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Lunch with the Clydesdale - It's Showtime! What does WFP Got? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  everybody welcome to lunch
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  with the Clydesdale it's
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  lunchtime time to take a
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  break from your work day
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  hang out sit around chat a
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  little bit about what's
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  going on in sports
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  entertainment and the CrossFit space
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  Hope everybody's having a great Friday.
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  Heading into the weekend.
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  What's going on, Craig?
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  Good to see you here.
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  It's start time.
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  It's going into the weekend.
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  I need to get a bullseye.
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  Going into the weekend.
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  I need one.
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  Here we go.
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  I knew it when I left my hand.
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  Dang.
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  A little low.
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  Low and to the right.
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  There we go.
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  um what's up Lito what's
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  going on Jody Lynn Lito our
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  European correspondent how
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  is the French throwdown
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  going well we got the
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  leaderboards up I have them
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  right here let's talk about
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  the French throwdown um bam
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  here we go I made my picks last night
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  and I actually picked um
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  bronislaw elinquits uh to
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  to get a spot and george's
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  caravans to get a spot um
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  those are my two picks
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  braun's doing awesome he is
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  currently leading the
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  french throwdown um
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  followed by nika masarazzi
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  uh maritz fee big who
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  already has a ticket is in third
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  Eric Zuckold is in fourth,
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  and Fabian Hermans is in fifth.
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  My pick of Georges Kerevis
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  is down in twelfth.
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  He's going to have to make a
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  big comeback in order to... Oh, man.
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  Lito, correct me.
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  Kerevis didn't finish in the
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  top one percent, though,
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  so can't qualify for the games.
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  All right, there we go.
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  So I'm going to be wrong on that pick.
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  Um...
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  But hopefully Braun gets a
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  ticket to the games,
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  and then I'll get that one.
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  But I also noticed that Zanoni,
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  Enrico Zanoni,
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  who finished in the top
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  eleven of the online.
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  Whoops, sorry.
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  I don't know what happened here.
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  Need to reload.
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  Anyway, Zanoni finished in the top eleven.
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  He did not participate in
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  the French throwdown.
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  So he is at the bottom of
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  the leaderboard with a zero
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  score as he is not there.
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  So we don't have to worry about that.
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  It looks like he thought he
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  did enough in the online in
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  affiliate semifinals to make it.
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  So he's just going to go with that.
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  So there we go.
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  Lito says,
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  did Braun do master semis as well?
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  Would be amazing if he qualified for both.
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  He did do master semis.
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  And he did qualify for sure.
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  So he could be one of the
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  athletes that's done both.
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  Last year was the first time
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  that opportunity even was a
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  possibility because of the split.
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  And we did have one athlete
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  do both last year.
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  So we'll see how many end up
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  doing both this year.
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  um so anyway that's on the
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  men's side um we saw that
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  so braun is leading um yeah
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  and then it's it's up for
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  grabs for that second
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  ticket for sure if we go to
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  the women's side um we have
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  and my picks were mirvan
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  roar and lucy mcgonigal to
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  get their tickets
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  Uh, and so right now we have Leah store in,
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  in first, are these all,
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  are all the scores in
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  before I get too far ahead of myself?
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  Let me make sure not all the
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  scores are in.
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  So this is going to be,
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  this is going to be, um, tainted a bit.
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  No.
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  Yes.
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  That's event five.
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  Okay.
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  Sorry.
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  I blew it up.
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  I am here fumbling away.
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  okay so we do have all the
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  scores and I don't know if
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  they're calculated in yet
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  but it looks like they were um so anyway
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  had mirvan roar and lucy
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  mcgonigal qualifying out of
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  the french and right now we
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  have leah storen in first
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  uh joanna skindage in
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  second lucy mcgonigal in
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  third elisa fuliano who we
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  know cannot qualify for the
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  games in fourth and mirvan
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  roar in fifth with claudia
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  gluck in sixth another
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  strong contender for one of
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  those tickets taylor howe in seventh
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  Connie Eastby in eighth,
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  Emma Fouchereau in ninth,
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  and Morgaine Thiessen in tenth.
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  So that's, and yeah, Lito, last year,
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  Andrea Pinheiro did both.
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  So she was the first athlete
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  to be able to do both the
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  Masters and the Elite
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  individual in the same year.
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  so uh that's what we have
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  right now in the top ten um
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  I I don't think I tried to
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  find up uh event one online
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  and I could not find it um
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  I did see event two and
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  event three um but they are
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  available out on youtube if
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  you want to go check those
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  out um but yeah so that is
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  well underway uh day one is
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  in the books and we'll see
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  what happens uh throughout the weekend
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  And who gets their tickets?
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  So there's that.
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  There's so much going on.
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  Leto confirms event one was
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  outside and was not broadcast.
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  I tried to find something
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  and I couldn't find anything.
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  So I assumed it was one of those deals.
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  So while all that is going on,
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  We have the WFP going on as we speak.
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  The challengers just
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  completed their two heats
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  each of the challenger division,
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  and now the pros are about
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  to take the floor.
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  They have not yet...
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  But just to give you a quick
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  peek in at what's going on with the WFP,
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  and this is only available
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  on their website.
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  This is the floor that is part turf,
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  part rubber mat.
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  The finish line is down here.
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  The rig is right here.
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  The first event actually
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  takes you outside.
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  So they actually come
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  through the rig here.
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  around this the behind this
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  uh the stands and out this
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  open door here and to a six
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  hundred meter run and then
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  they come back in another
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  door over here come down
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  this side into the rig and
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  do um and then do their
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  ring muscle ups and their snatches
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  The first four rounds are
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  done in these four boxes.
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  The lap final and fifth
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  round is done down at the
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  end of the floor to finish.
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  And it looks like here they
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  are actually starting the
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  pro qualifier heat.
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  The graphics have been really good.
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  You can see here that the
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  people are introducing
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  themselves as they take the floor.
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  They actually had a graphic
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  that showed the workout in detail,
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  moving like a chess piece
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  along the workout area so
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  you could see what it
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  looked like and how the
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  layout would be for the workout.
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  So the graphics have been amazing.
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  Um, they are, it does,
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  they're making it more look
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  like a professional event.
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  Uh,
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  Sarah Cooper says a little triangle guy
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  doing the movements is funny.
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  Um, yeah, I would agree.
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  I,
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  It seemed a bit gimmicky to me,
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  but the people I'm talking
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  to really liked it.
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  I liked that they explained
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  the workout using a graphic of some sort.
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  It just looked like a lot of
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  business presentations that I've seen
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  at my job using those types of things.
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  So I like when they explain the workout.
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  I think Lito said the floor
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  looks like rogue and it does.
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  The lighting looks like rogue.
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  It's very dark around the
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  stands and very and bright
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  on the floor once they get going.
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  Um,
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  so it's very much like rogue in that way.
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  What it does is it kind of
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  highlights the individuals and it,
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  you cannot see the crowd as much.
