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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Who is Going to Be Left Out? and How Should the Season Change? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  We are all back home and ready to
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  do our show.
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  Hope you're ready to hang with us tonight.
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  Let's go.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
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  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  I really need to label those buttons
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  better so that I know which ones to
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  hit when.
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  I was already starting to jam to your
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  lunch one.
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  Yeah,
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  I've got to finish the one for tonight.
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  It's just not where I want it yet,
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  but we'll have it soon.
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  And I'll make a new opening and all
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  that kind of stuff, but...
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  I'm like in that spot where I have
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  like a thousand things on my to-do list.
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  And finally, like late last week,
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  I'm like,
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  I just have to pick one and check
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  it off.
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  And then another one and check it off.
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  Because looking at the mass of it is
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  just too much right now.
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  Yeah.
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  After I got my heart fixed,
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  I'm just like,
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  I want to get everything done.
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  You know, like, I feel good.
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  I want to just go, go, go,
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  do everything.
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  And so the list just got really big.
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  And now I'm like in the middle of
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  it all.
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  Makes sense.
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  Anyway,
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  Fergie coming in early with the question
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  of the week.
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  For me,
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  if you could cover any training camp
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  before the games,
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  who would it be and why the Chicago
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  Bears?
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  That's a no-brainer.
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  The Bears are my love.
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  They are my favorite sports team.
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  I love them more than CrossFit,
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  and that's the only thing I love more
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  than CrossFit.
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  But I am so amped for this season.
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  In fact, a little tidbit.
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  One of our listeners reached out to me
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  late last week and offered me
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  front row tickets in lambeau field to
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  watch the bears packers game wow i have
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  to pay for them but at least he's
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  offering me access wow so julie and i
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  took him up on the offer yeah and
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  we are planning a long weekend in
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  apparently green bay wisconsin damn that's
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  awesome dude i i hope because i will
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  be in blue and orange
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  I hope that I am treated respectfully when
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  I get there.
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  So, yeah, that happened end of last week.
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  And I asked Julie if she thought it
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  was something we should do.
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  And she was like,
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  most definitely we're doing that.
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  That's really cool.
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  That's awesome.
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  So we're in the end zone front row
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  where everybody does like the Lambo leaps.
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  Mm hmm.
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  So it's going to be wild.
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  I am so pumped.
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  That'll be a neat experience.
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  And here's the guy.
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  Aww.
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  So thank you very much, Mackie.
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  Eric Mackie, I am so, so pumped.
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  That's all I've been able to think about
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  for the last two days.
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  San Jose countdown, forty-seven days.
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  That's crazy.
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  It is.
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  It is wild.
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  Avera says, Carolyn,
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  you in for online semifinals?
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  You still got it, girl.
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  You can do Masters for the next fifty
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  years.
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  We're going to get into all that in
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  a second.
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  So that's the tease for the night.
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  But the one thing I want to ask
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  Carolyn is,
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  I saw it pop up on Instagram,
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  a new program called Plyo by Prevo.
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  Coming this fall.
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  Yeah.
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  basically every time I go to comps,
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  cause I've,
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  I've done so much plow my whole life.
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  And, uh,
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  like almost every comp I get asked, like,
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  how do I incorporate my plyo with my
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  program?
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  Or do I have drills?
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  Or I get asked if I would train
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  teams and stuff, or just drills for plyos.
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  And, uh, so in the fall, in October,
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  that's my launching date I'm shooting for.
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  Um, so I have like my,
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  I guess my company name is like the
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  complete athlete company.
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  And then a program.
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  And then ideally over time,
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  I might have different programs like my
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  GPP program and stuff,
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  but this one would be like a pile
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  by Prevo of like a,
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  a supplemental training that people can
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  add to the already regular training
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  CrossFit stuff to make them a little bit
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  more athletic.
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  Cause I feel like there's a big hole
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  in the CrossFit space,
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  especially for athletic type training
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  within the,
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  what they're already doing and not,
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  not like super time consuming,
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  but like things that they can just like
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  add on.
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  So that's what I'm working on.
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  I just have to figure out how I
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  want to like,
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  like the app and stuff that I'd want
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  to do it and do a lot of
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  filming content and stuff this summer.
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  That's why I want to give myself till
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  October.
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  Cause I get the summer to be off
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  and really, um,
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  do a lot of filming and everything like
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  that.
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  So, yeah.
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  So I love the name.
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  Mm hmm.
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  Plyo by Prevo is a great name.
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  The other thing is,
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  not only does it make you more athletic,
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  but I saw some research,
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  and it's probably been ten,
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  fifteen years ago now,
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  where they were adopting that in the NFL
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  because it helps injury prevention.
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  Just by making your body more adept at
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  quick cutting and all of that stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean,
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  a lot of the injuries happen in like
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  unilateral type positions,
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  like single leg cutting and stuff.
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  And a lot of the training that people
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  are doing or it's bilateral only.
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  So like learning to absorb force,
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  like on a single leg and then producing
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  it and changing direction,
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  I think is really important to get like
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  more healthy body and less injured.
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  So, like,
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  I've always trained a lot single leg stuff
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  my whole life.
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  I think it just translates very well to
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  then getting power with two feet.
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  Vicky says because she's not busy enough
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  already.
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  Yeah,
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  she was bored for one second and thought,
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  well, why don't I do this?
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  Fergie says TB twelve type training,
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  except for no avocado ice cream.
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  Uh,
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  Tessa got her first body weight pull up
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  today.
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  Don't judge me.
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  I've been an athlete my entire life and
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  just have never been able to do.
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  And I strung four of them together.
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  Wow.
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  That is awesome.
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  I remember when I got my first one
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  and I remember when I lost them all
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  and now I got to get them back.
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  Uh, Ken Walters,
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  I've seen a lot of NHL guys and
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  D one hockey guys train playo and CP
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  is up there with the best of them
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  and better than most super impressive.
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  There you go.
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  There's your,
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  there's your endorsement for the cover of
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  the video.
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  Um, so on another note, Jamie,
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  I saw you at a concert last night.
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  I did.
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  Yeah.
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  Who'd you see?
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  Aaron and I went to grand Rapids.
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  They have a new amphitheater.
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  It was Parker McCollum and Max McNone.
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  And someone else was a country.
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  I don't know.
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  It was country.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  So I've roomed with Jamie at different
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  events.
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  She plays country and sings country the
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  entire time we're in the room.
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  Just, just so you all are aware.
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  She has a very nice singing voice too.
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  It's rough.
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  Whoops.
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  Daniel Arnson,
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  the amphitheater is completely needed.
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  Unneeded.
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  Unneeded.
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  I think it's going to put,
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  we have Pine Knob out here and like
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  towards Detroit area.
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  And I think it's going to like put
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  that darn year out of business.
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  It was, I really liked it.
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  It's way nicer.
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  I mean, there's just,
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  The other one is there's nothing around.
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  It's a pain to get to.
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  Like,
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  we were able to Uber in and Uber
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  out.
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  I mean,
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  you have the hotels there if you want
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  to just stay downtown.
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  I stay at my sister's place.
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  I don't know.
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  I thought it was really nice.
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  I liked it.
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  I think they'll be able to get some
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  pretty good acts in there.
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  They put up a soccer stadium, too,
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  which had us talking about that last
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  night.
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  We were like,
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  maybe the games should come here with that
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  soccer stadium that they put up.
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  It'd be like the perfect.
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  Uh, Avera says, Jamie,
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  do you live in Michigan?
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  Sorry.
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  I'm sure most know, but I do not.
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  I do live in Michigan.
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  Yes.
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  Lansing area right around the Capitol.
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  Kinda.
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  Uh, Ed says, Oh snap.
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  Is that Jamie?
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  The herd athlete with the fancy belts.
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  Carolyn's of a herd athlete too.
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  Yeah.
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  She has fancy belts too.
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  So yeah.
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  Sweet.
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  Go, go herd.
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  Sure.
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  Uh,
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  pine knob is like four hours from grand
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  Rapids.
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  So I think pine knob will be just
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  fine.
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  Yeah, it's, I mean, it is a different,
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  a little bit different area.
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  I just, I think,
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  I think people will come over to grand
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  Rapids more often.
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  I don't,
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  I don't think I'll go back to my
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  knob personally.
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  I'll make sure I seek out the grand
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  Rapids concerts.
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  Speaking of stadiums being built.
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  Did you see that the bears aren't getting
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  one in Illinois?
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  Yeah.
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  So my beloved bears,
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  maybe about a half an hour closer to
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  me in Indiana.
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  But I have a wild story for you
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  guys,
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  and then we'll get into the CrossFit
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  stuff.
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  So we went to see friends yesterday to
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  celebrate birthdays and different things.
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  And one of my friends is a coworker
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  of mine.
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  And two people we work with,
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  got wrapped up in the Kash Patel raids
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  on the different Medicaid frauds.
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  Two of my coworkers were busted for
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  creating false hospitals and saying that
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  they were giving behavioral health
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  services to youth.
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  And when the youth were asked,
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  they didn't even know of the hospital or
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  the services or anything like that to the
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  tune of thirty million dollars in Medicaid
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  fraud.
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  What?
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  Yeah.
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  I was shocked.
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  Two people I work with busted.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  They had like recently had like a bunch
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  of nice things.
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  so they so they um they retired a
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  couple years ago so they're former
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  co-workers but um but i worked with the
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  one in particular for probably ten years
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  wow and like closely and i would have
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  never ever ever guessed that what the heck
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  it was crazy they go to jail
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  Well, right now it's all alleged.
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  Okay.
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  But they did seize fourteen cars from the
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  two of them,
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  including like a Bentley and they were all
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  like like six Mercedes,
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  a Bentley and a couple other things.
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  It was nuts.
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  It's always the least one you expect.
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  Exactly.
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  Like it just was not someone I expected
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  it from.
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  Andrew Sten saw a cool video on Alex
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  Van Halen and the Hot for Teacher drum
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  intro on the Drumeo YouTube channel.
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  I've seen it there.
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  It's in my queue.
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  Still catching up on all the CrossFit
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  stuff from this week,
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  but it is definitely in my queue,
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  Andrew Sten.
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  Avery, you know,
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  way more than two people who are criminal
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  in the healthcare business.
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  You just don't know who they are yet.
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  Well, they're not in the, well,
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  what I do for a living is not
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  healthcare.
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  I find people jobs for the state of
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  Ohio.
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  So what they got caught doing was nothing
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  to what we do every day at the
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  job.
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  It's like a side job that they had.
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  Yeah,
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  if you want to call it a job
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  or whatever it was.
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  Yeah.
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  And AI says you got to secure that
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  retirement money somehow, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Well,
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  and I guess it took a while because
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  when you're talking behavioral health,
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  there's no product being produced or lack
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  of,
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  so it's harder to prove that it didn't
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  happen.
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  um so yeah um yeah ken it's not
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  just minnesota yeah all right just crazy i
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  just i wanted to share that because it
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  was it just totally caught me off guard
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  yesterday and you you see it on the
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  news and you just don't think it's going
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  to hit that close to home
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  So the one thing I wanted to jump
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  into, because when we went live last week,
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  Carolyn,
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  you were actually just hitting the floor
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  for your last event.
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  And so people in the chat were rooting
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  you on while they were listening to us
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  and you ended up winning that event.
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  But I wanted to get your overall
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  perspective on how NorCal went.
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  I was at Syndicate, you were at NorCal.
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  I wanted to ask you just some questions
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  about it.
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  And the first thing is,
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  all I hear about it is how awesome
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  the atmosphere is.
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  What is your perspective on that?
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  there's not many competitions like that
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  around anymore.
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  Like it's thousands of tents or tents,
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  thousands of people outside a bunch of
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  tents.
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  Like between the events,
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  you just go and sit down under a
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  tent and you're just chatting with people.
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  You meet so many different, you know,
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  communities and events.
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  athletes and gym owners and all of that
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  like you're just so much closer to people
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  than in a regular competition where you're
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  kind of in the back warming up you
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  compete you kind of stay in the back
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  and you don't really talk to people like
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  other than your team and the athletes that
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  you compete against like this is nothing
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  like that um
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  So yeah, just very unique.
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  This is like my fourth year doing it.
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  I love it every time.
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  Yeah,
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  I love the community part of it and
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  just a different outside vibe of it.
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  It's cool.
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  Jamie asked me this last week.
