:35
  and i have applied for media credentials
• 58:38
  uh we have not heard back in writing
• 58:40
  in and have not been able to make
• 58:42
  hotel reservations in indianapolis yet uh
• 58:46
  so just nudge nudge push push we have
• 58:50
  applied maybe i'll message brian again i
• 58:53
  had messaged brian because i was trying to
• 58:55
  look in to see if they had age
• 58:56
  group here but they don't they only have
• 58:59
  the finals unfortunately
• 59:00
  Yeah, and just in addition to this,
• 59:02
  Monster Games did announce that the
• 59:09
  winners of their competition get to go to
• 59:11
  Copenhagen and compete,
• 59:13
  and they put out a thing on Instagram,
• 59:14
  I believe it was today,
• 59:16
  which was a pretty cool little thing.
• 59:18
  Oh, we're approved.
• 59:21
  So we're approved,
• 59:21
  and so we need to clip this,
• 59:23
  print it out so we can bring it
• 59:25
  with us.
• 59:28
  All right.
• 59:29
  I need to get with Jamie then.
• 59:30
  And we need to figure out hotels.
• 59:33
  YouTube official.
• 59:37
  I'm going to put up, okay.
• 59:38
  Clip that clip clip that there we go.
• 59:40
  All right.
• 59:42
  So the workouts came out this week.
• 59:45
  Um,
• 59:46
  and Carolyn is going to be doing them.
• 59:49
  So I'd love to get the feedback on
• 59:51
  what we think of the workouts, uh,
• 59:53
  for tour stop number two in grand park,
• 59:56
  uh, Indiana.
• 1:00:00
  The Combine.
• 1:00:02
  Forty-yard dash, pro agility,
• 1:00:04
  five-ten-five shuttle, max broad jump.
• 1:00:06
  Loves it.
• 1:00:10
  Big hearts, big hearts, big hearts.
• 1:00:12
  Yeah, I mean,
• 1:00:13
  I've been waiting for thirteen years for
• 1:00:16
  something like this to show up.
• 1:00:17
  I mean,
• 1:00:17
  I would have liked to have been younger,
• 1:00:21
  but I'm excited for them to do this.
• 1:00:22
  I haven't actually been sprinting because
• 1:00:26
  I hurt my hamstring running a couple weeks
• 1:00:28
  or a week and a half ago.
• 1:00:30
  So,
• 1:00:31
  but I'm hoping to be back in all
• 1:00:33
  Tuesday to start re-implementing some
• 1:00:36
  sprinting again.
• 1:00:38
  Went a little bit too hard
• 1:00:39
  And I'm a little too old.
• 1:00:41
  Know your age.
• 1:00:44
  It wasn't too bad.
• 1:00:45
  It was just,
• 1:00:46
  it was a little bit of a pull,
• 1:00:48
  but it was just enough that I was
• 1:00:49
  like, okay, you're not,
• 1:00:51
  you're not twenty-five anymore.
• 1:00:53
  Can't do what you used to do.
• 1:00:55
  So, it was a little wake-up call.
• 1:01:00
  I'm hoping this isn't a place it's easy
• 1:01:02
  to watch.
• 1:01:04
  I want to see the five-ten shuttle so
• 1:01:05
  bad.
• 1:01:08
  That's the one I think I like the
• 1:01:09
  most of the three, I believe.
• 1:01:15
  Yeah.
• 1:01:18
  There was supposed to be a vertical jump,
• 1:01:21
  but I don't know if they took that
• 1:01:23
  away.
• 1:01:23
  So like at the Monster Games,
• 1:01:25
  they did a vertical jump,
• 1:01:26
  but it was like a time in the
• 1:01:28
  air.
• 1:01:29
  I think sometimes people kind of pike and
• 1:01:31
  because it's not just like a hitting,
• 1:01:33
  it was just like a vertical jump.
• 1:01:34
  And I think they probably just scratched
• 1:01:35
  that.
• 1:01:36
  I'm assuming because of the difficulty of
• 1:01:38
  judging that movement.
• 1:01:39
  But yeah, excited to see this combine.
• 1:01:43
  I wanted to put this up because this
• 1:01:45
  is a topic for later.
• 1:01:47
  Seth has taken off,
• 1:01:48
  but he'll say for future discussion that
• 1:01:50
  the master's payouts will be a topic of
• 1:01:52
  discussion at Thursday's CAC meeting.
• 1:01:54
  We've been told we will get clarity on
• 1:01:57
  that.
• 1:01:58
  Good.
• 1:01:59
  I saw Halpin's post that asked if they
• 1:02:01
  could audit the numbers if the CAC gets
• 1:02:03
  asked for an audit.
• 1:02:06
  I mean,
• 1:02:06
  it's not just affecting the masters,
• 1:02:07
  it's affecting the individuals.
• 1:02:08
  They're going off the same numbers for the
• 1:02:10
  individual.
• 1:02:10
  So people like, it's not, yeah,
• 1:02:13
  it's all of it.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah.
• 1:02:16
  Awesome.
• 1:02:17
  I'm glad to hear that.