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  So it's really hard to tell
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  if the crowd is full,
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  how full the stands are
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  because of the way the lighting is.
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  You can't really see that.
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  And I don't know if that's a
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  strategic decision or they
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  just like the look from rogue.
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  So they went with it.
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  Um,
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  I don't know.
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  And this is the first time
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  they've highlighted the
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  athletes behind the rig before the start.
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  In the challenger division,
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  all the lights were on.
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  So this is very odd and very
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  new as they're doing the pro thing.
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  Whoa.
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  So apparently they're
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  lighting up the floors in
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  different colors as they start.
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  That was new and different.
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  And there they are on their
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  six hundred meter run.
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  I think the coverage has been very good.
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  Some things I really liked about it,
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  they follow them out.
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  There's people outside filming the run.
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  You can see it all outside.
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  In addition to that,
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  there are many more wide shots
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  of the floor as opposed to
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  close-ups which I really
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  really appreciate when they
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  get closer to the athlete
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  they actually keep a couple
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  other athletes in frame so
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  even when they do what's uh
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  what we would consider a
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  close-up um they're keeping
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  other athletes in frame so
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  you can see more than one
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  athlete at a time uh lido
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  says hides the lack of spectators i
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  I I don't so one of the
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  things I'd realized that
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  when you have it on your
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  own website and not on
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  youtube there's no uh
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  viewer count so we don't
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  know how many people are
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  watching um from the public
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  now I'm sure they can get
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  that behind the scenes and
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  then when you darken the
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  spectator area we can't
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  really see how many
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  spectators are in the stands
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  So those are two things that
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  make it really hard for us
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  to comment on unless you
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  have someone there.
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  I do have a photographer
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  videographer there at the event right now,
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  um,
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  taking shots and it's my guy that's
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  been doing everything for
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  me over the last several months.
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  Um,
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  He's eCaptures on Instagram.
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  So if you see any of his pictures,
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  make sure to follow him and
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  give him a like and all of that stuff.
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  But he's going to give me
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  some details as to how many
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  people are in the stands.
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  What's it look like?
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  What are the differences he
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  noticed from this and other
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  events in person?
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  So we'll see.
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  uh sarah says in no way for
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  a random person to stumble
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  upon the feed like they may
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  on youtube that has been
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  echoed a lot um I think
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  hillary showed a video on
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  savan last night where uh
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  mr beast was talking about
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  why he never leaves youtube
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  even though he's so popular
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  and has such a
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  large following he could do
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  everything on his own
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  website and and get his own
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  advertising dollars and
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  make more money and he
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  explained that he's still
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  growing when he's on
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  youtube and he would lose
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  that opportunity if he
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  wasn't because youtube is
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  pre-loaded on phones people
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  already have it they don't
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  have to make any new steps to do that so
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  I thought when the most
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  popular guy in the world on
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  YouTube is saying he would
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  never leave because it
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  offers free advertising and
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  free growth to his company and business,
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  why would you leave there?
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  And I think it makes an
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  excellent point as to why
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  doing it on your own
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  website may be a mistake.
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  Now, the coverage has been great.
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  I will give them kudos on
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  how good it looks.
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  but we'll, we'll see,
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  hopefully we can see the crowds later.
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  And then, um, I will get,
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  I'll get some info from a guy, uh,
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  later this weekend.
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  And we'll talk about that
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  for sure on Sunday night,
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  what he's seeing in person
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  there at the event.
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  Um, but yeah.
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  And I don't want to leave this up forever.
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  I don't want to get in
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  trouble with anybody.
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  But yeah,
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  that's the first heat of the pro
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  division.
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  Those are the challengers
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  that did the online
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  qualifier and made it in.
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  And so they are,
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  they're trying to get their
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  points and earn the pro card.
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  I do like this concept.
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  I do have to tell you,
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  I love the idea that you
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  have these people that have
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  something and you have the,
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  this other group of people
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  that want it and that they
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  have to earn points to
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  compete against these people to get it.
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  I like that concept.
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  It's simple.
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  These guys have the thing.
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  These guys want the thing.
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  These guys have to fight to get the thing.
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  I like that.
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  I like that as a concept.
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  It's much simpler than this
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  CrossFit season we're
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  trying to explain every other day.
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  He seems to get changes and...
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  I don't know.
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  I don't want to go off on
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  tangents and stuff,
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  but the fact that NorCal is now saying,
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  hey, guys, if you missed your opportunity,
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  come talk to us.
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  We have spots available.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  And we're going to talk
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  about this on Sunday night,
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  but athletes plan their
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  season differently.
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  based on what they thought, what they,
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  what they, what was scheduled.
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  And now everything's changing.
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  And the ones that planned
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  are getting screwed by the
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  people that missed their opportunity.
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  And now we're going to have
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  to try to get another way in.
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  I think that has got to get
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  buttoned up for next year.
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  This like fly by the seat of
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  your pants season crap has got to change.
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  And I think that's where
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  something like the WFP is
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  doing better than the
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  CrossFit game season.
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  Now,
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  I wish they would be more transparent
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  as to what they're doing
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  and they would brag about
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  the things that they are
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  offering that CrossFit isn't right now.
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  And they're not doing that,
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  and it's making it really
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  hard to follow them and to
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  give them a ton of support
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  when things pop up all the time.
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  But their season's simple.
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  You have this stop,
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  you have the next stop in Mesa,
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  and you have a
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  championships in Copenhagen.
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  And those are your
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  opportunities to earn points.
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  Top twenty in points, get a pro card.
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  There you go.
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  Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
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  this CrossFit season's
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  getting more and more
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  convoluted as we move forward.
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  And to be in a week where
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  you have Dave Castro saying, well,
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  we didn't even check any of
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  the videos for the teams.
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  What?
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  And I just hope the cluster
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  doesn't continue on into
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  the elite part of the season.
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  They've got to check videos.
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  And I want to get into that.
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  A lot of people have been
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  hammering that home,
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  and I agree with almost
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  everything that they're saying.
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  You cannot let those bad
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  standard of movements move forward,
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  or it's never going to get better.
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  Never going to get better.
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  And that is one thing the WFP did better.
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  They actually penalized
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  people who had bad standards of movement,
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  and they got the people
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  that needed to be there to
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  this point in the season.
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  So you got to give kudos to them.
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  The only other thing I will
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  say about the WFP broadcast
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  that I don't like so far is... Let me go.
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  I'm going to put it back up
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  here for a second.
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  So the one thing,
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  and I have it blown up so
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  you can't really see.
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  So here we go.
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  You cannot stop.
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  You cannot pause.
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  You cannot rewind the broadcast.
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  And so with that,
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  if you don't catch this live,
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  you have to wait for them
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  to move it to YouTube and
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  then watch the replay.
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  I think that is a misstep too.
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  Just like Sarah brought up
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  that you're not going to
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  get the accidental person
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  coming over and watching it from YouTube.