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  She asked me if I was recognized more
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  this year with the show and everything.
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  Does anybody talk to you about this show
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  or do they just talk to you about
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  being an athlete?
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  They don't even talk to me about anything.
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  Half the time they don't even know who
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  I am.
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  That's not true.
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  That is true.
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  I barely get recognized.
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  You've been talked about so much this week
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  on all the shows.
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  I know,
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  but I barely get recognized anytime I go
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  to like any affiliate or gyms or
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  competitions.
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  No,
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  I wouldn't say that they talk much about
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  Clydesdale or like they might just ask me
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  about the master's qualification or stuff
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  like that.
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  If I'm what I'm doing competing this
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  weekend or one of my goals,
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  but other than that,
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  I'd say kind of fly under the radar
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  a lot.
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  Hmm.
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  That's crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  People come up to me and are like,
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  love the show.
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  That's surprising that they don't.
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  So beyond that,
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  Becca said that she watches the show, uh,
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  and I was sitting with her at one
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  point, um, under the tent.
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  And she said that,
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  I don't know if she watches the lunch
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  show or our show.
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  I took it as all of it.
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  Yeah.
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  She said that she liked this.
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  So, yeah,
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  I think it's more of the Sunday.
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  I like,
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  we have way more viewers on the Sunday
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  show than the lunch show, but, um,
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  And I've been friends with Becca for a
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  long time.
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  When I was with Morning Chalk Cup,
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  I used her as an analyst for the
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  rundown.
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  And so Becca is just, I mean,
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  I consider still part of the family.
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  She's just busy going to her like,
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  nineteen straight CrossFit games.
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  Yeah.
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  Just nuts.
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  Nineteen.
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  That's crazy.
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  And her husband actually helped a lot,
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  I think, in some of the,
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  I don't know if it was programming or
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  logistics of the event.
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  Like it was his idea, I believe.
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  Like the TV being there during the bike
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  event for the spectators to see like the
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  different boats or bikes, I don't know,
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  of where people were.
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  Yeah,
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  so they were involved to some extent.
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  Judy Reed,
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  I snagged a pic with Carolyn at Vendor
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  Village last year.
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  Claire Bay is saying she loves seeing you.
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  She was doing the floor announcing.
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  Yeah, that's crazy.
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  All day in the sun.
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  Didn't even get a sunburn or anything.
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  I was watching her show the other day.
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  I'm like,
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  how are you not burned from just being
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  outside the whole day?
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  She had a bunch of sunscreen, but still.
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  I would be toasty.
• 18:55
  I don't know how someone's voice holds up
• 18:57
  that long during a day.
• 18:58
  Me either.
• 18:59
  That too.
• 18:59
  That's the good one.
• 19:00
  Like I do ninety minutes and I'm about
• 19:02
  toast.
• 19:07
  Yeah.
• 19:08
  So, yeah.
• 19:13
  Does anybody throw you off by asking you
• 19:14
  a math lesson plan?
• 19:15
  No.
• 19:20
  Carolyn, when are you done with school?
• 19:24
  June twenty six is officially the last
• 19:27
  day.
• 19:28
  There you go.
• 19:32
  CrossFit says Claire uses FPS SPF one
• 19:35
  hundred.
• 19:36
  Something like that.
• 19:38
  Grant said when he called her up to
• 19:39
  the podium,
• 19:40
  she competed at the CrossFit game seven
• 19:42
  hundred and fifty times.
• 19:45
  Yeah.
• 19:47
  Yeah.
• 19:47
  She's just Grant.
• 19:48
  Grant was great as well.
• 19:49
  He was doing when he did the
• 19:53
  The briefing, like his energy is crazy.
• 19:56
  Grant's like the Ninja Warrior guy.
• 19:58
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:00
  Yeah.
• 20:00
  Oh, that one.
• 20:02
  Yeah, he was funny in the briefing,
• 20:04
  like when he was doing the workout demo.
• 20:07
  And yeah, he was great.
• 20:10
  Good addition with Claire.
• 20:12
  My biggest regret,
• 20:13
  just back to Becca for a second,
• 20:14
  is Jamie and I were in Pasadena.
• 20:16
  We went to do a drop-in at a
• 20:18
  gym,
• 20:19
  and we were only like a half a
• 20:21
  mile from Becca's gym.
• 20:22
  Why we didn't pick her gym to go
• 20:25
  to for the drop-in was just dumb.
• 20:29
  Yeah.
• 20:30
  I mean, it was a great gym,
• 20:31
  and we had a good time,
• 20:33
  and it was a good workout,
• 20:34
  but you only get so many shots to
• 20:36
  be in California to go to,
• 20:40
  what is it?
• 20:42
  It's got the tree yard.
• 20:42
  There's training yard.
• 20:44
  Yeah.
• 20:45
  training yard.
• 20:46
  Yep.
• 20:46
  Yeah, we messed up there.
• 20:50
  He's like throwing fireworks on the middle
• 20:51
  of the floor.
• 20:53
  Crazy energy.
• 20:55
  And yes, it's the island ninja.
• 20:57
  Yeah, I was I was close.
• 21:03
  So how was the competition itself?
• 21:07
  what's like for the for the events like
• 21:11
  or personal like just for the events like
• 21:15
  uh in terms of um like the reputation
• 21:18
  it had from you know the prior years
• 21:21
  it didn't have any mess ups except for
• 21:24
  maybe one on the, on, um,
• 21:27
  I don't know if it was the first
• 21:28
  or second heat of the elite men on
• 21:31
  the bike.
• 21:31
  There was a false start just so that,
• 21:33
  so then they redid that.
• 21:34
  But other than that,
• 21:36
  I felt like all of the events were
• 21:39
  like fair.
• 21:40
  Like you weren't starting running to your
• 21:42
  judge with a scorecard or anything like
• 21:43
  that.
• 21:44
  I thought they really cleaned up a lot
• 21:45
  of the things from the prior years that
• 21:47
  they, you know,
• 21:48
  they took on the feedback and they, um,
• 21:51
  program like a um safe not not safe
• 21:55
  in terms of like it's not uh like
• 22:00
  difficult but like just like a not easy
• 22:03
  one that wasn't going to get them in
• 22:05
  trouble like yeah yeah yeah like fear of
• 22:08
  having to eliminate an event because it it
• 22:10
  just didn't come off as planned yeah like
• 22:12
  you can see in the past a little
• 22:15
  bit more um things that have left field
• 22:18
  out of nor count we didn't quite
• 22:20
  get like too much of that,
• 22:21
  but they still stay true to themselves.
• 22:23
  They released the workouts on the Thursday
• 22:24
  at the briefing.
• 22:25
  We found them out there.
• 22:27
  Um,
• 22:28
  the briefing actually went shorter than I
• 22:30
  thought I was expecting it to be super
• 22:32
  long.
• 22:32
  Cause in the past,
• 22:33
  the workouts would get released the day of
• 22:35
  the briefing,
• 22:35
  but sometimes it'd get released like
• 22:37
  around lunchtime.
• 22:39
  So people got to read the standards and
• 22:41
  everything on competition corner prior to
• 22:43
  like arriving to the briefing.
• 22:44
  So,
• 22:45
  but we found them out at the briefing.
• 22:47
  There wasn't any stupid questions really.
• 22:52
  I think because of the movement.
• 22:52
  No, it wasn't bad.
• 22:54
  Was there a no stupid questions?
• 22:56
  I don't think he asked a single question.
• 22:58
  I was shocked.
• 22:59
  Maybe that's why he did so bad.
• 23:03
  He didn't do that bad.
• 23:04
  It's a close start,
• 23:05
  but then he picked it up at the
• 23:06
  end.
• 23:08
  But yeah, no,
• 23:09
  I thought the event ran smoothly.
• 23:11
  For the most part, everything's on time.
• 23:14
  Obviously, there's, you know,
• 23:16
  There can be some no reps or what
• 23:18
  sometimes like certain lane
• 23:19
  inconsistencies.
• 23:21
  But for the most part,
• 23:23
  I think everyone was pretty happy.
• 23:24
  All the divisions got to do a bunch
• 23:28
  of workouts.
• 23:29
  And yeah,
• 23:30
  for my own performance up and down,
• 23:32
  I knew there was two workouts that were
• 23:33
  going to be bad for me,
• 23:34
  which was the first one with the double
• 23:38
  unders running and rowing.
• 23:40
  And then the eighteen K bike is not
• 23:42
  a good one for me.
• 23:44
  there so it was more about damage control
• 23:47
  on those two um i felt like i
• 23:51
  overheated a lot especially on day one
• 23:54
  because like that cal sue one should have
• 23:56
  been much better for me but i think
• 23:58
  i sat down a little bit like pat
• 24:00
  velner um a couple times but it was
• 24:02
  on my riser instead of at the bar
• 24:06
  um
• 24:07
  Yeah,
• 24:07
  just overheating a little bit that whole
• 24:10
  day.
• 24:10
  But, you know,
• 24:11
  I arrive basically in this weather and it
• 24:14
  hasn't been super hot.
• 24:15
  And I don't I didn't train outside a
• 24:17
  single time leading up to it.
• 24:19
  So, yeah, a little bit up and down.
• 24:20
  Happy to end on a high note with
• 24:23
  the event win.
• 24:25
  But, yeah,
• 24:25
  a few workouts I thought were going to
• 24:27
  be better and they weren't.
• 24:30
  So that happens sometimes.
• 24:34
  A personal comment, Avera, says, Carolyn,
• 24:37
  I played professional hockey.
• 24:38
  Keep details to myself online for
• 24:40
  anonymity,
• 24:41
  but I will tell you I was drafted
• 24:43
  out of the OHL not far from your
• 24:45
  current location.
• 24:52
  Cool.
• 24:52
  Awesome.
• 24:54
  Pat needs to ask those questions.
• 24:56
  He's literally a broken – he's broken a
• 24:58
  bike, fallen off a net,
• 24:59
  and rolled a plate across the floor.
• 25:01
  He's trying to plan ahead.
• 25:04
  Not a bad point, CrossFit.
• 25:08
  And I didn't mean he did horrible.
• 25:10
  He just didn't qualify is, I guess,
• 25:11
  what I meant.
• 25:15
  And for him, that's not optimal, right?
• 25:19
  He's there to qualify.
• 25:22
  He's also one that can do well online.
• 25:24
  Traditionally has done very well online,
• 25:27
  can put it together there.
• 25:29
  So I still think that he has a
• 25:32
  shot.
• 25:34
  So do you think NorCal did enough to
• 25:36
  show and prove that they deserve three
• 25:39
  spots instead of two?
• 25:41
  Yeah,
• 25:42
  I think that there's nothing wrong with
• 25:43
  giving them three spots.
• 25:44
  I think you could easily.
• 25:46
  And I think if you give three spots,
• 25:47
  the depth of field would be higher too.
• 25:51
  But guys, I don't see why not.
• 25:56
  Yeah.
• 25:56
  So my last question for you is,
• 25:59
  and it's just part of our long-standing
• 26:02
  debate.
• 26:03
  So if NorCal is so great,
• 26:05
  what is wrong with us going to a
• 26:08
  regional approach in outdoor stadiums?
• 26:14
  Say that again?
• 26:16
  My contention has been...
• 26:18
  Like the rain stuff that I said?
• 26:20
  To going to a regional approach in outdoor
• 26:22
  stadiums.
• 26:24
  because that area like rarely rains and
• 26:27
  that's not the case for every location
• 26:29
  that you would have in the world and
• 26:31
  every weather climate in the world like
• 26:33
  some places right now are like in winter
• 26:37
  like it's not it's not the same that
• 26:40
  way um i just think it saves a
• 26:42
  lot of events that can change and all
• 26:45
  of a sudden the whole programming is
• 26:47
  completely different
• 26:49
  Like there's no,
• 26:50
  there's no polling because you can't be on
• 26:52
  a bar and you know, you can't like,
• 26:55
  I think the outdoor event can be,
• 26:57
  it's a couple that you can have and
• 27:01
  it's gotta be at the right time of
• 27:02
  the year and in certain locations.
• 27:06
  To have it as across like ten regions,
• 27:10
  I think would be impossible.
• 27:11
  You're just looking at a bunch of events
• 27:13
  getting changed or canceled.
• 27:15
  And I think when you're trying to get
• 27:17
  people to the next level,
• 27:18
  I don't think it's worth it.