• 1:02:19
  Uh,
• 1:02:20
  Indianapolis is the home of the combine
• 1:02:21
  for the NFL.
• 1:02:22
  So it is kind of cool that they're
• 1:02:24
  doing the combine in Indianapolis.
• 1:02:26
  That is cool.
• 1:02:28
  I'm looking forward.
• 1:02:28
  I think you have some athletes that are
• 1:02:30
  probably going to do really,
• 1:02:31
  really well here that we just don't know
• 1:02:33
  that they have this type of background.
• 1:02:35
  We've never tested this in CrossFit.
• 1:02:38
  Never.
• 1:02:38
  No one's had the balls to do it.
• 1:02:44
  I'm excited to see it.
• 1:02:45
  Who's the fastest?
• 1:02:47
  Who's agile?
• 1:02:47
  Who can jump far?
• 1:02:49
  I love it.
• 1:02:51
  I don't know how they're going to score
• 1:02:52
  it.
• 1:02:53
  Because we have fifty athletes taking the
• 1:02:55
  test.
• 1:02:56
  Like,
• 1:02:56
  are they worth thirty three something
• 1:02:59
  point three points each?
• 1:03:00
  I don't know.
• 1:03:02
  Fifty points.
• 1:03:03
  Yeah.
• 1:03:03
  At Monster Games,
• 1:03:04
  I think Corey told me they were there
• 1:03:06
  was four events and they were twenty five
• 1:03:08
  each.
• 1:03:09
  OK.
• 1:03:10
  Um, so,
• 1:03:12
  and then Patrick did say that they,
• 1:03:15
  that monster was a test run.
• 1:03:17
  So we'll see.
• 1:03:19
  Um,
• 1:03:21
  there was something I wanted to share and
• 1:03:24
  now I lost it.
• 1:03:27
  Oh, well, um, yeah.
• 1:03:31
  Excited for that one too.
• 1:03:35
  Uh, Phil says,
• 1:03:36
  I think he might do well in this
• 1:03:37
  one.
• 1:03:39
  I think you're right.
• 1:03:41
  again they're in a field of fifty there
• 1:03:44
  can be someone that has a hundred meter
• 1:03:46
  track and field background that we have no
• 1:03:48
  idea about or like a pure sprinter like
• 1:03:51
  we have no idea like we just haven't
• 1:03:53
  tested this this type of stuff and i
• 1:03:57
  don't know what um birchfield means and he
• 1:04:00
  says i don't know about that carolyn
• 1:04:05
  um pro vent to uh twelve parallel
• 1:04:08
  handstand push-ups twenty four ghd sit-ups
• 1:04:11
  twelve box jump over six flip sled four
• 1:04:14
  rounds for time i love the flip sled
• 1:04:17
  yeah it's it's really just a mini pig
• 1:04:22
  i've never really used i think i've only
• 1:04:24
  used it once and it was at wadapalooza
• 1:04:26
  many many years ago
• 1:04:28
  Um,
• 1:04:28
  I normally like the pig at the games.
• 1:04:31
  I like this one.
• 1:04:31
  There's some, um,
• 1:04:33
  like the flip side is almost like a
• 1:04:34
  clean and jerk,
• 1:04:35
  which will get the shoulders tired for
• 1:04:37
  probably hands and pushups.
• 1:04:38
  Like,
• 1:04:38
  I think this is a nice athletic event
• 1:04:40
  and I like it.
• 1:04:42
  I really like this event.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, it's cool.
• 1:04:45
  Uh, then we have a ten K run.
• 1:04:47
  So we go forty yard dash to ten
• 1:04:50
  K run.
• 1:04:52
  I mean, if I like number one,
• 1:04:53
  I probably don't like number three for
• 1:04:58
  But I think both are important in a
• 1:05:00
  test of fitness.
• 1:05:01
  You know,
• 1:05:01
  someone like Kringle will do well at both.
• 1:05:05
  And that's why she's the fittest.
• 1:05:07
  But I think it's an important test that
• 1:05:09
  like, like,
• 1:05:10
  You have to do both.
• 1:05:11
  And we always only do the distance.
• 1:05:14
  So that's why I'm finally happy that we
• 1:05:15
  get to see the other side of it.
• 1:05:17
  Because there are people that we always
• 1:05:19
  assume that they're horrible runners,
• 1:05:21
  but they're just not great distance
• 1:05:23
  runners,
• 1:05:23
  but they could be excellent sprinters.
• 1:05:26
  So yeah, I think that's fine.
• 1:05:28
  And then Scott's favorite workout,
• 1:05:30
  the one rep max bench press.
• 1:05:34
  I'm going to get embarrassed here.
• 1:05:38
  Is Alex doing a WRP?
• 1:05:41
  no no okay she really wanted to do
• 1:05:45
  it because of the bench press i think
• 1:05:47
  she was very very curious but i think
• 1:05:49
  on the girls um podcast she said that
• 1:05:52
  she had a trip or something and then
• 1:05:53
  didn't want to think about having to train
• 1:05:55
  for wfp so i think she doesn't like
• 1:05:58
  it or is not doing it me personally
• 1:06:01
  you know number three and four is no
• 1:06:09
  yeah i'd like to be great
• 1:06:11
  I mean, I think, again,
• 1:06:11
  but I think it's going to be cool
• 1:06:12
  to see who can bench.