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  Now you can't even like,
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  if I have a meeting or I
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  have to go somewhere in my
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  day and I have to leave the live feed,
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  I can't go back and rewind
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  to watch the event.
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  And Sarah brings up another point,
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  no live chat.
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  I don't know what the
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  reasoning behind a lot of this is,
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  but if it's to hide from being critiqued,
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  if it's to hide to being critiqued,
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  like no count on views, no live chat,
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  darken the stand so you
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  can't see how many people are there.
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  I hope it's not because of that.
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  I hope they're not hiding from criticism.
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  It is because...
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  When people are talking
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  about what you're doing,
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  that's what makes you more popular,
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  more successful,
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  gets eyes on your product.
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  doing a lot of cool things
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  but there's a lot of things
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  that are missing um and yes
• 20:03
  lito you're joking you
• 20:04
  can't rewind I'm not joking
• 20:06
  as you can see on my screen
• 20:08
  I have it pulled up here I
• 20:09
  don't know if you can see
• 20:10
  my cursor but this bottom
• 20:12
  part of the screen no
• 20:14
  matter where I float this I
• 20:16
  can't get anything to rewind or to stop
• 20:25
  um I'm gonna miss everything
• 20:27
  I know and that means that
• 20:30
  that means that everybody
• 20:31
  in europe's gonna miss
• 20:32
  everything right the timing
• 20:34
  is just off so everybody
• 20:36
  that's not in your time
• 20:37
  zone is going to miss the
• 20:38
  live broadcast of this and
• 20:41
  there's no way for them to
• 20:42
  come back and rewind it's
• 20:45
  that's really really problematic
• 20:49
  Um, Sarah says,
• 20:50
  if that's the reason it's effing pathetic,
• 20:52
  I don't disagree with you.
• 20:54
  That's what I'm saying.
• 20:55
  I'm hoping,
• 20:56
  I am hoping that's not the reason why.
• 21:00
  Uh,
• 21:00
  Corey says no live chat is a bold
• 21:01
  strategy cotton.
• 21:02
  Let's see how it plays out for them.
• 21:07
  Uh, Dave,
• 21:07
  Dave Johnson says that they said
• 21:09
  it gives them more control
• 21:10
  and options by doing it on
• 21:11
  their own site.
• 21:13
  I get that,
• 21:14
  but they didn't really spell
• 21:15
  out other than the AI voice, uh,
• 21:22
  what that was.
• 21:24
  And so I hope it's not all
• 21:26
  this other stuff that now
• 21:27
  we can't do a live chat.
• 21:29
  We can't do, we can't rewind it.
• 21:31
  We can't see the live view count.
• 21:35
  I hope it's not that.
• 21:43
  Corey said, dude, Saxon literally said,
• 21:45
  judge us at the end of our season.
• 21:47
  If that ain't hiding from criticism,
• 21:49
  I don't know what is.
• 21:50
  You're going to get,
• 21:52
  we've talked about this all week.
• 21:54
  You're in a professional sport.
• 21:56
  You want to be professional.
• 21:58
  You're paying athletes so
• 21:59
  that you can be professional.
• 22:02
  You're going to get judged
• 22:03
  just like every other
• 22:04
  professional athlete in the world,
• 22:06
  in any sport.
• 22:08
  That's just what happens.
• 22:12
  Alito said it's in the
• 22:13
  middle of everyone's working day.
• 22:15
  How are you supposed to
• 22:15
  watch it in the middle of
• 22:17
  the afternoon in the U S two?
• 22:20
  Well, thank goodness.
• 22:21
  My work computer has
• 22:22
  multiple screens and I just
• 22:25
  have it off on one while
• 22:26
  I'm doing other things.
• 22:29
  That's what I do.
• 22:30
  And that's what I've done for years,
• 22:31
  even in the CrossFit stuff.
• 22:33
  So, uh, yeah, I'm lucky that way that,
• 22:39
  and usually Fridays are
• 22:40
  pretty slow for us.
• 22:41
  So, um,
• 22:44
  So that I'm just lucky in that way.
• 22:47
  And I know a lot of my
• 22:47
  friends do it that way as well.
• 22:52
  So I do, I do like the graphics.
• 22:59
  I do like that.
• 23:00
  They have a running list of
• 23:02
  what place everybody's in.
• 23:04
  Um,
• 23:04
  I did like when they introduced them
• 23:06
  out onto the floor,
• 23:07
  the graphics they used.
• 23:09
  Um, I think all of that is really cool.
• 23:12
  but you're missing on some
• 23:15
  major components that bring
• 23:17
  people to the table to watch your event.
• 23:26
  I think you might be overreacting, Corey.
• 23:29
  Not being able to see the
• 23:30
  crowd plus the lighting
• 23:31
  effect makes it look like
• 23:32
  some Hunger Games-ish.
• 23:34
  I think that's everything.
• 23:36
  Go to a basketball game and
• 23:37
  the crowd is darkened and
• 23:39
  the floor is lit up and
• 23:42
  there's a spotlight on the floor.
• 23:44
  It's like that at a hockey game.
• 23:46
  You want the attention to be
• 23:48
  on the players on the field
• 23:50
  or on the ice or on the whatever.
• 23:56
  Whatever they're playing on.
• 23:57
  The grass.
• 23:59
  And the focus not to be into the crowd.
• 24:02
  I get all that.
• 24:04
  That I was cool with.
• 24:05
  And it's just what Rogue did.
• 24:06
  Rogue did the exact same
• 24:07
  thing and everybody
• 24:08
  applauded Rogue for that.
• 24:11
  Giving that spotlight onto
• 24:13
  the field of play.
• 24:19
  So, but anyway,
• 24:20
  I'm going to stop sharing
• 24:21
  again because I don't want
• 24:22
  to get in trouble with all that.
• 24:27
  My picks for the WFP this weekend.
• 24:31
  I've made these last night.
• 24:36
  So on the men's side,
• 24:37
  my third place pick for the
• 24:39
  podium is Colton.
• 24:41
  I think having already
• 24:42
  locked up his ticket and
• 24:43
  being able to train and not
• 24:45
  really be overexerted in
• 24:47
  the last couple weeks at competing,
• 24:49
  I think that's going to
• 24:50
  give him an advantage.
• 24:52
  Number two, I have Jeff Adler.
• 24:54
  Adler hasn't competed much
• 24:56
  in the last year,
• 24:57
  and I think he looked
• 24:59
  amazing in the online semis.
• 25:02
  and I think he's out to prove something.
• 25:04
  He's just really, really, uh,
• 25:07
  fit right now.
• 25:09
  And then number one,
• 25:10
  I have Roman and I have
• 25:12
  Roman just because I want
• 25:13
  it to be that way.
• 25:15
  There was all this stuff
• 25:16
  about Jeff should have lost
• 25:19
  to Roman at the games two years ago.
• 25:21
  And I just think the
• 25:22
  storyline that would happen
• 25:23
  if Roman beat Adler at this
• 25:26
  and what that means going
• 25:27
  forward would be very
• 25:29
  interesting for both seasons.