• 27:19
  I really don't think it's worth it.
• 27:20
  I agree.
• 27:23
  I just... We have to find a...
• 27:24
  And we're going to talk about this later
• 27:26
  in the show.
• 27:26
  So I'll just drop it for here.
• 27:30
  But I would never hold a regional event
• 27:31
  in Miami either, CrossFit.
• 27:33
  Yeah.
• 27:34
  Like that, it just...
• 27:36
  It rains every single day in Florida,
• 27:38
  like every day.
• 27:40
  That's just a stupid place to put an
• 27:42
  event.
• 27:48
  So anyway, so that's NorCal.
• 27:52
  You had a good time.
• 27:54
  It sounds like Lex did a community event.
• 28:00
  So she did the elite pairs.
• 28:02
  Actually, she filled in for Val, the girl.
• 28:06
  So Val has been dealing with an injury
• 28:10
  for...
• 28:11
  I think that's why she didn't do the
• 28:12
  season.
• 28:13
  Her planner...
• 28:18
  Yeah.
• 28:18
  Has been, you know,
• 28:20
  hurting and she'd started the event at the
• 28:23
  first two events and then it was just
• 28:25
  too much.
• 28:26
  She was,
• 28:26
  she wasn't sure whether she was going to
• 28:28
  be able to do the whole weekend,
• 28:29
  tested it out, had to withdraw.
• 28:31
  And then her partner,
• 28:32
  Molly didn't have a someone.
• 28:34
  So yeah.
• 28:35
  Lex was already there.
• 28:36
  Lex is ready to do any workout at
• 28:38
  any point.
• 28:39
  You don't have to tell her twice if
• 28:41
  she's got her gear here.
• 28:43
  Um, so Lex filled in and, um,
• 28:46
  because she was replacing every event,
• 28:50
  they were taking a dead last,
• 28:51
  no matter how they did.
• 28:53
  What?
• 28:53
  No,
• 28:53
  just to not affect the leaderboard because
• 28:56
  you're filling, you're going into,
• 28:58
  you changed partners, right?
• 29:00
  So she did four of the six events.
• 29:03
  They would have placed second.
• 29:05
  They would have placed second, honestly,
• 29:06
  if Val had done the whole weekend and
• 29:08
  she was healthy.
• 29:09
  Or if Lex started the whole weekend,
• 29:11
  they would have finished behind Jesse
• 29:16
  Smith and Lauren Stalwood.
• 29:18
  It was literally,
• 29:19
  they beat them in the lifting event.
• 29:21
  Like they, as in Lex and Molly,
• 29:23
  because Lex just...
• 29:25
  muscle clean that weight and just put it
• 29:27
  above um but yeah so they were just
• 29:29
  taking dead last on everything no matter
• 29:32
  if they were finishing second like on
• 29:33
  every event so val started the competition
• 29:36
  and okay that makes sense because they
• 29:39
  paid because they paid the registration
• 29:41
  fee like that other girl molly still
• 29:43
  wanted to compete so she said we'll take
• 29:46
  dead last it's fine i just want to
• 29:48
  do the workouts
• 29:49
  So Lex filled in.
• 29:50
  Lex wanted to do the workouts.
• 29:53
  And it's funny because the four workouts
• 29:54
  that she came in on,
• 29:55
  like those are great workouts for Lex.
• 29:58
  So yeah, so they had a fun time.
• 30:01
  And yeah, so they did the elite pairs.
• 30:06
  that's cool and then it that just makes
• 30:08
  for a fun weekend yeah because like in
• 30:11
  between my events i got to watch you
• 30:14
  know them compete um i'd go watch becca
• 30:17
  compete as well and just just different
• 30:19
  people in the community that i that i
• 30:21
  know so it's fun does does that help
• 30:23
  get your mind off of things when you
• 30:24
  get to go do that as opposed to
• 30:27
  like just being by yourself in the back
• 30:29
  Um, yes and no.
• 30:32
  I look at the flow of the events.
• 30:35
  I can look at maybe things I'm seeing
• 30:37
  if there's patterns of strategies that I
• 30:39
  like or, um,
• 30:41
  things are getting no rep more than
• 30:43
  normal.
• 30:43
  You know, you're,
• 30:44
  you're just kind of looking at the event.
• 30:48
  Um, personally,
• 30:49
  I'd like to be in an AC room
• 30:52
  in a hotel with no sun, um,
• 30:55
  During a long day outside,
• 30:57
  but being at the venue and just being
• 31:00
  stuck there,
• 31:01
  I'd rather watch here and there than come
• 31:03
  back to my tent and cool off.
• 31:05
  So that was fun.
• 31:08
  Thank you, Jeremy.
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• 31:27
  um you said something this isn't on our
• 31:32
  rundown so i'm going off script but um
• 31:38
  there's been some discussion about matt
• 31:40
  torres saying that his athletes should
• 31:44
  train in air conditioning because when
• 31:47
  you're at events in an arena that's the
• 31:50
  climate you're in but
• 31:54
  Conversely, if you have to go outside,
• 31:57
  are you then not prepared for those
• 32:00
  elements if there's an outdoor aspect to
• 32:03
  the event?
• 32:04
  Yeah, you have to train with heat.
• 32:06
  Like there's a different element with the
• 32:07
  sun being down on you.
• 32:10
  Yeah, the heat is a different beast.
• 32:14
  Like I did zero training outside.
• 32:18
  None.
• 32:19
  I think, yeah.
• 32:20
  So there's,
• 32:21
  it's a huge element of competing outdoors.
• 32:23
  It can dehydrate you faster,
• 32:27
  just drain your energy faster.
• 32:28
  So being able to train through that is,
• 32:33
  or like compete at that is very important
• 32:35
  as well as indoors when given.
• 32:37
  But like,
• 32:37
  if you know you're going to compete
• 32:38
  outside, you should train outside.
• 32:40
  Now the games is going to be indoor
• 32:41
  with AC with a few events outside.
• 32:43
  So they can't just be training AC because
• 32:46
  they got to go outside as well,
• 32:48
  knowing that there's runs and whatever
• 32:51
  implement they're going to be doing
• 32:51
  outside.
• 32:53
  I've never been in a CrossFit gym with
• 32:55
  AC.
• 32:55
  I mean, yeah, me neither.
• 33:00
  Mine has AC.
• 33:00
  I mean, I've never.
• 33:01
  Mine has windows.
• 33:04
  Mine had big doors with a big-ass fan.
• 33:07
  Yeah, yeah.
• 33:09
  But no AC.
• 33:11
  Yeah, no AC.
• 33:11
  We have the heat in the wintertime.
• 33:13
  That's about it.
• 33:13
  But, yeah, no AC.
• 33:21
  Scott,
• 33:22
  would pairs be more popular than teams at
• 33:24
  the games?
• 33:25
  Personally,
• 33:26
  I think pairs would be a lot more
• 33:28
  interesting.
• 33:30
  Be less confusing, that's for sure.
• 33:35
  i don't know but it adds more people
• 33:38
  because now all of a sudden you have
• 33:39
  let's say i don't know if you want
• 33:40
  to have like same sex pairs or right
• 33:43
  guy girl but it's more divisions yeah but
• 33:47
  it i think it's less connected to the
• 33:49
  affiliates agree so i think teams needs to
• 33:59
  be reworked completely and i'm sure not
• 34:01
  many people i think it should be
• 34:04
  that should take an element of grid where
• 34:07
  you can,
• 34:08
  you have a team of six who you
• 34:10
  can put in different events and the,
• 34:13
  and then four people actually compete in
• 34:15
  each event, but you have six on your,
• 34:18
  so two on the bench and the next
• 34:20
  event comes and you pick the four you
• 34:22
  want in that event and so on through
• 34:24
  the weekend,
• 34:25
  kind of like the water Palooza,
• 34:28
  SoCal thing ish.
• 34:31
  Um,
• 34:33
  Because now you have six people on the
• 34:34
  team, six from the same affiliate.
• 34:36
  Now you have a whole lot more people
• 34:38
  coming to your event.
• 34:39
  And if there's an injury,
• 34:41
  they're not just out.
• 34:43
  Yeah.
• 34:44
  I fully agree with that.
• 34:46
  Pick your strengths and weaknesses,
• 34:47
  pick people on the team that can be
• 34:48
  home run hitters and there might be out
• 34:50
  there for one event and that's it.
• 34:51
  And maybe you'll have some Olympic lifters
• 34:55
  all of a sudden part of teams,
• 34:56
  but whatever.
• 34:59
  Yeah.
• 34:59
  And,
• 35:00
  Like maybe there's a minimum of two events
• 35:01
  that they have to do.
• 35:02
  I don't know.
• 35:02
  Something like that.
• 35:03
  Like who knows?
• 35:07
  Yeah.
• 35:07
  And don't we want to see the home
• 35:09
  runs?
• 35:10
  Isn't that more exciting?
• 35:11
  Yeah.
• 35:14
  That that's,
• 35:15
  that's been my thought process for over a
• 35:17
  year now.
• 35:20
  And then I think it's,
• 35:20
  it's more fun to watch.
• 35:28
  Yes, I agree.
• 35:30
  I was already typing this actually team
• 35:31
  aspect strategy, etc.
• 35:34
  That's exactly what I was going to say.
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• 36:05
  Actually a team instead of the four
• 36:06
  fittest people, that would be better.
• 36:08
  Yes.
• 36:09
  Yes.
• 36:10
  You're calling it teams.
• 36:12
  Now you're giving it a team aspect with
• 36:15
  a team manager who gets to decide like
• 36:19
  who his starters are for each event.
• 36:27
  Like Tola doing heavy lifts.
• 36:28
  Yes.
• 36:30
  Everybody wants to see Tola do the heavy
• 36:32
  lifts.
• 36:33
  Then you have Jamie doing your burpee toes
• 36:36
  to bar workout.
• 36:39
  And she doesn't have to lift the heavy
• 36:40
  bar.
• 36:41
  Yay.
• 36:43
  Right.
• 36:46
  Deadlift workout comes out.
• 36:47
  Carolyn is definitely in the starting
• 36:49
  lineup.
• 36:52
  Got it.
• 36:52
  Put me in coach.
• 36:58
  Uh,
• 36:58
  that used to be how they did it.
• 36:59
  Regionals each day,
• 37:00
  two to six would have their own event
• 37:03
  and then another with the whole team.
• 37:08
  I don't remember that,
• 37:09
  and I was at regionals, but okay.
• 37:18
  George, don't call it grid.
• 37:20
  We're just calling substitutions like
• 37:22
  grid.
• 37:23
  I don't want the events like grid.
• 37:25
  Yeah, not mid-workout substitutions.
• 37:28
  Right.
• 37:29
  Event two comes up.
• 37:30
  You pick your four.
• 37:31
  Those are the four that do it.
• 37:33
  No substitutions during just strategy on
• 37:36
  who starts that event.
• 37:45
  Grid is its own thing.
• 37:46
  And I actually enjoy watching it sometimes
• 37:48
  just because it's over and done in an
• 37:50
  hour.
• 37:54
  Yeah.
• 37:58
  So anywhere.
• 38:03
  No hot changes over the boards.
• 38:06
  Hockey style.
• 38:09
  Line change.
• 38:15
  So, okay.
• 38:20
  All right.
• 38:21
  So this weekend coming up is the online
• 38:25
  semifinals and
• 38:28
  for elites,
• 38:29
  there are a whole lot of people who
• 38:32
  have been to the games who do not
• 38:34
  have their ticket yet.
• 38:39
  My brief rant on this is this is
• 38:42
  the most drama we have in the whole
• 38:43
  season and we don't get to see it.
• 38:47
  Yep.
• 38:47
  I mean,
• 38:48
  the videos will be online for you to
• 38:49
  see, but not,
• 38:51
  but you don't get to see it as
• 38:52
  a competition.
• 38:52
  Yeah.
• 38:53
  You have to piece it together.
• 38:56
  And so I'm going to share our notes
• 38:57
  just so you can see.
• 38:58
  What would be cool?
• 38:59
  What would be cool for CrossFit to do
• 39:02
  is,
• 39:02
  you know how there's always like a one
• 39:04
  hour window of when like the scores are
• 39:10
  done and then like an hour later,
• 39:12
  the leaderboard gets showed.