• 1:06:14
  I mean,
• 1:06:14
  that's kind of part of like the combine
• 1:06:16
  all the time is bench.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah.
• 1:06:22
  The test in the combine is taking two
• 1:06:25
  twenty five as many reps as you can.
• 1:06:27
  Right.
• 1:06:28
  And like for women,
• 1:06:29
  maybe that's one forty five or one fifty.
• 1:06:31
  I don't know.
• 1:06:32
  Somewhere in there.
• 1:06:33
  I don't think you would do one fifty
• 1:06:34
  five,
• 1:06:34
  which would normally be the standard.
• 1:06:36
  I think you would probably do.
• 1:06:37
  Yeah,
• 1:06:38
  I think guys can just bench better than
• 1:06:40
  females in general.
• 1:06:41
  Minus like a few.
• 1:06:44
  Um, but yeah, I mean, you know,
• 1:06:46
  this is setting up to be a back
• 1:06:48
  squat probably in the finals of WFP
• 1:06:51
  because last year they had some, um,
• 1:06:54
  Olympic lifting for their three stages of
• 1:06:56
  their max lift.
• 1:06:57
  Now you're seeing, um, power lifts,
• 1:06:59
  you know, you had the deadlift, the bench,
• 1:07:02
  and then the back squat is what I'm
• 1:07:04
  assuming will be in the finals.
• 1:07:07
  But, uh,
• 1:07:14
  um so then we move on to uh
• 1:07:17
  number five two rounds for time fifty
• 1:07:19
  chest to bar twenty five sandbag squats
• 1:07:21
  hundred fifty sled push ouch legs heavy uh
• 1:07:26
  sandbag squats i'm assuming we can
• 1:07:28
  probably hold the big sandbag here but
• 1:07:33
  yeah that's gonna be painful i mean i
• 1:07:35
  kind of hope you have to have it
• 1:07:37
  up there like i hope it's not the
• 1:07:39
  bear hug because people will just like hit
• 1:07:40
  it off their thighs
• 1:07:42
  Yeah, I don't think so.
• 1:07:43
  And I don't think it's going to,
• 1:07:44
  maybe just one shoulder.
• 1:07:47
  Is it two hundred one fifty?
• 1:07:49
  Yeah, it's pretty heavy.
• 1:07:51
  I don't know that I've done a one
• 1:07:53
  fifty squat.
• 1:07:55
  But that's a tough one.
• 1:07:58
  Those legs are going to be sore.
• 1:07:59
  Workout.
• 1:08:00
  I like this one.
• 1:08:00
  It'll be fun to watch.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah.
• 1:08:03
  um number six uh four time thirty twenty
• 1:08:08
  two calorie echo bike hundred and fifty
• 1:08:10
  yard swim rest two minutes hundred and
• 1:08:12
  fifty yard swim thirty twenty two cal echo
• 1:08:15
  bike carolyn's gonna be wearing her wings
• 1:08:18
  i mean
• 1:08:23
  participating in this one?
• 1:08:25
  This is early.
• 1:08:27
  This is I think the first one has
• 1:08:28
  a I think the first one has a
• 1:08:30
  five minute time cap.
• 1:08:31
  And then everyone originally,
• 1:08:33
  I think that's how they had posted it.
• 1:08:35
  So you have a five minute time cap
• 1:08:36
  rest two minutes and then you start the
• 1:08:38
  other way.
• 1:08:39
  But well,
• 1:08:40
  that would equal to the overall cap.
• 1:08:42
  So that makes sense.
• 1:08:44
  And then finally,
• 1:08:50
  we'll go to the four-time, thirty-five,
• 1:08:52
  twenty-five calorie row,
• 1:08:54
  twenty-five bar muscle-ups,
• 1:08:55
  hundred-fifty handstand walk,
• 1:08:57
  five squat snatch.
• 1:09:02
  What's the weight?
• 1:09:04
  It is two-forty-five, one-seventy.
• 1:09:07
  Jesus!
• 1:09:09
  Yeah, that's hard.
• 1:09:10
  I haven't tried that,
• 1:09:10
  but nine-minute time cap,
• 1:09:12
  that's going to be heavy for me on
• 1:09:13
  the barbell.
• 1:09:14
  That is insane.
• 1:09:15
  For me, it's like a weight that
• 1:09:18
  You know,
• 1:09:18
  I haven't touched a barbell in this
• 1:09:20
  workout.
• 1:09:21
  You know, you have a ten,
• 1:09:22
  fifteen minute corral.
• 1:09:24
  You have the bar muscle ups.
• 1:09:25
  You have the handstands.
• 1:09:26
  You're very fatigued in the shoulders,
• 1:09:28
  your high heart rate.
• 1:09:29
  And then for me,
• 1:09:30
  this is a weight that like I have
• 1:09:31
  to definitely respect.
• 1:09:33
  And it's a heavy weight for me.