• 25:31
  Um,
• 25:33
  And Roman did not have to do online semis,
• 25:36
  so he got a week off that
• 25:38
  others didn't get.
• 25:40
  So I'm going to pick Roman
• 25:44
  to win WFP Tour Event One.
• 25:49
  On the women's side, I'm going...
• 25:53
  with fee to finish third again,
• 25:56
  locked up her ticket real early.
• 25:57
  I think that gives her a
• 25:58
  pretty good advantage going into this.
• 26:02
  I have area low and in second, um,
• 26:04
  as she just was dominant in
• 26:06
  the online semi and my
• 26:08
  winner on the women's side, no surprises,
• 26:11
  Laura Horvat.
• 26:12
  Uh,
• 26:12
  she's not had to compete at all in the
• 26:15
  last few months.
• 26:17
  And this is her super bowl.
• 26:19
  She's going to come out here
• 26:20
  and I think she's going to
• 26:21
  wreak havoc on the field.
• 26:24
  so uh corey says yes the
• 26:28
  court is lit up more but
• 26:29
  you can at least see the
• 26:30
  crowd this looks like
• 26:31
  they're in an empty arena
• 26:32
  to me it is identical to
• 26:34
  rogue go back and watch
• 26:36
  rogue the lighting is
• 26:38
  almost exactly the same uh
• 26:43
  james w the wfp hate is
• 26:44
  unreal considering we are
• 26:45
  still in the midst of their
• 26:47
  first competition if
• 26:48
  there's one thing about the
• 26:49
  crossfit community it's
• 26:50
  that there's always going
• 26:51
  to be something to complain about
• 26:54
  I agree.
• 26:54
  I do think they're getting
• 26:56
  more hate than they deserve.
• 26:59
  I want the competition.
• 27:02
  I have been bitching about
• 27:03
  how the CrossFit season has
• 27:04
  gone for years.
• 27:06
  And we keep waiting for them
• 27:07
  to get better.
• 27:09
  They're not going to get
• 27:10
  better unless someone pushes them.
• 27:12
  Now we have someone that's
• 27:13
  willing to throw their hat
• 27:15
  in the ring and push them
• 27:17
  and either CrossFit answers
• 27:19
  the push and comes back
• 27:21
  with something better or WFP takes over.
• 27:26
  And either way,
• 27:27
  we have a better product at
• 27:28
  the end of the day.
• 27:31
  CrossFit,
• 27:32
  the methodology has saved my life.
• 27:35
  Without it,
• 27:36
  I would probably be dead right now.
• 27:39
  I have been doing CrossFit
• 27:40
  since two thousand eleven.
• 27:41
  I started over five hundred pounds.
• 27:43
  I am way less than that now.
• 27:46
  And I am active and able to
• 27:48
  move around where I
• 27:50
  couldn't do that a long time ago.
• 27:52
  I love CrossFit.
• 27:53
  I want it to succeed.
• 27:55
  But the sport has been stubborn,
• 27:59
  pigheaded and not willing
• 28:01
  to change to make things better.
• 28:05
  And finally,
• 28:06
  someone has stepped into the ring to say,
• 28:09
  hey, let's see if we can do it better.
• 28:13
  We are former athletes who
• 28:15
  have ideas of how to make things better.
• 28:17
  And so we're throwing our
• 28:18
  hat in the ring and we're
• 28:19
  doing this thing and we're
• 28:21
  going to try to push
• 28:21
  CrossFit into a direction.
• 28:24
  CrossFit has a choice now.
• 28:26
  Do we ignore them and just
• 28:29
  go about our business?
• 28:31
  Or do we look at what
• 28:32
  they're doing and say, hey,
• 28:33
  how can we do it better?
• 28:35
  How can we get better to
• 28:37
  compete with them and all and,
• 28:40
  and drive a stake into our
• 28:42
  territory and keep it for the long haul.
• 28:46
  And I'm hoping,
• 28:47
  hoping that they decide to do that.
• 28:51
  And feasting off, you just won heat one.
• 28:54
  And I pictured a podium and
• 28:55
  I love that that just happened.
• 29:01
  Um,
• 29:05
  Lito says,
• 29:05
  I don't even think the lack of
• 29:06
  spectators is their fault.
• 29:07
  US-based events always
• 29:09
  struggle for spectators.
• 29:10
  Rogue was empty at Dell Diamond, too.
• 29:14
  I bet their Copenhagen event
• 29:16
  in December will be packed.
• 29:21
  Corey, I don't feel like I'm bitching.
• 29:22
  I'm making an observation.
• 29:23
  Seeing the crowd react like
• 29:25
  they did at Mayhem is part of it for me.
• 29:28
  Them not going to on YouTube
• 29:31
  is bananas crazy.
• 29:32
  I think everyone can agree there.
• 29:34
  I...
• 29:35
  I'm not saying we can't be critical,
• 29:37
  and I'm not saying you're
• 29:38
  part of the hate.
• 29:39
  I'm saying that there is a
• 29:40
  lot of hate out there,
• 29:41
  and we talked about that yesterday.
• 29:43
  There are people that aren't
• 29:44
  even willing to mention
• 29:45
  their name in the space and
• 29:50
  act like they don't exist.
• 29:52
  That is a really bad way to
• 29:54
  deal with this issue.
• 29:57
  If you think you are that
• 29:58
  much better than them and
• 29:59
  that you are doing this
• 30:01
  that much better that you
• 30:01
  can just ignore the
• 30:02
  situation and not talk about them,
• 30:05
  you're going to be in for a
• 30:06
  rude awakening.
• 30:14
  Because I'm watching this,
• 30:15
  the broadcast is better.
• 30:18
  The broadcast of the event
• 30:19
  is better than what I've
• 30:20
  seen at CrossFit events.
• 30:24
  I am over the close-up crotch shots.
• 30:27
  I'm over only getting to see
• 30:30
  one athlete on the floor at a time.
• 30:32
  They have made improvements
• 30:33
  to that in this broadcast.
• 30:35
  Already,
• 30:36
  I am liking that way more than
• 30:38
  what we've had in the past.
• 30:41
  But there has to be a response to this.
• 30:44
  It can't be just ignore it
• 30:46
  and act like they don't exist.
• 30:56
  them saying they expected
• 30:57
  five thousand people to buy
• 30:58
  tickets is also insane it
• 31:00
  may be insane but it's it's
• 31:03
  it's a goal they got to
• 31:06
  have goals and they got to
• 31:07
  learn from this process as
• 31:09
  well so I don't know that's my two cents
• 31:19
  I'm okay with saying that
• 31:20
  this needs to get better or
• 31:21
  that needs to get better with them.
• 31:23
  And like I've said,
• 31:25
  the fact that it's not on YouTube,
• 31:27
  the fact you can't rewind,
• 31:28
  the fact you can't pause is
• 31:30
  a major problem with this broadcast.