• 39:15
  If like CrossFit somehow did a show like
• 39:17
  Rogue did a few years ago and like
• 39:19
  the online semifinals of twenty twenty one
• 39:22
  where it's like event one,
• 39:23
  they did a show.
• 39:24
  It's like top
• 39:26
  four or six athletes all like on event
• 39:30
  one and and then release those like as
• 39:32
  a workout like on youtube and then event
• 39:34
  two top whatever scores that they got an
• 39:39
  hour before they just post those videos
• 39:41
  with just like quick scores i don't know
• 39:43
  if that's even possible but that would be
• 39:45
  cool like to do i'm sure those athletes
• 39:48
  would get ripped for no reps and stuff
• 39:49
  and but um
• 39:53
  to make it some sort of competition even
• 39:55
  if it's like the top two scores or
• 39:59
  uh jeremy what would it take for these
• 40:01
  athletes to go live no i think nobody's
• 40:04
  gonna go live it too much is on
• 40:05
  the line uh avarice says okay darn it
• 40:11
  scott i've been patient i want to know
• 40:13
  what carolyn is doing are you competing
• 40:17
  this weekend carolyn
• 40:19
  Yeah, I'll look at the workouts on Monday.
• 40:21
  If there's a bunch of them that are
• 40:23
  bad, I won't waste my time.
• 40:25
  But the idea is that I would be
• 40:27
  doing them.
• 40:30
  But like I said,
• 40:31
  if it's like four hundred double owners on
• 40:32
  the spot, I don't know.
• 40:38
  Running outside.
• 40:40
  I don't think we'll do that.
• 40:41
  I don't know.
• 40:42
  A bunch of max lifts.
• 40:44
  That's upper body.
• 40:47
  I won't waste my time or money.
• 40:49
  I'll continue training for the Masters,
• 40:51
  but the goal is to do the online
• 40:55
  signings this week.
• 40:57
  John George, with all the sarcasm,
• 41:00
  can't wait to sit around and wait for
• 41:01
  the leaderboard.
• 41:03
  It's so nerve-wracking to see it.
• 41:06
  Did you already sign up for you to
• 41:08
  accept your invite for the Masters games,
• 41:10
  didn't you?
• 41:11
  Yeah, that five hundred American.
• 41:13
  Yeah.
• 41:13
  Must be seven hundred and like eleven
• 41:15
  dollars Canadian.
• 41:16
  That was expensive.
• 41:20
  So expensive.
• 41:22
  If someone says deadlifts three times,
• 41:24
  she's in.
• 41:25
  If there's three deadlifts,
• 41:26
  there's a bunch of hinging workouts.
• 41:27
  I am all in.
• 41:29
  I am all in.
• 41:30
  Again, there's workouts that,
• 41:33
  and I do well online, like in twenty,
• 41:36
  twenty one,
• 41:36
  I won like the online semifinals there.
• 41:38
  I do, I do on the open this,
• 41:39
  these are different style of workouts of
• 41:41
  course.
• 41:42
  Um,
• 41:44
  but I can hide a couple of my
• 41:47
  holes sometimes online that get exposed in
• 41:52
  person.
• 41:53
  So with the right workouts, who knows?
• 41:58
  Who knows?
• 42:00
  But that's the case for a lot of
• 42:01
  people.
• 42:03
  All right,
• 42:03
  I'm going to stop sharing for a second
• 42:04
  because people are talking.
• 42:07
  And now I've got to talk back.
• 42:10
  So Barry McOchner, wow, that is expensive.
• 42:13
  Yes,
• 42:14
  that is something that completely pisses
• 42:16
  me off.
• 42:17
  CrossFit is not trying to be creative
• 42:20
  about how to earn money in other ways
• 42:23
  other than selling tickets.
• 42:25
  And so the people that pay are your
• 42:28
  attraction.
• 42:32
  The people that qualified for the games
• 42:34
  are the ones paying the price.
• 42:37
  That entry fee has gone up the last
• 42:39
  three years.
• 42:41
  Yes.
• 42:42
  Exponentially.
• 42:43
  For getting less.
• 42:47
  Yeah.
• 42:48
  And all it is is CrossFit trying to
• 42:50
  recoup their money in a way that's easy
• 42:53
  for them instead of thinking outside the
• 42:55
  box and trying to be more creative with
• 42:58
  revenue streams.
• 43:02
  The one thing that is like,
• 43:05
  I hate the way this season is structured,
• 43:07
  but what you've seen is so many creative
• 43:10
  ways of saving and getting new types of
• 43:13
  revenue streams at these in-person
• 43:16
  semifinals.
• 43:18
  Like now you have the guerrilla broadcasts
• 43:21
  that cost way less than what we were
• 43:24
  doing before.
• 43:25
  You have different ways of having
• 43:28
  sponsorships added to the event to get
• 43:33
  more bang for your buck, right?
• 43:36
  All those things.
• 43:37
  CrossFit isn't trying any of that.
• 43:40
  None of it.
• 43:42
  All they're doing is passing on the cost
• 43:45
  to the attraction, the athletes,
• 43:48
  and the people who want to come watch
• 43:50
  them with eight hundred dollar tickets.
• 43:53
  I know, I was looking at how much,
• 43:54
  like, because, like, our competition ends,
• 43:58
  what, Thursday?
• 43:59
  Like,
• 43:59
  we get a free in on the Friday
• 44:01
  for all the day at the Coliseum or
• 44:04
  whatever, the SAP Center.
• 44:06
  But, like,
• 44:07
  I was looking at tickets for the Saturday
• 44:09
  and Sunday, and I was like, oh,
• 44:10
  my goodness.
• 44:11
  Like, this is just getting so expensive.
• 44:13
  Like,
• 44:14
  because I want to watch the elites compete
• 44:16
  if I'm not there, right?
• 44:17
  Like, I love watching CrossFit,
• 44:19
  and I'm looking at the price,
• 44:20
  and I'm like –
• 44:21
  Man, it's expensive.
• 44:23
  Plus the hotel, staying a few days longer.
• 44:27
  You're looking, you're like,
• 44:28
  I ain't doing any shopping if I'm staying.
• 44:34
  Like it's just, it's too expensive.
• 44:37
  A thirty men,
• 44:37
  thirty women in HQ can't give the athletes
• 44:39
  a free entry fee.
• 44:41
  Nope.
• 44:43
  And that's by going away from the
• 44:45
  festival.
• 44:47
  That's what happened.
• 44:48
  Yes.
• 44:49
  When we had a festival,
• 44:50
  an outdoor portion,
• 44:53
  they did ninety dollar tickets for the
• 44:55
  weekend.
• 44:56
  They did campgrounds.
• 44:58
  They let the athletes who qualified have a
• 45:01
  free pass to the festival side of the
• 45:04
  games.
• 45:05
  So you could be a part of it.
• 45:07
  Maybe you couldn't get inside the arena,
• 45:10
  but you could be a part of it
• 45:11
  in other ways.
• 45:13
  Now it's all indoors.
• 45:16
  It's all limited.
• 45:17
  Nobody can
• 45:21
  It's so frustrating.
• 45:27
  I remember the one year when I got
• 45:29
  cut at the games.
• 45:30
  I was like in... I'd be pissed.
• 45:36
  ...and they just take your credential and
• 45:39
  then you have to buy a ticket to
• 45:40
  go watch the rest of the weekend.
• 45:43
  And I'm an elite competitor that whole
• 45:45
  weekend and I got cut.
• 45:47
  And it's like me, I don't know,
• 45:48
  Sam Briggs, a few other people.
• 45:50
  We just like took it like a piece
• 45:52
  picture and like, we're just,
• 45:53
  here's our credential and go buy a ticket
• 45:55
  to go watch the rest of your competitors
• 45:57
  compete.
• 45:59
  I was like, man, that sucks.
• 46:02
  Thankfully I had a ticket for me from,
• 46:05
  you know,
• 46:05
  an extra ticket from the members that
• 46:08
  across the Coliseum.
• 46:09
  But yeah,
• 46:12
  like even the individuals had to pay their
• 46:13
  own ticket.
• 46:15
  If you got eliminated, like that's crazy.
• 46:18
  As a group,
• 46:18
  can we create a way to support,
• 46:20
  sponsor Carolyn and Jamie for their games
• 46:22
  cost?
• 46:23
  What about some CM t-shirts?
• 46:27
  I was going to do super chats to
• 46:29
  support both of them to the games.
• 46:31
  I just was going to wait until we
• 46:33
  knew where Carolyn was going to be and
• 46:37
  all of that after next weekend.
• 46:41
  But we'll do some super chats and all
• 46:43
  that money will go to the two of
• 46:44
  them to support them to the games.
• 46:47
  And maybe we'll come up with some other
• 46:48
  things.
• 46:54
  There better not be cuts for five hundred
• 46:56
  dollars.
• 47:00
  Yeah,
• 47:01
  it costing like I think it's like nine
• 47:03
  hundred dollars if you want to go for
• 47:04
  the whole week.
• 47:05
  If you want to go watch Masters.
• 47:08
  Watch teens and adaptive and go watch
• 47:10
  elites.
• 47:11
  It's like nine hundred dollars.
• 47:13
  Maybe a little more than that.
• 47:15
  Went to Madison six times,
• 47:17
  so maybe only paid for Coliseum twice.
• 47:20
  The festival was awesome.
• 47:21
  Yeah, it was so good.
• 47:23
  That whole location was so perfect.
• 47:26
  They need to go back to that location
• 47:29
  or find another one similar to that where
• 47:32
  they can set up the festival.
• 47:35
  Yeah, and the big TVs.
• 47:41
  Tessa's changing her screen name to
• 47:42
  Jamie's Pipes.
• 47:52
  How much does YouTube suck off the top?
• 47:55
  Judy was right.
• 47:56
  Venmo might be better.
• 47:57
  So, John,
• 47:58
  what happens is I foot the YouTube price
• 48:02
  and I will pay that out.
• 48:04
  So whatever is donated,
• 48:06
  the girls will get.
• 48:16
  Nine hundred dollars for a week of
• 48:17
  entertainment is pretty good price.
• 48:19
  Is it?
• 48:21
  but again, that's one person.
• 48:22
  Think about writing your whole family.
• 48:25
  Like,
• 48:25
  does your whole family want to pay that
• 48:28
  kids, brothers, sisters, or, you know,
• 48:31
  they don't, I'm sorry, but they don't.
• 48:34
  It's, it's pretty expensive.
• 48:37
  Like I'm a competitor and I love every
• 48:40
  single thing about CrossFit and like,
• 48:42
  I'll pay it if I have to,
• 48:43
  but that's cause like, I freaking love it.
• 48:47
  Um,
• 48:49
  People that just want to see their dad
• 48:51
  compete or their mom compete and the whole
• 48:54
  family.
• 48:54
  That's expensive.
• 48:57
  Mark, I don't believe so.
• 49:05
  I don't see anything like that on my
• 49:08
  end.
• 49:11
  Did you?
• 49:15
  Okay.
• 49:16
  So done with my rant on the cost
• 49:19
  of everything.
• 49:20
  Let's look at,
• 49:23
  and we're going to get into like the
• 49:24
  re the semifinal format at the end of
• 49:27
  the show, if we have time left,
• 49:29
  but let's look at the lineup for next
• 49:31
  weekend.
• 49:37
  Stacked.
• 49:37
  Do you think the woman's field is more
• 49:39
  stacked or the men's?
• 49:41
  Yes.
• 49:44
  I think both sides,
• 49:45
  it's going to be hard to call.
• 49:48
  I think the women's is more stacked.
• 49:50
  I do.
• 49:51
  But I don't think it matters because with
• 49:55
  the seven spots,
• 49:55
  there are way more than seven on both
• 49:58
  sides who have the talent to make it.
• 50:01
  Do you think we get an athlete like
• 50:03
  last year, like Syria, that just...
• 50:06
  She didn't come out of nowhere because I'm
• 50:08
  sure if you had followed her journey from
• 50:11
  where she lives,
• 50:12
  people would have maybe foreseen that.
• 50:14
  Did anybody have Rachel Noel on their
• 50:16
  bingo card?
• 50:17
  Because I didn't.
• 50:18
  I did not.
• 50:19
  She was so impressive.
• 50:20
  Oh my goodness.
• 50:22
  That was crazy.
• 50:23
  Four event wins out of seven.
• 50:25
  Four event wins.