• 1:09:35
  So I don't know how I'm going to
• 1:09:37
  feel when I get there.
• 1:09:37
  I haven't tested this workout.
• 1:09:39
  I'll probably give it a go at some
• 1:09:40
  point this week or next week.
• 1:09:45
  And then the people that are very,
• 1:09:46
  very strong,
• 1:09:47
  I think the front half will be irrelevant
• 1:09:49
  because if they're able to do the
• 1:09:50
  one-seventy and just go boom, boom, boom,
• 1:09:54
  or even, I mean, if you're Gi,
• 1:09:56
  you can maybe go touch and go.
• 1:09:58
  I think that's the big separator is the
• 1:10:00
  five-squat snatches,
• 1:10:01
  and the rest is all movements that anyone
• 1:10:03
  in this field would have no problem doing.
• 1:10:05
  So I think you could have just done
• 1:10:06
  almost a snatch there.
• 1:10:07
  This is exactly how I felt about the
• 1:10:10
  second workout at the Masters Games.
• 1:10:12
  Like,
• 1:10:13
  I don't like this workout for you guys.
• 1:10:15
  dumb.
• 1:10:17
  It's just not a test of fitness.
• 1:10:18
  I think it's fine,
• 1:10:21
  but I do think it's very skewed to
• 1:10:24
  the barbell at the end.
• 1:10:31
  Can I just say overall, I really,
• 1:10:33
  really like these events.
• 1:10:35
  I like that you have sled pushes.
• 1:10:37
  I like that you have a combine.
• 1:10:39
  I like that you have flip sleds.
• 1:10:42
  There's all the odd object stuff that we
• 1:10:46
  didn't have at the Masters CrossFit Games.
• 1:10:51
  Yeah.
• 1:10:51
  I think they did a great job with
• 1:10:52
  the programming.
• 1:10:54
  And they're not making them squat with a
• 1:10:56
  med ball.
• 1:10:56
  Yeah.
• 1:10:58
  There's events that I'm not going to like
• 1:10:59
  or I'm not going to do very well,
• 1:11:00
  but I still think it's a good test.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah.
• 1:11:07
  I love that it's sled pushes.
• 1:11:09
  I love that it's flip sleds and just
• 1:11:12
  grunt work at times.
• 1:11:15
  That's the gritty CrossFit that has to be
• 1:11:17
  a part of something.
• 1:11:19
  And if it's not there,
• 1:11:20
  it just doesn't feel special.
• 1:11:26
  I mean,
• 1:11:26
  I know when a local comp has a
• 1:11:28
  flip sled,
• 1:11:29
  we get all excited because it's something
• 1:11:31
  you don't get to touch every day.
• 1:11:36
  so uh those are those are um those
• 1:11:43
  are the workouts uh justin kotler agrees
• 1:11:47
  with prevo uh good competition for tutor i
• 1:11:58
  don't know how good he is running gonna
• 1:11:59
  be good yeah i don't feel like i
• 1:12:01
  don't even know how he'll be at the
• 1:12:03
  combine to be honest like i don't know
• 1:12:05
  I've not seen his athleticism on display
• 1:12:09
  to know.
• 1:12:11
  I think Carolyn's right.
• 1:12:12
  I think we don't know.
• 1:12:14
  The combine is a we don't know,
• 1:12:16
  unless you're Guy or Amy Kringle.
• 1:12:20
  You know certain people that will do well,
• 1:12:22
  but you don't know who's going to win
• 1:12:23
  because in a field of fifty,
• 1:12:26
  there's some outliers on this kind of
• 1:12:28
  stuff.
• 1:12:29
  I know I'm going to do well at
• 1:12:30
  the combine,
• 1:12:31
  but I don't know where I am.
• 1:12:33
  There could be freaks there.
• 1:12:36
  Um, like, you know,
• 1:12:37
  Kringle is going to do well at all
• 1:12:38
  of it, but for the most part,
• 1:12:40
  I think people are going to enjoy a
• 1:12:42
  couple of the workouts and then get
• 1:12:43
  exposed on other parts of the workouts.
• 1:12:45
  And I think that's exciting.
• 1:12:48
  Like that,
• 1:12:48
  that that's a good test of fitness.
• 1:12:50
  If you're kind of worried with some and
• 1:12:53
  excited for others.
• 1:12:54
  Um, yeah.
• 1:12:57
  How are some of the girls doing that
• 1:13:00
  were at the games?
• 1:13:00
  Is Lydia coming?
• 1:13:03
  Is Hannah Black?
• 1:13:04
  How's her back?
• 1:13:07
  They're signed up right now,
• 1:13:08
  so I think Lydia,
• 1:13:10
  Hannah Black is doing it.
• 1:13:12
  Annika's not doing it.
• 1:13:14
  Fi, who's a pro, not doing it.
• 1:13:18
  I think those are the two female pros
• 1:13:20
  that aren't doing it.
• 1:13:22
  And then, yeah, I mean, you have
• 1:13:25
  Who else from the games Burgos is there
• 1:13:26
  as well.
• 1:13:27
  Okay.