• 31:33
  But they're also doing some
• 31:34
  things really well.
• 31:44
  That's all.
• 31:45
  That's all I'm saying.
• 31:51
  Um, I like the graphics.
• 31:55
  Um, but yeah, I don't like that.
• 31:58
  It's not on YouTube.
• 31:59
  I don't like that.
• 32:00
  It's not, um,
• 32:02
  it's not possible and not rewindable.
• 32:04
  I think that is a major, major mistake.
• 32:13
  But, but CrossFit, if it wasn't for, um,
• 32:18
  Brian Friend and Savan and those people,
• 32:20
  we wouldn't even see a
• 32:21
  broadcast of half of the
• 32:22
  shit that's going on.
• 32:24
  And we're not as critical of
• 32:27
  them for that as we are about this.
• 32:33
  Before WFP existed,
• 32:35
  we said all the same stuff
• 32:36
  about CrossFit because they
• 32:39
  weren't doing it well enough,
• 32:42
  but there was no
• 32:42
  competition to push them.
• 32:53
  That's all I'm saying.
• 32:56
  There's enough criticism to
• 32:58
  go around to every entity
• 32:59
  in this space right now.
• 33:02
  And I love this sport and I
• 33:03
  don't want it to go away
• 33:04
  and I want someone to do it
• 33:05
  right or I want someone to
• 33:07
  push someone to do it right
• 33:09
  so that we have something
• 33:10
  to talk about going forward.
• 33:16
  I didn't mean for this to be
• 33:17
  a big rant day, but man.
• 33:25
  And it appears that Anika
• 33:26
  Greer's running has not
• 33:27
  gotten any better.
• 33:31
  But she did not finish last.
• 33:36
  So the last thing I wanted
• 33:38
  to talk about real quick is
• 33:40
  I did watch WFP put out
• 33:43
  another behind-the-scenes two today.
• 33:47
  It was longer than the first one.
• 33:49
  T-Bird and I went back and
• 33:50
  forth a little bit yesterday,
• 33:53
  and she said maybe they'll
• 33:54
  come out with a new one and
• 33:55
  they'll make changes.
• 33:56
  They did.
• 33:57
  This one was a little bit longer.
• 33:59
  This one actually went into
• 34:00
  some of their affiliate websites
• 34:05
  where they went into gyms
• 34:07
  and had athletes there
• 34:08
  working out with the people,
• 34:09
  coaching the people,
• 34:11
  and they actually filmed
• 34:13
  that with them mic'd up,
• 34:15
  getting some of the back
• 34:16
  and forth between the
• 34:17
  athletes and the people in the gym.
• 34:24
  There was a scene of them
• 34:26
  celebrating one of the girls' birthdays.
• 34:28
  There was just a lot of cool
• 34:29
  stuff involved with all that.
• 34:32
  And I'm really glad that
• 34:33
  they've added that to their
• 34:35
  behind the scenes.
• 34:37
  Another key piece that was
• 34:38
  added to this one is their
• 34:41
  head of medical, Josh Hicks.
• 34:43
  was training all of the
• 34:44
  leads for all of the
• 34:46
  different areas of volunteers in CPR.
• 34:50
  So it's not just the medical
• 34:52
  team that would be certified in CPR.
• 34:55
  It was going to be all of
• 34:56
  the leads in every area.
• 35:00
  area of the of the
• 35:02
  competition and that they
• 35:04
  were encouraged if they saw
• 35:05
  something where where
• 35:07
  medical attention was
• 35:08
  needed to go um regardless
• 35:11
  of what else you have going
• 35:13
  on or where you're at to go
• 35:15
  to that person and give
• 35:16
  them the attention they
• 35:17
  need and give them cpr if needed
• 35:22
  And so I thought that was a
• 35:24
  really cool thing to
• 35:25
  highlight that they're doing, um,
• 35:27
  that has not been done at
• 35:29
  other events in the past.
• 35:31
  So really cool to see that
• 35:33
  attention to the safety part there.
• 35:38
  Um, and it's in this one,
• 35:39
  I would give a much higher
• 35:41
  grade than the first one.
• 35:42
  This one, I really, really enjoyed.
• 35:44
  Uh,
• 35:45
  there was a lot more athlete check-in
• 35:46
  stuff.
• 35:47
  Um,
• 35:50
  the locker rooms are really
• 35:51
  awesome that they're giving the,
• 35:53
  the athletes,
• 35:54
  the touch points for them are amazing.
• 35:57
  Um, and I,
• 35:58
  and I think they are doing a
• 35:59
  good job with any of that.
• 36:03
  Uh, and then finally, um,
• 36:05
  they are actually sponsored by, um,
• 36:08
  I don't know how to pronounce it anymore.
• 36:10
  My whole life.
• 36:10
  It was Adidas.
• 36:12
  Um, now I guess it's Adidas, Adidas,
• 36:18
  maybe I don't,
• 36:19
  I don't know.
• 36:20
  But they are sponsoring this.
• 36:23
  And since last year's games
• 36:26
  and seeing them in person,
• 36:27
  I've wanted a pair so, so bad.
• 36:30
  So bad.
• 36:32
  I just love the looks of them.
• 36:35
  I've been a Reebok guy
• 36:36
  pretty much the whole time
• 36:37
  since I started CrossFit in
• 36:38
  two thousand eleven.
• 36:40
  I take the back.
• 36:41
  I was actually crossfitting
• 36:42
  in Nike free runs to start,
• 36:44
  and then I went to Reebok later on.
• 36:48
  But I just purchased a new pair of Adidas,
• 36:56
  I guess is what it's called now.
• 36:59
  The Drop Set III, and these are them.
• 37:06
  So this is the pair that I got.
• 37:10
  I love the look.
• 37:17
  I wish they came out with
• 37:18
  some cooler color waves.
• 37:20
  I think on the women's side,
• 37:22
  they did way better with
• 37:23
  the color waves than on the men's side.
• 37:25
  I think they're a little bit bland,
• 37:27
  but I wanted to try them on
• 37:29
  and hopefully they've got
• 37:30
  the nice wide toe base.
• 37:33
  I hope so.
• 37:35
  And if they do, I will let you know.
• 37:38
  I'm getting them sometime this week.
• 37:40
  I'll try them out.
• 37:45
  So Lito says she has the
• 37:46
  bright pink ones and that she loves them.
• 37:49
  I almost went with the
• 37:50
  highlighter of these,
• 37:54
  but they were out of my size.
• 37:58
  So that's why I went with these.
• 38:08
  so uh oh lito said that I go
• 38:14
  half size up I did not they
• 38:17
  told me that they were true
• 38:18
  to true to size
• 38:22
  And once you get up into my,
• 38:23
  I wear a size thirteen.
• 38:25
  And there is no thirteen and a half,
• 38:27
  I don't think.
• 38:28
  I think it goes thirteen, fourteen.
• 38:30
  And fourteens have always
• 38:31
  been way too big.