• 50:26
  And event wins that I thought were
• 50:29
  shoe-ins for Gazan.
• 50:31
  Things that I would pick Gazan out of
• 50:34
  anyone in the world.
• 50:35
  And I was like,
• 50:37
  wow, she's getting beat.
• 50:39
  It's crazy.
• 50:42
  She was so impressive.
• 50:46
  Are we going men first?
• 50:48
  Pretty sure Madison wanted VF back,
• 50:52
  but the Coliseum there is too old and
• 50:53
  out of date.
• 50:54
  What's VF?
• 50:56
  That was supposed to be CF.
• 50:57
  Cross it back.
• 50:58
  So I did,
• 50:59
  I have talked to Heather Lawrence,
• 51:01
  like because of how old that Coliseum was,
• 51:05
  the setup was a week where when we
• 51:08
  went to Fort Worth, they just,
• 51:11
  it was plug and play.
• 51:12
  Yeah.
• 51:14
  So there are factors into this that we
• 51:16
  as fans don't know all the details on.
• 51:18
  But yeah.
• 51:25
  All right, let's go to the men.
• 51:28
  People said how much do the tickets to
• 51:29
  the Super Bowl cost?
• 51:31
  That's not even relevant to this
• 51:32
  conversation.
• 51:34
  The Super Bowl gets the best ratings of
• 51:37
  the TV season over everything,
• 51:41
  and it has millions and millions of fans.
• 51:44
  CrossFit has thousands and thousands.
• 51:47
  Yeah, we're not the Super Bowl.
• 51:50
  All right, so here's the list of...
• 51:53
  Chris Ibarra, Alex Gatulis,
• 51:55
  Colton Mertens, Enrico Zanoni,
• 51:58
  Fabian Hermans, Guy Mejeros,
• 52:03
  Ilya Muskelenko, Jack Farlow,
• 52:06
  Jorge Fernandez, Justin Medeiros,
• 52:08
  Nate Ackerman, Noah Olson, Peter Ellis,
• 52:11
  Riley Martin, Sven Gienz,
• 52:14
  William Leahy IV, Cullen Bosshardt,
• 52:19
  Fabian Benito, George Scarvis,
• 52:22
  Harry Lightfoot, Jonah Koski,
• 52:25
  Mitchell Stevenson,
• 52:26
  who crushed it at NorCal too.
• 52:28
  I love that dude.
• 52:29
  And he always just misses.
• 52:32
  He was on a demo team with me
• 52:33
  in twenty twenty three.
• 52:35
  So such a fit guy.
• 52:36
  I haven't seen him compete really since
• 52:37
  then.
• 52:38
  And I was so happy to see him
• 52:39
  podium.
• 52:42
  Nick Matthew, Pat Vellner, Quinn Robinson,
• 52:45
  Quinn Robinson,
• 52:46
  who almost had a ticket at Syndicate in
• 52:49
  a stacked field there.
• 52:51
  Spencer Pancheck, Travis Mayer.
• 52:56
  With that list, how do you pick seven?
• 52:59
  Like if Noah's competing online,
• 53:02
  like Noah's is one I would pick in
• 53:05
  the top seven for sure.
• 53:08
  I think it's all how critical they are
• 53:10
  on judging.
• 53:14
  Noah rides that line.
• 53:16
  Yeah, he does,
• 53:17
  but he's so fast at all of those
• 53:21
  movements.
• 53:26
  Yeah, that's tough.
• 53:28
  Yoni will qualify if he's healthy.
• 53:30
  I believe that.
• 53:31
  I think so, too.
• 53:33
  I think Colton qualifies because he's
• 53:36
  great online.
• 53:37
  Yeah.
• 53:38
  Yeah, he might have one workout.
• 53:41
  That might not be great,
• 53:42
  but I see him having like four in
• 53:44
  the top five, you know?
• 53:46
  I think Spencer Pancheck's a great online
• 53:48
  competitor.
• 53:49
  Yep.
• 53:51
  Which would be cool because then four
• 53:52
  Panchecks would be at the games.
• 53:54
  I think Colin Bossart is a good online
• 53:56
  person as well.
• 54:00
  What about Harry Lightfoot?
• 54:03
  I don't know.
• 54:04
  He had a really good year last year,
• 54:06
  but I'm kind of wondering if it was
• 54:09
  just last year.
• 54:12
  And sometimes, you know,
• 54:15
  you had the right program or whatever.
• 54:18
  I'm not sure for him.
• 54:20
  I have a question mark for just Justin.
• 54:24
  I even a shoe in, in this list.
• 54:29
  Uh, so Ken for question mark.
• 54:32
  Yes.
• 54:33
  Two panchecks made it as masters,
• 54:35
  Kristen and Scott and Saxon made it as
• 54:38
  an elite.
• 54:38
  And if Spencer makes it,
• 54:39
  that would be four.
• 54:44
  Um, I don't think anyone's a shoe in.
• 54:47
  I know.
• 54:48
  I don't like that.
• 54:49
  So like,
• 54:49
  I think Justin is amazing online and in
• 54:52
  person too, but I just don't, like,
• 54:54
  I don't think anyone's a shoe in like
• 54:57
  everyone's good and it's going to be
• 55:00
  tough.
• 55:02
  And Justin Medeiros was a great,
• 55:04
  great CrossFit champion, but Jamie,
• 55:07
  I know this is a bugaboo of yours.
• 55:10
  He rides the line just like Noah.
• 55:12
  Yeah.
• 55:16
  So is he going,
• 55:18
  is he going to make it through unscathed
• 55:20
  and not get dinged by the judges?
• 55:23
  That is a huge factor in this.
• 55:25
  Agreed.
• 55:28
  And because of that, do you,
• 55:31
  do you make sure your range of motion
• 55:33
  is more than normal to prevent that?
• 55:37
  Does that slow you down too much?
• 55:41
  There's a, there's so many factors.
• 55:49
  I mean, if I'm picking,
• 55:50
  I'm going Medeiros, Pancek, Yona.
• 55:55
  Colton.
• 55:56
  Colton, for sure.
• 55:57
  Those four.
• 56:04
  Yep.
• 56:05
  Nick Matthew can be good online as well.
• 56:07
  He is good online too.
• 56:09
  He can do some damage there, yeah.
• 56:15
  yeah i don't know it's really like
• 56:18
  traditionally pat is someone who does
• 56:20
  awesome online as well yeah but he's he
• 56:27
  was one of the people that got dinged
• 56:28
  in the box step up thing yep like
• 56:31
  it can happen to anybody yeah soft knees
• 56:35
  all right let's look at the women which
• 56:40
  is an even longer list
• 56:43
  Alexis Raptus, Ariel Lowen,
• 56:45
  Caroline Stanley, Claudia Gluck,
• 56:47
  Elizabeth Wishart, Emily Rolfe,
• 56:49
  Grace Walton, Janie Chevery,
• 56:51
  Carissa Stapp, Lexi Neely, Mano Angones,
• 56:55
  Ada Ludden, sure, Rebecca Fusile,
• 56:59
  Reese Littlewood, Sydney McElishan,
• 57:01
  Sydney Wells, Trista Smith, Zoe Warren,
• 57:04
  Var Thurman-Mo, Taylor Howe, Sydney Smith,
• 57:07
  Riley Beebe, Rebecca Vitteson,
• 57:10
  Paige Semenza, Mathilde Garnes,
• 57:13
  Maddie Fouts, Leah Storen, Jennifer Muir,
• 57:16
  Hattie Cano, Fee Sagafi, Emily DeRoy,
• 57:20
  Elena Caratala, Carolyn Prevost,
• 57:23
  Burgos Bjorn's daughter, Andrea Solberg.
• 57:27
  Yeah, this is wild.
• 57:30
  Crazy amount of picks you can have out
• 57:34
  of that.
• 57:36
  I mean, I'd say...
• 57:37
  I don't think anyone's a shoo-in.
• 57:40
  I think the one that I am the
• 57:42
  most confident in is Ariel.
• 57:44
  Yeah.
• 57:45
  That's one that I'm the most confident in
• 57:49
  of this group that I feel like no
• 57:52
  matter what the program is,
• 57:55
  she finds a way.
• 57:58
  I agree.
• 57:59
  After that, it's tough to pick.
• 58:07
  Like Alexis, obviously too,
• 58:09
  is there as well.
• 58:10
  And then I think her back is good
• 58:12
  now.
• 58:13
  I think it's good.
• 58:14
  I think,
• 58:15
  I think she overheated it syndicate.
• 58:17
  Right.
• 58:17
  And being in her own gym and her
• 58:20
  own space, being able to redo, I think,
• 58:23
  I think she'll qualify online.
• 58:25
  She would be my second pick after Ariel
• 58:27
  as like,
• 58:28
  if there's a shoe in it's like those
• 58:30
  two.
• 58:32
  But man, that's tough.
• 58:35
  I'll tell you what,
• 58:36
  Janie Chevery really impressed me at
• 58:38
  Syndicate.
• 58:38
  Agreed.
• 58:39
  In person.
• 58:40
  Seeing her in person,
• 58:42
  like she's way fitter than I gave her
• 58:44
  credit for.
• 58:46
  Yeah, I kind of hope she makes it.
• 58:51
  I thought Rebecca Fusile's made some huge
• 58:54
  strides.
• 58:54
  She looks awesome too, yeah.
• 58:58
  Sounds like Fi and Alexis are doing them
• 59:00
  together.
• 59:00
  So that actually would probably be very
• 59:02
  helpful for them.
• 59:06
  I feel like Claudia Gluck has been so
• 59:08
  competitive all year and just not quite
• 59:11
  good enough.
• 59:13
  I mean,
• 59:14
  Leah Storen has been the person out twice
• 59:16
  as well.
• 59:19
  Andrea Solberg is a beast.
• 59:21
  Beast.
• 59:22
  And it's a beast online as well, too.
• 59:26
  And you are very good online too.
• 59:28
  I know you're not going to say that
• 59:30
  about yourself,
• 59:31
  but you are a very good online competitor.
• 59:33
  Yeah, there's not many machines and stuff.
• 59:42
  Avera is very confident in Carolyn.
• 59:44
  There's just so many people with different
• 59:48
  skill sets here that it can go any
• 59:52
  way.
• 59:53
  It can go any way.
• 59:57
  Do you think it's a huge advantage here
• 59:59
  to have a training camp that has like
• 1:00:00
  multiple people doing these workouts?
• 1:00:02
  Yes.
• 1:00:03
  Huge.
• 1:00:04
  Knowing scores,
• 1:00:05
  knowing if you have to redo,
• 1:00:07
  if you have like six people from proven
• 1:00:10
  together, just doing it.
• 1:00:11
  Yep.
• 1:00:12
  Like if you're just on your own,
• 1:00:13
  you have no idea if you have to
• 1:00:16
  redo, if this workout is good.
• 1:00:17
  Like when you're in a big camp like
• 1:00:19
  this,
• 1:00:20
  like this is when it matters to have
• 1:00:21
  a bunch of testers for you.
• 1:00:25
  And just comparison and already doing the
• 1:00:27
  math.
• 1:00:27
  Like, okay, she's beaten me in three,
• 1:00:30
  four, but this workout, okay.
• 1:00:32
  I have to do this one.
• 1:00:33
  This one,
• 1:00:34
  five people are beating me in this one.
• 1:00:36
  You know?
• 1:00:39
  Yeah.
• 1:00:40
  Yeah.
• 1:00:40
  I mean,
• 1:00:40
  even like Saxon said he was going to
• 1:00:43
  test for Spencer.
• 1:00:45
  Like if you have those people that have
• 1:00:47
  the fitness level you do to test,
• 1:00:50
  that's the key.
• 1:00:52
  Like,
• 1:00:52
  do you have someone that either
• 1:00:54
  specializes in that workout or has your
• 1:00:57
  fitness level that can test it for you?
• 1:01:05
  Yeah, it's definitely an advantage.
• 1:01:07
  But I think we're going to be surprised
• 1:01:11
  on Monday when the leaderboards release.
• 1:01:13
  I think so, too.
• 1:01:14
  I think there's going to be surprise on
• 1:01:15
  both sides.
• 1:01:18
  Yeah, it's going to...
• 1:01:21
  But I hate it.
• 1:01:22
  I hate it.
• 1:01:23
  This is all the drama I wanted at
• 1:01:28
  the in-person semifinals, regionals,
• 1:01:31
  whatever.