• 1:13:29
  She's not a pro,
• 1:13:30
  but she was an athlete that was at
• 1:13:31
  the games.
• 1:13:33
  But certainly will be in the picture to
• 1:13:35
  get a pro card this year.
• 1:13:38
  Yeah, even bench press.
• 1:13:40
  It's more than raw strength.
• 1:13:41
  If you don't keep the barbell path, right,
• 1:13:43
  you're not going to make the lift.
• 1:13:45
  Like it is consistency with raw strength.
• 1:13:51
  And that's going to be a question mark
• 1:13:53
  too.
• 1:13:53
  Like, yeah, this person's strong,
• 1:13:55
  but are they strong in a consistent manner
• 1:13:57
  with a bench press?
• 1:13:58
  Yep.
• 1:14:06
  Chivalry.
• 1:14:06
  Yep.
• 1:14:06
  I have the rosters if people want to
• 1:14:08
  see it, but it's fifties,
• 1:14:09
  a lot of names to read.
• 1:14:12
  I don't know how many sub-fives on the
• 1:14:15
  .
• 1:14:15
  I'm not sure,
• 1:14:16
  but I also don't know how they're going
• 1:14:18
  to calculate it if you get to start
• 1:14:20
  one yard behind the speed gates or not.
• 1:14:28
  Depending on where the gates start,
• 1:14:31
  it can affect how many people I think
• 1:14:34
  can get sub-five.
• 1:14:37
  Listen,
• 1:14:38
  sub-five is not that difficult for a male
• 1:14:41
  that's in shape.
• 1:14:42
  In high school,
• 1:14:43
  I ran sub five and I'm not that
• 1:14:45
  fast.
• 1:14:47
  These guys are in way better shape than
• 1:14:49
  I was.
• 1:14:52
  Like,
• 1:14:52
  I wouldn't be surprised if geese like four
• 1:14:54
  or five, four, six.
• 1:14:59
  It depends if they go a yard before
• 1:15:01
  he would be faster.
• 1:15:09
  I mean,
• 1:15:09
  I was like four nine in high school,
• 1:15:12
  but I did go sub five.
• 1:15:16
  And we had kids on my football team
• 1:15:17
  going four sixes, four sevens.
• 1:15:22
  So if they can do it as...
• 1:15:25
  The Apex were going on this past weekend,
• 1:15:27
  I think in Chicago.
• 1:15:29
  And you have a lot of the forty
• 1:15:30
  times there.
• 1:15:33
  For females,
• 1:15:34
  there's a few that were sub five.
• 1:15:37
  for the men.
• 1:15:38
  I think there was one guy that was
• 1:15:39
  like four to something.
• 1:15:41
  But again,
• 1:15:42
  I think they were starting a yard behind.
• 1:15:48
  Yeah,
• 1:15:49
  I think Patrick says NFL combined
• 1:15:51
  standards,
• 1:15:52
  and I think that is like a track
• 1:15:54
  start.
• 1:16:00
  And then it becomes...
• 1:16:02
  what do they allow for the starting
• 1:16:03
  position?
• 1:16:04
  Does it have to be a two point
• 1:16:05
  start?
• 1:16:05
  Can you do like,
• 1:16:08
  I don't know if they have certain rules,
• 1:16:09
  I guess we'll see what the standards are
• 1:16:13
  for how they want us to start.
• 1:16:16
  Three point or two point.
• 1:16:27
  So, okay.
• 1:16:30
  last thing i wanted to talk about tonight
• 1:16:32
  and seth already addressed this in the
• 1:16:34
  comments earlier um well there's okay the
• 1:16:42
  masters payouts were announced they came
• 1:16:49
  in lower than what people expected
• 1:16:52
  They were based on two hundred forty two
• 1:16:54
  thousand participants in the open.
• 1:16:56
  When CrossFit itself announced that there
• 1:16:58
  were two hundred fifty four thousand plus
• 1:17:02
  participants,
• 1:17:03
  meaning that twelve thousand participants
• 1:17:05
  and their money disappeared.
• 1:17:11
  And when,
• 1:17:13
  and I talked about this on Friday a
• 1:17:15
  little bit, but when spin posted this,
• 1:17:17
  the comments were about how much money the
• 1:17:20
  masters were getting or not getting,
• 1:17:22
  or was it fair?
• 1:17:23
  Was it not fair?
• 1:17:25
  The big story here is not that the
• 1:17:27
  big story is that there is money missing.
• 1:17:31
  Yeah.
• 1:17:33
  Yeah,
• 1:17:33
  the comments kind of drifted sideways
• 1:17:36
  there in the Masters.
• 1:17:37
  And that wasn't what the spin was bringing
• 1:17:40
  up.
• 1:17:40
  It was literally that it's based off a
• 1:17:43
  lower registration than what we're
• 1:17:45
  anticipating,
• 1:17:46
  which means not only our money would be
• 1:17:48
  lower, but the individual's money,
• 1:17:50
  the team's or whatever.
• 1:17:51
  It's just calculating differently.
• 1:17:55
  Well,
• 1:17:55
  and it also happened with the individual
• 1:17:58
  athletes in the elite division.