• 38:33
  So yeah, see, thirteen,
• 38:35
  and then it goes to fourteen.
• 38:36
  But these shoes didn't even
• 38:37
  come in a fourteen.
• 38:38
  So there's no way to go up.
• 38:44
  Now they have a fourteen and a half,
• 38:45
  but they don't have a
• 38:46
  thirteen and a half.
• 38:51
  Uh,
• 38:51
  Devesh says actually half size down
• 38:54
  Adidas runs large.
• 38:56
  Well, that's cool.
• 38:57
  I don't mind if they're a
• 38:58
  little bit bigger.
• 38:59
  Um,
• 38:59
  that would actually probably be better.
• 39:08
  Yeah, I, um, I'm super stoked.
• 39:11
  I just,
• 39:11
  I love the look of them and I hope
• 39:13
  that they, they fit well.
• 39:15
  Um, but I've wanted to try them.
• 39:19
  And, and the women's,
• 39:20
  I saw the women's pink ones.
• 39:21
  Bethany was wearing them at
• 39:22
  the games and I just loved,
• 39:25
  I love the look of them there.
• 39:26
  And I think Haley,
• 39:28
  Haley had the yellow ones on.
• 39:32
  So yeah,
• 39:33
  they were wearing them at the games.
• 39:34
  And then I was like, man,
• 39:35
  I got to get a pair of those.
• 39:36
  And finally I pulled the
• 39:37
  trigger this morning and
• 39:40
  they'll be here next week
• 39:41
  and I can try them out.
• 39:42
  Can't wait.
• 39:43
  But yeah.
• 39:45
  So that's going to be my new workout shoe.
• 39:48
  Maybe if I like them,
• 39:52
  the only ones I've liked
• 39:53
  other than Reeboks are the rad runners.
• 39:56
  Um,
• 39:59
  And so I've worked out in those.
• 40:02
  They're pretty stable to work out in,
• 40:04
  even though they're runners.
• 40:06
  But they're a little bit
• 40:08
  thin on my toe box.
• 40:10
  And so if it's much more
• 40:12
  than a forty five minute workout,
• 40:15
  like my feet swell and then I'm hurting.
• 40:19
  I got to get them off and
• 40:20
  wear something else home.
• 40:22
  So, yeah, stoked to get these.
• 40:26
  They're on a twenty percent
• 40:27
  off sale right now.
• 40:29
  If you're looking for new shoes.
• 40:33
  So there's all that, but they are,
• 40:37
  they are sponsoring the
• 40:39
  world fitness project and
• 40:40
  heat two of the ladies has
• 40:41
  just kicked off.
• 40:43
  They're on their first lap.
• 40:47
  And this heat includes Andrea Solberg,
• 40:50
  Kerstetter, Flores, Maddie Sturt,
• 40:53
  Danny Spiegel, Emma Lawson, Amy Kringle,
• 40:57
  Brooke or Sydney Wells,
• 40:58
  I don't know which one, Lucy Campbell,
• 41:02
  and Ella Wilkinson.
• 41:09
  Kenneth has never heard
• 41:10
  anything bad about tear,
• 41:11
  but they are pricey.
• 41:12
  The problem with tear for me are the,
• 41:15
  the backs of the shoes,
• 41:16
  the heel go up too high and
• 41:19
  rub into my Achilles.
• 41:21
  And maybe it's just the design of my foot,
• 41:23
  but I could not handle that at all.
• 41:27
  Um, I wore tear,
• 41:29
  I got a free pair volunteering once and,
• 41:32
  um, I only wore them for a half a day and,
• 41:36
  uh,
• 41:36
  have never worn them again because
• 41:38
  they were digging into my
• 41:39
  Achilles so bad.
• 41:44
  And that's what I didn't
• 41:44
  like about the X-Tens.
• 41:48
  I think they were called the
• 41:48
  Reebok X-Tens that were a
• 41:49
  little bit higher than
• 41:51
  their traditional shoe.
• 41:53
  Yeah, I don't want anything up on my foot.
• 41:56
  I like a low top.
• 41:59
  No three quarters, no high top.
• 42:02
  I want a full low top.
• 42:07
  D Reed says, tier lifters are fantastic.
• 42:11
  I haven't even worn lifters
• 42:12
  in probably six or seven years.
• 42:18
  After I hurt my back,
• 42:19
  I got rid of all of the extra stuff.
• 42:23
  I stopped wearing lifters.
• 42:26
  I only wear a belt when I get really heavy,
• 42:30
  just to kind of cool my
• 42:32
  motor a little bit so I
• 42:33
  don't overdo certain things at my age.
• 42:40
  Uh, Devesh says I've had one pair of tear.
• 42:43
  The entire sole came off the glue, let go.
• 42:45
  Maybe it's a defective pair,
• 42:47
  but never had that happen
• 42:48
  with any other training shoe.
• 42:50
  Yeah.
• 42:50
  That would pretty much
• 42:52
  derail any thoughts of me buying again.
• 42:58
  Uh, the X look like a three quarter top,
• 43:01
  but I never bought them for that reason.
• 43:02
  That's I got a free pair of those two, uh,
• 43:05
  for judging it rogue.
• 43:07
  And, um, and yeah, I,
• 43:10
  they were actually pretty comfortable,
• 43:12
  but they were heavy.
• 43:13
  Like I would never ever work out in them.
• 43:16
  They were super heavy and
• 43:18
  they were super high.
• 43:19
  And I didn't really like that.
• 43:21
  So the only time I wore them,
• 43:22
  I would wear them untied
• 43:24
  and just kind of like go
• 43:25
  get the mail and different stuff.
• 43:28
  So, uh, and Kenneth says, Oh,
• 43:32
  that's the worst.
• 43:33
  I had Nikes that did that.
• 43:34
  I bled every time.
• 43:36
  Uh, it was awful.
• 43:42
  uh corey's about to buy
• 43:43
  another another pair of
• 43:44
  savage ones yeah I I I
• 43:49
  don't like the looks of the
• 43:50
  savage ones I they may be
• 43:53
  comfortable as hell um but
• 43:55
  man I want look and comfort
• 43:57
  um so that's why I'm trying
• 43:58
  these adidas uh for that
• 44:01
  because I love the look and
• 44:03
  if it feels good I'll do both
• 44:12
  Uh, Lito would like to get savages,
• 44:14
  but VAT and shipping to the UK is insane.
• 44:21
  I'm about halfway through
• 44:22
  Hiller's video with hip and
• 44:23
  steel and it's super good.
• 44:25
  Yeah.
• 44:26
  I can't wait to watch that.
• 44:27
  I know,
• 44:29
  I know David hip and steel pretty well.
• 44:32
  Um,
• 44:32
  and I know that he was seriously upset
• 44:35
  with, um, um,
• 44:41
  with Hiller for a long time.
• 44:43
  So the fact that they
• 44:44
  actually got together,
• 44:45
  I'm really anxious to see how that goes.