• 1:01:33
  And it's all online in the dark.
• 1:01:36
  How many people you think should be
• 1:01:39
  qualifying in this last stage,
• 1:01:41
  last chance qualifier, let's call it,
• 1:01:44
  and then give the other spots in person?
• 1:01:47
  Three?
• 1:01:47
  Yeah.
• 1:01:48
  So if I'm being completely honest,
• 1:01:51
  I don't think there should be a last
• 1:01:52
  chance.
• 1:01:54
  I don't mind the last chance for spots.
• 1:01:56
  It's more income for them.
• 1:01:58
  You get if you if you get a
• 1:02:00
  stacked field.
• 1:02:01
  It's just, you know, you but I Yeah,
• 1:02:05
  but if we have it, two tops.
• 1:02:09
  do you think it should be like a
• 1:02:10
  top two thousand in the quarterfinals or
• 1:02:14
  at each semi-final five people let's say
• 1:02:18
  the next five are all in that's what
• 1:02:20
  i like after the just those people last
• 1:02:24
  chance for two places or whatever but you
• 1:02:28
  can only do one semi-final in person not
• 1:02:31
  five
• 1:02:32
  one semifinal person,
• 1:02:34
  you pick the stacked one, well,
• 1:02:35
  you better finish within five places of a
• 1:02:37
  qualifying spot or something like that.
• 1:02:40
  If we go back to a regionally locked
• 1:02:42
  semifinal structure, then, okay,
• 1:02:46
  it makes sense to have a last chance,
• 1:02:48
  two spots.
• 1:02:49
  But I,
• 1:02:50
  but just like we did in like,
• 1:02:51
  was it twenty three where it was the
• 1:02:54
  five people that just missed from each
• 1:02:58
  region got to do the last chance.
• 1:03:05
  but I, I'm like,
• 1:03:09
  I watch a lot of sports.
• 1:03:10
  Like today I watched F one.
• 1:03:12
  That's my new jam.
• 1:03:15
  My driver, his battery died.
• 1:03:17
  He's out of the race.
• 1:03:20
  It's over.
• 1:03:21
  Like this race is over.
• 1:03:24
  You don't get to go into the garage
• 1:03:25
  and put together a new thing and get
• 1:03:27
  to go out again.
• 1:03:28
  It's done.
• 1:03:31
  When the Montreal Canadiens lost that
• 1:03:33
  series, they're done.
• 1:03:35
  There's no second chance.
• 1:03:38
  And that's what makes sports beautiful
• 1:03:40
  because it all is that drama about that
• 1:03:42
  one moment in time.
• 1:03:44
  I think it's hard to compare an individual
• 1:03:46
  sport to a team sport like that,
• 1:03:48
  like a playoff format.
• 1:03:51
  The French Open just concluded today.
• 1:03:55
  One tournament.
• 1:03:56
  They have multiple tournaments.
• 1:03:58
  for their qualifying.
• 1:04:00
  Well, we have Rogue, we have Waterpalooza,
• 1:04:02
  we have other events.
• 1:04:03
  That's true.
• 1:04:06
  It's not like your season's over.
• 1:04:08
  You get to go do these other things,
• 1:04:10
  qualify for them.
• 1:04:13
  Make more money at those places too,
• 1:04:14
  anyways.
• 1:04:15
  Yeah, you got the whole WFP thing now.
• 1:04:19
  Okay, true, true.
• 1:04:21
  Which them promoting Jason Ainsley to
• 1:04:23
  president was a brilliant move.
• 1:04:26
  Just saying.
• 1:04:28
  I know we're not going to do WFP
• 1:04:29
  tonight, but that was a good move.
• 1:04:33
  He's been the only coherent spokesman for
• 1:04:35
  them over the last year and a half,
• 1:04:39
  and he needs to be that going forward.
• 1:04:42
  Who was president?
• 1:04:43
  Was it Will?
• 1:04:44
  I don't know if there was a president.
• 1:04:46
  I don't know their structure to know.
• 1:04:50
  Some.
• 1:04:50
  And Ken Walters says we've got a Hyrox
• 1:04:52
  and Xenon thing, too.
• 1:05:00
  So anyway, there's that.
• 1:05:03
  To me, it's crazy.
• 1:05:05
  Again,
• 1:05:06
  I just miss getting to see all this
• 1:05:09
  drama on the floor.
• 1:05:12
  Yeah.
• 1:05:13
  Even when Syndicate had, what,
• 1:05:16
  fourteen qualifiers and Erica Folo
• 1:05:19
  couldn't finish that last dumbbell march
• 1:05:24
  to the end.
• 1:05:25
  Like,
• 1:05:25
  you're gutted because that was her last
• 1:05:28
  shot.
• 1:05:33
  And that happened at West Coast with
• 1:05:36
  people not able to finish that last run.
• 1:05:39
  That's where all the drama is,
• 1:05:40
  and that's what I miss.
• 1:05:44
  And you could even see it as the
• 1:05:46
  season progressed.
• 1:05:48
  The less opportunities they had,
• 1:05:51
  the more the pressure was on.
• 1:05:54
  So last weekend was the last in-person
• 1:05:56
  season.
• 1:05:57
  more people, more drama,
• 1:05:59
  because there was no other in-person to go
• 1:06:01
  to.
• 1:06:03
  It was that or you have to go
• 1:06:04
  online.
• 1:06:06
  And I think a lot of athletes are
• 1:06:07
  afraid of online.
• 1:06:20
  Anyway.
• 1:06:23
  So today...
• 1:06:26
  And next week,
• 1:06:26
  we will talk a lot about the online
• 1:06:29
  semis as they will be going on waiting
• 1:06:32
  for the leaderboard.
• 1:06:33
  When does it end?
• 1:06:34
  Does it end Sunday or Monday?
• 1:06:36
  Monday.
• 1:06:44
  Yeah.
• 1:06:44
  Dex wants to know why the hell everybody's
• 1:06:46
  terrified of online.
• 1:06:48
  Because when you ride the line all the
• 1:06:50
  time in person,
• 1:06:51
  the judge gives you immediate feedback.
• 1:06:54
  You don't get that online.
• 1:06:56
  And then if you get the penalty a
• 1:06:57
  week later,
• 1:06:59
  there's nothing you can do about it.
• 1:07:01
  Well,
• 1:07:01
  just the movements that can get programmed
• 1:07:04
  online are often cycle speed dependent.
• 1:07:08
  So that's the thing why I think it
• 1:07:09
  scares a lot of people.
• 1:07:10
  Because one,
• 1:07:11
  if it's cycle speed dependent,
• 1:07:13
  you are riding the line for sure.
• 1:07:15
  And then two, size matters.
• 1:07:18
  The programming will matter if they can
• 1:07:20
  offset it with something for a bigger
• 1:07:22
  person.
• 1:07:23
  But for the most part,
• 1:07:26
  most of the things that are online will
• 1:07:28
  favor a smaller athlete,
• 1:07:32
  except for world climbs.
• 1:07:34
  I mean,
• 1:07:37
  we have thirty and twenty pound wall balls
• 1:07:39
  here.
• 1:07:39
  I guess we'll see.
• 1:07:43
  But.
• 1:07:46
  Yeah, so you have the penalties,
• 1:07:48
  you have the range of motion.
• 1:07:50
  There's a few things, right, for that.
• 1:07:54
  You have just blatant cheating for some
• 1:07:56
  people.
• 1:07:56
  Yeah.
• 1:08:03
  Anyway,
• 1:08:05
  so today the Barbell Spin did a debate
• 1:08:07
  show with Seth Jumpship and Tyler Watkins
• 1:08:11
  about what the season needs to be.
• 1:08:17
  I started watching it.
• 1:08:18
  I didn't finish it.
• 1:08:20
  Well, it got repetitive.
• 1:08:22
  So if you made it halfway through,
• 1:08:24
  you've seen it all.
• 1:08:28
  What I'll say is like,
• 1:08:29
  I think Seth is on the right track,
• 1:08:32
  in my opinion.
• 1:08:35
  Seth is adamant that we need to go
• 1:08:36
  back to regionally locked.
• 1:08:38
  We need to get rid of invites to
• 1:08:40
  these events.
• 1:08:42
  Yes.
• 1:08:42
  They have to qualify from open
• 1:08:44
  quarterfinals to get to the events.
• 1:08:49
  The big debate came in with,
• 1:08:53
  can you trust affiliate owners to run that
• 1:08:58
  section of the competition,
• 1:09:00
  or does it need to go to big
• 1:09:02
  event coordinators?
• 1:09:08
  What I will say is,
• 1:09:12
  Seth made great points.
• 1:09:14
  CrossFit has messed up to the point where
• 1:09:18
  they have put the event coordinators in
• 1:09:22
  such a bad place that they are now
• 1:09:27
  leaving.
• 1:09:28
  Like, Wilson is leaving to go to Xenon.
• 1:09:30
  Yeah.
• 1:09:32
  Daniel Chaffee,
• 1:09:33
  and these are quotes from Seth, says,
• 1:09:35
  I take a bath every year on this.
• 1:09:38
  But just because I love the sport and
• 1:09:40
  love CrossFit, I do it.
• 1:09:42
  But how long is he going to do
• 1:09:43
  that?
• 1:09:46
  And we don't have anybody on the bench.
• 1:09:50
  Because CrossFit just always goes to the
• 1:09:52
  same people over and over again.
• 1:09:55
  Those are the only people that have the
• 1:09:57
  template to make it work.
• 1:09:58
  Right.
• 1:10:01
  And so if we don't give it out
• 1:10:03
  to maybe some bigger affiliate owners to
• 1:10:05
  do some things like this and grow them,
• 1:10:09
  we're gonna be in a lot of trouble
• 1:10:10
  in the future.
• 1:10:16
  So I agree that it should be regionally
• 1:10:20
  locked.
• 1:10:21
  I like that from before.
• 1:10:23
  I agree that it should be open to
• 1:10:25
  quarters to then you go to your regional
• 1:10:29
  law place.
• 1:10:31
  The problem is,
• 1:10:32
  is where do these people that are running
• 1:10:36
  this make their money?
• 1:10:38
  Right now, what's annoying,
• 1:10:39
  what's confusing is all these online
• 1:10:41
  qualifiers, right,
• 1:10:42
  that are even before the Open.
• 1:10:43
  But these people that are taking on these
• 1:10:46
  semifinals have no option because that's
• 1:10:48
  the money that's helping them
• 1:10:53
  you know, put these events on is,
• 1:10:56
  is their qualifiers and the registration
• 1:11:01
  fees.
• 1:11:02
  And then maybe some sponsors when they get
• 1:11:04
  there.
• 1:11:04
  Right.
• 1:11:05
  It's just,
• 1:11:05
  it's tough for them to ask the open
• 1:11:08
  and quarterfinals and then be like,
• 1:11:10
  Oh yeah, we'll run it for you.
• 1:11:12
  And I guess we don't have any money
• 1:11:14
  to,
• 1:11:14
  cause like they could do a separate
• 1:11:16
  qualifier just for other divisions.
• 1:11:18
  Then that becomes like,
• 1:11:20
  Also hard when you want to include teams
• 1:11:22
  in there as well in a three-day weekend.
• 1:11:26
  So it's just tough.
• 1:11:27
  But I think the right way to go
• 1:11:28
  is, and it should go,
• 1:11:30
  open quarters and then you qualify through
• 1:11:33
  to your semis.
• 1:11:34
  So I agree with that.
• 1:11:35
  I just don't know how people would take
• 1:11:38
  that on without any income coming just
• 1:11:40
  from the registration.
• 1:11:42
  I feel like they would probably upcharge
• 1:11:43
  their athletes all of a sudden,
• 1:11:45
  six hundred dollars.
• 1:11:46
  They'd have to.
• 1:11:47
  When there was a debate, too,
• 1:11:49
  that CrossFit may actually charge them for
• 1:11:51
  a licensing fee to run a CrossFit license.
• 1:11:55
  Now, that was not confirmed,
• 1:11:56
  so I don't know if that is true
• 1:11:58
  or not.
• 1:11:59
  They're going to rent these places out,
• 1:12:02
  find volunteers, all of that.
• 1:12:05
  They're relying on their qualifiers right
• 1:12:07
  now to make a lot of money.
• 1:12:12
  I'm not a huge proponent of the affiliate.