• 1:18:02
  They were based on two forty two as
• 1:18:04
  well.
• 1:18:04
  So their paychecks were lower than they
• 1:18:07
  anticipated them to be.
• 1:18:10
  I've actually seen record where if you
• 1:18:13
  count all the people that registered for
• 1:18:15
  the open up until the open was over,
• 1:18:18
  it's even greater than the two fifty four.
• 1:18:22
  But that number was never announced.
• 1:18:24
  CrossFit announced a number when the open
• 1:18:26
  started.
• 1:18:27
  Twenty five point one or twenty point one.
• 1:18:32
  And I've seen that there were actually
• 1:18:34
  more people that signed up after that.
• 1:18:38
  And to sign up means you have to
• 1:18:40
  pay the twenty dollars.
• 1:18:44
  So there's at least twelve thousand
• 1:18:47
  registrations missing,
• 1:18:48
  possibly way more than that.
• 1:18:54
  So I emailed CrossFit about it.
• 1:18:57
  And I got an email back saying that
• 1:19:00
  from one of the support people that they
• 1:19:02
  were going to go back and look at
• 1:19:04
  it and come back to me with an
• 1:19:05
  answer.
• 1:19:07
  I mean, if you're going to announce...
• 1:19:09
  So they were going to look into it.
• 1:19:12
  Yeah.
• 1:19:12
  I think if you're going to announce that
• 1:19:13
  two hundred fifty two thousand people
• 1:19:15
  signed up for the open,
• 1:19:16
  you should probably use that number.
• 1:19:19
  Moving forward.
• 1:19:20
  And that's probably on the low side of
• 1:19:26
  the actual breakdown per division is
• 1:19:28
  identical to what they did last year um
• 1:19:31
  like of the ten percent eight point five
• 1:19:33
  went to the winner three point five the
• 1:19:35
  second then it was two percent to the
• 1:19:38
  third and then each division is the same
• 1:19:41
  breakdown it's just the total is off i
• 1:19:44
  think from what signed up in the open
• 1:19:48
  but i think like from from my position
• 1:19:51
  i think it's a difference of maybe
• 1:19:53
  fifteen hundred dollars or something like
• 1:19:57
  that but someone like Sprite could be a
• 1:19:58
  difference of almost fifteen thousand that
• 1:20:01
  he would be lower and then when you
• 1:20:03
  start adding all of the tax or the
• 1:20:06
  state tax stuff like that will you know
• 1:20:10
  it ends up mattering so you just want
• 1:20:12
  it to be accurate that's all well just
• 1:20:16
  an explanation not just blindly throw it
• 1:20:18
  out there one it was supposed to be
• 1:20:21
  announced prior to the game starting
• 1:20:24
  It came out two weeks after and it's
• 1:20:27
  not right.
• 1:20:28
  It's not correct.
• 1:20:29
  According to the announcement you made
• 1:20:32
  about the open.
• 1:20:33
  Right.
• 1:20:34
  And yet people complain about the WFP and
• 1:20:36
  the athletes making more money.
• 1:20:40
  At least,
• 1:20:42
  you know what you're making there.
• 1:20:45
  I know there was a lot of complaints
• 1:20:46
  in there about like.
• 1:20:49
  Thirty five, thirty nine,
• 1:20:50
  making more and then drop off stuff like.
• 1:20:54
  But that's not the story.
• 1:20:55
  No, I know.
• 1:20:56
  But I feel like if you're like,
• 1:20:59
  if you're trying to allocate money,
• 1:21:01
  I feel like the smartest thing to do
• 1:21:04
  is, well, you know,
• 1:21:05
  if a thousand seventy plus people sign up,
• 1:21:09
  that's their pool of
• 1:21:12
  money and and how many thirty five to
• 1:21:14
  thirty nine sign up and how many forty
• 1:21:16
  to forty like honestly it should probably
• 1:21:18
  like it's increasing yeah like every age
• 1:21:21
  group is just yeah and individuals
• 1:21:24
  eighteen to thirty four should not get
• 1:21:27
  they need they need more participation if
• 1:21:29
  they want more money uh tessa nobody's
• 1:21:33
  complaining right now anymore
• 1:21:40
  Because like there's a division of like
• 1:21:42
  the forty to like, I don't know,
• 1:21:43
  to fifty four.
• 1:21:44
  Maybe you have the same as what you're
• 1:21:46
  saying.
• 1:21:46
  Basically, each age group,
• 1:21:48
  it should slowly start to go down as
• 1:21:50
  the number of participants in that age
• 1:21:52
  group is also lower.
• 1:21:53
  Yeah,
• 1:21:54
  that's how I think it should be allocated.
• 1:21:57
  But yes,
• 1:21:57
  I think I think that makes sense.
• 1:22:01
  The thing that I.
• 1:22:05
  The other numbers I was finding when I
• 1:22:06
  was looking for the open numbers is that
• 1:22:09
  sixty one percent of the open
• 1:22:12
  registrations were masters athletes.
• 1:22:15
  Yes, that's my point.
• 1:22:17
  Sixty one percent.