• 44:52
  I know the Savage Ones are
• 44:53
  like the Nano Twos.
• 44:55
  I just,
• 44:56
  I don't like the looks of the Nano Twos.
• 44:59
  I was a bigger fan of Nano Three,
• 45:01
  Nano Four, Six, Nine, not Six.
• 45:08
  Five, nine, five, nine.
• 45:11
  I don't know.
• 45:12
  Somewhere in there.
• 45:15
  Uh, so Ken,
• 45:16
  you're talking about the Adidas.
• 45:20
  I can't wait.
• 45:20
  I really, I love the look of them.
• 45:22
  Uh, Jay Birch,
• 45:24
  when did the pronunciation change?
• 45:25
  Yeah.
• 45:26
  I,
• 45:26
  I said when I was introducing that I
• 45:28
  bought the pair that in my
• 45:30
  whole life they were Adidas
• 45:32
  and now apparently they're Adidas.
• 45:34
  I, uh,
• 45:37
  So much has changed in my
• 45:38
  fifty five years on this planet.
• 45:40
  That's just another one.
• 45:54
  Hip and steel is like
• 45:55
  killer's fun uncle now.
• 46:01
  And Ken is like,
• 46:02
  that actually is the
• 46:03
  correct way to pronounce Adidas Birch.
• 46:06
  Yeah,
• 46:06
  maybe we just pronounced it wrong for way,
• 46:08
  way too long.
• 46:12
  Lito,
• 46:12
  I've got two pairs of Nano IIs and
• 46:14
  love them.
• 46:14
  So what's funny is I never had a Nano II.
• 46:18
  I've heard they're super comfortable,
• 46:20
  but my first ever pair of
• 46:22
  CrossFit shoes were a Nano III.
• 46:24
  Um, and I love them.
• 46:26
  I love that rubber cage, um,
• 46:28
  for the threes and the fours.
• 46:30
  And I was really into that.
• 46:32
  My buddies like that just
• 46:34
  started a little bit before
• 46:35
  me and CrossFit got the
• 46:36
  nano twos and they love
• 46:38
  them and they didn't want
• 46:39
  anything else after that.
• 46:42
  Um, so man,
• 46:45
  shoes are like Chinese restaurants.
• 46:47
  Everybody has a favorite and
• 46:49
  you're really loyal to your favorite.
• 46:52
  Uh, Jeff Birchfield,
• 46:54
  I'm really liking the rad V two.
• 46:56
  Uh, Andrew Sten,
• 46:59
  while nano twos were the best,
• 47:01
  I just missed it.
• 47:01
  Like literally I was,
• 47:04
  I was crossfitting in Nike
• 47:06
  free runs forever.
• 47:09
  Um, and I, I never actually got,
• 47:15
  by the time I got to where
• 47:17
  I needed a pair of real CrossFit shoes,
• 47:20
  the threes were out.
• 47:24
  Oh, so Ken is correcting me.
• 47:26
  It's the Savage Ones that are beautiful.
• 47:28
  I just don't find them beautiful.
• 47:30
  Sorry.
• 47:34
  You also said Nike, not Nike.
• 47:37
  Or Nike, not Nike.
• 47:38
  Yeah, that's changed multiple times.
• 47:43
  If you've ever watched the movie Air,
• 47:45
  like the whole logo thing
• 47:48
  with Nike and everything,
• 47:53
  Like he, oh my gosh,
• 47:55
  it's at the very end of the movie.
• 47:57
  If you've never seen it,
• 47:59
  Ben Affleck's character is Phil Knight.
• 48:01
  And he talks about how he
• 48:02
  came up with the logo and
• 48:04
  how much he spent for it.
• 48:07
  And the person who did it
• 48:08
  for the money that he got,
• 48:10
  I think it was like three hundred bucks.
• 48:13
  And now it's like one of the
• 48:14
  most recognizable logos in the world.
• 48:19
  and phil knight hated the
• 48:20
  the name nike he wanted
• 48:22
  something else which was
• 48:23
  really convoluted um but he
• 48:28
  was talked into it because
• 48:30
  it's the god of god of war
• 48:32
  I don't my mythology is not great uh
• 48:49
  Wow, so many, we Americanized it.
• 48:57
  Kenneth, I love my free runs.
• 49:00
  I actually ran in free runs
• 49:02
  until probably three years ago.
• 49:07
  And then Reebok came out
• 49:08
  with a really good running
• 49:09
  shoe that I really like.
• 49:20
  That's it.
• 49:21
  Thanks clock.
• 49:22
  Nike is a trans translation
• 49:24
  of the Greek word for victory.
• 49:27
  There we go.
• 49:30
  Aries is the God of war.
• 49:31
  There we go.
• 49:38
  Looks like we have Adidas
• 49:40
  gate on our hands today.
• 49:41
  Yep.
• 49:46
  Transliteration.
• 49:47
  Is that different than translation?
• 49:51
  You guys are edumacating me today.
• 49:56
  All new stuff.
• 50:01
  We got the second heat of
• 50:02
  the women pro division going down at WFP.
• 50:06
  And Amy Kringle is currently
• 50:07
  leading that heat.
• 50:10
  No surprise with the six
• 50:11
  hundred meter runs.
• 50:12
  Lucy Campbell is right behind her.
• 50:18
  But yeah.
• 50:19
  There we go.
• 50:24
  Uh, beard is awesome by the way.
• 50:26
  Yeah, it's really,
• 50:26
  this is about as fluffy as
• 50:28
  I've ever let it get.
• 50:29
  I'm trying to decide if I
• 50:30
  just want to keep the fluff
• 50:32
  going for a little while
• 50:32
  and just see how it kind of
• 50:33
  gets out there or if I'm
• 50:36
  going to trim it up at all.
• 50:41
  No, Kenneth, you did not miss Colton.
• 50:44
  The men have not gone yet.
• 50:46
  The women are going currently.
• 50:48
  The challengers went this morning,
• 50:50
  and now the pro division
• 50:51
  are going in the women,
• 50:53
  and the pro division men
• 50:54
  will go after this.
• 50:55
  But as we talked about,
• 50:56
  the one thing with this
• 50:58
  live stream is you cannot, one,
• 51:00
  there's no chat available.
• 51:02
  Two,
• 51:03
  there is no way to rewind it or pause it.
• 51:06
  So if you miss it live, you miss it.
• 51:15
  clock no nike was not a
• 51:17
  goddess the word means
• 51:18
  simply victory nike athena
• 51:21
  was a common description of
• 51:23
  athena in her warrior mode
• 51:27
  wow I am learning so much
• 51:30
  lito says it's not a
• 51:31
  translation as nike nikki
• 51:33
  nike is the original greek
• 51:35
  word translation would be
• 51:36
  if they called it victory
• 51:47
  uh and birch I I noticed
• 51:49
  that you've got a bougie
• 51:50
  gym going on now I like the
• 51:53
  og um war tent mash tent in
• 51:56
  the backyard man kenneth
• 52:03
  says I should do an old
• 52:04
  testament beard like rory
• 52:05
  and rich had that one year
• 52:07
  I don't know if I can go that long man
• 52:13
  Yeah, we talked about it.