• 1:12:17
  Ed says there are no big affiliates.
• 1:12:20
  There are.
• 1:12:20
  There are a lot of big affiliates.
• 1:12:23
  But do they all want to do comps?
• 1:12:27
  You're assuming that every affiliate owner
• 1:12:30
  wants to jump in on this thing.
• 1:12:33
  A lot of affiliate owners probably don't
• 1:12:34
  want to shut down their gym for a
• 1:12:36
  few days for their own members that are
• 1:12:38
  paying and stuff like that.
• 1:12:40
  A lot of them might not want to
• 1:12:41
  do that.
• 1:12:42
  I agree.
• 1:12:43
  And Barry, yes,
• 1:12:43
  it costs a hundred dollars to do the
• 1:12:45
  online semifinals.
• 1:12:48
  I want to answer this Ortega is Wilson
• 1:12:50
  leaving.
• 1:12:50
  Is that why junior Jr helped with
• 1:12:52
  syndicate learning the rope ceremonial
• 1:12:54
  handing off the crown or take,
• 1:12:57
  I'm not saying that all I know is
• 1:13:00
  Wilson is now working for Xenon.
• 1:13:02
  That is a full-time job.
• 1:13:05
  Can he do both?
• 1:13:06
  I don't know.
• 1:13:07
  You'd have to ask him, but I,
• 1:13:12
  If he's losing money on the Syndicate
• 1:13:14
  Crown and Xenom is offering him a lot
• 1:13:19
  of money to come work with them,
• 1:13:21
  isn't that a better option for him?
• 1:13:24
  And CrossFit did nothing to entice him to
• 1:13:27
  stay.
• 1:13:28
  I think if you regionally lock and
• 1:13:30
  Syndicate Crown gets the East in the U.S.,
• 1:13:33
  he's all in again.
• 1:13:35
  Because he knows who the lineup's going to
• 1:13:37
  be.
• 1:13:38
  He doesn't have to do invites and watch
• 1:13:41
  cancellations and withdrawals and do all
• 1:13:43
  this stuff and then backfill and all of
• 1:13:45
  that.
• 1:13:46
  When you have the regional locked,
• 1:13:49
  you just get your list.
• 1:13:50
  Yeah.
• 1:13:51
  And it doesn't change because there are no
• 1:13:53
  other options for those athletes.
• 1:13:59
  CrossFit has put the event organizers in a
• 1:14:01
  very bad position.
• 1:14:03
  Yep.
• 1:14:05
  no funding, do it on your own.
• 1:14:08
  And we're not even going to let you
• 1:14:10
  determine who your athletes are until the
• 1:14:12
  last minute.
• 1:14:14
  That's why I think these event organizers
• 1:14:15
  should just pull out.
• 1:14:18
  Like they need to put CrossFit in the
• 1:14:20
  tough spot.
• 1:14:21
  Like, yeah, we're not doing that for you.
• 1:14:23
  CrossFit's not going to do that.
• 1:14:25
  And I guess there's no season.
• 1:14:26
  I guess it's all online.
• 1:14:27
  I don't know.
• 1:14:28
  They need to figure it out.
• 1:14:29
  They need to realize.
• 1:14:30
  That's what I'm saying.
• 1:14:30
  Like for CrossFit,
• 1:14:33
  For CrossFit, online makes sense.
• 1:14:36
  It's zero money for them to run that.
• 1:14:38
  They can pay some judges to judge.
• 1:14:41
  The in-person is for the athletes that
• 1:14:43
  want that, but besides the games,
• 1:14:47
  they could go online the whole season if
• 1:14:49
  they really wanted to.
• 1:14:52
  If no one is taking on the finals,
• 1:14:54
  they really could.
• 1:14:57
  It's not really a good sport, but
• 1:15:01
  financially it makes the most sense for
• 1:15:03
  them makes us makes the most short-term
• 1:15:07
  financial success long term you might as
• 1:15:09
  well just close up shop yeah focus i
• 1:15:16
  mean yeah and that's that is the problem
• 1:15:18
  we have with whoever is the decision maker
• 1:15:21
  at crossfit whether it's the board whether
• 1:15:24
  it's the the two people that everybody
• 1:15:26
  mentions or whether it's now going to be
• 1:15:28
  bruce i don't know
• 1:15:30
  But you need a long-term vision,
• 1:15:33
  not a short-term.
• 1:15:35
  And that's all we've had for six years
• 1:15:39
  has been short-term vision.
• 1:15:40
  I agree.
• 1:15:49
  And so the old adage,
• 1:15:51
  you got to spend money to make money.
• 1:15:53
  Right.
• 1:15:54
  Or you get that Reebok money.
• 1:15:59
  In all seriousness,
• 1:16:00
  Reebok set us up for a bad spot.
• 1:16:04
  Because everybody got spoiled with the
• 1:16:08
  regional days being funded by Reebok.
• 1:16:10
  Yeah.
• 1:16:14
  And now we don't have the funds to
• 1:16:16
  do it.
• 1:16:17
  And the vendors are pulling out more and
• 1:16:21
  more frequently.
• 1:16:22
  Yeah.
• 1:16:23
  Unless you can do a community event like
• 1:16:24
  NorCal.
• 1:16:24
  They're upcharging the vendors so much
• 1:16:26
  too, though.
• 1:16:27
  They are.
• 1:16:28
  And then there's no one in the stands
• 1:16:29
  to buy their stuff,
• 1:16:30
  so why would vendors bring their stuff
• 1:16:34
  there when no one wants to buy anything
• 1:16:36
  because the price was X, Y,
• 1:16:38
  and Z to enter and register and you
• 1:16:42
  have no one coming to watch?
• 1:16:44
  We talked about this, but more vendors,
• 1:16:48
  more people, more shopping.
• 1:16:50
  I don't know.
• 1:16:52
  It's short term.
• 1:16:54
  They're just milking the cows that have
• 1:16:56
  been there forever.
• 1:16:57
  Vendors, spectators, athletes.
• 1:17:02
  Those are their sources of revenue.
• 1:17:06
  They're not looking for sponsorships.
• 1:17:07
  They're not looking for partnerships.
• 1:17:09
  They're not looking for anything else or
• 1:17:11
  any other way to be creative about how
• 1:17:14
  to make money.
• 1:17:17
  It's the same old stuff and all they're
• 1:17:19
  doing is upping the price on all of
• 1:17:21
  them.
• 1:17:24
  And it's already started happening where
• 1:17:27
  people just aren't going to pay it
• 1:17:28
  anymore.
• 1:17:32
  And so they're bailing.
• 1:17:40
  And Barry says it as well as anybody.
• 1:17:43
  We went from Reebok to Valit Test to
• 1:17:46
  Northern Spirit.
• 1:17:46
  To Jim Reapers.
• 1:17:52
  What is this year?
• 1:17:53
  Is it Belitos?
• 1:17:53
  I thought it was Belitos.
• 1:17:54
  I think it is,
• 1:17:54
  but I think it might be back to
• 1:17:55
  Belitos.
• 1:17:59
  But to expect one big company to come
• 1:18:02
  in and just throw cash at CrossFit,
• 1:18:06
  it's not going to happen.
• 1:18:08
  They have to build this up from the
• 1:18:10
  bottom again because they have screwed the
• 1:18:14
  pooch.
• 1:18:24
  Without geofencing regions,
• 1:18:25
  entire gyms aren't going to show up to
• 1:18:26
  a regional semi.
• 1:18:27
  Hell, that's how we met, Scott.
• 1:18:29
  Maximus in its entirety was at that
• 1:18:31
  regional and all of them.
• 1:18:33
  That's never coming back.
• 1:18:34
  And even if you go back to that,
• 1:18:36
  it's not coming back.
• 1:18:39
  We don't have as many affiliates as we
• 1:18:41
  did then.
• 1:18:42
  The whole ecosystem is smaller now.
• 1:18:50
  There needs to be a new vision for
• 1:18:52
  long-term success, not short-term funds.
• 1:19:02
  If I was closer and didn't have to
• 1:19:05
  fly to California for that,
• 1:19:07
  people from my gym would have come watch
• 1:19:08
  me.
• 1:19:09
  I can tell you that.
• 1:19:11
  We are missing the regional model.
• 1:19:13
  It may not come back in full,
• 1:19:15
  but if you could bring it back to
• 1:19:16
  that, people would come watch.
• 1:19:20
  Yeah, driving distance is huge.
• 1:19:22
  Like people, you know,
• 1:19:24
  I'll pack in a car,
• 1:19:26
  drive to go and watch.
• 1:19:28
  But again,
• 1:19:29
  the prices can't be ridiculous for the
• 1:19:32
  whole weekend.
• 1:19:33
  Right.
• 1:19:33
  Like you make it so it's freaking packed
• 1:19:35
  and it looks great.
• 1:19:38
  And people will buy things and vendors
• 1:19:41
  will want to be there because there's
• 1:19:42
  people there.
• 1:19:44
  If you charge too much,
• 1:19:45
  there's no one that's coming to watch.
• 1:19:47
  They will watch it on YouTube.
• 1:19:50
  They will watch it for free on YouTube.
• 1:19:53
  Seth jumps in the chat.
• 1:19:56
  I already quoted you a bunch, Seth,
• 1:19:57
  so you missed that part.
• 1:20:05
  And Ortega wants some positives.
• 1:20:07
  Here's the positives.
• 1:20:09
  We have a new CEO.
• 1:20:11
  We don't know what the vision of that
• 1:20:13
  is.
• 1:20:13
  We don't know whether he has that ability
• 1:20:18
  to have a long-term outlook into where
• 1:20:21
  we're going.
• 1:20:22
  We don't know that,
• 1:20:24
  but it is a possibility now.
• 1:20:28
  Because he's been around a long time and
• 1:20:30
  he understands the ecosystem.
• 1:20:32
  He understands how it all works.
• 1:20:35
  And so if anybody's going to do it,
• 1:20:37
  it's going to be him.
• 1:20:39
  The other thing is we have Seth on
• 1:20:41
  the CAC.
• 1:20:42
  Seth is taking all this back.
• 1:20:44
  Seth is doing these things to tell
• 1:20:47
  CrossFit what needs to happen,
• 1:20:50
  what should happen,
• 1:20:51
  how the athletes feel about what's
• 1:20:53
  happening.
• 1:20:54
  And if you listen to Seth,
• 1:20:56
  he has a very level head about all
• 1:20:59
  of this.
• 1:21:00
  So if you want a representative on the
• 1:21:02
  CAC that's going to get this stuff done,
• 1:21:05
  it's him.
• 1:21:19
  Yeah.
• 1:21:19
  I still think if you do regional locked,
• 1:21:24
  you make it not as expensive as it
• 1:21:27
  is so that all of these cars and
• 1:21:29
  affiliates and friends come and watch.
• 1:21:36
  It has to be a decent price that
• 1:21:40
  they're willing to watch and pay for
• 1:21:42
  things inside.
• 1:21:45
  The money will start coming.
• 1:21:48
  Because if I ask people to come and
• 1:21:49
  watch me and they'll drive a few hours
• 1:21:51
  and stay at a hotel,
• 1:21:52
  they do not want to pay.
• 1:21:53
  They won't pay.
• 1:21:55
  Three hundred dollars for the weekend.
• 1:21:57
  And then they're not going to buy anything
• 1:21:58
  from the sponsors and the sponsors don't
• 1:22:00
  want to come.
• 1:22:01
  It's the same thing every time.
• 1:22:03
  And then we have less and less sponsors
• 1:22:05
  at each one because they're getting
• 1:22:06
  charged ten to fifteen thousand to have a
• 1:22:08
  booth there for a hundred people that
• 1:22:11
  don't even want to buy anything.
• 1:22:16
  Right.
• 1:22:16
  Regionals were affordable.
• 1:22:19
  You could go and then, like Shanna says,
• 1:22:24
  the vendors were selling out of stuff.
• 1:22:26
  Always.
• 1:22:27
  In the regional days.
• 1:22:29
  That's why.
• 1:22:31
  So here's my proposal.
• 1:22:33
  Regional locked semifinals.
• 1:22:38
  The part I don't understand is where it's
• 1:22:40
  going to be.
• 1:22:41
  Seth says affiliate owners,
• 1:22:43
  give them the opportunity.
• 1:22:45
  I'm okay with that.