• 1:22:19
  So when you're nickel and diming the
• 1:22:21
  people that are paying all the money,
• 1:22:24
  that's a really, really freaking bad look.
• 1:22:32
  And then the team's registration,
• 1:22:34
  they don't get a dime.
• 1:22:40
  You know what?
• 1:22:43
  I remember the team,
• 1:22:44
  they don't get a dime,
• 1:22:45
  and then they also don't get drug tested.
• 1:22:47
  They don't get drug tested,
• 1:22:49
  so they maybe shouldn't get paid.
• 1:22:51
  But I think it's only, what, ATP?
• 1:22:55
  what they do, twenty and twenty of each,
• 1:22:58
  so eighty people, eighty athletes,
• 1:23:00
  you're better off asking the sponsor,
• 1:23:03
  I mean,
• 1:23:04
  I wouldn't like it as a master, but,
• 1:23:07
  like,
• 1:23:07
  you're better off giving them the full
• 1:23:09
  kit.
• 1:23:10
  That was the big pull for teams.
• 1:23:13
  You know, three grand, four grand of gear.
• 1:23:16
  Like, all that, like, getting the bag,
• 1:23:19
  the shoes, like,
• 1:23:21
  it's twenty of them in each age bracket,
• 1:23:23
  like,
• 1:23:25
  supply them and you don't you don't have
• 1:23:27
  to pay them but like it was always
• 1:23:28
  about the kit for so many people i
• 1:23:30
  know that was the whole reason i was
• 1:23:31
  going like i was never like that's what's
• 1:23:34
  frustrating about this whole thing and
• 1:23:35
  then to yes nickel and dime us and
• 1:23:37
  not like well not only shortchange you
• 1:23:42
  guys on the kit now but then then
• 1:23:45
  claim exclusivity when other sponsors want
• 1:23:47
  to give you stuff that's the the part
• 1:23:50
  of the masters
• 1:23:54
  Because you're connected to the CrossFit
• 1:23:56
  Games.
• 1:24:00
  Well,
• 1:24:01
  the price to register keeps going up,
• 1:24:04
  but the things that we're getting keep
• 1:24:06
  going down.
• 1:24:07
  And before, like,
• 1:24:08
  let's say we paid two fifty or four
• 1:24:09
  hundred, whatever, to go to the games.
• 1:24:12
  You took home so much more than what
• 1:24:14
  you paid for.
• 1:24:15
  So it was kind of cool.
• 1:24:17
  Now you're not.
• 1:24:20
  you know,
• 1:24:20
  you're not getting even close to that.
• 1:24:22
  And then the amount of events that we're
• 1:24:24
  actually doing are decreasing as well.
• 1:24:27
  So like, it's, yeah, but like,
• 1:24:29
  I remember when I first made the games,
• 1:24:31
  it was all about the kit,
• 1:24:32
  and they've had cuts.
• 1:24:33
  And it was like, make the cut.
• 1:24:34
  So you can get an extra shirt, like,
• 1:24:38
  you know,
• 1:24:39
  I just wanted to get the kit,
• 1:24:40
  want to get a sign of my name
• 1:24:42
  on it like that, you know,
• 1:24:43
  and for the teenagers, like,
• 1:24:45
  that would be super, like,
• 1:24:47
  cool for them to have like a full
• 1:24:49
  kit.
• 1:24:52
  Wonder how long this CFO search will last.
• 1:24:56
  Well,
• 1:24:56
  apparently it's way more needed than we
• 1:24:58
  thought.
• 1:25:04
  Sounds like my grocery bill.
• 1:25:06
  That is correct.
• 1:25:07
  Your grocery bill keeps going up and the
• 1:25:10
  amount of food you get to bring home
• 1:25:11
  is less and less.
• 1:25:15
  And Jay Birch, your math is off.
• 1:25:17
  It's only twenty dollars to register for
• 1:25:19
  the open.
• 1:25:22
  What did he say it was?
• 1:25:24
  Thirty.
• 1:25:30
  I paid seven dollars for two onions today.
• 1:25:34
  I went to a farmer's market and paid
• 1:25:35
  way less than that, dude.
• 1:25:44
  Anyway, so all that's happened.
• 1:25:44
  The queue has been announced that it is
• 1:25:45
  happening August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:46
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:47
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:48
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:49
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:50
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:51
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:53
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:54
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:55
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:56
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:57
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:57
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:58
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:25:59
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:00
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:03
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:04
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:04
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:05
  August, August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:06
  August, August, August, August,
• 1:26:07
  August
• 1:26:07
  Did you say it's August twenty-first
• 1:26:09
  through the twenty-third?
• 1:26:10
  Yep.
• 1:26:11
  So it's during WFP?
• 1:26:13
  No, WFP's the next weekend.
• 1:26:14
  Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:17
  You still going?
• 1:26:18
  Yeah.
• 1:26:22
  Okay.
• 1:26:22
  I don't know why I was thinking, yeah,
• 1:26:23
  that's the twenty-eighth.
• 1:26:24
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:25
  It's on my calendar.