• 52:14
  It is a huge miss streaming on YouTube.
• 52:17
  They are doing some really
• 52:18
  cool stuff with this stream.
• 52:20
  I will say that.
• 52:21
  So I want to give credit
• 52:22
  where credit is due.
• 52:24
  The shots are better than
• 52:26
  what I've seen in CrossFit competitions.
• 52:28
  The close-ups are not so
• 52:30
  close you can't see anybody else.
• 52:32
  You can actually see some
• 52:33
  other people on the floor
• 52:34
  when they get close up.
• 52:35
  There are more wide shots so
• 52:36
  you can see the whole field
• 52:38
  and where everybody is.
• 52:40
  The graphics have been really,
• 52:41
  really good.
• 52:43
  But, however,
• 52:46
  not having a chat and not
• 52:48
  being able to rewind is a big miss.
• 52:51
  Big, big miss.
• 52:55
  But it looks really good.
• 52:58
  I'm just not sure anybody
• 52:59
  will see it or as many
• 53:02
  people will see it.
• 53:05
  But we'll never know because
• 53:06
  there are no view counts on this either.
• 53:09
  That's one thing that they
• 53:10
  get to keep to themselves
• 53:12
  because in YouTube,
• 53:13
  they put the view count with the video.
• 53:15
  They don't do this on their website.
• 53:18
  So we can't see how many
• 53:19
  people are actually watching.
• 53:25
  And Jason Bourne, you came in late, buddy.
• 53:28
  We talked about the hip and
• 53:30
  steel thing about ten minutes ago,
• 53:32
  but I have not seen it yet.
• 53:34
  Corey's about halfway through,
• 53:35
  and I'm going to jump on it
• 53:37
  here in a little bit.
• 53:42
  So I don't know if the good
• 53:44
  outweighs the fact that
• 53:45
  they're not on YouTube.
• 53:46
  I don't think it does.
• 53:49
  Cause my guess is they could
• 53:50
  still do the same graphics
• 53:53
  and they could do the same shots.
• 53:56
  Um,
• 53:57
  the only thing they would lose at this
• 53:59
  that I can figure out is
• 54:00
  the privacy of how many
• 54:02
  people are viewing and the
• 54:05
  AI translation of the voices.
• 54:22
  Yeah, always go YouTube.
• 54:24
  Yeah,
• 54:24
  if you saw the Mr. Beast clip that
• 54:26
  Hiller shared on Savan yesterday,
• 54:30
  it is the most popular man
• 54:32
  in the world saying why you
• 54:33
  should never leave YouTube.
• 54:37
  And who's going to disagree
• 54:38
  with the guy who does it
• 54:40
  better than anybody else?
• 54:46
  So...
• 54:53
  Anyway, uh, Lido says, uh,
• 55:01
  AI translation was so unnecessary.
• 55:08
  I just have the same stream
• 55:09
  in the original language
• 55:10
  also stream on YouTube.
• 55:11
  Yeah.
• 55:15
  Yeah.
• 55:15
  You could put up multiple
• 55:16
  channels streaming the same
• 55:18
  feed with different voices.
• 55:27
  WFP disagrees.
• 55:30
  And Lito says it's your first event.
• 55:32
  Put it on freaking YouTube for F's sake.
• 55:38
  Yeah.
• 55:40
  And we talked about it.
• 55:42
  I hope and pray that they're
• 55:44
  not doing this to hide their numbers.
• 55:47
  I hope they are not doing
• 55:48
  this to hide their numbers.
• 55:50
  But it is appearing that
• 55:52
  that may be what is happening.
• 55:54
  you can't see the view
• 55:55
  counts uh the the lighting
• 55:58
  in the arena you can't see
• 55:59
  the crowd um but I have I
• 56:03
  have a photographer there
• 56:04
  this weekend and
• 56:05
  videographer and I'm going
• 56:07
  to get details as to like
• 56:09
  how full were the crowds
• 56:11
  I'll have that information
• 56:12
  on sunday night crossfit
• 56:13
  talk when we get into this
• 56:14
  a little bit deeper with
• 56:15
  carolyn and jamie so
• 56:19
  Yeah, we're going to talk about all this.
• 56:21
  We'll talk about the French throwdown.
• 56:23
  French throwdown's done for the day.
• 56:26
  We went over their
• 56:27
  leaderboard earlier in the show.
• 56:32
  And Jay Birch is promising
• 56:33
  us some mash tent workouts this weekend,
• 56:35
  maybe.
• 56:40
  Devesh,
• 56:40
  fake the numbers to get more investment.
• 56:42
  It's possible.
• 56:42
  It's possible.
• 56:48
  They're afraid of Sivan's
• 56:49
  chat crew warping the
• 56:51
  attitudes of viewers.
• 56:54
  I am hoping that's not the reason,
• 56:56
  but I bet you that is part of it.
• 57:10
  It's amazing WFP put all
• 57:12
  this together so quickly
• 57:13
  unless they were in the
• 57:14
  works prior to last year's games.
• 57:16
  I assume the idea started
• 57:17
  after the tragedy.
• 57:19
  It depends on who you ask
• 57:20
  and when you ask them.
• 57:21
  I've asked Will this in person.
• 57:23
  He said that this idea was
• 57:25
  going prior to that and
• 57:28
  it's just morphed into
• 57:29
  different things along the way.
• 57:32
  um and then I've heard other
• 57:33
  people uh like event
• 57:36
  coordinators say it they
• 57:38
  didn't even know about it
• 57:39
  until well after the
• 57:40
  tragedy so can't don't know
• 57:48
  uh pedro and johnny were
• 57:49
  fun as hell covering the
• 57:51
  french throwdown um yeah
• 57:57
  can't live scared can't live life scared
• 58:05
  Kenneth,
• 58:05
  that's what WWE does with WrestleMania.
• 58:07
  Attendance always finds a
• 58:08
  way to be a new record.
• 58:11
  Yeah, why not?
• 58:20
  So, with that,
• 58:25
  I'm already late to come back from lunch,
• 58:27
  so...
• 58:29
  Time for you knuckleheads to
• 58:30
  get back to work.
• 58:31
  I will see you guys Sunday
• 58:33
  night on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 58:34
  We will recap all of WFP
• 58:36
  this weekend and all the
• 58:38
  things that we see and didn't see.
• 58:40
  We will also break down the
• 58:41
  French throwdown and who
• 58:42
  got their tickets,
• 58:44
  plus whatever else comes up,
• 58:45
  like can people do a burpee correctly?
• 58:48
  Can people do a GHD correctly?
• 58:51
  All of that stuff.
• 58:53
  With that, guys,
• 58:53
  we will see everyone on
• 58:55
  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk this week.
• 58:58
  Later.