• 1:22:48
  Then make teams six-person again where you
• 1:22:53
  can substitute two in.
• 1:22:55
  Now you're building your teams bigger,
• 1:22:57
  the affiliates are more invested,
• 1:23:00
  and they'll bring more people to the venue
• 1:23:02
  to watch those athletes compete.
• 1:23:07
  And it gives more people hope in the
• 1:23:10
  affiliate that they can be a member of
• 1:23:12
  that team someday.
• 1:23:13
  Right.
• 1:23:13
  Our masters at these comps.
• 1:23:16
  I don't even want to get into that
• 1:23:17
  yet because that complicates everything.
• 1:23:19
  Then you need to lower the ticket price
• 1:23:23
  to fill the place.
• 1:23:26
  Not thinking that raising them is going to
• 1:23:28
  make you more money.
• 1:23:29
  Think about lowering the prices and get
• 1:23:31
  more people there and you're going to make
• 1:23:33
  money by volume, not by amount.
• 1:23:38
  Because then sponsors look at pictures and
• 1:23:41
  videos of the event and they're like,
• 1:23:43
  look at how packed this is.
• 1:23:46
  I'm gonna invest because the demand is
• 1:23:49
  there.
• 1:23:50
  People are interested.
• 1:23:51
  Right now,
• 1:23:52
  if you're a sponsor and you're looking at
• 1:23:54
  the stands on a lot of the comps
• 1:23:55
  and they're empty and you're like, no,
• 1:24:01
  it's not that popular.
• 1:24:01
  It's not as popular as it once was
• 1:24:03
  because when you compare it to what it
• 1:24:04
  once was, just how empty it looks,
• 1:24:06
  you're like, it's just decreasing.
• 1:24:07
  I'm not gonna waste my sponsorship there.
• 1:24:10
  But if you make it look full,
• 1:24:13
  people I think would wanna invest.
• 1:24:16
  And you as an athlete,
• 1:24:18
  you can brand yourself better showing you
• 1:24:21
  in a stadium full of people,
• 1:24:22
  especially if you're on a team.
• 1:24:23
  That looks cool.
• 1:24:24
  Then you go to local sponsorships and they
• 1:24:26
  can help support you.
• 1:24:29
  Lower the vendor fee too.
• 1:24:31
  Marketing wise.
• 1:24:32
  Lower the vendor fee too.
• 1:24:34
  So you get more of them.
• 1:24:36
  The more they make money,
• 1:24:37
  the more they will come back.
• 1:24:39
  And what I liked about NorCal and they
• 1:24:41
  did it well.
• 1:24:42
  And like last year at the masters
• 1:24:43
  semifinals, it was horrible,
• 1:24:45
  but you have to walk through the vendor
• 1:24:46
  village to go to your stands.
• 1:24:49
  Like you have to,
• 1:24:50
  you have to force people to go through
• 1:24:51
  the vendor village.
• 1:24:53
  You can't have a vendor village way off
• 1:24:54
  to the side where people can just enter
• 1:24:57
  and go right to their seat and leave
• 1:24:59
  because those vendors are purchasing a
• 1:25:01
  place,
• 1:25:02
  but there's not any volume that's being
• 1:25:05
  sent to them.
• 1:25:07
  You have to put them in a location
• 1:25:09
  at these events that people are walking
• 1:25:12
  through it all the time.
• 1:25:14
  You have to help the vendors out.
• 1:25:16
  These vendors are still paying money to
• 1:25:19
  help support and you shaft them and put
• 1:25:21
  them in the corner.
• 1:25:23
  Like, that's another reason.
• 1:25:25
  You know who is awesome at vendors?
• 1:25:26
  Waterpalooza.
• 1:25:29
  Waterpalooza,
• 1:25:29
  you had to walk through them to get
• 1:25:30
  in.
• 1:25:32
  I haven't been to the new Miami Beach
• 1:25:34
  one and
• 1:25:36
  But I've heard that the SoCal one,
• 1:25:38
  you have to walk through vendor village to
• 1:25:40
  get into the venue.
• 1:25:47
  Spectators bring the energy.
• 1:25:48
  That's what makes the memorable moments.
• 1:25:50
  A three tent snatch is way more exciting
• 1:25:52
  in a packed affiliate with people
• 1:25:54
  screaming than an empty stadium.
• 1:26:02
  And for Jamie,
• 1:26:02
  doing fifty unbroken toes to bar is way
• 1:26:05
  more exciting in a packed house than in
• 1:26:08
  an empty arena.
• 1:26:11
  But I think like the different people that
• 1:26:14
  have been doing the broadcast and stuff
• 1:26:16
  like that's also ways that they can be
• 1:26:19
  saving money from how they used to do
• 1:26:20
  regionals.
• 1:26:21
  Like the price that they used to pay
• 1:26:23
  for the broadcast and stuff is like a
• 1:26:25
  crazy amount.
• 1:26:26
  And now you're having people in the space
• 1:26:28
  that are able to do it for way
• 1:26:30
  less of a price.
• 1:26:32
  And they're doing a very good job at
• 1:26:33
  it, too.
• 1:26:34
  Um, so like,
• 1:26:36
  that's a big cost savings that from the
• 1:26:39
  regional days,
• 1:26:40
  that was too much from before,
• 1:26:41
  from on CrossFit.
• 1:26:42
  So, I mean,
• 1:26:43
  you can still have these third party media
• 1:26:46
  be involved in,
• 1:26:48
  in different things there and pumping out
• 1:26:50
  content of the weekend.
• 1:26:55
  Or take it says that's because it was,
• 1:26:57
  it was run by a festival company.
• 1:26:58
  That's what they do.
• 1:27:00
  Take the template.
• 1:27:02
  Seth said that a lot today in that
• 1:27:04
  debate show,
• 1:27:05
  take the template and start using it.
• 1:27:12
  But I also think like what's confusing
• 1:27:14
  also right now is like you have semifinal
• 1:27:17
  leaderboards like on competition corner
• 1:27:19
  instead of the CrossFit games website.
• 1:27:23
  And then some of them are on Strength
• 1:27:25
  Compete or Compete Strength.
• 1:27:27
  Which one was Mayhem using?
• 1:27:31
  A different one, anyways.
• 1:27:32
  And then you have another region that's
• 1:27:34
  using something else.
• 1:27:35
  It's really hard to just follow the
• 1:27:37
  leaderboard and where these broadcasts are
• 1:27:40
  being done.
• 1:27:40
  Everything should be through the CrossFit
• 1:27:42
  Games website.
• 1:27:43
  It's like,
• 1:27:43
  this region is hopping right now.
• 1:27:45
  Here's a YouTube link.
• 1:27:47
  And then like attach the leaderboard right
• 1:27:49
  there for all of the events.
• 1:27:51
  They should all be using the same
• 1:27:53
  leaderboard like app or whatever.
• 1:27:55
  The CrossFit Games one.
• 1:27:56
  Like right now you just have everything
• 1:27:59
  everywhere.
• 1:28:00
  And it's so confusing for the fans,
• 1:28:03
  for the athletes.
• 1:28:04
  Like where's your leaderboard?
• 1:28:06
  Where are you?
• 1:28:06
  Where can you watch it?
• 1:28:08
  Like if you're,
• 1:28:08
  if where was the qualifier?
• 1:28:10
  Like everything's just all over on the
• 1:28:12
  internet.
• 1:28:13
  Like the,
• 1:28:14
  people are missing opportunities to
• 1:28:15
  compete because they didn't know the
• 1:28:16
  qualifier was going on because if they
• 1:28:18
  didn't follow that Instagram page,
• 1:28:19
  they missed it.
• 1:28:21
  Like it's just, everything's everywhere.
• 1:28:22
  It all needs to be on the game's
• 1:28:25
  site.
• 1:28:27
  Clearly marked like YouTube link times,
• 1:28:32
  all of that oversight.
• 1:28:34
  It's just everywhere.
• 1:28:35
  Like we just don't know what's happening.
• 1:28:37
  Like you have different comps happening
• 1:28:39
  all over.
• 1:28:40
  oversight and a central location to get
• 1:28:43
  all your information.
• 1:28:44
  I am pulling this up just because it's
• 1:28:48
  a good memory for me.
• 1:28:49
  What makes memories for me is Seth telling
• 1:28:51
  me out of pace and me sending it
• 1:28:52
  anyway.
• 1:28:54
  That is the reason I was in Travis
• 1:28:55
  Williams Lane every time he took the floor
• 1:28:59
  at Syndicate.
• 1:29:00
  Because Travis went out five thousand
• 1:29:02
  miles per hour and you knew the wheels
• 1:29:04
  were going to come off and it was
• 1:29:07
  just entertaining watching that.
• 1:29:10
  But those are the characters we've had.
• 1:29:14
  And you learned those people through
• 1:29:16
  regionals and all of that stuff because
• 1:29:19
  they were the local guy that you always
• 1:29:21
  watched.
• 1:29:23
  But that's why we've lost a lot of
• 1:29:25
  our athletes to high rocks because right
• 1:29:27
  now it's not attainable for a lot of
• 1:29:29
  these affiliate athletes to make a
• 1:29:31
  semifinal in person and they want to
• 1:29:34
  compete at a big event.
• 1:29:35
  So now they're not good enough for
• 1:29:37
  CrossFit.
• 1:29:38
  So then they're all just jumping and doing
• 1:29:40
  local high rocks events.
• 1:29:43
  Cause that's like,
• 1:29:44
  it's their competitive outlet that they
• 1:29:45
  get to do and get pictures and it's
• 1:29:48
  fun and it's a hard workout.
• 1:29:51
  But like, if you made semifinals,
• 1:29:53
  like it's still so it's, I mean,
• 1:29:54
  semi being a semifinal athlete used to be
• 1:29:57
  like, it's hard to do,
• 1:29:59
  especially when it was regionally locked
• 1:30:00
  and stuff, but like,
• 1:30:02
  especially for affiliates, right.
• 1:30:03
  So the affiliate team,
• 1:30:04
  the individual is extremely hard,
• 1:30:05
  but like make the affiliate team able to
• 1:30:07
  compete and,
• 1:30:09
  And I think you can bring back some
• 1:30:10
  of the young athletes in our community,
• 1:30:12
  because right now, I mean,
• 1:30:14
  there's a lot of it's like thirty and
• 1:30:16
  above.
• 1:30:19
  Seamus says they need to put together
• 1:30:20
  packages,
• 1:30:21
  discount block hotels like a wedding,
• 1:30:23
  preferred airline with a promo code,
• 1:30:26
  coupon books for the city, et cetera.
• 1:30:30
  But the thing with cities, Seema,
• 1:30:33
  is you have to prove to them that
• 1:30:35
  they're going to get an ROI for their
• 1:30:37
  involvement with you.
• 1:30:39
  And I know Knoxville was working with the
• 1:30:41
  syndicate crown,
• 1:30:43
  and I know last year they didn't get
• 1:30:45
  the crowd they were expecting.
• 1:30:47
  They didn't get the ROI that they were
• 1:30:48
  expecting.
• 1:30:50
  So what does that mean long term?
• 1:30:54
  I don't know.
• 1:30:59
  So...
• 1:31:05
  um anyway all right the other thing going
• 1:31:09
  on this weekend is teams don't know much
• 1:31:11
  about it because we can't see it uh
• 1:31:14
  but their last spots are being determined
• 1:31:16
  this weekend tomorrow that the leaderboard
• 1:31:19
  will go live and we'll see what teams
• 1:31:22
  have made it tomorrow how many qualify
• 1:31:24
  online i think
• 1:31:29
  I don't even it's not that many.
• 1:31:31
  Because there's only twenty teams.
• 1:31:32
  Yeah, one of the games.
• 1:31:35
  It's total.
• 1:31:36
  It might be seven.
• 1:31:37
  Also, I don't might be.
• 1:31:39
  Yeah, I think I think it's seven.
• 1:31:45
  I just I'm not one hundred percent on
• 1:31:47
  that.
• 1:31:53
  So anyway.
• 1:31:56
  With that, guys, it's been a fun,
• 1:31:58
  exciting conversation tonight.
• 1:32:00
  We'll be back next week in the middle
• 1:32:02
  of the Elite Semifinals online.
• 1:32:05
  Hopefully some people go live.
• 1:32:10
  I'm not counting my chickens at this
• 1:32:13
  point, but it'd be cool if they did.
• 1:32:17
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