• 1:26:28
  But that's a, that's a tough,
• 1:26:30
  because the rogue qualifier is the hardest
• 1:26:34
  qualifier there is with the hardest
• 1:26:37
  standards.
• 1:26:38
  Yeah.
• 1:26:38
  You got to weigh everything in.
• 1:26:41
  It's forty minutes of videoing before you
• 1:26:43
  can even start the workout.
• 1:26:45
  I mean, that's how WFP is lesson learned.
• 1:26:48
  And then a week later,
• 1:26:48
  you've got to compete at WFP.
• 1:26:51
  That that's a tough back to back.
• 1:26:59
  um so anyway it's happening it always gets
• 1:27:05
  some big names um i guess that rogue
• 1:27:08
  has sent out invitations to people they're
• 1:27:11
  not allowed to say if they got it
• 1:27:12
  or not um angelo let it leak today
• 1:27:16
  that page got hers okay uh so we
• 1:27:19
  know one i guess i'm betting you can
• 1:27:23
  assume that james and amy got theirs
• 1:27:28
  But we don't know because just because you
• 1:27:30
  get it doesn't mean you accept it.
• 1:27:33
  The real question is how many spots for
• 1:27:35
  the online qualifier?
• 1:27:36
  Right.
• 1:27:36
  That's the question because that hasn't
• 1:27:38
  been consistent year to year and it's
• 1:27:40
  changed.
• 1:27:41
  So that's what I'm curious about.
• 1:27:43
  How many spots are going to allow for
• 1:27:45
  the online?
• 1:27:48
  After Scotland, where's the next location?
• 1:27:50
  Columbus, Ohio.
• 1:27:53
  One can hope.
• 1:27:54
  i think so because they're building right
• 1:27:56
  now um more like didn't they take over
• 1:28:00
  like even more land there so i bet
• 1:28:04
  you when that's done they're coming back
• 1:28:06
  to columbus that's where the games needs
• 1:28:08
  to go they um yeah so the the
• 1:28:13
  warehouse facility the whole bit was a
• 1:28:15
  city block and i think now it is
• 1:28:18
  too
• 1:28:22
  It is so massive.
• 1:28:25
  Even when they first built on that
• 1:28:28
  location, they had Rogue,
• 1:28:31
  the Invitational,
• 1:28:32
  in the front yard of that building.
• 1:28:34
  That front yard is gone.
• 1:28:38
  Where they held Rogue the first year is
• 1:28:40
  now gone.
• 1:28:45
  But they had five buildings in Columbus,
• 1:28:47
  and they're consolidating it all to the
• 1:28:49
  one location.
• 1:28:51
  And they have built enough building to do
• 1:28:53
  that.
• 1:28:57
  It is so big.
• 1:28:59
  It's going to touch the convention center.
• 1:29:08
  Really?
• 1:29:09
  I'm just kidding.
• 1:29:10
  It just feels that way.
• 1:29:12
  Because they're both on Fifth Avenue,
• 1:29:14
  the convention center, and Rogue.
• 1:29:17
  And Rogue is just moving closer and closer
• 1:29:19
  to touch butt up with the convention
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  center.
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  So the parking lot got changed to
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  building,
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  and then the parking lot got moved to
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  where they held the Rogue Invitational.
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  So it was like building over the parking
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  lot,
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  then parking lot got moved out closer to
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  the street.
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  I used to work on Fifth Avenue.
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  I was only ten minutes from Rogue
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  headquarters.
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  It was an easy lunch hour stop by.
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  Now I work from home and it's like
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  a half an hour.
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  But I love that first Rogue.
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  That might have been my favorite in-person
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  competition of all time.
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  Was that the one that they had the
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  tug-of-war with the teams?
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  They did.
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  And the shooting.
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  And the rifle shoot.
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  Yeah, with the skiers.
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  But it was the stuff indoors where they,
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  in the factory,
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  they built stands and a rig and the
• 1:30:30
  whole bit.
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  It was so cool.
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  And then,
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  seventeen point two open announcement was
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  held there too.
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  And I was there for that.
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  And they built inside the factory again,
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  which was so cool.
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  Wouldn't that be a cool show?
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  Lunch with the Clydesdale at Rogue HQ.
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  Right now,
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  I just have to be out in the
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  parking lot with my iPad.
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  Dear Bill and Katie, please let me in.
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  Andrew, stop arguing with me.
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  The one side of it's on High Street.
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  The north side of it is on Fifth
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  Avenue.
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  It's an L.
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  Larry and Shelly are at every major
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  competition.
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  They were there too.
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  Love that one.
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  I think that's where we first saw Colton
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  Mertens compete.
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  The first time I saw Colton was at
• 1:31:44
  Mayhem.
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  At twenty one.
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  Yeah.
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  When I saw Lex complete.
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  Yeah, she was there that year.
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  She did well.
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  But anyway, all right.
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  With that, guys,
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  we're going to call it a night.
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  Hope you guys have a great...
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  monday morning start to the week i will
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  be here for lunch with the clydesdale
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  tomorrow don't forget to order your shirts
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  sorry i don't have the venmo thing um
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  all of that with that have a great
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  day and hope to see you soon bye
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  guys